User blog comment:Nord Ronnoc/A Tale Of Two Game Series/@comment-4950455-20121113044051/@comment-4950455-20121114044858

''Well I happen to be enthralled by the European settings, it's one of my favorite things about fantasy. I've always been obsessed with things from that time period.''

There's nothing wrong if you feel that way. I'm merely explaining why I find DA's setting a turn-off despite normally leaning towards the "originality is overrated" side of things.

And Martin is really just Tolkien with more "edginess" and moral ambiguity. Not that I mean that in as negative a sense as it might sound - both of them use a "restrained" approach to magic I wish more fantasy would follow (although here I give DA a pass due to the nature of RPGs).