<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skaven510 @ Aug 8 2007, 05:30 PM) [snapback]303640[/snapback]</div>
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I'm not sure imagination is going the way of the Dodo. The one thing that gives me hope is that the intense popularity of books like Harry Potter. It only takes one good book to get people to appreciate the value of their own imagination. It was like when my mom bought me the D&D basic set back when I was six. The whole D&D world caught my imagination and I was soon battling Rust monsters in the starter packss campain. I still remember the picture of that rust monster and how it would eat away my weapon if I hit it. Anyways, just something as simple as that starter pack started me on different ways of using my imagination and creativity.
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Excellent point.
OK, people would might say that you didn't develop your own imagination, because you didn't think that monster up yourself, but saw it. Still, by seeing it and applying your imagination to something besides the everyday reality you have further developed your imagination. Where would you be without it? Would you develop your own imagination to such a point?
Did the quick-sell imaginatory world (D&D, MTG, Harry Potter...) hurt your imagination by forcing the made up world by somebody else upon you, or did it acctually start it off, by giving you the needed push beyond the border of reality and imagination?