Weiley31
Legend
I can't wait to introduce the concept of the Gnomish "ye-old Morse Code" stations used by certain Knights of Solamnia outposts alongside the "ye-old field radios" as well.
Dragonlance Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen shows up in the wild!
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
Clacks.
Demetrios1453
Legend
Given the reputation of Krynn gnome technology, that could lead to... interesting results. Probably nothing lethal, but soldiers at those stations turning blue, getting covered in chicken feathers, and so on...
No, it's not, because I am not casting aspertions on YA. But it is a different publishing category and many adults won't go looking there and it is inappropriate for books that aren't YA fiction to be relegated there.
Publishing category create divisions that wouldn't otherwise exist, and encourage writers to create books that shouldn't exist -- at least in the form they end up in. I don't know if you write and/or spend time on writers' forums, but lots and lots of writers end up agonizing over their book not fitting perfectly into a publishing category and then compromising the work in order to force it to fit.
Steel_Wind
Legend
To be clear, while I do believe that there was some attempt to publish a YA branded and trade-dressed edition of the DL Chronicles after Harry Potter set the YA section ablaze in book stores in the 2000s, overwhelmingly, gaming fiction has been stocked and sold in the Adult Fantasy /Sci Fi section of the bookstore.
It isn't that the books are aimed at YA in terms of explicit marketing. It's that the publisher has chosen to keep the books as squeaky clean as 80s Del Rey Fantasy.
Once more: this is not my cuppa. Yes. I think it is a mistake.
It isn't that the books are aimed at YA in terms of explicit marketing. It's that the publisher has chosen to keep the books as squeaky clean as 80s Del Rey Fantasy.
Once more: this is not my cuppa. Yes. I think it is a mistake.
darjr
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Review of the boardgame with nice hi res photos.
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Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn Board Game Review
Review by Fish Popowich Dragons of Unfamiliar SeasonsWith the release of Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen right around the corner and excitement mounting, my Companions and I gathered round …
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pukunui
Legend
Thanks for sharing that. Makes me feel a bit better about not getting it.Review of the boardgame with nice hi res photos.
Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn Board Game Review
Review by Fish Popowich Dragons of Unfamiliar SeasonsWith the release of Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen right around the corner and excitement mounting, my Companions and I gathered round …
Paul Farquhar
Legend
So, you would rather see A Wizard of Earthsea marketed in such a way that implies it is unsuitable for a 13 year old reader? That sees it no longer added to school and junior libraries? You think an adult who has spent the last 30 years reading drivel like Jodi Picoult* will suddenly pick up and enjoy Earthsea because it's on an adult shelf?
How old where you when you first read Earthsea? I'm certain I was in my teens. The fact is that most people who have read Earthsea will have first read it as teenagers. If they haven't read it by the time they are an adult it's because they don't like fantasy and are never going to read it. Sure, some stuff, like Dragonlance, relies on teenagers lacking discernment, but how do you think they learn discernment? It's by also reading quality stuff like Earthsea. If they aren't exposed to that as "young adults" they will grow up to be undiscerning adults and read Jodi Picoult.
*To be fair, adult fiction gets much much worse than Jodi. I just can't bear to think about it.
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Veltharis ap Rylix
Legend
Not sure the best place to note this, but DDB seems to have put out a new "Monstrous Compendium" for Dragonlance. Not seeing an advertisement beyond just the on-site banner at the moment. @darjr
