D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

[Paul Farquhar]

Radiant Citadel maybe.

Radiant Citadel is a town sized mini-setting, it’s as detailed as it needs to be. And technically, it’s listed under adventure compilations, not settings.

 

[Nikosandros]

I swear if you go back and look my spelling was better before I switched from Motorola to Samsung.

While I'm, in general, a fan of Samsung phones (less so of their customer service), I strongly dislike the Samsung keyboard. I recommend either Google or Swift Key (I think Microsoft bought them?).

 

[Parmandur]

While I'm, in general, a fan of Samsung phones (less so of their customer service), I strongly dislike the Samsung keyboard. I recommend either Google or Swift Key (I think Microsoft bought them?).

Yeaj, the build quality is fantastic, honestly, but when I had Motorola oto G and prior to that a Windows phone...no issues.

 

[Parmandur]

While I'm, in general, a fan of Samsung phones (less so of their customer service), I strongly dislike the Samsung keyboard. I recommend either Google or Swift Key (I think Microsoft bought them?).

OK, brave new world here, using SwiftKey now. So far, the buttons seem to fit my thumbs better at least.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@Ruin Explorer, thanks for clearing up what happened to me with TLJ. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and really didn't agree with all the hate. Then I saw it more recently and was surprised to find it "meh".

I thought maybe its online rep had somehow, subtly influenced my opinion of it and I was mortified.

But it was probably the pacing - seeing as I don't agree with any of the substance of the hatred toward it. It certainly isn't "The film that ruined Star Wars" (as I have heard said). But there IS something off about it.

 

[Parmandur]

@Ruin Explorer, thanks for clearing up what happened to me with TLJ. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and really didn't agree with all the hate. Then I saw it more recently and was surprised to find it "meh".

I thought maybe its online rep had somehow, subtly influenced my opinion of it and I was mortified.

But it was probably the pacing - seeing as I don't agree with any of the substance of the hatred toward it. It certainly isn't "The film that ruined Star Wars" (as I have heard said). But there IS something off about it.

Well, since we are fully off the rails now...here is the lecture where Sanderson talks about plot pacing and uses Last Jedi as an example:

 

[Chaltab]

Yeah I thought the pacing was weird even when I saw it in the theatres and liked it quite a bit. It's a flawed diamond to me, which is more than I can say for TROS... which basically doesn't exist in my headcanon.

 

[Zardnaar]

@Ruin Explorer, thanks for clearing up what happened to me with TLJ. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and really didn't agree with all the hate. Then I saw it more recently and was surprised to find it "meh".

I thought maybe its online rep had somehow, subtly influenced my opinion of it and I was mortified.

But it was probably the pacing - seeing as I don't agree with any of the substance of the hatred toward it. It certainly isn't "The film that ruined Star Wars" (as I have heard said). But there IS something off about it.

ST doesn't hold up well on rewatch. TFA being a rehash becomes more obvious. TLJ isnt a trash fire like online claims but it has issues eg leaving no effective villain left.

 

[Scribe]

TLJ isnt a trash fire

lol yes it is. The writing could not have been any more obvious in trying to capture the time period, on top of being just bad. I have watched a lot of bad movies, I'm not some art critic, but I was laughing out loud at the dialogue, and it wasnt trying to be funny.

 

[Kurotowa]

ST doesn't hold up well on rewatch. TFA being a rehash becomes more obvious. TLJ isnt a trash fire like online claims but it has issues eg leaving no effective villain left.

Coming out of the theater from TLJ, my problem was that it was a decent movie by itself but a rather bad Star Wars movie. It was too interested in deconstructing the tropes of the genre, and that's a job for outsiders and spinoffs. Not the flagship brand. Flagships. if they do indulge in a little light deconstruction, need to reaffirm everything again by the end.

To bring it back on topic, that's why so many people don't want a new Dark Sun release to deny itself. When continuing an existing IP, no one wants a new entry that feels embarrassed by its own history. A trim here, a tuck there, sure. But it still needs to be an example of why we wanted it to come back and that means celebrating the material. Not bad mouthing what came before. It's a fine line.