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Dire Bare reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with
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Oh how soon people forget. 5e sold so well in 2014 that WotC sold out of years (a year?) of PHBs in months. They stopped the printing... -
Dire Bare reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
I think we can conclude that the initial print runs, which they said were so large that they couldn't print all 3 books at once (which...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
What could "selling faster" mean other than "selling more during the analogous period for the previous game"?
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Dire Bare replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.Context matters. When doing a new adaptation of existing material and deciding how to cast the characters . . . is the character's...
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Dire Bare replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.Dude, you keep straying into ridiculous territory. Nobody is arguing that we should have different actors per episode or anything like...
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Dire Bare replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.Yes. It is problematic. But you are missing the point. If the single character of Laurana is portrayed as white, ignoring all else . ...
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Dire Bare replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.Established lore? Inconsistent established lore? And even if it wasn't inconsistent, it if is problematic, why stick with it? Why is it...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Hey, you were the one who mentioned the paintings. If it doesn't matter all that much to you, why make it a point of discussion?
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Dire Bare replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.Okay, if the text is inconsistent . . . why is it so important that Laurana is white rather than woodland brown? Heck, even if Laurana...
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Dire Bare reacted to pukunui's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with
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No, they don’t, as I have already pointed out on numerous occasions in this thread. One obvious example: Laurana is described in the... -
Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Establishing what the world around them is like helps inform thoughts around the established characters. If the world is established as...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
If you are a canon literalist, it does not matter. If you are a critic, then why it was done matters a great deal. Do they? Have we...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
As critics, we need to actually look at the material and establish what information we actually have about that creation. That the gods...
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Dire Bare reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
No, first we must establish, as critics, whether the evidence we have for that assertion is sound. I know of nowhere we are given in...
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Dire Bare reacted to GreyLord's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
The party in Dragonlance are from all over though. They aren't even from the same region, much less the same village. They are a...