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Flying Toaster reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with
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Tasslehoff Burrfoot was, in effect, the worst case of, "But that's what my character would do!" ever shown. If it had been at an actual... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
No, it's the progenitor for fantasy. You are just completely wrong. Not only did Tolkien not "despise medieval romance," he taught it...
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Flying Toaster reacted to jian's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
I think it’s broadly accurate to say that a lot of English-language fantasy media created since 1930 or so has some elements of built-in...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
No. You just do not know the facts. I don’t think you understand what Medieval Romance is. A tale like Sir Gawain was completely...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Demetrios1453's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
I had a friend who was a friend of Elmore's, and even met him on a couple of occasions in the late '80s/early '90s (It was always "Larry...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
So, to clarify, in your eyes it's a binary choice--having white characters is "a good story" and having non-white characters is not a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
I think the final piece is perhaps what sort of morality the world at large has. For example, Eredane (the setting of Midnight) is...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
At least for me, much of my exposure to (as you put it) "Wellsian" worlds is that it has to be a world where real change is genuinely...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
I absolutely would not consider that a requirement, and would argue that expecting that simply means you think "hope setting" means...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
This is actually a major subtheme of Tolkien's work, showing up in both the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It's most humorous (and...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
Not to get too political, but a lot of us are very literally having our human rights taken away right now. If you’re not feeling the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to J-H's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
I don't really get the doom'n'gloom about the world some people are having right now, but I too have been wanting more noblebright type...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair with Like.
Quite. Hope Setting: "We don't need to do anything, the gods will sort it out anyway." Despair Setting: "There is no point in doing...
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For what it's worth, the last time I ran Ravenloft as part of Curse of Strahd I played up the unreality of the place and made it more...
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Are we sticking to History or including myth and other stories? That is human history, we are telling fantasy stories and are not...