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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC D&D Beyond launches its character 'quickbuilder'.It is successful because it has been run professionally. At this point, WotC is actually a successful software company, between the...
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The quick builder was built by WotC. Sure a lot of the folks may have been original dndbeyonders, but many of the failed prior attempts...
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Perhaps it is so successful because they didn’t make it. It was a huge success before they even bought it. Though I’ll admit that they...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Well, no, thst is how the Urban Fantasy article describes it. Thing is, that familiarity combined with difference also describes an...
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Classifying Ravnica as "lotr but its a fantasy megacity" makes me question how long it has been since you read about Ravnica? Because it...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Most people in Ravnica take the Subway (page 109). Thing is the equivalents to what you are talking about are not combat based, so don't...
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And those vampire stories set in the American Deep South? That’s more alien to me than Tokyo! I even feel like an alien in London...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.I would say that trying to argue that Ravnica is not Urban Fantasy is more analogous to trying to argue thst Dragonlance is really...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Genre is pretty much just semantics. And based on the definition of Urban Fantasy in the Wiki page, I don't see any basis not to count...
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It has fast food chains, why would the specific brand matter? There are lots of of places in the real world that also don’t have...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Is Pwrdido Street Station Urban Fantasy...?
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That comes from noir, specifically Raymond Chandler (a big influence on Dresden). But it’s certainly far from genre-defining.
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.If you r ad Jim Starlin'e Marvel comics from the 70s-90s, the comic book DNA is actually extremely strong. Heck, Star Wars is rooted in...