Recent content by Paul Farquhar

My personal view is this show was great as a single season self-contained story. I think a second season will lessen it.

I would consider myself a fan of urban fantasy. I like the Dresden Files, I like Rivers of London. And what I look for is a combination of crime fiction and fantasy. There are no fantasy megacities in Middle Earth, because Tolkien looked to create a nostalgic past, and escape the modern world...

I mean, yo could easily describe K-Pop Demon Hunters as Urban Fantasy if you like. Or The Exorcist. As with any attempt to define a genre, the more tightly you try to define it, the more it slips through your fingers, excluding things you feel certain should be in, and including things you feel...

I would just like to point out that Sunnydale is not a real place, in the US or anywhere else. Nor is it a city. In fact, I would describe it as decidedly suburban fantasy (along with Stephen King and a bunch of other stuff).

So you are redefining urban fantasy as “must be set in the US” now?! The Nightingale would like a word.

The Ravnica novel I read was definitely urban fantasy/police procedural.

I don’t think fragmentation of the market was the only problem associated with the 2nd edition glut. Setting books are often bought by players who want to read rulebooks, not actually play the game. After all, you can only use one setting per campaign (unless you are into lots of crazy...

If you were doing a Japanese translation, what would you call a battlemaster fighter?

To a degree, that’s what the D&D multiverse is for. It might be too late to put all the eggs back into one basket, but they can at least put all the little baskets in one really big basket! [We clearly need a setting for ridiculous metaphors.]

Indeed, and is exactly what Paizo do with Golarion. They even use it for Starfinder. There really isn't a great deal of mileage in WotC pushing out settings, new or old. It would be more useful if WotC took a region of an existing setting and expanded on it in more detail. Ravenloft does serve...

Dragonlance is a setting in which it is possible to tell tales of terror. Ravnica is a setting in which you can set an urban fantasy story. Subgenre is not built into a setting. A setting is just a place where you can set stories of whatever subgenre you like. Even true of Ravenloft - it makes...

If you have lived in a place for years you tend to notice just how fictional any version of that place in fiction is! But from a practical (and an avoiding politics) point of view, I can’t see WotC doing a real world based D&D setting. And real world with the names changed (Sikargow, Planet...

And if the author doesn’t mention it? There is generally no reason why they would. But as soon as the author mentions magic or fairies or whatever we know it’s not the real world. It might be set in some place called “London” or “Chicago” but they are not the real world cities with those names...

Forget about alignment, play the character.

Ravnica and Eberron have these. Pretty much every D&D setting has these. Where are the Dresden files set? Chicago? A city in a far off land that I am never likely to visit and know very little about. Baldur's Gate is more familiar to me than Chicago. There really isn't any difference between a...