Recent content by Teemu

No because the people doing it, the white elves, are generally beautiful and admirable. Their flaws are basically, "we're too perfect so we're arrogant". The people who like their abhorrent behavior won't see them as bad people. We've seen the same thing happen in many entertainment properties...

Personally I'd remove the enslavement thing completely. It's not necessary for the story. The Qualinesti and Silvanesti can be and are flawed in other ways too.

That's not what I said. First, both Qualinesti and Silvanesti took part in the enslavement. Second, they are on the side of the Good people. They didn't join the Dragonarmies and Takhisis. Two of the original protagonists are Qualinesti, and one is half-Qualinesti. Their leaders are not...

The point is that if you have a fantasy movie or a tv show where white people enslave brown people, you're going to cultivate a certain kind of audience that likes what they see. Is that the kind of audience Dragonlance deserves?

The white elves forced the brown elves into servitude and wanted to "civilize" them. It's at least enslavement coded if you're being generous.

Do we include the white elves enslaving the darker skinned indigenous coded elves?

If we're going canonical, Ansalon is tiny, like half the size of Europe. If there is no to little diversity of looks and ethnicities in how you depict a mostly human location on the continent, you're ignoring the canonical events (migrations) and scope of the land. If adherence to established...

Obviously because the primary books were written in the 80s and at least one author clearly had some very colorist baggage! But that doesn't mean that a modern retelling couldn't use the material as is and still employ actors of varying ethnic backgrounds.

Ansalon has black people though. Ergothians are described and generally depicted as black. You also have the peoples of Khur and Nordmaar who would be brown or black too. And of course the other "nomadic" (as per the RPG books) peoples like in Abanasinia. Also, in canon, 300 years ago, the...

"Adventure" is stretching it. It's literally just two combat encounters or so.

It is kind of funny that the exact same lesson was learned during 3.5. And 4e. And now again with 5e.

I'm nine sessions into my DH game and I have very positive thoughts. I think DH works well and it does very much feel like a crossover between 5e and more narrative style games. Early on in this thread there was feedback on Fear being overly abundant but I haven't had any issues with that. I do...

Although you don't always get a scar when you avoid the death. It's a roll, and at lower levels you're unlikely to get the scar. The automatic scar is part of the Age of Umbra setting.

I have no idea what the economics of producing this type of product line is, but I can’t help but wonder if a cheaper and less premium version of the card packs would’ve been the better approach. A single pack contains 70 something premium sized cards, but the usability of a single pack is...

I don’t know if your group is fully using the 2024 rules but the new DMG actually offered guidance on the Investigation vs Perception issue. I remember there being a fair amount of confusion or disagreement on when to use the former vs the latter, especially when dealing with dungeon elements...