D&D Movie/TV Bridgerton Star Regé-Jean Page Joins D&D Movie

Mistwell said:

Does there need to be a distinction of character classes in the game? Does it need a call-out to class and race and sub-class and feats and ability scores and such to be a good D&D movie?

I mean, if a character throws a fireball and fights with a sword and heals someone with a spell and rages and casts a ritual and turns undead and backstabs someone and changes shape into an animal, will people freak out that it's too many class abilities stuffed into one character for a D&D movie?

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Mistwell said:

Does there need to be a distinction of character classes in the game? Does it need a call-out to class and race and sub-class and feats and ability scores and such to be a good D&D movie?

I mean, if a character throws a fireball and fights with a sword and heals someone with a spell and rages and casts a ritual and turns undead and backstabs someone and changes shape into an animal, will people freak out that it's too many class abilities stuffed into one character for a D&D movie?

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Mistwell said:

Does there need to be a distinction of character classes in the game? Does it need a call-out to class and race and sub-class and feats and ability scores and such to be a good D&D movie?

I mean, if a character throws a fireball and fights with a sword and heals someone with a spell and rages and casts a ritual and turns undead and backstabs someone and changes shape into an animal, will people freak out that it's too many class abilities stuffed into one character for a D&D movie?

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Demetrios1453 said:

If (as seems likely), we're going to have several leads, it would probably be best to give them clearly defined roles on the group. And D&D classes will definitely help with defining those roles. That doesn't mean they nees to follow the rules 100%, but using defined classes as a base wouldn't hurt.

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Jaeger said:

If you really believe that the ethnic make up of the British Nobility and upper class in Regency England was the result of atrocious racism, then you have just admitted to a startling degree of historical ignorance.

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:

For instance, there was actually a concerted effort in the early 20th century to remove Black people and women from the American literary canon, which is why the grandchildren of people who read and adored Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charles W. Chesnutt had no idea these major 19th century figures existed.

If you like Turn of the Screw, check out Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. If you like Twain, check out Chesnutt. They can stand shoulder to shoulder with the folks you know, but some old dead White dudes decided you didn't need to know their names.

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Gradine said:

The Yellow Wallpaper is indeed very good, though it would be remiss to recommend it without pointing out that Gilman was pants-on-head racist, like at a "Lovecraft-might-ask-her-to-dial-it-back-a-bit" level

e: This is not to say that The Yellow Wallpaper demonstrates any of that racism, which I realize I might have implied while alluding to Lovecraft.

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