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No, she is not. Funny enough, I just read that part last week. She has no idea, when she heard Gilthanas gasp, she got spooked and ran to the shore and grabbed her dagger. She’s described in that moment like a frightened deer. Gilthanas is described as he’s approaching her like one would do to a...

In Hickmans defense, the most recent trilogy doesn’t have most of these issues. Which shouldn’t be surprising since people grow and times change in 40 years…

Oh sure, to a point. But Elmore and especially Caldwell turned that trope up to 11 in the art. And DL seemed to do it more than others. WoT didn’t seem to do it nearly as much. Neither did Salvatore

Alhana Starbreeze. But it’s not just elves. Dragonlance had a habit of making every important female important character the mostest beautiful ever. Goldmoon, Kitiara, and Chrysania as well. Even Tika, who is initially described as above, later is described with her own beauty features that...

She doesn't really save them. In fact, her village is wiped out. The survivors help out with the rescued prisoner flight to the Dwarven mountain, but they aren't really important to the story. Really, her only purpose is to be the main plot hook, then show Elistan the disks and prove the gods...

I can assure you Hickman is very much not a supporter of white nationalist ideology. He is quite outspoken against that kind of thing. In fact, just the other day I had this interaction:

Funny enough, as a player in a current campaign, I'm playing an old dwarf, and without realizing it, I was speaking like Ron Swanson. Which the other players immediately recognized. So now I'm basically playing a dwarven wizard Ron Swanson 🤷‍♂️😜

Yes. In fact, one of my more memorable NPCs the players loved the most was a potty mouth woman tavern owner with a thick Australian accent.

Nothing beats worst dialog in a video game over the original Resident Evil. But yeah, when there’s an unnaturally long pause between speakers (assuming the program is loading voices), it immediately breaks immersion, especially for high stress conversations.

Granted, I'm only speaking from my perspective as a project manager, but IME, every project has a goal of what is considered a success. Some things may seem to be a complete failure but are actual successes (lost leaders, etc.). I'm not saying RoP is a lost leader (it's likely not), but none of...

Really, only the people in charge of the show can say if it failed or not because they are the ones who set the metric for what is a success. Not any of us.

I started with B/X and not BECMI, so I am partial to that edition. Especially since BECMI didn't have Willingham art ;) In all seriousness, it was a good edition, but just too bulky for my tastes of what a basic version was. A few years ago I asked Frank what he would change if he could about...

This is true, but they are also re-releasing the Legends books in the same format in a couple months. Not to mention the trilogy they just finished (Dragonlance Destinies). So there's a lot of recent material they could pull from and not be the original Chronicles, but instead have them more of...

I suppose that made sense. 2014 didn't have a massive sales # at launch, right? But more of a constant uptick of new gamers during the past decade. So 2024 would stand to reason to have a large initial sales volume. I'd be curious to see how the 2024 books do compared to 2014 over time.

Especially if you only count the people who finished the WoT books. That's like, what? 17 people? ;)

I agree that it shouldn't be a big deal. For example, casting Amber Midthunder as Goldmoon and Martin Sensmeier as Riverwind would be awesome. But you just know the regular crowd would throw a big tissy fit. Cuz they always do...

The aforementioned cultural appropriation of the Plains people, and the Gully Dwarves are probably the two biggest things.

I disagree. I'm rereading them now (along with the Lost Chronicles, so all 6 books in order*). They are still enjoyable. I got a particular kick out of how they addressed the Hauberk issue. For those not in the know, in the original Chronicles, a few times they typed "hauberk" when they meant...

Agreed. If you look at some of the FB comments on those posts, you've already got the anti-woke* crowd complaining. If they changed those elements to be more modern sensibility orientated, you can bet there would be a loud uproar. * Not being political, I mean "anti-woke" quite literally in...