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It's still an odd choice, since Dragonlance made the plot-heavy railroad D&D mainstream. One of the things regularly companied about by people who don't like modern D&D.

Yeah, that's a delicate balancing act. Comedy protagonists are often terrible people, but also likeable. So we care, but feel it was deserved, when ridiculous stuff happens to them. See Frasier Crane, Captain Mainwaring, Basil Faulty, Del Boy Trotter, Blackadder etc. (Sorry I'm more familiar...

It's unlikely that this subplot, or even different species of elf, will make it into a TV show. However much folk obsess about being novel-accurate, you are talking about converting 20 hours of novel (DoAT audiobook) into 10 hours of TV. A lot of subplots inevitably get cut in any novel to TV...

Comedy isn’t about making places, or characters, seem nice. Most TV sitcom is studio-bound anyway and has little sense of place.

There is a turnstile in White Plume Mountain.

I’ve news for you - humans have always migrated. It’s not huge empires or epic trade routes that create genetic diversity, it’s migration, which it the natural human reaction to pressure. We are not naturally a sedentary species. The evidence is there in our genetic history. We are all “mixed...

No, it’s set in a fantasy world which can be exactly as diverse as the show runners want it to be. If they choose to make it entirely white it tells me everything I need to know about the show runners and turn off.

WoT isn't cursed with the Elmore illustrations.

Thing about “native” is there aren’t many native Americans in London - I wouldn’t recognise one if I saw one. But as I understand it they are multiple ethnic groups, not just one. To be representative of my world, you need to have black people, who I gather you are excluding because somehow they...

Then it doesn’t matter if they have a different skin tone. I think there are very few good actors full stop. Casting by appearance narrows the pool to not a chance. Poor acting was one of the things that sank WoT, especially in comparison to Rosamund Pike who acted the rest of the cast off the...

Yeah, I thought this. Really I can’t see it being practical outside animation.

Literature does not have the same standardised jargon that science does. Have you considered that geography might be an issue? As for me, I have heard the terms, used in ways that would be completely unrecognisable to either Wells or Verne. Jargon is often used as a substitute for thinking (or...

There are also practical reasons for doing this - gold makeup looks flat and artificial over pale skin. That’s one of the reasons for the casting of live action Ahsoka. And his twin should clearly be of the same ethnicity.

I remember a fairly lengthy Champions adventure in White Dwarf around that time (can’t remember the issue number) so they didn’t only support D&D, Traveller and Runequest. Actually, I don’t recall much support for Runequest.

As a teacher I can tell you that a lot of "students of" trot out jargon without any understanding of it's origin or original sense, and don't think to critique orthodox dogma.

Having good actors is definitely required to tell a good story. Which means casting based on resemblance to a particular artist’s interpretation of a character rather than acting ability will inevitably lead to a bad show. But for me, I’m afraid it’s about politics. In the current climate, not...

I would say the lack of the sort of dialogue tools that NWN has is a bigger obstacle to telling a good story than the actual writing.

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A bridge that people live on, industrialisation, Bazalgette's sewers, walls that it long since expanded beyond. It's London, around about the 18th century.

They didn't in any sense that there was one group of people who eventually became Anglo-Saxons. This is Aryan thinking.