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Yes but. Most PoL seem to focus on the idea of humanity (and allies) barely holding out against the monsters. Whereas in the Dalelands it's the monsters who are barely holding out against all the high level adventurers!

To be fair, the Dalelands are an ill-defined area of wilderness interspersed with rural settlements without national boarders.

That’s probably why they appointed a head of franchising: so next time it happens they have someone to fire.

The sourcebooks don’t really discuss “culture” in that way, you get a better idea from the novels. It’s not based on a specific real world culture if that’s what you mean, but it’s a bit Shire-ish compared to the Hanseatic city states of the Sword Coast.

Its kind of dominated by Elminster and his do-gooding cronies (also: less sea).

Not the message. Fighting evil is fine, Yoda and Obi Wan killed lots of bad guys. The issue is doing it without fear, anger or hate. And Luke didn’t have the training, or the temperament, to be able to control his emotions. Which is why Yoda was so reluctant to start him down that path. It was...

That sounds very familiar! I know it describes the Dalelands as "Classic Heroic Fantasy" but that seems a bit too on the nose!

Just wrong.

I think it’s more inherent self-destructive stupidity than inherent evil, but the point of fiction is to imagine that things could be better. Maybe in the imagining we might make it so, or maybe it will just help us cope with the awareness that all things, including humanity, must pass. In a...

It's full of space magic. There is no rule that says something cannot be both satire and fantasy. Nor is there any rule requiring fantasy to be nostalgic.

It's not set in the real world (or something pretending to be a version of it). And the "fantasy" label would be more misleading. SF does not need to feature advanced technology. Speculative near-future and alternative history are generally included in the broader category of science fiction.

Whist the movie looks very dated (especially the evil robot), it's actually a lot more topical now than it was in it's day, with the threat of AI making work obsolete looking far more plausible. And hence humans having no purpose apart from breading more humans, after which they become a burden...

It needed to be this, as the other themes are not specific to this franchise. It's a bit sad that Alien Earth is a better Blade Runner sequel than this.

ESB can only work as part of a series. It might have the best writing and acting, but it's a middle without a beginning or an end. ANH stands on it's own.

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.

Didn't think much of 2. Dull, shmaltzy, and has the superhero genre's obsession with daddy issues.

I’ve been going through the adventure compilation books for things that could be dropped into a pirate campaign. The one I came up with is The Nightsea’s Succour (Radiant Citadel), I haven’t played it though. Surprisingly I didn’t find anything in the Golden Vault.

That’s because the gnomes blew it up.

I used U1 in my Sky Raiders campaign - hypothetically U2 and 3 were available too, but the party went in a different direction. There is lots of good stuff that can be dropped into a pirate campaign in Ghosts of Saltmarsh (not including the ship combat). But that was mentioned early in the thread.

Krynn Tinker Gnomes infest 2nd edition Spelljammer, and Realmspace is also part of Spelljammer.