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Waterdeep seems more like Venice to me (without the waterways). What about Waterdeep specifically says Toronto? I mean, other than things that you would expect to find in any major port city.

Toronto was established in 1793, which means a) it has nothing medieval, and b) it has nothing more than 232 years old - the Sword Coast cities all have much longer histories. Ed is Canadian, but I don't think he really used his local cities as primary inspiration.

A bard is basically a lawyer with more syncopation.

Yeah, there was a pretty well known incident on the Babylon 5 forums where someone posted an idea hat lead to an episode that was in production being scrapped. It was revived in a later season after they to an agreement with the person who posted the idea, who was honest and had no intention of...

Yup, Mangeniello is never going to be able to get the funding, especially given how expensive the draconians would be. We will see a Del Toro Mountains of Madness first. It's all an auteur's pipe dream. This one certainly suffered by trying to make a live action film look like a deliberately...

Yeah, one of the things I would credit Dragonlance for is pretty much creating YA as a marketable genre.

House of Lament (VGR) took my group two 3 hour sessions. I don't think they were particularly impressed by it though, finding the spirit board corny and the frights unfrightening. I'm currently running the Death House redux from Vecna Eve of Ruin. So far I rate it an improvement on the CoS...

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.