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That first adventure is one of the reasons why I chose to run the Golden Vault series in Eberron. A museum with a gift shop and an animatronic dinosaur doesn’t feel out of place there. It definitely would in the Forgotten Realms (except maybe in Baldur’s Gate or Lantan). This thread got away...

Thanks for letting me know. I think I'm OK with that. I don't think D&D as a specific game needs to be all things to all people. It's allowed to have its own aesthetic and its own limitations, just like other games do. I know, and I don't like it. I especially don't like that WotC has put them...

Not sure if you're directing this at me specifically or not, but I want to be clear that I am not complaining about the specific non-European cultures / ethnicities depicted in the Radiant Citadel book. I like that they gave us more variety on that front. I also want to say that I either like or...

Really? That's interesting, since in his intro to the original grey box, Ed talks about how they're called the Forgotten Realms because there used to be portals between Toril and Earth, and it's we Earthlings who have "forgotten" those realms on Toril. Having ancient Egyptians, Babylonians...

OK yes the specific piece of art in the OP is from a specific micro-setting featured in a specific book. However, I maintain that it is representative of a general trend toward more modern aesthetics in official D&D art. Look at the aesthetics in the revised core rulebook art and the art for the...

Yeah, I guess I’m just an old man yelling at clouds now! (I’m only 44, for the record.)

I'm the complete opposite. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess!

Here we go! A quick Google search revealed this Reddit thread, which explains that: And here's a picture! Indeed! A bit more like the Purple Rocks further to the north, except perhaps without the Lovecraftian elements.

Sure. However, there is definitely a trend, especially in the revised 5e art, towards are more modern aesthetic, which doesn't "do it" for me. I started with 2e, and while I could do without the obvious male gaze lens that Elmore, Caldwell, et al employed back then, I think that's always going...

I'd like to know more about the islands that were replaced by the Moonshaes. My understanding is that they were completely different. Douglas Niles had originally envisioned the Moonshaes as their own setting, but TSR shoehorned them into the FR like they did with so many other settings.

Sure, but it's also the style of the shoe - and the context. It's not just that it's a modern-looking high-heeled shoe, it's also the style of the pink dress and the streamers and the whole Mardi Gras vibe. It all just takes me out of the fiction too much. I can't buy into the idea that "this is...

OK but a chainmail bikini is still made out of chainmail, which is a medieval thing. A fantasy axe is still an axe, which is something people fought with in the Middle Ages. It's not like Red Sonja is depicted wearing a bikini made of stretchy swimsuit material. Nor is Conan depicted wielding a...

You're probably right. I just like to try and have things make sense in my head.

Yes, but as others have pointed out, those historical high-heeled shoes didn't look like modern pumps or stilettos, like these do: Like, I know that the "Written in Blood" adventure set in Godsbreath is meant to have a Southern Gothic vibe, so in that sense, I understand why all the art has...

No! Because of course a lot of them are adopted, like Jango Fett and Din Djarin were. But you've also got Duchess Satine Kryze speaking with an aristocratic British accent while her young sister Bo-Katan speaks with a harsh American one. Yes, and I guess that's something that the Disney+ shows...

Hmm. Odd. I suppose Weyland and David could've been aware of the moon and the signal from the derelict without knowing exactly what was there. Thus Ash and the Nostromo are sent to find out what is causing the signal but there is no foreknowledge that it's an Engineer ship containing xenomorph eggs.

Like, if you look at the OT only, it would seem to suggest that it's the classic American take where British accent = bad guy and American accent = good guy, with a few exceptions (e.g. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mon Mothma). Like, that even got lampooned in the Thumb Wars movie ("I have a question: Why do...

So we know that Weyland-Yutani knows about the xenomorph species because David sent them a report after the events of Alien: Covenant, but we still don't know how WY learned about the crashed alien spaceship on LV426, right? That's still a mystery?

This was my complaint about some of the art in the Radiant Citadel book when it first came out. I know it's meant to be all non-Western European cultural stuff, but even then, it just all feels too "modern" - like it would belong more in a d20 Modern sourcebook rather than a D&D one.

Let’s not forget that Rey speaks with Daisy Ridley’s natural British accent despite having grown up an orphan on a desert world. That alone seems to render accents in Star Wars pretty meaningless. That and the fact that Andor didn’t lose Diego Luna’s accent despite growing up surrounded by...