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I was just thinking about that the other day! The most recent Captain America movie would’ve been a logical place for her to show up again. Oh well!

They kinda suck. Not very well implemented along with much of the rest of the book. I tried DMing it for a while. I had a somewhat similar experience to @BlackSeed_Vash. The adventure was unwieldy. Some of the big selling points, like the sailing around the islands bit, were undercooked and the...

WotC owns DDB outright. They bought it ages ago. They tried your suggestion once with the Theros book. Don’t know why they didn’t keep doing it that way.

My fixed term home loan is due for renewal. The rates are considerably lower, but I'm not sure if I want to stick with 18 months or go with something longer. Interest rates are unlikely to go much lower than they are now, so it's really a question of whether things will remain relatively flat or...

Here in NZ, Guy Fawkes is literally just an excuse to make noise. I doubt most Kiwis even know who Guy Fawkes was. Last night, the fireworks were rather pathetic (especially compared to the Diwali celebrations two weeks ago). Maybe they've gotten too expensive? It's way past time NZ banned...

David Revoy's got a ton of good ones! Here are some more:

It's not just that. It's the idea that the time right before the Cataclysm was "too" good. The idea that goodness, without an equal amount of evilness to balance it out, is bad is anathema to me. Despite what Paladine says, the Kingpriest was not a good guy. He was a greedy, arrogant, jealous...

Sure. There's also some pretty glaring sexism at play in the books. The two main blond women are virtuous, self-sacrificing and pure, remaining virgins until they marry. Meanwhile, the voluptuous redhead is rumored to be sexually active, while Kitiara's sexual prowess is noteworthy enough that...

Too bad she couldn’t get rid of more of the male gazey stuff from the books.

I was thinking more that they seem to know it’s now 7 am and it’s time to wake up even if we humans think it’s still 6 am because that’s what it was yesterday. They also know that it’s now 5:30 pm and is thus time to start acting like twigs even if we humans think it’s only 4:30 pm. They don’t...

Sorry, I didn’t word my description clearly. I meant her hair color only was unusual (unusual in the sense that she’s named for it). Her blue eyes may or may not be unusual. And when I said she was usually depicted as white, I meant by Elmore, Caldwell, and the other artists. They basically...

I finished my reread of the DL Chronicles trilogy. Definitely not literature but still fun to read. Some great characters and a good story overall, even if I disagree with some of the moralising (particularly Paladine’s justification of the Cataclysm). Laurana is still my favorite character. I...

I swear my cats know when we go off/on DST. It never seems to affect them. Their routine just automatically adjusts somehow.

No, it’s not. The only thing that’s clearly pointed out in the book is that Laurana is the only non-Kagonesti elf Silvara has met who knows that her name means “silver-haired”. (Yeah, it’s kind of a no-brainer to the reader, but that’s beside the point.) No one else seems to remark on her hair...

It's established canon that the humans living in Northern Ergoth (and who were the main citizens of the pre-Cataclysm Empire of Ergoth) look like stereotypical real-world Africans, with black skin and curly/frizzy/kinky black hair. Both Theros and Maquesta are of Ergothian ancestry. (Maquesta's...

My turn to what?

I just don’t have the energy to argue with someone whose unconscious bias is obvious to everyone but themselves.

Everyone can “go pale” due to a vasovagal response. It’s literally the blood draining from your head. It may be more noticeable on a white person with a tan, but that doesn’t mean they’re the only ones who can go pale. To me, Laurana’s got more of a Mediterranean complexion than a Germanic or...

Just revisiting this to set the record straight. Chronicles page references are as per the annotated version. I don’t have any of the other books mentioned. p 433: "Tanis saw none of this inner turmoil. He thought [Laurana] looked unusually pale and exceptionally beautiful this morning." p...