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at no point did I say anything about the population of Krynn being white, not sure where this is coming from at all. The books already tell us that not everyone is white, we do not need to extrapolate from a few known persons no, it is not important to the story, I said as much already ask the...

nothing, but 2014 was selling faster in 2016 and basically right through until 2024 than it was in 2014. So 2024 selling faster than 5e did in 2014 is not telling us anything about whether it sold faster than 5e did in, say 2019 to 2022.

I am not sure why it matters even if he had been biased, or even whether it was his bias vs Weis / Hickman’s. The books describe them a certain way, the art depicts them a certain way, the two match. When turning a book into a movie having established art to establish a visual identity is...

guess we disagree on that

no, that they make it a good show. Of course they will deviate from the source in places, changes can be good, neutral, or bad however. The question is what the end result is, not whether there are changes

that does not change what they all look like in the paintings though. It’s not like I am randomly insisting on them all being white (or even on them all being white in the first place…)

there is no reason to assume otherwise either, it’s not like we find a lot of blue and purple folks

you can say this however you want, it’s not like I am not aware of it. I also was not talking about all of Krynn, and have made that distinction more than once

yeah, it will be as diverse as they want it to be, no argument there if they stick to casting people that kinda fit the established main characters it also tells me something about the show runners. Unlike you I won’t turn off regardless of whether they do or not however, I will have different...

I mean, that is fairly obvious ;) It isn’t even that important to me, I am not gonna condemn the show for not sticking to it. I am just not a fan of robbing every place of its identity in order to have the ‘London mix of ethnicities’

yeah, maybe that is not the point though. The story is not set in modern day London. I think having every village be 25% black, 15% asian, 40% white, and whatever the rest is made up of (or whatever the mix is) in order to represent London to be much too restrictive and the opposite of...

to a degree, sure. I picked the Majeres as hispanic for that reason, Raistlin has a color of his own anyway, and Caramon is the tan outdoorsy type. Goldmoon is a native, she can look the part more than she does in Elmore’s paintings. None of them can be black and still resemble the paintings...

I am not discounting that, I already said Goldmoon and Riverwind as natives, the Majeres as hispanic. Maybe Tanis as half-asian would work, I only ruled out black and asian for the cast of the heroes. I’d still try to keep it somewhat similar to the paintings though instead of flat out ignoring...

why, you think there are no good actors that resemble Elmore’s paintings? Also, I never said they need to be exact look-alikes, I already said that Goldmoon can be more native and that the Majeres could be hispanic, I only ruled out black and asian for the main actors (not Krynn…)

No, I agree that good stories can have a mix of people of all kinds of types, or predominantly white, predominantly black, etc. My point is that having a diverse cast is not what makes it a good story. The ‘for modern audiences’ bit to me overemphasize diversity and neglects everything else...

I meant that at least one of them needs to be present at basically all times if you want to interfere with the ability to long rest at will anywhere, not necessarily the narrative time pressure each time

sometimes they have it sure, it’s not that it cannot be done, it’s that it has to be done. As I said my issue is how much damage LTH can withstand, if it fell apart after a few hits things would be different

no, probably no coincidence, but it still is generic enough that it is basically just religious tropes that you can map onto many religions. The cataclysm being a stand-in for a flood is easy, and those exist in many religions and myths

eh, you can map much of it to a much more widespread one just as well, and it all is pretty generic to boot, nothing that screams ‘this can only all be religion X, no other’

I do not need much real world religious stuff at all. The gods have disappeared centuries ago, there was no healing magic since. A group of adventurers finds some ancient texts in a ruin that tell of the long forgotten gods and as it so happens bring back that knowledge along with healing magic...