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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...

I do not consider having a native remaining a native to be a race swap...

Goldmoon is not saving the natives in the first place, that is not her role or the story of DL / Chronicles I already wrote that she can be native and does not need to be caucasian looking.

SG plays in modern times in the US, that makes it pretty straightforward to have a diverse cast, it accurately represents the world it is portraying. It also does not have an established history in which the main cast is a certain ethnicity that the show decided to go against either.

I always saw that more as the elf / ranger thing than a native american thing, but I agree, it certainly can be seen that way too they should, he can dress like Aragorn in Bree without truly changing anything relevant

I believe the whole 'for modern audiences' is way overrated. Modern audiences do not just watch shows where the cast is all colors of the rainbow and half of them are non-cis. Maybe I am out of touch, but I believe a good story is more important than 'forced diversity', even for modern audiences.

lol, forgot about that one. Original in an extended universe kind of sense, not even a Weis/Hickman book, let alone from the Chronicles trilogy we are kinda expecting / discussing here

I do not have a quote for you, but it had been mentioned a few times on these forums. I also doubt WotC would publicly say that this was the rationale for the recategorization Let’s turn this around, can you think of another reason for it, let alone a better one?

cheesecake, i.e. 50s-style pinup, not cheesy, see esp. Tika

no that is because WotC changed category from book to game, specifically to not have the steep book discounts

they are, but they are somewhat based on existing peoples, esp. the main characters are pretty well defined ethnically, I never said anything about the rest of Krynn why would he she can have lighter hair, no need to go all out blond imo yep, I would have no issues with the knights of...

the map is the best part of it, the rest could have been more creative by rolling on a good random table

It isn't, we have two natives and two (three with Kitiara) that I said could be hispanic. I only said none of the main cast are black or asian. Also, I am not seeing it as repulsive, Vikings are white, Wakandans are black, the people in Chief of War are Hawaiian, etc. it does not always have to...

I am aware of those ‘reasons’, I don’t believe your claim that they balance the spell good, that is my point, and it is about the power, not just aesthetics

you answered your question, we know what these characters look like from plenty of paintings societies all over the world have all kinds of mixes, why does it need to reflect your specific one? Should Wakanda or Mamoa’s Chief of War be the same mix too?