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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...

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?