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People seem desperate to want to depict the characters as anything other than what they've been depicted traditionally. The continent of Ansalon (where the novels are set) adjoins the south pole, so the native folk (esp in the south) are likely fair-skinned. The darker folk of Ansalon (northern...

He has to look like his twin brother though. As in, I need to believe they are brothers. I am sick to death of the often random casting they do for supposed siblings in tv and movies. Really takes me out of it.

Much of D&D is based on US Western tropes which are even younger than that, what's your point? You can see both Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms are inspired much more by North American tropes than anything actual medieval, that's why you get these strange urban centres sitting by themselves...

I don't need people to resemble me to find appeal in fiction. I do need, however, people to actually have an appearance that makes sense. So, yes, there needs to be at least a passing resemblance between characters that are intended to be biological siblings. Isolated populations should...

You don't think the Angles or Saxons or their ancestors ever existed in the stone age? Ok. (I assume it was a "gotcha' at me because "Anglo-Saxon" as an identity only existed post classical era but you knew what I meant so no need for pedantry)

Elmore was absolutely obsessed with putting feathers in womens' hair. He did it in his non-Dragonlance art too. With that description of Goldmoon, its trivially easy to have them be based more on stone-age Anglo-Saxons anyway.

My mistake! I must've been confusing it with a different scene.

The Tika thing though, is part of Tika's journey of being very much feeling overshadowed by the others until the very end (and in Legends, she's the more functional part of her marriage). The "covering up" scene is more Tika thinking she's not as pretty (hilariously her interior monologue for a...

That's Gilthanas and Silvara. But the subtext is that Silvara is aware she's being looked at (she's a silver dragon after all)

That wasn't Dragonlance, that was 80s fantasy.

I don't think kender are really that difficult to get right. Look at how Tas is actually portrayed - yes, he's a kleptomaniac, but he's also unfailingly generous and loyal to his friends. So as for the examples of "knives going missing so dinner doesn't happen", in kender society you probably...

I think the only staff member still there from prior to 5E is James Wyatt.

Pretty much what I said (the story isn't as subversive as people think) I suspect that was from the showrunners, not from Martin. Yes, because Martin provided the ending, and the showrunners decided how they got there. Which is why you got that mess. You cut out entire plots from the series...

Game of Thrones actually is not as subversive as people have been trained to expect. The real hero of the series is the archetypical hidden prince. The subversion is early on, in decoy protagonists like Ned Stark, Robb Stark or Daenarys. The showrunners didn't understand their material as well...

Regardless, whenever I hear the phrase "updated for a new audience".

Yes, but once the showrunners ran out of books to adapt and the creator left the writers room the show took a massive turn. A good story doesn't matter if the showrunners can't adapt it competently.

Goldmoon is a descendant of an elf (See the Dark Queen novel) as well as a Xak Tsaroth cleric named Michael. Riverwind's ancestors include a Solamnian. Both of them had lots of ancestors who weren't Que-Shu so being blonde really isn't here nor there.

This is how you do it.