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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9823888" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Re: D&D:HAT -- the movie explained what a bard was (a guy who comes up with the plan) and what a tiefling druid was (an outsider girl who can turn into animals and owlbears). What it didn't do was explain how bards and tiefling and druids worked in D&D (bards apparently not casting spells and exactly what part of Doric's characterization was druid and what part was tiefling). It's not really too far from how Star Wars ANH explained how droids worked and what Jedi were. It certainly did not deviate from the level of 'just watch, integrate, and accept for 100 minutes' you have to do with other fantasy movies like Willow or Krull or Ladyhawke. Overall, I consider it a B+/A- film, depending on how charitable I am feeling, but needing to be self-referential with the lore was not something I found notably better or worse than anything else. I think she likely thinks that her detractors won. More to the point, there likely isn't much direct benefit for her to come forward trying to change the narrative even if she thinks it possible. She could theoretically change the narrative, but only amongst people she's long since stopped dealing with. Most likely the people she is around these days don't know about this stuff in depth, nor care -- she's Lorie in 13B who used to work in publishing somehow.</blockquote>