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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9735121" data-attributes="member: 15700">I agree with this, and if I may, I want to expand on an analogy not just directed at you, but several posts I've seen re: "remakes ruin it for me." or "remakes take my nostalgia from me."Let's look at John Carpenter's The Thing (1981). It's one of the best horror movies ever made. I have a ton of nostalgia about that movie. Whenever people talk about a potential remake, it's usually met with derision about how they can't do better and would just ruin it. But that wasn't the original movie. The original was from 1951. Did John Carpenter ruin that IP? Not by any objective measure. Maybe some older fans of the original might not have liked it, but it brought in a whole new generation of fans, like me.It's the same here with D&D, and the same with just about everything.  A company doing a remake of an existing thing isn't new, it can create something iconic and well-loved, it doesn't ruin the IP just by doing it. It can be good, or it can flop. And I'd bet people would be surprised to realize just how much of what they love wasn't an original creation, but an adaptation of something earlier. It's like all those people saying Terry Brooks ripped off Tolkien when there are more similarities between Tolkien and his source material but no one ever says how Tolkien ripped off the Volsunga Saga or Wagner.So yeah, future adaptations can make something better. And for each new generation, it's a fresh exposure for them, which help bring in more fans.  I'm all for that.</blockquote>

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