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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1257634" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Bully for you, but most of the rest of the fans can't. That's why, when Erik Mona wrote his preview for the SJ mini-game and criticized the original, he got a flood of indignant mail.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Probably the same number of people who thought "Ooh, I hope they have cannibal halflings and muls!" when they bought the <em>Dark Sun</em> boxed set.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And like it or not, you're wrong. What we saw in the mini-game wasn't SJ being reinvented, it was SJ with most of its components completely removed. You can't just get rid of the things the fans know and love.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which masterfully forgets to take into account the existing audience that has never heard of SJ but would enjoy it now.</p><p></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>It already has that. It's called the Rock of Bral, along with campaign specifics such as the Unhuman Wars, the Astromundi Cluster, the Vodoni Empire, and even the Spelljammer itself. What you're talking about is the classic misconception that SJ's detractors always mistakenly tout - SJ was more than just a mish-mash of the existing campaign worlds; they were the icing on the cake, not the cake itself.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p></p><p>Well, I would like to see new novels too, but there was nothing wrong with a character who happened to be born on Krynn. I looked at Teldin Moore's being from Krynn as something of a light jab at the <em>Dragonlance</em> series, given that its the world of so much epic adventure.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And it can be unique while still have connections to those other worlds. It's disheartening how few people seem to realize that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 1257634, member: 8461"] Bully for you, but most of the rest of the fans can't. That's why, when Erik Mona wrote his preview for the SJ mini-game and criticized the original, he got a flood of indignant mail. Probably the same number of people who thought "Ooh, I hope they have cannibal halflings and muls!" when they bought the [I]Dark Sun[/I] boxed set. And like it or not, you're wrong. What we saw in the mini-game wasn't SJ being reinvented, it was SJ with most of its components completely removed. You can't just get rid of the things the fans know and love. Which masterfully forgets to take into account the existing audience that has never heard of SJ but would enjoy it now. [I] It already has that. It's called the Rock of Bral, along with campaign specifics such as the Unhuman Wars, the Astromundi Cluster, the Vodoni Empire, and even the Spelljammer itself. What you're talking about is the classic misconception that SJ's detractors always mistakenly tout - SJ was more than just a mish-mash of the existing campaign worlds; they were the icing on the cake, not the cake itself. [/I] Well, I would like to see new novels too, but there was nothing wrong with a character who happened to be born on Krynn. I looked at Teldin Moore's being from Krynn as something of a light jab at the [I]Dragonlance[/I] series, given that its the world of so much epic adventure. And it can be unique while still have connections to those other worlds. It's disheartening how few people seem to realize that. [/QUOTE]
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