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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8194271" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think the main problem is the Moonshaes is the Moonshaes.</p><p></p><p>If this was the 1980s, when a new wave of Celt-o-mania was upon us (which is what lead to the Moonshaes in the first place), people would totally be down for that.</p><p></p><p>Now? In 2021? There's no Celt-o-mania (that's a legit term btw, I didn't make it up), and there's not a particular hunger for a celtic setting, especially one chock-full of white people (two flavours - celt flavour and viking flavour, but still) and not much else. Yeah, you can of course have characters who have traveled from afar to the White People Islands (oh my god I am suppressing so many sassy comments sorry), but that's a pretty tired trope and makes non-white characters all "others" to some extent (it's not hideous or anything it's just tired).</p><p></p><p>Let's not even start on the character/place names or the Ffolk and so on.</p><p></p><p>Also, way more people have played D&D now, in 2021, than in 2000, and on top of that, awareness about D&D and RPGs in general is vastly higher. Part of what people love is the parties - diverse groups of weirdoes who bicker and squabble and have a good time whilst getting into adventures. Even the 2000 D&D movie got that bit. And I think any D&D movie has to, really. So you need a basis that has such a party in it (or can easily be expanded to have such).</p><p></p><p>Guardians of the Galaxy is actually in a lot of ways, the best "D&D movie" we've seen so far and really you want the fantasy equivalent of that. Which includes races which aren't just the Tolkien races.</p><p></p><p>I think that's why they're going original, despite the risk. None of the "classic" D&D novels (at least the well-known ones) captures what's cool about D&D. Some of them are cool stories, but they're not really D&D stories. Plus, they're almost all about a bunch of white people and some Tolkien-races (who are also white), and often disproportionately male (though not always - but the ones which aren't tend to be personally-focused stories rather than party-focused ones, for whatever reason).</p><p></p><p>I'll be shocked if the movie doesn't want to have a Tiefling and/or Dragonborn in it too. So really they'd be only looking at more modern stuff, which has little recognition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8194271, member: 18"] I think the main problem is the Moonshaes is the Moonshaes. If this was the 1980s, when a new wave of Celt-o-mania was upon us (which is what lead to the Moonshaes in the first place), people would totally be down for that. Now? In 2021? There's no Celt-o-mania (that's a legit term btw, I didn't make it up), and there's not a particular hunger for a celtic setting, especially one chock-full of white people (two flavours - celt flavour and viking flavour, but still) and not much else. Yeah, you can of course have characters who have traveled from afar to the White People Islands (oh my god I am suppressing so many sassy comments sorry), but that's a pretty tired trope and makes non-white characters all "others" to some extent (it's not hideous or anything it's just tired). Let's not even start on the character/place names or the Ffolk and so on. Also, way more people have played D&D now, in 2021, than in 2000, and on top of that, awareness about D&D and RPGs in general is vastly higher. Part of what people love is the parties - diverse groups of weirdoes who bicker and squabble and have a good time whilst getting into adventures. Even the 2000 D&D movie got that bit. And I think any D&D movie has to, really. So you need a basis that has such a party in it (or can easily be expanded to have such). Guardians of the Galaxy is actually in a lot of ways, the best "D&D movie" we've seen so far and really you want the fantasy equivalent of that. Which includes races which aren't just the Tolkien races. I think that's why they're going original, despite the risk. None of the "classic" D&D novels (at least the well-known ones) captures what's cool about D&D. Some of them are cool stories, but they're not really D&D stories. Plus, they're almost all about a bunch of white people and some Tolkien-races (who are also white), and often disproportionately male (though not always - but the ones which aren't tend to be personally-focused stories rather than party-focused ones, for whatever reason). I'll be shocked if the movie doesn't want to have a Tiefling and/or Dragonborn in it too. So really they'd be only looking at more modern stuff, which has little recognition. [/QUOTE]
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