D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced

[Charlaquin]

My doubts are about to use "them" for the main character. That gives me a bad feeling.

 

[Charlaquin]

Some media is art; most is not. The fact that most people don't want to live with constant tension between their experience and perceptions just seems like a human truism.

Media is the plural of medium. As in, the means of conveying a work of art. That a work may not necessarily be challenging doesn’t make it not art.

 

[TwoSix]

Media is the plural of medium. As in, the means of conveying a work of art. That a work may not necessarily be challenging doesn’t make it not art.

Fair. I was fine accepting the definition of the poster I quoted within the context of the post; "art" is far too squishy of a word for me to feel comfortable defining its contours.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I want to get off Mr. Baudrillard's wild ride

 

[TwoSix]

They should have gone after it years ago*. Late to the party as usual.


*I think Stryxhaven made a half-hearted attempt to go in that direction.

Tough to say. Throne of Glass started in 2012, and ACOTAR in 2015, but I think you can make an argument that genre didn’t solidify until the rise of BookTok in the early ‘20s, and become mainstream until Fourth Wing.

 

[Reynard]

Wait, i thought BG3 was D&D Romantasy?

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

You're not wrong, but god this depresses me. The whole point of art is to make the observer uncomfortable; to remind them that there is a gulf between perceived and experienced reality.

That's the point of some art, not all art. Art that is "just" an expression of joy or creative outlook is A-ok too!

 

[Kurotowa]

Wait, i thought BG3 was D&D Romantasy?

No, BG3 was a dating sim with a combat minigame on the side.

Seriously though, the Romance genre has heavily codified tropes that define it, and Fantasy Romance inherits a lot of that rigidity of form. When you see tags like "cozy" that's not just marketing blabber, that's a genre flag that sets very specific audience expectations.

 

[Synthil]

The description seems like a rogue and a bard

This sounds more like a Warlock (or maybe Paladin) to me: "Saeldian has sworn never to fall in love. That oath isn’t just a personal promise, but rather a magical pact, granting them powerful abilities"

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

This sounds more like a Warlock (or maybe Paladin) to me: "Saeldian has sworn never to fall in love. That oath isn’t just a personal promise, but rather a magical pact, granting them powerful abilities"

Wait if my aroace friends could get magic powers from not naughty word and not kissing I literally don't see a downside.