D&D (2024) PHB 2024 - General Impressions and Random Things I Noticed

[Doc_Klueless]

Holy Crap, John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of my top 5 favorite movies.

Ehem.

But that’s neither here nor there.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Do you like John Carpenter’s “The Thing”? Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Blade Runner? West Side Story? Any Marvel movie? The new Dune movies? Or literally any movie/TV adaptation ever?

New creative IPs are great. Reboots and sequels to pre-existing IPs can be (and often are) overdone, poor quality products. But it would be ridiculous to say that unless the new books are completely new settings, they’re unimaginative cash-grabs, because there are plenty of examples of amazing pieces of media that are derivative of previous works/incarnations of an older work.

I mentioned this is another thread. You can be additive to the original, and you can try to make improvements to the original. Both of those are ok. Changing media also gives a lot of space for innovation (comic to movie, for example). My issue is the re-make that does nothing but trade on the name of the original, often changing it in fundamental ways. If it becomes a different kind of story, it shouldn't be using the same names as the original, because to me it seems clear that you are doing so solely as a cheap way to get more attention and more money.

In short, there are exceptions, and talking like there weren't was me with my back up. Sorry about that.