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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7718145" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I think we're going in circles here. Acererak is dead. He *can't* be a major NPC....well, unless they decided to just ignore everything about his AD&D history and basically build yet another uber-lich and slap the name "Acererak" on it for nothing more than name recognition. I can slap "Lamborghini" on the side of my Honda Odyssey mini-van...doesn't make it a lambo though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />That's my main contention. If they are going to use specific names of things that have already been established...they should also honour the history that got those things established in the first place. They shouldn't be grabbing name's, places, items, etc willy-nilly and then ignoring 90% of what those things actually *are*. In D&D, Acererak is dead. Long dead. He was a lich, then died...becoming a demi-lich (which is basically a skull that sits there until you poke it with a stick). Now, having an entirely new lich who happened upon something that Acererak created, researched, found, or whatever...ok. Fine with me. That serves to tie things together, 'timeline' wise and would be a good use of 'name recognition'. But I hate it when writers take something already established, then "re-imagine" it, banking on name recognition to somehow make their crappy story seem good (...not calling ToA crappy...it's not even out..just going by other such re-imagined stories, books, video games and movies). Ditto for those that take something that was destroyed/killed and try the handwaving "But no!....y'see...it was all a dream!"...and then stare at you with s dumb smile on their face waiting for you to grasp just how genius their idea is when all you want to do is violate their facial space with your fist."Ok, so it's set in Middle Earth, right. And, like, the beginning scene opens up on Mount Doom erupting, lava bombs falling from the sky, poisonous gas, and all that kind of thing. Then...as the camera gets closer to the ground and a small lava flow...there it pops up. The One Ring!  ...pause...  Get it? So the ring didn't get destroyed at all! It came flowing out with the lava! ...pauses with dumb smile on face waiting for others to acknowledge his genius..."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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