D&D (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

[Paul Farquhar]

You'd think the best solution would be to leave the color of the dragon up to the player.

Not when you want to tie it to an organisation with history, and overwrite something bad which remains part of the game on a technicality until it is replaced.

I expect there will be a sidebox discussing using dragons of a different colour, just as the original PDK was known as Banneret in other settings.

I expect there will also be a replacement banneret subclass down the line.

 

[EthanSental]

Not much more to add other than it’s not a big deal to me and I’m usually one that likes canon with minimal changes unless it makes senses fiction wise.

 

[Doctor Futurity]

Because the name Purple Dragon Knights is evocative? Because the idea of knights from an idealised feudal kingdom - like Cormyr in FR, or Furyondy in GH - is a very well-established trope for FRPGing?

Empathy is a response to others' suffering.

No one suffers because WotC publish a book in which imaginary names and beings are in different relationships to one another from the relationships that were talked about in a previous book.

Eg in the Claremont X-Men comics, Wolverine and Rogue do not become X-Men at the same time; Wolverine is already an X-Man when they meet. In the first X-Men movie, they do become X-Men at the same time. Thus, the movie differs from the comics in the way it presents these characters and their relationship.

Maybe some people like the comic version better than the movie. Maybe for some its the opposite. I know that at least one person - me - has enjoyed both.

But notions of suffering and empathy are completely inapt when we're talking about thiese sort of responses to serial fiction.

My point stands and is also now proven. You should look up the actual definition of empathy sometime.

 

[Umbran]

My point stands and is also now proven. You should look up the actual definition of empathy sometime.

Mod Note:
You know, if this is going to the nature of the discussion going forward, we should not have the discussion.

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