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

[Paul Farquhar]

What is gained by calling something new by the name of an old thing you find boring?

What is gained by keeping the old boring thing that is irrelevant to current players?

 

[Incenjucar]

What is gained by keeping the old boring thing that is irrelevant to current players?

Citation needed for this claim.

I'm pretty sure there are people who started playing D&D before 2024 who are still alive

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Citation needed for this claim.

I'm pretty sure there are people who started playing D&D before 2024 who are still alive

Sure, I started playing in 1982 and they are boring and dated to me. And I even used the PDKs in an actual game of D&D, which I very much doubt most of the people crying about their fake-history being changed have ever done.

 

[Incenjucar]

Sure, I started playing in 1982 and they are boring and dated to me. And I even used the PDKs in an actual game of D&D, which I very much doubt most of the people crying about their fake-history being changed have ever done.

Uh huh. Why are you crying about people wanting to keep their fake history again?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Uh huh. Why are you crying about people wanting to keep their fake history again?

Because I want cool stuff to play D&D with, not dusty tomes to paw over.

 

[Incenjucar]

Because I want cool stuff to play D&D with, not dusty tomes to paw over.

And the ripoff of a novel from the 1960s needs a dusty old tear-stained name?

 

[pemerton]

What is gained by calling something new by the name of an old thing you find boring?

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?

I am disappointed at the number of people who lack empathy when considering that just because they don't care about the Forgotten Realms, seem unable to recognize that others do.

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.

 

[ECMO3]

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?

See I don't find it evocative at all and tying it to Amethyst Dragons, something very few players even know of, makes it even less evocative.

You know what would be evocative: Red Dragon Knights. They could tie this to the Githyanki in BG3 (you know knights that actually do ride Dragons) and then maybe change the lore a bit so it is not just Githyanki that do it. Or alternatively tie it instead to the Cult of the Dragon.

That WOULD be evocative and I think a lot more people would relate to it, both Grognards that like the PDK and people who have never heard of them.

 

[Jensaarai]

Amethyst dragons featured pretty heavily alongside the other gem dragons in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, which IIRC was a popular book in the 5e line-up.

 

[Umbran]

Uh huh. Why are you crying about people wanting to keep their fake history again?

Mod note:
A better question - Why are you being snarky and mean to a fellow gamer about this?

We can disagree about the value of a bit of canon. But we don't have to be jerks about it.

I hope that's clearly understood, by everyone.