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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9784208" data-attributes="member: 54629">I just can’t see WotC keeping them as is no matter how Weis feels about them.That is arguably much worse. Better to either strip any Native American references from the Plainsmen or reimagine Goldmoon as not being Aryan. I suppose you could say she’s special because she was born with golden hair, but that still implies that blond hair is better than brown.That may be so, but I don’t think that’ll be good enough justification for 21st century audiences. Better to make kleptomania a Tas trait, not a kender trait. And maybe some tinker gnomes have OCD but not the whole species. Some gully dwarves can be as thick as bricks but mostly it’s just racial prejudice on the part of hill dwarves.Look, I love the story the Chronicles tell, but they are not well written,* and they have a lot of problematic elements that will need changing, regardless of whether DL gets a new show or a new setting book.That being said, it’s a lot easier to ignore problems in a setting book than it is in an adaptation of a story featuring those elements. The previous 5e DL book has only the vaguest hint about gully dwarves, for instance, but a Chronicles show would need to address them since they are a major feature in the Xak Tsaroth section. (I wouldn’t want to cut them entirely, though, since the Bupu-Raistlin interaction is important.)*When my girls were younger, I loved reading books to them. Discworld novels were great because Pratchett’s prose rolls off the tongue so well, it’s like he wrote his novels with the intention that they be read aloud (probably a result of his many years as a journalist). When I tried reading the Chronicles to one of my daughters, it was awful. That prose is not meant for reading out loud. It’s unnecessarily clunky and convoluted at times. They really needed a better editor. And don’t get me started on their poetry / songs.</blockquote>

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