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That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


I have no nostalgia or even much knowledge at all of Dragonlance, but I'm ready to sign up for your Patreon.

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That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Mr. Humalong posted:

I’m definitely a latecomer to D&D (never played until 2017), but what’s the general opinion of the Dragonlance setting? I know next to nothing about any of the settings besides Forgotten Realms (seems like a kitchen sink setting) and Eberron (rules imo).

As someone who only knows broad, mostly third-hand information, it seems that despite a variety of interesting ideas for the time (fantasy post-apocalypse, world forsaken by gods, fundamentalism vs actual compassion Good v Good), it's aggressively mediocre.

The cartoon with Lucy Lawless and Keifer Sutherland and a bunch of terrible CGI was hilarious, tho.

(And yes Eberrowns.)

That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jul 19, 2019

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:

Re: Moorcock, are the Elric books any good? Do they hold up at all?

I've known about how influential they are since I was a teenager and used them as a touchstone for like, explaining to people what a Hexblade is or whatever, but I've never actually read any of them.

I think they're pretty okay to good. Like most pulp series it can vary a lot, and you have to be tolerant of the conventions of pulp stories or else you'll probably just hate it. As far as that goes, I think Elric's stories are some of the better Influential Pulp. It more regularly does crazy weird poo poo, and is often less blatantly racist (but it's still racist).

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