Dungeons & Dragons (2022)
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This was pretty weak. Just felt like a written-by-committee mediocre fantasy Marvel movie. Speak with the Dead, big chungus dragon, and the glitched bard illusion were only things that got a laugh. the 91/93 on RT must be solely because of how shitty every other D&D movie has been by comparison.
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They are called dark elves because they live in the dark, not their skin color. Just like wood elves live in the woods, not because they are wood colored.
Wizards also changed (added? Reconned?) Drow lore to add an entire sub category of good Drow that don't worship lolth. Unfortunately, woke people can't differentiate between people who are wearing blackface as an overt attempt to offend others, and wearing make-up to emulate a fantasy race that has zero in common with African Americans.
There's a bunch of pretty cool Drow stories but you can only tell them in books are live play games that have no chance of being portrayed in live action
Wizards also changed (added? Reconned?) Drow lore to add an entire sub category of good Drow that don't worship lolth. Unfortunately, woke people can't differentiate between people who are wearing blackface as an overt attempt to offend others, and wearing make-up to emulate a fantasy race that has zero in common with African Americans.
There's a bunch of pretty cool Drow stories but you can only tell them in books are live play games that have no chance of being portrayed in live action
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Sevens
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Community: Netflix and Hulu Remove “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons” Episode
Netflix and Hulu have removed the Season 2 episode of Community, “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons,” due to apparent use of blackface.
www.denofgeek.com
This is the episode that picture of Chang was from.
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Cybsled
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WoTC doesn't like elements that involve genocide, slavery, etc.
Even if you make the elves all purple, they're still evil for the most part (traditionally anyways) and enslave/sacrifice other races. Some unpaid intern at Vox will then write some article about how they are racist, etc etc and Twitter will explode.
Even if you make the elves all purple, they're still evil for the most part (traditionally anyways) and enslave/sacrifice other races. Some unpaid intern at Vox will then write some article about how they are racist, etc etc and Twitter will explode.
Harshaw
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Gavinmad
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The one thing that really stood out to me was how TERRIBLE the more exotic races looked compared to how good everything else in the movie looked. The Aarakocra looked okayish, I guess they spent more time on that since it was an important part of the beginning, but the cat people (Tabaxi?) looked awful and there was a lizardman-looking dude that I honestly had no idea what the fuck it was supposed to be until I got online later and saw someone mention Dragonborn and realized that's what it was supposed to be.
Harshaw
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I have never heard of Dragonborn. I thought it was a deep cut Saurial. Like the one introduced in Curse of the Azure Bonds.
Gavinmad
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They were introduced in 3.5 splatbooks, then became a core race in 4E. Draconians were sort of retroactively declared to be the Dragonborn of the Dragonlance setting.
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Harshaw
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Yeah most of my D&D knowledge is based in AD&D and 2nd edition. My group didn't really want to transition to 3rd. All my other knowledge of newer stuff is from video games.
Gavinmad
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That's a real shame, you missed the single biggest revival in the history of tabletop gaming.
Mist
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Strictly speaking, 'races' was always a mistake in terminology. They're clearly different species, some of which can interbreed to form hybrids.
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100% agree, the Tabaxi and Dragonborn looked Chuck E Cheese level of animatronics bad
Harshaw
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3ed. Came out at the waning years of my pen and paper days. I haven't played tabletop since the early 2000's, and I think 3ed. came out in like 2000? Also the thought of paying like 50% more for every new book was bullshit at the time.