Okay...the game-rules lawyer? Congratulations, no one wants to play with you.
The convention's exit door is that way.
Okay...the game-rules lawyer? Congratulations, no one wants to play with you.
The convention's exit door is that way.
Ok, this actually looks decent. CGI is solid, Chris Pine likeable like always. The fact they used a black drogon burping acid (instead of a standard red) seems to indicate they know, and care, about source material. Main worries for me are possibility of generic/obnoxious jokes and the fact they may have to really rush with exposition, considering the amount of stuff we saw in the trailer.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
Black dragon breathing acid…displacer beast…owlbear, red Thayan wizard, there was so much being shown, I hope there's more.
Looks cool. Reminded me to check out the old SSI Gold Box games on Steam. They're on sale.
Not ever sure if branding a movie with DnD actually helps. Glad it's having a resurgence through podcasting, but it still feels niche. How will casual audiences respond? Watching Stranger Things with my kids. They didnt believe the Satanic Panic or insane bullying were real things 80's.
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Sure, i think you are wrong.
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Yes, the book does not say normal human eyes
If you actually go back to my first post, you would know what i said, which is basically saying:I mean, we can go through everything you said. First you said she had no demonic features.
And i think the movie should go with a red tiefling, because its the basic tiefling, the one people know/imagine when someone say "tiefling", the rest people bitching about other stuff and making up other, because they don't like different povalthough the 5e corebook says tieflings with human skin colors are a possibility, the eyes aren't, and overall tieflings are well know for their red-color)
Stop talking about what the book doesn't say and start dealing with what the book actually does say.
It's not that their eyes are "not normal"...it's very specific about what their eyes should be like... and your "official art" doesn't match that description.their eyes are solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil.
You also made a really big deal about the horns. And were proving wrong about that too.If you actually go back to my first post, you would know what i said, which is basically saying:
And again, what you use as "official art" also doesn't follow the rules regarding the eyes. Which again are, according to the rules, one solid colour. If their Official art doesn't follow their own rules...why should their official movie?
I mean it straight up says in every edition of D&D that the rules are guidelines and that you shouldn't be beholden to them. They probably told the filmmakers the same thing.
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“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
By books the movie still is not faithful, so you can keep arguing for nothing.
I didn't make a big deal, and i can't be wrong if its in fact truth, as most art from tieflings the horns do come from the forehead.You also made a really big deal about the horns. And were proving wrong about that too.
You mean the official art that does follow their own rules? like this oneAnd again, what you use as "official art" also doesn't follow the rules regarding the eyes. Which again are, according to the rules, one solid colour. If their Official art doesn't follow their own rules...why should their official movie?
and this one:
you know, solid colors.
Sure thing buddyI mean it straight up says in every edition of D&D that the rules are guidelines and that you shouldn't be beholden to them. They probably told the filmmakers the same thing.
but i still think they should have gone with the red tiefling as it is the basic/most well know. I think going to the trouble of doing a tiefling to not make it purple and red, especially in a party full of humans is a bad move.
And by your own arguments, you guys can be wrong and im right
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I have no problem Either, my point is that they should have gone more devilish, especially with a more darker tone. The way i see it? its a satyr as well.
People who said they immediately though was a tiefling are prob lying
Again, by the books...your official art isn't faithful...and yet you are using that as the standard to which all tieflings in media should be portrayed.
You made several posts about the horns not being according to the rules and, even when the rules were shown to you, continued to argue against it.I didn't make a big deal, and i can't be wrong if its in fact truth, as most art from tieflings the horns do come from the forehead.
But not like the official art you posted earlier that does not. All you've done is prove that WotC is more flexible with their rules than you are.You mean the official art that does follow their own rules? like this one
and this one:
you know, solid colors.
It's fine to say "I would prefer they had gone with a red tiefling".Sure thing buddy
but i still think they should have gone with the red tiefling as it is the basic/most well know. I think going to the trouble of doing a tiefling to not make it purple and red, especially in a party full of humans is a bad move.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Pretty much, yeah.
This happens a lot, too. Something new and popular breaks into an existing genre/idea/game/etc and is so widely known that it becomes the entirety of what that thing is to people. Then people who weren't familiar with the work before the new thing exposed them to it will speak as if the work was always the way it is in that new/popular thing.
(Compare the viewpoints of someone who played MMOs before WoW to someone who has only played WoW)
I played plenty of campaigns that weren't "camp" back in the day. In fact, none of them were "camp" as far as I recall. People were having fun, but that didn't mean the setting/tone/etc wasn't serious. Maybe that's still a bit TOO "nerdy" for people today, though.
To some extent it almost feels like some of the stuff you see nowadays are people playing ironically. That's not me gatekeeping or taking anything away - everyone should absolutely play in the way that's most fun for them - but if people have the impression that "D&D was always like that to everyone" they're definitely mistaken.
Funny think is how you are putting words on my mouth, i never said shit about rules, neither say they should follow the "rules in the book"
So this show how much dishonesty you can bring to a discussion, that you rly don't want to discuss just argue for the sake of arguing.
thats literally what i've being doing so far, i just provide the reasons why i would preffer thatIt's fine to say "I would prefer they had gone with a red tiefling".
But apparently, im not allowed to.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Yet yours is not the popular opinion here. All a part of my point.
If it were really as popular as you'd say, then there wouldn't be so many people arguing against your opinion.
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You cross a line when you infer that everyone else must be wrong about the 'most popular' version of the race. It has nothing to do with what you prefer, everything to do with how you're explaining your why.
If all you said is you preferred to have a Red Tiefling because that's how 5e portrays them, then that's fine. That you inferred that 5e is the most popular version and everyone else is wrong, with nothing to actually back that up, is just a bunch of fluff and nonsense. It's these kind of ridiculous comments that will get people all up in your business. I can't imagine you've been here this long and don't understand how your words stir up the hornet's nest. 7 years, my dude.
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