Ew Ned, NO KENDER PORN.
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― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
LONG LIVE CHAOTIC NEUTRAL!!!
― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
As spotted in a parking lot today:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/573370484_0c29fc93d9.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Whatever happened to the Dragonlance movie? Wasn't is supposed to come out by now?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometime soon, I gather.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/media/DoAT_trailer_v1.mov
― remy bean, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesus, the CGI stuff looks terrible...why couldn't they have just done the whole thing in traditional animation style?
Also wtf @ Lucy Lawless and Michael Rosenbaum getting shouted out but not KIEFER!?
― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
As a classic D&D nerd, I read "Autumn Twilight" right when it came out. I waited interminable months for the sequel. Haven't really gone back, but I do have intensely fond memories of the first six. Felt ripped off by everything after that.
I saw Weiss & Hickman speak at GenCon '88. They swore they would never write another DL book. I guess the joke is on me and they're laughing all the way to the bank.
I'm kinda scared to go back because the authors are religious and we all know what happened when we tried to reread the Narnia stuff...
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Gah, the animation looks cheap. The CG stuff just looks like game cutscenes, but not horribly offensive.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It doesn't matter how bad it looks. We will all rent it, shut the curtains, and watch it anyway.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, there's a lot of 'the gods didn't leave man, man left the gods' hoohah, but the first Legends book (when they went back in time to Istar) actually does a pretty good (in years-ago-memory) job of portraying a nominally righteous religious society led by love and light in fact being little more than a cover for rapacious cruelty and ensuring its hold on power above all else. A standard trope but it's more than you would find in C. S. Lewis, or at least his fiction.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That's reassuring!
So it's actually an allegory for Lord of the Rings and not the bible?
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ totally gully dwarf, man, 8080
― nabisco, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"two, not more than two"
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Further proof that Ta-Nehisi Coates knows what it's all about. Check the first entry.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
What a great thread. I re-read Chronicles last year for the first time since around '88, and man do they stink. Didn't taint the memories exactly, but I do wonder why I read them over and over again from ages 12-15. Of course, I was also reading the Gor books, which make Dragonlance look like Pulitzer Prize winning material.
Larry Elmore may be known for these covers, but Snarfquest was his finest achievement. Which is no achievement at all.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i described the old videogame adaptation of the first book as 'frustratingly arbitrary' on twitter the other day; then this account (@the_arbitrator) automatically retweeted it as 'frustratingly definite'. i was confused.
― thomp, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I had that game - "Heroes of the Lance" - for my Tandy 2000. It looked like the screen shot here. I think I might have beat it once or twice - arbitrary and hard as hell, like many games from those days. Played the hell out of it - only had that and the Nine Princes In Amber game, which was also rather difficult.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1211426248-00.png
it was a bit better looking on the master system:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HqTC1nIImxs/0.jpg
― thomp, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
because
Revive the thread Remy. You know you want to.― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 4:26 PM (24 minutes ago)
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― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i did want to
Wasn't there supposed to be an animated film or something?
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrOfJ8_D0o
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh dear.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The comic adaptation was quite good.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 14 October 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
God, Dragonlance. I was obsessed when I was about 10, before moving on to longer (not sure about better) fantasy. I still have at least the core six books somewhere though I dread revisiting them.
― seandalai, Thursday, 14 October 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8yyhaB3qII&feature=related
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Unleash the arguments
http://io9.com/why-dragonlance-should-be-the-next-fantasy-film-franchi-1520791414
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
that is a long book report
― adam, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I loved these books so much. I think the last one I read was Dragons of Summer Flame, before progressing to more mature reading material (Death Gate).
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Lance-The-Minotaur-Wars-Trilogy-MMPB-Richard-A-Knaak-/331149360459?pt=US_Fiction_Books&hash=item4d1a0a3d4b
― ian, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
where are all the people clamoring for an in-depth exploration of krynn's minotaur culture? and why?
He wrote Kaz the Minotaur also, so his credentials are definitely unassailable.
― jmm, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link