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Hey Patsu, what are your plans for the holidays? Maybe a visit from Shuu and Kieran would be okay? D:
 
Yes, I know i'm niave in the way of Anime's (but i'm still learning!), but what is Dragonlance (and yes, i'm sure i've asked this before as well, and soon as you explain i will probs remember.)

And whats with all the different types of conventions??

And who would I be? (If I was invited, I mean)
 
NiteCrowe said:
Yes, I know i'm niave in the way of Anime's (but i'm still learning!), but what is Dragonlance (and yes, i'm sure i've asked this before as well, and soon as you explain i will probs remember.)

And whats with all the different types of conventions??

And who would I be? (If I was invited, I mean)
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remember back when everyone made a big deal about Dungeons and Dragons (back when it was a BOARD game instead of its current RPG format?). Well, in the seventies, a series of books was started by various authors based on Dungeons and Dragons. It revolved around a world called Krynn, orbited by three moons, each representing one of the three major gods (Paladine, Takhisis, and Majere, if memory serves...Light, Darkness, and Balance, or something to that effect). the series was begun with a trilogy collectively titled The War of The Lance, the lance being the Dragonlance, a lance forged of silver and blessed by Paladine with the power to kill the dragon servants of the evil Takhisis. There are many varieties of dragons, some good, some evil, some neutral, and those serving Takhisis are, quite frankly, cold blooded killers. Of course, the Dragonlance can only be forged by a Silver Dragon, apparently.

It's one of the highest grossing fantasy series of all times, even selling more than anything Tolkien's written, but because it's by a large variety of authors, no one author can claim to sell more than the grand master of Fantasy sold over his lifetime (and after, since Tolkien's most successful work wasn't published till five years after he died.)
 
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dragonrazor said:
remember back when everyone made a big deal about Dungeons and Dragons (back when it was a BOARD game instead of its current RPG format?). Well, in the seventies, a series of books was started by various authors based on Dungeons and Dragons. It revolved around a world called Krynn, orbited by three moons, each representing one of the three major gods (Paladine, Takhisis, and Majere, if memory serves...Light, Darkness, and Balance, or something to that effect). the series was begun with a trilogy collectively titled The War of The Lance, the lance being the Dragonlance, a lance forged of silver and blessed by Paladine with the power to kill the dragon servants of the evil Takhisis. There are many varieties of dragons, some good, some evil, some neutral, and those serving Takhisis are, quite frankly, cold blooded killers. Of course, the Dragonlance can only be forged by a Silver Dragon, apparently.

It's one of the highest grossing fantasy series of all times, even selling more than anything Tolkien's written, but because it's by a large variety of authors, no one author can claim to sell more than the grand master of Fantasy sold over his lifetime (and after, since Tolkien's most successful work wasn't published till five years after he died.)
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A few corrections. Firstly, D&D started as a minature war game, they added in stats and whatnot later on. This is credited mostly to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

The immediate predecessor of Dungeons & Dragons was a set of medieval miniature rules written by Jeff Perren. These were expanded by Gary Gygax, whose additions included a fantasy supplement, before the game was published as Chainmail. Dave Arneson used Chainmail to run games where players controlled a single character instead of an army, an innovation that inspired D&D. Developed with Arneson's help from his modified version of Chainmail for his Blackmoor campaign, Gygax wrote "The Fantasy Game", the role-playing game (RPG) that became Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

The original Dungeons & Dragons, now referred to as OD&D, was a small box set of three booklets published in 1974. It was amateurish in production and written from a perspective that assumed the reader was familiar with wargaming. Nevertheless it exploded in popularity, first among wargamers and then expanding to a more general audience of college and high school students. This first set went through many printings and was supplemented with several official additions, such as the original Greyhawk and Blackmoor supplements (both 1975), as well as magazine articles in TSR’s official publications and countless fanzines.

As for Dragonlance:

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans devised the concept that became Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application. At TSR, Tracy met his future writing partner Margaret Weis, and they gathered a group of associates to play the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The adventures during that game inspired a series of gaming modules, and a series of novels, as well as licensed products such as board games, and lead miniature figures.

In 1984, TSR published the first Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It began the Chronicles Trilogy, a core element of Dragonlance. While the authoring team of Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis wrote the setting's central books, numerous other authors contributed novels and short stories to the setting. Over 190 novels have used the Dragonlance setting, and have been accompanied by a supplemental campaign setting in the Dungeons & Dragons – style for over a decade. In 1997, Wizards of the Coast LLC purchased TSR, and licensed Dragonlance to Sovereign Press, Inc in 2001 to produce game materials; this licensing agreement expired in 2007.

The fictional Dragonlance world of Krynn contains numerous characters, an extensive timeline, and a detailed geography. The history of Krynn consists of six ages. The novels and related game products are primarily set in the fifth age, The Age of Despair. Since February 2009, the sixth age, the Age of Mortals, has been used. The Heroes of the Lance, created by Weis and Hickman, are the popular protagonists of the Chronicles trilogy, the first books set in the Dragonlance universe. Along with D&D's world of the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance is one of the most popular shared worlds in fiction.

And as for the highest selling fantasy author:

Joanne "Jo" Murray, (née Rowling; born 31 July 1965) better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (pronounced /ˈroʊlɪŋ/, ROH-ling), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films.

Aside from writing the Potter novels, Rowling is perhaps equally famous for her "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on welfare to multi-millionaire status within five years. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in Britain. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fandom. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and the Children's High Level Group.
 
The Jeffinator said:
A few corrections. Firstly, D&D started as a minature war game, they added in stats and whatnot later on. This is credited mostly to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

The immediate predecessor of Dungeons & Dragons was a set of medieval miniature rules written by Jeff Perren. These were expanded by Gary Gygax, whose additions included a fantasy supplement, before the game was published as Chainmail. Dave Arneson used Chainmail to run games where players controlled a single character instead of an army, an innovation that inspired D&D. Developed with Arneson's help from his modified version of Chainmail for his Blackmoor campaign, Gygax wrote "The Fantasy Game", the role-playing game (RPG) that became Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

The original Dungeons & Dragons, now referred to as OD&D, was a small box set of three booklets published in 1974. It was amateurish in production and written from a perspective that assumed the reader was familiar with wargaming. Nevertheless it exploded in popularity, first among wargamers and then expanding to a more general audience of college and high school students. This first set went through many printings and was supplemented with several official additions, such as the original Greyhawk and Blackmoor supplements (both 1975), as well as magazine articles in TSR’s official publications and countless fanzines.

As for Dragonlance:

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans devised the concept that became Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application. At TSR, Tracy met his future writing partner Margaret Weis, and they gathered a group of associates to play the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The adventures during that game inspired a series of gaming modules, and a series of novels, as well as licensed products such as board games, and lead miniature figures.

In 1984, TSR published the first Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It began the Chronicles Trilogy, a core element of Dragonlance. While the authoring team of Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis wrote the setting's central books, numerous other authors contributed novels and short stories to the setting. Over 190 novels have used the Dragonlance setting, and have been accompanied by a supplemental campaign setting in the Dungeons & Dragons – style for over a decade. In 1997, Wizards of the Coast LLC purchased TSR, and licensed Dragonlance to Sovereign Press, Inc in 2001 to produce game materials; this licensing agreement expired in 2007.

The fictional Dragonlance world of Krynn contains numerous characters, an extensive timeline, and a detailed geography. The history of Krynn consists of six ages. The novels and related game products are primarily set in the fifth age, The Age of Despair. Since February 2009, the sixth age, the Age of Mortals, has been used. The Heroes of the Lance, created by Weis and Hickman, are the popular protagonists of the Chronicles trilogy, the first books set in the Dragonlance universe. Along with D&D's world of the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance is one of the most popular shared worlds in fiction.

And as for the highest selling fantasy author:

Joanne "Jo" Murray, (née Rowling; born 31 July 1965) better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (pronounced /ˈroʊlɪŋ/, ROH-ling), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films.

Aside from writing the Potter novels, Rowling is perhaps equally famous for her "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on welfare to multi-millionaire status within five years. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in Britain. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fandom. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and the Children's High Level Group.
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JK Rowling is a hack. do not mention her again. Tolkien was a good writer. JK Rowling is not. And for the record. LotR is NOT Tolkien's most successful work. The Silmarillion, collected from his notes by his son five years after his death, is his most successful work.
 
Ok, cool. I'd vaguely heard of Dragonlance, but I wasn't sure what it was, as my head was almost always stuck in a forgotten realms book - except for now, it almost always stuck in a discworld book.

Ummm, Discworld... Would anyone be up for a Discworld RP if i made one?
 
NiteCrowe said:
Ok, cool. I'd vaguely heard of Dragonlance, but I wasn't sure what it was, as my head was almost always stuck in a forgotten realms book - except for now, it almost always stuck in a discworld book.

Ummm, Discworld... Would anyone be up for a Discworld RP if i made one?
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Hmmm. Never read Discworld. I'll have to look into that.
 
Can you hear it? Oblivion's calling me...."come back....you have demons to slay, vampires to torch, magic to learn.....THINGS to find"
 
I want to get Oblivion.

Also, does anyone have good art skills and want to partner with me on a pitch to Dark Horse Comics?
 
I finally watched the new GI Joe movie, and I have got to say, it is honestly the greatest movie I have ever seen. I was like twitching and stirring in my seat the entire time, it was that awesome. The scene where Duke and Ripcord are using the Acceleration Suits to pursue Storm Shadow and Baroness nearly made me splooge in my pants, as well as the fight between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.

I swear, I would sell my manhood to get one of those Acceleration Suits. I wouldn't need that part of my anatomy anymore anyway, as the Suit would never be removed. I'd just have a little panel that slides open and a straw comes out to pee. For other, less desirable forms of waste, I'd have a retractable exhaust pipe in the back.
 
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