Falconer wrote:
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> They do matter to me, actually. But what I'm saying here is that the
> overall combined effect presented DRAGONLANCE: FIFTH AGE as a totally
> separate brand.
Well, in a sense, it was. DoSF forced change upon the world, whether it
was wanted or not.
> Remember that Larry Elmore did the covers of all the core novels until
> the Rabe Trilogy. I think changing that was a huge error,
Well, we don't know the reasoning behind that. For all we know, Elmore
didn't want to work on DL at that point, or he didn't have the time.
Either way, at least the SAGA books & DoaNA had a unified vision by way
of a single artist. And no, I didn't like any of Easley's art for that
stuff either; I don't know why he changed styles, but it wasn't for the
better.
> and I find Stawicki's cheap computer-generated art greatly
> lessens my interest in a book.
I'm not fond of Stawicki's stuff either. Well, at least until I saw the
cover for Highlord Skies. But I wouldn't let the art get in the way of
picking up what I hope to be a good book or game product. :)
> And I think the new logo sucks, and I hope WotC takes the
op****tunity of
> the 4e branding transition to go back to the old DL logo, or at least
> something similar and as classy, without the retarded wyvern.
I really don't care one way or the other about the logo.
As a side note: when did FR 'update' their logo? Anybody know when or
why? I'm guessing it was a 3E thing, off the top of my head. Logos tend
to change when editions change, which is when DL changed theirs.
> Wrong. What I said in the other post was that Knaak's trilogy was
> MARKETED, at first, as core, when in fact, if you read it, it is no such
> thing.
Again, point of view. Knaak got to move things beyond the end of WoS,
however far that was, and that was im****tant at the time.
But now everybody is writing in the present, with Niles having jumped us
ahead another decade or so, so that took away much of the impact of the
Minotaur trilogy would've had.
Of course, we've been begging for years to have more stuff in the
present, so we've gotten exactly what we wanted. So, I see no reason to
complain if Knaak's stuff wasn't quite as perhaps we first thought.
Perhaps another problem with 'core' novels is that they tend to be
earth-shattering. And in the end, the Minotaur Trilogy wasn't.
I'm not sure the Rise of Solamnia trilogy is either (I haven't read it
yet). It too has advanced the timeline forward a bit, and that seems to
be a big qualifier of 'core' as well - the only reason many would say
DoaNA even counts as 'core'.
Craig J. Ries
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