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[luna]

for about a month now i have been readin the dragonlance books and they are awesome...the kender being my favorite char in book...but i recommend if you havent and you get into fantasy read them start with the dragon lance chronicles then the dragonlance legonds im almost done with the first of the legends trilogy and you will laugh n cry works good when your learning to rp too cuz it helps me out on the char im playing  

[luna]

in autumn of next year they are also makin a movie cant wait cant wait
 

[Jester]

oh no, not another D&D movie. God I hope they don't screw this thing up. As far as the books I haven't read any of them. If I ever get a chance I'll check one out. I've got so much to read so I won't count onj it any time soon

[Poison]

in autumn of next year they are also makin a movie cant wait cant wait
 

Wow.  I've been looking forward to a movie for the past 12-14 years.

There's so much scope for it, it's a great story.  I can see it being brilliant if it's done well.  I think that, because there aren't any clerics (at least, at the beginning of the Chronicles), it will be easier to implement the 'wow' factor for the audience because the characters will be thinking 'wow' too.

There's so many elements about it that I like, I just hope they do it justice.

[luna]

i just hope they try hard to make all the chars like in the books the girl that played xena is gonna play goldmoon so lets just see where that goes....oo i cant wait

[kv]

Actually, it's animated.

So while I'm excited for it, I can approch this with no small amount of trepidation. I mean... seriously. Animated?

Although Michael Rosenbaum (who is awesome Lex Luthor on Smallville) is the voice of Tanis, and Lucy Lawless is the voice of Goldmoon. I'll wait until I see some animation before I pass judgement on this one, though.

I'm afraid it'll look anything like that old 'The Hobbit' cartoon.

  -kv

[Elena V]

What's wrong with the old Hobbit cartoon?  I grew up watching that.  

[kv]

Yeah, me too.

Also animation quality = teh sucks.

I loved it, and I loved these books, but I'm afraid (nay, almost unto terrified) that they'll do a Gedenny Tartakofsky/Clone Wars rip off (or worse- Ren and Stimpy... or even worse... family guy) and that it'll suck.

At least with live-action I'm comfortable with the level of suckiness.

  -kv

[Poison]

Actually, it's animated.

Yeah, my comment was made before I realised it was animated.  

There's some pretty decent artwork around for Dragonlance - on the covers of the books, in the D&D modules, in other D&D source material - so if it's of that quality I'll be pretty pleased.  If they do a Clone Wars/Samurai Jack style, I'll be disappointed.  It deserves so much more than that (which isn't to say that that style isn't good, just not suited to this story).

I'm a bit hesitant about Lucy voicing Goldmoon though.  I envisage (if that's the right term when imagining a sound...) that she'd have a softer voice than I associate with Lucy, but maybe I'm not giving her much credit.

Anyway, I look forward to having my fears allayed and being mightily impressed.

[kv]

I think it's more probable that she doesn't walk around all day talking like Xena, Warrior Princess, and can actually speak like a normal human being... although years of man-bashing Xena plotlines have led me to believe otherwise.

  -kv

[Jester]

so, there's no link out there for a preview yet?

[Tish]

Dragonlance books were really good books,  I read them back in high school.  I hope the movie/animation dose not deviate to much from the book.

Funny to see this post because in the Shadowrun game I played in there was an NPC kender running around as a contact, decker!

[Gabriel]

You know, I have to wonder what age group they are going to shoot for with this. If they go with your standard kids-late teens approach, then you can say goodbye to a lot of the sexual tension between Tanis, Kitara, and Laurana. You can also toss out the Tika's "blossoming to womanhood" with Caramon, although they will probably keep the crap with Sturm and Alhanna. Personally, I REALLY hope they go with an older audiance (since the people who read these books are now in thier 30's) and really cut loose with some of the more disturbing aspects of the stories. I'm really curious to see who they do Lord Soth, perhaps the baddest guy since Boba Fett. You should read the original 6 just for that, Jester.

Gabriel

[Jester]

when I get to it. I'm reading alot of L5R fiction right now

[Gabriel]

L5R???

Gabriel