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firmpulse · 03-31-2023, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

I waited all my life for a proper D&D toyline. These look amazing, especially the Displacer Beast, sooo bought! Strange that like Drizzt 2 years ago, these are HasbroPulse exclusives. I would have a hard time getting them if I did not have an american friend.

Yeah, but this particular purple-beige Xanathar has been the same individual for quite some time now - not only all of 5E uses the same design for him, but also a 2E book had him on the cover too meaning this one has been "the" Xanathar for quite a long time now.

Telling that to a Beholder is the quickest way to get disintegrated. Or petrified. Or have your life force drained.

Beholders are not animals but aberrations, weird creatures from another realm (like Mind Flayers or Flumphs or Aboleths). They are hyper-intelligent, the average human to them is like a dog to us humans. Luckily for Faerun, Beholders are incredibly xenophobic, and I don't mean they look down on any other life form (which they do), but they hate any other Beholder that looks even a little different from them. That's why they never work together. Beholders like the Xanathar who actually deems to work with "lesser beings" are pretty rare too.
He is actually not in the movie, though... so that gives me hope we can get toys of other D&D monsters that are not in the movie. Frankly, I think that Owlbear body could be retooled with some effort into an Umber Hulk, too.

Dragonlance WAS AD&D.

It was one of the settings under that ruleset, same as Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Greyhawk, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Al-Quadim, Oriental Adventures, etc.
Forgotten Realms (which does include the last two settings too basically) is the most common one, but Wizards has been bringing back the others too. Dragonlance got a new adventure just last autumn, btw, set just before the War of the Lance (aka the first book in the novel series). Spelljammer also got revived last year, and Planescape is coming this autumn!

I don't think Doric/Owlbear was a Pulse exclusive, it was sold on BBTS too, but these new ones - and Drizzt - weren't.
It is annoying that Hasbro made an EU website too, but only ships to like 4 countries... mine not included. How hard can it be, when other webshops ship worldwide???

You are a veritable fount of D&D (et al) knowledge! Thanks man!

I guess the thing about Dragonlance that always set it apart to 12 year old me were the differences in dragon classification (Chromatic=Evil, Metallic=Good). Like Tiamat and Takhisis. They look the same but seemed written very differently. I mainly got into it more due to Hickman and Weiss' books. I loved Raistlin. Admittedly it's been FOREVER since I've thought about it so I'm surely mistaken. All this did make me break out my "Art of Dragonlance" book though.

PS, I could have sworn Bader said Xanathar WAS in this film.

03-31-2023, 12:18 PM	#45
firmpulse Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: TN Posts: 2,300	Quote: Originally Posted by BB Shockwave I waited all my life for a proper D&D toyline. These look amazing, especially the Displacer Beast, sooo bought! Strange that like Drizzt 2 years ago, these are HasbroPulse exclusives. I would have a hard time getting them if I did not have an american friend. Yeah, but this particular purple-beige Xanathar has been the same individual for quite some time now - not only all of 5E uses the same design for him, but also a 2E book had him on the cover too meaning this one has been "the" Xanathar for quite a long time now. Telling that to a Beholder is the quickest way to get disintegrated. Or petrified. Or have your life force drained. Beholders are not animals but aberrations, weird creatures from another realm (like Mind Flayers or Flumphs or Aboleths). They are hyper-intelligent, the average human to them is like a dog to us humans. Luckily for Faerun, Beholders are incredibly xenophobic, and I don't mean they look down on any other life form (which they do), but they hate any other Beholder that looks even a little different from them. That's why they never work together. Beholders like the Xanathar who actually deems to work with "lesser beings" are pretty rare too. He is actually not in the movie, though... so that gives me hope we can get toys of other D&D monsters that are not in the movie. Frankly, I think that Owlbear body could be retooled with some effort into an Umber Hulk, too. Dragonlance WAS AD&D. It was one of the settings under that ruleset, same as Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Greyhawk, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Al-Quadim, Oriental Adventures, etc. Forgotten Realms (which does include the last two settings too basically) is the most common one, but Wizards has been bringing back the others too. Dragonlance got a new adventure just last autumn, btw, set just before the War of the Lance (aka the first book in the novel series). Spelljammer also got revived last year, and Planescape is coming this autumn! I don't think Doric/Owlbear was a Pulse exclusive, it was sold on BBTS too, but these new ones - and Drizzt - weren't. It is annoying that Hasbro made an EU website too, but only ships to like 4 countries... mine not included. How hard can it be, when other webshops ship worldwide??? You are a veritable fount of D&D (et al) knowledge! Thanks man! I guess the thing about Dragonlance that always set it apart to 12 year old me were the differences in dragon classification (Chromatic=Evil, Metallic=Good). Like Tiamat and Takhisis. They look the same but seemed written very differently. I mainly got into it more due to Hickman and Weiss' books. I loved Raistlin. Admittedly it's been FOREVER since I've thought about it so I'm surely mistaken. All this did make me break out my "Art of Dragonlance" book though. PS, I could have sworn Bader said Xanathar WAS in this film. Last edited by firmpulse; 03-31-2023 at 12:22 PM..