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| Kuje |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 01:09:13
Browsing the net today, I've come across these two items and figured maybe someone wanted to know about them.
First is a set of minis: http://www.nobleknight.com/productdetail.asp?categoryid=5&genreid=0&manufacturerid=297&productlineid=2137430928&productid=2147553487&inventoryid=2148112235
Second is a new Baldur's Gate comic with Minsc and Boo: http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/2851/
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| Dark Wizard |
Posted - 17 Jul 2014 : 08:11:22
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Originally posted by hashimashadoo
Dang. Much as I love Minsc and Boo, the disparity between the games and the novels has always been a contentious point of canon.
I understand the business decision to make such a popular character have a bigger role but it does kind of spit in the eye of established realmslore.
As opposed to all the other stuff Wizards has done to the Realms? 
Happy to see Minsc and Boo get their due. At least this comic is bringing back (adding) something (someone) popular within the setting (rather than their usual subtractive process).
Once again, Wizards is realizing one of their most famous and popular mainstream exposures wasn't by their usual team of in-house or freelance collaborator efforts, but from a computer game from three editions ago, by talent that has gone on to create popular competing franchises like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and soon to be Pillars of Eternity.
I'd wager there are more people within popular video game culture who know what Dragon Age is than Forgotten Realms, and many who know FR is through its relationship with Bioware as in "Oh, you mean those games Bioware made years ago before Dragon Age." |
| Portella |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 23:30:38
Awesome |
| Zireael |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 18:51:16
I've jumped up when I heard about the Minsc & Boo comic. |
| Gyor |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 16:49:36
How? |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 12:35:08
Dang. Much as I love Minsc and Boo, the disparity between the games and the novels has always been a contentious point of canon.
I understand the business decision to make such a popular character have a bigger role but it does kind of spit in the eye of established realmslore. |
| Kuje |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 03:23:51
Indeed. I'm looking forward to the comics. Even if I don't purchase any of the recent sourcebooks/novels, I've still done so for the comics. |
| Delwa |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 02:25:24
I could feel my wallet hemorrhaging when I saw the Minsc and Boo comics. They'd better get my favorite Ranger right! |
