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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 01:09:13
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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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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
USA
1272 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 02:25:24
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| I could feel my wallet hemorrhaging when I saw the Minsc and Boo comics. They'd better get my favorite Ranger right! |
- Delwa Aunglor
I am off to slay yon refrigerator and spoil it's horde. Go for the cheese, Boo!
"The Realms change; seldom at the speed desired of those who strive, but far too quickly for those who resist." - The Simbul, taken from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Conspectus |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 03:23:51
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| 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. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
1155 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 12:35:08
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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. |
When life turns it's back on you...sneak attack for extra damage.
Head admin of the FR wiki:
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Gyor
Master of Realmslore
1628 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 16:49:36
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 18:51:16
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| I've jumped up when I heard about the Minsc & Boo comic. |
SiNafay Vrinn, the daughter of Lloth, from Ched Nasad!
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 23:30:38
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Purple you say?!
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
USA
830 Posts |
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." |
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