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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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 Posted - 23 Oct 2015 : 20:35:43
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RA pointed to it on his book of face, and it's an interesting read about how the Realms are so much more.
And, of course, since I'm a statistician, I was intrigued by a thought. What's got more published about it? Star Wars or the Realms. So here's the breakdown of stuff based on the monks of Wiki and their amazing lists:
Star Wars
Movies (current and announced): 13
TV: 8
Video Games (by title - not expansion): 96
Books/Novels: 102 323
RPG Material: 41
Forgotten Realms
Movies (current and announced): 1 (this is the Hasbro movie that is "in development")
TV: 1 (Since it's been established that the D&D cartoon takes places in the Realms)
Video Games (by title - not expansion): 35
Books/Novels: 295
RPG Material: 132
Star Wars has more visual medium out there, but the printed word surges the Realms way ahead with 464 various works vs. Star Wars' 260.
After the novel update, it comes out closer to a tie between the two at 464 Realms and 481 Star Wars.
*I was going to count comic books, but trying to track down lists of every title, how many issues, etc. made it pretty much a wash. I assume SW has more than FR, and if anyone wants to do an exact count, please feel free.
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I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Edited by - Ashe Ravenheart on 24 Oct 2015 13:44:42
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 23 Oct 2015 : 21:20:01
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Where is it established that the D&D cartoon was in the Realms? That cartoon was off the air long before the Realms was a published setting.
And yes, I know there's a couple references scattered around -- one or two in a computer game, and that one comic that has never been referenced anywhere, much less declared canon... |
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The Masked Mage
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 23 Oct 2015 : 21:25:03
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I would def. dispute the idea that the D&D cartoon was in the Realms.
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Mirtek
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 00:15:00
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| I'd also love to see how he counted to 295 novels, I done it multiple times to be sure and count only 284 (including two yet to be published until beginning of 2016) |
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Firestorm
Senior Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 01:32:48
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I'd also love to see how he counted to 295 novels, I done it multiple times to be sure and count only 284 (including two yet to be published until beginning of 2016)
His count on star wars books certainly seems low. Is he flat ignoring certain series spinoffs and Expanded universe books in that count? Or only counting books based AFTER the movies?
I am almost certain I own more SW books that that and I do not even have close to the entire library.
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 13:46:34
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| Originally, I looked at the Wiki list and saw titles among the header links and assumed they were all the titles. So I counted that. After your comments, I realized that some of them were titles and some were SERIES titles. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 24 Oct 2015 : 19:13:41
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| Since most of the Star Wars novels are now considered 'apocryphal', I wouldn't count them toward their 'canon' works. |
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Interesting article/blog
