u/Thinning_vastation

Let's say you've been hired by Price Waterhouse Cooper and they've given you carte blanche to look through all records considering the Oscars voting. You now see the exact breakdowns of every category, ever (e.g. did Crash beat Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture by just 5 votes, or by thousands?). You can also look at every nomination vote and see who or what just missed getting nominated. What would you be most interesting to learn?

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Heres a 2nd edition product that I don't hear talked about very much. It's very much for the uninitiated player and essentially tells a narrative story about a party of six characters, as balanced as possible in terms of classes and player races (human ranger, dwarf fighter, elf priestess, halfling thief, gnome illusionist, half-elf mage-priest). They sort of anticipate the "Iconics" from 3rd edition in being hyper-archetypical characters written with little nuance. Their story, presented as a first-person diary, takes them all over Faerun, accompanied by textboxes explaining locations, organizations, concepts, etc. It's a little "kiddy" but a fun concept, and it ends with an interesting downer, with some of the characters (apparently) dead and the rest imprisoned in Zhentil Keep -- a campaign hook.

What are people's experiences of this book? Did any of its elements get followed up in official products? The only thing I'm aware of is that the artifact, the Staff of the Shard, got a writeup in Volo's Guide to All Things Magical.

And why? And which would you least like to spend all that time in close quarters with?

I was relistening to the various released versions of "Tangled Up in Blue" (NYC, Minnesota, Rolling Thunder, Real Live, etc.) and it's almost startling how much he's changed it, in terms of both lyrics and arrangement. What other songs have been tinkered with as extensively?

It occurs to me that someone should record a cover of "Tangled Up in Blue" that uses every misheard lyric: "docks that night," "Timmy, don't I know your name?", "I murdered someone," "offered me a crepe," etc. Each time the verse can end with something different: "tiger-loving blues," "turn your loving blue," "tired of loving you," etc.

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When it came out in 1985, it was a career-spanning retrospective, with some new material to boot. Today it might feel a bit redundant, like an hors d'oeuvre to the Bootleg Series, yet it still has plenty of unique material. All the same, I can't imagine why I would listen to it beginning to end. Yours thoughts?

Qualities of songwriting and performance that hypothetically can go beyond Dylan himself and be ascribed to the works of others, but not just in the context of overt homage or parody.

Perhaps think of it this way: if you were trying to describe Dylan's identity as a performer and songwriter to someone with no frame of reference and without playing them specific songs, how would you do it?

I'm struck by the fact that "Brand of the Hand" lists no performances, but he actually played it dozens of times in 1986. How reliable is it overall?

Specifically, Borzage, Lloyd and Capra

Has this happened any other times in other categories, a comparable streak of first names?

It's common discuss people with fewer (or no) nominations than we might think they deserve. But what about the opposite? I was kind of astonished to realized that Mickey Rooney had four (plus an Honorary Award). It's easy to overlook how popular he was.

For the purposes of this question, the orchestras are of a similar scale and skill level.