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Hell, CR has their own animated series. - 35 hours left on this! UnCO3 posted:So, I broke one of my drat fingers at work and that means pretty much no work until next month, when I have some stuff that doesn't need both hands fully functional. I've set up a sale of most of my paid games called the "Speak the Sky broke their drat finger" Sale to try and get some money up so I can pay rent. 1/3 off because 1/3 of my digits on that finger are broken! There's also a special bundle price, but it's just $20.08 -> $20.00 for neatness' sake. The games on sale are:
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eonwe posted:Do you all have some suggestions for 2 player games? Board Games / Puzzles / Card Games/ whatever Crystal Clans is solid if you're into tactics games.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:19
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Thought this Kickstarter for battlemat books was pretty neat. I already have two of their existing books and they're good, but two books that you put side-by-side and mix and match (with optional tiny book to be stuff like bridges between the two) are a fairly rad idea.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:39
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:There have been multiple D&D movies, ranging from "not literally D&D, but portrays D&D as a life-destroying satanic cult" to "officially D&D-branded, and so tremendously loving awful that it poisoned an already obscure brand." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC4nCa6Qw4
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Feb 28, 2020 17:33
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For a long, long time the D&D movie poisoned the well. A good friend of mine was a creative exec for Gore Verbinski in the mid 00s, and she called me one time to ask what Baldur's Gate was and if it was a worthy property to adapt to film. I told her the story is great and it's basically a D&D thing, and she was like "Oh, well that won't make it past the money people. Dang! Nevermind."
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Feb 28, 2020 17:59
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The promised follow up post, discussing campaign frameworks and inter-scene structures. This is probably a topic I will need to return to later, but I feel like this is a good primer on the subject.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:27
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If you want a small, easy to pick up two player game, Tussie Mussie is fantastic.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:45
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Yeah! Played Tussie Mussie after a game of Flotilla. It's... what I wanted from Sushi Go.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:57
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My Lovely Horse posted:Why isn't there a D&D show yet, anyway? I've been saying for years that if there was a decent D&D show the game would sell way way more, but Hasbro / Wizards don't give a poo poo about marketing D&D to a wider audience at all for some reason. They're happy with it being a nerd niche. Stranger Things and Rick and Morty D&D show that giving people an in can cause huge increases to sales. Hopefully they're waking up. There was a D&D cartoon once but it was super cheesy. The movies were also cheesy but fun. Even better I think would be to do like Harmon Quest and have celebrities play D&D and then get CG or hand animation (or even live action if you wanna burn money) to re-enact the game they play. Nuns with Guns posted:Amazon also picked up the Critical Role show, so yeah there's going to be a D&D TV show on a major streaming service, too. Not sure if it counts as "officially D&D-branded" but they must have gotten the okay from Hasbro for some of the unique IP stuff, and Critical Role is also putting out a first party setting supplement through WotC, so they all seem to be on good terms still, professionally. Well there ya go The lastest D&D official premade campaign is based on Critical Role's universe, so its pretty drat close to "officially branded" at this point.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:17
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Nuns with Guns posted:Amazon also picked up the Critical Role show, so yeah there's going to be a D&D TV show on a major streaming service, too. Not sure if it counts as "officially D&D-branded" but they must have gotten the okay from Hasbro for some of the unique IP stuff, and Critical Role is also putting out a first party setting supplement through WotC, so they all seem to be on good terms still, professionally. Also, NBC is doing an animated show based on Adventure Zone. In the same boat of, not really official, but it's D&D, and the source material is really good. https://www.themarysue.com/the-adventure-zone-animated-series/
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Feb 28, 2020 19:37
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One problem with D&D media is that D&D is that virtually all fantasy media of the past 40 years is directly or indirectly influenced by D&D. Even if an author never plays it themselves they are influenced by the legions of creators who have. A D&D movie/TV/book series is exactly like every other fantasy media you've ever consumed because they're all D&D with the serial numbers filed off.
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Feb 28, 2020 20:04
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My Lovely Horse posted:Why isn't there a D&D show yet, anyway? All I want, and all I will continue to want, is more of the Fell's Five D&D comic. TV show, comic book, novel, I don't care, just give me more of that.
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Feb 28, 2020 20:23
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I want a super trashy, Spartacus levels of blood and loving TV adaptation of Rat Queens. And a pony.
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Gobbeldygook posted:One problem with D&D media is that D&D is that virtually all fantasy media of the past 40 years is directly or indirectly influenced by D&D. Even if an author never plays it themselves they are influenced by the legions of creators who have. A D&D movie/TV/book series is exactly like every other fantasy media you've ever consumed because they're all D&D with the serial numbers filed off. which is why a good D&D show would pick one of the less-generic D&D settings, like say dark sun; but that can't happen because no exec is going to say "ah, so this isn't just a d&d show that can't possibly succeed just look at the history of spectacular failure, but this is a niche D&D setting that only a fraction of D&D players will recognize?" And yet, a The Witcher show has been made and it's successful, so if someone could get over that initial hurdle, it's totally workable. Alternative view: D&D The Show has already been done, and it was called Star Trek.
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I still think - if they could figure out a way to de-blackface Drow - Salvatore's stuff would make a fine movie. That's a big barrier, I know, but....
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dwarf74 posted:I still think - if they could figure out a way to de-blackface Drow - Salvatore's stuff would make a fine movie. Leperflesh posted:which is why a good D&D show would pick one of the less-generic D&D settings, like say dark sun; but that can't happen because no exec is going to say "ah, so this isn't just a d&d show that can't possibly succeed just look at the history of spectacular failure, but this is a niche D&D setting that only a fraction of D&D players will recognize?" The Dragonlance Chronicles were widely read outside of the D&D fandom and it's movie adaptation was also a flop.
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Feb 28, 2020 21:39
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Don't bother, Salvatore's books are garbage.
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Feb 28, 2020 21:46
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Do a combination straight fantasy show with the players as the framework narrative. A player starts not showing up as often, this is folded into the fantasy world as the character becoming increasingly distant and taking less initiative. Last episode is the character leaving the party and the players going to their friend's funeral.
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Ilor posted:Don't bother, Salvatore's books are garbage.
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Gobbeldygook posted:The Dragonlance Chronicles were widely read outside of the D&D fandom and it's movie adaptation was also a flop. Eh, it could've been perfectly average fantasy garbage, but they threw a bunch of money down a well stunt casting voices and chasing barely-90's quality level blended animation, neither of which panned out. Ilor posted:Don't bother, Salvatore's books are garbage. The third Drizzt origin book was the first book I ever just gave up on in the middle of reading, and I was only like 50 pages from the end. Nonetheless the basic framework of that story could make a fine mid-budget fantasy adaptation.
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bbcisdabomb posted:All I want, and all I will continue to want, is more of the Fell's Five D&D comic. TV show, comic book, novel, I don't care, just give me more of that. To not emptyquote, hard agree. John Rogers said in the past they picked the worst time in the world to put the book on hiatus.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I want a super trashy, Spartacus levels of blood and loving TV adaptation of Rat Queens. And a pony. poo poo, when you put it like that I'm surprised HBO or whoever hasn't adapted Rat Queens.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I want a super trashy, Spartacus levels of blood and loving TV adaptation of Rat Queens. And a pony. My only problem with a Rat Queens show is that I want it to be the first few issues of Rat Queens, but didn't the original writer turn out to be a pest?
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Feb 29, 2020 01:39
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bbcisdabomb posted:My only problem with a Rat Queens show is that I want it to be the first few issues of Rat Queens, but didn't the original writer turn out to be a pest? Writer canned him right away. And the later artists unfortunately didn't capture the spirit.
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Well, poo poo, I didn't know that. I mostly just cared about the writing anyway, so as long as that rear end in a top hat doesn't get no money I'd still be down.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Well, poo poo, I didn't know that. I mostly just cared about the writing anyway, so as long as that rear end in a top hat doesn't get no money I'd still be down. That would be the issue. I believe part of the contract is the original artist always gets a piece.
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UnCO3 posted:Hell, CR has their own animated series. ...that's the show Amazon is picking up. The episodes that were funded through the kickstarter will still be available somehow, iirc, but Amazon is bankrolling more. Foolster41 posted:Also, NBC is doing an animated show based on Adventure Zone. In the same boat of, not really official, but it's D&D, and the source material is really good. There's something so prototypical'y "D&D" about all these corporations rolling in and profiting off of not-quite-official media franchises that have spun out of D&D completely of their own initiative and in spite of D&D itself. Gobbeldygook posted:The Dragonlance Chronicles were widely read outside of the D&D fandom and it's movie adaptation was also a flop. The cartoon movie had a lot stacked against it, so that was no surprise. The plot of the original Dragonlance Trilogy has like "potential" as far as adapting, but everyone wants adult fantasy stories to be like Witcher or Game of Thrones now and that's pretty much anathema to the background of Dragonlance. An Adult Fantasy Dragonlance would be hilarious for a number of reasons, but also... might as well just pay for more Witcher episodes or Game of Thrones spinoffs if you're going to bother with that. dwarf74 posted:I still think - if they could figure out a way to de-blackface Drow - Salvatore's stuff would make a fine movie. WotC has kind of tried this with drifting drow skin tones closer to dark purple/blue, but that's just as absurdly unworkable in a movie soooo
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oh hey i have a minor effort post about rat queens from a different thread that's relevant nowAlaois posted:okay the story of Rat Queens is a fairly unpleasant one
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Gobbeldygook posted:One problem with D&D media is that D&D is that virtually all fantasy media of the past 40 years is directly or indirectly influenced by D&D. Even if an author never plays it themselves they are influenced by the legions of creators who have. A D&D movie/TV/book series is exactly like every other fantasy media you've ever consumed because they're all D&D with the serial numbers filed off. except that there hasn't really been any other fantasy shows either until recently like herculeas and xena were pretty much it untill the witcher Splicer posted:Do a combination straight fantasy show with the players as the framework narrative. A player starts not showing up as often, this is folded into the fantasy world as the character becoming increasingly distant and taking less initiative. Last episode is the character leaving the party and the players going to their friend's funeral. uh don't do this just do a straight forward show with good characters and decent production value
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O c'mon there was the Legend of the Seek-ahahahahahahahha. No but seriously Game of Thrones was a thing.
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I admire the Rat Queens writer's directness in realizing he'd made his story waaay to grimdark and not even trying to write his way back out of it, just saying "gently caress this, time skip ahead to where things are okay again, new story." I've totally done this in a game or two when an arc didn't work out.Elfgames posted:except that there hasn't really been any other fantasy shows either until recently like herculeas and xena were pretty much it untill the witcher Netflix Original: The Gamers would be one hell of a monkey's paw twist.
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Xiahou Dun posted:O c'mon there was the Legend of the Seek-ahahahahahahahha. lol i meant to say that one too but as i didn't watch it it slipped my mind
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Alaois posted:oh hey i have a minor effort post about rat queens from a different thread that's relevant now While the Sejic story could likely be true, the dude was doing like a dozen comics at the time (exaggeration, but not by much) so it could well have been health problems, like possibly his wrist exploding.
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Dawgstar posted:While the Sejic story could likely be true, the dude was doing like a dozen comics at the time (exaggeration, but not by much) so it could well have been health problems, like possibly his wrist exploding. Dude was doing a handful of comics for Top Cow at the same time, I think, then there was his own stuff - but I could be wrong, his wife has a similar style and does and whole bunch of work herself.
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Nuns with Guns posted:An Adult Fantasy Dragonlance would be hilarious for a number of reasons, Most of the reason everyone's mopey in Dragonlance is that they either didn't get to gently caress, or worse, did get to gently caress. Also, hauberks get lowered within the first couple of scenes. It needs to be made by the Riverdale/Sabrina people. E: like "I hate being Tanis, my step family messed me up, I like Laura but also Kitiara, oh noooooo my hauberk is wet I better lower it down look at my aaaaaaaabs". Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Feb 29, 2020 |
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Most of the reason everyone's mopey in Dragonlance is that they either didn't get to gently caress, or worse, did get to gently caress.
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I'm stupid sexy Sturm and I am broody because my unrequitted (but slightly requitted at least once) love clashes with my family's expectations oh no I've been stabbed right in my perfect abs laurana lower my hauberk so kitiara can mourn my abs.
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I've never read a DragonLance book in my life, but having picked up the Extremely Mormon Subtext from the horrible animated movie I think I can safely say I would watch it every week with an adult beverage in one hand and a twitter MSTing liveblog in the other. I'd eat that poo poo up with a spoon. No matter how traditionally "good" the production values were, it would still be terrible and I'd love every second.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:I'm stupid sexy Sturm and I am broody because my unrequitted (but slightly requitted at least once) love clashes with my family's expectations oh no I've been stabbed right in my perfect abs laurana lower my hauberk so kitiara can mourn my abs. Tasslehoff Burrfoot getting the Riverdale-Jughead treatment would kind of rule, yeah...
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