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They should do a West Marches style D&D TV show with a different cast each time.
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Just make a DIE movie
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Mar 29, 2023 22:07
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:He's less than five years older than me!? What the absolute gently caress?! I'm not pretty, but I don't look like a starved refugee wizard from a lovely fantasy film. Lotta hard years living in the Canadian wilderness. Nystral posted:gently caress I’d kill for a Princess Ark movie. But in all honesty there’s not enough there to pull into a coherent movie without leaving so much on the floor. It’d work better as a tv show but needs support from some other property to get off the ground. I’m not sure it would work with the current movie as I haven’t seen it. I feel like Princess Ark would be awesome as an animated series.
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Mar 29, 2023 22:17
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There is supposed to be a TV series following up on the Movie. Alongside the upcoming Baldur's Gate III there is also at least one more big budget video game coming as well.
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Mar 29, 2023 22:25
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Leperflesh posted:Hey! Since the D&D movie looks to have been pretty successful, is this the industry's Iron Man I? Marvel finally got a good superhero movie made and it opened the floodgates. A good D&D movie that has box office success should lead to more... or, unlike how Marvel Studios had been created to keep production in-house and thereby have more control (random other studios inevitably killed prior superhero films by endless re-writes, finding d-tier directors, never spending on top actors, etc. and Marvel did... not that, and it worked), was this a fluke and we're going to see garbage movies in the future? I don't think it's the TTRPG adaption version of Iron Man I. Maybe Blade 1, in that Blade was really where execs realized you could make successful superhero movies, then the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies after that. Or it could be seen as being comparable to The Incredible Hulk (2008), where it was a proof of concept that built enough confidence for Disney to move ahead with more MCU movies. This all depends on the final box office returns though yeah.
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Mar 29, 2023 22:30
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Nystral posted:gently caress I’d kill for a Princess Ark movie. But in all honesty there’s not enough there to pull into a coherent movie without leaving so much on the floor. It’d work better as a tv show but needs support from some other property to get off the ground. I’m not sure it would work with the current movie as I haven’t seen it. Man, I'd just kill for them to acknowledge Mystara existed in any sort of meaningful way...
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Mar 29, 2023 22:40
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Just make a DIE movie This would be great but the budget would be astronomical. More likely it ends up becoming a series that never ends until no-one is watching
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Mar 29, 2023 22:40
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Splicer posted:Off the top of my head: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe did really well, it’s just that interest fell off after the first. The problem with the run of post-LOTR/Potter fantasy adaptations was people only seemed to be interested in a few titles they recognized and they ran through all those pretty quickly.
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Mar 29, 2023 23:26
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Lamuella posted:They should do a West Marches style D&D TV show with a different cast each time. They cast whoever shows up to set earliest
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Mar 29, 2023 23:42
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MonsterEnvy posted:
There's also Solasta:Crown of the Magister which is another turnbased, create your own party, 5E game using the SRD plus their own setting and some new material. Came out last year, 2 DLC so far, and a third on the way with an active and expanding module creator. It's made on a fraction of the budget and resources of BGIII but I've really enjoyed it. Oh and the base game is free on Game Pass for PC as well.
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Mar 29, 2023 23:46
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https://twitter.com/BrainClouds/status/1640958100889915392
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If you put a gun to my head and made me come up with a plan for a DnD cinematic universe, my high concept would have been "Cast four 3.5 iconics (probably the traditional fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. Add a monk or bard if you wanna be spicy) and put them in a fun movie that a nerd-curious person would like. Then, take the most popular one and get a new batch of iconics and put them in another good movie. Mix everyone up, adding one or two new people along the way. Now you've got a stable you can work with and design some bigger conflict that need more than one adventuring party. That's your Endgame. But you have to actually do four (at minimum!) actual fun movies first." Since they basically made their own iconics, my recommendation would basically do the same thing, but just go hog wild with the new people. Dragonborn warlord? Sure. Eladrin Monk fae stepping everywhere? You know it. I don't know if it's a *good* idea, but everyone has basically agreed that most legacy DND stories and adventures are not viable for even *very* loose adaptations.
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Mar 30, 2023 00:37
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Capfalcon posted:If you put a gun to my head and made me come up with a plan for a DnD cinematic universe, my high concept would have been "Cast four 3.5 iconics (probably the traditional fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. Add a monk or bard if you wanna be spicy) and put them in a fun movie that a nerd-curious person would like. Then, take the most popular one and get a new batch of iconics and put them in another good movie. Mix everyone up, adding one or two new people along the way. Now you've got a stable you can work with and design some bigger conflict that need more than one adventuring party. That's your Endgame. But you have to actually do four (at minimum!) actual fun movies first." Oh man, now I'm remembering a D&D camp I saw back in 1999 (I was at Mathcamp instead, which was at the same campus). They had campaigns of varying power levels over the few weeks, and the end was everyone in one room as all their quests culminate in a ritual to summon Tiamat (the one group that had in-character figured out they were getting MacGuffins for the bad guys showed up a few seconds too late) that they then had to stop, with the five main GMs each controlling a head and various runners managing what everyone was doing and relaying it for a summary of each round. It was a hoot to watch, a massive cluster of chaos but they knew that going in and hadn't designed it to require major coordination or anything. Pretty much "everyone runs around in a panic trying to stall the Dragon Goddess until someone finds the human-level guy in the whole mess to beat up and reverse the ritual". Not a high-level concept or something, but a great example of just a mosh pit of a story that characters could play around in for a few hours.
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Capfalcon posted:If you put a gun to my head and made me come up with a plan for a DnD cinematic universe, my high concept would have been "Cast four 3.5 iconics (probably the traditional fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. Add a monk or bard if you wanna be spicy) and put them in a fun movie that a nerd-curious person would like. Then, take the most popular one and get a new batch of iconics and put them in another good movie. Mix everyone up, adding one or two new people along the way. Now you've got a stable you can work with and design some bigger conflict that need more than one adventuring party. That's your Endgame. But you have to actually do four (at minimum!) actual fun movies first." I'm with you. Do it the way old Conan works did it where you've got various side kicks/rivals/partners coming and going.
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Mar 30, 2023 00:57
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Someone here suggested an actual game of D&D as a framing device for the old D&D movie (to make it the least bit interesting outside of Jeremy Irons ham). That would probably work for D&D as a property.
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Mar 30, 2023 01:07
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Splicer posted:Give me Expedition to the Barrier Peaks: The Movie. Either something original with the same gonzo feel or literally just run a session on some actors blind, then hand the table notes back to them as a film script. Tomb of Horrors: The Motion Picture. everyone dies
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Mar 30, 2023 01:11
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Gynovore posted:Tomb of Horrors: The Motion Picture. everyone dies This already exists, it's called "As Above, So Below" and it's excellent
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Name Change posted:Someone here suggested an actual game of D&D as a framing device for the old D&D movie (to make it the least bit interesting outside of Jeremy Irons ham). That would probably work for D&D as a property. This always gets brought up every time people spitball ideas for D&D movies but every single time someone has made a movie like this it's basically just been low-effort meta humor, and I'm willing to accept this is my personal tastes coming through but I'd rather stare at a wall for two hours than watch a D&D reference saturated, less charming version of the Princess Bride, let alone a whole series of movies like that. e; like at this point, I think it would be more interesting to have a movie about people playing a D&D campaign where you don't have some "and now here they are as their characters" stuff and it's just a movie about a game group, comedy or drama, take your pick.
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Mar 30, 2023 01:12
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Dexo posted:I mean, Hasbro could just buy a movie studio, but that wouldn't happen until there are more successes. I know Hasbro’s the Big Gaming Company but the scale is completely different. Entertainment One was a production company with a bit of television filming capacity and I think an animation studio. They cost Hasbro 4 billion, and if they could have made the D&D movie alone they would have. Amazon paid 8 billion for MGM and that was mostly about the back catalog. Paramount’s market cap is like 14 billion right now. Hasbro’s market cap is 7 billion.
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Mar 30, 2023 01:14
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Kai Tave posted:e; like at this point, I think it would be more interesting to have a movie about people playing a D&D campaign where you don't have some "and now here they are as their characters" stuff and it's just a movie about a game group, comedy or drama, take your pick. A D&D comedy where they never actually get to play D&D could be pretty great, just a series of events and minor foibles preventing anyone from ever making it to the DM's house or the session ever starting.
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Mar 30, 2023 02:17
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The Guild, but about a D&D group could be entertaining I suppose.
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Mar 30, 2023 02:18
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The big bad of movie 3 gets banished to Ravenloft and movie 4 is his adventure there where’s he the protagonist and comes back in movie 5 to wreck havoc on movies 1, 2 and 3.
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Mar 30, 2023 02:37
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Kai Tave posted:This always gets brought up every time people spitball ideas for D&D movies but every single time someone has made a movie like this it's basically just been low-effort meta humor, and I'm willing to accept this is my personal tastes coming through but I'd rather stare at a wall for two hours than watch a D&D reference saturated, less charming version of the Princess Bride, let alone a whole series of movies like that. They can work when it's like ten minutes you watch once a week or longer. Two hours and a half the way movies are going? Nah, I'm good.
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Step 1: Advertise an exciting new trilogy based on a popular D&D universe Step 2: Release two movies - the second of which ends on a cliffhanger Step 3: Announce the studio is moving on to a different D&D property, then go to Step 1
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Just make a DIE movie
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The real legacy of Lord of the Rings is probably the popularity of trilogies and ongoing storylines and shared universes in movies rather than sequels as they go, though obviously there was a lot of mixed success at that. Kinda funny that Hasbro has dabbled in multimedia stuff before- The Hub was basically made because they were sick of Cartoon Network's poo poo and so they made their own channel where they could show their own toy commercial cartoons without being hosed around by a network that seems them as competition, though they eventually wound that down. I do wonder how much staying power D&D might have before the Mario movie seems set to blow the box office wide open, mind.
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Mar 30, 2023 12:37
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They should make a live-action adaptation of the D&D cartoon show. Warwick Davis as Dungeon Master.
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Kai Tave posted:e; like at this point, I think it would be more interesting to have a movie about people playing a D&D campaign where you don't have some "and now here they are as their characters" stuff and it's just a movie about a game group, comedy or drama, take your pick. I think using D&D (or any RPG) would get you a better The Guild than WoW did, because there's more opportunity for the film characters to use the game characters to work out their issues. I honestly think it could work as a blend of each. We're following two stories, the in-game and the out-of-game. They interact and influence each other but the media treats the stories of both with equal seriousness. It would work better as a limited TV series than a move though.
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FishFood posted:A D&D comedy where they never actually get to play D&D could be pretty great, just a series of events and minor foibles preventing anyone from ever making it to the DM's house or the session ever starting.
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Drakyn posted:Waiting for Gygax. VLA: Let's go. EST: We can't. VLA: Why not? EST: We're waiting for Gygax. VLA: Is he supposed to be coming here? EST: We wait until we trigger a random encounter roll. If the roll comes up a "1" then we could get Gygax on the random encounter table. VLA: But... EST: What? VLA: What happens if there's sub-tables to the random encounter table? We might have a 1 in a 1000 chance of encountering Gygax. Or lower. EST: What can we do about it? VLA: We could wait somewhere that increases the chances of encountering him. How about Greyhawk City streets at night? EST: The last time we waited on the Greyhawk City streets at night we were almost torn apart by a pack of expensive doxies. VLA: That was bullshit! They looked like ordinary gentlewomen! Who puts doxies on a random encounter table? EST: Gygax. VLA: That's why we're waiting for him. I forgot.
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Narsham posted:VLA: Let's go.
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Capfalcon posted:If you put a gun to my head and made me come up with a plan for a DnD cinematic universe, my high concept would have been "Cast four 3.5 iconics (probably the traditional fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. Add a monk or bard if you wanna be spicy) and put them in a fun movie that a nerd-curious person would like. Then, take the most popular one and get a new batch of iconics and put them in another good movie. Mix everyone up, adding one or two new people along the way. Now you've got a stable you can work with and design some bigger conflict that need more than one adventuring party. That's your Endgame. But you have to actually do four (at minimum!) actual fun movies first." This is pretty much what happened with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. You get your D&D Jack Sparrow and you can ride them through five or six billion-dollar D&D: [Insert Title Here] movies. Toss a couple AAA video games in there. You’re not going to get another MCU but still pretty good!
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They showed what WOTC's new VTT looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NoG-w1RbI
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Looks great. Will make non-module play problematic and improvised play impossible. There is no reason other than silly jokes to make the dice roll around the game landscape.
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Megazver posted:They showed what WOTC's new VTT looks like: What stood out to me was the mention of game consoles. If they get this working on those, Switch particularly, that's actually something that I don't think any other VTT can do at the moment. It does look very shiny and they talk up the ability to customize it, but having tried to add homebrew on D&D beyond, lol.
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My guess is dndbeyond gets updated, but yeah it seems like it's just talespire. Hard coded for 5e/oneandonly d&d
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I also kind of wonder about the specific layer of "game" they're targeting. Like, it falls somewhere between Tabletop Simulator where it tries to exactly mimic a tabletop experience and a typical RPG video game where it tries to immerse you in the setting by way of graphics. Most VTTs lean heavily toward the tabletop side, where the purpose is to centralize the mechanics of the game and any art is just there to make the UI look nice, but you're never expected to feel immersed in the game by way of the VTT alone. This falls in a weird middle space where everything is animated and has realistic lighting and textures while also being clearly game pieces. I don't think it's a bad thing or a good thing, but it's a choice and I wonder if the effort is worth it in the long run.
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Cool Dad posted:I also kind of wonder about the specific layer of "game" they're targeting. Like, it falls somewhere between Tabletop Simulator where it tries to exactly mimic a tabletop experience and a typical RPG video game where it tries to immerse you in the setting by way of graphics. Most VTTs lean heavily toward the tabletop side, where the purpose is to centralize the mechanics of the game and any art is just there to make the UI look nice, but you're never expected to feel immersed in the game by way of the VTT alone. This falls in a weird middle space where everything is animated and has realistic lighting and textures while also being clearly game pieces. I don't think it's a bad thing or a good thing, but it's a choice and I wonder if the effort is worth it in the long run. It's just tabletop simulator or talespire with built in animations for some spells. In a 3d environment. Otherwise it's just moving minis. It's not gonna be some deep reactive thing. Like maybe doors animate open and fire has lighting. They said everything else is p much just like moving minis at a table only in a virtual environment. I played a lancer game in TTS and this seems like that only looks better since ue5.
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hyphz posted:Looks great. As far as I know, they are planning to support normal 2d maps so non-module play shouldn't be impossible. It is going to instantly look sub-par compared to the official stuff that has full 3d maps set up, though.
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Dexo posted:It's just tabletop simulator or talespire with built in animations for some spells. In a 3d environment. They mentioned changing lighting, the time of day, turning on rain, or turning on a rain of flaming embers. That sounds like a bit more than just lighting effects for fire.
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