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2020-12-27, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Here there be spellplague!Not only was it covered, it actually happened. Drizzt has had to bury all of his friends save Wulfgar, and that one only because he went back north before he died of old age. Catti-bre and Regis were killed in the Spellplague, Bruenor was killed in battle against a Pit Fiend in ye olde Dwarf Homeland. They reincarnated because Forgotten Realms, but he did have to watch them all die. His lesson there was "its one thing to know its going to happen and be at peace with that, another thing to live through it."“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-12-27, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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In addition to that, basically half of The Lone Drow was Drizzt interacting with an elf whose primary narrative purpose was to exposit on how elves interact with the shorter-lived races, because he believed all his companions had died. The jist of it was, "live in the moment and make sure to forget after a while."
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2021-01-04, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm with you on that one. There's plenty of compelling material to work with there, but quite frankly the Drizzt books I read were embarrassingly clunky, with emphasis on the "embarrassing" part. I've been caught by co-workers playing boffer larps and I wasn't half as embarrassed as I was after reading some of R.A. Salvatore's prose to myself in the privacy of my own home.
I feel sorry for anyone rooting for a truly faithful adaptation, but any actual Drizzt stories from the books are going to need a lot of polishing before they're ready for general audiences.
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2021-01-13, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Coming in late in this debate..
I have the feeling that the only way they can possibly do a "good" D&D story is by crafting a good original story set in Faerun, where the main characters encounter the various factions and maybe a few interesting cameos by named heroes of Faerun...
lots of fanservice, but served on a bed of quality storytelling, decently acted and with some good CGI.
anything else has a high risk of starting mediocre and devolving in terrible..
they could insert the players/DM in the plot and pull a jumanji..but it's been done, and everybody is going to start nitpicking the choices of those who would necessarily be self aware characters.. and anything other than that would just be a generic fantasy or fantastic comedy...both of which, no thank you.
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2021-01-13, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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They've done an animated Dragonlance movie which had problems, the Scourge of Worlds was set in Greyhawk and the animation was so so but still better than the Dragonlance movie.
The first d&d movie was apparently rushed to prevent the Fellowship of the Ring beating it, which it did anyway.
The Wrath of the Dragon God was better, though still not as good as the Lord of the Rings obviously.
The Book of Vile Darkness well like the Jeremy Irons one ignored clerics other than Tom Baker, this one stuck to one god who turned away from the world despite there being a freaking pantheon!
The second at least had a decent cleric despite what happened.
I hope they don't go Faerun for this as there are far too many ways to go wrong, I'd rather they'd go with something similar to Dorkness Rising but only time will tell.
There are hints it might go Jack Black in tone (without him), but here's hoping its actually good.
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2021-01-13, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-13, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think they shot part on one script, stopped for a heavy rewrite, then shot the rest of the movie without reshoots on any of the stuff already done.
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2021-01-15, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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you missed the part where I said a "Good" story, lol..
If they are going the "Dorkness rising" route, then I'd rather they didn't.
Dorkness rising works so well because it's a low budget amateurish tribute to something everybody involved loves.
scale that up to Hollywood standards and you end up with, at best, another knights of Badassdom, which was fun, but really barely memorable and a far cry from what the existing DnD movies could have been if they'd been given proper love, funding and care.
Whether it be Faerun or an entirely new setting (that would/could concurrently become a new setting to play in with a book published alongside the distribution of the movie), DnD as a concept and as a "world" offers the potential to create an entire movie universe in the style of the MCU..
Think of it as of a generic, high quality fantasy story with an original plot, that rests on a backdrop of a known and shared universe, much like your Harry Potter movies are set in a world that responds to the logics and dynamics of the real world as we experience it, plus an extra scoop of magic.
Not that I think it will ever come to that, unless the initial movie really knocks it out of the park, but a guy can dream.
the point really is that the experience of playing DnD is just not replicable on screen in any other format than watching a bunch of people play.. (and maybe visualize the scenes of what they're doing?).. and doing so exposes whoever writes the script to the hordes of "well.. actually, that rule doesn't work that way/the logical action of that player should have been/he's metagaming"...
so.. I'd rather have a straight up fantasy movie, where the connection with DnD is in the setting, the occasional cameo, the generic "roles" of the characters and so on.. than some attempt at recreating a gaming experience, which is most likely doomed to fail.
does that still make it a D&D movie? I won't know until I see it.
If d&d inspires a few Hollywood people to make a good new fantasy themed franchise, I'll be happy enough as it is.
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2021-01-15, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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I definitely agree with this take.
I mean, it's not like WotC is starved for bite-sized adventure concepts. Even just an adaptation of a low-level mystery adventure like Jerimond's Orb or a short dungeon crawl like Tomb of the Overseers would have enough content to fill 75-90 minutes of runtime, would be unquestionably Dungeons and Dragons, but would require almost no explanation of setting to casual viewers. Jerimond's Orb is a fairly self-contained story about travelers coming upon an isolated village and dealing with the curse within while surviving attacks by strange nocturnal beasts. Tomb of the Overseers is a fairly easily-understandable "King in the Mountain" plot where the PCs are hired to find and awaken a Hero of Old in order to deal with <Magic Bad Guy #3>.
You have to play the genre straight a bit before you start taking the mickey at it's eccentricities. Otherwise it's just mean-spirited.Last edited by Dargaron; 2021-01-15 at 03:37 PM.
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2021-01-15, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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You say mean-spirited, I say incoherent. If you don't know what someone is riffing on, they're just speaking gibberish.
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2021-02-10, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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With Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez, the d&d movie will definitely be Forgotten Realms...it has pretty much become the default campaign setting at this point. Critical Role Tal Dorei is of course very popular too but doubt that for the first movie, they will do anything else besides FR.
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2021-02-10, 01:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why would anyone expect otherwise, when Hasbro has locked away every other setting and publicly declared repeatedly that only the Realms is worthy of their time and their dime?
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2021-02-10, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-02-10, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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On what I would like to see: An Aboleth movie would be fun. The God in the Lake adventure as a horror movie where a group of established but low level adventurers go to a town run by an Aboleth and eventually fight it would be fun.
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2021-02-11, 01:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Truly I want them to create something new. Not just to avoid the feeling of reheating last year's leftovers while fighting off waves of whining fanbois and/or fangrrls, but because I am frankly bored to tears with most of their settings. And let's face it, anybody who would be drawn in by %%% Setting in the promo material would already be showing up because of the D&D Movie subtitle===and the total of such people isn't even a rounding error in the box office.
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2021-02-12, 09:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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What setting or set up for this movie would you hope for?
1) A take on the Sinbad series where it deals with a trade ship that either goes off course or ends up on a quest following arriving at a location and discovering something terrible has happened and they need to get the warning out?
2) A regular meet up at a tavern and end up on a treasure hunt to a ruin that's home to a lot more than a long forgotten treasure?
3) A dragon attack causes massive havoc and a group of survivors end up teaming up to survive the trek to the nearest point of safety eventually forming the bonds that lead to them becoming adventurers'?
Care to add your own option?
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2021-02-12, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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No Save-The-World plots. I am so ****ing tired of Save The World.
You want this to be a D&D movie, you pretty much need to set it up so the monster to fight is WOTC IP. That's not a deep bench. Beholders, Illithids and Aboleth are the strongest candidates.
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2021-02-13, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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No chosen one tropes too I assume?
I'd like a regular adventure where we initially think the humans are the main cast then discover some of the cast aren't who we thought they were.
For example a small group of adventurer's composed of locals from a village meeting and they're accompanied by a grizzled veteran former soldier and a local herbalist.
The four are still finding their feet as they encounter threats such as a group of goblins, a skeleton uprising and that sort where they initially don't listen to the veteran forcing the herbalist to intervene until they finally get a clue.
Its only after they find themselves the future they want joining other adventuring groups that they upon looking back as they attend the veteran's funeral and notice their cleric's behaving strangely in the presence of the herbalist who doesn't appear to have aged at all.
Then in the closing scenes we learn she's almost 250 years old and a legendary hero who knew the veteran back from the war he fought in as a child and she only came along as she knew this would be his last adventure and wanted to be there at the end.
Just because we know what elves look like that doesn't mean we can't be surprised to learn nobody is what they appear after all!
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2021-02-17, 09:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rege-Jean Page, star of the alternate history English period drama Bridgerton has been cast in the D&D movie.
http:///www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...gons-exclusive
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2021-02-18, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-03-02, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Newly announced...Hugh Grant will be phoning in a performance as a "villain" in the film.
Anyone think that a good choice? Unless it is a clever rom-com triangle storyline, I'm not thrilled. His more serious turns have been okay, but somewhat limited.
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2021-03-02, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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As if I wasn't already in the 'wait until I can see it for free on SyFy' camp...
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2021-03-02, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Having seen Paddington 2. Grant gets a free ride from me from now on.
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2021-03-04, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I haven't seen them, and I have a hard time picturing Grant as a serious villain.. this worries me in terms of what they will use him for and what it means for the general tone of the movie.
it reeks of do-over of that thing with that one Wayans family member in it (can't remember which one of the terrible D&D movies that was).
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2021-03-04, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hugh Grant works only if he's the villain in plain sight, who no one suspects because no one respects him. All the while he using that to his advantage & is pulling strings.
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The first D&D movie is bad. Like so bad it makes the Dragonlance animated movie look good, and that's so bad that typing the words 'makes the Dragonlance animated movie look good' causes me searing psychic pain. It's quite arguably the worst movie I've ever actually watched all of. Bonus terrible trivia: when I watched it a zillion years ago on DVD it had an alternative ending, which was actually almost sort of OK. I nearly felt an emotion. The actual ending they went with was just plain terrible though.
That's right, the first D&D movie is literally worse than itself. It's a singularity of badness; a suckularity.Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
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Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
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