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Today I read that Hasbro was giving D&D another shot at mainstream media with a t.v show. One written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad. With Kolstad I'm cautiously optimistic that it might not be a complete cringe-fest. I wanted to do a quick write-up on what I do and do not want to see from a official D&D movie.
Do Want:
- Extremely violent; limbs getting hacked off, lots of blood, and sword clashes. Death.
- A switch between the IRL players and their characters. The player's lives should affect the campaign in some way and vice versa. See The Gamers: Dorkness Rising for how this is done.
- Lessons learned from the game should help the players in IRL, build confidence for example. Guess this is kinda the same as the above. Whatever.
- The DM has a sweet homebrew world, or uses an old setting like Greyhawk or Mystara.
- No miniatures please, theater of the mind only. Or miniatures used for combat only.
- An actual Dungeon. And Dragon(s).
- Some darker horror tones every now and then.
- Some unique ideas.
Don't Want:
- Forgotten Realms or 5e. PLEASE. (I know this isn't gonna happen)
- No kids, teenagers would be fine I guess.
- An actual generic fantasy plot with no mention of players or the actual D&D game. Like the old 2000 movie.
- PG Violence.
- Weird monster races as PCs or main characters. Like a lame Critical Role knock off.
- Mainstream actors. I'll allow a single cool cameo with Keanu Reeves, maybe.
- Boring rehashed ideas.
I want a series where every episode is inspired by a classic module (maybe 2- or 3-parters for "higher levels"). The cast of characters changes as party members die. Or it can be anthology style, where every episode has a new group of characters.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. That'd be pretty cool too actually.
DeleteI wouldn't mind reinventing the original series, personally - great premise: 80s-Saturday-Morning mediocre execution.
ReplyDeleteTrue. The players getting isekai'd into the game world would be a fun watch.
DeleteI'd be happy if they just made a good fantasy story with the only real D&D elements would be the classes and perhaps one character who spoke in modern English and occasionally mention game mechanics. That one would be played for laughs and show that it's actually a game without needing to show the players lives.
ReplyDeleteBut which game mechanics? :D Thanks for reading!
DeleteI feel that "D&D: the TV show" is a wrong premise, because "D&D" in general is a very broad thing. Everybody's D&D is different. What would be cool is media based on specific settings. Dark Sun directed by the people who did Mad Max Fury Road?! Ravenloft as a new season of Penny Dreadful? Not adaptations of the novels though, but new stories, more fitting for the serialized structure.
ReplyDeleteSPELLJAMMER DIRECTED BY MEL BROOKS
Yeah, this I can get behind. Or like you said earlier an anthology-like show, maybe different episodes are different settings.
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