I'm certain it will live up to the standards of the various movies.
You know, the garbage.
What a *stupid* idea.
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:16:54 -0700, Jibini Kula Tumbili
Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm certain it will live up to the standards of the various
movies. You know, the garbage.
What a *stupid* idea.
The problem with a D&D TV show is that - as a source for
narrative - D&D is boring.
I'm not saying the games we play are boring (I wouldn't still be
reading a nearly empty Usenet newsgroup after all these years if
that were the case ;-) but that D&D, alone, lacks the structure
and character for an interesting movie.
Sure, you can take elements from the game - regenerating trolls,
wizards who memorize spells on a daily basis, heroes who plunder
ancient tombs - and work them into a story... but then you've
got a fantasy movie that happens to use D&D tropes. It's not the
D&D stuff that really makes that movie interesting; it's
everything around it: the stories, the setting, the characters.
I mean, if you look at a lot of D&D games we play, they rip off
movies and TV shows incessantly because D&D, itself, isn't that
interesting.
Now, were Wizards to license some of its IPs - Dragonlance, Gord
the Rogue*, Planescape, Spelljammer - then we might get an
interesting movie or TV series. But that never seems to be the
case. Instead we get a generic fantasy movie - usually written
by the cheapest hack they could find and then tailored to fit
the broadest audience - that has some recognizable features from
D&D taped onto it.
Don't get me wrong. I think D&D is great, but it's just a
framework. It's a great framework upon which to build fun game
experiences. But it is like the easel upon which great works are
painted. But nobody goes to look at easels in a museum. Yet it
seems as if that's what Wizards wants, and then they're
surprised when their efforts are in vain.
TL;DR: I expect the TV show to be a flop too. ;-)
Aren't there YouTube channels or something with people playing D&D?
I heard they're fairly popular, or maybe that's just with gamers.
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