Anyone else think the tone is all wrong with the AD&D flick? It's like they're trying to do an MCU movie.
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Anyone else think the tone is all wrong with the AD&D flick? It's like they're trying to do an MCU movie.
There's only 1 reason to watch it and it starts with an L.
Try again, troon.
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that is exactly what they are trying to do
Just saw the tweet from IGN. I didn't see a SINGLE comment that wasn't some variation on "this looks terrible".
t. played D&D since 1995
>It's like they're trying to do an MCU movie.
this is the problem with all films now
>t. played D&D since 1995
1979 here. good you got to play 2nd ed. 4th and 5th are garbage
legit jealous of you oldschool bros
1975 here. You are correct.
That's the only way they can do these movies nowadays. They're "self aware" full of quips because people are embarrassed to approach proper nerddom and make it accurate to the source material. It's weak.
The best D&D movie(s) are The Gamers and it's sequel The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.
I want to watch a movie about dungeons and dragons, not a movie about people playing Dungeons and Dragons(c)
you have to do something to make aggressively generic fantasy a little interesting in addition to its comfiness
Dorkness Rising is legitimately a good movie
Came here to post this exact thing. Glad I'm not the only one with taste.
i just posted on i think /tg/ that they should have done something like The Little Prince: it's ABOUT D&D, kids playing, with animated segments.
is good though. D&D and RPGs have a heavy DIY/indie scene, maybe Hasbro should just sell some books then stay away.
Have you seen this one?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485909/
WHY FO THEY KEEP FLAUNTING Black folk I DON'T WANT TO SEE UGLY BABOONS HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Arcane had a closer D&D vibe.
which is hilarious to even ponder
Seems both "being awful" and "featuring a Black person" is becoming a tradition of D&D movies.
Are black people even interested in D&D?
Nerdy black people in prison usually play as Paladins for some reason.
How could I know? I don't really know a single black.
That aside, I'm positive you need some Black folks in every American movie due to reasons.
The black girl in the D&D cartoon worked, probably because she was a character who just happened to be black instead of a powerful Mary Sue who showed everyone up.
No, it's still weird and jarringly kikish
But in the cartoon they're Americans teleported into a D&D world so they need at least one black due to reasons.
Also mandatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrp2nmfzxio
So what happened here? Was the 80s D&D cartoon really popular in Latin America or something?
Everyone has seen that cartoon in Brazil, they love it.
That AD sucks tho, jesus christ. It's so easy to milk morons by putting some action scenes and sticking your product in there.
>Everyone has seen that cartoon in Brazil, they love it.
it's just fricking cute when that happens man
like there was some anime about a ghost vacuum lady that nobody cares about, but then it was a huge hit in Peru or something.
>ghost vacuum lady
What the frick is that?
holy shit never saw this. props to the media team for actually going for something this niche.
Is that the actor from Dark?
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FZnD21iO0
Literally everyone I know who plays D&D is black.
very few and ive been playing for several years
When I lived in the south I went to a games shop for adventure league every now and then and there were always 5-7 black people there.
DnD isn't about race, it's about being a nerd. Well, it used to be and still is to some extent but it's easier to get into as a normie nowadays.
The reason they're inserting blacks into the movie is because there's a section of black movie goers that like fantasy adventure and whites that'll say something like "I love the representation!" on twitter. At the very least it isn't odd to have blacks exist as adventurers in Faerun, especially in 5e. Any complaints about including blacks as breaking lore is autistic screeching and dumb compared to the legitimate complaints levied against WoT, GoT, LotR and Witcher shows shoving in blacks where they shouldn't exist.
Black PCs and NOCs exist in the "Black Kingdoms". IIRC there was something like that for D&D 3E (I'm a pre-Wrath 3E anon).
Wrath of the Immortals (module) was homosexual beyond belief. I would've gone to classic Warhammer, if that shit hadn't gone so expensive.
Ey man. Snails death was kino heartbreak.
The thing is that D&D is a joke to anyone who doesn't play it and so whenever they try to adapt it, it turns out to be a joke.
>game best known for wacky shenanigans of the players
Whatd you think it would be
Probably the best way to adapt D&D would be to tell he story of a bunch people playing a game and most of the story is the campaign as shown through their imaginations and a lot of crazy stuff happens. Sort of like The Princess Bride where every now and then one of the players breaks character and is confused about something.
Doing an absolutely serious adaptation would just end up with some very generic fantasy which isn't necessarily bad, but it kind of misses the point of the game.
>a bunch people playing a game
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING
yeah i dunno you could have the game as a framing device, maybe the 'events of the game' change or have an unreliable narrator like in the D&D episode of Dexter's Lab
or make a biopic about Gary Gygax and his relationship with Dave Arneson. get in all that 70s nostalgia, frame it like going for an IPO is a heroic quest.
>yeah i dunno you could have the game as a framing device, maybe the 'events of the game' change or have an unreliable narrator like in the D&D episode of Dexter's Lab
Yeah, that's what I mean. Instead of quippy humor, the humor comes out of the players having dumb reactions to things or thinking of stupid shit that ends up working in the context of the game. Could've been something really interesting instead of generic fantasy ironic quipfest.
doing it like the princess bride is both lazy as frick and also adherent to the source so why not. but then someone would have to write a decent script instead of just slapping "d&d" on whatever drivel they picked up for pennies so good luck with that.
Do it as 2 movies. 1 version you only see the players. The other version you see the action.
It would be unprecedented
>Do it as 2 movies. 1 version you only see the players. The other version you see the action.
Like .hack?
>It would be unprecedented
welp
>but then someone would have to write a decent script instead of just slapping "d&d" on whatever drivel they picked up for pennies so good luck with that.
True. It would probably take someone with a lot of skill because I'd want someone who is able to write a normal fantasy epic, but also knew where to insert humorous things and break way from that world so the players could talk to each other normally.
Pretty sure that is the most cliche way to actually do a DND story at this point.
You see parodies do it, but never something official from a D&D movie. I want something that isn't a parody.
Just do the cartoon
>regular people get zapped into bizarre fantasy realm
Otherwise the movie is just a cluttered Tolkien fantasy
Personally I think The Mummy is the best DND movie there is.
It's a teen movie aiming at the lolsorandumb crowd that poisoned D&D and are running WotC.
The tone is exactly what is to be expected.
DND has been full blown cucked for 10-15 years. same with anything wizards of the coast touches.
i can't see it being all serious
It's not the tone that's the problem, it's just that you've basically already seen the movie by seeing the trailer
Why not just do Dragonlance?
I was about to say "too childish" but since lately capeshit is the rage you might be behind something.
Because Dark Sun exists.
But in reality, a DnD movie isn't hard. The thing that makes it distinct from other fantasy settings is the nature of the party, which the DnD cartoon got perfectly correct. 6-8 main characters. A leader, the major race/class combos, some recognizable magic items, and a well written dungeon crawl would be fun and profitable.
A cleric healing a wounded character would make a lot of people seeth, so that is another important detail.
I'm really surprised we aren't getting a Cleric or Wizard in the main cast for the movie. Paladin, Barbarian, Druid and Bard as pretty easily recognizable classes but Sorcerer isn't
You just know a Dark Sun movie would go into the godawful metaplot shit with the halflings.
yeah I hate trying to watch some Dark Sun thing on youtube and they start with halfling shit
no one cared one shit about it when they got into DS, it was desert psycho barbarian shit with crazy Brom dominatrix costume art and then the halfling crap gets forced on you
Honestly I don't mind the jungle itself, having one of the few places with plant life and water turn out to be even more hellish than the deserts is fun, as are the cannibal halflings.
It only went full moron post-novels where the civilized halflings with dumb biotech and the moronic parts of the setting backstory came in.
And by post-novels, I mean it was mostly their fault. The Prism Pentad was a fricking mistake.
I'm glad Planescape managed to avoid the same shit and died a pretty dignified half-death alongside 2nd edition.
it isn't adnd it is 5e, cry about it
Dungeons & Dragons would best work as an anthology series. There are too many possible stories to stick with just one group and it would get boring seeing the same adventurers all the time. Too many epic accomplishments by one group comes off as inauthentic (yes, I know this is fantasy we're talking about).
>Dungeons & Dragons would best work as an anthology series.
True, and there are a shitload of modules that can be adapted for a proper _adult oriented_ multi-season tv series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_modules
Some modules were heavily inspired by movies (like Isle of Dread and Ravenloft), so it's not that simple.
>Queen of the Demonweb Pits
Admit it, you're just a fetishist that wants to see drow pits.
> We're now more Love and Thunder than the actual Love and Thunder
cry harder
they'll get it right eventually, the next one looks good
except for the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, i will never consume original stories told by DnD. They're always watered down garbage, predictable, baseline fantasy bullshit. DnD is best with house rules, and the DnD setting as a loose skeleton
I’d suggest the best source material for a D&D movie series would be adapting the “Queen of the Demonweb Pits” super module, which consists of the three “Against the Giants” modules, “Descent into the Depths of the Earth”, “Shrine of the Kuo-Toa”, “Vault of the Drow” and ends with “QofDP”.
in today's age i'd be all for some mad collection of streaming mini series that link up like the old modules
maybe let people do it in different styles (animation, live action, whatever)
fond nostalgic GenX memories
that or A1-A4
Imagine the triggering
>movie about D&D players
You homies should watch this shit one of these days. You'll miss some cultural (and pop) references but its an amazing movie overall.
I can't imagine a person watching sword&sorcery while hating D&D, apparently there's a lot of these guys actually. Nu-D&D is awful but you can still play the campaigns or make your own homebrew ones that are exactly like those old flicks.
Okay but
1) tell that to the people changing it for the worse, not the people upset about it
2) the environment around the hobby, and official printing, has an effect on all tables and groups
The proper way to do this movie would be somekind of two layer plot showing the characters playing D&D and cutting between the fantasy narrative and the game table. Eventually revealing something dramatic about all the characters, sort of like Breakfast Club.
But they want to make the medieval fantasy equivilant of capeshit instead.
that would at least justify the stumpy mexican lesbian being a barbarian with 18/100 strength and the black elf. The "real life" players envision cool versions of themselves in the game world.
Also where the frick is a Dwarf character?
Budget large enough to get a ccouple big stars, too cheap for Dwarf scale-effects
Is this what watching Stranger Tales does to a homie?
>The proper way to do this movie would be somekind of two layer plot showing the characters playing D&D and cutting between the fantasy narrative and the game table.
Cutting back and forth is stupid, though I could see a D&D tv series that has short 5min opening and closing scenes in the real world with the players sitting around the table, with elements of the player's personalities bleeding into the in-world character personalities over time.
For example, a girl player and guy player become attracted to each other and their characters do also (for some comedic effect, a female halfling thief and barbarian fighter) , have one episode where a player can't make a game session because he has to work late so his character just kinda blindly follows along silently until needed, when someone else has to jump in and take over (and the character's personality is radically different for that episode), stuff like that, but making the actual gaming session part of the show would kill the show.
>girl player
Stopped reading. Girls ruined DnD almost as much as trannies.
You're both getting close to being Tron.
Yes.
why do you want to watch boring morons sit around a table? you can do that in real life.
framing device
have you ever seen The Princess Bride?
>It's like they're trying to do an MCU movie.
Anon when was the last time you checked out DnD? 5e basically IS a Marvel setting now.
>wheelchair so strong that not using one cripples (heh) your character
Bravo Wizards.
>It's like they're trying to do an MCU movie.
That's the tone modern D&D and its variations like Pathfinder goes for. It's in all the CRPG's as well, scrape off all the grit and fill it with fricking quippy characters and le snark dialogue and banter. It's because you have normie pieces of shit and danger hair women colonizing a well loved niche, then transforming it into sludge fit for current-year-inclusive-and-diverse mass consumption.
Is my isp still banned or can i finally post Black person
Make a character-driven dungeon crawl movie. An elven wizard hires some bodyguards, a male human fighter (for the memes) and tiefling rogue duo, and lady paladin (who are at odds due to morality but come to respect each other), to kill an evil dragon. The paladin's dwarven cleric friend tags along out of goodness. The entire film takes place the subterranean ruins of some long dead civilization. Throw some iconic encounters along the way like orcs, drow, rust monsters, maybe a mindflayer. But the main meat is the broad range of alignments and races clashing and coming to understandings via the encounters and puzzles they encounter. Elaborate on good/evil, law/chaos, positive/negative, being actual active cosmic forces and not nebulous abstract concepts. Scenes of conversation, the party splitting, reforming, particular friendships forming, etc.
5e is basically mcu
adnd until 3e is where the soul lied
D&D movies will never work because D&D is pulp, and pulp is dead because it's unwoke. Picrel is just about the wacky adventures of wizard psychopaths and it's kino nonpareil.
D&D isn't Tolkein, it's Howard, Vance, Leiber, Burroughs, Moorwiener, Andersson, Lovecraft... you're just not going to get a studio to do it right in 2022 because they're going after the "Critical Role" demographic who posts things about le bard seduced le dragon with a le epic nat 20.
WotC D&D is dead. Return to OSR.
To deny any Tolkien influence is a cop out.
Of course it influenced it just to a far lesser degree than people think. Gary was a businessman and knew what was popular, and everyone wanted to be Frodo in the 70s and 80s, just like everyone wanted to be Drizzt in the 90s.
>D&D movies will never work because D&D is pulp, and pulp is dead because it's unwoke
About fricking time someone got it.
Just so Fell’s Four.
God I wish.
The comic was far better than 4th edition deserved.
This film is very much based off 5E, so all the early edition grindy and classic fantasy elements have been removed in favor of the current player style, which is less like LOTR/Zork and more like Self-Aware-Murder-Hobos.
I like that the newer films show the current player base at least. I think a party of theives will connect a lot closer to what most DnD parties actually play as, rather than a group of pure heroes doing good for the sake of doing good.
It's 5e, not any other version. It's already pozzed, you shouldn't be surprised in the slightest.
It's going to be wokeshit.
You can tell because of the cast.
You don't need to know anything else.