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There's a new D&D movie coming out?
2022-Jul-22, Friday 13:12
And the trailer looks...not bad?
They got the most important thing right, which is the DM trying to sell a serious campaign and not a single one of players actually taking it seriously. And the second-most important thing, which is when they say that they're having to go on a quest to save the world from a threat that they themselves caused--anyone who's played an RPG knows that the PCs are the biggest source of their own problems. My preference when gaming is certainly on the serious side, but these are games. And anyway, we already tried the Super Serious D&D Movie and people didn't like it, so why not try the goofy fun D&D movie. It's not like it's eschewing D&D--I mean, they put in an acid-breathing black dragon front and center in that trailer. Color-coding dragons is quintessential D&D.
I also appreciate how despite going on an adventure to steal something, none of them is a thief. Looks like barbarian, wizard, bard, druid...maybe paladin?
It really looks like they took someone's actual game, wrote up a script for it, and made a movie out of it. And when by far the biggest break D&D has gotten in decades is Actual Play broadcasts like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, that's probably the best way they could present it. Hopefully it's good.
(Apparently it's set in the Forgotten Realms. I'm pretty sure there's no hope at all for a Dark Sun movie basically ever)
They got the most important thing right, which is the DM trying to sell a serious campaign and not a single one of players actually taking it seriously. And the second-most important thing, which is when they say that they're having to go on a quest to save the world from a threat that they themselves caused--anyone who's played an RPG knows that the PCs are the biggest source of their own problems. My preference when gaming is certainly on the serious side, but these are games. And anyway, we already tried the Super Serious D&D Movie and people didn't like it, so why not try the goofy fun D&D movie. It's not like it's eschewing D&D--I mean, they put in an acid-breathing black dragon front and center in that trailer. Color-coding dragons is quintessential D&D.
I also appreciate how despite going on an adventure to steal something, none of them is a thief. Looks like barbarian, wizard, bard, druid...maybe paladin?
It really looks like they took someone's actual game, wrote up a script for it, and made a movie out of it. And when by far the biggest break D&D has gotten in decades is Actual Play broadcasts like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, that's probably the best way they could present it. Hopefully it's good.
(Apparently it's set in the Forgotten Realms. I'm pretty sure there's no hope at all for a Dark Sun movie basically ever)
