D&D General Which D&D World Would Make the Best TV Show

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

TNG cost more than a million or two an episode.

Stargate was 2 million iirc, B5 was half DS9 iirc.

Adjust for inflation and not cheap.

Reality TV wen it blew up was comparatively cheap.

Shadow and Bone entire season was comparable to a single episode of RoP.

GoT season 1 was comparably cheap to the latter seasons iirc 10 million an episode approx.

MCU and Star Wars shows I've seen 200 million a season being thrown around not sure how reliable that is.

We're seeing budget blowouts on movies animated eg Mario and Spiderman are comparatively cheap.

Ravenloft is one of my least favorite settings buy has best bang for buck potential. Vampires cross over appeal, on location filming various locations, horror cheap genre to film.

Final season of GoT was 15 mil episode

 

[Velderan]

Final season of GoT was 15 mil episode

But I assume they made some of that back from the Starbucks sponsorship they picked up.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Now I am thinking about short videos in youtube to test the reaction of the audience. Of course with subtitles for deaf people, or no-English speakers. Maybe with some cute creature to sell toys.

Maybe you are right about Eberron, something style Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider/Romacing the stone.

* What if Greyhawk was easier to be adapted into action-live? The key would be filming not like a fantasy 2023 blockbuster but imitating retro style of 40'-50's medieval adventures movies: (Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, King Arthur, Black Arrow..), or with a look of 90 serie B production.

 

[The Glen]

Voyage of the Princess Ark would make fantastic episodic show. Go to new place introduce new settings

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm not even a fan of the setting (in that, I've only played a single session there, 10+ years ago) but I suspect, from what I know of it, that the answer is Eberron.

 

[Aldarc]

Eberron is kind of all over the place, as a campaign setting. And I know that is the entire point: Kevin wanted to create a world that could support every possible kind of game theme that players could want: grimdark fantasy, gothic horror, heroic epic, gritty war, magic school, high fantasy, airships and wizards and dragons and robots and vampires and zombie pirate ninjas on dinosaurs...if you could imagine it, there was a place in Eberron that you could place it and it would make sense. It's the key strength of that setting.

Unfortunately, that's precisely why I don't think it would work as a TV show setting. The writers/producers can't capture the entirety of that campaign setting, with all of its different themes and flavors, into a single TV show and still have it resemble Eberron without it getting muddled beyond comprehension. It would be amazing if they could pull it off but it would be a very hard sell to any production studio....that's a lot of stuff to cram into that single pilot episode. Just to get it green-lit they would have to narrow it quite a bit, and that's the opposite of what Eberron is to me.

And there are how many TV series dedicated to the Marvel and DC Universes?

 

[Parmandur]

this doesn’t track, to me.

Adjusted for inflation, Strange New Worlds is the biggest budget Trek so far at $10 million, whereas the Mandalorian or Game of Thrones top out at $15 million per episode. Rings of Power, which is more of a low bar for what I would expect of a serious attempt at an Eberron show, is $58 million per episode.

Eberron isn’t high fantasy. Star Wars is full of “fantastical” wide shots, models of vehicles, various kinds of sets, and a really good costume dn props teams to fill the scenes with strange creatures and small detail bits that help keep the audience in the mindset of the fantastical.

It's wide fabtasy: that's harder than what Star Wars or even Star Trek do.

I disagree, but it is not like my opinion matters anyway.

That's fair: I'm not trying to pee in anyone's cornflakes (I love Eberron! If aomeone could pull off a shoe thst would be rad!), so I'm not goijg to belabor this further.

 

[Parmandur]

Just one final illustration: when I hear suggestions of Stat Trek budgets for a Setting like Eberron, I am reminded of this, which actually probably cost a lot of money to produce:

 

[Plaguescarred]

To me EBERRON would make the strangest yet strongest setting's TV show among all the D&D Campaigns settings coming off a well represented video game industry in Dungeons & Dragons Online and featuring alot of really cool and unique features that are not really found in other game or genre.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Adjusted for inflation, Strange New Worlds is the biggest budget Trek so far at $10 million,

Which is a Paramount joint, which a D&D show would be.

whereas the Mandalorian or Game of Thrones top out at $15 million per episode. Rings of Power, which is more of a low bar for what I would expect of a serious attempt at an Eberron show, is $58 million per episode.

Okay but you haven’t explained why you think Eberron would be more expensive than two shows that are constantly trying to outdo themselves in attempts to visually impress the audience with special effects, locations, etc

It's wide fabtasy: that's harder than what Star Wars or even Star Trek do.

How? Why? Why would that be prohibitive?