Where are you (D&D Documetary Kickstarter)?

[Jack Campbell]

I have bought, Uber Guber, the D&D Experience, Life With The Dice Bag, and others, but none of these documentaries do justice to the priciples that were involved in forging the multitude of role-playing experiences we now enjoy. From the clips that I have seen, "D&D Documentory" looks like the one to give us a real historical perspective beyond parody and fandom. Why aren't more people behind this? They only have 10 days to go! Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary by Iconoscope Films/Westpaw Films — Kickstarter

I am flippin' unemployed and I backed this. What is your excuse?

 

[Stormonu]

Honestly, the trailer for it made it sound like it was a propaganda film heavily biased to "create drama".

 

[DM Howard]

I would have rather than a documentary about RPGs in general rather than just D&D and I agree it seemed like sort of a propaganda piece to me as well.

 

[Jack Campbell]

Please don't misunderstand, not angry, but I don't undertand. I have nothing to gain from this but a Facebook post from Luke Gygax that tugged at my heartstrings. If YOU had created an ENTIRELY new form of entertainment whole cloth, world changing really, and a few stock holders RIPPED your gutts out leaving you with nothing. There might be be a small amount of 'drama' involved. In the scheme of things, obviously not as important as poverty, freedom, and health, but why wouldn't you, as a participant on En World, not have the slightest feeling of obligation to our progenitors, their trials, and our gaming history? It is very unlikely that we will ever see an editied copy of 'Dragons In The Basement'" as a historical record. From the trailers I have seen, I think this is the best video treatment we will ever see. Drama or no.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Please don't misunderstand, not angry, but I don't undertand. I have nothing to gain from this but a Facebook post from Luke Gygax that tugged at my heartstrings. If YOU had created an ENTIRELY new form of entertainment whole cloth, world changing really, and a few stock holders RIPPED your gutts out leaving you with nothing. There might be be a small amount of 'drama' involved. In the scheme of things, obviously not as important as poverty, freedom, and health, but why wouldn't you, as a participant on En World, not have the slightest feeling of obligation to our progenitors, their trials, and our gaming history? It is very unlikely that we will ever see an editied copy of 'Dragons In The Basement'" as a historical record. From the trailers I have seen, I think this is the best video treatment we will ever see. Drama or no.

Do you ned to push this so hard, or can it stand on its own merits?

 

[techno]

Backed.

 

[Morrus]

If YOU had created an ENTIRELY new form of entertainment whole cloth, world changing really, and a few stock holders RIPPED your gutts out leaving you with nothing. There might be be a small amount of 'drama' involved. In the scheme of things, obviously not as important as poverty, freedom, and health, but why wouldn't you, as a participant on En World, not have the slightest feeling of obligation to our progenitors, their trials, and our gaming history?.

But the documentary makers aren't "our progenitors", and they didn't create an entirely new form of entertainment whole cloth. I can understand a call for support, but guilting people by impplying that we owe some kind of obligation to those making the documentary is going a bit far.

I think it's a cool project, and I hope it manages to get the backing it seeks (no least because I plan to be making a different documentary at Gen Con next year). They seem like good guys, and it looks like they'll do a good job. But I don't feel morally obligated to back it.

 

[Perram]

I am flippin' unemployed and I backed this. What is your excuse?

Because I do not feel obligated to provide funding for a project. No one should feel obligated to participate in a Kickstarter.

I simply am not interested enough in what they have shown to pledge money in advance for the project. I'm also not entirely convinced in the message they are pitching, either.

Like a lot of board members here, I'm well versed on the history of role playing games, and D&D especially. And this seems like a very pro-gygax drama piece in the same flavor of production as the Dateline / TV specials that we hate so much as gamers for condemning us with similar practices.

 

[Dimitri Mazieres]

I finally decided about backing this project. I want to see this documentary!

 

[Jupp]

The D&D Documentary that went under the radar

At least it went under the radar for me. Just found this based on a Twitter from Frog God Games.

Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary by Iconoscope Films/Westpaw Films — Kickstarter

Looks like they try to do a well rounded doc about D&D and its history with some interesting interviews in it. That they have not reached the goal can only come from bad advertising for this Kickstarter, I can't see another reason really.

Though given the quality of the sample video bits it would be a shame if this would not see the light of day.