D&D General Best on screen adaptation of D&D

[Sacrosanct]

So good! So very, very, very good! I think it's too modern to make the OP's list.

Only if we're talking about 4e, since everyone in the Magicians has super powers

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

oh, the Dark Crystal, both the old movie and the new show are definitely my style of D&D (I dont care much for sword and sorcery or gritty setting, so...).

 

[Fenris-77]

Hmm, yeah I would have voted for the 1977 Wizards had it been on the list. Something I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet is either Dark Crystal (movie or series). Or Labyrinth. Heck I think the Percy Jackson movies might be a closer cousin to D&D than some of the stuff on the list. That's not a criticism of the original list though, as mentioned above these lists are almost impossible to make and keep reasonable without leaving off 20 things that someone will say "hey what about..." about.

 

[Tony Vargas]

1. The Magicians ( best D&D show ever made)

I suppose in a way. It's a Narnia take-off, and IDK Narnia was that big an influence on D&D. But, the blatant anachronism in D&D do make it fit an urban-fantasy-ish sub-genre rather better than might be expected.
That and everyone's playing a magic-user, of course.

And it's probably only the second time I've seen Somatic Components of the complexity D&D implies given such prominence. The other, of course, being the Roger Corman classic, "The Raven."
And The Magicians goes into remarkable detail and is fairly consistent, with them, too.

 

[Fenris-77]

Yeesh, the Magicians. Yep, I should have thought of that one. I thought it was very watchable. Solomon Kane comes to mind too now that I'm thinking about it.

 

[Panda-s1]

Well. One of the Anime series is Goblin Slayer. And that first episode is pretty... graphic in its violence. So I would say it is pretty lewd.

idk I never watched Goblin Slayer, it's not the kind of fantasy story I enjoy, but how much worse is it than Game of Thrones? or The Witcher for that matter.

 

[Garthanos]

Harry Potter I mean if people are mentioning Magicians.

 

[OB1]

I suppose in a way. It's a Narnia take-off, and IDK Narnia was that big an influence on D&D. But, the blatant anachronism in D&D do make it fit an urban-fantasy-ish sub-genre rather better than might be expected.
That and everyone's playing a magic-user, of course.

Well, the Narnia/Fillory bits are one part of a larger multi-verse that feels very much D&D and would fit into it fairly easily, IMO. I'd kill for a Magician's Sourcebook for 5e, think that would be an excellent way to introduce an urban setting. And of course with 5e, just about everyone now IS playing a magic-user

And it's probably only the second time I've seen Somatic Components of the complexity D&D implies given such prominence. The other, of course, being the Roger Corman classic, "The Raven."
And The Magicians goes into remarkable detail and is fairly consistent, with them, too.

Agreed, and many of the spells in the Magician's are straight out of D&D. I know the books made that connection explicitly, can't remember if the show did, though they do name check Bigby and a few others as spell creators...

 

[Panda-s1]

And it's probably only the second time I've seen Somatic Components of the complexity D&D implies given such prominence. The other, of course, being the Roger Corman classic, "The Raven."
And The Magicians goes into remarkable detail and is fairly consistent, with them, too.

this for me was Mass Effect, but people get mad at me when I call Biotics "space magic"

 

[MarkB]

Under "other" I'll go ahead and throw Time Bandits into the mix. It very much has the feel of some of the more chaotic campaigns I've played in.