D&D General Weekend Fun: What Fantasy Movie Does Your Ideal D&D Campaign Look Most Like?

[Charlaquin]

Nothing is going to feel like D&D outside of HAT, but that's not the point. I almost didn't include it for that very reason. Seems I should have gone with my gut.

I’m not sure what the point is if it’s not to approximate what you want your D&D games to feel like…?

 

[Reynard]

I’m not sure what the point is if it’s not to approximate what you want your D&D games to feel like…?

D&D magic is very specific, so only a D&D movie is going to "feel like D&D magic". And HAT did such a good job hitting a bunch of D&Disms, I feel like it could skew the results (of this very scientific poll.)

 

[Scott Christian]

LotR (Jackson), Conan (Arnold), Pirates (especially movie 1), Big Trouble (gotta love Jack Burton), and Honor Among Thieves. These are all classic D&D style adventures. Each has a classic big-bad (Sauron, Falsa Dum, Barbossa, and Sofina). Each had great protagonists (Frodo, Conan, Sparrow, Jack, and Edgin). And four out of the five had great world building.

It is interesting to me that the favorites in the poll are the most grounded, and often, non-fantastical. (I know Pirates gets fantastical later, but that first movie simply had a few fantastical elements - which is why everyone likes it best.)

 

[Voranzovin]

Army of Darkness was MIA, so I had to go with Big Trouble in Little China.

 

[p_johnston]

So i picked a few (and the true answer is it shifts with mood and time) but the one that feels most like it for me is the Princess Bride. It has

Silly, fun, touching and serious moments as the story needs.

Cutting back to the real world to see how the players/child is feeling about it.

Bullshitting a way to revive a PC that died but the player wants to keep around (but still having consequences).

Lines and scenes your party will quote and talk about for years to come.

Adopting former foes as pet NPCs.

Movie is the perfect game.

 

[Voranzovin]

Actually, on second thought the closest thing for me would be the 1974 Three Musketeers (the one with Charlton Heston and Christpher Lee).

 

[Shades of Eternity]

"These four movies are the quintessential old school gamer movies:

Princess Bride: the aspiration of that novel you were writing while creating the game.
Labyrinth: the *%$& you go through in the dungeon.
Army of Darkness: how most PCs react.
Monty Python Holy Grail: what actually happens most of the time. #OldSchoolGaming #GamerMovies"

 

[Demetrios1453]

No option for 1984?

 

[Voadam]

Army of Darkness has been an explicit model for my DMing for a while.

Pirates, Big Trouble, Princess Bride, Star Wars, LotR, Conan are all big influences too.

 

[monsmord]

I see Heavy Metal and Fire and Ice are absent!