D&D General Which Campaign or Adventure Would You Adapt To Prestige Television?

[Reynard]

Just for fun:

You are put in charge of adapting an existing campaign length adventure to prestige television for WotC. It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft. Note that the "short" campaigns and anthologies are okay too. Assume you have a very good TV budget, but not infinite resources, and the requirement is that it is live action. Additonal Difficulty: it cannot be a campaign that also has a novel series, so no Dragonlance or Time of Troubles.

Which campaign do you choose to adapt to prestige television? If you care to do some fan casting, go ahead.

For my part, I would vote Avernus except it would require way too high a budget to do it justice. So instead I would probably go with Dragonheist: it has a cool theme, lots of potential for thrills, but is not so expansive as to blow the budget. I would cast Walter Goggins as the lead, in the form of a down on his luck rogue who owes money to Xanathar.

 

[Maxperson]

This is an interesting exercise, but the only campaigns I personally know that well are my own as I don't run purchased campaigns.

That said, I was gifted Strixhaven by one of my players, so I will go with that and cast Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint...

 

[Chaltab]

Bonus points if there's a trans student with a rival bully named Kathleen.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Of the longer published adventures I’ve run, Rime of the Frostmaiden I think would make the best TV. But that’s mostly because I’mm a sucker for arctic landscapes.

Being old school I would probably prefer an adventure-of-the-week format though.

 

[Chaltab]

Which campaign do you choose to adapt to prestige television? If you care to do some fan casting, go ahead.

Avernus was my first thought as well, but there's one key hang-up even besides the budget... any campaign, especially one with many eyes on it, has thousands of people who have played it and done their own version of the story. People probably feel pretty strongly about those stories.

Instead of stepping on those toes, I'd go with a lesser known campaigns. Maybe Under the Dark Fist or Scales of War.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft.

Considering how many shows get cancelled before their time, were I a show runner for a D&D live action series, I'd think twice before adapting anything that could take more than two seasons to tell the story. Thinking about it, I think I'll go with Desert of Desolation or the Giants series. Play up the dangerous dungeon crawl and psychological breakdowns a la Squid Games. And each module could be a season.

Of the longer published adventures I’ve run, Rime of the Frostmaiden I think would make the best TV. But that’s mostly because I’mm a sucker for arctic landscapes.

Being old school I would probably prefer an adventure-of-the-week format though.

I think the themes of Rime of the Frostmaiden would lend itself to those sorts of character moments that really drive prestige television.

 

[payn]

If there is a Paizo version of this thread I’m so in.

 

[bedir than]

Witchlight

 

[Tonguez]

SEASON 1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh SEASON 2 Danger at Dunwater/The Final Enemy
SEASON 3 The Styes

Haunted Coastal village with secrets, smugglers, political scheming
focussed on human drama
Season 1 starts with a haunting mystery
Season 2 gets in to political tension and threat of war
Season 3 all ramps up to Eldritch horrors

 

[sevenbastard]

UK 2 The Sentinel and UK 3 the Gauntlet. Let's highlight the Fiend Folio monsters!!!

Go with Warhammer and do The Enemy Within. But I cant watch because I dont want to spoil the adventure that I still think someone will run for me someday.