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Well master and apprentice is a big power disbalance. But to use Star Wars as an example...Obi Wan is not exactly "more powerful" then Luke Skywalker the Chosen One. Obi is old and "can't" do as much as he once did. Gandalf in LotR is another great example. Gamdaf could save the world in a...

It does depend a lot. Harpers by there nature bend and break 'rules' often. So attacking and killing people is normal day to day stuff. As is manipulation. Killing Shadow Thieves is no big deal...they are evil. Was the nobleman a 100% pure and innocent saint? If not the Harpers won't care...

I don't know about video games.

It was popular though..... Sure you can have a PG13 kids show where the good guy has a sword and occasionally taps a foe with it and that foe then falls down on the ground to go boom and take a nap. And far more often, with the PG13 show you will see loony things like the good guy tosses a...

You know D&D books had nudity in them at one time, right? Was that for kids? And D&D is about mass murder for loot....so how does that fit into "kids stuff"? And if it is Kids stuff....well, why don't they just show it: blood, death, murder of people and people like foes like drow, orcs, and...

So you have some social or story reason for mass murder and looting? Well, they can make the D&D Kids Show no problem. The trick is making a popular show that people will watch.

Guess I would wonder how you play? You don't kill foes? You don't attack foes in places they live? You don't loot dead bodies? My point is when you say D&D people get locked into...at best pg-13.

Maybe.... They could make a Basic D&D for new players and kids And have an...I don;t know, lets say Advanced D&D for experienced gamers and adults Wonder if that could work?

Plenty of adults love fantasy. They are the fans. But nobody really cares much about the fans....they want the general public to watch. Well, D&D has always been about invasion, murder, slaughter, theft. Describe the classic D&D: you go into someone else's home place murder and slaughter...

Not sure this really "proves" anything. You want a show and a character randomly says "he failed a saving throw" and put a lot into that random comment. Ok, but the adults don't take fantasy seriously.

The thing is D&D takes place in a brutal time.....like before 1400 in Earth time. Everything we know of as "civilization" is like 600 years away. Though we also don't want to peg "D&D" down to just one place in history and say "it must be exactly like this one place". The general is a...

The obvious answer would be to put out a more classic D&D. One with no, or very few changes after 2E. Maybe streamline and make things smoother. Make it MA. "This book is indented for mature audiences only"

Except, as you can see so often....these people don't get into upper management. And, worse...they cave 100% and do as they are told. Sci fi, fantasy, and IPs like D&D are seen as silly kids stuff. This is why all D&D media content is made for kids. To even suggest anything MA in a D&D...

Well, I'd say your mixing character with wizard. And would you apply this to others? Say a no weapon fighter or barbarian (and yes, this counts fists and feet as weapons)? Does John Wick work if he just "talks" to people and never does any violence?

Oh...totally missed that one. And the answer is yes...."Hat" is just a goofy Marvel film...with D&D on the front. From the first trailer with the barbarian "fighting with the stone block" I knew it would be endless slapstick rated Y goofy humor....and it was. This is the problem. Someone...

This part act.depends on your rules, reality, setting and game world. Gandalf is the wise old one, there to guide and give advice. Gandalf could have just flown over to the Shire on a Giant Eagle and flown the ring over and dropped it in Mt. Doom easy. But he does not. He does the whole...

D&D Hat? Is that like an animated film or something? A direct to video(or streaming?) movie behind some paywall? Is it on that Purple Worm channel?

Before Not to long after I learned how to read, I discovered that I liked reading. This was the early 80's and I read any book I could get. As a kid I never had much money. But lucky at lots of yard, garage and barn sales, along with flea markets, books were cheep. There were tons of re...

Doctor Who has done Okay. Sadly the industry does not agree. When they hear "D&D" they think "silly mindless kids stuff for 5 year olds".

Well, maybe not a secret. But my point is when making a show in other genres, no one ever says "well, we need to make it not like a cop show to attract a more general audience." They simply make a good cop show. They don't worry about anyone else. The secret, they can never know...is if you...