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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 2872040" data-attributes="member: 1231">Well...You talk about having all of these classic characters and monsters appear, but this is supposed to be a serious venture, not a bloody parade of every last " iconic " thing out there.If we were to look at this is game related terms, I definately don't think I would start out most of the characters at 1st level, even though that might be the " iconic " thing to do. Being a small fry works great at the gaming table, but making a good television series out of a bunch of weak, incompetent characters is not likely to be succesful in this genre. 3rd or 4th would be ideal, I think, so that we don't quite have Mialee laying flat whole groups of bad guys yet with her fireball, but we do have a group that can lay the smackdown on your average gang of goblins and orcs.Like I said before, we don't want to lay out our hand in the couple episodes, or even the first two seasons. I'd hold back 3/4 of the iconic monsters, and maybe throw in one, or at most two, powerful NPCs to act as patrons, or cameos.You keep talking about what didn't work in the first two films, and you lambast the people involved as incompetent, but what you don't seem to acknowledge in your criticisms based on the movies is that those elements that didn't work, didn't work because they were implemented by people who were incompetent. If I make a movie about Richard III and it sucks, then I make a movie about King Lear, and it sucks, does that mean that Shakespeare is no good for making movies?End rant. Now, where was I? Even if my plot idea sucked, or wasn't fleshed out very well, the reason I was thinking of a half-demon fighter/sorcerer is because I wanted that evil-looking, hulking warrior who possessed some magical abilities to boot. No liches, no dark elves, no githyanki, no illithids. They're all scrawny. And the half-demon may also relate better to the audience because he represents the darkest side of a human, and basically has a human outlook, taken to an extreme by his wickedness and power, whereas most of the others are somewhat alien. Aliens mastermind villains are great if the series has some staying power, but its better to cast the net wide before you draw it in tight.</blockquote>

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