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<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8224961" data-attributes="member: 7015698">I just want them to have a good balance of lore and danger with comedy. If you try too hard to be a SERIOUS MOVIE for SERIOUS PEOPLE you'll miss the way DnD really is. We all imagine playing in a LOTR campaign, but the truth is that a Monty Python joke and Boblin the Goblin will show up eventually and ruin the tone. If you lean too hard on the SERIOUS CANON AND DEEP LORE, which is still interesting, you risk disappearing too far up your own ass and turning off people (look at the Warcraft movie). But if you go too comedic and wacky with unflattering main characters, you fail to capture the heroic action of DnD where your hero Leeroy Jenkins onto the back of a dragon and still come out on top because of guile, strength and intelligence. You can't have a useless comedy sidekick character in a DnD party and you don't want to lean so hard on the 'unlikely hero' trope that the whole party is just level 0 goofballs. You risk destroying any semblance of danger or impact the story has. Honestly, Slayers is probably a good tone to shoot for. A story where each character can be a source of comedy at times, LOOT is a big motivation, they all bounce off of each other wonderfully, but when naughty word gets serious, it feels important and there's stake that are both personal and wide reaching (and the heroes get to be heroic!). Guardian of the Galaxy is another good one, but with a Self-Righteous Divine -type and a smart-ass spell caster type (the Guardians are basically Rogues, Fighters and Barbarians only) to round out the team a little better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 8224961, member: 7015698"] I just want them to have a good balance of lore and danger with comedy. If you try too hard to be a SERIOUS MOVIE for SERIOUS PEOPLE you'll miss the way DnD really is. We all imagine playing in a LOTR campaign, but the truth is that a Monty Python joke and Boblin the Goblin will show up eventually and ruin the tone. If you lean too hard on the SERIOUS CANON AND DEEP LORE, which is still interesting, you risk disappearing too far up your own ass and turning off people (look at the Warcraft movie). But if you go too comedic and wacky with unflattering main characters, you fail to capture the heroic action of DnD where your hero Leeroy Jenkins onto the back of a dragon and still come out on top because of guile, strength and intelligence. You can't have a useless comedy sidekick character in a DnD party and you don't want to lean so hard on the 'unlikely hero' trope that the whole party is just level 0 goofballs. You risk destroying any semblance of danger or impact the story has. Honestly, [B]Slayers[/B] is probably a good tone to shoot for. A story where each character can be a source of comedy at times, LOOT is a big motivation, they all bounce off of each other wonderfully, but when naughty word gets serious, it feels important and there's stake that are both personal and wide reaching (and the heroes get to be heroic!). Guardian of the Galaxy is another good one, but with a Self-Righteous Divine -type and a smart-ass spell caster type (the Guardians are basically Rogues, Fighters and Barbarians only) to round out the team a little better. [/QUOTE]

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