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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8620777" data-attributes="member: 18">And you expected a Dungeons and Dragons movie to give you this why?Given literally no D&D setting has had "quasi-historical verisimilitude" since, at best, maybe Taladas, which came out in 1989? You might try and claim Birthright, but first off that's nonsense, and second off, that's almost as old, being from 1995, and thus 27 years old. That ship sailed well back into the last century.This is like raging that an Deadpool movie isn't an in-depth character study or something. Or that a Fast and Furious movie wasn't an episode of Top Gear.EDIT: Sheesh, Marvel movies exist in the format they do BECAUSE OF tabletop RPGs, I would suggest (stay with me here people), because they're really an extension of the Whedon-esque-era of TV/cinema storytelling (sleaze as he might now have been revealed to be), which was itself in large part inspired by Whedon's experiences playing tabletop RPGs (he talked about this a few times, most notably revealing Firefly was inspired by Traveller - I am not kidding). An era with inescapable influence on action-adventure stuff especially. A huge proportion of other writers and directors of a bit younger age are also veterans of tabletop RPGs (particularly D&D but not only D&D). It's almost more surprising if a director/writer who is in their early 40s or a bit older/younger doesn't say "Oh yeah I used to play/run RPGs". Hell a significant proportion of the bloody actors under a certain age still do! So...</blockquote>

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