Hollywood Directors become Dungeon Masters!

[kkoie]

Sam Peckinpah (creater of film classics like the Wild Bunch and Staw Dogs) as a DM... a very gritty and violent adventure where in the end, everyone dies a bloody and brilliant death, including all the PCs.

 

[Mercule]

Ugh...here it comes, the Lucas bashing again. Has anyone seen A New Hope??? Gah. Don't want to get into this anyway, just something that really annoys me these days.

Yeah, it's always comforting to know that an entire generation was brought up on, and made classics of, the works of a complete incompetent storyteller.

 

[Gargoyle]

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As for the topic...wouldn't Tarintino(I can't spell names or words tonight...) be fun? A D&D Pulp Fiction/Resviour Dogs(...again..can't spell for some reason...) would be so fun.

Tarantino would be good, but I think I'd just have him step in for d20 modern one-shots now and then.

 

[jdavis]

Alfred Hitchcock would run a great CoC campaign and the fact that he is dead would just add to it.

For D&D it's John Milius just on his writing ability, I'm sure he could cook up a great adventure.

 

[Wormwood]

Ugh...here it comes, the Lucas bashing again. Has anyone seen A New Hope??? Gah.

Relax. I wasn't "bashing".

My point (which I could have phrased better) was this: Lucas's recent work, while admirable, would be lacking without it's technological wizardry. SFX aside, his direction and storytelling is simply *not as good* as some of his earlier works. Is it *bad*? No. But you have to admit that CGI does most of the heavy lifting nowadays.

You are correct about 'A New Hope'. Even if the SFX weren't half as good as they were, the story, characters and setting would make it a masterpiece.

The reason I picked 'American Grafitti' was because that film relied on superbly capable storytelling and an honest love of setting, unburdned with fancy special effects.

As a DM, Lucas would not have an ILM team backing him up. He would have to simply tell the story and somehow invest us in it. 'American Grafitti' and 'A New Hope' Lucas could do that. I'm not sure that today's version could.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Relax. I wasn't "bashing".

My point (which I could have phrased better) was this: Lucas's recent work, while admirable, would be lacking without it's technological wizardry. SFX aside, his direction and storytelling is simply *not as good* as some of his earlier works. Is it *bad*? No. But you have to admit that CGI does most of the heavy lifting nowadays.

You are correct about 'A New Hope'. Even if the SFX weren't half as good as they were, the story, characters and setting would make it a masterpiece.

The reason I picked 'American Grafitti' was because that film relied on superbly capable storytelling and an honest love of setting, unburdned with fancy special effects.

As a DM, Lucas would not have an ILM team backing him up. He would have to simply tell the story and somehow invest us in it. 'American Grafitti' and 'A New Hope' Lucas could do that. I'm not sure that today's version could.

Sorry, I just get a bit touchy when it comes to Lucas and the new Star Wars movies. CGI does do a lot, but I think most of the problems come with the new trilogy getting a bad feel because of, not only most of us are 20 years older watching it now, but also its a different KIND of story. More political. Not exactly what people expected...but that's a whole different topic.
I do see what you're saying, and agree to a point. Though when you look at some of these directors DMing things...really, could you handle hearing some of thier voices for long periods of time?

 

[Darrin Drader]

Well, Lynch has already been mentioned, as has Tarantino, so the only one left that I think would just be mind-blowingly incredible would be Straczynski. Everything you do will have some major signifficance later on, and every problem has a conspiracy behind it.

 

[Wormwood]

Though when you look at some of these directors DMing things...really, could you handle hearing some of thier voices for long periods of time?

Tell me about it. I cound't go theough one hour of Tarantino's voice without smacking him.

On the other hand, I could listen to John Milius for as long as he could talk. I saw him at a conference at the AFI film festival a few years ago (about violence in film, IIRC), and he was absolutely spellbinding.

Now that I think about it, I withdraw all of my previous choices. John Milius would be my Dream DM.

 

[Impeesa]

I dunno about the rest of you guys, but I'd kill for an evening in John Woo's Spycraft game.

--Impeesa--

 

[fba827]

Such a 'guest DM' has helped me to deliver something that is full of events my players are not expecting from me.

Any other nominations for 'guest DM's' and what they might bring to the game?

Regarding guest DM that is a difficult one to answer as I am not good at making an absolute assumption as to what came across well/poorly due to the writing, directing, or acting.

However, as for your first quotes sentence, that is always a good thing to do -- look from someone else's perspective to toss in things the players would not be expecting from _you_ It may be one step away from channeling dead spirits, but as long as no one finds out, you won't be locked away in a straight jacket.