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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5973207" data-attributes="member: 775">I doubt that the D&amp;D movie franchise can recover from the original D&amp;D movie enough to actually make a movie that a mainstream audience would like. Wrath of the Dragon God was okay, better than the first. But neither of those movies, nor from what I can tell from the trailer to BoVD, makes me want to use them as a platform to introduce somebody to D&amp;D. In fact, when the first D&amp;D movie came out, I had a friend who was interested in playing D&amp;D. He had never played before. So a couple days before my D&amp;D session, we went to see the first movie in theaters. Afterward, I was embarrassed, I kept telling him that really didn't represent D&amp;D. But he didn't want to play the game after that... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />----I think, in order to catch the public's imagination, the &quot;D&amp;D&quot; aspect has to take a backseat to the story. I mean, think about it. The rules are just rules, secondary to the experience of the game (at least that's how I view things). So instead of giving a film a title like &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God&quot; or &quot;Dungeons and Dragons: the Book of Vile Darkness&quot; how about...&quot;The Wrath of the Dragon God: A Dungeons and Dragons Film.&quot;&quot;The Book of Vile Darkness: A Tale from Dungeons and Dragons&quot;Or&quot;The Crystal Shard: Part One of the Icewind Dale Trilogy&quot; (regular D&amp;D players would get it, and non-players would soon find out).Just sayin'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 5973207, member: 775"] I doubt that the D&D movie franchise can recover from the original D&D movie enough to actually make a movie that a mainstream audience would like. Wrath of the Dragon God was okay, better than the first. But neither of those movies, nor from what I can tell from the trailer to BoVD, makes me want to use them as a platform to introduce somebody to D&D. In fact, when the first D&D movie came out, I had a friend who was interested in playing D&D. He had never played before. So a couple days before my D&D session, we went to see the first movie in theaters. Afterward, I was embarrassed, I kept telling him that really didn't represent D&D. But he didn't want to play the game after that... :( ---- I think, in order to catch the public's imagination, the "D&D" aspect has to take a backseat to the story. I mean, think about it. The rules are just rules, secondary to the experience of the game (at least that's how I view things). So instead of giving a film a title like "Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God" or "Dungeons and Dragons: the Book of Vile Darkness" how about... "The Wrath of the Dragon God: A Dungeons and Dragons Film." "The Book of Vile Darkness: A Tale from Dungeons and Dragons" Or "The Crystal Shard: Part One of the Icewind Dale Trilogy" (regular D&D players would get it, and non-players would soon find out). Just sayin'. [/QUOTE]

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