If you could choose...

[hopeless]

Okay...

And I was thinking of;

1) Human noble with a gift for talking and persuading people,
2) Human female warrior maiden who comes from a family line who was excommunicated by her faith because her grandfather really didn't like their attempt to turn the nation into a theocracy and ended up shattering it sending everybody into a new dark age as a result,
3) A halfling mad scientist who just loves building new ways of blowing stuff up,
4) A warforged bodyguard for the halfling even though he's more a guardian of the female warrior and is hiding the fact she is far more important than people realise especially as an evil cult wants to wipe her entire family out after her grandfather tried to take them out only for his people to betray him before he could finish the job,
5) The noble's would be fiance whose also a student of the arcane who really hates it when the halfling blows up the stuff she really like to have even if it means the rest of the party gets into dire trouble as a result!

Oh and for the bad guys I was thinking...

1)Former best friend of the female warrior whose now a member of the church and seeks to ise in rank and has turned against her former friend even though she has saved her life several times when they adventured together before she discovered her friend's lineage, is unaware her friend is actually the chosen champion of her faith and the entire order has been corrupted as a result of their attempt to seize control,
2) A former adventuring comrade has joined the cult but is unaware that the woman he's in love with is a declared enemy of his faith and he's being caught between his faith and his love for her,
3) The remaining noble families are looking to restore the lost nation and side are being set up for a new war with families seeking links to other noble families with stronger links to the old royal family unfortunately anyone who might threaten their plans for the throne they intend to remove and the party has TWO members with such a lineage.
4) The would be fiance has rivals in her own family and other similar families who see her as a stepping stone to greater power and influence making her own attempts much more difficult especially as she isn't as good at avoiding temptation...
5) An ancient enemy who brought about the destruction of the former nation seeks to begin its own rise to power but an ancient prophecy has left it haunted as it seeks to wipe out anyone who stands in its way even using others to cover its tracks as it sets one side against the other keeping its identity a secret and makinf its pawns unaware they're being used to further it ends and one of the threats to its plans are the last suriving members of an order of paladins of whom the female warrior's grandfather was a member...

I think I confused the issue somewhat but I do agree that maybe I should ahve kept d&d away from this discussion.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I was wondering if you could select the five characters in a new d&d movie or tv series what would you choose and how would you explain why they teamed up?

You can't (as such) just pick characters and expect that doing so will have any particular bearing on anything. You need characters and a STORY to go along with them. Then, you don't neeed to provide 5 pages of backstory for any of them. You don't necessarily need backstory at all. What you need is what writers call EXPOSITION, and it doesn't necesarily concern itself with providing extensive details about the characters or the story - it provides needed and desired details which are NOT the same thing.

Anyone can invent 5 characters for a movie or TV series - but just because the characters are interesting doesn't mean the show will succeed, or even that the characters will work out well. I think it would be much more meaninful to ask, "Here is the general plot for a movie, here is the general concept for a TV series... Now what assortment of characters would you plug into that?"

 

[Herobizkit]

Mainframe (creator of Reboot and Beast Wars/Beasties) or maybe the creators of Storm Hawks (which is the D&D I'd LOVE to play) would need to make this in a CG style. Seriously. I've also seen a few CG cartoons lately that incorporate 'real life' characters interacting, in one form or another, with 'game' characters.

That said, I would LOVE to see a "Knights of the Dinner Table"-style adventure teamed up with "Order of the Stick"-style characters. Better, make "The Gamers" as a tv serial. The show is about a group of 'real-life' gamers who have lives, more or less, outside of gaming. They get together once a week and game, and in doing so, we are presented their characters in the DM's game environment via CGI. Occasionally, there will be interrruptions of gamer-ese in the narration by various players, cuts to in/out of game stuff, and so on.

Also, I want any D&D effort to have a Warforged as a PC... And a Goblin PC.

 

[Prisoner6]

I'm thinking ...

Beek Gwenders of Croodle,
Cloyer Bulse the Magsman,
Fonkin Hoddypeak,
Gleep Wurp the Eyebiter, and
Roaky Swerked

With apologies to ...

Faffle Dwe'o-mercraeft, Flerd Trantle, Frush O'Suggil, and Redmod Dumple.

 

[Masquerade]

The protagonist is a 16 year-old human swordmage, accompanied by his or her 80-something sensei, a human wizard. The protagonist's best friends are an amnesiac warforged warlord and a sarcastic halfling rogue. The group is rounded out by a mysterious eladrin star warlock.

For the second season, the sensei is replaced by a bookish-but-charming human artificer.

 

[Thanael]

I'm thinking ...

Beek Gwenders of Croodle,
Cloyer Bulse the Magsman,
Fonkin Hoddypeak,
Gleep Wurp the Eyebiter, and
Roaky Swerked

With apologies to ...

Faffle Dwe'o-mercraeft, Flerd Trantle, Frush O'Suggil, and Redmod Dumple.

That would be awesome.

 

[avin]

A man and his dog! Oh, wait...

(that means, the movie will suxsooooooohardagain if they try to make it iconic and hollywoodian)

 

[Alzrius]

I'd use any of Paul Kidd's Greyhawk novels as a screenplay for another D&D movie. Honestly, his stuff is written perfectly for a silver-screen adaptation. The characters are engaging, the plots are easy to follow without being insipid, and he knows when to keep to canon and when to break from it in order to tell a good story.

I also think the D&D screenplay outlines written by Craig Cochrane (our own Upper_Krust) would make pretty entertaining movies.

 

[Minigiant]

yeah just go for the 5 man band

Human fighter
Elven ranger
Eladrin wizard
Dwarf cleric
Human rogue

if you really want to hit the 4th ed idea

Human THW fighter (the HERO who just came home from a battle his side barely won)
Tiefling artful rogue (well known city LANCER thief)
Eladrin Wand wizard (the SMART GUY foreigner)
Dragonborn Str paladin (the Hero's BIG GUY mentor)
Half elf Inspiring warlord with feylock powers (the CHICK who is somehow related to the bad guy's evil plan)

and all they do is argue.

 

[DEFCON 1]

* Young human male fighter hero
* Old human male wizard mentor who gets killed within the first ten minutes by the BBEG
* Young human female rogue little sister who meets up with the hero after the mentor gets killed
* Adult half-elf female warrior-druid sarcastic older sister type
* Adult human male fighter slightly skittish who is married to the warrior-druid and who both take over the mentoring aspect for the hero
* Large adult human male berzerker who carries a giant miniature space hamster that the group meets while trying to figure out about the iron shortage
* Adult human female wizard that is captured by gnolls and the bezerker wants the hero to rescue her on the way to the mines with the tainted iron ore

Along the way they pass an evil wizard dressed in red robes, a drow elf female priestess, a naive bard, a female priestess who was turned to stone, and a dwarf warrior priest they rescue in the bottom of a mine they flood.