Is Empire of Izmer the POL? - thread necro

[Tewligan]

I think this is the way to go. D&D The Animated Movie.

Or maybe set it on Krynn!

 

[Tewligan]

Still looking perhaps if you hear news of what the point of light they mentioned in design and development you might want to sue this thread to pass on the news unless you actually have a name for this potential generic campaign.

Probably a better choice would be to start a NEW thread specifying the name of the campaign, hm?

 

[hopeless]

Yes

Probably a better choice would be to start a NEW thread specifying the name of the campaign, hm?

And next time I'll darn well copy the info before querying it and then find I can't find the original message!

Aren't they already doing an animated feature based on Krynn?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Wasn't Dragonslayer the POL D&D Movie?

 

[Phoenix8008]

Aren't they already doing an animated feature based on Krynn?

Yes.
http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/

 

[Knightfall]

THREAD RESURRECTION !!!

Okay, we know that Izmer isn't the POL setting, but the new Book of Vile Darkness movie might mesh some of what has existed in the D&D movie universe with the POL setting now, due to the upcoming release of the tie-in Book of Vile Darkness sourcebook.

How much will that book be influenced by the setting of movie? At this point, we don't know.

I doubt that the new movie will be set in a different world than the previous two movies, so I think we're going to get some overlap.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Izmer was a part of Mystara that was designed by Dave Arneson, was it not?

 

[Plane Sailing]

I would hazard to suggest that a "good" D&D movie would have presented a group with the Usual Suspects of a defined Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, and Cleric. The setting would have included a pantheonistic religious background, cabbalistic wizards in towers, and noble woodland elves (as opposed to the short tribal elves that seemed an entirely different racial stock from their leadership). The Theives' Guild bit was spot-on.

The best bet so far has been the miniseries Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (see some clips here http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/krod_mandoon/index.jhtml )

I loved it - it was so much like some of my early D&D games !

 

[Plane Sailing]

I actually remember hearing at the time of the movie that Izmer was loosely based on the Empire of Alphatia from the Mystara setting rather than Glantri. And you're right - it would have been better if they'd done that. In fact, it's hard to think of a change they could make to the movie that WOULDN'T have made it better.

And to the OP: I really, really, really doubt that Wizards would want to make the setting of a failed movie (one they really probably want to forget ever happened) into the default setting of their flagship RPG product - that would be ... odd.

An interesting supporting quote here Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible

a Dungeons & Dragons movie interview with Director Corey Solomon is up on our IGN Scifi hub site. Here's an excerpt:

Solomon's own favorite character in his playing days was a druid, a character he kept going for four years. "I was so careful about that character I just retired it," he says. "I didn't want it to die." But don't look for this druid in the movie. "I didn't think it was fair for me to take my personal D&D character and just stick it in the movie."

So he didn't actually take the characters and places from the film out of his own campaign, as you might expect. Instead he based the world of Izmer and Sumdall, where the movie, takes place from one of TSR's older, obscurer campaign worlds, Mystara.

"There was a whole empire of mages in Mystara called Alphatia," Solomon explains. "I just sort of loosely based it off of those things, because I wanted generic stuff, to specifically stay away from stuff like Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance, for various reasons," he says, referring to two much more popular and better known D&D game environments, both of which have had huge numbers of novels and game supplements devoted to them; and in fact, a Dragonlance script is also making the rounds of Hollywood at this point.