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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5226842" data-attributes="member: 88680">You're on the right track, here.  Also have the characters see a huge monster advancing on the village and one of them says "We're going to need a bigger boat."Plenty of pop-culture and movie rip-offs, paraphrases and deliberate misquotes, appalling puns - nothing other than this will truly capture the essence of D&D.You have it look as serious as Hell - brilliant scenery, costumes, CGI effects, epic soundtrack (ripped from other action movies) yet have the characters occasionally break out with anachronistic speech, reference movies etc.  Character makes a really bad pun and is inexplicably hit by a thrown cushion that seems to have appeared from nowhere.  Throws it back at one of the characters, it is not seen lying around anywhere when they leave the area.Convey that what is happening in the grand adventure world is actually being driven by modern people who're having fun.  Keep the action and derring-do coming, have fantastic looking dragons etc that look so real but have the characters responding with phrases like "Holy Crap!" and "Oh, no, you've gotta be s***ting me!"  Saying to the thief: "We'll hold it's attention while you sneak around behind it for a back-stab."I reckon the juxtaposition of anachronistic, pop-culture-influenced humour over deadly serious, extremely well done costuming, sets, SPFX etc would convey a typical dungeon run, mingling the player's words with the images inside their heads.Something nasty happens, one of the characters looks up as if addressing some divine entity and says - with no real heat or negative emotion - "You really are a rat-bastard, aren't you."</blockquote>

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