D&D Movie/TV New D&D movie details? Vecna?!

[Paul Farquhar]

People are not dumb, they are uneducated. There is a big difference. Not knowing something doesn't make you dumb and I find it disturbing that you keep jumping to that conclusion.

Everyone is dumb. Some are uneducated and dumb, some are educated and dumb.

 

[Tonguez]

I feel a great affection for the character of Steve Urkel, but he has got a great contrast between his great qualities and annoying flaws. He is both the little ugly duckling and the noble prince, really clumsy how you have ever seen, but also but very smart and with a gold heart.

I never liked the Urkel character to the extent that I stopped watchung the show specifically because of my dislike for him. Nonetheless I do respect your answer and can see the merits youve listed as being valid

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I can feel how that character feels, because he is a noble heart, honest, and very intelligent, but the rest of people only see his annoying flaws. That is the reason because I'm identify with him. I know how is wearing his shoes.

 

[Samloyal23]

Why not base a movie on one of the best selling novels based on the game, no?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Why not base a movie on one of the best selling novels based on the game, no?

That would be Dragonlance, and we already have an explanation of why the can't do Dragonlance - the rights have been separated out.

 

[Hussar]

That would be Dragonlance, and we already have an explanation of why the can't do Dragonlance - the rights have been separated out.

I thought that that's why Margaret Weiss can't do the movie. WotC still owns the rights.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I thought that that's why Margaret Weiss can't do the movie. WotC still owns the rights.

The rights are a separate package, and the D&D movie rights are the ones in the hands of the film company. If the film company had acquired the Dragonlance rights instead of the D&D rights Weiss would have been involved.

I don't think there would be any reason Weiss couldn't be involved in the movie, should they want to hire her as a writer. It just couldn't be Dragonlance.

 

[Arnwolf666]

Yeah I probably should have just kept my mouth shut... politics is no fun to debate online.

It just sneaks in and starts almost unintentionally. You try to build a more realistic economic system or start in on a fantasy political system. Then it goes somewhere one wishes it didn’t go.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Why not base a movie on one of the best selling novels based on the game, no?

Honestly, I don't want them to do that for a few reasons.

The biggest one is that it is really hard to translate a story from one medium to another. Almost every movie made out of a book series gets shredded and destroyed in the process. Think about Eragon, a pretty great series (in my opinion, I haven't read it in years) that created a single movie that destroyed everything it touched.

Even the best movies, like the Harry Potter movies or the LoTR movies are often talked about with what they changed and/or got wrong than how great they were.

So, I think we are far better off getting a movie tha takes the property, and makes a unique story no one has published before. Because then we are less likely to get lambasted for the things they got wrong from the original story.

Still going to get blasted for getting the setting, mechanics, look, ect wrong. But we can at least avoid that with the story.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My opinion is Dragonlance adaptation should be as cartoon teleserie. And I even I dare to add a little retcon. A new character appears, but he is only a watcher, he doesn't change the story at all. In the end of the first season this character and Fizban talk, and he warns he knows the other is a chronomancer. This answers his mission is to avoid alterations by others, and then Fizban warns "the damage is just done. It isn't the first time what happens".

 

[Chaosmancer]

My opinion is Dragonlance adaptation should be as cartoon teleserie. And I even I dare to add a little retcon. A new character appears, but he is only a watcher, he doesn't change the story at all. In the end of the first season this character and Fizban talk, and he warns he knows the other is a chronomancer. This answers his mission is to avoid alterations by others, and then Fizban warns "the damage is just done. It isn't the first time what happens".

That would be a clever work around, I think I like that.

 

[Bohandas]

Uh, what? What trademark are they mildly infringing upon here?

Elder Scrolls

 

[Parmandur]

Elder Scrolls

No, D&D Dragonborn predate Skyrim considerably.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Elder Scrolls

Double checking some dates,

Elder Scrolls started in 1994 it looks like.

Dragonlance, which created the Draconians which I always saw as some of the first Dragonborn designs, published their first novel in 1984, and likely existed before that.

So... Dragonborn are definitely not infringing on Elder Scrolls, at all. Elder Scrolls more likely took some inspiration from DnD.

 

[Parmandur]

Double checking some dates,

Elder Scrolls started in 1994 it looks like.

Dragonlance, which created the Draconians which I always saw as some of the first Dragonborn designs, published their first novel in 1984, and likely existed before that.

So... Dragonborn are definitely not infringing on Elder Scrolls, at all. Elder Scrolls more likely took some inspiration from DnD.

What ia being referred to is a major story element from the 2011 game Skyrim: the "Dragonborn" is a major figure of prophecy and song:


However, the 3E Race Dragonborn came out in 2006 in Races of the Dragon, and Dragonborn were them in the 4E PHB in 2008. All years before Skyrim was made.

 

[Bohandas]

I think you are over reacting. I think most people will be intelligent enough to understand that drow are primarily inspired by broadly "dark elf" types of fey from norse and other germanic and western euro mythology in general.

IIRC The dark elves in germanic mythology are largely a footnote and not meaningfully distinct from the dwarves in any case

 

[Bohandas]

Double checking some dates,

Elder Scrolls started in 1994 it looks like.

Dragonlance, which created the Draconians which I always saw as some of the first Dragonborn designs, published their first novel in 1984, and likely existed before that.

So... Dragonborn are definitely not infringing on Elder Scrolls, at all. Elder Scrolls more likely took some inspiration from DnD.

The draconians are distinct from the dragonborn (or if they're not its a retcon, because they were distinct back in the days of 3e)

 

[Chaosmancer]

The draconians are distinct from the dragonborn (or if they're not its a retcon, because they were distinct back in the days of 3e)

Still, humanoid dragons with strange powers, pretty close. And I don't know if Half-Dragons or other dragon people existed before the Draconians.

Besides, if Parmandur is right and you are referring to the human with dragon magic that is a title, as opposed to a race of dragon people... I think you are even further off of it being an infringement.

 

[Parmandur]

The draconians are distinct from the dragonborn (or if they're not its a retcon, because they were distinct back in the days of 3e)

But the Dragonborn were called Dragonborn in D&D in 2006 for Races of the Dragon, and in 2008 in the 4E PHB. D&D Dragonborn deeply predate Skyrim.

 

[Azzy]

but has anyone done analysis on why medieval Norse associated dark-skinned elves with evil?

To my knowledge, the dark elves of Scandnavian mythology weren't evel dark-skined. That's a Gygax thing as far as I know.