MockingBird
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Can someone please explain how Drows being villains could be politically incorrect? It's a fantasy race with no tie to the real world! Who will be offended and why?
If the drows as villains may be politically incorrect then they are replaced with the cyberpapacy from TORG, or the Castillan inquisitors from 7th Sea.
I suspect Vecna will be a powerful lich, not a deity, in the movie.
It's a movie, it will ignore "canon" (which doesn't exist anyway).
And the Eye of Vecna was in the 1st edition DMG, and it didn't have any kind of "Greyhawk Only" flag on it.
Can someone please explain how Drows being villains could be politically incorrect? It's a fantasy race with no tie to the real world! Who will be offended and why?
Or just make them violet (or maybe blue like the Antifairies from Fairly Oddparents)
A much more blue hue, added with an aristocratic noble accent, would do a lot to carve a path to keep drow villainous without running afoul of modern sensibilities.
Eh, it’s only a lot if they actually try to explain it all.I agree that this all seems a bit ... much. I'd still withhold judgement until the movie is actually released but there are so many more grounded stories that could be told.
The last thing I was is a movie that cares about mimicking a dnd campaign.I said this before in a thread about a D&D movie...a 10 episode TV show would be better to showcase what D&D is. Like any good campaign, start small. Save the village from raiders or something. Build up to heroes that do something larger by ep 10.
Movies want to be epic. There is too much temptation to jump into gods and god like beings before the audience can possibly gain any appreciation for who anyone is or why they are important.
Eh, it’s only a lot if they actually try to explain it all.
Nothing wrong with mentioning and touching on elements of a world and leaving them at that.
Leave people googling, as long as they don’t have to google to understand the actual plot.
What a Dragonborn is. Don't dumb down to the point where you change the concept.
I think they just ought to drop the mildly trademark infringing dragonborn altogether
"We'll also note that the new Dungeons & Dragons movie seems to be much more willing to incorporate lore from the source material, which was a major reason the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie flopped among D&D fans."
I've never heard that cited as a reason by anyone I know, but I guess?
Can someone please explain how Drows being villains could be politically incorrect? It's a fantasy race with no tie to the real world! Who will be offended and why?
1e Monster Manual said:Description: Dwarves are typically deep tan to light brown of skin, with ruddy cheeks and bright eyes (almost never blue). Their hair is brown, black, or grey.
I think they just ought to drop the mildly trademark infringing dragonborn altogether
For noobs, all they need to know for the sake of the movie is that Tyr is God of Justice, Torm is God of Duty, and Ilmater is God of Mercy and suffering, and that they dwell in the Plane of Mount Celestia.
That Vecna is an evil lich who became a God on another world and whose eye is a powerful evil magic item that replaces the users eye.
What a Dragonborn is. Don't dumb down to the point where you change the concept.
For noobs, all they need to know for the sake of the movie is that Tyr is God of Justice, Torm is God of Duty, and Ilmater is God of Mercy and suffering, and that they dwell in the Plane of Mount Celestia.
That Vecna is an evil lich who became a God on another world and whose eye is a powerful evil magic item that replaces the users eye.
What a Dragonborn is. Don't dumb down to the point where you change the concept.
What the leader of the order of knights is, a shape shifting good dragon.
And who and what the characters are. That should be too hard to weave that in the plot.
The magic flaming sword is pretty self explanatory.
Anyways does anyone else think the mask warrior knight Lady might be a Scourge Aasimar?
I mean she is either horribly scarred, which I doubt is the case, or an outlaw which does not fit with a knight order like this, or what fits an order like this like a glove, a Scourge Aasimar many of whom like to wear masks.
I’d probably not even bother explaining Mount Celestia, honestly. Why bother?
Why on earth is any of that relevant or necessary?
Is there really any need to bring another world into it? I don't think so. I mean, I really hate how FR steals all the things from other settings, but in a movie, none of that matters. Just like you can't point at a back issue of Captain America and expect it to hold any water in the Marvel cinematic universe, I don't think it's fair to expect slavish devotion to the in-game canon in a D&D movie.
...yet another fantasy race? What's to dumb down?
I guess I just don't see the point in the above- it's fine to handwave it, I think. Keep it simple for the uninitiated. Make clear that this is a fantasy world with lots of races, and boom, you're pretty much good.
Just don't treat beholders like guard dogs that are exceptionally stupid again, and you're already beating the first D&D movie by a mile.
The Forgotten Realms has even less of an established canon than Marvel, as much as it pains me to admit it.The Forgotten Realms isn't Marvel.
And at least who Tyr, Torm, and Ilmater at least on a basic are matters to who the Knight are. Why put something in a setting and just completely ignore the basic details that are connect to your plotline?
Why on earth is any of that relevant or necessary?
Is there really any need to bring another world into it? I don't think so. I mean, I really hate how FR steals all the things from other settings, but in a movie, none of that matters. Just like you can't point at a back issue of Captain America and expect it to hold any water in the Marvel cinematic universe, I don't think it's fair to expect slavish devotion to the in-game canon in a D&D movie.
...yet another fantasy race? What's to dumb down?
I guess I just don't see the point in the above- it's fine to handwave it, I think. Keep it simple for the uninitiated. Make clear that this is a fantasy world with lots of races, and boom, you're pretty much good.
Just don't treat beholders like guard dogs that are exceptionally stupid again, and you're already beating the first D&D movie by a mile.