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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 4089065" data-attributes="member: 326">Howdy DM_Rocco! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />thanks for your time.Its the Michael Bay Dungeons & Dragons Movie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Ergo it will make a fortune at the box office while a vocal fanboy minority deride it at every opportunity.Amber is actually dominated by the Vampire Priestess Drelzna. I was trying to think which items would make for a good visual spectacle, were quintessentially D&D and we had never seen in fantasy movies before.I was thinking it would not so much be a zoom in, but more of a 'getting the item in question in shot while a glint of light plays over the item in question.If you have seen the movie Roadhouse (with Patrick Swayze) there is a scene when some 'toughs' walk into the nightclub and one of them has a 1 inch (razor) blade jutting from the tip of his boot. A glint of light traces over the edge of the blade. Something like that.Irrelevant. I don't think the module played through as written would make for a great movie. But it has the name, it has the characters and it has the history - so its a useful springboard for the more epic adventure movie I want to see/tell.Were Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli not epic or near epic!? Personally I have become tired of the "we need to start these guys out at relatively low level" approach. Can we not get to see Balrogs, a herd of Oliphants, a flight of dragons and an army of trolls. Lets put some epic spectacle in there.Also I think you overestimate their power. They only banish a wounded Orcus (not kill him outright), they only subdue a Tarrasque by dropping the Wand of Orcus into its mouth and they only defeat Acererak indirectly (technically Orcus summons him for his failure). I already have a quodrilogy planned featuring more icons. The second, Queen of Spiders, involves Eclavdra (with Kas as her awakened bodyguard) and Lolth attempting to usher in a new Ice Age (to weaken the surface races enough for the drow to overwhelm them). The heroes are joined this time by a Half-Orc Paladin (w. Holy Avenger) and a Half-Elf Bard (w. Dancing Sword); who is really a half-drow.The third, Isle of Dread, involves Obmi (aided by Lum the Mad) using the Axe of the Dwarf Lords to awaken an army of constructs beneath a tropical island that is home to a Cult of Demogorgon (and involves a fight between a T-Rex shapechanged Druidess character and Demogorgon...in something of a nod to King Kong). New characters added to the group are a Ranger (we have to give him the force bow) and a female Druidess.The fourth I'll keep under wraps for now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Too slow for my tastes. Hit the audience hard from the start and gather pace from there. I want to see a D&D Blockbuster, not a Direct-to-DVD release.I enjoy constructive criticism, so thanks for that. As for needing an editor you are probably on to something there, although the synopsis is unfinished clearly.I do disagree with you on slowing things down or spreading it out into 3 movies. 'Proper Characterization' doesn't mean we cannot have great spectacle.</blockquote>

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