Mark CMG said:This level of quality (or a little better) was what I had expected/hoped to see from the first movie, so I'm not disappointed. I'd also hoped that we'd be seeing a regular release schedule of D&D movies, maybe once every couple of years. It doesn't concern me whether they are released through theatres or not, just as long as they do what they can to make enough revenue to support continuing the franchise. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Rel said:It probably won't ever happen, but I think that the ideal medium for filmed D&D entertainment would be a weekly, 1-hour TV series that follows a starting party of 1st level characters as they rise through the levels to attain greater power, wealth and importance. It would (hopefully) solve a major weakness in the films, which is that I feel no connection or empathy for the characters. It could be liberally sprinkled with D&Disms and they could also make a companion "Adventure Path" of books to release to let DM's and players try their hand at some of the adventures the characters on the show partake in.
DrkLrdK said:That actually sounds like a good idea, especially the getting to know the main characters, which works alot better in the TV medium. The 'Adventure Path' serise of books that would follow the shows, would also be a killer idea. But, like you said, probably won't ever happen.
Mark CMG said:That might be so if your conception of the "ideal medium" includes the same characters being used from tale to tale, and having the adventures progressively leveled. I prefer seeing new groups each time with out-of-sequence adventures. I'm happy with a high-level adventure one year followed by a low-level adventure with totally different characters a couple years later, followed by yet another group in a medium-level adventure. I'm not interested in seeing Herc an Iolaus , or Xena and Gabby, wandering from town to town, finding love and adventure around each bend. Not that that was bad but it's been done. I prefer the longer form stories with a larger variety of characters.
Menexenus said:And I agree with those who have said that the ideal mass-media forum for D&D would be a weekly TV series where you can follow the exploits of an adventuring party and really begin to care about them (ala Firefly). Xena and Hercules show that this model isn't completely outside the realm of reality/marketability.
Hand of Evil said:Clevage, could have had more clevage.