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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliburn101" data-source="post: 7698110" data-attributes="member: 6802178">The trick, actually, is making the film successful - not confusing round the table out-of-character banter with what the characters were doing, or characterising the entire hobby with one's recollections of how casual games are played for a laugh.People who don't game will not 'get it', and there are not enough gamers who will appreciate that kind of approach to make 10% of their money back if they make it with decent effects.All the D&D movies so far have fallen into that trap to one extent or another, and they have all bombed.Game of Thrones however is a worldwide success. Mythica, for an indie movies series that is very 'D&D' is also a great success considering the very small budget. Neither of these two live action expressions of D&D indulge in adolescent one-liners, B-movie antics or modern cross-culture quips. They treat the characters and a worlds they are set in as serious, 'could credibly exist' concerns.This is the secret of their success - they have enough 'real world' touchstone material to resonate with wider audiences.As far as the rest is concerned - having been a gamer since the first roleplay material became available, I don't need to use the word 'probably' to know what it was like then, at any time in between or indeed, now.So the only 'bad news' I can see is that there may be more than one person who thinks a casual 'popcorn and bubblegum' approach to the movies will do it's chances any good at all.It hasn't before, and it won't do now.</blockquote>

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