The D&D Movie vs. The D&D Game

[demiurge1138]

Is it just me, or recently have there been a lot of "tributes" to the not-good-at-all D&D movie in D&D products? The Draconomicon for example, has the rod of dragon control. Bad enough, but when they say the rod comes in two varieties, the rods of gold dragon control (good and neutral dragons only) and red dragon control (neutral and evil dragons only), I feel really nervous.

Then, the [/I]Complete Warrior has not one, but two references to the Darth-Vader-esque sub-villain of the movie, Damodar. The hexblade core class, with its arcane spellcaster/melee combo, is pretty close to the Damodar character. And the Thayan knight illo has, most disturbingly, blue lipstick.

What's next? A module? Completely ineffectual beholders? A ruby the size of a fist? Or am I just crazy?

Demiurge out.

 

[MerricB]

Seriously, the D&D Movie had some good ideas in it. A rod of dragon control is a fine item (hearkening back to the dragonorbs). If it had been competently written, acted and directed, we would have enjoyed it a whole lot more.

But it wasn't, and we tend to ignore the good things about the movie.

Cheers!

 

[Acid_crash]

Name five good things about that movie...I can only count one...

When it ended.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Name five good things about that movie...I can only count one...

I can add another...

Never saw it.


I think the above additions to D&D is just fine the rods as mentioned are little different than the Dragonorbs of Krynn and the Hexblade is interesting enough.

 

[Starman]

Name five good things about that movie...I can only count one...

When it ended.

Which isn't so good when you realize that means it had a beginning.

Starman

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I dunnno, that female wizard was kinda cute, no?

 

[MerricB]

5 good ideas in the D&D movie plus a bonus good idea:

* Rods of Dragon Control
* A cursed spirit guarding the cursed rod of dragon control
* An empire ruled by mages
* No clerics in that empire
* Dust of Dimension Door (or whatever it was )
* The Thieves' Run

Those are good ideas. Alas for how it came out!

Seeing Tom Baker again was nice, though.

Cheers!

 

[Golem2176]

People have different tastes. I love the movie. I own the movie, the young adult book, the adult novel and the The Making of Dungeons & Dragons Movie. Let me say this: I am a die hard DnD fan. The only third edition book I do not own is Oriental Adventures. The reasoning is that it diverges from the feel of 'ordinary' game play. BTW: There already is a DnD Movie module. It was posted on Wizards website at the time the movie was in the theaters.

 

[Ottergame]

Watch the movie on DVD and watch the various cut scenes. Sadly just about all the cut stuff is more important story wise than what was left in the movie, and the original ending would have done a lot to redeem it.

If they would have not spent on their budget on special effects, and included a lot of the cut material and the original ending, it wouldn't have been a half bad movie.

 

[reapersaurus]

Ottergame - their effects house punked out on them and took their money without completing the shots for the film.
Kind of put them in a bad way, when they filmed the scroll scene needing a CGI effect to cover up the anatomy skeleton they plopped in to take up space.

And here's a few other good things about the movie:
* a dwarf reminiscing/joking about bearded women
* a talking skeleton
* a charismatic rogue
* mages pooling together and casting fireballs and ice walls
* a talking skeleton
* a full-on dragon battle
* showing a rogue using a skill (Use Magic Device)
* did I mention the talking skeleton?