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

[Dark Jezter]

If my campaign ever turned out like the D&D movie, I think that the star of the campaign would get mobbed by the other PCs for hogging the spotlight.

 

[Liquidsabre]

Heh, you guys have to admit though that bad movies really do tend to make great games!

 

[Guillaume]

About the adventure Wizards put out, you can find it here. It was written for the introductory boxed set, but it is adaptable.

 

[Felon]

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

That she was, but sadly her wardrobe actually played down her attractiveness.

Bad as the D&D movie was, I have to say I don't know that anyone can really do a D&D movie right and stay faithful to the game. I think Snails' death, for instance, would lose some oomph if Ridley responded by screaming "Noooooooo!! Damn you Damodar...do you know how expensive Raise Dead spells are?"

 

[Bagpuss]

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!

Rod of Dragon Control - A seriously bad idea.
An empire ruled by mages - An idea stolen Forgotten Realms, or countless other sources.
No clerics in that empire - An idea stolen Dragonlance's.
The Thieves' Run - An idea stolen from "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"

The other ideas are dubious at best.

 

[Chronosome]

Oh, yeah! The D&D Movie rocked! Elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins... All that swordfighting...wizard duels...epic war scenes...and all over a ring of invisibility!

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

>snip< The other ideas are dubious at best.

In this day in age I thought we had all agreed there was no new ideas only new and semi-new variations.

 

[Piratecat]

You guys are being too hard on it. After all, it was a 2nd edition movie. Want proof? At the end, when everyone runs out to attack Profion (in initiative order, I might add) and gets thrown against the wall, they just sit there instead of getting back up. Why? One minute combat rounds, baby!

Seriously, consider that, and it makes perfect sense.

 

[diaglo]

you didn't convince your wife to camp out to watch the thing.

i'll never live that down.

 

[Grazzt]

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

When it ended.

Agreed.