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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 910692" data-attributes="member: 3649">Recognizable humanoid races. I want to see goblins, kobolds, orcs, bugbears. Your art department cannot come up with something cooler. Don't try; it'll only look stupid.I want to see a recognizable uniquely D&D monster. Mind flayer is an excellent choice, or one of the demon types. Again, resist the tempation to screw with it too much. You'll only fail.I wanna see: Fighter, Fighter/Rogue, Mage, Cleric. Four people is enough to keep track of. One should be non-human or part human. I want a magic-casting character in the party that actually follows at least some of the rules: gestures, incantation, material component. I want to see some recognizable but 'uniquely' D&D spells: Magic Missle, Sleep, Haste, Spider-climb, Jump, Read Magic, Tongues, etc. I want to see the mage as a useful full-time party member. Not a bumbler, or absent-minded. I want the mage to be male: with the exception of the guy in Dragonslayer and Gandalf, almost all spell-weilding people in movies are female. I want the woman in the party to have a big damn sword or mace and chop/crush peoples heads with it. I don't want to see a spell 'misfire' for comic effect unless the caster is an apprentice, and even then not more than once. I want to see the party take into account magic when they make plans. I want to see a cast spell fail on some people and not on others. Let the audience know that a spell is not a deus ex machina. It can simply not work. I want to see heroes wounded, even almost to death, then be fine after healing prayers are used. I want to see one of the casters run out of spells. I want to see a potion or scroll being used. I want at least a couple of magic items seen; a sword and a ring would be nice. They should not in any way overshadow what the PCs do, though.I don't want magic treated as something these people never see. It's a major part of their world and they should treat it as such. Same thing with monsters. I want to see undead turned or destroyed by a strongly-presented holy symbol. I want to see the cleric beseech his god for his spells in the morning. Don't be afraid you'll tick people off. The people that will be offended by this are not coming to see it anyway.I want to see characters in some kind of armor. Even the women. Especially the women. I don't care that it may hide part of your face; buck up and play the part, you're not here to pad your resume by jumping on the Tolkien bandwagon.If you are not the rogue, you do not know Kung-Fu. You punch people or gut them with a sword. Let the rogue do all the fancy kicking, running up walls, wuxia-stuff, etc. I also want to see him dodge out of the way of something that gets the rest of the party.If you are the mage, you do know how to fight. You are also not a fat roly-poly bookworm that's scared of his own shadow. You command the single greatest power on the planet. Act like it. Tolkien is good. Tolkien is a god. Peter Jackson is a god. You are likely neither. Don't deliberately imitate any of the movies if you know what's good for you or you will quietly disappear in the night as a lesson to others. A single in-joke reference may be allowed, especially if it deals with dwarf tossing.I want to see them go into a ruin, kill something, and take its stuff.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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