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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6650010" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah, you raise a good point--D&D, by its nature, cannot have a single narrative or story, because it's (theoretically, anyway) supposed to be an engine that powers a story, whatever story the DM wants to tell. Whether that story is The Epic Of <Our PCs>, or How To Killinate Everything: from Aboleths to Zombies, or It's Their World, You Just Play In It, the game acts as some kind of platform or engine for each individual group's desired *thing.*Dark Sun, I feel, would be an excellent choice for a movie franchise. It's a dystopian world, ripe for change, perfect for gruff anti-heroes and classic Conan-esque "sword & sandal" storytelling. Heck, you could probably do worse than just adapting the "Prism Pentad" (or whatever it's called) to the silver screen. And if those sell well, branch out further: there's still a market for "monster of the night" films as illustrated by the Underworld series, so Ravenloft could work; a freewheeling, pulpy action-magic-adventure flick in Eberron could be plenty fun; and Dragonlance has scads of stories that could be told, even playing with ideas like having Raistlin as a villain protagonist or something.5e may have tried to go back to its roots, but it seems like the people managing the whole shebang have forgotten that D&D, the game, has always been a means to some other end, and not an end in itself.</blockquote>