D&D General Which Campaign or Adventure Would You Adapt To Prestige Television?

[mamba]

Since you excluded ones that have corresponding novels, I'd go with Tomb of Annihilation, plenty of jungle locations, some tomb crawling and some 'lost earth' stuff all thrown into the mix

 

[renbot]

Is that a campaign length adventure?

Oh damn. No. Never mind. It would be an episode or three.

 

[cimbrog]

B10, Night's Dark Terror. Starts small and then gets big and fantastical. Lots of cool set pieces, varied locations and potentially memorable characters.

 

[Vael]

If there is a Paizo version of this thread I’m so in.

Funny, with Age of Worms mentioned, I'd go with Paizo's other adventure path for 3.5 ... Savage Tide. Sure, it gets tricky with the ships and Isle of Dread, and a Demogorgon that isn't the Stranger Things Demogorgons ... but it's swashbuckly, the first adventure is a pretty tight political thriller. If you made Lavinia the protagonist instead of the party's patron ... there's promise there.

 

[Composer99]

I'd put in a vote for Tyranny of Dragons, because Tiamat would look amazing. Although with all the dragons it might be too much to make it live-action.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Just for fun:

You are put in charge of adapting an existing campaign length adventure to prestige television for WotC. It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft. Note that the "short" campaigns and anthologies are okay too. Assume you have a very good TV budget, but not infinite resources, and the requirement is that it is live action. Additonal Difficulty: it cannot be a campaign that also has a novel series, so no Dragonlance or Time of Troubles.

Which campaign do you choose to adapt to prestige television? If you care to do some fan casting, go ahead.

For my part, I would vote Avernus except it would require way too high a budget to do it justice. So instead I would probably go with Dragonheist: it has a cool theme, lots of potential for thrills, but is not so expansive as to blow the budget. I would cast Walter Goggins as the lead, in the form of a down on his luck rogue who owes money to Xanathar.

If GoT taught us anything it is: dragons sell. Go with the “Rise of Tiamat.”

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

If there is a Paizo version of this thread I’m so in.

Doesn’t the OP say and campaign for any edition? So please nominate a Paizo adventure!

 

[Zardnaar]

Savage Tide could be interesting. Early on brother betrays sister. Potential romance plot. Good characters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would rather see something more 'traditional' like Phandelvar or mix it with Icespire to include more ideas. The bigger more fantastic elements would turn me off. Kids like it though.

You really have a lot of different things you need to balance to do a D&D TV show. You need it to look "traditional" enough to be recognisably D&D, when D&D is often at it's best when it is being outlandish. And the traditional everyone running round in the local woods wearing renfaire outfits can easily end up looking cheep and cheesy on TV.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

SEASON 1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh

It would be very slow paced if you stretched Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh over a whole season. It would be like stretching a Scooby Doo episode over ten hours.

The three modules together could make a season.