D&D General Which D&D World Would Make the Best TV Show

[CleverNickName]

"The Known World" is my personal favorite, but that's not what the poll is asking.

Dragonlance would make the better TV show, even though it's not my favorite setting. It's not even in my top three.

 

[jerryrice4949]

Dragonlance by a mile. It would be the easiest to adapt to a show that would have broad enough interest to capture an audience outside of RPG fans. And the problematic elements such as the Gully Dwarves are easily left out without impacting the story or integrity of the world.

 

[jerryrice4949]

"The Known World" is my personal favorite, but that's not what the poll is asking.

Dragonlance would make the better TV show, even though it's not my favorite setting. It's not even in my top three.

My thinking as well. What would adapt well to tv isn’t necessarily my favorite setting.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Ravenloft could be the best option for no-D&D fandom audience. Something style serie "From".

Birthright should show it is not only a Game of Thrones ripp-off.

Maybe a Gamma World cartoon with a spirit of 80's Saturday Morning.

Planescape could an adult animated comedy style Rick&Morty or Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Dark Sun could be an adult cartoon style "Primal". But then we should choose about what happens with the metaplot of the novels.

Savage Coast/Red Steel could be something style "Pirates of the Caribean".

I suspect Spelljammer was updated with the goal selling no-generic-fantasy merchandising.

I hope the return of Greyhawk after Vecna's event.

Forgotten Realms is the blueyed girl of WotC but here risker bets arent so allowed.

 

[jmartkdr2]

One advantage of Dragonlance is that the basics are pretty basic in today's fantasy landscape: you don't need to explain what elves or dwarves or dragons or clerics are - you might need to introduce kender as a concept but the rest is common enough to just start using.

The nuance can come later - ie gully dwarves need a little explaining, but you can start with "they're dwarves but..."

Also DL is known for it's characters, who are mostly really good characters. You're adapting a book rather than writing a story with the added burden of explaining the setting.

On the other hand - most of this applies to Forgotten Realms as well, just not as much.

 

[Voadam]

Ravenloft would be interesting.

The old setting would work well with going around dealing with a darklord recurring theme/plot and one offs dealing with monster of the week investigations. A season could even conclude with a darklord confrontation and the next one start up with a connected different darklord as the new central theme/antagonist since so many have interdomain connections and rivalries and plots.

I doubt they would dip into old edition stuff though that does not really tie into the current edition reboot.

The 5e version with each realm being their own focused and isolated dreamscape I am not so sure on. Instead of going around the old edition core it would work better as being in one domain, which could work, but is a lot more limiting. A one off movie/special could work great though.

 

[Parmandur]

Dragonlance, hands down. Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk could fit the bill with some effort, but Dragonlance is probably better suited for the basis of a modern big budget TV show than it is for an RPG campaign.

 

[Ondath]

Spelljammer!

Wildspace, the final frontier... These are the voyages of the spelljammer Venture. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new crystal spheres. To seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no humanoid has gone before!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Eberron by a wide margin. Like…a huge margin.

Followed by Dragonlance and then FR.

But Eberron is immediately understandable as a world on the verge of Industrial Revolution, with knights and dragons. It has Houses, each with its own Dragonmark, Arms, and even a mascot critter. It has brooding sad boy dad vampire king/not king that doesn’t want war and a shining beautiful Queen who does.

Further the monsters can be the good guys just as easily as the bad guys, and that’s literally the zeitgeist right now.

Oh and people can ship the cute elf character with the burly Minotaur character. It’s like Dragon Age with more types of stories you can tell.

 

[bedir than]

With the success of Shadow & Bone and Carnival Row I think they'd have to get to work on Eberron. Both of those other shows ended before the audience wanted it and those audiences would seek similar not-quite-Victorian noir setting