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

[Parmandur]

I’m saying the level of SF the achieve in some of the Star Wars TV shows is sufficient to pull off live action Eberron IMO.

How do the effects in Star Wars help with the major issues Eberron would face...? The world of Star Wars is much more mundane and achievable with practical effects than the High Fantasy of Eberron could be. And what vig special effects ts there are...are mostly blank techy things.

There is a reason the two biggest budget productions in history are the Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time...both of which are much, much less gonzp and lower magic Settings than Eberron. It just isn't feasible without some massive cutting edge innovation...which I don't see such a project getting.

 

[Zardnaar]

Two words - star wars

Two words commercial viability.

Things like Trek and Star Wars get budgets that size for a reason. Throw in Game of Thrones.

Larger budget doesn't really make a better show but would allow certain things for dome settings espicially Soellhammer and Darksun.

 

[CleverNickName]

Eberron is kind of all over the place, as a campaign setting. And I know that is the entire point: Kevin wanted to create a world that could support every possible kind of game theme that players could want: grimdark fantasy, gothic horror, heroic epic, gritty war, magic school, high fantasy, airships and wizards and dragons and robots and vampires and zombie pirate ninjas on dinosaurs...if you could imagine it, there was a place in Eberron that you could place it and it would make sense. It's the key strength of that setting.

Unfortunately, that's precisely why I don't think it would work as a TV show setting. The writers/producers can't capture the entirety of that campaign setting, with all of its different themes and flavors, into a single TV show and still have it resemble Eberron without it getting muddled beyond comprehension. It would be amazing if they could pull it off but it would be a very hard sell to any production studio....that's a lot of stuff to cram into that single pilot episode. Just to get it green-lit they would have to narrow it quite a bit, and that's the opposite of what Eberron is to me.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Two words commercial viability.

Things like Trek and Star Wars get budgets that size for a reason. Throw in Game of Thrones.

Larger budget doesn't really make a better show but would allow certain things for dome settings espicially Soellhammer and Darksun.

I’m speaking purely theoretically, not commercially

 

[Incenjucar]

Plenty of low-budget sci-fi and fantasy out there.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

How do the effects in Star Wars help with the major issues Eberron would face...? The world of Star Wars is much more mundane and achievable with practical effects than the High Fantasy of Eberron could be. And what vig special effects ts there are...are mostly blank techy things.

There is a reason the two biggest budget productions in history are the Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time...both of which are much, much less gonzp and lower magic Settings than Eberron. It just isn't feasible without some massive cutting edge innovation...which I don't see such a project getting.

I think perhaps you haven’t see all the Star Wars tv has had to offer and not considering the possible film noir approach you could take with Eberron.

 

[Voadam]

Icons is the wrong term then. It was the setting superpowers that you were supposed to have a relationship too. Maybe I’m thinking about a different game - it has been a long time since I looked at it

13th Age is the 4e-ish RPG where you have relationships with Icons.

Pathfinder is basically 3.75 (a modified 3.5) and has iconic characters as art the way 3e did.

 

[J.Quondam]

It's not really a well-developed "setting," but Radiant Citadel could be an neat premise for a TV show. It could play out episodically sort of like Star Trek TOS mashed with DS9, but with fantasy cultures and some nebulous threat lurking in the Ether. Or something.

 

[Parmandur]

I’m speaking purely theoretically, not commercially

I'm speaking commercially and practically, myself.

I think perhaps you haven’t see all the Star Wars tv has had to offer and not considering the possible film noir approach you could take with Eberron.

I can imagine theoretical ways to approach Eberron: unfortunately, I think for live action those fall into being either impractical or as @CleverNickName suggests, failing to really get Eberron across properly. Like, sure, you could do an Eberron show far away from any of the zany Dragonmark Houses and various organizations, amd stsyijf away from the Last War and it'saftermsth...but then what would make it an Eberron show?

And, no, I don't consider anything from Star Wars, Star Trek, or any other Sci-Fi property as being promising for a high magic Fantasy Setting. Look how many people complain about how The Rings of Power or The Wheel of Time look, and those have bigger budgets and more reaources than any Star Wars or Stsr Trek...and don't require a fraction of what Wberron done right would.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's not really a well-developed "setting," but Radiant Citadel could be an neat premise for a TV show. It could play out episodically sort of like Star Trek TOS mashed with DS9, but with fantasy cultures and some nebulous threat lurking in the Ether. Or something.

Yeah, Radiant Citadel has TOS fingerprints all over it. It'd be very easy to do fantasy Star Trek with it.