Willow?

[GreyLord]

I have the hardcopy of the Willow Sourcebook. Haven't looked at it in a while. I believe Mad Martigan was a level 12 fighter or something. It was odd as it used AD&D stats, but wasn't an AD&D book.

There was also a Willow RPG box, not sure if the sourcebook came from the RPG box or not. I never got the box when it was out, but managed to get the sourcebook later on.

Ah...my bad. It wasn't an RPG...but was....something.

The Willow Game

 

[haakon1]

I have the hardcopy of the Willow Sourcebook. Haven't looked at it in a while. I believe Mad Martigan was a level 12 fighter or something. It was odd as it used AD&D stats, but wasn't an AD&D book.

There was also a Willow RPG box, not sure if the sourcebook came from the RPG box or not. I never got the box when it was out, but managed to get the sourcebook later on.

Ah...my bad. It wasn't an RPG...but was....something.

The Willow Game

Apparently the Willow Game is a board game.

The Willow Sourcebook has “RPG” stats, but not officially for D&D or AD&D 1e or 2e. As it says, there were “a lot” of RPG’s in 1989. However, they are AD&D with the serial numbers only slightly rubbed down - Str, Int, Wis, Dex, Con, Chr, classes like Magic User and “Skill Levels” (Levels).

I’d say the characters are over leveled. Madmartigan (20th skill-level Fighter - “or 3 levels above the highest level fighter in your campaign” and Bevmorda is a 37th level MU.

And of course it doesn’t cover the 2022 series.

But it is all there is - good enough I think.

 

[haakon1]

For the 2022 series, off the top of my head, the core party, as of their entry to the series, might be:

Willow - 4th level Halfling Warlock (not many spells, raw magic power)

Elora Danon - 1st level Aasimar Warlock/1st level Expert (Cook)

Princess Kit - 1st level Human Fighter

Jade - 3rd level Human Fighter

Boorman - 2nd level Human Fighter/1st level Rogue

Graydon - 1st level Human Aristocrat

Edit to lower the levels after thinking more about it. Willow is a pretty low level world.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

But I'd gladly watch to Boorman Show if Disney wants to splurge on another fantasy epic.

Amar Chadha-Patel is an absolute rock star, and the man needs to be a male lead in his own show. If you want more of him he's in the Decameron (Netflix), which is a weird show (unsurprisingly, given what it's based on) but fun. Hopefully he's getting lined up for something - he's more charismatic, a better actor and frankly, handsome than the vast majority of male leads we get on shows, who are a milquetoast bunch.

Apparently, what happened:

<<The series was officially removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023, amidst a Disney+ and Hulu content-removal purge, as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative under Disney CEO Bob Iger.[6]>>

This is correct, yes.

It was very fashionable for a while between mid-2022 and mid-2023 to just start wildly deleting completed and often fairly-successful stuff from your streaming service's catalogue, so you didn't have to pay residuals etc. It started falling out of favour in 2024 particularly as it became clear that the savings per show were fairly tiny (but with a ridiculous enough purge you could make it look good on the balance sheet), and it's basically a trick you can only pull once, because future purges will inevitably be much, much smaller, and thus produce truly laughable savings. They particularly targeted a lot of recent shows, because the residuals (IIRC, and correct me if I'm wrong, Hollywood-adjacent people) are in a lot of cases higher in the first few years.

Audiences also didn't like the deletions, but I suspect that was seen as a pretty minor issue, because those audiences are so used to cancellations that a lot of people, especially outside of the geek-o-sphere, still haven't realized some of these shows are actually gone, and won't until they try and rewatch them at a later date.

 

[haakon1]

They particularly targeted a lot of recent shows, because the residuals (IIRC, and correct me if I'm wrong, Hollywood-adjacent people) are in a lot of cases higher in the first few years.

If it’s like video games, the usage falls a ton after the first year, but the tail goes on for years.

An actor I know still gets (a little) money from streaming from 1 episode she was in like a decade ago on a long gone show. But residuals mean people are watching, so you’d think the streamer would be happy about it.

Not in the industry, but you’d think the cost of having a show that you already paid to make, remain ready to stream would be very low. Probably accounting hijinks - delete some assets to increase revenue and profit to assets ratios?