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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7538490" data-attributes="member: 59082">As I said in another thread, what I'd like to see (and think would be successful, if done well) is a two pronged approach:*A Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy of movies. Big budget spectacles. Serious with touches of humor, but not campy - and no in-jokes. This also allows you to avoid the "Drow Problem." *A Dungeons & Dragons TV series (Netflix?) that follows a group of adventurers through iconic adventures in the Forgotten Realms. This could be more campy, or at least Guardians of the Galaxy style humor. As for the Drow Problem, I don't think it really has to be a problem. Avoid black-face. Avoid only using African American actors. Use a variety of skin colors. Use a variety of actors in terms of race and ethnicity. Possibly go the CGI route (ala Avatar) to make them more inhuman (although I prefer against this as it takes away human qualities, subtleties of emotion, etc; again, like Avatar).If you want to touch the race thing (which I advise against), you could emphasize that they were royally screwed thousands of years ago by despotic light skinned elves and aren't really "evil," just "different." Maybe going with a pagan thing - that the new "Religion of Light" of Corellon Larethion sought to get rid of all elves od darker skin colors, and Lolth took them in and corrupted them a bit.</blockquote>