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Alien Rope Burn posted:
Sorry I didn't see this earlier! The tabletop space has gotten pretty big over the past few years; looks like there's a lot of pathfinder play, too, if you're into that. Sadly, the copy of Ogre at the board game lending room was missing this year. 
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So I haven't been working on my homebrew/D&D clone much, basically due to being busy with real-life stuff, but I think it's kinda at the point where I just need to playtest the drat thing and then bugfix/patch/etc. because I'm bored with theorycrafting up poo poo for it and then not following through with any changes. Anywho, I was hoping I could get some advice/suggestions for published adventures to convert over and use to run a PbP, so any tips would be much appreciated.  PMs work, and also the discussion thread for "The Next Project" is here. (System docs are in the OP)
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Feb 22, 2016 06:16
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You know how we sometimes talk about D&D movies and what level of metajokes about saving throws and rules and poo poo they should have? Well I watched Deadpool this weekend. Do it like that. Done. Rich beyond your wildest dreams.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:20
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Oh don't worry. Now that a movie with self-aware fourth wall breaking has succeeded at the box office, we're going to be drowning in movies that are trying to cash in on those ideas without any real understanding on why it worked for the next year or so.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:41
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I don't think a Deadpool-type approach for D&D would really work- playing to the D&D nerds isn't really the same as actually engaging with the aspects of D&D that make it unique. I think using a gaming group as a Princess Bride-esque framing device for a relatively straight fantasy story would probably be the way to go; you could mine a lot of comedy from the contrast between the ultra-badass PCs and the goonlords actually sitting at the table playing them.
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Feb 24, 2016 01:16
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My Lovely Horse posted:You know how we sometimes talk about D&D movies and what level of metajokes about saving throws and rules and poo poo they should have? Well I watched Deadpool this weekend. Do it like that. Done. Rich beyond your wildest dreams. 
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Feb 24, 2016 01:18
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I think using a gaming group as a Princess Bride-esque framing device for a relatively straight fantasy story would probably be the way to go; you could mine a lot of comedy from the contrast between the ultra-badass PCs and the goonlords actually sitting at the table playing them. I enjoy them, but the thing is that style of joke is pretty predicated on the viewer knowing how D&D works to begin with. It's very much laugh-with rather than laugh-at, but a mainstream D&D movie in that style would more than likely be laugh-at.
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Feb 24, 2016 01:33
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Just hire John Rogers, do live action Fell's Five.
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Feb 24, 2016 01:37
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Evil Mastermind posted:That's the idea behind Zombie Orpheus' "Gamers" series of movies. They alternate between the players at the table and their characters in the game world. And that's where the Deadpool similarities actually come in: you have to respect the hobby a little bit to make it work, like the Gamers movies do. It can't be a group of Cat Piss Men, it has to be a group of everymen that skew goony; I'm more picturing actors like Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Ellen Page, etc. as the players, whereas people like Scott Adkins, Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano, etc would play the actual PCs in the fantasy narrative. e: And I mean, Deadpool got over fine with mainstream audiences despite playing to the comics nerds hard at times. You can have some faith in your audience to be passingly familiar with D&D and what the basic gist is; nerd stuff has invaded regular culture pretty thoroughly by now. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 01:55
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Seth Rogen, Michael Cera But I hate those guys!
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Feb 24, 2016 02:00
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fool_of_sound posted:But I hate those guys! Any actor who's generally likable but can handle "nerdy" roles would be a good fit, those three were just the first that came to mind. The trick is to find the sweet spot between "believable D&D player" and "person the audience actually wants to see on screen."
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Feb 24, 2016 02:14
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Sorry Butt Lord, if the likes of Gamers and Zero Charisma are any proof, that idea should be put to death. Never again!
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Feb 24, 2016 02:17
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fool_of_sound posted:But I hate those guys! Dude imagine Seth Rogen rolling out a big blunt and playing videogames while eating doritos. He's so loving funny and relatable.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:18
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Dude imagine Seth Rogen rolling out a big blunt and playing videogames while eating doritos. He's so loving funny and relatable. Imagine me eating a giant bowl of broken glass and then eating the bowl itself
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Feb 24, 2016 02:19
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Lightning Lord posted:Imagine me eating a giant bowl of broken glass and then eating the bowl itself
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Feb 24, 2016 02:21
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*le me whilst watching the latest Hollywood flick with epic tabletop gamer injokes which also has some drat nice social commentary and criticizes the poo poo out of the cat pissers* drat this is so funny. Ba! Ha! Ha! Oh that Seth Rogen, he's soooo fat and jolly and beardy and likes to smoke marijuano. Ba! Ha! Ha! Anyway, pass me some more of the fluoride water please.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:25
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I honestly wouldn't see much mileage in a movie trying to communicate the "RPG Experience". A TV show might be able to do it properly since there's time to ease the audience into the ideas and concepts, but in general roleplaying is just too esoteric for a general audience and tabletop gamers are too small an audience to target a movie at. I would much rather have a solid, well-done fantasy movie which doesn't require any buy-in or knowledge of D&D than a cheesy in-and-out-of-character flick.
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Feb 24, 2016 03:07
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Funny actors role playing as a show? Isn't that... long form improv???
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Feb 24, 2016 03:25
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LeSquide posted:Sorry I didn't see this earlier! The tabletop space has gotten pretty big over the past few years; looks like there's a lot of pathfinder play, too, if you're into that. Sadly, the copy of Ogre at the board game lending room was missing this year. I'm not!... which is why I initially ignored it for like, the first two days. I'll have to bring a game or two next time. (Not Ogre. Ogre is heavy.)
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Feb 24, 2016 03:32
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http://collider.com/dungeons-and-dragons-movie-story/quote:This new Dungeons & Dragons will be a Guardians of the Galaxy-tone movie in a Tolkien-like universe. Because when you think of all the Hobbit movies and The Lord of the Rings, they have an earnestness to them, and to see something fun, a Raiders romp inside that world, I feel is something the audience has not seen before. quote:I think it will really be moving forward quickly, and I don’t anticipate it not getting greenlit this year, mostly because Warner Bros. has DC now, and LEGO, and the Harry Potter universe that’s being cultivated as their franchises. I believe they see Dungeons & Dragons as something that could be cultivated as a multi-universe movie where there will be spinoffs from the first movie being in Forgotten Realms and subsequent movies being in different worlds. quote:Lee also revealed that the movie will take place entirely in the realm rather than having people transported from our world into the realm. He also said that the Yawning Portal will feature prominently and “it’s going to be one of people’s favorite set pieces.”
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Feb 24, 2016 03:36
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That certainly doesn't sound awful. But given the track record of D&D movies I'll reserve any excitement.
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Feb 24, 2016 03:43
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With special guest star, Vin Diesel as Drizzt! They're more or less riding the coattails of the warcraft movie, huh?
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Feb 24, 2016 03:49
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the Yawning Portal is my mouth when I'm in the audience
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Feb 24, 2016 07:16
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Ominous Jazz posted:With special guest star, Vin Diesel as Drizzt! If it comes out before WoW that pretty much is going to seal it as the Olympus Has Fallen to Blizzard's White House Down.
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Feb 24, 2016 07:23
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They really shouldn't be using Forgotten Realms as the setting for this, it's the single most boring D&D setting(well at least the main portion of it is), Greyhawk or Mystara would make better choices
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Feb 24, 2016 07:54
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Forgotten Realms is "the" D&D setting and the only setting with any kind of support or cross-platform tie-ins as of 5e.
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Feb 24, 2016 07:59
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Cloud Atlas but with dnd settings. I just want dark sun 
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Feb 24, 2016 08:21
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Ominous Jazz posted:Cloud Atlas but with dnd settings. Dark Sun with Vin diesel, The Rock, Tywin Lanninster with Aria and Peter Dinklage as Ringing Mountain halfings.
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drrockso20 posted:They really shouldn't be using Forgotten Realms as the setting for this, it's the single most boring D&D setting(well at least the main portion of it is), Greyhawk or Mystara would make better choices How's that? Superficially they're all nearly identical quasi-medieval fantasy worlds and a movie is only going to have the time to cover things superficially. No one's going to the Temple of the Frog or anything. Largely it's just going to determine if someone shouts "By Lathander!" instead of "By Pelor!". Helical Nightmares posted:Dark Sun with Vin diesel, The Rock, Tywin Lanninster with Aria and Peter Dinklage as Ringing Mountain halfings. Well, needless to say, gently caress Yeah.
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Feb 24, 2016 10:09
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My Lovely Horse posted:the Yawning Portal is my mouth when I'm in the audience
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oriongates posted:How's that? Superficially they're all nearly identical quasi-medieval fantasy worlds and a movie is only going to have the time to cover things superficially. No one's going to the Temple of the Frog or anything. Largely it's just going to determine if someone shouts "By Lathander!" instead of "By Pelor!". As I pointed out in the TG Industry thread, Mystara means there's a chance of tigermen samurai who live on the invisible moon and ride flying sabretooths being involved. Or elf gauchos. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Mecha Gojira posted:Forgotten Realms is "the" D&D setting and the only setting with any kind of support or cross-platform tie-ins as of 5e. Which is a huge mistake on WOTC side of things(I've never understood how the Realms have any popularity at all, it's completely bland, and so bloated with ultra powerful NPCS that it just seems like a pain in the rear end to have any meaningful adventures, especially if you're starting from a low level) oriongates posted:How's that? Superficially they're all nearly identical quasi-medieval fantasy worlds and a movie is only going to have the time to cover things superficially. No one's going to the Temple of the Frog or anything. Largely it's just going to determine if someone shouts "By Lathander!" instead of "By Pelor!". Not really, both Greyhawk and Mystara have a lot that's unique to them, while I can't think of anything unique to the main region of the Realms, it's the single most white bread fantasy setting I can think of that's not a parody or satire(and even those tend to stand out more)
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Feb 24, 2016 10:34
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Is Forgotten Realms the one with dozens of gods?
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is Forgotten Realms the one with dozens of gods? Every D&D setting but Dark Sun has dozens of gods. Forgotten Realms is known for meddling gods though, and the Avatar Crisis where they fell from the Heavens and proceeded to punch each other out as part of the transition from 1e rules to 2e (because that is necessary)
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Feb 24, 2016 12:04
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Forgotten realms, more to the point, is the one with more than one NYT Bestseller in the novel line, which is probably why they're pinning their hopes on it for name recognition.
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Feb 24, 2016 12:05
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An Eberron D&D movie would be pretty sweet, if only for 1. Medieval noir warforged private investigator having sweet fistfights on top of a lightning train 2. D&D nerds literally turning themselves inside out in rag at the most mainstream presentation of D&D being Eberron
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Feb 24, 2016 13:02
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MikeCrotch posted:An Eberron D&D movie would be pretty sweet, if only for 
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Feb 24, 2016 13:10
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MikeCrotch posted:2. D&D nerds literally turning themselves inside out in rag at the most mainstream presentation of D&D being Fixed for more nerdrage 
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Feb 24, 2016 13:14
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We'll never get a Dark Sun movie anyway so it's silly talking about it and if we did, it would suck so goddamn bad and ruin the setting Dark Sun rules so much though
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Mad Max: Dark Sun
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