Monday, May 3, 2021

It has begun!The Dungeons and Dragons movie should be kicking off a D&D movie universe, like...

It has begun!

The Dungeons and Dragons movie should be kicking off a D&D movie universe, like ‘The LEGO Movie’ meets the MCU. A few movies starting off in the Forgotten Realms (high fantasy), intermixed with Eberron (steam punk), some Ravenloft (gothic horror), moving into Planescape (science/fantasy) and merging with glipses of other realms and crossovers (Stranger Things, My Little Pony, etc)


Include game tropes and clichés

- nod to earlier editions (different magic systems, classes, edition wars)

- characters meet in a tavern, hired to kill rats in the cellar

- super optimized character with barebone backstory

- weak character with extensive backstory

- character actually raised by wolves

- between campaigns, multiple similar characters whose name only differ by one letter, or different characters with the same name of lineage

- character killed due to meta knowledge

- character dying, replaced by prisoner or other shortly afterwards

- character replaced due schedule conflit with real-life actor

- characters stumped by easy puzzle, brute-force their way past

- TPK caused by poor party decision, party awaken as prisoners

- NPC party of murderhobos, getting their comeuppance

- underestimated kobolds

- nice orcs

- luck feat saving the day

- inspiration point being gained (subtly) and used flamboyantly

- same magic shop mysteriously appears and disappears wherever the party goes

- bard trying to seduce the dragon, or the other way around (nod to Shrek?)

- rogue for whom no door or chest is ever locked, although some are mimics

- rogue named Rouge

- wizard always looking to restock their inks, scrolls and components (nod to CR’s Caleb, and every wizard)

- accidental demonstration of what happens when a bag of holding is dropped in a portable hole, with the contents lost in the Astral plane appearing briefly in foreground in a later movie, as characters are passing through in the background

- iconic monsters… tweaked to ensure surprise!

- obscure monsters

- iconic magic items

- obscure magic items

- magic item resizing or reskinning to match user

- iconic mundane items (10-foot pole, caltrops, climbing gear (or lack thereof), etc. )

- obscure mundane items (electrum pieces)

- nod to (jab at) chainmail bikini

- female armor that has pockets

- combat wheelchair

- character with gaming set (dice) proficiency has way too many dice and a dice jail; perhaps their name is some variation or 'Laura’

- nods to some other major D&D streams

- dungeons’ ecology making no sense at all, or, refreshingly, making complete sense

- nod to unspoken actions (bathroom use, changing, etc.)

- shopping session

- nod to difficulty of getting a group together to play

- and more!


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