Dungeons And Dragons

Helm · Thu 20/04/2006 23:58:38

Quotebut I LOVED JarJar so sue me)

Sued. Sued. Sued. Sued. Sued. Sued. Sued. Sued.

lo_res_man · Fri 21/04/2006 00:52:51

Sue me too, JarJar added something Starwars doesn't have, a sense of humour.

Radiant · Fri 21/04/2006 02:06:33

Quote from: TerricMoonborn on Thu 20/04/2006 23:45:39They say WoTC Tried to stop the release of the movie BUT it is actually produced by them... or at least that is what it looked like...

No, it isn't. It was produced by New Line Cinema. WOTC doesn't have the capabilities to shoot a movie.

Also, consider yourself sued.

Kaelem Gaen · Fri 21/04/2006 03:41:03

Then why exactly did they even put their Sigil on the DVD... it says WoTC on the DVD case...

Oh right... the Fast play PDF on the DVD... Though yeah... the movie was bad... but I still watch it repeatedly.

I still say Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God... was WAY better then the Newline version. But that is cause You don't expect extreme quality from Sci-Fi

Las Naranjas · Fri 21/04/2006 07:29:29

Executive Producers.

A world away from actually producing. (sued)

Alynn · Fri 21/04/2006 07:40:25

I'm a player, a DM... and Beta Tested the MMO...

First off, just to get it off my chest, if you are an avid D&D player, do not play the MMO it is..... beyond horrible. They butchered the game... made clerics v undead weaker, multiplied the number of attacks... and in some cases trippled the amount of HP the enemies have. And the worst sin of all, the NPC's do not follow the same rules as the players...

I've been playing since I was 12, which means 16 years playing... I got my wife playing, she loves the game now too...

The first movie, was bad, but at the same time I did like it... probably because I spent most the movie figuring the Alignments and such of the characters... and the dwarf was fooking funny...

I watched some of the dragon god (D&D 2) but I was actually busy so didn't see all of it, or even follow any of it, but much of it seemed better than the first.

Nostradamus · Fri 21/04/2006 08:15:17

Some of you are getting too touchy talking about which games or books are "based on D&D or not", if there is a differnet world or a differnet set a rules it's still came from the same concept as D&D, same genre and that's what mattets. D&D started as a twist on Tolkien's fantasy world anyway. So basically all RPG be it PnP or computers, D&D or other rule sets, are all from the same root and the same concept, so let's not be picky.
So while for example Betryal at Krondor does not represent the rrules or the default world of D&D it's still the same concept it's based on.

Radiant · Fri 21/04/2006 08:37:31

Quote from: Alynn on Fri 21/04/2006 07:40:25
The first movie, was bad, but at the same time I did like it... probably because I spent most the movie figuring the Alignments and such of the characters... and the dwarf was fooking funny...

Hm, I remember that... they printed the stats for all the characters in Dragon Magazine the week before the movie. Me and some friends had read that before going to see it, and started commenting on that sarcastically (and loudly, I might add, and to the enjoyment of most other people in the cinema). I wonder why they even bothered doing that; it gave the film the feeling of some of those bad D&D novels (mind you, there are also several good ones, but I'm talking about those that read like a transcript from the PHB). The protagonists were all supposed to be level 3 or 4 or so and that pale badguy with the tentacles in his ears was around 10-11 and they beat him anyway. Stuff like that. Alignment? Mostly CG for the protags, CE for the rest; the guy who wrote the plot wouldn't know lawful if it hit him with a fifteen-pound mallet.

Helm · Fri 21/04/2006 11:21:54

Quote(and loudly, I might add, and to the enjoyment of most other people in the cinema).

The MST3k effect! Very rarely called for, very rarely welcome, very rarely funny, but when all circumstances converge, it may just save a movie from being a complete waste of money and time!

lo_res_man · Fri 21/04/2006 17:14:28

Though R. A. Salvatore, is a great fantasy author, one of my favourites, it is kind of funny how much it is based on D&D for example, minor characters are often introduced as Rouges or Fighters, and yes with capital letters, it seems kind of funny, ( to me)

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sat 22/04/2006 08:02:26

Rouge is what girly men or showgirls smear on their face. Rogues are people that rob you and generally make honest peoples' lives hell. If R.A. Salvatore cannot get this simple distinction then it's no wonder why he introduces characters by their class.

A Rogue stepped into the bar with a set of ornate daggers hanging from her belt and a seedy, devious grin spread across her face... ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!

Kaelem Gaen · Sat 22/04/2006 09:54:27

Now, if we're going by D&D novels the only ones I've read are the Forgotten Realms Books...
Infact, I'm re-reading the only book I've got for the "Avatar Series" Shadowdale. Though I've not read many D&D books I personally liked City of Ravens from the "The Cities" Series of Standalone Novels... I think I've also got Temple Hill, Jewel of Turmish and I thought I had the 4th one released... but I could be wrong I need to skim back... though I did lose The City of Ravens, and Jewel of Turmish.

Edit
My bad, I've got the first three Missing the first and third. Need to get ahold of The City of Splendor