Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:58:43 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: {ruetir] The new Dungeons & Dragons series is canceled by Paramount+ Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:58:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 46 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-qnRjRYRCpyP3cTkcM1L0Mb1OCUHdT2SjqjxekZHrGkr4x3qthLq1iwoXj4qvtMsGQKl/tRvlTbp5LWj!3THI1Qb0YzJydbv0TiluohxmeI3DwVo7gFJYs5/EVyUt/lOgtOS7bft1FEkgCq9wZCVmdV8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3322 On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 21:34:43 +0200, Kyonshi wrote: >Does anyone still know what the heck is going on with streaming services? > >Source: >https://www.ruetir.com/2024/06/01/the-new-dungeons-dragons-series-is-canceled-by-paramount/ > >The new Dungeons & Dragons series is canceled by Paramount+ > >Paramount+ rethinks its strategy after the changes in plans, but with >the intention of renewing the Dungeons & Dragons project Well, no surprise here after the lackluster response to the D&D movie. I've said it before, and I'm saying it again: Dungeons & Dragons is not an exciting license on which to base a television or movie franchise. The GAME is exciting. The various IPs -Ravenloft, Baldurs Gate, Drizzt DuOrden, Spelljammer- are all great. But D&D is a lousy license that alone can't carry a movie. A D&D movie (or TV show) without those associated worlds is... well, it's just dull fantasy adventure with some license-specific monsters. Nobody is going to go to see the D&D movie /because/ the wizard uses "Bigby's Grasping Hand" or so they can see a rust monster. They'd go to see a D&D movie because they want to see Raistlin or Elminster or Drizzt. But -for whatever reason- we never get movies that use those intellectual properties. Whether its because Hollywood doesn't want to be bound to somebody elses world-building, or because Hasbro isn't licensing anything but the D&D branding, I don't know. And, honestly, I'm not even sure that /with/ the characters and settings associated with D&D you'd get a good movie. What makes for a good game setting doesn't necessarily translate into a good cinematic experience. The D&D world is weird; a melange of ideas that is designed for DMs to pick-and-choose to make their own exciting adventures. Its character classes are unrealistic, designed for game balance (and, at least in the older editions, for team-building) over realism. It has little structure and coherence. It's fun for a game. It's not really great for narrative. I don't think it's surprising that D&D and Hollywood have never really come out with a hit product based on the brand. It is surprising that it took Hollywood to realize it.