Seriously this is like the easiest property to make stuff out.
>get some friends to go through a campaign.
>have someone jot down the characters, setting, and major story beats.
>get a halfway decent artist/animator to bring it to life.
>rinse and repeat.
Hell you could use all the different variations of the game if you don’t like high fantasy, and just bring in different people if a revolving door cast.
Most campaigns are either nonsensical shitfests full of stale jokes and tropes or die before making any significant progress. D&D is only entertaining if it's scripted or if you're actually part of the game.
While D&D is more iconic, Mutants and Masterminds were always my Tabletop game of choice.
The IDW comics were fucking great. Every main character was one or two positive traits away from being a murderhobo.
But yeah, even with the comics, 80s cartoon, and direct-to-video releases there are ironically more crossovers with Yea Forums. Might be competitive if you include webcomics.
M&M was a bit too easy to break by accident. Even though the book implied power level 5 was street-level, our first group had a guy who could sense any living thing within a kilometer and attack it, a guy who could kill everyone in a given area instantly if each is within 15 feet of another, and a guy who could teleport people into the Sun. No one had played the system before and understood how much this broke combat for everyone forever.
>>have someone jot down the characters, setting, and major story beats.
>>get a halfway decent artist/animator to bring it to life.
You are a sweet retard
Anyone still have that Adventure Time D&D conversion some fans made?
Expect more D&D related cartoons in the near future
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Sounds like you play with shitty DMs with no vision or sense of storycraft, who are on some level embarrassed about what they're doing
That is 90% of d&d players. Better ones moved on to better games.
Nah, but Nethack needs a shorts series
One of these days somebody will make a show that everybody loves and is full of 'deepest lore', great characters, and more, and it will be revealed that it's all from some homebrew tabletop game the creators do every thursday.
Gods above I miss Fell's Five.
I dug the various D&D series that DC put out back in the day.
Like half of fantasy novels are that
Well, there's the DIE comic, but it's all postmodern and shit.
I’m starting to learn the rules so I can DM my Golden Age campaign.
Still convinced it’s going to be massively disappointing.
God I wanna make a D&D comic so bad bros but I still have too much shit to learn.
Almost certainly, but the critrole crowd will eat it up, ensuring success
It is essentially what fantasy/medieval setting is for, no?
IIRC the Dungeons and Dragons rights a clusterfuck split between multiple media formats with different majority and minority stakeholders.
A good chunk of fantasy anime and manga too.
ya, Record of the Lodess War was one of the first anime's I watched. Based on a campaign, I loved the show and these tits.
I think the Dragon Lance book series was a novelization of someone's campaign.
Right players and right DM D&D can be a great story generator.
There really ought to be m8. Why somebody hasn't turned Critical Role into a cartoon is beyond me. The stories are there, the actors are already there. Half the neccesary jokes are already there.
And look at me being behind the bloody times as usual.
We ALMOST got something like that.
And it got ruined by the rancid mindset of California.
The early 90s comics were great, fun AD&D adventures
>there are ironically more crossovers with Yea Forums
Came here to post this.
And they still get orcs and kobolds better, often, too.
>progress
Episodic adventures is better anyway.
I understand you are misled by capes; but normal comic creators have imaginations of their own.
Something like that almost happened:
>Chaos Dragon is based on the role-playing fiction project Red Dragon, a story which was created by five notable writers: Gen Urobuchi, Kinoko Nasu, Izuki Kogyoku, Ryōgo Narita, and Simadoriru (member of the Stripe Pattern doujin circle). The results of their tabletop role-playing game sessions over six days created material for a seven-volume light novel series.
I say almost because the show was bottom-of-the-barrel terrible.
I think Lodess War gets a bit more awkward when you remember ALL the female party members (each who have a romantic subplot) were roleplayed by dudes.
Sheesh
I think I recognize a name or two. What else did you expect besides bottom-of-the-barrel?
It is surprisingly hard to make a good fantasy comic. Fel's Five has been the only good fantasy comic in the past decade.
If you can't roleplay a romantic relationship with another dude you're not a very good roleplayer. That's fine though, just don't diss the peeps who like roleplaying enough to get that immersed into their inter-character relationships.
You can roleplay whatever and however you want without shame, so long as the internet doesn't show me loads of illustrated pornography of that roleplay.
Now that you mentioned it, I don't think I've ever seen a single piece of Lodoss porn. Not all that hard to avoid.
If I had to guess, it's because most DnD stories either have "awkward comedy" or are unnecessarily adult. A good DnD campaign will certainly have its hype moments, and it's entirely possible to make ridiculous, hysterical bullshit. /tg/ is fantastic for its stories on such things, like Los Tiburon or Mayor Bear. However, such sparks of ingenuity are drowned out by a strict adherence to a system, and while it's understandable why a writer, or DM, would fudge things every now and again, the reality is that it's entirely common for a party to wipe and for players to write up a new character to continue the module or story.
In a show, you can't constantly waste characters like that, and most DMs who are also able to write for major animation studios probably can't find the necessary balance of comedy, drama, and hype, all while keeping everyone's power levels properly scaled.
Of course, I'm NOT saying it can't be done...
That just means you didn't spend much time on /tg/ ten years ago.
I remember reading the actual character sheets. Deedlit wasn't a player character, she was a DMPC.
You sound like your bad to play with
There's been at LEAST 5 comic runs I'm aware of.
Not to mention the cartoon series.
Plus there are dozens of comics based on D&D inspired fantasy RPGs like Rolled&Tolled, Die, Rat Queens, Order Of The Stick webcomic, and probably a bunch others I am forgetting.
I legit don't think you'd run out of material if you actually looked for it.
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So was Forgotten Realms.
I try to play female characters 50% of the time to keep things interesting, so I don't mind.
Why try to avoid Pirotess porn? She was an NPC
>And they still get orcs and kobolds better
Pig orcs are a crime against humanity you fucking weeb
>ALL the female party members (each who have a romantic subplot) were roleplayed by dudes.
So nothing out of the ordinary then
Pig-nosed orcs were there at the beginning of D&D, you heathen.
Pig orcs are canon, you mong
IIRC it was bottom of the barrel because none of them had played except the DM and Gen Urobuchi and Urobuchi was intentionally being that guy because he thought it was funny.
Well thats because every once in a while you just hang out and make shitty jokes with your friends. The overall goal isn't to have some kind of gripping narrative although that can be awesome. Its to have a good time and sometimes that means 2 hours of shitty dick jokes.
Because nobody likes D&D or the faggots that play it. It's all losers who would have moved on to WoW or some other shit if they gave a damn about anything but being seen as nerds in a semipublic setting.
And here I thought it was bottom of the barrel because most of them are just awful writers.
That probably helped.
>The overall goal isn't to have some kind of gripping narrative
This is why anyone who actually cares about role playing moved onto vidya.
You friendless casuals ruined a good hobby for legitimate nerds.
My party and I are running Dragon Heist right now, our DM has renamed the game to Mob Wars, since most of our focus has been in getting out tavern up and dunno g and driving out competitors out of town while remaining in the good side of the authorities.
>You friendless casuals ruined a good hobby for legitimate nerds.
Original D&D was a more elaborate board game. Up until AD&D 1st edition Gygax himself was talking about D&D tournaments and how house rules are "NOT REAL D&D".
I'm just saying, chill out and have a good time. There's always Vampire if you wanna roleplay your heart out.
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