Movies that were DEFINITELY based on the writers' campaigns

>For the next trial: kill this creature
>Is he evil?
>Well, no.
>I can't do that--it's against my alignment!
The show's not the greatest, but it has its moments.

Not ACTUALLY based on any campaign, but god damn it may as well be.

Don't forget the fact that he clearly wasn't too into the whole Mystical China thing from the get go, and just can't force himself to give a shit about immersion.

>Alright, so you find yourselves trapped in the room! There's no apparent way out! Lo Pan is mere seconds away from concluding the marriage ritual.

Wang: Alright! I'll check for secret passages on the walls.

>You carefully analyze the passages in the room, and realize that one of the walls isn't completely solid.

Wang: I call out to the rest of the guys, and warn them that these walls are-

Jack: "Hollow? Fuck it" I slash that shit open with my knife.

Everyone has their own personality and a good share of lines, except for the antagonists. Really good movie, I halfway feel like it was a 4 man western game of Quentin Tarantino's before it was refined into the movie we see today.

...

Fuck yes. Watching this movie is like seeing my group playing.

>The guy which shouldn't try charisma-based challenges puts on a disguise and attempt to talk his way out.
>There's that safeguard powerful npc master to prevent the worst ONE time.
>That 'let's have a potion buffet before the Big Bad' scene
>Disposale npcs lives don't matter
>The long awaited and vital critical hit in the enemy's forehead.

You joke, but 60s Batman Robin did porn.

...

Great, now I have to watch it.

Beat me to it.
Also Pic related.

This show is actually based on an actual tabletop game between three famous Japanese authors.

It's also complete shit. [hide]Which is why I love it.[/hide]

The word you're looking for is spoiler, user.

And Gen Fucking Urobuchi, with all his Gen Fucking Urobuchi antics.

>It's also complete shit.
I mean, it couldn't be more generic if it tried, but that's unfair. I have seen some worse shit.

Guardians of the galaxy is sooo much like a tabletop RPG game its uncanny.

strangely, CoR is an only kinda sorta case.

However pic related is EXPLICITLY based a DnD game.

>DANCE OFF BRO, YOU AND ME
Yep

>everyone in the party being useful
>Barbarian calls the BBEG tells them where they are because "Thats what my character would do" and then challenges him to a fight.
>DM comes up with a way for his character to not get murderfucked to death.

The A-Team

...

I know. A forum I frequent uses hide instead of spoiler for the same thing, and I knew it would trip me up eventually, but I couldn't care enough to delete and repost it.

These 2 images are 1 picture of the D&D Players Handbook away from being a "What I played - What I expected - what I got" for EVERYONES first attempt to GM D&D.

>The players do this campaign as a break from their long running other campaign involving Egyptian themed space parasites, Roswell Greys and Macromachine Grey-Goo Menaces.
>This campaign eventually ends, but the long running one keeps on trucking. Eventually due to deaths and promotions players end up reusing their chracter sheets from this or that other Space Cowboys campaign for it as replacements.

You can't do an Epic Level Campaign with an all Bard party they said!

You can't defeat a giant rocket hand with the power of your song they said!

Stop trying to upstage John they said to Paul, unless he suddenly drops dead it's never going to happen!

so its a dm who isn't sick of their players yet

Nice

...

>ctrl+f "pirates"
>0 results
What the fuck guys

Wouldn't say so. They're both bretty gud.

How good is Farscape?

I just finished rewatching Firefly for the third time, and I'm looking for a good sci-fi action show to watch.

That bit of scenery in the background is even sitting on a separate base to the table.

Farscape is great, it's somewhere between Firefly and Star Trek.

It fucks up here and there but over all its great.

What you don't get is that these are both based on the first printing of D&D in Japan which was a modified Moldvay/Cook Basic.

Shit, when the printers lost the license. they made Sword World and used Lodoss as the core setting.

It's best when it's cheesy sci-fi action fun.

Every fourth or so episode is a hammy moral mess.

Andromeda is alright too.

...

What is the last one?

Sword Art Online, aka Gary Stu in virtualland.

Season 4 was a big old turd but seasons 1-3 and the Peacekeeper Wars movies were good.

What!?

Season 4 was bad, I liked everything else.

I loved Crichton going mad but the whole Clone Saga was handled horribly, which is a shame because the concept was solid.

How the fuck has no one put this yet

Man, it's not even funny how fast Adventure Time went to shit.

Legend of Lodoss Wars. An honest to goodness hero's journey.

Andromeda is reasonably rpgish, even if plot gets convoluted in later sessions and you can tell they spent all their budget on this one cave... which now I think about it makes it even more rpgish- as more plot happens / doesnt tie up too well depending on pcs, and you use the minis because theyre the only ones you have.

Also cute android waifu.

Record of Lodoss War. A show that is a) Clearly a D&D campaign, and b) was clearly put together by the force of its creators' love for it and a budget that wouldn't get them a ham sandwich. Especially towards the end there's a funny effect where you can tell the money ran out because the animation goes BADLY downhill but they weren't willing to sacrifice art quality so it's just less... animated, relying a lot on stills and slow pans with only small bits of actual change. The characters are very solid, but at times feel rushed just like the plot because I'm pretty sure they literally didn't have the episodes to show all of what they wanted to show.

And yet it is so earnest, with so much good will and creative care backing it up, that it's way more of a timeless classic than many productions with far more polish. Do yourself a favor and give it a watch.

Conan the Destroyer. Conan the Barbarian is the epic backstory that the roleplayer at the table (playing Conan of course) turned in with some input from Subotai and Akiro. But then Subotai's player had to leave before the first session and was replaced by the "funny man" who rolled up Malak. Zula wasn't a real late add (though she missed session 1), she just didn't collaborate in on Conan's epic backstory.

>things I need to watch again
>the thread
Guardians of the Galaxy reminds me of Rogue Trader in some ways.

Also of a game in a custom setting my GM ran that had us all basically playing terrorists and other criminals (long story). We ended up sneaking 3 of us into a work camp. One got in trouble and my giant cyborg lizardman (think Saurus but smarter and) drew the prize of carrying out the execution. So I pretended to be shy about eating him in front of everyone, took him into the nearest outhouse and stuffed him down the hole so he could make his escape. He later returned because we forgot the part about the outside being full of radiation, and was dying, which got me killed when all hell broke loose.

Our 3rd party member inside decided to retire from crime and keep working in the machine shop since he was pretty good at the job.

Okay I guess that isn't really like any movies, but I already typed it so whatever.

This is porn, isn't it?

>do quick search
>find out this is real

I see a lot of praise for this lodoss, but is this really worth a watch for fantasy adventure for someone who don't like animu? Or is this just another moe kawaii harem pantsu bullshit?

So did Jackie Chan

Pretty sure that's an Italian low-budged Star Wars ripoff. So not porn, but probably only a few sex scenes away from it.

Lodss is an oldschool fantasy anime that's based on a book (based on a DnD play report published in a Japanese RPG magazine), so it doesn't really have the modern moeblob harem bullshit.

agreed.

My contribution, without a doubt. With Kaizer Soje as the DMPC.

Just watch the three-minute short. The "full-length" (30 minute) version is 27 minutes too long.

Now every time I see a matte painting in a movie I won't be able to see it as anything but a GM screen.

...

Unless you count the chibi omakes from the TV series.

You quoted the wrong post.

chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-09/20/content_693296.htm

It's frelling great.

It's pretty good, but you have to accept that the main character has been driven almost completely insane by his circumstances and can't be expected to act completely rationally.

Also the practical effects are amazing, as to be expected from the Jim Henson company.

Alright, I'll give it a chance.

How pew pew heavy is it? I like my sci-fi with lots of pew pew.

Most people love that show, but I couldn't stand it. Maybe it got better, but it lost may patience by a couple episodes in. But then I was more into SG-1 at the time.

Because it's what tabletops are based on, not the other way around.

Some episodes have lots of pew pew, and some are lots of talking and shit.

It's a weird fever dream of weird shit as an Earth astronaut gets raped in every imaginable way by an uncaring galaxy until by the end of it all he is an insane broken shell of a man.

It's also hilarious. I can't recommend it enough.

It's old-school D&D campaigns animated:
youtu.be/0nnyTpNWB0g

How much leftist propaganda is there in it? for some reason they always try to poz scifi shows.

That depends.
If you're nutty enough, it's all leftist propaganda, just like books and facts.

Not that much, funnily enough. I'm pretty right wing/conservative (the reasonable kind) and I liked it enough to buy all the DVD box sets.

Newest episodes are actually pretty great

Yeh, this was someone's campaign at one point.

Nobody followed the guidelines at character creation and the GMPC literally can't die while getting magical realm-y at every opportunity.

Checks out

>The bad guy is now the size of a galaxy, what do you do?
"We combine so we're the size of a galaxy too!"
>Fuck it, roll for success...

Star Crash is not porn and there's no actual nudity in it. It's a Roger Corman sci-fi film that's about as grade B as grade B gets. It's actually pretty amusing though. It's bad in just the right way.

>If you're nutty enough, it's all leftist propaganda, just like books and facts.
I laffed, thanks user

Lets see
>Characters while being wacky random splat book races but ultimately have no impact on the way the character acts or is played besides attempts at emo bullshit disguised as character depth
check
>Characters are a default one dimension and action with occasional attempts of depth
Check
>Resort to violence quickly, otherwise be quirky
check
>Over dramatize a party member death while full well knowing they'll come back
checked so hard
>Unremarkable evil antagonist the players are suppose to smash
check
>Ancient artifact cause plot more advanced than that is hard
check
>DM getting frustrated with how players are acting and breaks character
Check
>Deus ex machina artifact cause you can't beat my villain legitimately
Yep this is a D&D campaign.

dcuck btfo'd

Haha, that's pretty accurate.

>the left
>on the side of learnedness and facts
lel. what are "hate facts" and why are they banned in canada?

Ok cool. It's not that I can't watch something pozzed but having to fall back on it is very often a sign that the thing is garbage and the praise is for the propaganda, not the show.

Worst post ITT

Which one is the DMPC? it feels like you described half the cast there

Underrated post

>Implying John was ever more talented than Paul

Surprised no one's said this. Sensitive Josh Whedon himself said it was based on the Traveller campaigns he used to play back in college.

I read this in Ringo's voice and it was glorious!

>implying any of them are good

...

>implying it wasn't based on the Outlaw Star his girlfriend's boyfriend showed him in college

...

I dunno, are they like "alternative facts"?

Alien Resurrection isn't an RPG campaign, it's Joss Whedon writing Firefly before he actually decided to write Firefly.