Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves is at last here, and as led by Chris Pine with a song in his heart, and a lute in his hands, the film acts as a massive introduction to the Forgotten Realms of early D&d lore for a wider audience. That’s right, the game that was once accused of promoting evil is going mainstream with a feel-good comedy! Which is definitely one valid approach to the material.
Indeed, over the many, many years that Dungeons & Dragons has existed, a vast array of worlds (known to tabletop gamers as “campaign settings”) have presented players with a variety of universes, settings, storytelling techniques, and arguably even “genres.” They can be funny, scary, and often always thrilling. They also represent a rich tapestry from which filmmakers at Paramount Pictures can draw.
While the term “shared universe” hasn’t been explicitly thrown around since...
Indeed, over the many, many years that Dungeons & Dragons has existed, a vast array of worlds (known to tabletop gamers as “campaign settings”) have presented players with a variety of universes, settings, storytelling techniques, and arguably even “genres.” They can be funny, scary, and often always thrilling. They also represent a rich tapestry from which filmmakers at Paramount Pictures can draw.
While the term “shared universe” hasn’t been explicitly thrown around since...
- 4/1/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen is coming, and the buzz from long-time Dungeons & Dragons fans is completely understandable. Dragonlance was once a prominent campaign setting (as well as the home for a library of fiction adventures) in almost every edition of D&d (it was skipped in 4E). A return to Dragonlance after that hiatus is something longtime players have been eagerly anticipating. But if you’re new to D&d or shared-world fantasy, what do you need to know to share that excitement? We’re taking a peek behind the curtain at the history of Dragonlance, highlighting some of the world’s best, most unique features to get you ready to join the War of the Lance.
Real World History
As a game setting, Dragonlance was designed to focus more on a themed saga than an open world, the way previous campaign settings had.
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen is coming, and the buzz from long-time Dungeons & Dragons fans is completely understandable. Dragonlance was once a prominent campaign setting (as well as the home for a library of fiction adventures) in almost every edition of D&d (it was skipped in 4E). A return to Dragonlance after that hiatus is something longtime players have been eagerly anticipating. But if you’re new to D&d or shared-world fantasy, what do you need to know to share that excitement? We’re taking a peek behind the curtain at the history of Dragonlance, highlighting some of the world’s best, most unique features to get you ready to join the War of the Lance.
Real World History
As a game setting, Dragonlance was designed to focus more on a themed saga than an open world, the way previous campaign settings had.
- 12/6/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This year, the biggest pop-culture festival in Europe, Lucca Comics & Games will run from 28th October to 1st November. The theme for the 2022 edition is Hope and the event poster was created by Canadian artist Ted Nasmith, master of “Imaginative Realism”. He has given substance to the imagination of Tolkien fans worldwide and earned the esteem and encouragement of Tolkien himself. He is known for his illustrations of J.R.R Tolkien’s works of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the cover for the first edition of The Silmarillion, a posthumous work edited by Christopher Tolkien.
The highly anticipated community event of the year, Lucca Comics & Games 2022, held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, is the largest convention of its kind in Europe and second largest in the world after Comiket (Tokyo). The event brings together thousands of fans of comic, gaming, video games, fantasy fiction, manga, anime,...
The highly anticipated community event of the year, Lucca Comics & Games 2022, held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, is the largest convention of its kind in Europe and second largest in the world after Comiket (Tokyo). The event brings together thousands of fans of comic, gaming, video games, fantasy fiction, manga, anime,...
- 7/22/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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Italy’s Lucca Comics & Games, considered the biggest pop-culture festival in Europe (and second only globally to Japan’s Comiket), has enlisted renowned Canadian artist Ted Nasmith to create the poster for its 2022 edition, which The Hollywood Reporter can unveil.
Best known for his illustrations of J.R.R Tolkien’s works, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Nasmith also provided the artwork for the cover of the first edition of The Silmarillion, the posthumous work edited by Christopher Tolkien, and was involved in the conceptual art for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. For his Lucca Comics & Games poster, Nasmith worked with the theme of “hope.”
Held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, the convention brings together thousands of fans of comic, gaming, video games, fantasy fiction, manga, anime, animated films, TV series and cosplay from all over the world.
Italy’s Lucca Comics & Games, considered the biggest pop-culture festival in Europe (and second only globally to Japan’s Comiket), has enlisted renowned Canadian artist Ted Nasmith to create the poster for its 2022 edition, which The Hollywood Reporter can unveil.
Best known for his illustrations of J.R.R Tolkien’s works, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Nasmith also provided the artwork for the cover of the first edition of The Silmarillion, the posthumous work edited by Christopher Tolkien, and was involved in the conceptual art for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. For his Lucca Comics & Games poster, Nasmith worked with the theme of “hope.”
Held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, the convention brings together thousands of fans of comic, gaming, video games, fantasy fiction, manga, anime, animated films, TV series and cosplay from all over the world.
- 7/19/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marc Buxton May 24, 2019
Game of Thrones might be our favorite fantasy show ever, but here are the 10 best fantasy series that could possibly be even better...
Now that the Game of Thrones has come to an end on screen, it's time to start speculating on which fantasy book series might pick up the TV adaptation mantle once Game of Thrones is gone.
Game of Thrones is one of the greatest fantasy epics ever written and it makes for the perfect episodic television experience, but it's far from the only fantasy book series that deserves to be on TV. There are plenty of other epic fantasies that would make killer television shows, and they would grip fans just as much as Martin's tale of dragons, White Walkers, knights, magic, and betrayal has.
Hollywood is already taking notice, with everything from The Kingkiller Chronicle to The Dark Tower getting movie and TV adaptations.
Game of Thrones might be our favorite fantasy show ever, but here are the 10 best fantasy series that could possibly be even better...
Now that the Game of Thrones has come to an end on screen, it's time to start speculating on which fantasy book series might pick up the TV adaptation mantle once Game of Thrones is gone.
Game of Thrones is one of the greatest fantasy epics ever written and it makes for the perfect episodic television experience, but it's far from the only fantasy book series that deserves to be on TV. There are plenty of other epic fantasies that would make killer television shows, and they would grip fans just as much as Martin's tale of dragons, White Walkers, knights, magic, and betrayal has.
Hollywood is already taking notice, with everything from The Kingkiller Chronicle to The Dark Tower getting movie and TV adaptations.
- 4/10/2014
- Den of Geek
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