Mood or Tone of the 'Dungeon Fantasy' setting, world...

[Qoltar]

Okay, again related to the DF demo session I am running as part of 'Free RPG Day' on June 16th....

Are there certain Fantasy or Sword & Sorcery movies that are most like the tone and mood of the "Dungeon Fantasy" background world?

In other words, If I am making notes and doing prep work for a Dungeon Fantasy gae session and I have a DVD playing in the background in the room - what is the best movie or TV series that works for a DF mindset?

- Ed C.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Qoltar

Okay, again related to the DF demo session I am running as part of 'Free RPG Day' on June 16th....

Are there certain Fantasy or Sword & Sorcery movies that are most like the tone and mood of the "Dungeon Fantasy" background world?

In other words, If I am making notes and doing prep work for a Dungeon Fantasy gae session and I have a DVD playing in the background in the room - what is the best movie or TV series that works for a DF mindset?

- Ed C.

Depends entirely on what sort of DFRPG you are running.

Seven Samurai could be as much as much of an inspiration as Jason and the Argonauts.



If you want the party going into a dungeon why not the Dungeon and Dragons episodes of Community

[Dalin]

Originally Posted by Qoltar

Are there certain Fantasy or Sword & Sorcery movies that are most like the tone and mood of the "Dungeon Fantasy" background world?

There are many flavors of DF. A common flavor, however, might be represented by the Moria sequence in Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring. Or, for all their flaws, the recent Hobbit movies capture some of the madcap shenanigans that DF characters can pull off.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Dalin

Or, for all their flaws, the recent Hobbit movies capture some of the madcap shenanigans that DF characters can pull off.

Falling... and falling some more... followed by falling.

[Rolando]

I may also suggest Dungeons and Dragons 2, The Elemental Might. It is a movie with a classic dungeon fantasy high powered adventure feel and well inside the genre.

It showcase the classes doing their job and is not a bad movie.

[Stormcrow]

If you go back to the original dungeon fantasy game, Dungeons & Dragons, you'll remember that those guys weren't picky: they threw in EVERYTHING. Tolkien, Lieber, Howard, Moorcock, Anderson, the Kung Fu TV show, Barsoom, Hammer Dracula, folklore, science fiction, psychic powers... everything. There is no bit of fiction they wouldn't use.

Do the same thing.

[Qoltar]

No....


I really need movie specific to 'Sword & Sorcery'(fantasy), just the way I used to play "Star Trek" shows while prepping for my GURPS:Star Trek game ir playing "Firefly" episodes whilst preparing for Maggie's Marauders GURPS Traveller game that I ran years ago.

Would rather not play the "D&D" movies if I can avoid it.
There must have been some movie or TV series made sometime between the '80s and 'now' that fits the tropes in the implied Dungeon Fantasy setting.

- Ed C.

[tbone]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

If you go back to the original dungeon fantasy game, Dungeons & Dragons, you'll remember that those guys weren't picky: they threw in EVERYTHING. Tolkien, Lieber, Howard, Moorcock, Anderson, the Kung Fu TV show, Barsoom, Hammer Dracula, folklore, science fiction, psychic powers... everything. There is no bit of fiction they wouldn't use.

TSR: "Let's see.... and throw in medusas, sphinxes, rocs, nagas, ents, hobbits, orcs..."

Tolkien estate lawyers: *ahem*

TSR: "Uh... treants, halflings... Oh, 'orc' is generic enough? Okay, keep that..."

Or so I'm told. (Did D&D have to rework/rename balrogs?)

Anyway, this thread directly hits a question I've been curious about. Should've thought to ask it here, to the perfect bunch of people:

There are plenty of movies & TV shows with bits of dungeon-delving adventure: Conan's serpent temple sequence, LoTR's mines of Moria journey, and many more.

But it seems to me these always involve characters making side trips into monster-filled dungeons/caverns for some one-time quest or goal, or to pass through on the way to the main adventure. Or they end up underground for some unplanned/unwanted reason, and want to get out as quickly as possible.

Even in the D&D movie: from what little I recall of it, there's some sewer or dungeon action, but the characters aren't actual dungeon delvers.

So, my question: Has there ever been a movie or TV show about true delvers, who regularly and intentionally gear up and go down to fight monsters and steal their loot, again and again, just as DF or D&D characters (typically) do for a living? I'm thinking there hasn't been (hence this thread...)

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Qoltar

Are there certain Fantasy or Sword & Sorcery movies that are most like the tone and mood of the "Dungeon Fantasy" background world?

The background is almost non-existent. This is deliberate, because the game concentrates on delving, and leaves out many things that a more general-purpose RPG would provide.

I think you need to turn this around. Pick a movie that has the kind of tone you'd like your demonstration game to show, and use that.

[Mr_Sandman]

I've alway thought that The Hobbit was a better example of a typical D&Dish dungeon-delving adventure than The Lord of The Rings. They go underground at least three times (goblin caves, the wood elves tunnels, and Lonely Mountain) and Mirkwood is functionally a dungeon as well. There are secret doors and puzzles. Bilbo starts out as a first level thief, if that, but gains experience and magic items through his adventures, and is considerably more capable by the end of the book.

The movies don't focus all that heavily on the dungeoneering aspects, but they are present.