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Seethyr
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 Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 18:44:21
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The recent animation of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon finale called Requiem lovingly put together by a fan here renewed my interest in my childhood fantasy world.
Dig some digging, asked some questions on Facebook, and found out about The Grand Tour!
Is this canon? Bobby, Presto, and all the others are Realmsian? someone on FB said the Dungeonmaster is El?
I don't know if I despise this or love the idea. There is likely going to be little gray area in between when I make my decision.
Edit: El wasn't DM
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Kentinal
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 18:57:09
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| It has the FR logo on it so it should be canon, unless superseded by later released canon. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 19:52:26
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I would consider the old D&D animation apocryphal. Licensed, long ago, by the corporation which eventually evolved into WotC. And not outright contradicted by subsequent canon. But also never recognized in any subsequent canon. I think Realmslore would've mentioned Tiamat stomping around and roaring at everything in sight.
I would consider the newer D&D animation canon. As childish as it may be, as much as it breaks the fourth wall and stuff. Because it's Hasbro/WotC. They explicitly said it's canon so it's canon.
Unlicensed fan works are never canon in the technically purist (or legal) sense. Even if they strictly adhere to published canon and are popularly embraced by the fandom. They do sometimes become apocryphal canon when they "inspire" new content or are somehow given recognition/reference in later canon works. Doesn't matter if they (illegally) stick official branding and logos on their work. Doesn't matter if the canon owners have tacitly tolerated the fanon without ordering a C&D takedown or otherwise challenging it - fans often believe this means the fanon work is "embraced" or "endorsed" but this is simply untrue.
"Canon" itself is problematic. Even the official owners can contradict or retcon or ignore it any time they like - WotC is often notorious for this. So I wouldn't worry much about "canon" anyhow ... if you don't like it then don't stick with it, change anything you like/dislike ... the publishers already do this, they've already done it many times and are likely to do it again ... I don't see the point in working hard to comply with a "canon" which offers no promise of remaining intact when the publishers have repeatedly demonstrated little respect for it anyhow. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 20:38:47
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Comes down to a few things. In the dungeons and dragons cartoon, how many moons are there? In that requiem episode, there are two shown at 7 minutes in, so I'm assuming real quick (and could be wrong) that that's something from the original cartoon as well. If it weren't for things like that, then perhaps where they adventure could be on another continent, or in the hordelands, or down in the utter east (i.e. areas with little coverage where some of it could be shoehorned in). If there's 2 moons, then the world can't be Toril, but it could be realmspace possibly, but then it would have to be a world that has more than one moon and fits the general landscape (which would be a hard fit unless we said something like "not all of glyth is like the area where the mindflayers are). Another option is that the world is Abeir, and we find out that on Abeir the second moon isn't destroyed.
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 20:46:38
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Seethyr
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 21:00:10
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| I think the actual comic has the kids travel to Toril from that other world, so I am unsure if anything gets contradicted. I need to pick up the comic. |
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Zeromaru X
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Colombia
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 21:30:48
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Weren't the protagonists of the cartoon killed in one of the Baldur's Gate games? That would make at least some version of them canon...
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Yeah, they were "killed" in BG2. You can read more here:
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21567 |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 07 Oct 2020 : 21:44:21
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I have the comic. If anyone is looking for it, I'd recommend against it -- I'd not give more than a few dollars for it.
The basic plot is that the kids arrive in Shadowdale, and Presto thinks he's going to apprentice himself to Elminster. Elminster says something like "well, let's see what you can handle" and goes teleporting around the Realms with Presto, getting into multiple scrapes, and in the process convinces Presto that he'd be better off without Elminster as a mentor.
And that's about it. It doesn't add anything at all to the setting and isn't referenced anywhere else that I'm aware of. It's basically a promo thing that uses a crossover to say "Elminster is cool!"
The art was not great, either... The kids looked slightly older, but Bobby looked like he was now 35 and now towered over the others -- which contradicts what we saw in one episode of the cartoon, when they met the girl from Earth who had dreams of the future. At the end of that episode, the Dungeon Master showed Bobby the last dream she had before they got her home, and that dream was Bobby walking up to her in school and returning her necklace -- and Bobby was still a pre-teen, in that vision.
I've heard that in one of the Baldur's Gate games, there's a painting in a shop of the kids -- and between that and the comic, that's about it for connecting them to the Realms. |
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Zeromaru X
Great Reader
Colombia
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Posted - 08 Oct 2020 : 05:22:38
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| Yeah. That's why I say "killed". It's implied, but not outright stated. Save for the poor unicorn. That "it ended up in Tiamat's stomach" seems pretty straightforward. |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 08 Oct 2020 : 11:47:28
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Weren't the protagonists of the cartoon killed in one of the Baldur's Gate games? That would make at least some version of them canon...
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Yeah, they were "killed" in BG2. You can read more here:
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21567
That's if you consider the computer games in and of themselves "canon". When Jim Butler was traffic-copping the Realms way back when he explicitly stated that the computer games and the characters/events/locales in them were not canon unless and until they were replicated in a gaming or fiction product. I continue to subscribe to that approach.
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 08 Oct 2020 : 14:12:45
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Weren't the protagonists of the cartoon killed in one of the Baldur's Gate games? That would make at least some version of them canon...
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Yeah, they were "killed" in BG2. You can read more here:
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21567
Hmmm, interesting, but doesn't mean those paintings were from the realms though. They could have been brought here. Not that I'm against the idea of them being in the realms mind you. In fact, I rather like it, though I don't know how to properly fit it in, but I'll take a rough stab.
That being said, from that thread, I rather like Markustay's response the most. Basically it said "what if they were somewhere else for the cartoons, got home, and then later like the Narnia books they returned". I wouldn't have them die. I would have it that Tiamat faced them. Tiamat lost but didn't die. They got home. Tiamat just doesn't tell anyone and the fact that these people are suddenly gone makes people think they died.
That being said, I also like the ending in that Fan produced show. I'd personally keep it canon if I ever introduced them and remembered where to find it. That makes a perfect answer for how they got home. The realm there were in would be possibly a place like the mists of ravenloft. In that fanon production, "the realm" is noted to be something like a "giant dungeon for everyone there".... so perhaps eventually this place starts to dissolve and Presto has to escape and he goes to Toril. Perhaps even this has something to do with its "dark lord" Venger getting redeemed, so "the realm" brings in another "dark lord"... or awakens a clone of Venger when he was still evil in some odd twist. Perhaps Presto contacts his childhood friends to come back and help him and all the people still living there. They eventually come to Toril when "the realm" is destroyed, leading the way for the inhabitants of the realm. Dungeon Master and the redeemed Venger stay behind to defend the retreat. Presto needs a new master, and he turns to Elminster. Maybe even a lot of the people being led to Toril are actually FROM Toril, and as they return home the "fog of memory" makes them forget their time in the other place and they start to remember instead their former lives on Toril. Only the kids remember the truth.... and the young girl that Presto fell in love with.
Hell, Perhaps instead of what I said above about the kids facing Tiamat and not killing her.... maybe they did, but they went home. Maybe this is a reason Tiamat was gone for a while besides the actions of Bahamut/Marduk in the orcgate wars (i.e. maybe she escaped "the realm" to "the realms" at one point and tried to ascend and the kids stopped it and then went home). |
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Zeromaru X
Great Reader
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Posted - 08 Oct 2020 : 15:39:47
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Originally posted by George Krashos
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Weren't the protagonists of the cartoon killed in one of the Baldur's Gate games? That would make at least some version of them canon...
EDIT:
Yeah, they were "killed" in BG2. You can read more here:
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21567
That's if you consider the computer games in and of themselves "canon". When Jim Butler was traffic-copping the Realms way back when he explicitly stated that the computer games and the characters/events/locales in them were not canon unless and until they were replicated in a gaming or fiction product. I continue to subscribe to that approach.
-- George Krashos
Interesting. When I asked Ed about the canonicity of the Neverwinter games, ge answered that all games were "canonish", as all the outcomes somehow were taken into account, mostly because the games appeal to a broad customer base.
But, I guess that policy is a post-TSR thing. |
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Diffan
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 00:12:49
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Yeah. That's why I say "killed". It's implied, but not outright stated. Save for the poor unicorn. That "it ended up in Tiamat's stomach" seems pretty straightforward.
Unicorns can teleport. Maybe he teleported out of Tiamat's stomach? |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 01:32:37
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Originally posted by Diffan
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Yeah. That's why I say "killed". It's implied, but not outright stated. Save for the poor unicorn. That "it ended up in Tiamat's stomach" seems pretty straightforward.
Unicorns can teleport. Maybe he teleported out of Tiamat's stomach?
And then Uni grew up to be Kamerynn....  j/k |
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LordofBones
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 04:37:56
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The D&D cartoon hails from a different age, one where Venger couldn't have curbstomped the entire party the moment he met them and where Eric was seen as a nagging complainer instead of the group's only sane man.
Serious, Venger is an 18th level arcane spellcaster capable of casting shapechange (he does it in an episode where he's knocked off a mountain, an otiluke's sphere protects him and then he transforms into a crazy demon thing) and flat-out self-resurrects. A bunch of plucky teenagers and their unicorn should be cannon fodder to him. |
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George Krashos
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 07:35:53
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
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Originally posted by George Krashos
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
Weren't the protagonists of the cartoon killed in one of the Baldur's Gate games? That would make at least some version of them canon...
EDIT:
Yeah, they were "killed" in BG2. You can read more here:
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21567
That's if you consider the computer games in and of themselves "canon". When Jim Butler was traffic-copping the Realms way back when he explicitly stated that the computer games and the characters/events/locales in them were not canon unless and until they were replicated in a gaming or fiction product. I continue to subscribe to that approach.
-- George Krashos
Interesting. When I asked Ed about the canonicity of the Neverwinter games, ge answered that all games were "canonish", as all the outcomes somehow were taken into account, mostly because the games appeal to a broad customer base.
But, I guess that policy is a post-TSR thing.
No, what Ed was taking about was in the early days almost all the FR computer games saw follow up in novels or gaming products. That stopped in 4E and has never recommenced. They didn’t take up everything, but things like the Baldur’s Gate novels, the Curse of the Azure Bonds adventure, Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor all canonized aspects of the computer games.
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Ayrik
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 07:40:29
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| Level isn't meaningful when a Yoda-like Dungeon Master is aligned with the party. The most potent villain in the world cannot compete against a friendly DM who's interested in handholding the most useless of heroes (and their unicorn) to victory. |
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sfdragon
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 07:46:09
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| I would not call it canon at all. It has atleast one character that is known from Greyhawk..... |
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Diffan
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 13:55:58
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Originally posted by George Krashos
No, what Ed was taking about was in the early days almost all the FR computer games saw follow up in novels or gaming products. That stopped in 4E and has never recommenced. They didn’t take up everything, but things like the Baldur’s Gate novels, the Curse of the Azure Bonds adventure, Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor all canonized aspects of the computer games.
Small quibble, Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor is the Adventure that accompanied the video game and Novel, in which the Adventurers deal with other aspects of the Adventure while the game/novel protagonists take on the main Elementals. But it does state that if things go badly for them, you're there to help them out.
Also the novel is actually really good, and is called the same name as the game, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 15:10:47
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Originally posted by sfdragon
I would not call it canon at all. It has atleast one character that is known from Greyhawk.....
Just curious? That was?
All this talk really makes me want to find that dvd that I bought and never watched. I haven't watched the show since I was a kid, and yet the characters are so much more vivid in my memory than even much newer stuff. Its weird how stuff like that is. |
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sfdragon
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 15:33:07
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| Strongheart was not a Realms npc. The Paladin was supposed to be a Grayhawk one |
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Bakra
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 16:28:05
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Strongheart was not a Realms npc. The Paladin was supposed to be a Grayhawk one
Strongheart, Warduke, and Kelek I always associated them with Mystara. |
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TomCosta
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Posted - 09 Oct 2020 : 22:51:16
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| The Realms is riddled with portals, their is Spelljamming, Planescape, and the fact the Ed meets with El and El meets with Mordenkainen and Dalamar. Anything is possible. |
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Seethyr
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Oct 2020 : 00:15:29
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Originally posted by TomCosta
The Realms is riddled with portals, their is Spelljamming, Planescape, and the fact the Ed meets with El and El meets with Mordenkainen and Dalamar. Anything is possible.
I'm partial to this mostly because of greed. Heck, this has kind of triggered me into wanting to put Demodragon into the Realms. |
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Diffan
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Oct 2020 : 05:12:48
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Originally posted by bloodtide_the_red
Well check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msDp_k-Fid4
I've seen that commercial many times, and every re-watch it gets better. What's sad is this commercial is about 1000 times better than the 3 D&D movies put together. |
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Ayrik
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Posted - 14 Oct 2020 : 15:41:05
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Originally posted by Diffan
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Originally posted by bloodtide_the_red
Well check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msDp_k-Fid4
I've seen that commercial many times, and every re-watch it gets better. What's sad is this commercial is about 1000 times better than the 3 D&D movies put together.
You'll probably be interested in Making of: "Caverna do Dragão" - a sort of behind-the-scenes documentary video (and marketing platform) about this commercial.
It was evidently a comprehensive short film or mini-movie, a lot more story and footage than was shown in the commercial. My understanding is that there are (or were) two versions: a standalone "episode-length story film" (basically a fan film made by an advertising agency) intended to complete the unfinished story of the characters from the old animation, and an edited commercial (which we've all seen) using some segments from the "story" version plus all the footage involving the Renault Outsider (which the advertising agency was paid to advertise).
Made in Brazil or Argentina, unfortunately Google Translate and YouTube subtitles won't help those of us who don't speak the language. (I can understand some Spanish, badly, but not much of the language in this video. I think it's Portugese or something else.)
Please share a link to the "story" version if you're able to find it online. I suspect it will be hard to find (if it actually exists) because of copyright stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5kboyyzr0 |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 14 Oct 2020 : 16:33:00
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| That makes a lot of sense -- I thought it was not only an odd approach for a commercial, but a lot more expensive than the usual "beautiful but supposedly regular people just driving around" approach car commercials more often take. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 14 Oct 2020 : 17:48:54
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Originally posted by Ayrik
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Originally posted by Diffan
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Originally posted by bloodtide_the_red
Well check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msDp_k-Fid4
I've seen that commercial many times, and every re-watch it gets better. What's sad is this commercial is about 1000 times better than the 3 D&D movies put together.
You'll probably be interested in Making of: "Caverna do Dragão" - a sort of behind-the-scenes documentary video (and marketing platform) about this commercial.
It was evidently a comprehensive short film or mini-movie, a lot more story and footage than was shown in the commercial. My understanding is that there are (or were) two versions: a standalone "episode-length story film" (basically a fan film made by an advertising agency) intended to complete the unfinished story of the characters from the old animation, and an edited commercial (which we've all seen) using some segments from the "story" version plus all the footage involving the Renault Outsider (which the advertising agency was paid to advertise).
Made in Brazil or Argentina, unfortunately Google Translate and YouTube subtitles won't help those of us who don't speak the language. (I can understand some Spanish, badly, but not much of the language in this video. I think it's Portugese or something else.)
Please share a link to the "story" version if you're able to find it online. I suspect it will be hard to find (if it actually exists) because of copyright stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5kboyyzr0
It would be wonderful if they could get voice dubbing in English. Hell, I bet if they crowd sourced it for a few thousand bucks they'd get the money (assuming it wouldn't be that expensive to dub over the voices... might be hard for all I know). |
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sfdragon
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Posted - 17 Oct 2020 : 21:11:02
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Originally posted by Bakra
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Originally posted by sfdragon
Strongheart was not a Realms npc. The Paladin was supposed to be a Grayhawk one
Strongheart, Warduke, and Kelek I always associated them with Mystara.
Being that I'm not overly familiar with that setting... |
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