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SterlingEdge (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Modules, Tales, Battles Case Subscriber) Feb 22, 2008, 01:01 AM

Way to ruin a classic! Please insert coin and try again.

War Ape Feb 22, 2008, 05:08 AM

I think that Dragonlance is a crappy campaign setting, but that first trilogy is readable. Too bad this film made a mess of it!

DM Jeff (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, GameMastery Maps Subscriber) Feb 22, 2008, 07:08 AM

How could they have let this happen? All of my players have seen this DVD and they are trying to keep my wife and I from ever seeing it; citing animation not worthy of Saturday Morning 70's cartoon and editing by a blind & deaf person. After all this time this is what we get? Unreal.

-DM Jeff

Destro Fett (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber) Feb 22, 2008, 04:46 PM

DM Jeff wrote:

After all this time this is what we get? Unreal.

-DM Jeff

No, DM Jeff... what's unreal is that we can expect at least two more.

Haldir (Pathfinder Campaign Setting Superscriber) Feb 22, 2008, 06:35 PM

From all the negative reviews web-wide on this one, I hope Paizo only has like 5 or less in stock to sell.

ha ha

Kevin B. (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber) Feb 24, 2008, 05:07 AM

Honestly, I'm glad I watched a friend's copy before I picked up my own....which isn't going to happen now. As most of the previous reviewers have stated, "Save your money. The voice acting is fairly decent but the script writing should be "Takin' the porcelain flume ride!"

If Paizo really wanted to put their efforts into something worthwhile, pay Wolfgang Baur to do a second (magazine...I don't want the PDF) printing of Issue #'s 1 & 2 of Kobold Quarterly. I'd easily pay the $23 to have both of those issues as a magazine style release rather than waste it on a horribly done film of this legendary work fantasy.

roguerouge Feb 24, 2008, 07:23 AM

One of the great merits of the paizo modules and paths has been their visual look, to my mind. It's certainly been a point of emphasis. I'm utterly baffled that they'd put themselves behind a product in which the animators were clearly dead last on the priority list. This barely surpasses He-man in animation quality, and that's a huge insult.

I loved the original trilogy. I'm saddened by this rendition.

Atrocious (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber) Feb 24, 2008, 07:43 AM

I picked this up yesterday and I could only stand to watch the first 20 or so minutes until I'd had enough. What a piece of garbage! This movie makes the two live action D&D movies look good. Does someone in Hollywood hate D&D?

I have to admit that I never liked the Dragonlance setting or the novels, but even I think it deserved better than this.

Destro Fett (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber) Mar 3, 2008, 11:00 PM

roguerouge wrote:

I'm utterly baffled that they'd put themselves behind a product in which the animators were clearly dead last on the priority list.

They highlighted it on the store blog, but other than that I haven't seen any overwhelming praise of this from Paizo's staff - so I wouldn't draw such assumptions. Whether or not this movie is swill (and it is), you can't blame a trusted and well-stocked distributor like Paizo for carrying an industry standard product.

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