My colleagues at work are wanting to do a panto when the Christmas season hits. However, they are intrigued with my hobby and want to include D&D as the main theme.
So I now turn to you, my esteemed colleagues: How on earth do we do this???
My colleagues at work are wanting to do a panto when the Christmas season hits. However, they are intrigued with my hobby and want to include D&D as the main theme.
So I now turn to you, my esteemed colleagues: How on earth do we do this???
are you talking about a pantomime?
why would you want to do that as a company christmas event?
What is a Panto? Maybe I'm getting to old, but I've never heard of this Panto stuff. Please inform me on this. Please.
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I hate mimes so I can't believe I am gonna try to help but here goes.... Open up with miming Christmas morning, kids get D&D for christmas. mime everyone reading for a few pages. Start rolling dice and miming high abilities and low (flexing muscles for high strength, drooling idiot for low intelligence). Pick a class, act it out (fighter all tough, flexing, big sword, yada yada). Off on adventure (walking down a road). people being attacked, save them, fight off the attackers (montrous humanoids?). Oh no, they made off with one of the innocents! Chase scene, ends at dark scary cave entrance. Tracks leading in. Light a torch, march in quietly. Surprise monsters, big battle, shooting bow, slashing swords, barbarian needs food bad, wizard casts spell, monsters defeated. Innocent is saved, and now for the locked and trapped chest of loot in the corner. Oh no, Rogue fails to disarm and feels sick, loot is grabbed, party helps rogue to walk on way out, or give him a potion (mysterious)found in the chest. and END SCENE.
I feel dirty. Hope it helps.
FH
Forgot I was dealing with Americans. :P
Panto = Pantomime = British version of Italian commedia dell 'arte = satirical take usually on fairytale stories. Usually held over the Christmas period.
Any fellow Brits here that can help me out with how to convey this???
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Forgot I was dealing with Americans. :P
Panto = Pantomime = British version of Italian commedia dell 'arte = satirical take usually on fairytale stories. Usually held over the Christmas period.
Any fellow Brits here that can help me out with how to convey this???
The silent, acted out with no words type stuff, right? Does my previous post not help at all?
FH
As a displaced Brit and rabid Monty Python fan, I must add that without a pantomime horse and a pantomime Princess Margaret, the whole thing would be Entirely Wrong.
--Fang ("Mate, this parrot wouldn't voom if you put four million volts through it!")
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Any fellow Brits here that can help me out with how to convey this???
I'm not a fellow Brit, but Wikipedia answers all queries...
As for how to do a D&D one... I would suggest you check out some of the early Order of the Stick comics for a plot. Make sure you use a huge cardboard and tinfoil sword and Party Poppers for magic effects.
Other than that... I can't help ya.
Cos
Forgot I was dealing with Americans. :P
Panto = Pantomime = British version of Italian commedia dell 'arte = satirical take usually on fairytale stories. Usually held over the Christmas period.
Any fellow Brits here that can help me out with how to convey this???
The silent, acted out with no words type stuff, right? Does my previous post not help at all?
FH
Thanks for the effort, FH, but I think you are refering to Mime. :)
The Wiki link says it all. Anyway, we have decided:
Conan the Pantomime!
I shall post more details as they occur. :D
Wow, talk about my horizons being broadened right now. I had no clue about this tradition. Thanks!!!
Any fellow Brits here that can help me out with how to convey this???
HE’S BEHIND YOU!
NO HE ISNT!
YES, HE IS!
NO HE ISNT!
Ah, panto… cheesy domain of the z-list celeb a pair of Chuckle Brothers and mighty province of ex-big brother housemates…
Terrifying images of Orval the Duck, Keith Chegwin and The Krankies spring into my mind, like embarrassing demons of [evil] ‘light entertainment’.
Thank god it has cross-dressing; else I wouldn’t be able to cope!
Orcwart,I am now reporting you to the secret police of the great lords Bobby Davro and Brian Connelly -as no one outside the United Kingdom is supposed to find out about this dirty little national secret of ours!
The Krankies have been dispatched…