We watched the Sci-Fi channel-created Dungeons & Dragons movie (a made for TV sequel to the so-so theater movie). It was nothing amazing, but given what crap Sci Fi pumps out, fairly decent. A good fantasy film is always enjoyed by me, and the references a gamer picks up are great. I’m such a geek. At one point the evil villain is being sustained by the blood of people and is told the blood is Drow. I just turn to Ian and say “that’s a kind of elf”. He smiled back at me and we both laughed. I’m a big ol’ nerdy geek and I’m so lucky I’ve got someone who likes me for it.
Later in the movie Ian commented that if you were an evil villain with a powerful magic item, you shouldn’t just put it in a dungeon and make it hard to get to, you should make it impossible to get to. That’s so not the point! 
I liked one of the traps they had set up in the dungeon, I’ll have to see if I can’t work a variant into one of my adventures soon.
Sci Fi has Battlestar Galactica though, thats not crap.
November 21, 2005 @ 9:17 pmI love Battlestar Galactica! Their series are generally pretty good. I was referring to the made for TV movies they pump out. They’re all cheesy, horribly scripted, bad special effects, etc. I even read an article about how that’s SciFi’s plan. They could make a couple of $10 million dollar movies a year, or two dozen <$1 million B movies that just get a small audience that watch it for the cheese factor. Sadly, they go for the latter. I guess occasionally they strive for better with Earthsea and Dungeons & Dragons 2.
November 25, 2005 @ 10:18 am