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YouTube Tuesday: Two Scimitars, No Waiting Edition

Posted by on February 24, 2009 · 6 Comments 

Filed under Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

This has been making the rounds (or is that, making the Realms?) this week: a fan film based on a book starring everyone’s favorite dual-wielding Drow renegade with a figurine of wonderous power, Drizzt. By no means perfect, just like last week’s pick, it’s amazing what can be done for no budget nowadays. Originally spotted at ENWorld.

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6 Responses to “YouTube Tuesday: Two Scimitars, No Waiting Edition”
  1. The Last Rogue says:
    February 24, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Why o Why, hasn’t WotC/Hasbro actually licensed this into a movie yet. The books in question are well-known, many have been NY Times Best Sellers, the stories seem as if they would translate to the big screen well . . . and in no way could it be worse than the movies they have spat out.

    If they put even a middling budget (for a feature film, that is) into a project like this, I think they’d stand to make a nice profit.

    Or

    am I missing something?

    The Last Rogue´s last post: Statuesque women, skullwearing unipeds, and 3 feet to the left

  2. Prince of Cats says:
    February 24, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    I don’t know… My issue with the Drizzit was that he was surrounded by more interesting characters. I ended up reading for the little glimpses into the lives of his antagonists, so I consider the best one of the series to be Servant of the Shard for his amazing portrayal of ‘evil’ in Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri.

    Also, as a DM, I got fed up with CG drow turning up at the gaming table…

    Prince of Cats´s last post: A quick one…

  3. TheMainEvent says:
    February 24, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Drizzit is soooo emo!

  4. Kameron says:
    February 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    WotC’s record on licensing D&D for movies has been dismal. I hope they get their act together and put together a studio a la Marvel to develop their own projects before they do further damage to the IP.

    Kameron´s last post: Growing an outline into a story

  5. anarkeith says:
    February 24, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    That was pretty cool, all things considered. Thanks for the link. I’ve always been a fan of the Drow concept, but ever disappointed by the execution of it (whether by WoTC or Salvatore.)

  6. Johnzim says:
    February 27, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    How can one explain such unholy… ACTING… TALENT?

    Seriously though, a lot of that was very impressive. Kudos to the creators.