The fact that all of the content isn’t there yet underscores that the game isn’t fully realized.

I didn’t know the campaign didn’t have an ending, but that’s not really what I meant when I said fully-realized

Indie films still *barely* exist

You are correct, as a child of the 80's dear god was there ever some popular formulaic genres when I was a kid.  It is possible that films got good enough in the mid-late 90's that it seemed like filming went downhill later on.

Actually I think those are technically independent still, they were just officially licensed.  I saw at least Book of Vile Darkness on SyFy one time, it wasn’t bad.

Your defense should still reflect what Goldstein actually said.  And what he said is that this movie will be bringing to life creatures,places, and people that players only imagined before.  Owl bears and black dragons satisfy at least one of those conditions.

I think that was a Black Dragon, they breath streams of acid.  They’re one of the more common types of chromatic dragons that adventurers would encounter.

Oh yeah there was a beholder. Still it would be really cool if this movie delves more into some of the different monsters, animals, spells, and other things from D&D that haven’t already shown up in fantasy movies before.

Read what Goldstein said again:

I don’t particularly like hearing it. Spare me your awkward improv acting.

Because of multiple D&D feature films that exist *already*. (To say nothing of the animated series.)

It’s both, fantasy can have thieves in it.  If you look back at some of the classic Conan the Barbarian stories, in many of them he’s just straight up a thief and there’s even a scene in the first movie where he’s stealing from a temple.  And of course there’s Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards series.

Fair enough.

And here I thought that answer would be the Dorkness Rising movie

This reminds me of when Colbert once interviewed Neil Gaiman, and Colbert asked Gaiman who his favorite character was. Gaiman’s response was “Anyone but Tom Bombadil.”

It might be possible that what makes a movie great and what makes a tabletop roleplaying game great won’t exactly be one and the same. With any adaption liberties need to be taken to account for the strengths and weaknesses of the media being adapted to, and that’s most certainly the case when you’re doing a live…

No one is allowed to ask them to change their design because that would be ruining the artistic vision...

You seem very confused. From Software has actually made it clear that they have no problem with players using the intended mechanics to make the game easier. Summons for example can drastically reduce the game’s difficulty and Miyazaki has said that mechanic is intentionally there to be used.

If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that it actually depends on whether they’ve stated something as a creative goal and is intentional.  There’s a difference between asking From Software to fix bugs and asking From Software to put in an easy mode when they’ve repeatedly said no to the latter several times and…

To be fair, can any of the Sith characters really be taken seriously?  Seems like anyone using the Dark Side tends to be a little over the top.