10 Things That Deserve Great Movie Adaptations

There have been three films based on the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, and they vary from pretty bad to downright awful. Another movie is in the works, but this will reportedly be based on the same world first envisioned by Gary Gygax in 1974. While there's nothing inherently wrong with that, swords and sorcery have been seen time and time again, and it's unlikely that another Dungeons and Dragons movie would rival what Game of Thrones is doing on TV.

It's a shame, then, that no one is looking at the brilliant Eberron campaign setting, created by Keith Baker in 2002. It takes everything great about Dungeons and Dragons and transplants it into a world with crazy steampunk technology. Airships fly through the sky powered by imprisoned elementals, cities float miles above the ground, and the rights of a race of robot-like beings known as warforged are a hot topic of debate.

It's a fascinating universe, populated with interesting characters and wonderful stories. Anyone basing a film on Eberron would be spoiled for choice as to the plot. Would they set it during the Last War, a global conflict that saw an entire nation destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm known as the Mourning?

Would they follow adventurers exploring the jungle-covered, giant-infested land of Xen'drik? Or would they focus on a small group of thieves in the vertiginous metropolis of Sharn?

The possibilities are limitless, and an entire Cinematic Universe could be based on the game. While that phrase is already becoming divisive, this is one franchise that truly warrants deep and varied exploration.