Cartoon Based on D20 Modern Setting

Despite rumblings of a new Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, the first Wizards of the Coast setting that will see production as a television show is apparently Urban Arcana. UA is one of the canned settings offered by Wizards of the Coast in its d20 Modern roleplaying game. Despite this announcement, it's not going to be in front of your eyes for some time. From the article: "...the Sci-Fi Channel and Fox Television Studios are developing a television series based on the Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast D20 MODERN campaign suppliment URBAN ARCANA for the '06-'07 season."

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Monopoly

[tepples]

In fact, in 1990 there was a bad game show based on Monopoly.

Not the first d20 based TV series

[tepples]

Do we all forget the D&D animated series?

Re:Poke who?

[Golias]

The He-Man cartoon was also a thinly-veiled commercial for He-Man toys.

The "moral" segments at the end were added because FCC regulations require that a certain percentage of Saturday morning airtime be dedicated to "educational" broadcasting.

By adding a 2-minute "lesson" to the end of cartoons, the networks manage to avoid having to give up the occasional full half-hour slot to educational programming.

(It's also the reason ABC came up with "Schoolhouse Rock"... it's all about complying with the FCC at the bare minumum requirement without slowing down the marketing train for sugar-laced breakfast cerial.)