Episode 30: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The Wonderful World of Darklords

CONTENT ADVISORY: Because this episode is based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it takes place in Langeles, a fantasy version of Los Angeles. I don't think we even mention fire, but if the Los Angeles wildfires hit at all close to home for you, we're putting a detailed content advisory that includes all the neighborhoods and landmarks mentioned at the end of the show notes, with separate entries for the episode proper and the D fiction (so you can skip one or both if you're less worried about content and want to avoid spoilers).

Welcome to Wonderful World of Darklords! We're reaching back into our childhood nightmares and pulling out one of our favorite Disney villains: Judge Doom. He's made of pure nightmare fuel, but he's also a man living his best life who only makes sense in a world with living cartoons, so adapting him was a challenge. For Doom, though, we'll take up that challenge, because he's magnificent. Better than Goofy. Topics discussed include:

• The obscure creature that allows us to adapt toons into D&D terms;
• More than a minute of Eberron, including how to do Who Framed Roger Rabbit purely as an Eberron game if you choose;
• A beloved Disney movie we're not planning to adapt into a full domain that you can easily plunder for Roger Rabbit NPCs and storylines;
• Ideas for running a years-long Toontown/Runetown game with Judge Doom as the spider at the center of the web without it becoming repetitive;
• and more!

The full writeup for Runetown is available on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/507839/Runetown-A-Ravenloft-Domain-of-Dread?affiliate_id=241770

Timestamps

0:00 Content Advisory

1:26 Introduction

9:08 The Lord

45:13 The Land

1:06:17 Dread Possibilities

1:21:42 Aging Up (CW discussion of drug use and erotic body horror)

1:29:15 Aging Up ends

1:42:54 Parting Thoughts

2:10:47 D’s Parting Thoughts

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: http://www.tumblr.com/darklordazalin

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GENERAL CONTENT ADVISORY

• Discussion of the destruction of a neighborhood and its residents (Toontown/Runetown)
• Conspiracy theories involving the Langeles government (primarily Judge Doom, but since it's noir there's a lot of corruption)
• Discussion of Burbank, the Golden Triangle, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills

D'S JOURNAL CONTENT ADVISORY (SPOILERS)

• A concert hall reminiscent of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA is targeted for sabotage. Nothing comes of it, but D worries about the possibility of it collapsing with people inside.
• D is briefly exposed to a blast of heat in Toontown that melts her to a puddle before she can reform again.

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