Greyhawk-TV-Shows
GREYHAWK TELEVISION SHOWS
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Sample shows that could have been on a fantasy TV schedule in a D&D world
GHOST-BREAKERS
– Three alchemists invent weapons that can knock out insubstantial undead, along with trapping them,
and they (along with a hired hand and a mouthy secretary) make quite a name for themselves cleaning out haunted castles.
Monday Night Blood Bowl
- weekly regional match-ups of
scheduled mayhem on the grassy pitch.
The Cockatrice Family
- a family troupe of bards, led by their widowed mother,
tour the realms singing popular songs
They travel in a long multi-colored wagon,
on which their heraldry is a cutesy avian monster.
The Six Million Gold Piece Man
- a heavily maimed but valiant warrior is pieced back
together with magical implants after
a run-in with a silver dragon;
and with his also heavily augmented girlfriend,
they fight crime !
FURYONDURAMA
– An old alchemist runs a spelljamming delivery service,
and his bumbling crew: The half-cyclops girl,
the anachronistic commoner, the expert bureaucrat,
the warforged rascal, and the crustacien healer.
Each week a new cargo
and a new destination promises new opportunities for trouble.
Seven Geishas for Seven Samurai
The Blackmoor Hillbillies
- a rustic and uncultured barbarian family find
a wealth producing artifact,
and move from their wilderness home to the big city,
to mix in with regular Greyhawk society
- a fatherless family of brothers tries to
run the shogun's castle & lands,
while various wives and courtesans try
to help or interfere, a musical.
The Greatest Ophidian Hero
- a regular paladin acquires an artifact armor that gives him extra strange and reptilian powers,
but he can't find the scroll with the naga command words
That 370s Show
- retro humor as present day viewers get a glimpse of the life and struggles of a family living in the dark ages
Third Rock in the Sphere
- The show is about four spell-jamming mindflayers who are on an expedition to Oerth,
which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The aliens pose as a humanoid family to
observe the behavior of regular Greyhawk society
SURVIVOR: AMEDIO
A party of one of each class (rogue, bard, wizard, cleric, etc) is dropped in the jungle with only loincloths
S.W.A.T.:
reality series showing the daily activities
of the Special Wizardry And Tactics divisions
of the city watches in various major cities.
WIZARD WARS:
illusionists are challenged to best each other
by creating the most believable phantasms.
NYRONDIAN IDOL:
A popularity contest to see which demigod
will ascend to greater heights
in their respective pantheons.
Some of them can even sing.
What's My Mine?
- Dwarfish game show where contestants
have to work out what sort of smelting, panning,
or mineral extraction
the guest does for a living.
ARTIFACTS ROAD SHOW:
a traveling group of appraisers inform regular people the
values and powers (if any) of their supposed treasures.
Disturbingly, several past participants on the show
have disappeared or been found murdered...
The experts meet locals in a tavern or guildhall
to tell them if their family heirlooms are potent magic
or really just glow-in-the-dark junk.
I DREAM of DJINNI
– A handsome but unwise Spelljammer Captain
stays landside now, due to his crashlanding
in a desert, and then freeing a female djinn,
and she now calls him Master all the time.
They try to blend in with
regular Greyhawk society, and hijinks ensue.
THE SLOWEST LOSER:
Large people are challenged to lose weight by having to run obstacle courses
chased by progressively faster predatory creatures.
THE WALKING DEAD:
A documentary series meant to educate the masses about identifying
kinds of undead and surviving encounters with them. Shows the struggle
of a family whose village was wiped out by zombies.
Songs of Propitiation
- Mandatory religious-broadcast slot taken up with terrified cultists begging elder evils not to swallow the world just yet.
Myth Busters!
A pair of royal magistrates
that police legendary creatures.
THE APPRENTICE
How I Met Your Mummy
A fighter regales his children and friends
at the tavern of his various misadventures
with his now undead wife.
Papers & Paychecks
Level 0 wanna-be wizards compete weekly
to create the best spells and sell them for profit.
Each week the arch-mage fires one of them literally.
A show about six young friends and their pet unicorn who, after stumbling through a magic portal, are trapped in an eerie realm where magic doesn't work and have to struggle to make ends meet with only the assistance of the enigmatic Janitor.
Guards
- What'cha gonna do, when the Sheriff
come for you?
Focuses on the city guard of Greyhawk.
TURN NOTICE
A show about an intelligent undead who was evicted
from his way of unlife and now he wants it back.
Enemies: the Clerical Intelligence Agency.
Eight Watch - like TMZ, only they stalk the Council of 8, heroes & demigods etc. Zagig they are particularly fond of.
Knights Commander Inquisitor Squad (KCIS)
- A grizzled old knight and his band of investigators deal with various crimes and threats to the kingdom.
"So, You Want to be an Adventurer?"
Follow a cadre of zero-level peasants as they endure training
and tests to try and reach... LEVEL ONE!
Beauty is in the Eyes -
A reformed Beholder who is now a stylist takes high-level adventures still walking around in PHB1 gear
and snazzes them up with the latest loot drops. 92% chance of sassy repartee and heartwarming,
emotional breakthroughs. Surprise weekly guest stars (might just be wandering monsters)