D&D 5E Tomb of Annihilation Appendix N

[Sacrosanct]

I would like to have folks post inspirational TV shows or movies that would give great ideas and inspiration to running ToA. Not just to give you inspirational ideas, but also help give you as the DM an idea of what adventuring in the jungle may be like, and thus you can incorporate that into your games.


Naked And Afraid and Dual Survival (TV Show series). Particularly the jungle environments. Gives a great idea of the weather and affect of insects to adventurers. The overall misery of the heat and humidity, and challenge to things like getting a fire started, finding water, etc

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Kong Island

Platoon (specifically the jungle scenes with guard duty, travelling, and things like foot rot)

Predator (basically a modern D&D party)

The Lost World (Jurassic Park)

 

[Prakriti]

Fires on the Plain (1959 film) - the story of a sick Japanese soldier in the Phillipines during World War 2. A very dark jungle survival story.

 

[Kobold Stew]

The 2011 tv series Terra Nova never really had time to get off the ground, but its got humans/dinosaurs and was pretty good.

Also, for old folks like me, Land of the Lost.

 

[darjr]

I'm reading the book "The Jungles of Chult" that stars Artus Cimber.

Also the playtest "Murder in Balders Gate" I'm reading for that intro part for times when my table wan'ts to bump up before entering chult itself.

 

[hawkeyefan]

Apocalypto springs to mind.

The Rundown.

The Jungle Book, of course.

Any of the many takes on Tarzan.

The Mosquito Coast.

 

[JeffB]

The guadalcanal and (especially) cape gloucester episodes in The Pacific.

Or any historically accurate media dealing with the Pacific Theatre during WWII, in particular Burma.

 

[Rhenny]

The African Queen (Bogart is a character)
The Missionary (DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, and others)

 

[aco175]

I remember a documentary on building the Panama Canal. It showed a lot of the hardships in working there and problems building there. I also like the Planet Earth series that show many of the animals in all the regions of the planet. It may not focus on people there, but will gve you some of the plants and animals for ideas.

Personally, I would try for more the movie feel of some of the movies already mentioned. If the players have never been to a jungle they may only need to focus on a few elements to get the feel and not get lost.

 

[MichaelSomething]

No love for Tropic Thunder?

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[Bacon Bits]

King Solomon's Mines.

Romancing the Stone. Yes, it's a rom-com, but it's an *adventure* rom-com. It's probably a better example than Crocodile Dundee 2, at least.

Any of the Uncharted games. Andy Gilleand on YouTube has edited together "movie" versions of these games. The first 3 are a reasonable length, but Uncharted 4 is 6 hours long and more of a Let's Play. He's done the same thing with the Tomb Raider reboots, but I don't think those are quite as narrative.