Posted on 04/30/2018 3:09:26 PM PDT by Teflonic
The cartoon was ok.
D&D was never cool.
The cartoon was great!!!
I vaguely remember it.
The DVDs are around somewhere.
My sister referred to it as “Magic: The Crack Addiction”. She thought some of the people who played it were, shall we say, a bit ‘obsessive’.
That was it, I couldn’t remember the name of it, and I didn’t remember that it was Tom Hanks in that. I guess I was about 9 at the time.
Still gaming. Sporadic nowadays, but will still do some “roll” playing.
When I was assigned with the AF in Germany, I’d get together with some friends from time to time and we’d play D&D well into the night. Great times!
NERDS!!!!!!
If you like D&D, you might like this flick.
A bit older of an audience though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26rUX16cZM
Original D&D was essentially a homemade Lord of the Rings boardgame without the board.
D&D makes you think - you have to use your imagination and really get into it. A lot of libtards have had their minds subjected to Satan and the machine, therefore depriving them of imagination and rational thought, making it impossible to enjoy D&D. The only imagination they show is for deviant sexual fantasy - wonder if there are RPG’s for that?
They are - take a gander at the bay prices some day when you have time. Early 70s modules can go for $100 easy. Later 80s stuff usually runs in the 20s or better. I’ve managed to pick up some bargains at yard and thrift sales over the past 10 or so years - but they are rare to come by in the wild unless on a web sell site.
Not so much the books. mostly the modules.
I marathoned through all of the first campaign last summer and caught up in early fall. Its very good. Matt Mercer is a talented storyteller and does an amazing job of bringing it all together. The cast is made up mostly of people in the voice acting industry, including an Emmy award winner and a two time BAFTA winner. They’re all pretty talented.
The second campaign has been good so far. I’m particularly happy to see Travis playing a character that isn’t constrained by low intelligence, something that kept him from even mentioning ideas in the previous campaign. His wife Laura is also amazing, and I’m fairly certain might be a cartoon character in real life.
If you haven’t done so, I’d watch the first campaign over time. The story arcs are pretty good, especially towards the end as Matt brings everything together and they face off against Vecna.
>>Well, I meant in terms of morality. They obviously are meant to maximize consumption and revenue by constantly adding expansion packs.
I meant in terms of morality too. D&D and most RPGs are games of cooperation, usually in fights against evil. Even PCs of evil alignments aren’t the same kind of evil as the antagonist in a D&D campaign. In CCG, you are just combatants. Good and evil are gone, except as equals sitting across the table from each other. For the generation who grew up playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, etc, these games were ones where everyone got to play the good guys. Even the DM, who cooperates by playing all the bad guys, gets to share in the successes of the players as they cooperate to create a story.
CCG players have a term called a “table flip card” which is a game breaker card that usually enrages the other player. I’ve never seen a table flip in an RPG in over 35 years of gaming.
There was Mazes and Monsters, but I don’t know if it was made for TV or not. But the running joke in our house is that my mother thought it was a documentary; she was totally and completely panicked by D&D. Which is a pity, because it would’ve made adolescence much easier on me.
I fell in love with fantasy in fifth grade when someone handed me a copy of the Hobbit. I discovered D&D in the ninth grade just before the first edition books came out. I played D&D with a group of friends in their parents basement most Friday evenings all through high school. We first had to convince my mother that it wasn’t evil.
I tried several times to get my sons to play it but it never stuck. We played Magic the Gathering instead and had a lot of fun. It is a step above Pokemon. The kids have moved so I have boxes of cards in storage.
Fast forward a few years, my third son’s best friend’s stepfather played old school D&D. We became friends and had a lot of fun for a couple years. I took a group of adults and teenagers through a dungeon adventure I had written in my late teens. My church leaders told me to stop playing so my wife “educated” them on good versus evil intentions. I moved away and lost contact with the group.
I discovered D&D Online and had fun with that for several years. I also joined a group that played all sorts of RPGs and other games - Wild Wild West, Earthdawn, Game of Thrones, Touch of Evil (board game). It was fun but nothing stuck very long.
D&D is my original RPG and still my favorite.
I moved again and haven’t restarted RPGs. I still have all my books, modules and miniatures.
I’m slowly working my way through the first campaign, 380 hours is a lot to get through! I don’t like the rude bald guy in the first either but I read that he is booted around the 27th episode.
Laura is my absolute favorite, she cracks me up constantly in the second campaign. She also has a stunning smile, Travis is a fortunate man to be married to her! They are all pretty great except for Taliesin as the odd man out, I think he should be replaced as he doesn’t contribute much.
Maybe we’ll all play epic campaigns together in the nursing home someday heh. In the meantime this show scratches that itch pretty well.
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