Waaaaaay OT: Dungeons and Dragons

[SpinaDude]

I never really got into Dungeons & Dragons. I always loved the concept of the game and the inventiveness of it. Problem was, I could never find people to play with who were only casual fans. The people I have seen were always deeply invested in it...to the point that it was just too much for me. Many of the people who are into it tend to be all in -- all the time.

Anyway what I used to love was the old 80's Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I caught it every Saturday morning and thought it was amazing.

Now the new movie is coming out next week and is thankfully getting good advance reviews. it looks fun, an I hope it holds up for me.

They just released some clips today and they dropped an awesome Easter Egg into the movie...the original kids from the cartoon.

Look close and you see Hank, Bobby, Sheila, Diana, Presto and Eric.

I know this is super nerdy stuff, but it really made me smile so I thought I'd share.

Here's the clip, in case you're interested. It looks like good popcorn fun.

 

[Pat A Flafla]

That's a cute detail. I totally own the DVD set of that cartoon. Looking back on it, that show was a million times better than He-Man.

 

[Sequimite]

I was a D&D guy back in the 70's along with chess and historical simulations. We combined D&D with Middle Ages Chainmail miniatures rules. Civil War naval miniatures was another popular obsession with some work friends at Citicorp and my brother-in-law.

 

[audiochurch]

Love it!! Movie looks really good vs the first one.

 

[JimmyM]

Nerds…lol!

 

[Squirrel Man]

Total D&D geek back in high school, still have a crown royal sack of dice. I have a 20 sided dice on my work desk.

Me and my buddies had a room dedicated to playing with dozens of books, graph paper, player cards and all that. Played for days.

 

[robthetimekeeper]

There hasn't been a good sword and sorcery movie since Your Highness!

 

[digovii]

I’ve been playing weekly with my friends for the past 5 years. Stoked for the movie! Supposed to be great.

 

[5 Style]

I hung out with a group of folks in HS who were players, but I never played. I guess I'm a bit ADD and never really wanted to socialize around a game where I would have to learn the rules, keep track of what's happening, etc. I realize though that I may have missed something because wherever I see kids playing it in movies and such (like in Stranger Things) it always looks like fun and really opens up the imagination, which I like the idea of.

The idea of a movie or series based on D&D though seems a bit superfluous as it seems to me that any kind of medieval/fantasy tale could tie in with D&D...

 

[robthetimekeeper]

I loved the 80's cartoon as a kid. I've recently started watching a new animated series based on D&D. It's called Vox Machina on Amazon Prime. It's not for kids.

 

[latzanimal]

One of my old bass player's wrote one of the worlds for D&D...

He still writes games..

 

[Stickclick]

Well I suppose that's exciting, sort of. Better than watching TV in general.

 

[ppfd]

Always wanted to try it, nobody I knew played it. Had that basic level box set.
I see WM has the same I had back in the 80s.
Ham radio is about as high as I can get on the geek level right now

 

[TheElectricCompany]

Well I suppose that's exciting, sort of. Better than watching TV in general.

What's wrong with TV?

 

[xtranoise]

I never played DND. My sons play now. The youngest introduced me to Pathfinder and we will play that as a family when they are home from college. Same kid who introduced me to anime which I find fascinating.

 

[Bandit]

There hasn't been a good sword and sorcery movie since Your Highness!

Portman for the win!

 

[Gordogarbo]

I haven’t played DnD since COVID started:/ I pulled my books out of storage the other day though. Who wants to start a campaign!?‽

 

[Pat A Flafla]

Who wants to start a campaign!?

No politics!

 

[DamnSingerAlsoDrums]

Haven't played a lot of D&D per se but I've geeked out on a fair share of other similar tabletop RPG's when I was a teenager.

After watching Stranger things a couple years back, my daughter and her twin cousins, then 11, became fascinated with what the kids in the show were doing (playing D&D) so they got an old Warhammer rule book off one of my bookshelves, found some dice in a box in the garage and they begged me and my bro to teach them how to play/ DM a quest for them. So we started doing that.

My daughter and her twin cousins have very sharp minds, a witty sense of repartee and a very twisted sense of humour (don't know where they get that from...) so pretty much all sessions end in utter chaos and everybody trying to catch their breath while they wipe tears of laughter off their eyes. Some of the best moments of pure joy, exploring the limits of ridiculousness with those kids (who incidently are ours, wich makes it even better) I've had in my life.

 

[Pat A Flafla]

they got an old Warhammer rule book off one of my bookshelves

Oh man, from the outside it seems to me that people spend a whole lot of money on that game.
Of course I have a whole lot of traditional boxed tabletop games so maybe I'm throwing stones at a glass house. Then again my "newest" game console is an 8 bit NES (on a CRT so Duck Hunt works) so I guess it's less a question of how much is allotted to entertainment then how it's spent.