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Friday, 10 August 2018

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ON VHS


I recently found this in our attic and as unwanted* VHS it has to go. I've listed it on Amazon, which still fortunately offers such a selling category.

Its Dungeons and Dragons: the Night of No Tomorrow

I know virtually nothing about Dungeons and Dragons except for TSR inventing it I think. The whole role playing craze passed me by as did the video game craze.

However, I do like the cover art of this video and if the animation is similarly bright and sharp I would like it too. It has a sort of Ralph Bakshi look to it and even a book of  cartoony Middle Earth illustrations I had as a teenager but the name escapes me.

Does anyone like these Dungeons and Dragons animated cartoons?

Anyone got the old action figures and gaming pieces?
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*I have lots of VHS I'm keeping
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7 comments:

  1. Lance8/10/2018 12:49 am

    They are quite entertaining and feature some very talented voice actors. A few years back they released the whole series on DVD. Needless to say I snagged a copy.

    I do have quite a few of the first run of figures off in storage including some of the big rubber fire elementals and others. A side benefit of managing the toy dept allowed me first dibs.

    I've way too many RPG books for D&D (according to the Mrs) and hundreds of the metal table top miniatures.

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  2. Ranalcus8/10/2018 6:58 am

    I loved the cartoon series, and played D&D decade ago. it is never too late to start some pen & paper RPG with friends

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  3. WOODSY8/10/2018 10:21 am

    I may have to watch it now Guys! Thanks! I wonder if TSR knew the craze that they were starting way back in the Seventies? Did they adapt for the video game market too?

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    1. Ranalcus8/10/2018 10:30 am

      For more well know D&D PC games
      - Icewind Dale
      - Baldur's gate
      - Neverwinter Nights
      - Planescape Torment

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    2. WOODSY8/11/2018 9:59 am

      Thanks Ran. Superb titles! The TSR guys who invented D&D must have been geniuses really. Such a simple idea. I wonder if it was before Sword and Sorcery films began? Was it Lord of the Rings that inspired them I wonder?

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    3. Ranalcus8/11/2018 10:24 am

      Early D&D were heavy based on Tolkien's Books (Orcs, Eleves etc.) but after the years they made lots of their own ideas/designs.
      If you want to start, there was a Baldur's Gate 2 HD Edition released some time ago (after 20 years?) and it is solid piece of game that can even run on "toasters" (low level/old PC's/Laptops)

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    4. WOODSY8/11/2018 12:22 pm

      ha ha, I have a toaster Ran!

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