February 20, 2011 by beerogre
After a night on the sauce, there was an intense discussion (as these things often are) about what inspired you when it came to gaming.
I argued that the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon was instrumental in bringing fantasy gaming more into the mainstream.
What do you think?
Here's my favourite episode to help inspire you... City at the Edge of Midnight!
The second part is coming soon.
BoW Andy
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Oh boy…
We used to have that cartoon in France, dubbed in our language…
It was called “Le sourire du Dragon”, or “The Dragon’s Smile”, even though the french theme song (which was very “eighties”, sung by one of the presenters who did the kiddie afternoon show when this was aired) clearly stated that this was “Donjons et Dragons, la grande aventure” (“Dungeons and Dragons, the great adventure”).
The thief is clearly the inspiration for that thief character in the Baldur’s Gate video games.
I’ve been re-watching this series on Youtube. Brings back lots of memories. I think I was five when this came out. Of course this show made my parents nervous. This was around the time when Tipper Gore started encouraging responsible parents to ban all forms of questionable media from the household. Guess what…that just makes kids want to see it more. Now I’m stuck with this inexplicable fondness for D&D, Warhammer, and obnoxious Heavy Metal.
Ah, that brings back some memories. Great cartoon. Great days.
Dungeons and Dragons and the BattleTech cartoon were pretty much gateway drugs into tabletop wargaming.
You and me both. Well as far as the D&D cartoon whent. I was already playing BattleTech bt the time that cartoon came out.
wtf am I watching?
WOW, that takes me back to my childhood, when cartoons used to be good and have good old fashioned violence and destruction LOL, modern kids cartoons are so PC and rubbish with the exception of Samuria Jack.
Hmm it was gundam wing, Dreamstone and Jayce and the wheel warriors that got me into wargamming.
I was playing D&D before the i watched the cartoon, had a major gush when i watched for the first time all those years ago.
PS watch Dreamstone its awesome! Ozzy Osburne and Billy connelly do the soundtrack and a few people die and one dies within the first 2 mins of the pilot you don’t get shows like that anymore!
Bought the series on DVD when it came out.
It’s probably the sole reason for my getting into roleplaying/wargaming.
For those that are interested…
Google “Dungeons and Dragons Requiem”.
It’s the final unfilmed episode, the script for which the series writer/creator has released online.
I always loved the Dragon’s Graveyard Episode… That one was a bit Epic…
Holy crap, and after watching old transformer episodes I thought that was bad. Holy crap any1 else think you need a bong to go with this????
We got this cartoon in Brazil too, long time ago and it was great at that time. But mainly the students who went to the US brought RPG Games tabletop and miniatures. After that a few publishers and companies came along back in the early 90ies
Brings back alot of good old memories, loved to watch that cartoon show on superchannel with mouse mouse and that dutch kid *laughs* in my early days *sighs*. Yep definatly the fix for getting into roleplaying, tabletop and the urge to learn english for me :). It allways warms my heart and makes me all fuzzy and cozy inside thinking back to those days. It’s really astounding how cartoons in your childhood can form you for the rest of your life.
Certainly brings back memories.. not sure how good they are though 😉
They suck because there is not a dwarf…
lol i loved this when i was a kid 🙂
BoW Justin
I think Bobby’s the dwarf… Well, closest thing anyway. Sad, really. No elves either, but no one’s complaining… And this was all before tieflings and aasimars. They also had to have an all-human party, for obvious reasons. Weird magic items are a bit of an easy McGuffin for giving regular humans an edge, and they could very well have given them some supernatural powers, but they couldn’t justify some of them suddenly getting smaller or sprouting pointy ears… They also chose the “everyone gets a magic item” route because they couldn’t have justified the fact that the elf wizard gets… Read more »
lol, thanks for the good memories. This and Robotech were some of the greatest Saturday morning toons for me. And yes, wasn’t long till I bought the original D&D Red box set. Awesome times…
Was already playing d&d when this was on which probably shows my age but it was cool to see my ‘weird’ hobby portrayed on tv. We all used to take the pi&£ out of it but all still watched anyway. It was the warlock of fire top mountain and other FF books that got me into gaming and my first purchase of the original red basic set. 30 years later just watched the entire d&d DVD box set with my 7 & 11 year old and now my 7 yr old son has a marine and dwarfs army to fight… Read more »
Also Just got a cryx and khador battle box to have a bash with my son after being inspired by andy’s videos keep it up lads. Will BoW be at Salute this year? Be great to. Say hi and thanks for all the content.
Pete
Sranger Danger!!!! Stranger Danger!!!
Lol -check this out now really showing my age
Google ” charlie says public information films strangers”
Pete