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A Dicebag of Dungeons and Dragons Documentaries
Jason Scott writes "While we're celebrating 30 years of Dungeons and Dragons, Slashdot readers might as well sit back with their DVD players and enjoy a few documentaries that have recently popped up; all of them done by independent filmmakers, too!
Uber Goober: The Movie calls itself 'A Film About Gamers' is a not-taking-itself-too-seriously overview of the life of RPGs and LARPs. Life With the Dice Bag, a 'Documentary about Role Playing Games and the people who play them' looks to take itself a bit more seriously as it covers the last GenCon held in Milwaukee. And finally, who can resist the pull of The Dungeons and Dragons Experience?"
...I (or rather my dad) has the original rulebooks, priced at $10 and illustrated with cheesy line drawings. It's come a long way.
I've been writing a column about role playing games. (See my sig.) It's been running for about four months, even if it only exists in my blog. :)
I'm also looking for people interested in trying an idea I had for an email-based D&D game. Check out the FAQ for it.
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Nothing will ever beat what is, in my opinion, THE D&D movie. http://www.deadgentlemen.com/gamers/media.html
I'm still waiting to see the release of Dave Arneson's _Dragons In The Basement_ which we got a preview of back in GenCon 2000. That's 4 years ago, and still no word on it. There was talk the Sci-Fi channel might pick it up.
Bruce
The Gamers
Oh wait, this isn't a poll...
Seriously though, if you're lucky enough to be at GenCon this week, you can stop and say hi to the film's creators (and see the premier of their newest movie).
Old GenCon? There's a current one here in Indianapolis right now. They've booked so many rooms in the hotels the football team coming in for a preseason game has to shack up over twenty miles away.
I thought about going to it because it's only about a twenty-minute drive. Everything I saw online in newsgroups and on TV made it to look like it was RPGs and cards (oh, and the "authentic Batmobile") I do own a lot which were labelled "best of [x]" or have good current ratings in the various computer game magazines to keep my collection complete[1] of worthwhile games (I don't rely upon a single magazine - I cross-correlate them...sort of). There are a few oddball games - I bought a copy of Daikatana at CompUSA when they were charging $1 to get rid of it. For that price, I couldn't resist simply because of the history which would be associated with it).
Anyway, if it's more than RPG or cards, they need to broaden their PR or online chatter.
[1]We have an agreement: she doesn't complain about what I spend on games and I don't complain about what she spends on cross-stitch.
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Good ol' Jack Chick. I remember seeing photocopies of that strip stuck in AD&D manuals in the bookstore I shopped at in my youth. The only thing scarier than the fact that Chick actually thinks this stuff up, is that there's people who buy into it so strongly as to dedicate significant portions of their life to printing it out and distributing it.
As a sidenote, my second favorite after the Dark Dungeons strip was the one showing how much the devil loved the sitcom bewitched.
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