hawkeyefan
Legend
It’s only in recent years I’ve realized how much overlap there is with westerns and fantasy. I’ve always liked westerns, but never realized how much they were influencing our gaming.
Once you see it, though, you cannot unsee it.It’s only in recent years I’ve realized how much overlap there is with westerns and fantasy. I’ve always liked westerns, but never realized how much they were influencing our gaming.
Such an amazing film, and with awesome soundtrack too.Obligatory mention of Boorman's Excalibur.
I wasn't actually much of a fantasy fan before I started playing D&D. An SF fan, yes, but if West Coast D&D fandom didn't have a fair bit of SF seeping into it, I'm not 100% sure it'd have caught me (though I was always interested in mythology and monsters, so it had that going for it).
Obligatory mention of Boorman's Excalibur. My high school D&D group got together to watch it. Not that it actually inspired our game, which was thoroughly dungeon-crawly until I bought a few of the published modules, which landed like a wet towel with the group.
It would be an experience to see that properly in a theater.Ah Excalibur. That soundtrack, the gleaming armor, the bombast! It wasn't until I watched it in middle school with my D&D group that I realized that the version I'd grown up watching was a TV edit. That was an eye-opener.
I saw it revived in the early 90s, twice I think. (Once in a double with Blade Runner.)It would be an experience to see that properly in a theater.
You really can do everything in plate armor!Ah Excalibur. That soundtrack, the gleaming armor, the bombast! It wasn't until I watched it in middle school with my D&D group that I realized that the version I'd grown up watching was a TV edit. That was an eye-opener.
* wets pants *I saw it revived in the early 90s, twice I think. (Once in a double with Blade Runner.)
We found this a general frustration of the era. Several of us had Bushido, by FGU, but despite its wonderfully written setting and background and evocative skill list, playing it didn't produce Kurosawa. We had Cyberpunk, but it's play didn't produce Gibson.I love the aesthetic of The Seven Samurai, and also Yojimbo. But I don't think I've ever successfully incorporated it into RPGing.