Laurefindel
Legend
there are a few references in Ready Player One.
then again, there are references to EVERYTHING in ready player one...
then again, there are references to EVERYTHING in ready player one...
One thing that I think we are seeing, and will increasingly see in the future, is the throw-in use of "D&D" to refer to the late 70s and early 80s.
Kind of like how some media (TV, movies) will use that certain Haight-Ashbury "summer of love" look and references to refer to the 60s.
Everyone knows about Stranger Things, of course. But that's not the only one. When I got around to watching the third season of True Detective*, they included the fact that one of the kids played D&D as a shortcut way of placing it in the '80s.
....of course, they somehow managed to mess it up. IIRC, not only did it not make sense (it was implied he was playing it by himself, or with one other person who clearly wasn't playing D&D), but when they briefly showed the dice, they had a backgammon doubling cube.
Anyway, they had a fake module (Forest of Leng) and it also played into the whole Satanic Panic Angle. Even so, it seems that as the past recedes, the signifiers remain.
*Excellent. If you liked the first season, and didn't care for the second, try the third. Mahersala Ali is amazing.
Could also be Palladium. I ran a Palladium campaign where I gave one of my players a magic weapon that used the Backgammon doubling dice for damage. He has notorious bad luck with dice and in that campaign he never rolled above 8 with it.One thing that I think we are seeing, and will increasingly see in the future, is the throw-in use of "D&D" to refer to the late 70s and early 80s.
Kind of like how some media (TV, movies) will use that certain Haight-Ashbury "summer of love" look and references to refer to the 60s.
Everyone knows about Stranger Things, of course. But that's not the only one. When I got around to watching the third season of True Detective*, they included the fact that one of the kids played D&D as a shortcut way of placing it in the '80s.
....of course, they somehow managed to mess it up. IIRC, not only did it not make sense (it was implied he was playing it by himself, or with one other person who clearly wasn't playing D&D), but when they briefly showed the dice, they had a backgammon doubling cube.
Anyway, they had a fake module (Forest of Leng) and it also played into the whole Satanic Panic Angle. Even so, it seems that as the past recedes, the signifiers remain.
*Excellent. If you liked the first season, and didn't care for the second, try the third. Mahersala Ali is amazing.