D&D General E. Gary Gygax auction Nov 2023

[Parmandur]

War Rafts of Kron is up to $41.

 

[MGibster]

I'm seriously thinking of buying Cyborg Commando as a joke for a friend.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm seriously thinking of buying Cyborg Commando as a joke for a friend.

I mean, owning Gygaxcopy would be pretty cool.

 

[General_Tangent]

I bid on the War Mammoth of the Undead Legion made by Grenadier miniatures in 1984. I honestly don't know if I would have ever gotten around to assembling it let alone painting it. The prospect of pinning and fixing gaps isn't something I look forward to, so I'm glad I've been outbid. As I suspected, most of the other boxed sets are a bit more than I'm willing to pay. Conan minis would be way cool, but I'm not paying $100+ for it. I hope whoever wins is very happy with it.

I had that very miniature and it looked really impressive on the box. It's a pity I lacked the skills to assemble and paint it as it needed a lot of work.

 

[aco175]

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

In contrast, the 2011 Jason Momoa Conan movie tried to be more faithful to the source material. At least inasfar is the source material is Savage Sword of Conan, not just the original stories, though with at least a couple of references to the original stories (I remember them name-checking The Tower of the Elephant, for example). But it's just not a good movie.

2011 Conan has a lot of shots of someone holding something up to the sky and screaming.

Though Arnold's Conan was better and more impactful, Momoa's Conan felt more like the book Conan, if that makes any sense.

Yeah, a really faithful adaptation would be pretty wildly out of style in 1982: Howard reads like watching a black and white film. A faithful adaptation might be more "American" feeling, and feel more like a classical Western than a Italian Sword & Sandal flick.

There would be worse approaches to Conan than treating it as a western. If I recall correctly, back when Rob Zombie was attached to a Conan movie, that's how he said he was going to handle it.

Conan the Destroyer isn't a particularly great movie, but I've always found it interesting that it is a pivot from the peculiarities of the first movie into being more of a D&D film.

As much as I enjoy Conan the Destroyer, no, it is not a great movie. But yeah, it feels a whole lot more like a D&D movie than Barbarian.

Wow.

I'm glad we got the much better D&D movie in 2000, than this script! Oof!

I bet the 2000 D&D movie's script probably looked decent. There's no saving some of that dialogue, but a lot of the shots and special effects were kneecapped by budget (and incompetence, for that matter).

But back to the D&D movie script, I suspect that parts of it stem from the same impulse at TSR at the time that brought us Morley the Wizard - a deliberate attempt to appeal to kids and rebuff the Satanic Panic-fed public perception of the game.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

2011 Conan has a lot of shots of someone holding something up to the sky and screaming.

Though Arnold's Conan was better and more impactful, Momoa's Conan felt more like the book Conan, if that makes any sense.


There would be worse approaches to Conan than treating it as a western. If I recall correctly, back when Rob Zombie was attached to a Conan movie, that's how he said he was going to handle it.


As much as I enjoy Conan the Destroyer, no, it is not a great movie. But yeah, it feels a whole lot more like a D&D movie than Barbarian.


I bet the 2000 D&D movie's script probably looked decent. There's no saving some of that dialogue, but a lot of the shots and special effects were kneecapped by budget (and incompetence, for that matter).

But back to the D&D movie script, I suspect that parts of it stem from the same impulse at TSR at the time that brought us Morley the Wizard - a deliberate attempt to appeal to kids and rebuff the Satanic Panic-fed public perception of the game.

Neither Momoa nor Schwarzenegger are good Conan. Conan is a Cimmerian, which is basically an ancient Celt, who is lean (not massively built) with grey eyes. Aidan Turner is a better choice, to be honest.

 

[Mistwell]

Neither Momoa nor Schwarzenegger are good Conan. Conan is a Cimmerian, which is basically an ancient Celt, who is lean (not massively built) with grey eyes. Aidan Turner is a better choice, to be honest.

This is the nerdiest reply I have seen in months. I love it.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Neither Momoa nor Schwarzenegger are good Conan. Conan is a Cimmerian, which is basically an ancient Celt, who is lean (not massively built) with grey eyes. Aidan Turner is a better choice, to be honest.

(oops, wrong Aidan)

 

[MGibster]

Neither Momoa nor Schwarzenegger are good Conan. Conan is a Cimmerian, which is basically an ancient Celt, who is lean (not massively built) with grey eyes. Aidan Turner is a better choice, to be honest.

I'm pretty sure Conan was created before the regular use of steroids my mesomophs interested in bulking up, so that makes sense. In most depictions of Conan I've seen from prior to 1982 depict him a muscular, yes, but lean and not at all bulky like a bodybuilder. One of the great ironies of modern body builders is when they look their best they're at their weakest. To achieve that look they starve and dehydrate themselves for a few days.