Cultural influences in roleplaying

[hawkeyefan]

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.

 

[prabe]

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.

 

[niklinna]

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.

 

[pemerton]

Obligatory mention of Boorman's Excalibur.

Such an amazing film, and with awesome soundtrack too.

I've never quite caught it in RPGing, but not for want of trying. Some BW, Prince Valiant and even 4e has wandered about on the fringes.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Interesting. My parents introduced my brother and I to both sci-fi and fantasy. Growing up in the 80s, it seemed like both were everywhere.

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).

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.

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.

 

[niklinna]

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.

It would be an experience to see that properly in a theater.

 

[pemerton]

It would be an experience to see that properly in a theater.

I saw it revived in the early 90s, twice I think. (Once in a double with Blade Runner.)

 

[MGibster]

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.

You really can do everything in plate armor!

 

[niklinna]

I saw it revived in the early 90s, twice I think. (Once in a double with Blade Runner.)

* wets pants *

* sob *

Edit: You know, if you're gonna add Markdown support, at least also add suport for escaping the special characters.

 

[chaochou]

I love the aesthetic of The Seven Samurai, and also Yojimbo. But I don't think I've ever successfully incorporated it into RPGing.

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.