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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6204704" data-attributes="member: 4348">Sorry, you certain you lived in the 80s?You're remarks seem awfully odd for one that says they were alive at the time.It's impossible for you to have missed the movies, TV shows, and the rest.  Basically, just look up fantasy movies from the early and mid 80s for a list.  Heck, even Conan the Barbarian is more someone's personal idea of Conan with their D&D campaign (Conan from the books is basically a far different character) and in the Destroyer you have all the classes represented (Warrior, Cleric, Rogue, and Wizard).   The D&D books were in the department stores in New England, and in fact, all over the US.  If you were in Eastern Europe, on the otherhand, not certain if it was anywhere in those areas, if they were it probably WOULD HAVE been a hobby store if any even existed.All the Fantasy movies and shows you listed are more inspired by fantasy OTHER than D&D.  The ones from the 80s are more or less inspired DIRECTLY by D&D.  The other difference are shows like Big Bang theory are EXACTLY why D&D is marginalized today...it's been stereotyped as the game of nerds.  Not mainstream normal people, but nerds.  In the 80s it was mainstream.  BIG DIFFERENCE.However, if you had a jaded childhood, I'm sorry.  But seriously, if you missed the 80s fad...you must have been under a rock.  The closest I could come to figuring out the type of fad today that's comparable would be perhaps like the Apple Tablets when they came out.  For a short while, D&D was MASSIVE.  Of course, the tablet revolution is probably going to last longer then the D&D fad, but that fad was enormous in the English speaking portions of the Western world.</blockquote>

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