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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5016938" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>A bunch of kids sitting around a table with dice and papers and books, talking about resurrection and magic spells and ordering pizza, and Mom has no real problem with it. </p><p></p><p>Are you going to argue that this isn't RPGs <em>in general</em> in the mainstream? Will you then argue that D&D was not the face of RPGs in the time the movie was made? </p><p></p><p>The fact that they aren't using actual spell names for the PHB, and don't show the actual DMG artwork, doesn't really matter. Anyone who was playing the games recognized the reference anyway. Those who didn't know the games <em>wouldn't know the details were wrong</em>, and would either be confused, or would assume it was the one big game in the market. And Spielberg may have his flaws, but intentionally putting things in his movies that he knows will confuse his audience isn't really one of them. That's more George Lucas <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>Hollywood never gets technical details right. If you were to go by the details, you'd have to argue that the TV show Knight Rider is not evidence that the Pontiac Trans Am was a mainstream car, because KITT didn't behave or perform like a real Trans Am.</p><p></p><p>if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is at least a metaphor for a duck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5016938, member: 177"] A bunch of kids sitting around a table with dice and papers and books, talking about resurrection and magic spells and ordering pizza, and Mom has no real problem with it. Are you going to argue that this isn't RPGs [I]in general[/I] in the mainstream? Will you then argue that D&D was not the face of RPGs in the time the movie was made? The fact that they aren't using actual spell names for the PHB, and don't show the actual DMG artwork, doesn't really matter. Anyone who was playing the games recognized the reference anyway. Those who didn't know the games [i]wouldn't know the details were wrong[/i], and would either be confused, or would assume it was the one big game in the market. And Spielberg may have his flaws, but intentionally putting things in his movies that he knows will confuse his audience isn't really one of them. That's more George Lucas :p Hollywood never gets technical details right. If you were to go by the details, you'd have to argue that the TV show Knight Rider is not evidence that the Pontiac Trans Am was a mainstream car, because KITT didn't behave or perform like a real Trans Am. if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is at least a metaphor for a duck. [/QUOTE]
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