steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
Keeping it to 5 is tough!...even with splitting up the media.
Books:
1. All/Any Tolkien (The Hobbit-LotR-Simarillion)
2. The Riftwar Saga (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon), Raymond E. Feist
3. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
4. The Dragonlance Chronicles, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
5. The Cadfael Chronicles, Ellis Peters (a series of middle ages "historical mysteries" solved by the herbalist/detective monk, Brother Cadfael. If you ever want a look/reference of how to set up a "realistic" european religious order/monastic life in your games, give it a look. Some cool tidbits of herbalism in there too.)
Movies:
1. Legend
2. Excalibur
3. The Dark Crystal
4. Ladyhawke
5. Flash Gordon (even though I don't do tech/sci-fi in my D&D fantasy, I think it is a great film for capturing the spirit of a D&D game/experience)
Cartoons...tv & a way to get in an extra movie
1. The Last Unicorn
2. He-man/MotU, either the 80's or 2002 version. Again, though I don't include technology in my particular D&D, the makings of a bevy of great adventures, artifacts, plots, etc...all there for the picking.
3. Thundercats, either the 80's or more recent versions. See rationale under He-man.
4. Thundarr the Barbarian, and again ignore the tech (jeez there was a lot of this "science & sorcery" stuff back then!)
5. The Pirates of Darkwater
note that the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, while fun for noticing things from the game or maybe a plot idea here or there, does not, to me, at all convey the "spirit of D&D."
Music...
I'd say pretty much anything by Enya
"The Lady of Shallot" and "All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt, though more of her stuff could apply as well.
"Devil's Dance", written & conducted by John Williams for/from the Witches of Eastwick soundtrack.
That about does it. I do not often associate music with D&D.
Books:
1. All/Any Tolkien (The Hobbit-LotR-Simarillion)
2. The Riftwar Saga (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon), Raymond E. Feist
3. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
4. The Dragonlance Chronicles, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
5. The Cadfael Chronicles, Ellis Peters (a series of middle ages "historical mysteries" solved by the herbalist/detective monk, Brother Cadfael. If you ever want a look/reference of how to set up a "realistic" european religious order/monastic life in your games, give it a look. Some cool tidbits of herbalism in there too.)
Movies:
1. Legend
2. Excalibur
3. The Dark Crystal
4. Ladyhawke
5. Flash Gordon (even though I don't do tech/sci-fi in my D&D fantasy, I think it is a great film for capturing the spirit of a D&D game/experience)
Cartoons...tv & a way to get in an extra movie
1. The Last Unicorn
2. He-man/MotU, either the 80's or 2002 version. Again, though I don't include technology in my particular D&D, the makings of a bevy of great adventures, artifacts, plots, etc...all there for the picking.
3. Thundercats, either the 80's or more recent versions. See rationale under He-man.
4. Thundarr the Barbarian, and again ignore the tech (jeez there was a lot of this "science & sorcery" stuff back then!)
5. The Pirates of Darkwater
note that the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, while fun for noticing things from the game or maybe a plot idea here or there, does not, to me, at all convey the "spirit of D&D."
Music...
I'd say pretty much anything by Enya
"The Lady of Shallot" and "All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt, though more of her stuff could apply as well.
"Devil's Dance", written & conducted by John Williams for/from the Witches of Eastwick soundtrack.
That about does it. I do not often associate music with D&D.
