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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 2508629" data-attributes="member: 553">My digital cable provider has a feature called 'On Demand', which is free for the most part, and is like a video library - you can start/stop/fast forward, ect. any of the several programs included.  There is a section called 'Anime Selects', which right now is beginning Lodoss War and I've watched the first two episodes recently.  I thought it seemed to use a lot more D&D'ish tropes than other anime, and now I know why.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   It definitely seems like a continuation of an existing story (they keep referring to another 'campaign' called the War of Heroes.)One thing I really like is that the dragons in the world have a reason for the treasures that they are hoarding.  I may work something similar into my own campaign.I'm not an expert or anything, but I'd say Lodoss is at least a little above par for 'old school' anime, in terms of animation, voice-acting and plot.  In general, though, I prefer more recent anime series, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Samuri Champloo or Witch Hunter Robin  (This kinda stuff I can also find 'On Demand', but it's generally on the Anime Network or Cartoon Network "channels".)</blockquote>