Inglorious Basterds really made me want to play a WW2 game. Actually it made me want to write a WW2 game called Killin' Nazis. Chargen would determine what kind of accent you had and your favorite way to kill Nazis. Combat would be split into different parts of course. Shootin' Nazis, Stabbin' Nazis, Clubbin' Nazis, Strangling Nazis, Lighting Nazis on fire, Driving over Nazis with Jeeps and Tanks, dropping bombs on Nazis, drowning Nazis, and throwing Nazis off cliffs would all be covered. Experience would be measured not in abstract points, but in Dead Nazis. You want to increase your Nazi-killin skills to go up a point, you gotta get me 20 dead Nazis. You can kill em one at a time, or light em all up at once, that's a matter of personal choice. Me, I like killin as many as I can at a time.
Movies that make you want to game...
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Baron Opal
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (w/ Law & Baker)
13th Warrior
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
I'll give a nod to "Robin of Sherwood". I only saw a couple of episodes but I happily stole the sword lore for my campaign.
Andon is right on with "Record of Lodoss War" and "Slayers".
In fact, the night before a major battle in my game one of my players watched the 13th Warrior to get himself in the mood.
13th Warrior
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
I'll give a nod to "Robin of Sherwood". I only saw a couple of episodes but I happily stole the sword lore for my campaign.
Andon is right on with "Record of Lodoss War" and "Slayers".
In fact, the night before a major battle in my game one of my players watched the 13th Warrior to get himself in the mood.
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Asmor
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Every game is better with nazis. One of these days I will introduce nazis to one of my D&D games...
Also, that would make a great indie game.
rgard
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wingsandsword
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I always figured that the Lord of Blades and his followers in Eberron was a veiled fantasy Nazi parallel (then again, I always saw Eberron as a fantasy version of 1920's Europe, with the Last War being WWI).
As to the topic at hand, my "in the mood for D&D" movies:
Lord of The Rings (all 3, this is the most obvious one to me)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (never saw the TV series mentioned here, but it sounds good, since I haven't seen it I'll have to go with this)
Gladiator (all Fighters all the time. . .)
Conan The Barbarian (not just for Barbarian goodness, but the theft from the temple is probably the best film example of a classic D&D-style thief adventure)
Willow (probably the only Halfling Wizard in mainstream fantasy film
)The Slayers (probably the closest to "D&D the Anime" you'll ever get, better at getting the actual flavor of a typical D&D campaign than even Lodoss War, which is more like a D&D novel turned into a movie.)
300 (what happens when an Epic-level Fighter (or Fighter/Marshal) and his followers take on hundreds of thousands of low-level warriors lead by an epic level fighter who thinks he's a demigod)
Princess Mononoke (among other things, a good example of the Taint mechanic from Oriental Adventures, Unearthed Arcana, and seen in other versions in Heroes of Horror and Book of Vile Darkness, that and the characters in it easily translate to D&D characters. Jigo is a Rogue/Monk, Ashitaka is a Ranger/Fighter, San is a Barbarian, Lady Eboshi is an Aristocrat)
Asmor
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Thinly-veiled Nazi parallels abound in fiction. I'm talking about actual German Nazis from WWII-era Earth being dumped into a normal D&D game.
Bold or Stupid
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The Emerald Claw is the Nazis. Just compare them to Germans in Indiana Jones Films.
Wombat
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Star Trek II (TWoK) and IV (TUC) really get me juiced for games. Lawrence of Arabia also works, as does The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Lord of the Rings, The Mask of Zorro, various versions of Dracula, Zulu, The Princess Bride, and probably about another dozen or so others...
And then there are the near-misses for me -- movies that made me want to game, but I was so-so on the film itself, such as Dark City and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Oddly, I've always wanted to come up with a game based on City of Lost Children or Repo Man...
And then there are the near-misses for me -- movies that made me want to game, but I was so-so on the film itself, such as Dark City and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Oddly, I've always wanted to come up with a game based on City of Lost Children or Repo Man...
