D&D General Poll: Did you watch the D&D cartoon when it was new?

Did you watch the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon at any point during its original run?

  • Yes

    Votes: 158 73.8%
  • No

    Votes: 56 26.2%

  • Poll closed .
Definitely not. I’ve watched the 2023 one five times already - and that sort of thing is a rarity for me.
Each to their own tastes... I've seen the 2000 movie probably five or six times and love to riff on it precisely because it is so bad it is actually good.

I couldn't even finish the 2023 movie when it finally came out on TV. 🤷‍♂️
 

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Besides Jeremy Irons chewing the scenery, and that weird Dwarf occasionally breaking the 4th wall and staring into the camera, the 2000 movie is kind of awful, but to each their own.
Oh, it was horrible in so many ways!!! The acting, the effects (seriously in 2000?), etc. We wanted to make our own MST3000 for it! But at least it has value because it was bad.

The 2023 movie? Man, that one was so bad at least it was forgettable (as in I can't remember hardly a thing about it other than I was bored, felt it was lame, and kept hoping it would get better...). I think I watched about an hour of it before I deleted the recording.

Anyway, I know others enjoyed it, but as we've said to each their own. ;)
 


I watched it as a kid, was already playing D&D and while I enjoyed it and stole ideas for my games, I also was very critical of the ways it was not like D&D. I have never rewatched it, save for the occasional clip I stumble upon.
 


I find it funny that I watched it (only about a year before I started playing D&D) and I've played D&D nonstop ever since, but I didn't remember it AT ALL until everyone started talking about it more recently, and even then, the only memory I have of it is a vague flash of the "he's not Yoda" Dungeon Master, and that the Roller Coaster ends in Tiamat.

That's it. I don't remember a single thing about any of the characters. Not one thing.
 

I saw the first episode in my grandparent's house and then their TV still was black&white, without color.

Then the tabletop roleplaying games were totally unknown in Spain. 23 books of "Endless Quest" were translated and published. Dalmau published the first translation but it was a fail. The true boom or rise of D&D in Spain arrived when Ed. Zinco published 2nd Ed.

I would dare to say the TTRPGs were totally unknown in all towns not enough big to have got its own comic shop. Sadly the roleplaying games were known in Spain by fault of a killer who supuestly had created his own game, and then it was known as "el crimen del rol" (I guess it's easy to be translated).
 

I will say this, having rewatched many of those cherished cartoons from back in the day (D&D, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundarr, etc.) The D&D cartoon actually holds up just as well, if not better, than all of them. That isn't a very high bar...
 


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