Poll: What is the worst depection of "true DnD"?

[Gez]

I haven't seen the D&D cartoon, so I should not have voted; but I think the movie was probably worse.

The rogue going alone in the dungeons, dragons having the intellect of a T-Rex, wizards attacking RED and GOLD dragons with FIREBALLS, and not a single encounter with kobolds, goblins, or orcs -- or even taslois and xvarts.

And Snails.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

The cartoon had a certain charm in it and the dialogue was better. Much better.

Though the movie at least had Richard O'Brien in it.

 

[diaglo]

your poll is broken.

the worst depiction of D&D is d02.


but heck, i camped out for the D&D movie. i even convinced my wife to go with me.

i still owe her for that one and it was what 3 years ago now.

 

[Pseudonym]

After stripping away the nostalgia, I'd say the cartoon was a worse depiction than the movie. I'll take a party of Snails over one Uni any day. That being said, the question is a lot like asking if you would rather be hit in the nuts with a cricket bat or a baseball bat. Neither experience is pleasant.

 

[Jorath Calar]

Well I havn't seen the cartoon since I was a kid, and I liked it tremendously. However I had the unfortunate luck of seeing the Movie... and oh the pain, I actually had to take a break to catch my breath from all the gasping of how bad it was.

Then again, you shouldn't expect anything good from anything with the name Wayans on it...

 

[Zappo]

The cartoon has one thing in it that will always make it my vote: The Dungeon Master as a character.

The movie on the other hand had lots of things that make it accurate for D&D, it had:
1) A group of people travelling together with no motivation to do so
2) Character wildly changing their stance on things, probably because of meta-game information that couldn't be seen in the movie
3) A battle in which the characters are meaningless (the big dragon battle) which shows how uber the DM is.
4) Amateurish acting
5) Anachronistic references
6) Dumb guards/monsters not helping out their fellows in the same location.
7) An obscure plot that could only be discovered by asking the DM afterward (or in this case, watching the DVD extras -- if you have not watched the DVD extras spend the $2.99 at Blockbuster and rent the DVD. They do explain 1 or 2 of the various egregous plot holes in the movie. The other 7-8 are left unexplained but these are the most glaring ones that are filled.)

Those things are D&D.

Word. The intelligence of dragons and the accuracy in portraying beholders are very minor in comparison of these points. The movie plays exactly like a mediocre D&D session.

 

[WizarDru]

The movie was worse. I turned it off after 5 minutes, at the request of my friends.

The cartoon may have been bloody awful at points, but it occasionally was pretty good...and at least gave people an idea about the game. It was a good entry point, irritating points aside. The problem is, there was no 'next step'.

What we need is a new series, today.

 

[Xath]

Ok. I'll agree that both are fairly bad interpretations of D&D. But the pain of either is washed away with the magnificence that is "The Gamers," and hopefully soon "The Gamers 2e"

 

[Hand of Evil]

I guess it really depends on which your players are more like or the way your DM runs their game.

 

[francisca]

your poll is broken.

the worst depiction of D&D is d02.


but heck, i camped out for the D&D movie. i even convinced my wife to go with me.

i still owe her for that one and it was what 3 years ago now.

Gotta disagree with you on this one, O Keeper of the Original Boxed set.

The worst depiction of D&D the world has ever seen was rendered by Jack Chick. Not only did it get the mechanics wrong, it portrayed it as a tool of Satan.

But the most egregious misrepresentation was the amount of women playing the game!