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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9384749" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I think Dungeons & Dragons as a whole should get credit for the most recent movie, Stranger Things, the 80s cartoon (which, in the context of a throwaway 80s syndicated cartoon/22-minute commercial, is pretty good), and maybe even just the parts of the 2000 movie where Jeremy Irons clearly doesn't give a rip and goes full scenery chewing (although, if we're going down the so-bad-it's-good rabbit hole, this might end up as a long list). Stackpole certainly elevated Battletech books, regardless of anything else. The bar started very low, and he raised it, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. I feel like that's almost cheating. Yes, obviously those things that were already great that happened to get an RPG made of them later are still great after that transpired. And since (barring maybe that era when WEG was licensing everything from Men in Black to Tank Girl to Species) most things that are going to bother with an RPG are going to already be major hits. I mean, there are no rules to this, but at the same time if someone asked me, "what's your favorite RPG movie?," I'm not going to answer "Ghostbusters."I don't know whether  Knights of the Dinner Table is the game fiction for Hackmaster, or the hyperbolic  fictional 'how things were bitd' conception of mid-early AD&D. I mean, obviously it is both, since it is lampooning the notions of the later and the former is an attempt to capture the feel of the fiction. Certainly where the hair-splitting could get tricky. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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