This post is Zach's fault.
The Ace/Lancer Conan paperbacks
H.P. Lovecraft
the Howard Pyle versions of Robin Hood and King Arthur
Bronze Age Marvel comics of various sorts
the original Star Wars trilogy
Star Trek
Scooby-Doo
The Superfriends
Thundarr the Barbarian
the two Conan flicks
Excalibur
Monty Python & The Overused Quote Machine
Raiders of the Ark
Doctor Who, the show and various novelizations
lesser 80's sword movies like Hawk the Slayer & Clash of the Titans
Ghostbusters (but not the sequel)
Land of the Lost
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Disneyworld (particularly the Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion)
Halloween
various books with watered-down retellings of fairy tales
My list is light on fantasy fiction because I spent a lot of my youth reading nonfiction. To this day I have read very few of the novels that most D&D players seem to enjoy.
A Return to the Stars
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got
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Egads. Your list is eerily similar to mine, except with a few changes and additions (Like the movies Krull and Beastmaster, Johnny Quest and perhaps the cartoon versions of The Hobbit and LotR).
ReplyDeleteBeastmaster definitely falls under "less sword movies". Poor wretch that I am, I didn't see Krull until this decade. The one-eyed invisible blob from Johnny Quest is one of the awesomest monsters in animation history.
ReplyDeleteMost of Tolkien's stuff doesn't seem like your cup of tea, Jeff, but not even The Hobbit?
ReplyDeletePoor wretch that I am, I didn't see Krull until this decade.
ReplyDeleteThen be thankful you were saved the embarrassing realization in retrospect that in your youth you had waaaaay too many swords that fired lasers out of the pommels in your games, or that you really needed a better grounding in medieval history to know what a "glaive" is.
Not that I'd know what that's like. Of course.
P.S. My verification word was "nonon"; does that mean that Google disapproves of my gonzo gaming past and influences?
Most of Tolkien's stuff doesn't seem like your cup of tea, Jeff, but not even The Hobbit?I like the Hobbit better than LotR but the Silmarillon better than either. But I came to Tolkien late in the game and I don't really consider his work a major influence on my D&D. My misrecollection of the cartoon adaptations probably more informed my early D&D play.
ReplyDeleteGeeze Jeff, it's like you were living in the same house I was as a kid! The only thing I would add is the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, Wizard of Oz, and John Blackstar cartoon.
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