Bothered about Dungeons & Dragons in 1985

[@esperthebard]

"And the most disturbing thing I observed throughout this whole report was how the DM didn't even give the kid a saving throw before his character was hurtled into oblivion."

[@realce666]

DM: You just got wiped out. PC: ok.

[@bluesnake4626]

@@realce666 Wait I thought when your character dies your supposed to be lead out by a bunch of people in black cloaks? Not just be kinda disappointed and make a new sheet.

[@RoJoBBandG]

Thank God we didn't get scared off. The movie Mazes & Monsters just made me want to play it more.

[@tertia0011]

Brutal - walk down a corridor, step through a door & no longer exist .. you are completely wiped out & no saving throw.

[@MattJJKenny]

And the kids looks way younger than him too 😂

[@ssgusa]

Matthew Perry’s step dad! Man I miss the ’80s and old D&D…

[@MarkTheMagnificent]

1:30 This kid has a wish spell and uses it to OPEN A DOOR? One of the most powerful spells in the game and he opens a door. Dream bigger, kid.

[@captcorajus]

That was actually a halfway decent report.

[@GrahamRocks]

Especially with that tinal statement, about it just being good fun and it's not about winning and warning about character bleed, all stuff we still emphasize today.

[@RoJoBBandG]

That kid wasted a wish to open a door?! What a LOSER!

[@paulfelix5849]

That was about 40 years ago. The kid is probably in Congress now.🤨

[@RoJoBBandG]

.. and still making poor decisions, it seems.

[@jcliffen]

An interesting throwback to the news coverage during the great 80's "Satanic Panic"

[@NightNoonGames]

2:13 - Jesus that DM doesn't give the poor kid any chance!

[@phantomglitch6922]

Ironic That They Called Themselves Bad, Yeah Bad At Their Jobs Along With The Negative Intelligence/Wisdom Modifiers.

[@newatlantisrepublic6844]

What level is this party to be walking around with a Ring of TWO Wishes?!

[@thedigitalrepository9121]

And who wastes a wish to OPEN A DOOR????

[@darrenp9454]

I have a feeling they were playing Tomb of Horrors module, they had a buch of pregens in the back for tournament use or just to play at home and one of them had a ring of wishes if memory serves. It was a brutal module made to test players and not so much their characters. It was for level 10 to 14 I think.

[@thomasciarlariello]

Read "Dungeon Master: Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III" by Deere

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

Most sane report on DnD I've seen from the 80s, also cool to see how people played the game back then, seeing as this was 16 years before I was even born.

[@bluesnake4626]

I feel like its hard to really put a negative spin on it when you actually go and see its just a bunch of nerds rolling dice.

[@Nephritesword]

If they want to hate something, Christians will do it anyway. Even when it makes no sense.

[@ThailandDantotherescue]

Dude used a ring of wishes to open a door? WTF... that was the lamest game of dungeons and dragons that I have ever seen.

[@AmongRevenants]

... and he died with another wish still on the ring. Silly child..... wish rings are the precious precious.😆 And remember... your first wish should always be 'if I die everyone in the group follows me'....lol. That way someone else goes through the doors first. 🙃

[@ericq9049]

Ron Burgundy, is that you?

[@thomasciarlariello]

"Slenderman" murders in Wisconsin of how teenagers are influenced of how my mother used to say: "You let Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" ruin your mind".

[@thomasciarlariello]

"Dungeon Master" by Deere about James Dallas Egbert III

[@iamdmc]

Stranger things got it just right

[@Fantomas24ARM]

Barbershops were invented in 1986. People in 1985.

[@DragoonPup]

Thinking about Stranger Things now.

[@stoneysauce]

Dwarven Sword Master ?? I dont think that was a thing.

[@BryerTuckGames]

The only thing that would make me believe that 80s D&D was part of a cult is the invention of THAC0

[@MemphiStig]

The main differences between this and religion are that churches don't use dice, and rpg's don't expect you to believe anything they tell you is real. Also, you're less likely to get molested at a game.

[@thomasciarlariello]

Both fairy tales were derived from drug party raves of nature worshiping savages of how they would often use broomsticks to anally insert Jimson weed to hallucinate,

[@thomasciarlariello]

Sam Smith of High School & Krazy Karnok of at University went nuts so a bookstore proprietor Philip is racist of how his uncle lost his hand during WWII Pacific if one remembers Vicent Chin of Detroit.

[@warrenrandall6936]

"May the power of Christ compel The Keep on the Borderlands!"

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Well, some of that was cringy as all get out. :) I thought this about BADD. I was trying to find a video about the group for a friend of mine who wasn't aware of all the stuff that went down back then.

[@jansson5230]

Obsolete. No use to pretend to be a knight in a game when you can be a spiritual warrior in real life.

[@XX-sp3tt]

I am pro-life. I am Catholic. And there is nothing wrong with a game of pretend.

[@byebyewatchtower]

Where's the violent behavior? No where to be found.

[@RobertMorrisjrBog]

LMAO!

[@boffo63]

Terrible DM

[@jule8280]

DND is demonic tho

[@Ben_From_Canada]

👎

[@DEichenberg]

Ironically, that's when the game was good. Woke garbage today, they ruined themselves.

[@garionporter5961]

ruined? idk...its certainly evolving. youtube is a good platform for showcasing games now (critical role - etc)

[@Sonicracer100]

Different game these days. 5e is just different, not bad just different. The TSR version of the game versus WoTC were on different paths

[@thomriley1036]

TSR was bought out by Wizards of the Coast, which was later bought out by Hasbro. They're the corporate stooges responsible for neutering Dungeons & Dragons. A trademark is just a trademark though, and there are hundreds of quality Roleplaying Games to choose from now, many of which are completely free to play.

[@exchangediary968]

@@DEichenberg the anti woke people are the same people who called dnd demonic,