That Weird D&D VHS From the 90's

[@WilliamSRD]

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[@SmokeInGermany]

They actually put at least A logo of D&D on the box. The red dragon shown in the Dragonstrike logo is the same artwork of a dragon as they used on a D&D Box set from 1991 😉

[@WilliamSRD]

I may or may not have reached out to Silver's estate to locate the tapes.

[@Bundle85]

tapes or it didn't happen ;)

[@Yantryman]

Pleeeeeease!

[@qwijoma1873]

That would be amazing! Love Spelljammer!

[@sambojinbojin-sam6550]

Meh, it's preserved on KZbin, but the originals would be great.

[@Aperama]

I may or may not have asked a KZbinr on the results of these inquiries.

[@willmistretta]

It's impossible not to laugh at the Dragon Master and equally impossible to not wish you could play at his table.

[@nilus2k]

One of my high school buddies, who DM’d a lot, looked a lot like this guy. We had this game but never played it, but the tape got thrown on a lot to laugh at. It’s peak 90s bad but fun entertainment

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I want that guy to DM an AP show.

[@mikevides4494]

He's 100% committed and LIVING HIS BEST LIFE

[@alanbalan3539]

Always happy to see any DnD channel get around to covering this fun old tape. "cast a PAUSE magic spell on your VCR and make sure no one is listening in..."

[@SteeleOkami]

"Are you certain nobody is listening in? At the door? Through the window?"

[@JanPospisilArt]

Damn, that Spelljammer footage looks incredible! That would be incredibly cool lost media to find.

[@BaneMcDeath]

I was looking forward to getting Wildspace. Pity it never came to be or a tv show with these actors.

[@woomod2445]

"The cast were all stuntmen" That explains sooooo much. You know what? Hot take, more action movies should just star stuntmen.

[@zimriel]

*Tom Cruise has entered the chat*

[@RootVegetabIe]

This is what fantasy media was like before LOTR. Younger people need to understand why those movies were such a big deal.

[@matthill5426]

No. NO. We had original Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwartzenegger and James Earl Jones, damnit! And we had Beastmaster! And Krull! And Deathstalker! Okay, a lot of fantasy media was along this line. But we did have original Conan, though.

[@kirtknierim3687]

​@@matthill5426keep up the good work. Beast master was kinda, I dunno. I bet it smells exactly like I imagine.😮😅 Conan though, legit fantasy.

[@loganfields159]

LOTR really did level up fantasy and medieval fiction. There's a clear before and after. And to the other replier, I love Conan. I'm still very grateful fantasy got the WETA treatment.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

LOTR kind of ruined live-action fantasy by making campy low-budget productions no longer viable.

[@markusnavergard2387]

@@matthill5426 and OG movie conan is a bad version of Conan

[@bretts2356]

My best friend and I bought Dragonstrike in the early 90s. We laughed through the entire video several times. When I was in college a few years later the local public access cable station played Dragonstrike as a stand-alone TV show. Even though I had watched the VHS several times, I sat through the video on TV just for the novelty.

[@Rakshasaka]

We MUST track down those Spelljammer tapes! Thanks for the video!

[@silverheart4049]

I'm actually kind of impressed with the costumes. They were budget, but it looks like there was effort.

[@nilus2k]

I know I already put one comment and responded to another but the perfect time to talk about the Lorainne Williams and the Dill family may be covering the SSI Buck Rogers Gold box games. They were based on the Buck Rogers XXVC TTRPG which was mostly a D&D second edition reskin. The whole story is fascinating, to me at least. The whole reason Lorainne got involved with TSR was because Flint Dill and Gary Gyxax became friends when Gyxax went to Hollywood to try to make D&D a multimedia property.

[@NolanStJohn]

The Dill family were the rights holders for Buck Rogers so Loraine Williams would push TSR to make Buck Rogers products whenever possible.

[@zimriel]

@@NolanStJohn Oh man, you're giving this grognard Lorraine-flashbacks. I really should get back to updating 1d4^H6chan . . .

[@nilus2k]

@@NolanStJohn Yep. It’s also why, despite being a game no one played, they made so many supplements and adventure for the game.

[@Cynidecia]

The Fighters hair is the stuff of legends.

[@sinisterdesign]

I *loved* Dragon Strike as a kid. My childhood best friend and I adopted "your nose is assaulted by the stench of death and decay" as our own personal in-joke. 🙂

[@StonnedFoxx]

Holy shit! I still have this VHS from the Dragon Strike game in my closet. Damn it was so goofy but I loved it

[@DalamusUlom]

I had the game and the VHS as a kid, along with HeroQuest, though between the two I preferred DragonStrike because the VHS was my favorite part of the game. I’m almost 100% positive I still have the VHS in my grandparent’s storage unit.

[@vioisme]

Still have hero quest. I guess I might of sold dragon strike.

[@seanbrown207]

I also had both. I preferred Hero Quest for gaming, but Dragonstrike video was the best!!

[@nateshandy2070]

The spring-loaded floor platform trap had me cackling, because in my friend group, we call it (for reasons too complicated to explain right now) "Sneaky Shiv's Ultimate Floor Trap". It's a totally impractical trap, but we have a lot of affection for the idea.

[@kaelang12]

oh boy, this brings me back to watching Spoony's old vids. "either way, free knife!" 😂

[@markusnavergard2387]

that brings me back and sad to remember his fall

[@Eldeecue]

@@markusnavergard2387 Eh, be happy for the good times he brought us, I say. Some of his stuff has aged...but I'd say a good third to half of it still holds up. Yor Hunter From the Future, the Phantasmagoria 2 Let's Play....the Age of Manure.

[@markusnavergard2387]

@@Eldeecue the phantasmagoria one was his peak agreed.

[@OstroGothic]

I love this weird vintage DnD (and other ttrpg) content. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of those of us who didn't grow up with it!

[@injunjoe8967]

July 93 Issue Number 195 of Dragon Magazine, Jim Ward Article discussing the filming of DragonStrike I played an audio read segment of this a while back. You can still find the article on Internet Archive in their Dragon collection. Good footage of the Spelljamming footage; so Peter Silver had the footage... Flint Dille was most likely the first name inspiration for Flint Fireforge of DragonLance too. Good video, I swore up and down there was Wildspace footage i saw it on sci fi channel in the 90's..

[@injunjoe8967]

TSR had dropped Spelljammer by the time DragonStrike was released which was probably Peter Silver's motivation for keeping the footage done for WildSpace after TSR wasn't even doing Spelljammer after 93, makes sense now.

[@thomriley1036]

"Masters of Fantasy - TSR: The Fantasy Factory" is the late 90's Sci-Fi Channel special with the DS Spelljammer clips, and it is up on KZbin.

[@danielramsey6141]

17:42 there’s a Netflix Special Documentary On the Cast of American Gladiators! Malibu was Awesome! It’s just a damn Shame what happened to him! And it’s mostly due to the Production Crews and the People that signed off on some terrible Ideas for the sports they were doing! But the good thing is that once Season 2 came around, those issues got ironed out slowly! Especially in favor of placing more safety nets! Though I won’t lie! Finding out that Malibu was doing Low Budget Fantasy Stuff is actually really Cool! And it kinda makes me wish the Popularity Sword & Sorcery genre would’ve lived beyond the 80s.

[@eduardopena5893]

You should see him in a film called Immortal Combat. Dude chews the scenery more than Pac Man in a Power Pellet Factory.

[@Lazysupermutant]

If you want to know more about this crazy time and Laruane herself I highly recommend "Slaying Dragons" by Ben Riggs. Its a fascinating account of the history of TSR from its origins in Genevia all the way to the Wizard's of the Coast acquisition. It shows that the villians of D&D are far more grey then the zeitgeist says, and that our heroes aren't as noble. Like did you know Gary Gygax was partying it up in Hollywood in a mansion, spending TSR money on lavish parties? Now you do, go get the book if you wanna know more.

[@WilliamSRD]

That's sort of what I've been hearing. Gygax was running the business side of TSR into the ground. Williams ousted him and stabilized the company - and then ran into the ground in an entirely different way. Truly a complicated legacy

[@Lazysupermutant]

@@WilliamSRD Indeed, Riggs opines in the book that William's wasn't willing to be interviewed for the book. Honestly after 20+ years of harassment I don't blame her, but it means we've never gotten things from Laurane's side so much of what we know is second hand. Even then Riggs gives her a much more honest perspective on her, she did get TSR out of the fire and ran things much more professionally, but she was stubborn and kind of rode the company like her own personal speed boat, not to mention more then a bit vindictive when she felt slighted. Also while TSR was sue happy during her tenure Gary Gygax was no stranger to it either, particularly to fanzines of the time. Laurane was no saint, but I do think she deserves better than to be remembered as the Wicked Witch of D&D. She gave us Planescape and Dark Sun, and for that I thank her, however unprofitable they may have been.

[@Shenaldrac]

At least Gary actually _created something_ that earned money in the first place, even if he wasn't a good businessman. Williams created nothing, and in the end caused just as much ruination as he did.

[@danielramsey6141]

@@Lazysupermutant Planescape and Dark Sun was all being made by Artists and Writers other than Lauren! But it is a Shame that All of this also Affected the First D&D movie!

[@Lazysupermutant]

@@danielramsey6141 True, it's more accurate to say it was made under her tenure. It is rather reductionist to say "Gary made this." or "Zeb Cook made that." Like any creative endevor it is a communal process. Unrelated, but did you know Planescape was made to compete with Vampire the Masquerade of all things! Apparently the higher ups thought it was factions that was the selling point of VtM, hence all the cooky factions in Sigil.

[@littleNorwegians]

Now this brings me back to a video one Spoony bard once did.

[@AdriftForWeeks]

Before the dark times

[@jonothanthrace1530]

And now he's dead. I presume.

[@markusnavergard2387]

@@jonothanthrace1530 think he still lives on but i guess he is more gollum like now. In all honest. i liked his stuff but it is sad to see how far he fell, but he aint alone in that section.

[@Cursedsama]

Literally still remember random quotes from that video

[@thefollowingisatest4579]

Dragonstrike takes me back. Not to the 90s, but to an earlier age of internet video content. If you know, you know.

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

Spoony bard?

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

@@gorvarhadgarson5227 I was just thinking of Spoony's weirdly horny review of this VHS from like 12 years ago too.

[@SteeleOkami]

Fanservice shot deployed.

[@andrewnewell1142]

Finding the Spelljammer tapes would be a coup of lost media

[@davidglenn2739]

I kept thinking I've seen that long haired, buff guy before, then you showed him on American Gladiators. Man, I loved that show!

[@Halovex]

I can’t watch this without Spoony’s one liners. “Alright, I stab the jester!” That and Malibu’s fabulous hair!

[@Awoken_Remmuz]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one getting Spoony flashes.

[@whennerdsgobad]

The gi joe Flint was an homage to Flint Dille, since he was a writter for the franchise

[@MickTheMage]

The Spelljammer/Wild Space shots looked interesting!

[@Visualindexpro]

The gaming store at the mall played this on a loop and it’s been permanently burned in my brain since the age of 12.

[@Crocogator]

Was that a Nautaloid!? Did we almost get a Spelljammer TV show? Aw man :(

[@WilliamSRD]

WE WERE SO CLOSE

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

FINALLY! *_FINALLY!!!_* The ONE, TRUE, and ONLY *_DRAGONSTRIKE!_*

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

My best friend as a kid had this game. We watched that delightfully crappy VHS so many times, and played the hell out of the boardgame. I shall forever mourn the Wildspace game/tape that never happened.

[@BloodWolfXZ]

This has been, by far, my favorite video from your channel. GOD I watched this movie way too much as a kid. It was such a trip to see this and remember every scene.

[@Cynidecia]

IF ONLY someone finds those tapes if they are still out there. MAYBE one day.

[@STS-qi1qy]

'They Sue Regularly' and T$R - ah the old days.

[@stevemanart]

I still argue to this day that if D&D4E was released as Dragonstrike, it would have been hailed as a cinematic masterpiece of fantasy superheroics.

[@Shenaldrac]

Absolutely. The biggest issue with D&D 4E was setting it up as the next mainline edition of D&D instead of a side-game.

[@stevemanart]

@@Shenaldrac Nah, that's a good three or four steps down the line from the entrenched 3.5 audience overreacting. I've seen a man stabbed with a fountain pen over the change from 2E to 3E and I still think the way the 3.5 hardliners acted was downright inhuman, and I question the morality of anyone who would blame that on some bad branding and marketing from WotC.

[@Alex-cq1zr]

​@@Shenaldrac To be fair, dnd4e reads quite similar to dnd3e, so like... eh??? Idk what the fuss was... ig each edition's fans are just bound to overreact when a new one comes out

[@woomod2445]

@@Alex-cq1zr Like i never get this, the jump from 2e to 3e is by far the biggest jump. There are so so so many ramifications in that jump. Total rework of every mechanic! scaling DCs! Monster stat's massive stat jump! The removal of the end game! Most of the logistical elements being cut! Backwards modeling monsters rather than just "whatever values we want"ing them! Like the fact you were still casting 3rd level spells at 5th level with the same names is just....aesthetics in comparison.

[@Alex-cq1zr]

@@woomod2445 I heard 2e fans also didn't take an edition change well. It's just that people remember only the outrage over 4e and tend to hate 4e cause everyone they know hates 4e

[@JMSouchak]

I honestly think that the entire thing with the same quality would make for an awesome show even today.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

I remember seeing ads for this in a few gaming magazines. It certainly looked like one of the games of all time.

[@IloveOtherPplsMsry]

The highpoints of Flint Dille's career seem to be Transformers, GI Joe, and the Riddick games

[@zimriel]

Sagard the Barbarian was the highlight, those four books were awesome.

[@rhyspatterson679]

Wow I actually saw that live stunt show as a kid in 87 or 88, so I may well have seen the cast of the tape. I certainly remember that stage setup. I never had dragon strike but I did get hero quest for my birthday… and never got a single group together to play it with me. Honestly still makes me sad thinking about it.

[@freakyzed8467]

Malibu was so darn radical for those of us who grew up in that era!

[@theblocksays]

Surprised there was no mention that he was ALSO the centaur monster Motaro in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation...then again eh, movie had more of a budget than this and yet somehow still seemed worse.

[@CorporateCornholio]

Looks to me like someone saw the Gatekeeper game and decided to make a DnD themed clone.

[@johnchristopher5733]

If this were a high school play I would give it 5 stars.

[@RockerDanM]

I loved this tape and board game as a kid. Unless it got damaged by a flood I should still have a copy of Dragon Strike in storage. Loved this little nostalgia trip.

[@galacticironmike4516]

I swear the cleric at 8:03 played the vampire that buffy fights in that episode where her date comes to the morgue with them.

[@irontobias]

I got dragon strike secondhand from a neighbor, and my brother and I loved playing the tape and game; years later, I used the figurines that I had saved in actual DnD during my first (and only) role of DM

[@DinobotTM2]

Come on, William. No mention of the Warrior's amazing g part in Mortal Kombat Annihilation?

[@WilliamSRD]

Doh! Forgot to stitch that into the B-roll when I mentioned Mcbee's many roles!

[@DinobotTM2]

@@WilliamSRD XD Stick that in the end

[@robertsmithington8892]

As you were talking about the VHS, I realized I had a couple games that came with VHS cassettes. I had Hero Quest as well. Thank you for reminding me! 😮

[@exodous02]

Got this as a kid mainly for the miniatures to use with Hero Quest. I remember trying to play it but I was just too young and the rules were confusing. My Sister, for whatever reason, went home and threw away all our VHS tapes away but my Mom remembered how much me and my brother watched it and saved it, along with some BK TMNT tapes. I still have the boards and the VHS tape but sadly I looked through my stuff and can't find anything else. In fact. the miniatures were kinda junk, no detail, but the boards we used over and over again in our HQ games.

[@d36williams]

honestly some of the editing and camera pans, transitions and use of spot animation is really good. They made good use of their art assets. Weird to watching this and think "this is the future of movie making". the VHSness helps blend the effects work I think

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

18:14 - if you do, mind seeing if you can track down the missing Doctor Who episodes while you’re at it? 😜

[@jclefbouncyrock]

I love this video and will still watch it now and then on KZbin for a hit of nostalgia.

[@foundwisdom]

I own this and the board game with it, bought when it came out when I was a kid! Also still have my Heroquest OG.

[@christiansorensen7567]

The MST3K version featuring Malibu from American Gladiators, is the best version.

[@MrThinktank84]

I used to have Dragon Strike back in the day. Basically yea, fisher price my first dnd in a sense. Me and my friends would use the map tiles and make our own scenarios and campaigns. Such a good game and good times

[@katherineberger6329]

It's worth mentioning that Flint Dille wasn't just ANY writer. He was the head writer for Sunbow Productions. If you remember the 80s incarnations of shows like The Transformers and G.I. Joe, his name was on a LOT of the better scripts of both of those shows (and he was so influential that Hasbro put his name on G.I. Joe's second in command, Daishell "Flint" Faireborn - also the father of Transformers human ally Marissa Faireborn). So it wasn't JUST neopotism that put him on the DragonStrike team - he was a genuinely fairly decent writer for the genre conventions of the time.

[@voxlknight2155]

"Well, what were they guarding?" "The garbage." I don't know why that made me chuckle so much. Maybe because of just how confused the elf guy looks before he answers.

[@TheMandalp]

Video is too short. Where is the unhinged William that Talk 30 minutes about the lore before going to the topic of the video?

[@Starcraftgamer97]

Probably preparing the unhinged side for Hunter: The Reckoning. That's got a lot I would love to see a deep dive of personally

[@TheMandalp]

@@Starcraftgamer97 dont worry he already confirmed on discord that the next video will have unhinged william again.

[@Starcraftgamer97]

@@TheMandalp Sweet!

[@markusnavergard2387]

@@TheMandalp i live for unhinged William.

[@KingPrincess69]

I still have the game and believe me, the out of sync dubbing of the spanish version was/is the cherry on top. Me and my friends used to quote the lines all the time.

[@Bobby3OOO]

Also the red dragon on the cover there was literally the cover art of the basic D&D set (not AD&D) they were selling at the time

[@IosonoRob]

This was so charming in a way, you can see the effort that was put into it despite le budget! ❤ And next time I will DM I'll make sure to dim the lights and wear a black turtleneck so that I too can be a head floating in the void.

[@z2ei]

I think it also wasn't branded "D&D" because they already had one. Sort of. 1991's "Black Box" came in the same format as a board game, and it was intended as a companion for the Rules Cyclopedia. One to introduce the game to new players, and one to get them everything in one rule book. From what I've seen around, the Black Box was one of the best-selling TSR products of that era, so it apparently worked.

[@Miodowy]

Watching this while stoned is truly... surreal.

[@SteeleOkami]

Fun Fact: This wasn't the only TSR property that Derron McBee took part in. He was also Officer Graves in the PC adaptation of Terror T.R.A.X., Track of the Vampire (Itself a potential parody of White Wolf's "World of Darkness" setting where there is a police agency in charge of dispatching officers for supernatural 911 calls).

[@mxyzptlk3825]

Awesome video, actors did great. If I saw this as a kid - I would love it

[@hyattwarris]

Even with the bad quality, you can recognize Darren as soon as he smiled. Glorious teeth.

[@RetroRanter]

I still have this...with Tape..its glorious 😂 Brilliant video, more than earned my sub sir. 👏

[@RyllenKriel]

You can't be too hard on Lorraine and Flint. They were trying to pursue careers to escape working at the family bakery. No one wants to be in a placed called "Dille Dough."

[@DrPluton]

We had this game. I remember watching the video a few times because it was fun. I think we only played one or two adventures, and it was kind of like a more interactive Hero Quest.

[@Awakeandalive1]

I had this game & the VHS tape. I had wanted "HeroQuest" but it wasn't available so my parents got me the official D&D one instead... Ahhhh, Malibu's hair is as glorious as I remember!

[@Cynidecia]

11:53 *GRUDGE ACQUIRED*

[@kbforme]

I owned this game, had a lot of fun with it with friends. We were all trying to get into ad&d and this was a decent intro. I probably do still have the tape buried somewhere at my parents house.

[@JakalairVG]

Outstanding video as always! I love how this shows a difference in quality at a bunch of different levels. I am sad that the 90s cheese has mostly run out at this point.

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Dragon Strike was my first exposure to D&D, back in the 90's.

[@Insertcoin22]

This VHS tape is initiation into my D&D campaign. The Wildspace video is somewhere on KZbin.

[@electric_boogaloo2114]

I pray these Wild Space tapes somehow will pop-up after this video.

[@pariahic]

I love that Deron McBee was inexplicably credited in this as "Kid Fury".

[@kaylordehaas8499]

Your videos are so good! Another obscured d&d video, is the best thing on a Saturday!

[@tmacm2237]

Dragonstrike is actually based in the Forgotten realms.

[@warellis]

How do you know?

[@jimmyfrench4722]

Love or hate TSR, D&D was much better under them. Quick decline with WoC sale when the game was dumbed down and the crazy players became too common that after a forced move from my last good group, I was unable to find another and haven’t played in decades a game I used to truly love. There were always those that treated it so, but with WoC, it has that crazy position of being taken too seriously, yet not seriously enough. I have no recollection of these videos/games, but do recall hesitantly bringing new new system called Spelljammer into the campaign of the group I was currently with.

[@SirClarkus]

I had that! I had completely forgotten about that board game/video.... but man, I remember it all now like it was yesterday

[@Cages_Customs]

The VHS movie was so bad it was good! The board game wasn't that bad. Still have it.👍😎

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

I still have my copy of Hero's Quest and play it with my kids. It's awesome. Never played DragonStrike, seems fun though.

[@TheCFKane1982]

By far the most prominent member of the cast is Alan Blumenfeld who played King Halvor. He's one of the most prolific character actors of the past 40 years. He's been in at least one episode of most of the series of the past 40 years. His credits include... Diff'rent Strokes Cheers The Golden Girls Mad Men ER Not to mention film work most notably in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI.

[@nathanguice2417]

OMG I loved this game as a kid! I practically grew up with this awful VHS and I think I have (just) the board around somewhere in my closet.

[@CactusJackIV]

I watched that VHS tape too many times to admit. Having Malibu as the Fighter was great as a kid that grew up with OG American Gladiators,

[@Vienticus]

I still have my copy and the VHS. I was surprised at how much I loved the video.

[@Halovex]

Lorraine Williams is still kind of the devil incarnate to older DnD players. That is a deeeep can of worms you might open up, friend William.

[@matthill5426]

Lorraine Williams is to old-school D&D fans, as Christian Laetner is to UK basketball fans.

[@z2ei]

She was bad for business, but some of the best stuff ever to come out of TSR came out during her reign (maybe in spite of it). If you ask me to choose Williams or WOTC/Hasbro, I'd have to choose Williams every time. At least we got 2nd ed and some downright amazing settings.

[@Minnesota_Fatts]

Pour one out for Spoony. Never forget.

[@OmegaEnvych]

So is Teraptis a second phase of Keraptis or is he legally distinct version of him?

[@TheConcertCruizer]

The actor who played the Warrior is a friend of mine (Deron McBee). If you want to see if you can do an interview with him, I can ask.

[@gamergeek7482]

“Your majesty! Might I borrow a wand from your treasury? Mine was lost as I fled teraptus’s castle” *scoffs* Jester! Do you have a wand for this bereft wizard? Honestly I did enjoy this video.

[@RobertHutchinson-rl2qc]

I loved that VHS as a kid me and my friend Jason used to play that when we had sleep overs

[@claytongriffin3558]

The actor that plays the king has a speaking part on at least one episode of every major tv show all the way back to the 80s, lol

[@choczynski]

Lauren gets a lot of shit because she took over after Gary ran the company in the ground and she had to "fix" stuff. She also ran the company into the ground in a different way.

[@nilus2k]

Never forget her push for multiple attempts to make Buck Rogers a thing at TSR, mainly because her family owned the rights to the character and that meant even if they failed(they did) she benefited from royalty payments tot he estate. Royalties are paid out per item printed and amount which is why you will never find a game that absolutely no one played but had as many supplements, adventure and tie in products and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It even got two SSI gold box games. And after it failed a second, different Buck Roger’s TTRPG got put out by TSR. And a board game. It’s insane. And the funny thing it. Buck Rogers and the 25th century was actually a pretty cool reimagining of the world. It tackled the subject of environmental damage of the planet, terraforming and transhumanism.

[@ZarnonElchris]

Damn, now I suddenly wish I had a working VCR. The tape is right downstairs in the box. I still use the Dragonstrike and HeroQuest figures, tiles, and furniture for D&D games.

[@WolfWalrus]

Dragonstrike: they refuse to work until they get better hours and a healthcare plan

[@richardsonrym]

I like how they stole the name from the wizard of White Plume Mountain and just changed a letter.

[@KingOfMadCows]

According to Courtney Solomon, who owned the film rights for Dungeons and Dragons in the 90's, James Cameron was interested in directing and they had been able to get a meeting with him. Lorraine Williams was at the meeting with James Cameron, and she asked him why he thought he was qualified to direct a D&D film. And it was after Terminator 2 and True Lies came out.

[@dcamozzato]

I gotta say… It is easy to poke fun at the “CG” / compositing technique now, but it looks pretty cool IMO. If you keep your eyes on the actors and action, and let the background fade to… the background, it adds a lot. Also, consider the alternative, which would be for them to use some set which was used and reused in multiple 80s sword and sorcery movies. Campy? Sure. But also pretty cool.