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Post by Otto Harkaman on Dec 20, 2015 23:18:05 GMT -6
To tie things back onto the topic, there must have been some influence from popular media in the Fantasy Supplement—mostly films & television, I'd imagine. Thanks for the list Starbeard! Found a copy hosted at archive.org "THE MAGIC SWORD" by Bert I Gordon
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Post by Starbeard on Dec 21, 2015 8:11:57 GMT -6
I actually like The Magic Sword a lot, despite its obvious cheese. It's one of the very few movies from before D&D that has a full-on medieval sword & sorcery feel to it. Most others were either straight-up costume adventures without magic, or sword & sandal adventures retelling exotic Greek and Arabian legends. Definitely a must see for pre-D&D high fantasy.
I keep thinking that it would be a good idea to go back and revise that list. A few of those could probably be dropped, and there's a lot that should be added—mostly horror, science fantasy and costume flicks/swashbucklers, which at the time would have been the primary outlet for people interested in straight-up fantasy adventures. If nothing else, they would've been a big influence on the look, presentation and availability of medieval and fantasy miniatures that were around when D&D was in development, and according to people who know, a lot of what got thrown into Chainmail and D&D was based on what figures were available.
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