Appendix N and D&D related movies
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:36 pm
The Raven was an entertaining movie. I won't say it was good, but there were some interesting examples D&D spells like Rope Trick and Magic Missile. We have Appendix N for literary inspiration. I would like to know if anyone has an Appendix N related list of movies.dkeester wrote:Watching this now thanks to magic of Netflix streaming. You are definitely right about it being hokey.goodmangames wrote: I also recently watched the 1963 film "The Raven" (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057449/ ) which is a hokey sorcerer film that is very clearly the origin of several D&D spells. I've heard it said that Gygax was a fan of this movie, and you can see its application to D&D once you watch it. Early in the film you can see a magic missile in action -- the first time I've ever seen what is obviously a DYD-style magic missile happening in a non-D&D media source. Near the end of the movie, there's a great wizard's duel with some very D&D-ish spells, including several more magic missiles and a fireball, as well as more traditional wizard magic like levitation and turning scarves into snakes. It's a decent movie in its own right but also worth checking out if you're into D&D history, especially considering how D&D-ish the characters are, more than a decade before D&D was published.
