the 1980s
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Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Films
Funny enough although I know we've had extensive conversations on the subject we don't seem to have a thread dedicated to S&S and fantasy films. In English language film the success of Conan led to a bunch of knock-off S&S films in the 80s, many produced by the exploitation arm of the dying...- Voros
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- b-movies blu-ray fantasy films scorpion releasing sword & sorcery the 1980s
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- Forum: Media Discussion
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Magnum P.I. - So much going on here
- Voros
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- humour television the 1980s twitter
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Fighting Fantasy, childhood, and games
The thread on go-to games for a D&D experience brought up a few mentions of Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Roleplaying Game/Advanced Fighting Fantasy. What I'm interested in here is the actual Fighting Fantasy game books and the role they played in your "gaming life". Weirdly, I'd like to...- Franko77
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- choose your own adventure fighting fantasy games history the 1980s
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- Forum: Roleplaying Games
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The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread
- TristramEvans
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- funny generation x nostalgia strange the 1970s the 1980s the 1990s
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- Forum: Community Chat
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Battletech! The Future of the 80s Forever!
There's one aspect of 1984 Orwell coudn't have predicted...giant fighting robots! Battletech. Its one of those iconic composite names from my childhood like Star Wars or He-man, that's taken on an identity and resonance all it's own. Battletech was actually the first miniatures game I ever...- TristramEvans
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- battletech the 1980s
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- Forum: Board and Miniature Games
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D&Dploitation; Summer of Sleaze: The Exploitation of James Dallas Egbert III
Grady Hendrix is an amusing and entertaining writer and his blog posts on old horror and sf paperbacks are always a good read. HERE he discusses the supposedly 'non-fiction' book by William Dear THE DUNGEON MASTER that was the real spark to the Satanic Panic around D&D in the 80s. He also...- Voros
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- campy dungeons and dragons grady hendrix hobgoblin mazes and monsters satanic panic the 1980s
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Top 10 Dragon & White Dwarf Covers of the 80s
A good selection of Dragon from Film Goblin blog. And The Daily Dwarf offered his Top 10 from White Dwarf in response.- Voros
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- dragon magazine film magazine the 1980s the daily dwarf top 10 white dwarf
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