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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Series (1983)Starring: the voices of Willie Aames, Donny Most, Adam Rich, Katie Lee, Tonia Gayle Smith, Teddy Field III, Sidney Miller, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker Director: Various Category: Animation/Sci-Fi

Dungeons & Dragons was one of CBS' most popular animated series airing from 1983 - 1986 and later on FoxKids. Created by legendary Marvel Productions the series was base on the popular TSR role-playing game created in 1974 - which spawned an entire industry! Media Format: Animated, Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, NTSC; Run time: 9 hours and 54 minutes; Release date: December 5, 2006; Actors: Willie Aames, Don Most, Katie Leigh, Adam Rich, Tonia Gayle Smith; Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Studio: BCI - A Navarre Corporation Company; ASIN: B000JBXY44.

• Dungeons & Dragons is a terrific fantasy adventure cartoon series based on the RPG of the same name. The show is American, but it is beautifully drawn by the Japanese animation company called 'Toei Animation'. I'd expect ropey quality, but not from a DVD box set. The colours are faded and bland and the images are all soft. If there is too.
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If Vin Diesel and Stephen Colbert can come out of the closet, then I can too: I used to play “Dungeons & Dragons” in my teens.

Now, mind you, for the most part, I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to play it like it was supposed to be played, and the ones I did find usually turned into instant assholes the second they became the Dungeon Master. Still, I played it, it was fun more often than it wasn’t, and I had a blast. And if I’d continued playing it beyond my early teens, I’d probably still be playing it today, but I didn’t, and now it’s far too late to go back. I can still guiltlessly enjoy the animated series that was based on the role-playing game.

Given that “Dungeons & Dragons” almost certainly came into existence as a television series only because someone somewhere figured they could make a few extra bucks off the game, the show is much better than you’d reasonably expect. The premise involves six kids, all but one in their early teens, attending a carnival, going on the Dungeons & Dragons ride, and being magically transported into a strange world of swords, sorcery and monsters. Upon arrival in this world, each is transformed into a different character type, with their own unique weapon:

• Hank turns into a Ranger, with a magic bow that shoots magic energy arrows. He’s the de facto leader of the group, their Fred, if you will.
• Diana becomes an Acrobat, with a javelin/pole that extends to the appropriate length when she needs to vault over a chasm. She’s a definite tomboy.
• Sheila is a Thief, with a magic cloak that, when its hood is raised, turns her invisible.
• Eric is a Cavalier, with armor and a shield, each of considerable strength. He’s the group’s resident jerk.
• Presto, shockingly, is a Wizard – though it’s revealed at one point that he had the nickname before being transported into this world. He has a magic hat that works somewhat sporadically. A la Velma on “Scooby-Doo,” he’s totally useless without his glasses.
• Bobby is a Barbarian, with a Viking helmet and magic club that can cause earth tremors when he strikes it to the ground. He also acquires a baby unicorn, to which he quickly affixes the name Uni. He is Sheila’s little brother.

The premise of the show revolves around the kids attempting to get back home, guided along this path by the mysterious Dungeon Master, who looks like a dwarf and offers tidbits of philosophy that make him sound suspiciously like Yoda, albeit with decidedly better syntax. They’re invariably kept from returning home by the evil Venger, who’s after the kids’ weapons.

Okay, maybe it got a little old watching our heroes come this close to making it home in just about every episode, only to have something come up to keep them trapped in the mystical world. Still, it was easy to overlook that aspect if you were a fan of the game. Even though they were animated, you were watching kids your own age, with personalities not so terribly different from your own, actually getting to do the stuff that you were pretending to do in the game. Also, it was cool to see them battle some of the same monsters that you’d been battling. A rarity for Saturday morning cartoons of the time, there were recognizable voices behind the characters, including two members of the “Eight is Enough” cast (Willie Aames and Adam Rich) and the one and only Ralph Malph from “Happy Days” (Donny Most).

“Dungeons and Dragons: The Complete Series” will bring back a lot of fond memories for children of the ‘80s, and the characters and stories hold up extremely well today. It’s a safe bet that lots of dads will be buying this set, claiming it’s for their kids…but it isn’t. It’s totally for them.

Special Features: Guaranteed, not a single fan of the series will go away disappointed by this incredible set. The box itself is awesome, set up to look like the original cardboard box in which the role-playing game is packaged; similarly, the booklet is entitled the “Animated Series Handbook,” designed to resemble the various D&D guides, and contains character information so that you can actually incorporate the kids into your D&D games (ahem, that is if you still play). As far as the discs themselves, in addition to a 32-minute documentary on the creation of the series (a staple of sets by Ink and Paint DVD, and always a highlight) and a pair of commentaries by the series’ creators and producers, there’s a live-action fan film based on the show, an interactive adventure with the characters, and detailed profiles of various characters and creatures appearing in the series. There’s an animated storyboard presentation of “The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow,” along with the different opening credit sequences for the show over the years. What fans will really geek out over is a radio-show-styled performance of “Requiem,” the script for the final episode of the series that was never animated. Also worth checking out are the DVD-ROM features, which include scripts, more storyboards, and the original “bible” for the show with detailed character descriptions.

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Last year, one of the most talked-about crossover events was when IDW helped collide the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons and Rick And Morty together. Since that time, the comics have gotten a sequel series, IDW released the comics as a complete set, and people begged Wizards Of The Coast to do their own adventure. Well… ask and you shall receive. The company, along with Adult Swim, created a box set combining both of those entities into a fully-fledged playable adventure. I had to play this thing more than once before I could come in here and do a proper review.

So let's start with the basic question you may be asking as an obsessed fan of one or both of these properties. Yes, this is an official R&M game. No, it is not some secret episode, a prelude to an episode, or official cannon to the series. Yes, there are a ton of jokes in here that match the series. No, it was not written by Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, or anyone on the show's staff. This was designed by Kate Welch with the help of several R&M experts who also know how D&D works and how to craft the show around the game. Yes, there are a ton of references to past episodes. Several upon several, in fact. A fuck-ton you might say. Basically, these are people who know the show and know the game and took time putting it together well. Cool? (I don't really care if you're cool with all that, those are the facts.)

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The game comes with a few different items. This includes a Rulebook, an Adventure book, a specially designed DM screen, character sheets for all five characters, and a set of 11 dice for the DM to use. The dice and the DM screen are pretty self-explanatory. The character sheets are that of the family, each of them having their own roles in the party that will help you out in every scenario. Summer is a Fighter, Morty is a Rogue, Jerry is a Wizard, and Beth is a Cleric. The fifth character is a Fighter added to the game simply called Meatface. He was made solely for this game so you could do an adventure up to five people and have an extra fighter so you could survive.

The Rulebook has been written and designed to teach anyone how to play D&D from scratch. Complete with Rick jokes throughout it to simplify it and give the game some humor. I like to believe this was done because they knew there would be hardcore Rick And Morty fans who have never played a second of Dungeons & Dragons in their life. But they were determined to buy this, and if they wanted to play it, they had to create a guide that was easy to learn. They did a fantastic job with it that rivals many of the other easy-to-learn guides I've seen. Finally, the Adventure book, which is called The Lost Dungeon Of Rickedness: Big Rick Energy. Without getting into spoilers, the story is that Rick created a D&D adventure that the family is now playing. It is a very Rick-inspired dungeon with a lot of jabs at Jerry, but figurative and literal. Your goal: get to the end of the dungeon, alive, as a team if you can.

I had the chance a while ago to play this game with several members of the press, as well as fellow D&D fans and high-profile people like Satine Phoenix, Kate Welch, Kelly Knox, and more. We played through a session as a group that was pretty awesome, then I got my copy to take home where I played this three more times. One of the best perks of this is that it's pretty easy for anyone to grasp. I grabbed a couple of newbies who love Rick And Morty, but don't know much about D&D beyond the few times they played it as kids. This version of the game is the equivalent of putting medicine in ice cream. It's was a big enough entity to get their attention and make them want to learn. It's the kind of branding and mixing of genres that geeks appreciate and will go to great lengths in order to try it.

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Overall, I think this is one of the highlights of Dungeons & Dragons during Fifth Edition. When you're able to do a crossover with something in pop culture that's so over that even your grandparents know about it, you have a license to print money. This is the kind of box set that will get a lot of people who had zero interest in D&D to the table, and maybe bring back a few who tried it once and weren't too into it. The trick afterward is getting them into the regular game. But having a Rick And Morty adventure is an awesome way of making it happen. I highly recommend it for R&M fans, especially those looking to try something new beyond R&M Monopoly.

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