| FILMS |
|
| Assemblage of the
Crystal Sphere: A D&D Story (2008) |
Mockumentary - A film crew follows and
documents a group of Dungeons & Dragons
players in the last three months of their five year adventure campaign..
[IMDB] |
| Darkon
(2006) |
Documentary
- Filmmakers follow the story of a player in a large LARP
organization in Maryland.
[site - IMDB -
Escapist review] |
| Dragonlance: Dragons of
Autumn Twilight (2008) |
Fantasy (animated) - A barbarian woman with
a miraculous healing staff gains the help of a
group of to-be heroes as an army of dragons invades the land. Based on
the popular Dungeons
& Dragons campaign setting, features voice talent
from Kiefer Sutherland and Lucy Lawless.
[IMDB] |
| Dungeon Master (TBA) |
Documentary - A
documentary film about the role-playing game, Dungeons
& Dragons. The film encompasses the notion of
escapism, social interactions, as well as controversial issues
surrounding the game's characters and storylines.
[site]
|
| The
Dungeon Masters (2008) |
Documentary - An exploration of the
subculture of role-playing games, specifically Dungeons
& Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered
gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a
world they might otherwise never experience. Popularity and power are
based on creativity and imagination rather than social status or
wealth, and success is based not on who you know but on what you do..
[site
- IMDB] |
| Dungeon
Rubber (2003) |
Comedy - A gaming
group finds themselves drawn together again by a demon who sat in for a
game in a previous film, Sequel to Gamesmaster, Gamesmaster,
What Have You Done?!?, below.
[site
- Escapist review] |
| Dungeons
& Dragons (2000) |
Fantasy - The much-maligned movie based on
the most popular RPG of all time.
[IMDB]
|
| Dungeons & Dragons: Scourge of Worlds
(2003) |
Fantasy (animated)
- An interactive DVD movie based on the Dungeons &
Dragons setting.
[IMDB]
|
| Dungeons
& Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) |
Fantasy - Sequel to the original Dungeons
& Dragons movie, released by the Sci-Fi channel.
[IMDB]
|
|
Fellowship of the Dice (2005) |
Mockumentary - A
recovering party girl looking for new friends finds herself involved
with a group of "Wizards, Warriors, and Wyrms" players.
[site - IMDB - Escapist review] |
| Gamers (2006) |
Mockumentary - Four gamers approach the
world record for the longest running campaign of Demons,
Nymphs, & Dragons, but fate seems to get into the
way of their success.
[site - IMDB -
Escapist review] |
| Gamers:
The Movie (2003) |
Fantasy -
Something is different about tonight's tabletop game of role-playing
fantasy. When Ray is mysteriously injured during an in-game battle, he
begins to suspect that a dangerous link to a magical object in the game
world is at fault. But, when the other gamers don't believe his theory,
Ray must decide: quit playing and risk losing his friends, or continue
and risk losing his life.
[IMDB] |
| The Gamers (2002) |
Comedy - A group of four gamers and their
characters go on a quest to defeat... the Shadow!
.
[site - IMDB] |
| The
Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008) |
Comedy - Sequel to
the popular Dead Gentlemen production, The Gamers.
[site - IMDB] |
| Gamerz (2005) |
Comedy - A new college student takes over
the campus gaming group, then falls hard for one of the players, and an
ex-friend from his past bullies his way into the game, complicating
things even more.
[site - IMDB -
Escapist review] |
| Gamesmaster,
Gamesmaster, What Have You Done? (1999/2004) |
Comedy - Lacking a
player for their game night, a DM summons a demon to fill the empty
chair. Hilarity ensues.
[site - Escapist review] |
| Geekin': Love,
Jealousy, and Twenty-Sided Dice (2006) |
Comedy - A gamer meets a woman online and
invites her to play with his game group. When one of his gaming pals
moves in on her, things get messy..
[site - IMDB -
Escapist review] |
| Mazes
& Monsters (1982) |
Drama - The
classic anti-RPG movie. Four gamers start up a Mazes
& Monsters campaign at their college, and begin
playing in the restricted caverns near campus, until one of them (Tom
Hanks) takes the game too far...
[IMDB] |
| Monster Camp (2008) |
Documentary - The true story of NERO
Seattle, a large LARP community.
[site - IMDB] |
| Role
Models (2008) |
Comedy - Two
energy drink salesmen wreck a company truck and are sentenced to
mentoring kids - one of whom is obsessed with LARP. A major studio
release.
[IMDB] |
| RPG (2006) |
Documentary - An explanation of the RPG,
LARP, and miniatures hobbies.
[site] |
|
Skullduggery (1983) |
Horror
- Adam, the heir of a long-standing curse, begins an
uncontrollable killing spree that climaxes at the game table.
[IMDB] |
| THACO
(2008) |
Comedy - Based on a one-act play in which
three thirty-something gamers wait for another player to show up to
game night, and begin to discuss the effects that geek culture has had
on their lives..
[site] |
| Über Goober (2004) |
Documentary - An
explanation of the RPG, LARP, and miniatures hobbies. Features
interviews with RPG professionals and some anti-game activists.
[site - IMDB -
Escapist review] |
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|
| SERIES |
|
| Dungeons &
Dragons cartoon (1983-1985) (television) |
Fantasy (animated) - A Saturday morning
cartoon based loosely on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG.
[IMDB] |
Kindred: The Embraced
(1996) (television)
|
Fantasy/Horror - A
television series based loosely on the Vampire: The
Masquerade RPG. .
[IMDB] |
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