Because most 6 year-olds can’t mount an effective e-mail campaign?
Ow, nice burn. 
A well timed cough or question covers that phrase up well. However all the “spank me”, “no, spank me” is a little harder to cover up.
Yes there’s violence but it’s silly over-the-top violence and as long as you explain that I don’t have a big problem with it.
A friend of mine picked up the series on DVD. A nice bonus was a listing of the stats of all the characters (and their equipment) in a little booklet decked out like the current player’s guide. I’m considering having my wizard character research and construct the “hat of wonder” (I might be remembering the item name wrong from the booklet) Presto used. Apparently, it can generate any material component up to 1000 gp in value, although it has a side-effect of producing a “Rod of Wonder” effect under some circumstances. 
The set also comes with a mini-adventure you could play through.
Hell, yeah! I loved this show as a kid and it’s aged amazingly well. I always loved the setting–it was very weird and fantastic.
I’m glad to see it’s finally out over here. The fact folks over in the UK had it first has been annoying me for a while. 
It is odd watching it as an adult, though. My opinions have almost completely flip-flopped. As a sprout, I liked Hank the most, because of cool weapon and disliked Eric because he was cowardly and weak. Now I think Hank’s annoying because he’s so damned vanilla and like Eric because he gets all the best lines.
Uh, damn. This post was excessively nerdy even for me.
Please tell me that in the unfinished final episode they throw Uni into a volcano or something. Please.
if your son doesn’t want it I’ll take it
I still love the cheesy-ass 1980s cartoons and this was always one of my favorites… once in a while when enough of our regular D&D gang couldn’t get together, we’d play an adventure where each of us would play one of the characters from this series (except the nerdy magician was an NPC 'cause no one wanted to play him).
He’s going to get it Wednesday night- Wednesday is his last of school for winter holiday- so he can stay up and watch it!
I’ll let you know his verdict (I expect he’ll really like it!).
Thanks for all the feedback!
It was on TV when I was a teen…
Back then Spain had only two TV channels; Saturday afternoon fare was the news, then cartoons, then a movie. One of those series was DnD and I loved it. There was one of the female chars I would gladly have hit with a baseball bat, but she was apparently done that way on purpose - or at least had a similar effect on most of my classmates.
When I went to college in Barcelona, one of the first things I did was start looking for “roleplaying”. My first game was quite bad, actually: MERP/LOTR, but the DM was a tad of an idiot and us players rebelled several times. Still, since the rest of the players had been cool, I decide to keep on trying. I was able to obtain the DnD Basic Box (this was 1st Ed, but in Spanish!) and gave it to Middlebro for Christmas, knowing full well that Lilbro was much more likely to eat it up - but an expensive gift was more “justified” for the elder one, eh?
If looks could kill, I would have died from the look Mom threw my way. Many years later, she’s had to admit that RPGs:
- kept my bros and their friends at home, yelling “and that’s one damn dead orc, yoohoo!” at an acceptable volume and drinking cocoa milk, rather than out getting drunk or doing drugs
- got Lilbro to read his first book. And his second, and his third…
- taught both Bros most of the English they know. Modules in English were easy to find, after all. And knowing just what the heck is thatspecificweapon so you can be properly theatrical about your hits makes for great motivation.
Well, the verdict is in and it’s hit. He really seems to be enjoying the DVDs!
Thanks for all your input- the young Denizen appreciates it!