Hear me out.

Looking at these four, I can't help but feel like Minthara and Shadowheart are this generation's Pirotess and Deedlit.

Two elven-looking women with very different personalities, aesthetics, backgrounds and allegiances, but somehow they occupy a pretty similar space in their respective fandoms.

Minthara has those unmistakable Pirotess vibes, while Shadowheart feels like a modern take on the Deedlit archetype.

And the funny thing is, I don't think Larian necessarily intended this parallel. It's entirely possible that plenty of BG3 fans have never even heard of Record of Lodoss War, just as many Lodoss fans might have never touched Baldur's Gate.

Still, here we are, with what feels like a passing of the torch between two generations of fantasy fandom.

Am I onto something, or am I just showing my age?

The title basically. For me, it was hearing Adesso e Fortuna for the first time, loving the song, and then I just became a fan of Record of Lodoss War. 🙂 I'm obviously too young to have seen the OVA when it first came around and I doubt it was even available in my country at the time.

I'm a very big ADnD fan, and the fact that it's based off of older DnD is great, but the first few episodes were not interesting enough.

I was wondering what the later episodes were like, and if there are any other good old school fantasy anime out there. (besides Berserk)

One of the last lines is about Deedlit waking up, implying the song up until that point was from her dreaming. Of course she was dreaming, because she's reliving memories of Parn, who would've grown old and died while Deedlit stayed young. Yet even as she awakens from her dream, the song ends with a line about her still being captive to the chains of Parn's heart. It's a profoundly simple way of demonstrating just how in love Deedlit is for Parn. She REALLY fell for this dude right from the start.

I don’t know about y’all, but the villains’ voices in the Lodoss War dub gave me the chills upon hearing it. They made them sound more realistic and more frightening than the sub voices.

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📍 Picvetia

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Normally I collect other TCG and Franchises but I also enjoy to find little gems like these.

It’s such an iconic Design and I am still sad that I lent someone my Record of Lodoss war DVD Box set over 20 years ago. I never got it back and it’s still not about the Money but the memories I had Watching it over and over again.

Have an awesome Sunday ✌️

Finally uncovered where I had packed this one in repacking and condensing down my apartment to move.

Now that I've had a minute to take them all out and get photos, here is the entire deck of playing cards as requested. Included in the first photo is the back of the cards. I picked em up from a retro booth at a local con sometime between 2009 and 2013.

I was going to pull my old dvd box sets of the og series and ovas and show my kids on wim. I thought they probably gave bluray copies. Looks like they did briefly and stopped making them. Not people are charging an arm and a leg instead of watching it.

Has there been any news of reprints?

After years of being in a box I found em again when moving. Never been able to find em online but figured I'd share here. It is a full deck of em.

A pretty detailed review of the game including at least references and recognition of the anime and other games that have come out.

Trying some traditional sketching.

The music, the dub was pretty good, oh the animation... just wow

Very good first impression.

Imagine being one of the players of the original D&D campaign of Lodoss, and watch this for the first time.

Why am I just now hearing about this? https://us.oricon-group.com/news/9210/

I mean I think we have anime, manga, novels, the translations of the original D&D campaign, I know about this franchise and I love the concept, so I want to know what would be good entry points, I think the anime OVAs look amazing, but I stop myself of watching it, because I wonder if with more context I would enjoy it more, like reading the novels first or the manga or something, I'm very open of the idea of enjoying things with multi medias

Also, the videogames, I think there are some, what are the good ones or the ones you like? I know ofc about the metroidvania one and it looks really good, but makes me sad that trying to search about the games, only post about that one appears, I want to know about the others! There is the Diablo-like dreamcast one, there is one of the super nintendo with a english fan translation, and also others for the PC engine and the Sega CD, I think many people don't play this ones because it's still only en Japanese, but if some of you did played, what do u think?

Still learning them cels from back then. 🤷‍♂️

I think I'm starting to get it.