Quote from: weirdguy564 on July 15, 2024, 09:53:02 PMFunny. 

The most D&D based media I've seen lately, even more than the actual D&D movie with Chris Pine, is Goblin Slayer. 

And that is Manga/Anime.  Heads up; GS is not for the squeamish. There is blood, guts, and goblins who capture and assault women on screen.  There are no girl goblins, but that doesn't stop them from multiplying like rats.

The D&D influence runs a lot deeper, at least in the manga. It uses Vancian magic, characters are defined (and even named) by their race-class combination. Heroes are called "Prayers" and monsters "Non-Prayers", a pun on PCs and NPCs, and the characters use tons of classic dungeon tricks like flooding or burning out monster lairs. In one chapter they kill a monster by using a Portal spell to send it to the bottom of the sea. Later they use bags of flour to trick a beholder into blowing itself up (while making jokes about how they can't legally call it a beholder). It really is a pity the edgier stuff keeps so many people out of it, because if you can get past that it's about as close to an official OSR comic as you're ever going to get.

There's also a Goblin Slayer prequel series (Goblin Slayer: Side Story Year One) that is arguably even better than the main series. It's set several years before GS when the main character was just starting as an adventurer and learning about goblins.

You can get the Goblin Slayer RPG fairly cheap online, but the thing is massive and doesn't seem like it would be very usable for actually running a game. It's also very D&D-like in that the Monk class gets shafted pretty hard.

Probably one of the best looks at how elvish lifespan affects them is Frieren, Beyond Journey's End. One that looks at the interplay of mercantilism and religion plus small gods and big churches by following a light romance between a travelling merchant and a small god is Spice and Wolf.

Both are really good fantasy animes available on Crunchyroll.