By popularity Hank The Ranger Energy Bow stats

Ok, maybe not “by popularity” exactly, but when I last posted about buying the complete animated Dungeons & Dragons TV series a couple different people commented saying they wanted to have Hank The Ranger’s Energy Bow.

Tonight I was looking through the D&D Animated Series Handbook and saw they had the complete stats for the Energy Bow and snapped the quick picture above with a chuckle.

The handbook also provides stats on Eric The Cavalier’s Griffon Shield, Diana The Acrobat’s Javelin Staff, Presto The Magician’s Hat of Many Spells, Sheila The Thief’s Cloak of Invisibility and Bobby The Barbarian’s Thunder Club. There are stats on Uni but it appears Uni’s only weapon is his (her?) magic horn which does +1 damage. Uri seems to have been the weak one in the party.

We’re done watching the complete first and second season of Sliders and D&D is up next so the next time I mention this, if ever again, I should have watched some/most/all of the series. The original promotional poster indicates that Dungeons & Dragons The Animated Series originally premiered Saturday September 17th, 1983 at 9:30am EST on CBS. Good old CBS, they have had some of my most favorite TV shows ever like the original Twilight Zone.

I also learned in the comments (thanks Zorn) of that post that there are some SL residents actually playing D&D in world. I checked with one of the more seasoned residents Allen Kerensky by sending him an IM (he was offline and hasn’t replied as of this writing) and visited his land (Jingyo 187, 144, 54) where he has a script to roll dice on command in the channel. I’m going to keep following this story along and maybe, possibly, try to get a crack at seeing what the D&D group is up to inside SL. It appears there are at least two different D&D groups: D&D Role Play and Dungeons & Dragons in SL.

The original founder of the D&D Role Play group Fia Firefly’s profile indicates that Fia is “not currently active in SL.” I’ll report back my findings on how active or inactive D&D currently is inside SL when I talk with somebody in one of these groups and learn more. If someone reading is in one of these groups and wants to hit me up in chat in world, please do and fill me in on the details.

From a collector’s standpoint I’m working on tracking down two other TSR boxed games from around the same time period as the animated TV series: Gamma World (science fiction) and Boot Hill (old west). I also enjoyed playing Top Secret (James Bond like spy game).

Ahhh, memories.