Agricola wrote:

One of the first things I thought of when reading about AS&SH being released and the vibe it was trying to capture was the cartoon-Thundarr the Barbarian, albeit a rated NC-17 version but still that destruction then a new world built upon the devastation of the old with humanoids and humans roaming the battered wasteland. Monsters plus some surviving technology. Any thoughts out there regarding cartoons that you thought of when delving into AS&SH?

Den springs to mind but with less nudity. Several from Heavy Metal like the Mercenary and even the highly pornographic one about the lost colony ship being transformed into a conscious amorphus entity of flesh that can split off at times it humans and other creatures (can't think of the name of it at the moment).

I'm prone to include super-science in my games, so Thundarr was right up my alley. I like the idea of magic, old school tech and super-science all jammed together. Plus, I think you can get away with it pretty easily in AS&SH, especially if you play up the "interdimensional gateway" or "man out of time" angle, which can work nicely. It's not something that I do every game, but periodically it's good for knocking players out of their comfort zones.

He-Man's occasionally got some good stuff too (Trap Jaw!), but the production values are lower than Thundarr and the episodes can begin to feel repetitive or overly juvenile pretty quickly.

Last edited by Chainsaw (3/05/2014 9:10 pm)

Blackadder23 wrote:

There is no cartoon like Thundarr the Barbarian!

I actually used "it's kind of like Thundarr the Barbarian" to explain Hyperborea to some of my players.  They got it immediately.

Absolutely. It stands head-and-shoulders above the rest, IMO.