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YouTube of the Week: Dreadfully Precarious Position Edition



Because I’ve been reading the D&D retrospective book since xmas, here’s an early commercial for D&D from 1983.

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  1. [...] Over at Critical Hits, you can find an old D&D commercial, circa 1983. I think the worst part of this is not that I owned that version of the game in 1983, or that I still play D&D today… but that I recognize the early acting work of Alan Ruck and Jami Gertz. [...]