In the 1990s, roleplaying games weren’t the massive industry they are today. We didn’t have professional voice actors and comedians making every slack-jawed podcast listener think that they deserve a masterfully curated play experience, we didn’t have dozens of well-crafted D&D alternatives about loneliness and fish knife fights, and hobby shops were grimy dens run by sallow, broken men who stank of cheese and regret.

In this benighted era, if you wanted to promote your tabletop game, you did one of two things: you took out an ad in Dragon next to the Knights of the Dinner Table strip, or you produced a needlessly complex short promotional film in an era when no practical technology existed for sharing videos of that length. Thank God FASA chose the latter.

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