Quote from: Omega;871889As for Japanese D&D.

Look up the anime series Record of Lodoss War. That is based on the novelization of a groups adventure log playing BX D&D. Three anime series, lots of novels, at least two manga series, and at least one console game.

When TSR turned them down they retooled the game into Sword World and at least one other RPG.

According to the blurb I have on my old VHS set of Record of Lodoss OVA's, it actually was a Tunnels and Trolls game that got ported over to D&D, but the anime was actually a collection of session notes that the manga creator shinied up for a comic from the T&T days.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;872478According to the blurb I have on my old VHS set of Record of Lodoss OVA's, it actually was a Tunnels and Trolls game that got ported over to D&D, but the anime was actually a collection of session notes that the manga creator shinied up for a comic from the T&T days.

Never heard of it being noted as T&T. It has all the trappings of BX and none of T&T. I am not seeing any info indicating T&T was used?

Quote from: Omega;872483Never heard of it being noted as T&T. It has all the trappings of BX and none of T&T. I am not seeing any info indicating T&T was used?

Although it's from Wikipedia and does not conform to what this piece of paper says (I don't have a scanner, so I can't show it to you, and it's a lot more vague, only mentioning T&T as it's primary source, then put to D&D, but not which edition) but it does mention T&T.

Quote from: WikipediaRecord of Lodoss War was created in 1986 by Group SNE as a Dungeons & Dragons "replay" serialized in the Japanese magazine Comptiq, though they also used the setting with other systems such as Tunnels & Trolls and RuneQuest.[2] Replays are not novels, but transcripts of RPG sessions, meant to both hold the interest of readers and convey the events that took place. They have proven to be popular, even to those who do not play role-playing games but are fans of fiction (including fantasy fiction). Similar to light novels, many characters and parties in replays have become popular as characters of anime. An example of such a character is the female elf Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War, who was played by science fiction novelist Hiroshi Yamamoto during the RPG sessions.

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from Wikipedia:
Record of Lodoss War was created in 1986 by Group SNE as a Dungeons & Dragons "replay" serialized in the Japanese magazine Comptiq, though they also used the setting with other systems such as Tunnels & Trolls and RuneQuest.[2] Replays are not novels, but transcripts of RPG sessions, meant to both hold the interest of readers and convey the events that took place. They have proven to be popular, even to those who do not play role-playing games but are fans of fiction (including fantasy fiction). Similar to light novels, many characters and parties in replays have become popular as characters of anime. An example of such a character is the female elf Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War, who was played by science fiction novelist Hiroshi Yamamoto during the RPG sessions.

The popularity of the Record of Lodoss War replays was such that the Dungeon Master Ryo Mizuno started to adapt the story into some of the earliest Japanese-language domestic high fantasy novels in 1988.

When the replay series went on to become a trilogy, Group SNE had to abandon the Dungeons & Dragons rules and create their own game, dubbed Record of Lodoss War Companion and released in 1989. All three parts of the replay series were eventually published as paperbacks by Kadokawa Shoten from 1989 to 1991:

    RPG Replay Record of Lodoss War I (ＲＰＧリプレイ ロードス島戦記Ⅰ Aru Pī Jī Ripurei Rōdosutō Senki Wan?)—Parn's party, retake played according to the Record of Lodoss War Companion rules and incorporating elements from the novelization
    RPG Replay Record of Lodoss War II (ＲＰＧリプレイ ロードス島戦記Ⅱ Aru Pī Jī Ripurei Rōdosutō Senki Tū?)—Orson's party, retake played according to the Record of Lodoss War Companion rules and incorporating elements from the novelization
    RPG Replay Record of Lodoss War III (ＲＰＧリプレイ ロードス島戦記Ⅲ Aru Pī Jī Ripurei Rōdosutō Senki Surī?)—Spark's party, played according to the Record of Lodoss War Companion rules

The last volume of Mizuno's novelization was published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1993, and followed by two collections of short stories in 1995: