Re: Mood or Tone of the 'Dungeon Fantasy' setting, world...
Second the Conan recommendation. Additionally, for atmosphere (more than point-by-point similarity):
Dragonslayer (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
Willow (1988)
There's an entire genre of Japanese anime inspired by D&D by way of console video games:
Record of Lodoss War (1990) was explicitly based on Ryo Mizuno's fantasy RPG campaign. Rune Soldier (2001) is a more recent comedy series set in the same universe.
.hack//Sign (2002) is very moody and atmospheric, with first rate background music.
Sword Art Online (2012) is very flashy, with excellent graphics.
Log Horizon (2013) is also excellent, with a more scenarios.
Konosuba (2016) is a straight-up parody of standard D&D-derived video game tropes. The problem is you may lose players to watching it -- it's that funny.
Note that I watch all these in Japanese with English subtitles, so I can't say whether the English dub versions are any good or not.
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