Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:45:45.000Z
Thinking about the D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves movie...
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Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:47:23.000Z
( inspired by Overbringer )
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:48:05.000Z
Yes, it had it flaws: it would have been nice for the bard to cast spells, and for the druid to cast spells.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:49:00.000Z
But so much of it was letter-perfect "this is part of a D&D campaign". And the little touches were wonderful.
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Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:51:44.000Z
Seeing places I have had characters in (most of the D&D games I was in for long campaigns were in the Realms). Neverwinter, Icewind Dale, all of that. Seeing a druid wildshape, along with that sequence. The bickering between friends and dropping it because there's danger, only to pick it up immediately after.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T12:52:55.000Z
The monsters - perfect onscreen versions of the mimic and the gelatinous cube and the displacer beast.
Shard
2024-12-17T13:05:44.000Z
Some druids really just prefer wild shape over spells, too. So it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility.
Shard
2024-12-17T13:06:11.000Z
And I loved the intellect devourers.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:21:03.000Z
And the bit of pique at not being attacked.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:21:09.000Z
And then the things that made you see the game mechanics if you know them well enough. The "my visiting friend from out of town wants to play tonight, let me give him a character to let them play" that is Xenk. The "what do I do now" when Simon destroys the bridge and the hither-thither staff is suddenly found.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:21:37.000Z
So much of the "no plan survives contact with the player characters".
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:23:22.000Z
And the creativity used with stuff in ways a DM would never think of, like using the hither-thither staff on the frame and using it to get it into the treasure room. That was the kind of inspired madness you get in a game when things go well.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:23:30.000Z
And when it ended, I wept.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:24:52.000Z
For my late good friend Mike, who DM'd D&D and who I DM'd for, who would not get the chance to see it, and who I think would have loved it, even as he bitched about things like "but druids can't wildshape into owlbears!" and "he didn't use any of his paladin abilities!".
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:25:23.000Z
And then I would have looked at him and said, "But we got to see Szass Tam! And Neverwinter! And..."
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:25:34.000Z
And there would have been hours to talking about it.
Le Comtesse
2024-12-17T13:26:16.000Z
The bittersweet thoughts of lost friends that go alongside the movie.
G30FF
2024-12-17T22:14:41.000Z
To me the single most D&D moment in the entire movie was whenever they got a new item, Edgin just handed it to Simon and went "Hold this."
G30FF
2024-12-17T22:15:38.000Z
Simon was clearly the one managing the party inventory.
G30FF
2024-12-17T22:18:23.000Z
And my friends and I all agree that Xenk is the DM insert character, who the DM introduced to get the party back onto the main story path.
Corgi
2024-12-17T23:39:03.000Z
Now, imagine this: People who see the movie because Fun Movie... then start playing D&D and seeing it again!
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