#dnd movie spoilers

[natcat5]

I love you goofy looking aarakocra, dragonborn and tabaxi. I love you hiring bridgerton guy just to be hot and untouchable and having his first major scene staged so that one tiddy is always artfully exposed. I love you well choreographed fight scenes and a beautifully chaotic representation of six seconds of combat. I love you compelling plot point of attunement requiring a successful role with your spellcasting modifier. I love you solving puzzles by shoving round p(ainting)egs into square holes. I love you forcing Justice Smith to do a British accent for no reason. I love you level 20 NPCs who can’t help the party against the big bad for ambiguous reasons. I love you bigby’s hand slap fights. I love you Nat 20s on potato attacks. I love you owlbears, mimics and gelatinous cubes. I love you dragons, I love you dungeons. I love you dnd movies that love dnd.

[keeperofthebees]

the d&d movie was so good. they captured the energy perfectly. exposition and character building and meeting that takes 10 minutes. travel across 3 countries in like 5 minutes. bullshit plans that work so hard. a dragon for no reason other than its a fuckin dragon. Chekov's gun but it's Chekov's arsenal. A paladin's autistic swag. nat 20 on the potato. crying. a very quick "where are they now" segment. everything.

[in-search-of-an-exit]

The portal caravan scene was the most unapologetically D&D part of the movie imo

-the creative use of a magic item, not for it’s obvious and intended use

- each member of the party getting to do different parts from buying a painting to using wild shape

- the extreme convoluted nature of all the steps

- being extremely clever but still getting fucked up by bad execution(bad rolls)

-obvious holes in the plan like the guards clearly being able to see all of them working out just cause the other people are way to oblivious (when you get saved only cause an npc rolls a 5)

[jay-wasstuff]

Behind the scenes: Xenk entering the Orifice!

[bloodnok91]

The players in the honor among thieves movie really went out of their way to not put the clues together about the red wizard’s plan, huh. Like, the hints were there, they knew she got the horn and he went out of his way to have the DMPC Paladin tell them about the ritual and gave them the book and everything. But they still just ignored it in favor of their own plot, didn’t even realize what was happening until it started.

Very authentic.

[judyalvqrez]

there was something really jim henson-esque and campy about how some of the non-human races were portrayed in the new dnd movie that i really enjoyed. they could’ve easily gone the shitty cgi route or just not shown those races up close at all, but no, they said you want a bird man? we’re gonna get you a bird man

[hueningkoi]

How am i not expected to ship edgin/xenk when they have edgin openly show distaste for xenk only to have xenk tell him he can hold his hand in the scary cave they're about to enter and edgin going UH HARD NO and then minutes later have xenk save his ass from a dummy thicc dragon and hold his hand out to edgin who takes it without fuckin hesitation. Like okay they're meant to be motherfucker I have EYES

[ivyontheholodeck]

So I watched the dnd movie,

[verityblack]

When we finished watching honor among thieves, I turned to my friends and said that I really enjoyed it, and that it was better than the old dungeons and dragons movie.

One friend turned to me and said “they were in the movie you know? In the tournament as a cameo!”

I looked at him very confused because I did not remember this lot being a team in the games but guessed I must have missed them.

Man was fuckin talking about the cartoon.

Like no bro, im talking about the 2000s movie dungeons and dragons,, I have not seen the 80s cartoon. ALSO THAT IS NOT A MOVIE,, that’s a tv show.

[agltaria]

xenk is what you get when you’re in a dnd group but you know there’s one person who really wants to join but is always busy so when they DO manage to join they’re in for one session, get to do a bunch of cool stuff so they can make the most of it then leave for the rest of the campaign

[lastoneout]

Spoilers but imo the one thing the DnD movie got more right than anything else is how the death of the main funny character is always a complete gut-punch that leaves you sobbing like a fucking baby.

Like they give us a barbarian named Holga Kilgore who's introductory scene is her beating the shit out of a guy for interrupting her potato time and when she died I cried so hard I could barely see the screen. 100/10. Peak DnD. No notes at all.

[shannananan]

The DND Movie is perfection and here’s why:

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JARNATHAN

[sidekick-hero]

Okay but hear me out. The new dnd movie was like watching a campaign designed by Eddie - only that Eddie also played a character.

I mean Edgin (HELLO??? ED???) Darvis, a bard that lives as a thief but is chaotic good and does the right thing in the end??? Who is witty and sarcastic and cunning and charms people all the time with his words and his music and who is also a chaotic racoon man?

And then they meet the Paladin Xenk Yendar, who is the hottest fucking thing that ever graced this earth?? Who fights like he was born to do it, graceful and athletic and so, so strong? All while looking like a god? And he is lawful good, protects the weak and is haunted by his past? A past where he lost everyone he ever loved so he doesn't get attached but is willing to risk his fucking life to save the bard that keeps on mocking him?? Who is painfully sincere but also has hidden depth and definitely a sense of humor even if it's hard to detect?

And at first the bard hates the paladin, doesn't trust him because of what his kind represents to him (Steve, a former jock and Eddie's mistrust of jocks because they hurt him and his like). And yet the bard can't leave the paladin alone. And the paladin believes in the bard even when the bard himself doesn't ("Give yourself a break man" Steve said to Eddie when Eddie joked about himself being a coward). And then the paladin saves the bard's life and the bard has to admit that the paladin is actually a good guy???

I'm sorry but where is the steddie AU for this movie????

[bnasheee]

I keep seeing people say that Edgin didnt cast any spells but i do not think thats true at all. You need to remember that hes a bard, a lot of bard spells are subtlety woven into words. I feel like folks just dont understand how bards work because he is actually an excellent example of what a bard would actually be like.

Yall expect all bards to be showy and flashy and flirty but i think Edgin is a perfect example of what a bard is actually about. Hes great at talking and great at persuasion. Hes charming even when people are mad at him.

You cannot tell me that man wasnt using suggestion, one of the most quintessential bard spells out there.

Just because he wasnt making things explode doesn't mean he wasnt casting spells. Bard spells just aren't usually visual.

[jay-wasstuff]

It was never about bringing Kira's mother back. It was about Edgin's selfishness in bringing HIS wife back, Edgin left his daughter alone to go on a dangerous heist to bring back his dead wife 'to be a family again' when Kira already had her family, that of which being Edgin and Holga (plus Simon). Kira's birth mother was someone she never met or knew and hadn't expressed any longing for (as far as we know) so the revival wasn't for Kira, it was for Edgin. He didn't think of Kira when deciding to go on the heist, he didn't think about the family Kira already had, he didn't think of his wife and her wishes either, he only thought of himself. It wasn't until Holga died that he realised it was more important that Kira had her mother than he had his wife, that he let go of his selfishness.

[primeministerofantarctica]

minor spoilers but one thing i really loved about the dnd movie is how there's never a metafictional/ framing device that shows the actual game being played but you can still follow along and tell when they made a good or bad roll