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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

The Speak With Dead scene I thought was well done, and the heist and sneaking into the carriage I thought was a very D&D plan...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's another scene ( the heist, especially the carriage part) that would make for an analysis of what was going on at the table.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I fucking loved the Themberchaud scenes and Chancellor Jarnathan. Honestly the entire movie sounded like an IRL game, I think that's why I enjoyed it so much.

"Chancellor Jarnathan enters the chamber -"

"I GRAB JARNATHAN AND JUMP OUT THE WINDOW"

"...Roll a grapple check. Goddamnit.

Lmao

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would love to see an analysis of all the rolls in that game... It would make a great youtube video.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I liked the whole movie, but honestly my favorite part was the reveal at the beginning for why they were waiting for that one judge.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I also liked how the bad guy tries the same shit with that judge lol

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I liked the small cameos in the maze battle scene. The characters from the 1980’s cartoon show made an appearance, even if they didn’t say anything.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Used to watch the cartoon and recognized the characters immediately! Definitely one of the parts where I geeked out the hardest!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ha! I never saw that cartoon, but it did seem like they put some thought into those characters. I may have to look them up.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

There's so many great scenes, like the Intellect Devourers completely ignore the party, and the fact that all of their classes use intelligence as a dump stat. Or how fantastically shot that entire escape from the tower sequence was. Or how clever the intentionally jumping into the gelatonus cube was...

But my absolute favorite scene was when the paladin was walking away and Edgin said oh no there's a rock in his way, will he go around? And he walks straight up and over it. It had us dying, we had to pause it because we laughing so hard.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The use of the "hither tither" stick, it felt exactly how a player would use it

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Also exactly how it would be introduced. Intricate puzzle the DM spent hours designing, fucking it up instantly, then just being like oh shit, lucky we had this staff the DM made during his portal playthrough

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fat dragon is what really landed the movie for me. That? That was a DM decision, based on the players and the DM being memelords. Straight from the tabletop.

It really just demonstrated that the whole movie is a DnD campaign (agglomerate homebrew) with extremely high production value, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The fat dragon, Themberchaud, is actually a canon obese dragon. He's in the Out of the Abyss module and some others.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Huh, TIL.

Still, without knowing that, it looked exactly like the kind of collective meme the table would come up with and beg the DM to add.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The fat dragon made my wife lose it. She just kept saying "He looks just like the cat when he smells chicken."

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

This movie made me so sad in unexpected ways. Went in blind expecting a half-assed cash in and was blown away by how damn good this movie actually was and how much I enjoyed just to be disappointed that it bombed at the box office and we will probably never see another installment.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think it bombed because there was no marketing.... I only heard of it through Reddit DND stuff.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also probably tightly-related to the OGL 2.0 controversy, which peaked like a month or two before the movie.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I could easily watch a whole series of this format. Very well done

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

A lot to be said, but I think my favorite little thing was the rust monsters eating scrap for the 1.5 seconds they were on screen. Entirely unnecessary, but showed they put in a good amount of thought to the film.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I missed that! When did that happen?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"But we approved your pardon!"

Simple, hilarious, and sounds like the DM response rather than the character.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The smile that came when they showed a Harper's pin right before mentioning the Harpers never left my face. Such a subtle little thing, but they fucking nailed it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I loved the camaraderie of the characters. It reminded me of playing DnD when I was in middle school. It made me wish I knew people who played now, I would love to get into it again. Fun times.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is there a place on here to find dnd groups? That would be a great idea to have a community for that or start something within this community.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My vote would be to just use this community for that purpose until the community gets big enough to split out.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If there isn't an [email protected] we should make one.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The chase scene where the druid constantly wildshaped was amazing. Also Themberchaud.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It was! The music really made that part excellent.

Themberchaud was the fat dragon right? That was a very homebrew dnd moment... The movie was good at that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's right. He shows up in Out of the Abyss.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

BUT WE APPROVED YOUR PARDON

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Favorite part is probably simply that they made such a good and well written D&D movie that managed to both convey the feeling of a D&D game to actual fans, and still be enjoyable and accessible to non-fans.

Favorite scene though, if I had to pick one? Probably Doric's wildeshaping chase, and the whole Underdark sequence. Themberchaud was such a chode, lol.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amusingly enough, it's at the end where the Doric the owlbear ragdolls Sofina and yeets her into a building. It's exactly what I expected for a DND death. Everything else was super solid but that ending just sent me.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's been a minute since I saw it but I thought the humor was well executed. There's a lot of talk lately about how modern blockbusters (read: marvel) are oversaturated with humor, but I feel like Honor Among Thieves struck just the right balance for a movie about DnD.

Edot: will say that my friend still cracks up whenever he thinks of Themberchaud so that's probably where his vote goes

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved the build up in the beginning, the chains, all the guards looking nervously at this big brute. Then he walks in to the cell and gets absolutely destroyed by Holga.

She clearly rolled a 20 on her kick him in the knees attack, from that point on the encounter is over. Also Edgin calmly discussing the poor choice he made by touching her potato.

I also thought it was very well done, bringing the potato gag back at the end of the movie.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Probably the bridge. DM crafted such an amazing puzzle and the paladin being a good boy learned it perfectly. Group was like: You know it'd be fun to see what the DM does if I accidentally put my foot on it.

Also the five questions. You could see that coming from MILES away but it was still hilarious.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bridge scene is even better when you realize the paladin is a DM-insert NPC, there to explain the overcomplicated puzzles, steer the plot, and keep the incompetent party from getting killed. Once they're back on track with what the DM has prepped, he says his farewell and disappears from the story.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I just loved that it actually felt like D&D

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Aside from the how well the humor landed I thought that the fight scenes were really well choreographed. Not this mention how every character follows the initiative order in the final fight scene. Pretty nifty. Overall it was a great movie.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Loved the "fresh cut grass smell" bit. My party was grinning since it reminded them of all the shitty magic tricks I pulled off during our last campaign.

We loved the movie, it really captured the spirit of our games.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I thought they did a really good job with the choreography in the barbarian fights. Also the slap dash A plan, B plan, back up plan, back to plan B, all felt very authentic to a dnd campaign.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also watched this last night and loved it. Can't really pick a favorite part. This is also coming from a non DnD playing person. Thought the film did a nice job blending in humor without it getting cheesy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The use of the "hither tither" stick, it felt exactly how a player would use it

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

“Just because your sentence was symmetrical doesn’t mean it’s not nonsense”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The druid running away from the tower. Just impossible to do with in a DND game but true eye catching.

Oh and the zombie questioning 😅

[-] onehellofausername 4 points 1 year ago

“Hold this”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Somebody on another platform mentioned this. Every turn/move of a character in a fight takes 6 seconds, a very nice little detail imo. Edit: Grammar.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was genuinely taken aback by when on the Nat 1 deception from major illusion. I knew something was up, but when his body started contorting like a GMod machinima, I freaking lost it!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s such a minor thing in the film and probably not actually my favorite part, but honestly I was super hyped for “Tabaxi mom”. I’ve got a couple Tabaxi boys so it was exciting to see representation of a less mainstream race. I spotted Tabaxi mom in the cast list on IMDB before I went to see it and was unreasonably excited to see her.

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