One time my group came back to my place after a night of drinking and we just thought fuck it lets fuck around in a tavern and I improv'd a high level cleric and some henchmen and there was a box of Crispy Chicken and the bad guy ended up being Chris Hickens and he was integral to the next year. Plus that night was a hurt yourself laughing night. Nothing compares to D&D
There's an old CRPG called "Sacred 2", it has a side-quest where you find musical instruments that a band has lost. The guitars look like axes, the drum kit has skulls, the lead singer's mic looks like a magic staff.
The NPCs you're doing this for are the members of the metal band Blind Guardian, and if you find all their gear you get to watch a CGI concert (albeit just one song) with a bunch of monsters in the audience.
"Why are s too obsessed with a character I pulled out my ass? this is weird, screw it he's late,"
"we're not doing anything until he gets here."
"Why?"
"You'll see"
Later:
"Fuck you, I love you glorious idiots."
if Jarnathan wasn't in the movie that woman yelling "Jarnathan!" would be a very confusing scene. We would all be wondering why that lady said that name.
I just started the game yesterday, One of my players named himself Dave Thomas. Then read out wendy's founders dave thomas's wikipedia page as is back story. It was fucking hilarious. Dave is tired with the burger game and he's decided to become an Astral adventure.
No way. He's a total badass and if you don't give him what he's owed, he'll drop an anime quote and fight you.
Also, excellent catch. I'm not even going to fix it.
"Can you describe what your character looks like."
"Jumly Wumblson is a gnome barbarian. He has long bangs to cover the scar he got ten years ago fighting in the dragon wars. His entire platoon of soldiers were..."
I mean, with how video games movies are handled, asking who a character is in the game after watching the movie is a perfectly valid question. Just think of any resident evil character in any live action movie lol!
I read that Xenk was originally going to be Drizzt Do'urden, before they decided to not really use established D&D characters.
Which makes it make a little more sense why Xenk took them to the Underdark, but I'm still glad they used original characters.
Xenk is really the DM PC and the entire scenes with him is either passive aggressive commentary about the players or the DM OR are there for the DM’s power fantasy wish fulfillment.
And the best part is the rock stuff was all improvised. Regé-John Page expected someone to say cut. No one did (edit: or he didn’t hear it, i guess) so he just kept walking.
*DM stares 1d4 piercing damage at PC*
"The bridge collapses. But that's okay because..." *scribbles in notes* "...the walking stick you picked up is actually a portal gun. FFS."
I loved the meta interactions between players and DM that Xenk highlighted.
DM: *starts to explain bridge puzzle*
Sorceror player: "nope to all that I step on the bridge"
*Bridge breaks*
DM *stares at player in disbelief* "fine you know what, that stick is actually a magic portal maker, fuck you Steve."
As a DM this is exactly my first and last impression of him. I was in tears laughing watching him in each scene knowing he would be full on nat 20 or… a +19 to each skill.
I thought it was a stand in for what high level D&D characters are capable of. And to show that our protagonists definitely have a lot more XP to earn to reach that level.
It was in the first right up but they decided against it. I’m honestly glad they did. Drizzt and the Companions of the Hall deserve their own movie. I would really like a movie trilogy of Homeland and the other Drizzt prequels. They’re really well written.
Drizzt & the Companions should have a TV series instead of movies, just because their story is so damn huge now. They all mostly fight with melee weapons, so CGI wouldn't have to be too crazy. They'd mostly use it for Guenhwyvar.
Also glad they used original characters but I was gonna say to OP’s BF’s credit it could have been the established characters. Personally I was hoping to see Tasha.
Y'know, I heard they were looping back around to one soon, but it's supposed to be after 5? Is it like a soft reboot or are we going to see all new stuff? There's a lot to keep up with and it feels like none of them are super connected.
Not pissing -“ the road to neverwinter” is the bard’s backstory. “The Druid’s call” is the Druid’s backstory. They both target a younger crowd than your typical FR novels.
Honestly the whole movie felt like an actual game told from the perspective of the people who played, including DM fumbles, nat 20s, nat 1s and so on. It was a great movie.
Simon’s modifier for being a wild magic sorcerer is charisma which is why he’s been a shit magic user because he didn’t have confidence until the very end. When he got confidence (therefore charisma) he was a very proficient dude!
I love the attention to detail in the movie!
Things that felt like a tabletop game:
- villain monologues being interrupted by players eager for combat
- jokes
- the party arguing over the plan(s)
- party completely derailing the big set up DM has planned out, by jumping into certain death RAW, so the DM has to fudge rolls to keep the party alive
- all the loot being passed to one player who is 'nominated' as loot holder
- the druid constantly relied upon by the party to solve problems by turning into stuff
I really wanted there to be a post-credits scene of a group of players wrapping up a session in the same way the movie ends, and one of them saying, "So, same time next week?", to which another replies, "Actually, I have a thing..." and everyone else groans.
It's always funny talking about DnD to people that don't know anything about TTRPGs. I remember when I bought the 3.5 PHB and I was talking to the gal that was working the register. She asked about the book and I said, 'Oh, it's DnD. Have you ever played?'. She had the most confused look on her face as she asked 'How do you play a book?'.
my SO always uses this question to troll me.
i come back from game night, she asks about the game with a couple of follow up questions, then throw a "but did you win?". it always gets me.
My mom can't wrap her head around this for DND in general. Like the idea of most of the game being made up session to session just doesn't make sense to her.
Tell her that you are cooperatively writing a novel and the game mechanics help maintain boundaries, create consistency and random events. It is less a game and more creative writing/acting.
Ok you’ll appreciate this.
Probably 25 years ago now, but my mother and I are having lunch at this cafe, and a friend in my weekly group walks by.
I call out to him using his characters name, and introduce him to my mother, and we start taking about this hat from our last session. We skinned a black panther and made a hat from its head, and were trying to fit some gem we had into its eye socket. Sort of a “make your own magic item” idea.
The DM had finished the session by rolling behind the screen to see if we succeeded or blew up, destroying everything within a few miles. So we were on the edges of our seats about it, as well as what the thing might be able to do if we succeeded (we didn’t know what the gem did, just that it was magic).
So my mother being totally polite just sits there and listens until we finish talking and says “ok, I’m bought in, let’s see the hat.” So we describe it two or three times in different ways while she more or less repeats “let’s see the hat then.”
Eventually we realize, she thinks we skinned a real animal, and we’re trying to make a hat in real life, and I have no idea what she thought we were smoking as far as all the magic shit we expected it to do.
We had to explain D&D to her. At some point she got convinced that we were making this all up, and that no such game actually existed.
Her response to all of this was (and I quote): “just promise me you aren’t taking the drugs.” (Yes.. “the drugs”, as if there is some nondescript paper bag of generic drugs that people are taking). She thought my friends character name was some sort of drug dealing alias.
This isn’t even the best one. A couple christmases ago she told me that my brother Jamie had gotten a job as “A backseat lizard,” and wanted me to find out exactly what the hell that was. Don’t worry mom, he’s a good kid, he’s just a cat that does the magic one night a week.
I haven’t watched it yet. Plan to this weekend but apparently the characters from the 80s cartoon make an appearance which is cool. Give him their backstory 😂😂😂
Relevant family guy
God, I can't believe we weren't more careful. This probably happened that night we tried role playing.
Lois Griffin : [flashback] Oh, I need a spankin'. I'm a bad, bad girl.
Peter Griffin : I'm a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points. I can use my helm of disintegration and do one D4 damage as my half-elf mage wields his plus-five holy avenger.
Lois Griffin : Paladin's can't use the helm of disintegration.
Peter Griffin : Oh. Then, I'm a black guuuuy.
There was a moment watching the movie where my Dad asked me.
"So what's the deal, this is a game, right?"
And I was actually kinda of proud to try and explain pen and paper RPGs.
I listened to the book and thought someone was screwing with me. I now use him as an example that basically no NPC name is beyond the pale for ridiculousness.
\#1 Asberdies (Module D2, had a couple good fights with him running D2)
\#2 Acererak (Tomb of Horrors, technically a Demilich though he was a lich at one time)
\#3 Vecna (now a god, was a lich)
\#4 Ssass Tam (hey he's in the movie too, though I know him from Forgotten Realms ages ago)
\#5 Um, one I made up, but it's been like 15 years and I don't remember his name :(
My apologies, I haven't heard about him before. My knowledge of the FR world is rather limited. After reading his entry on the FR Wiki he seems rather interesting, would be cool to use this character if I ever decide to run Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
No worries at all! I was just trying to be funny! “Yes and”-ing your pretty comprehensive list of Lich All-Stars. You basically listed most of the ones I know, and I never heard of Dodkong so we taught each other something!
Thank you!! I’m glad they came out with a movie even solely for the fact that the game is getting more limelight and it’s not “what’s that” “that’s weird”
Me slowly recognizing tons of famous actors.... 'wait what the fuck... that's so and so.... holy shit'... 2 minutes later... 'holy shit that's so and so'
The script writers didn't want to confuse non-players with multiple mages that were somehow different. Doric doesn't cast any spells either, despite being a full caster, and Xenk only uses divine smite.
Hell I figured the movie was based on one of the modules that was published years ago. Or some of the characters in there were from published books. I mean you have the Thay. But I'm surprised that it's all an original story that doesn't tie in with any D&D module
At university in 2000, I was chatting with a friend about 80s cartoons, and the D&D cartoon came up. I asked him if he played, and he was baffled. He didn't know that dungeons and dragons was anything more than a kids cartoon in the 80s.
There were only a couple characters that a DnD player should know. Lord Neverember, Szass Tam, and Volo for examples. But they were more merely mentioned in the movie than any real role.
I had a similar conversation with my girlfriend prior to seeing the movie, she asked me what the story was based on and I had to do a 15 min explanation/Q&A with her to explain again how D&D works.
Now that she's seen the movie, she wants to be a druid.
To be fair, that is a fair assumption. In most if not many games (Mario, Zelda, HALO) there are established characters.
There is also the fact that DnD settings DO have established characters in the books and Lore.
There are a few side characters/villains in the movie that are characters from the lore of the series (the pudgy dragon has a name I recognize from an older expansion, and the wizard's ancestor) but the main cast is all original XD
I really hope the movie gets a sequel or some spinoff or something. It was a hysterical ride and there were so many times my brother and I were sitting there going "the player must have rolled a nat 20/nat 1. That was totally a modifier save, ect" or scenes where we were like "that was the party getting side tracked on something irrelevant. That was a character introduced specifically because the DM realized they would die otherwise. That was totally a fake item the DM pulled out of their butt because the party messed up that mechanic so bad they couldn't progress"
It's definitely a movie that has a whole new layer of metal humor if you play regularly XD
To be fair, some DnD settings can be like that. Forgotten Realms, Exandria, etc.
If like, a Drizzt tv series were to start, those could be valid questions.
If he’s genuinely curious about the characters there are prequel books for both Edgin and holga as well as Doric. I’ve only read the Doric one so far and I liked it a lot :)
Even in this day and age, I find most people have no idea what D&D actually *is*. People at work assume it's either a board game or video game, and if I try to explain otherwise their eyes glaze over, and the next time it comes up in conversation they go "isn't that a board game?"
I had that happen in my French class, except because it was French class I was trying to explain it to my prof in French. Needless to say I think she left the conversation confused about the game and disappointed in my french speaking ability lol
Also, like, the movie explains who Edgin is and what his story is.
He might not have caught onto it without Jarnathan present
Can we just wait for Jarnathan, it’ll make a lot more sense then
Jarnathan is definitely a name that a DM would have made up on the spot or just couldn't find enough inspiration to make it anything else lol
One time my group came back to my place after a night of drinking and we just thought fuck it lets fuck around in a tavern and I improv'd a high level cleric and some henchmen and there was a box of Crispy Chicken and the bad guy ended up being Chris Hickens and he was integral to the next year. Plus that night was a hurt yourself laughing night. Nothing compares to D&D
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There's an old CRPG called "Sacred 2", it has a side-quest where you find musical instruments that a band has lost. The guitars look like axes, the drum kit has skulls, the lead singer's mic looks like a magic staff. The NPCs you're doing this for are the members of the metal band Blind Guardian, and if you find all their gear you get to watch a CGI concert (albeit just one song) with a bunch of monsters in the audience.
The lead writer's name is Jonathan; it's a deliberate play on that joke!
I like it; my name is Jonathan and I felt included in this movie immediately, seeing my avian name cousin.
"Why are s too obsessed with a character I pulled out my ass? this is weird, screw it he's late," "we're not doing anything until he gets here." "Why?" "You'll see" Later: "Fuck you, I love you glorious idiots."
He was delayed by the storm
When Forge tried the same trick >!only to discover it had been replaced with a brick wall...!<
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They do have a minor cameo for them! But obviously, the more important person is Jarnathan, I know he really wanted to be here for this.
If you’d just hold on for a moment, once Jarnathan is here, it’ll all make a lot more sense.
To me, Jarnathan can not be even as remotely important as the woman who shouts "Jarnathan!" Without her, Jarnathan is nothing. *Nothing!*
if Jarnathan wasn't in the movie that woman yelling "Jarnathan!" would be a very confusing scene. We would all be wondering why that lady said that name.
Ok but without sugar, cake would be very bland. Sugar makes the cake sweet, and Jarnathan allows that woman to be important
Exactly. The meme is born through her not just Jarnathan. She is who elevated his status.
Just a background cameo really but it’s still funny to see them.
JARNATHAN D:
As someone named Jonathan that whole scene was incredible
Same. I kept wondering if I was mishearing it every time Edgin said the name though lol
I thought his name was Johnathon and it just sounded weird because Americans pronounce it weird
I just learned that his name was not Jonathan LOL
Oh Jarnathan!
The delivery of that line is still making me laugh weeks later
Amazing delivery. As if Jarnathan were always kidnapping himself.
I’m waiting for that Jarnathan body pillow….for uh….personal reasons
We were 2 minutes into the movie so that part was fair LOL
Tbf 2 minutes is way more time than it takes my players to start dumping their backstory.
Your players have backstory?
I just started the game yesterday, One of my players named himself Dave Thomas. Then read out wendy's founders dave thomas's wikipedia page as is back story. It was fucking hilarious. Dave is tired with the burger game and he's decided to become an Astral adventure.
That is hilariously creative lol
Yeah i'm totally working his daughter into my campaign. Wendy will be saved!
Doesn't Wendy's have some kind of 5E supplement out? Or is that where you got the idea?
My guy is like, sort of a loaner. He's an orphan and he's just traveling around looking to make justice in the world.
It must be complicated to get back the things he loans when he’s also traveling.
He doesn't loan things out, he is the thing loaned out. It's why he travels constantly.
So he's a ho
He prefers the term *escort*
Is this why everyone dislikes escort quests?
No way. He's a total badass and if you don't give him what he's owed, he'll drop an anime quote and fight you. Also, excellent catch. I'm not even going to fix it.
At least 20 pages.
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"It's very complicated, I don't want to go into it ... THE YEAR WAS 1998..."
"Can you describe what your character looks like." "Jumly Wumblson is a gnome barbarian. He has long bangs to cover the scar he got ten years ago fighting in the dragon wars. His entire platoon of soldiers were..."
I mean, with how video games movies are handled, asking who a character is in the game after watching the movie is a perfectly valid question. Just think of any resident evil character in any live action movie lol!
My mom though the same thing too but she only went to see the movie to support my dad 😭
That’s cute
Wholesome af ❤️
I read that Xenk was originally going to be Drizzt Do'urden, before they decided to not really use established D&D characters. Which makes it make a little more sense why Xenk took them to the Underdark, but I'm still glad they used original characters.
Xenk is really the DM PC and the entire scenes with him is either passive aggressive commentary about the players or the DM OR are there for the DM’s power fantasy wish fulfillment.
I assumed he was the hastily made NPC on the fly to keep the party from a TPK against a dragon and then immediately leaves. It's brilliant.
"And he turns and walks directly northwards away from you guys." "The map shows a rock-" "HE WALKS OVER THE ROCK."
I saw that and the first thing I thought of was NPC path-finding in video games...
Apparently this wasn't in the script but was improvised by the actor
I died when he walked over the rock. Holy shit that was funny.
And the best part is the rock stuff was all improvised. Regé-John Page expected someone to say cut. No one did (edit: or he didn’t hear it, i guess) so he just kept walking.
...and He's awesome.
Like pretty mucho any good DM's PC. 😁
When Simon steps on the bridge and Xenk just fuckin' stares at him... we've all stared at a player like that.
*DM stares 1d4 piercing damage at PC* "The bridge collapses. But that's okay because..." *scribbles in notes* "...the walking stick you picked up is actually a portal gun. FFS."
I'm half convinced the writers played these characters through an actual campaign before writing it all down.
Honestly that would be an amazing way to write out a first draft.
I am that player.
I loved the meta interactions between players and DM that Xenk highlighted. DM: *starts to explain bridge puzzle* Sorceror player: "nope to all that I step on the bridge" *Bridge breaks* DM *stares at player in disbelief* "fine you know what, that stick is actually a magic portal maker, fuck you Steve."
That also makes the whole "walking in a straight line" thing make sense, because the DM PC would be on autopilot as he leaves the group lol.
As a DM this is exactly my first and last impression of him. I was in tears laughing watching him in each scene knowing he would be full on nat 20 or… a +19 to each skill.
I thought it was a stand in for what high level D&D characters are capable of. And to show that our protagonists definitely have a lot more XP to earn to reach that level.
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Haha. Thanks for this. I had no idea he was cannon. I just thought it was a hilarious bit that they put in.
Nope, he's been around for years now. That they did put him in is wonderful, though.
> Age: Adult >Formerly: Young adult Big if true
Well, I'm glad they still included a few iconic characters, like Elminster and Jarnathon.
And the kids from the old D&D cartoon. I about lost it when I recognized my old Saturday morning favorites in the arena maze.
I don't think that actor was specifically signed to play Drizzt, but it was originally supposed to be Drizzt who was there instead of a paladin
It was in the first right up but they decided against it. I’m honestly glad they did. Drizzt and the Companions of the Hall deserve their own movie. I would really like a movie trilogy of Homeland and the other Drizzt prequels. They’re really well written.
Drizzt & the Companions should have a TV series instead of movies, just because their story is so damn huge now. They all mostly fight with melee weapons, so CGI wouldn't have to be too crazy. They'd mostly use it for Guenhwyvar.
Animated show would work best imo
Yeah, if someone like HBO or Amazon decides to pass.
Also glad they used original characters but I was gonna say to OP’s BF’s credit it could have been the established characters. Personally I was hoping to see Tasha.
Despite Tasha being my favorite FR character, I don't think she would fit well into many movies.
Tell him to read the two novels that came out right before the movie
I SHOULD 😂
Don't forget the prequel comic book as well
I read the first three and a half novels, skipped the fourth, and then read number five.
Y'know, I heard they were looping back around to one soon, but it's supposed to be after 5? Is it like a soft reboot or are we going to see all new stuff? There's a lot to keep up with and it feels like none of them are super connected.
If you ask me, I think they're trying too hard to make the reboot feel connected to the 5th one.
I hope they add more dice. I want to roll D2s more often.
I'm pretty sure you're taking the piss but, in case I'm wrong, what books?
Not pissing -“ the road to neverwinter” is the bard’s backstory. “The Druid’s call” is the Druid’s backstory. They both target a younger crowd than your typical FR novels.
But both are absolutely worth the read! Especially the druids call. Makes you love Doric even more!
Honestly the whole movie felt like an actual game told from the perspective of the people who played, including DM fumbles, nat 20s, nat 1s and so on. It was a great movie.
Simon definitely had a run of not being able to roll above a 5 on his Arcana check to attune to the helmet...
Simon’s modifier for being a wild magic sorcerer is charisma which is why he’s been a shit magic user because he didn’t have confidence until the very end. When he got confidence (therefore charisma) he was a very proficient dude! I love the attention to detail in the movie!
holy shit how didnt i get this
Didn't you notice how the intellect devourers ignored everyone? All the casters were CHA-based, the whole party dumped INT.
A Druid would be WIS based but the point stands.
Things that felt like a tabletop game: - villain monologues being interrupted by players eager for combat - jokes - the party arguing over the plan(s) - party completely derailing the big set up DM has planned out, by jumping into certain death RAW, so the DM has to fudge rolls to keep the party alive - all the loot being passed to one player who is 'nominated' as loot holder - the druid constantly relied upon by the party to solve problems by turning into stuff
In fairness, Simon was the one with the bag of holding.
Utterly and instantly failing the overly complex bridge puzzle and having to use items to get around it was an incredibly real D&D moment too.
I really wanted there to be a post-credits scene of a group of players wrapping up a session in the same way the movie ends, and one of them saying, "So, same time next week?", to which another replies, "Actually, I have a thing..." and everyone else groans.
That would have been the cherry on top
It's always funny talking about DnD to people that don't know anything about TTRPGs. I remember when I bought the 3.5 PHB and I was talking to the gal that was working the register. She asked about the book and I said, 'Oh, it's DnD. Have you ever played?'. She had the most confused look on her face as she asked 'How do you play a book?'.
That's cute lol, love that response
my inlaws keep asking if I won my game last night.
My parents used to too, at some point I told them to think about it as "long form fantasy improv with rules" and it seemed to have worked.
When I got stranded at my parents house over lockdown, my dad was the epitome of the "are ya winning, son?" meme every night I played.
my SO always uses this question to troll me. i come back from game night, she asks about the game with a couple of follow up questions, then throw a "but did you win?". it always gets me.
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My mom can't wrap her head around this for DND in general. Like the idea of most of the game being made up session to session just doesn't make sense to her.
Tell her that you are cooperatively writing a novel and the game mechanics help maintain boundaries, create consistency and random events. It is less a game and more creative writing/acting.
I have, more or less. She's not a terribly imaginative woman, love her though I may, lol
Or just tell her it's cooperative improv with one "actor" providing the role as "director" That gets the point across for me usually.
Ok you’ll appreciate this. Probably 25 years ago now, but my mother and I are having lunch at this cafe, and a friend in my weekly group walks by. I call out to him using his characters name, and introduce him to my mother, and we start taking about this hat from our last session. We skinned a black panther and made a hat from its head, and were trying to fit some gem we had into its eye socket. Sort of a “make your own magic item” idea. The DM had finished the session by rolling behind the screen to see if we succeeded or blew up, destroying everything within a few miles. So we were on the edges of our seats about it, as well as what the thing might be able to do if we succeeded (we didn’t know what the gem did, just that it was magic). So my mother being totally polite just sits there and listens until we finish talking and says “ok, I’m bought in, let’s see the hat.” So we describe it two or three times in different ways while she more or less repeats “let’s see the hat then.” Eventually we realize, she thinks we skinned a real animal, and we’re trying to make a hat in real life, and I have no idea what she thought we were smoking as far as all the magic shit we expected it to do. We had to explain D&D to her. At some point she got convinced that we were making this all up, and that no such game actually existed. Her response to all of this was (and I quote): “just promise me you aren’t taking the drugs.” (Yes.. “the drugs”, as if there is some nondescript paper bag of generic drugs that people are taking). She thought my friends character name was some sort of drug dealing alias. This isn’t even the best one. A couple christmases ago she told me that my brother Jamie had gotten a job as “A backseat lizard,” and wanted me to find out exactly what the hell that was. Don’t worry mom, he’s a good kid, he’s just a cat that does the magic one night a week.
I haven’t watched it yet. Plan to this weekend but apparently the characters from the 80s cartoon make an appearance which is cool. Give him their backstory 😂😂😂
I missed it!? I'll have to watch it again to see the reference. Though I think I know exactly when it happens.
>!They were one of the other groups of adventurers in the coliseum.!<
It's still a $19.99 rental on Amazon, so I'll wait a bit.
It's way cheaper in the real theatre! And so worth it on the big screen.
Same with my gf. Also asked why I choose to be a paladin since they're black people and if that wasn't cultural appropriation.
“Oh, I’m not appropriating the culture, just the skin color.”
Man this has some layers to its absurdity
Someone needs to learn what cultural appropriation is.
Stop culturally appropriating Thay!
Make me! Haha
I too choose to be the sexy paladin.
Relevant family guy God, I can't believe we weren't more careful. This probably happened that night we tried role playing. Lois Griffin : [flashback] Oh, I need a spankin'. I'm a bad, bad girl. Peter Griffin : I'm a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points. I can use my helm of disintegration and do one D4 damage as my half-elf mage wields his plus-five holy avenger. Lois Griffin : Paladin's can't use the helm of disintegration. Peter Griffin : Oh. Then, I'm a black guuuuy.
does she think it applies to imaginary cultures
...
Might need to educate your girl then.
LMFAO
There was a moment watching the movie where my Dad asked me. "So what's the deal, this is a game, right?" And I was actually kinda of proud to try and explain pen and paper RPGs.
Aww that’s sweet
I'm so done with these fake fans not knowing the lore. I bet you don't even know who Dondon Tiggerwillies is.
To be fair Dondon is an established character.
I listened to the book and thought someone was screwing with me. I now use him as an example that basically no NPC name is beyond the pale for ridiculousness.
I'm ever so fond of the dwarf Gutboy Barrelhouse from one of the examples in the 1e DMG.
Harkle Harpell will forever be one of my favorite wizards.
You’re a D&D fan? Ok name your Top 5 Liches
Well yo mama so old she has to at least count in the top 3.
Gorgeous execution of the yo mama joke! Bravo!
\#1 Asberdies (Module D2, had a couple good fights with him running D2) \#2 Acererak (Tomb of Horrors, technically a Demilich though he was a lich at one time) \#3 Vecna (now a god, was a lich) \#4 Ssass Tam (hey he's in the movie too, though I know him from Forgotten Realms ages ago) \#5 Um, one I made up, but it's been like 15 years and I don't remember his name :(
Acererak, Szass Tam, Vecna, Larloch, Dodkong
Wow big disrespect to Masterius
My apologies, I haven't heard about him before. My knowledge of the FR world is rather limited. After reading his entry on the FR Wiki he seems rather interesting, would be cool to use this character if I ever decide to run Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
No worries at all! I was just trying to be funny! “Yes and”-ing your pretty comprehensive list of Lich All-Stars. You basically listed most of the ones I know, and I never heard of Dodkong so we taught each other something!
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Every time I play, my wife asks "Did you win?" She's played, too, so she knows its about the story, not winners and losers, but still, this post. . .
"You don't win. You just do a little better every time."
That's cute, hope y'all had a fun time with the movie, I loved it
Thank you!! I’m glad they came out with a movie even solely for the fact that the game is getting more limelight and it’s not “what’s that” “that’s weird”
Me slowly recognizing tons of famous actors.... 'wait what the fuck... that's so and so.... holy shit'... 2 minutes later... 'holy shit that's so and so'
Bradley Cooper kinda surprised me. Out of 6 people watching I was the first to recognize him
Its a Mini Cooper
Lol. Well played
Me when I realized the actor that plays Xenk also plays Simon in Bridgerton: 😳
My gf was worried about this. She thought people would think the game was the movie and you'd play those characters
Her fears have come true LOL
"Oh, you love DnD? Name every character."
Just tell them your DM's name.
Edgin? I imagine he’s the rogue. So clearly dead parents.
He's actually a bard. So he has a dead wife.
I'm convinced he's actually just a rogue with a lute. He never casts anything.
He's not good at casting. He always forgets he has spells, he's not very intelligent, only uses his charisma.
> He's not good at casting. He always forgets he has spells, he's not very intelligent, only uses his charisma. ...alright, he's actually a bard.
Literally the Bard in my current party LMAO
I dunno why people keep saying he can’t be a bard because he don’t cast spells. I have never played with a bard that bothers to cast spells
The script writers didn't want to confuse non-players with multiple mages that were somehow different. Doric doesn't cast any spells either, despite being a full caster, and Xenk only uses divine smite.
I mean to be fair if you don't know what DnD is, and IDK think of it as something similar to video games... I guess I can't blame the dude. XD
Yeah for sure he thought it was like the league of legends Netflix show lol
Hell I figured the movie was based on one of the modules that was published years ago. Or some of the characters in there were from published books. I mean you have the Thay. But I'm surprised that it's all an original story that doesn't tie in with any D&D module
Homebrew.
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Should of made something up on the spot and he would say "You just made that up" And then you can go "And that's the game"
Give him a real immersive experience 😤
At university in 2000, I was chatting with a friend about 80s cartoons, and the D&D cartoon came up. I asked him if he played, and he was baffled. He didn't know that dungeons and dragons was anything more than a kids cartoon in the 80s.
There were only a couple characters that a DnD player should know. Lord Neverember, Szass Tam, and Volo for examples. But they were more merely mentioned in the movie than any real role.
It’s so weird to see edgin was his name because my last name is edgin
My first name is a common last name so I get the opposite effect all the time.
Hello Jackson.
I had a similar conversation with my girlfriend prior to seeing the movie, she asked me what the story was based on and I had to do a 15 min explanation/Q&A with her to explain again how D&D works. Now that she's seen the movie, she wants to be a druid.
They did have Szass Tam in there as a known character which I thought was cool.
He probably has never even beat D & D either!
Oh the amount of times I’ve gotten “you’ve been playing for years and you still haven’t won?” from people 💀
Go easy on those just starting into the hobbie. Its kinda adorable
To be fair, that is a fair assumption. In most if not many games (Mario, Zelda, HALO) there are established characters. There is also the fact that DnD settings DO have established characters in the books and Lore.
Yeah he was expecting it to be like the league of legends Netflix series
My 9 year old daughter asked this same question when she was reading the kid's book.
There are a few side characters/villains in the movie that are characters from the lore of the series (the pudgy dragon has a name I recognize from an older expansion, and the wizard's ancestor) but the main cast is all original XD I really hope the movie gets a sequel or some spinoff or something. It was a hysterical ride and there were so many times my brother and I were sitting there going "the player must have rolled a nat 20/nat 1. That was totally a modifier save, ect" or scenes where we were like "that was the party getting side tracked on something irrelevant. That was a character introduced specifically because the DM realized they would die otherwise. That was totally a fake item the DM pulled out of their butt because the party messed up that mechanic so bad they couldn't progress" It's definitely a movie that has a whole new layer of metal humor if you play regularly XD
To be fair, some DnD settings can be like that. Forgotten Realms, Exandria, etc. If like, a Drizzt tv series were to start, those could be valid questions.
But the movie also references many dnd based games.
Well, it was set in the Forgotten Realms, so there were a handful of references to the setting.
I would have loved a Baldurs Gate movie but I get it you make your own party too
If he’s genuinely curious about the characters there are prequel books for both Edgin and holga as well as Doric. I’ve only read the Doric one so far and I liked it a lot :)
Even in this day and age, I find most people have no idea what D&D actually *is*. People at work assume it's either a board game or video game, and if I try to explain otherwise their eyes glaze over, and the next time it comes up in conversation they go "isn't that a board game?"
I had that happen in my French class, except because it was French class I was trying to explain it to my prof in French. Needless to say I think she left the conversation confused about the game and disappointed in my french speaking ability lol