All this talk of mimics reminded me of a joke: A party of adventurers comes fully armed into an inn. The inn keeper asks why they come weapons ready into an inn. They answer: "mimics". The party laughs, the innkeeper laughs, the table laughs. They kill the mimic.
I've DMed for almost 20 years and had never used a gelatinous cube in an encounter. I ran an adventure for my kids and siblings (party of 5 at level 7) and threw in two gelatinous cubes because I was like, why not. The cleric nearly died in the encounter because he failed his perception check and walked into it and when I rolled damage it dealt max damage. The two engulfed two other party members and the only thing that saved them was some creativity by the rogue and a well rolled fireball from the sorcerer. I'm a fan, my kids are now paranoid around jello cubes.
Best use I got out of one was as a terrain hazard, I had some brigands trap one in a 10 x 10 x 15 square hole and threw stuff in, trash, corpses, struggling victims, stuff like that. Had the fight dancing around it.
So as a punishment dessert when they've been bad, you give them a bowl of jello? xD "Remember when..." *places bowls of jello before the children, and walks away*
Children and PTSD from acidic Jello, name a more dynamic duo. I had an Egyptian themed pyramid temple with a long rectangular pool in front of it. Our 7 year old girl as a Barbarian leaped in head first... she blooped into a pile of 8 gargantuan cubes, with her little legs sticking up kicking to "swim" to safety. Was a glorious moment to be sure.
We were playing in our pirate campaign. We got on this desolate ship with nothing on it. Started looting everything we saw. That was when the gold coins and even the sails started attacking us. The whole ship was a mimic.
My first thought was like "making a DnD movie is a pretty ballsy move" but then i found out that they worked with WotC and Chris Perkins personally, now im prettt confident its gonna be good, maybe even the best
@@marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496 Hey! Those are classics! "Whose idea was it to rob the halfling's house? And who got beaten black and blue from the waist down?"
@@andydaniels6363 Excellent. That makes a lot of sense since Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft were pen pals. Now I wanna start at the beginning and document all the references :)
Didn't even realize upon my first watch of the trailer that Sophia is playing a Tiefling. She just read as some kind of fae. Going back you can see her tail when she's diving into the portal. I know canonically teifs can have human skin tones, I'm just so used to bright reds and (canonically arguable) blues and purples and pinks that people just love to pick when playing that race.
Gelatinous cube.. the roomba of the DnD world. I actually had a ranger/Druid who had a displacer beast animal companion. And a character torn apart by a owl bear
When he was talking about the black dragon and the players seeing it and only having “6 seconds to live” that made me smile since a turn lasts 6 seconds. The player would have 1 turn to live lol
Among the many interesting people I've had a chance to work with over the years was Lawrence Schick who invented the owlbear. He had a ton of really fantastic insights into worldbuilding, coming from early D&D roots (he wrote White Plume Mountain which I admit I never played but is apparently ranked 9th greatest D&D adventure of all time by some). I hope he got a chance to see his invention come to life in this trailer -- I mean imagine inventing a creature for a D&D game and then _forty years later_ you see it fully-realized in a feature movie. Crazy!
i cannot explain how happy i am to see how positive these comments are. I'm so used to seeing referential media being ABSOLUTELY SHREDDED for the slightest inconsistencies. Hopefully we can remember as a community that even though there are estabilshed lore and settings; that DnD is in essence a framework for storytelling and multiple books tell you "if it doesnt fit, go ahead and change it".
I'm so thrilled about the movie. The trailer hit all the right notes for me personally, very big "High fantasy Guardians of the galaxy" vibes which is exactly what I was hoping for. I can't wait!
I believed working on a D&D script was most ideal in playing a D&D game, and turning that into a script. Then Critical Role released The Legends of Vox Machina and showed me I was only partially correct. :P
I've been guilty of making gelatinous cubes 'appear' to be a "small pool with coins and weapons at the bottom, gleaming in the torch light" and just waiting for someone to dive in.
My recollection on the reason given for the shape of old-school gelatinous cubes was because their amorphous form was shaped by the flat walls of the corridors it traveled through, rather than some evolutionary shape. I've written an adventure where a gelatinous cube is encountered floating on/below the surface of a cavern lake, and therefore has a flatter, amorphous shape.
@@nephicus339 Granted, there is a colloquial definition of "evolve", which can be a term applied to an individual over its own lifetime. I get the feeling though that Chris is referring to the biological definition. Which would mean that the individual gelatinous cube was that shape from the start of its life, regardless of the shape of its environment. Whereas its distant ancestors may not have been, but the species evolved over the generations through genetic mutation to be that shape. In contrast, I recall reading somewhere that they are amorphous and are often encountered in a cube shape because they commonly ooze around in mazes with 90-degree-angled walls. 5e doesn't mention this, so maybe the always-a-cube-regardless-of-surroundings shape is now cannon, seeing as how Chris suggested so here.
...Particularly seeing as how the 5e MM does not list "amorphous" as an ability for the gelatinous cube, but it does list it as an ability for other oozes. I don't know where I read the actively-being-shaped-by-the-dungeon-environment-it-crawls-through bit. I've checked the 1e MM just now, and it's not there. Anyone out there know where the reference came from, assuming I'm not imagining things?
Started Playing D&D in 1974 and watching this still brings me the joy and happiness I felt all those years ago, such a truly amazing game and all the Lore is incredibly fascinating, I love it!!
I've been a DM for over 30 years now. D&D has been a massive part of my life and it's something that brings me a great deal of joy. Seeing these creatures realized on the big screen in a fantastic way...will be amazing! I'm a big fan of the Owlbear and the Mimic. I have actually painted miniatures of them both. And the Black Dragon is one of my favorite dragons. Can't wait to see this movie!
I mean, it's just so cool to see things we've only ever thought of until now. Personally, seeing Misty Step blew me away, it looked so much cooler than I imagined! Also kudos on making the party a bunch of irreverent, douchebag PC's. 😂 Can't wait to see the movie!
I know. As someone who has been playing for close to 2 decades to actually see the spells used on screen in love action makes me remember why I fell in love with this type of game. I hope this does well.
I am never gonna do boring standing vertical dimension doors again. Used to do weird configurations only when necessary, but after seeing the trailer..I am now and forever will be sliding, rolling, falling and nestea-plunging into my doors.
(G)old but worth mentioning. "The inn keeper asked us why we carry swords inside the tavern. "Mimics" we answered. We laughed, He laughed, The table laughed. We killed the table. Good times.
If they don't have Critical Role/Role 20/Dimension 20/etc do a promo one shot actual play for this like they they did for Elden Ring, they're really missing out.
@Figurative Jim Actually, he is (I think they added him in a module or something), plus when you become a god, you’re every realm of existence’s god (just like how Bahamut and Tiamat are a constant in other realms, most of the times by other names).
I am 50. I have played DnD sense I was 12. This is the first movie that looks like it's worth my beloved game. It gives me hope for a Dragon Riders of Pern movie.
The mimic apparently has a new cousin called a "Star Mimic"(also called a "Star Doppelganger") which... is basically The Thing from the John Carpenter film made into a D&D monster... Supposedly some achieve full sentience and can be bargained with(they have a fondness for ale apparently, and appreciate a steady supply of meals), or learn magic like illusion spells which they use to produce illusionary people, or learn languages and imitate voices to make a building (or a room full of them posing as furniture if they decide to form hunting packs) look populated to lure in prey. Imagine though if a mimic were to function as a living armor for a humanoid it has taken a liking to, creating basically a D&D version of Venom or Carnage...
The fact that he doesn't mention that there's a fire elemental living under never Winter that causes it to be hot. Tells me that they'll probably be visiting the elemental
@@AleksandrStrizhevskiy Lore regarding primordial Maegera the Inferno dates back to at least 2010 and 2011, in Dungeon #183, #193, and the Neverwinter Campaign Setting hardcover, which all places it at least as old as 4th edition.
When people talk about black dragons i always remember Dragonlance, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, when they describe Riverwind being hit by the black dragon Khisanth's acidic breath and getting dissolved while whailing in pain in front of the temple of Mishakal. And the worst part is that he didn't die. **shudders in horror.**
@@jd190d I mean partisanship and lower-income Republicans voting against their own interests just so they can say the N-word again is nothing new, but my god the stupidity ratcheted up to 11 when the pandemic started.
"Nobody mourns the camelshark." Why do I feel like this needs to become merch? I want this, with a picture of a camelshark (preferably adorable), on a T-shirt.
I had a heist campaign where the vault was a portable hole at the bottom of a pit on top of which a trained gelatinous cube sat. Gold was transferred via a metal bucket and a snack for the cube, which would put the money in the hole. If a withdrawal was necessary, the cube was trained to "read" etched numbers that could be slotted into the side of the bucket. At the end of the day the casino owner would have the cube roll up the portable hole and pass it up the bucket and put a new one back in place and then take the filled portable hole to the bank.
"Film"? There are THREE previous D&D films, the 3rd of which is arguably the best, since it's got a believable party (evil...) and has a lot of fun with alignments, morals and ethics. None of the movies are great, though, despite what Dragon magazine was writing before the release date - "You'll be able to tell the spell being cast from the material components!" was one line I recall that turned out to be total bulldust. Sorry, pixie dust, I believe it was, in that movie...
@@DethLok which was the third one? I remember one with a white dragon and a Lich that wasn’t good but it was endearing and imo better than the mainstream one with the wagon brother.
Neverwinter was the place where half of the last campain I'm DMing has been expended. I will gladily enjoy to see all the locations that my party crossed during their adventures :D
The fact that the writers went to WotC to brainstorm places an story elements gives me some hope. OTOH, if they include all the locations mentioned - Waterdeep, Neverwinter, all the way up to Icewind Dale -, one wonders if they don't bite off more than they can chew. Kinda like with the Warcraft movie, that tried to retell the first game's plot, plus all the stuff that was retconned into it.
One of the first dnd campaigns i ever played...way back in the 70's... was a a final fight against a orc chieftain and an owlbear! (The party ran like little girls screaming....🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Yeah, same timeframe. The party was doing pretty well, and then came up against our first owlbear. First total party wipe. We all looked at each other like "what do we do now?" Owlbears were never underestimated again.
I once had a party that went into a cave and thought it was either a giant mimic or some other huge animal that was going to eat them because it was warm and humid in the cave when they were coming in from the cold mountain environment. It wasn't a creature that would have eaten them but it was a creature that would have transferred them to another entrance to the cave.
I would love to see a DnD movie where the story itself was generated by a campaign. Where the plot twists, acts and scenes are all loosely dictated by the rolls of the dice. That would be such a nice touch. To let the dice gods write a movie or a series
The best thing about this is that if this movie does well the characters can return in another movie more powerful ( leveled up) and with another PC or two along in a different adventure. It can even splinter off into side features with no set end. Plus just the fact the Chris Pine plays a Bard is too funny.
You all are doing a stellar job of promoting every aspect of your business. I hope it continues to produce excellent results. Thank you for taking me on all of these journeys with you all. Thank you for being a beacon of light and hope in a dark scary swamp of corporate gelatinous cubes.
On the gelatinous cube. It's the perfect domesticated monster. Clean your hallways, sewers and streets of organic material. Breeding one that dissolves stuff slowly makes a safe cleaner. Well relatively safe.
I played AD&D when you had only the Dungeon Master's guide, Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Dieties and Demigods(not the original title). That was it. Unearthed Arcana came out when I was a freshman in High-school followed closely by the MM2. All the second edition nonsense came about after I graduated and was in the Navy. I never adopted any of that into my games nor have I played what they call AD&D now. My sons play both the new AD&D and Pathfinder. I stick to the one and only.
After seeing the Black and Red dragons, I secretly hope a Green dragon will be in the movie as well. Those are my favorites. But overall they've added a lot of iconic creatures and locations from D&D in this movie. A lot of people who are not very familiar with the D&D world are going to be introduced to a whole new world of fantasy!
I haven't played D&D for 21 years and this video brought back so many good memories for me. It's surprisingly good. Part of it is that I'm currently addicted to Elden Ring, but most of it is just the content including the images.
I was incredibly impressed by the mimic, which is my favorite monster to throw at players. Paranoia abounds! I'm a little disappointed they didn't do more for Sophia's tiefling doesn't have chromatic or metallic skin, as she really just resembles a human with tiny horns, but hopefully that's just her character and not tieflings as a whole (since they can come in a variety of hues). Overall I'm *very* excited for this movie, I might actually wind up visiting a theater for the first time in 3 years!
WOW, please do a lot of these videos for promotion, they are great for anyone who need more informations than only the basic generic monstrer in the fantasy
Gelatinous cubes were clearly created by magic-users to guard and/or clean their dungeons. In a world where magic is real, monsters don't need to evolve, they can just be created.
I wish they made the tiefling more hellish. I didn't even see the horns on first watch, and her eyes are too normal. Everything else is incredible though
I remember creating my first D&D character. He was a half-dragon orc raised by a black dragon. He had to learn that the hatred his foster parent had towards him was the only passionate "love" he knew. When the black dragon was killed, my character went crazy-raged and hated the human race and only the human race. He carried the black dragon's skull as a backpack and potion bag. I loved that character, even though I can't remember his name, he was a great warrior and protector of black dragons. (Edit) I also have a gelatinous blob named Gaggeroth. He's purple, multi-eyed which are his trophies and works for Death as the Gatekeeper to the Underworld.
Hey with the black dragon in the campaign I’m playing in right now, i was lucky enough to tall my way out of its den and leave unharmed but had to bargain a bit to get out.
we killed a black dragon in my campaign. I removed its head, had it stuffed, and carry it on my backpack. Just so people know what they might be getting into if attempting to ambush us.
0:55 I can't help but notice that Michelle Rodriguez suffered none of that sticky effect at 0:17 . Now yes, she could have immediately saved against the grappled condition. Still, missed opportunity to showcase that aspect of the mimic.
@@Tensen01 That hasn't been true since 3rd edition ended. Modern D&D since well before this movie started production has included a very specific physical description for Tieflings and one of those things is solid color eyes.
@@paxtenebrae You're assuming they throw out all old lore as soon as a new edition is released. This trailer alone is clear evidence that this is not the case, and that tieflings still do have room for significant variation more akin to their original description back in 2e's Planeswalker's Handbook. You can either accept this fact, or you can stamp your feet like a petulant child and claim this isn't "real" or "correct" D&D because it diverges from some bit of minutia that you imagine to be far more important than it is.
@@nonasuomi282 Holy hyperbole batman! She just didn't look like a Tiefling. I'm sure they made the choice so the actress didn't have to wear body paint and blinding contacts. It's fine.
I watched the trailer and it looks really good, but they showed so many monsters. I really hope they didn’t show all of them and we get more monsters like the beholder.
Yes, it would be a pity if they missed the chance to show beholders the way they are meant to be in (A)D&D - previous beholder appearance in movies looked ok but lore-wise was terrible. This movie seems to be doing things properly - e.g. the mimic is awesome.
In most lores mages made Gelatinous Cubes and a lot of other oozes were created to clean dungeons and sewers. Also I do hope we get a few more DnD races on screen. Pretty happy to see a tiefling but looks like the rest of the group is humans.
My choice for ideal draconic voices: Old White Dragon (Steve Buscemi) Ancient Black Dragon (David Bradley) Mature Adult Green Dragon (Lena Headey) Adult Blue Dragon (Michael B. Jordan) Great Red Wyrm (Angelina Jolie)
All this talk of mimics reminded me of a joke: A party of adventurers comes fully armed into an inn. The inn keeper asks why they come weapons ready into an inn. They answer: "mimics". The party laughs, the innkeeper laughs, the table laughs. They kill the mimic.
OMGROFLMAO!
thats a good one hahah
which one the mimic or the inn keeper? Or the inn itself?
@@tome7998 yes
I love this! Thank you!🤣
The mimic CGI is fantastic, oh my word. Working on a movie on this after playing D&D seems amazing.
I hope Uwe Boll comes back to direct!
@@Bramblebush5948 that would be cool, but it’s 2 new directors.
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Do you think this movie should have a McDonald’s Happy Meal?
@@Bramblebush5948 Definitely looks to be Uwe Boll quality.
I've DMed for almost 20 years and had never used a gelatinous cube in an encounter. I ran an adventure for my kids and siblings (party of 5 at level 7) and threw in two gelatinous cubes because I was like, why not. The cleric nearly died in the encounter because he failed his perception check and walked into it and when I rolled damage it dealt max damage. The two engulfed two other party members and the only thing that saved them was some creativity by the rogue and a well rolled fireball from the sorcerer. I'm a fan, my kids are now paranoid around jello cubes.
Best use I got out of one was as a terrain hazard, I had some brigands trap one in a 10 x 10 x 15 square hole and threw stuff in, trash, corpses, struggling victims, stuff like that. Had the fight dancing around it.
So as a punishment dessert when they've been bad, you give them a bowl of jello? xD
"Remember when..." *places bowls of jello before the children, and walks away*
Oh come on, there's always a 10x10x10 foot room for jello...
Mega!!
Children and PTSD from acidic Jello, name a more dynamic duo. I had an Egyptian themed pyramid temple with a long rectangular pool in front of it. Our 7 year old girl as a Barbarian leaped in head first... she blooped into a pile of 8 gargantuan cubes, with her little legs sticking up kicking to "swim" to safety. Was a glorious moment to be sure.
Breakdown:
0:17 MIMIC
2:29 OWLBEAR
3:47 DISPLACER BEAST
5:09 GELATINOUS CUBE
7:17 BLACK DRAGON
9:54 RED DRAGON
10:56 TIEFLING
12:43 The Underdark
15:40 Revel's End
17:34 Waterdeep
18:16 Neverwinter
Thanks!!
i also saw a white dragon
@@Whatever_it_is-n7m I think that's the golden dragon statue from the beginnig coming to live
Thank you
@@sergioparrapons can be :)
We were playing in our pirate campaign. We got on this desolate ship with nothing on it. Started looting everything we saw. That was when the gold coins and even the sails started attacking us. The whole ship was a mimic.
That is a cool encounter idea.
So yelden?
We had similar campaign where an airship was a mimic...
Well that idea is stolen now
@@7waterknight7 lol it already was. TFS at the Table lol
Chris randomly should show up anytime players go into the Underdark and shout "11 DAYS!"
omg imagine if SPurt had a cameo in this movie, voiced by Perkins
@@TaliesinBHeidkamp amazing
@@TaliesinBHeidkamp YES!
And he should stop mid sentence and say it too.
I would die if I saw that. Yes please. 😂
My first thought was like "making a DnD movie is a pretty ballsy move" but then i found out that they worked with WotC and Chris Perkins personally, now im prettt confident its gonna be good, maybe even the best
It’ll certainly be better than the previous attempts.
@@marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496 Hey! Those are classics!
"Whose idea was it to rob the halfling's house? And who got beaten black and blue from the waist down?"
Salute to those less fortunate who tried to inspire us all doing as much prior. To it. To art.
Yeah it looks fantastic
Oh, there is no doubt that Jeremy Irons is the reason to watch the film.
I remember way back and the Gelatinous Cube was a creation made by wizards to keep the dungeons clean. Perfect fit for a standard hallway.
We saw a gelatinous cube in _Onward._
reminds me of the cleaners in The Labyrinth
Oooo nice. 👍
Gelatinous cubes were lifted from a Conan novel. Several others of the original D&D monsters were inspired by that series.
@@andydaniels6363 Excellent. That makes a lot of sense since Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft were pen pals. Now I wanna start at the beginning and document all the references :)
Didn't even realize upon my first watch of the trailer that Sophia is playing a Tiefling. She just read as some kind of fae. Going back you can see her tail when she's diving into the portal.
I know canonically teifs can have human skin tones, I'm just so used to bright reds and (canonically arguable) blues and purples and pinks that people just love to pick when playing that race.
Until this video I thought she was a satyr and we just hadn't seen her legs well enough.
Same. I forget tieflings are typically human-skin tone. I expect a pink or a purple one HAHA
Tieflings looking very fiendish is actually very recent. In older editions, they were described as only having a handful of fiendish features.
Yeah I thought she was playing a satyr or something of the sort
She's the far better 2e tiefling not the garbage 4e/5e version. Not that I'm bitter...
Gelatinous cube.. the roomba of the DnD world. I actually had a ranger/Druid who had a displacer beast animal companion. And a character torn apart by a owl bear
XD Roomba, nice one!
Gonna be having flashbacks throughout the whole of the movie lmao.
PTSD everywhere!
I once got so frustrated as a DM with my party's PCs just being dipshits that the next room of the dungeon they were in had 50 rabid Blink Dogs in it
@@tompadfoot3065
Don't think that's the most healthy way of dealing with issues but I gotta respect it lmao.
@@tompadfoot3065 there isn’t any blink dogs in 5e. I was so irritated when I saw that 🥺
When he was talking about the black dragon and the players seeing it and only having “6 seconds to live” that made me smile since a turn lasts 6 seconds. The player would have 1 turn to live lol
since a Round last 1 min, and a segment was 6 seconds, this reads very weird to old school players.
Among the many interesting people I've had a chance to work with over the years was Lawrence Schick who invented the owlbear. He had a ton of really fantastic insights into worldbuilding, coming from early D&D roots (he wrote White Plume Mountain which I admit I never played but is apparently ranked 9th greatest D&D adventure of all time by some). I hope he got a chance to see his invention come to life in this trailer -- I mean imagine inventing a creature for a D&D game and then _forty years later_ you see it fully-realized in a feature movie. Crazy!
i cannot explain how happy i am to see how positive these comments are. I'm so used to seeing referential media being ABSOLUTELY SHREDDED for the slightest inconsistencies. Hopefully we can remember as a community that even though there are estabilshed lore and settings; that DnD is in essence a framework for storytelling and multiple books tell you "if it doesnt fit, go ahead and change it".
At the same time, it pays to know your history, like before there was the use of "lore".
I'm so thrilled about the movie. The trailer hit all the right notes for me personally, very big "High fantasy Guardians of the galaxy" vibes which is exactly what I was hoping for. I can't wait!
I believed working on a D&D script was most ideal in playing a D&D game, and turning that into a script.
Then Critical Role released The Legends of Vox Machina and showed me I was only partially correct. :P
That is a phenomenally apt descriptive!
I've been guilty of making gelatinous cubes 'appear' to be a "small pool with coins and weapons at the bottom, gleaming in the torch light" and just waiting for someone to dive in.
I once had some gleaming gold coins floating slowly towards a group of adventurers. They were all veteran players, one reached for the coins :D
keep in mind they were 10x10 cubes for a reason.
My first pc death in original D&D was by a gelatinous cube, circa 1978. Black dragons are one of my favorite evil dragons.
I remember killing some in Pool Of Radiance.
The barbarian told a great joke
The Party laughed
The Bartender laughed
The Table laughed
They killed the table
Good times
My recollection on the reason given for the shape of old-school gelatinous cubes was because their amorphous form was shaped by the flat walls of the corridors it traveled through, rather than some evolutionary shape.
I've written an adventure where a gelatinous cube is encountered floating on/below the surface of a cavern lake, and therefore has a flatter, amorphous shape.
That's what he said, basically, that they evolved in 10x10x10 ft hallways after their initial creation.
@@nephicus339 Granted, there is a colloquial definition of "evolve", which can be a term applied to an individual over its own lifetime.
I get the feeling though that Chris is referring to the biological definition. Which would mean that the individual gelatinous cube was that shape from the start of its life, regardless of the shape of its environment. Whereas its distant ancestors may not have been, but the species evolved over the generations through genetic mutation to be that shape.
In contrast, I recall reading somewhere that they are amorphous and are often encountered in a cube shape because they commonly ooze around in mazes with 90-degree-angled walls. 5e doesn't mention this, so maybe the always-a-cube-regardless-of-surroundings shape is now cannon, seeing as how Chris suggested so here.
...Particularly seeing as how the 5e MM does not list "amorphous" as an ability for the gelatinous cube, but it does list it as an ability for other oozes.
I don't know where I read the actively-being-shaped-by-the-dungeon-environment-it-crawls-through bit. I've checked the 1e MM just now, and it's not there. Anyone out there know where the reference came from, assuming I'm not imagining things?
nothing evolved, wizards CREATED these dungeon vacuum cleaners on purpose to be sized for a 10x10 corridor.
Started Playing D&D in 1974 and watching this still brings me the joy and happiness I felt all those years ago, such a truly amazing game and all the Lore is incredibly fascinating, I love it!!
With Chris explaining all this, I got a feeling they will release Honor Among Thieves adventure campaign next year at the same time as the movie
Oooh, that would be pretty awesome
I've been a DM for over 30 years now. D&D has been a massive part of my life and it's something that brings me a great deal of joy. Seeing these creatures realized on the big screen in a fantastic way...will be amazing! I'm a big fan of the Owlbear and the Mimic. I have actually painted miniatures of them both. And the Black Dragon is one of my favorite dragons.
Can't wait to see this movie!
I mean, it's just so cool to see things we've only ever thought of until now.
Personally, seeing Misty Step blew me away, it looked so much cooler than I imagined!
Also kudos on making the party a bunch of irreverent, douchebag PC's. 😂
Can't wait to see the movie!
I know. As someone who has been playing for close to 2 decades to actually see the spells used on screen in love action makes me remember why I fell in love with this type of game. I hope this does well.
I am never gonna do boring standing vertical dimension doors again. Used to do weird configurations only when necessary, but after seeing the trailer..I am now and forever will be sliding, rolling, falling and nestea-plunging into my doors.
I always pictured misty step as like the teleport that mario does in SM64. the sound effect plays in my head every time i cast it too.
@@pul0y Nesttea plunge! Nice throwback.
@@MannyBrum This shares a lot of vibes with Guardians of the Galaxy. I think it'll be a solid 8/10 at least.
(G)old but worth mentioning.
"The inn keeper asked us why we carry swords inside the tavern.
"Mimics" we answered. We laughed, He laughed, The table laughed. We killed the table.
Good times.
Amazing that Revel's End was created with the movie in mind!
is that the hag from Sigil/Planescape?
edit just got to that part, i got it confused with Ravel who would maze you.
They should bring Jeremy Irons back as Vecna and give Matt Mercer a cameo
If they don't have Critical Role/Role 20/Dimension 20/etc do a promo one shot actual play for this like they they did for Elden Ring, they're really missing out.
This 🤘
@Figurative Jim Actually, he is (I think they added him in a module or something), plus when you become a god, you’re every realm of existence’s god (just like how Bahamut and Tiamat are a constant in other realms, most of the times by other names).
Critical Role definitely should cameo. Not sure about Jeremy Irons, though.
Totally would be up for a Jeremy Irons as the bad guy cameo but its got to be played right. Also its possible he’s too expensive for the movie.
Black Dragon, Owlbear, Mimic, Displacer Beast, Intellect Devourer, Red Dragon and Gelatinous Cube, this was a good movie
I am 50. I have played DnD sense I was 12. This is the first movie that looks like it's worth my beloved game. It gives me hope for a Dragon Riders of Pern movie.
The mimic apparently has a new cousin called a "Star Mimic"(also called a "Star Doppelganger") which... is basically The Thing from the John Carpenter film made into a D&D monster...
Supposedly some achieve full sentience and can be bargained with(they have a fondness for ale apparently, and appreciate a steady supply of meals), or learn magic like illusion spells which they use to produce illusionary people, or learn languages and imitate voices to make a building (or a room full of them posing as furniture if they decide to form hunting packs) look populated to lure in prey.
Imagine though if a mimic were to function as a living armor for a humanoid it has taken a liking to, creating basically a D&D version of Venom or Carnage...
The fact that he doesn't mention that there's a fire elemental living under never Winter that causes it to be hot. Tells me that they'll probably be visiting the elemental
Was thinking the same thing!
An elemental below Neverwinter or the primordial in the forges of Gauntlgrym?
Is this in 5E lore? I don't remember anything about that.
@@AleksandrStrizhevskiy Lore regarding primordial Maegera the Inferno dates back to at least 2010 and 2011, in Dungeon #183, #193, and the Neverwinter Campaign Setting hardcover, which all places it at least as old as 4th edition.
Has it been established what the canonical events were from SKT? Was Maegara stolen from the Fiery Pit? Was it successfully retrieved and returned?
When people talk about black dragons i always remember Dragonlance, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, when they describe Riverwind being hit by the black dragon Khisanth's acidic breath and getting dissolved while whailing in pain in front of the temple of Mishakal.
And the worst part is that he didn't die.
**shudders in horror.**
I would love to see a Druid Subclass which revolve around monstruosities and being able to control them or wildshape into them.
After this trailer, I am sure it is coming. Keep on the lookout for a new unearthed arcana.
@@zimmejoc the druid could have just used Polymorph, maybe. But, it could happen.
gelatinous cube seems stupid - until you watch a youtube compilation of people walking into glass doors
My bar for human stupidity has been lower than a rat's balls since 2020.
@@romxxii You mean 2016.
@@jd190d I mean partisanship and lower-income Republicans voting against their own interests just so they can say the N-word again is nothing new, but my god the stupidity ratcheted up to 11 when the pandemic started.
"Nobody mourns the camelshark." Why do I feel like this needs to become merch? I want this, with a picture of a camelshark (preferably adorable), on a T-shirt.
I had a heist campaign where the vault was a portable hole at the bottom of a pit on top of which a trained gelatinous cube sat. Gold was transferred via a metal bucket and a snack for the cube, which would put the money in the hole. If a withdrawal was necessary, the cube was trained to "read" etched numbers that could be slotted into the side of the bucket. At the end of the day the casino owner would have the cube roll up the portable hole and pass it up the bucket and put a new one back in place and then take the filled portable hole to the bank.
...I am utterly enchanted. Already this promises to be a thousand percent better then the other film.
I mean, the Owlbear alone. Flawless!
I mean the other movie had a Beholder and it didn't do anything for it.
"Film"? There are THREE previous D&D films, the 3rd of which is arguably the best, since it's got a believable party (evil...) and has a lot of fun with alignments, morals and ethics.
None of the movies are great, though, despite what Dragon magazine was writing before the release date - "You'll be able to tell the spell being cast from the material components!" was one line I recall that turned out to be total bulldust. Sorry, pixie dust, I believe it was, in that movie...
@@MannyBrum because they didn't do anything WITH it.
@@DethLok which was the third one? I remember one with a white dragon and a Lich that wasn’t good but it was endearing and imo better than the mainstream one with the wagon brother.
@@forsaken7976 Dungeons & Dragons 3: The Book of Vile Darkness
All I can say is I cannot wait to see Sophia Lilis as that adorable Druidic Shapeshifter ❤
Hope this film gets more people to go out and play the greatest rpg table top game in the world!
How would this encourage people to play Call of Cthulhu?
I’m not gonna play the RPG, but I will enjoy this movie.
People will play Rolemaster because of this!
@@BanjoSick Mmmmm so many tables... :D
Neverwinter was the place where half of the last campain I'm DMing has been expended. I will gladily enjoy to see all the locations that my party crossed during their adventures :D
The fact that the writers went to WotC to brainstorm places an story elements gives me some hope. OTOH, if they include all the locations mentioned - Waterdeep, Neverwinter, all the way up to Icewind Dale -, one wonders if they don't bite off more than they can chew. Kinda like with the Warcraft movie, that tried to retell the first game's plot, plus all the stuff that was retconned into it.
DM: “Laying before you is the entrance to the Underdark, what do you do?”
Me: “I drop all of my rain gear.”
It's pretty cool to see how they're tying all of this together
Hey it's Dungeon Dad! Love your videos!
I'm surprised a lot of people missed the Gelatinous Cube to be honest, It was the first creature I noticed in the trailer.
They dont tend to be very easy to notice
After so many years in the wild, I rule that Owlbears are beasts in my games.
3.5e/Pathfinder had beasts AND magic beast types. Idk why they got rid of it, or thought owlbears belonged with hydra etc.
@@deadmanfred pathfinder isn’t associated with d&d
@@leem2155 someone should remind the people who made the poster for this movie that lmfao..
@@brodeeo yeah legal action on the way?
My table, my rules! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟👍
6:50 "Some, PARTICULARLY MEAN DMs, (like myself)..." Glad to hear him speak this way, tongue-in-cheek. The world needs more mean GM's, lol
One of the first dnd campaigns i ever played...way back in the 70's... was a a final fight against a orc chieftain and an owlbear! (The party ran like little girls screaming....🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Yeah, same timeframe. The party was doing pretty well, and then came up against our first owlbear. First total party wipe. We all looked at each other like "what do we do now?" Owlbears were never underestimated again.
I once had a party that went into a cave and thought it was either a giant mimic or some other huge animal that was going to eat them because it was warm and humid in the cave when they were coming in from the cold mountain environment. It wasn't a creature that would have eaten them but it was a creature that would have transferred them to another entrance to the cave.
The trailer looks much better than I expected !
The Druid actress’ energy is 10/10. Completely unenthused with everything outside of her world.
I would love to see a DnD movie where the story itself was generated by a campaign. Where the plot twists, acts and scenes are all loosely dictated by the rolls of the dice. That would be such a nice touch. To let the dice gods write a movie or a series
Man, i could listen to chris perkins speaking dnd all day long. Everytime there's a video with him it is always great to watch.
I am so excited for this - have been playing and reading lore from the Forgotten Realms since it became a thing.
The best thing about this is that if this movie does well the characters can return in another movie more powerful ( leveled up) and with another PC or two along in a different adventure. It can even splinter off into side features with no set end. Plus just the fact the Chris Pine plays a Bard is too funny.
You all are doing a stellar job of promoting every aspect of your business. I hope it continues to produce excellent results. Thank you for taking me on all of these journeys with you all. Thank you for being a beacon of light and hope in a dark scary swamp of corporate gelatinous cubes.
On the gelatinous cube. It's the perfect domesticated monster. Clean your hallways, sewers and streets of organic material. Breeding one that dissolves stuff slowly makes a safe cleaner. Well relatively safe.
Loved the subtle references to Acq. Inc. and Dice Camera Action that Chris threw in when he was talking about the owlbear and the gelatinous cube!
I played AD&D when you had only the Dungeon Master's guide, Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Dieties and Demigods(not the original title). That was it. Unearthed Arcana came out when I was a freshman in High-school followed closely by the MM2. All the second edition nonsense came about after I graduated and was in the Navy. I never adopted any of that into my games nor have I played what they call AD&D now. My sons play both the new AD&D and Pathfinder. I stick to the one and only.
I really hope there’s an after credits scene of all the actors or like just some random kids all at a table playing the campaign.
didnt even know there was a D&D movie being made pretty cool!
Another story that isn't half-assed
I’ve known for a while.
Bartender: Why do you all always have your weapons ready?
Fighter: Because of mimics.
*pause*
Bartender: *laughs*
Fighter: *laughs*
Table: *laughs*
Players: We kill the table!
After seeing the Black and Red dragons, I secretly hope a Green dragon will be in the movie as well. Those are my favorites. But overall they've added a lot of iconic creatures and locations from D&D in this movie. A lot of people who are not very familiar with the D&D world are going to be introduced to a whole new world of fantasy!
I haven't played D&D for 21 years and this video brought back so many good memories for me. It's surprisingly good. Part of it is that I'm currently addicted to Elden Ring, but most of it is just the content including the images.
luv the druid changing from horse to bear and going "Surprise mutha trucka!" hahaha
Thank you for this! I thought the druid/shapeshifter was some sort of fae-touched, not a tiefling.
Gelatinous cubes: I really miss Balor's Nimbus. And Baleful Transposition. Fix that, Hasbro!
Twoflower is asking for his "mimic". He says it ate a few thieves so might have a bit of stomache.
Very glad the makers of the movie are actually trying their best to stay correct with the lore and taking the movie seriously
I was incredibly impressed by the mimic, which is my favorite monster to throw at players. Paranoia abounds! I'm a little disappointed they didn't do more for Sophia's tiefling doesn't have chromatic or metallic skin, as she really just resembles a human with tiny horns, but hopefully that's just her character and not tieflings as a whole (since they can come in a variety of hues). Overall I'm *very* excited for this movie, I might actually wind up visiting a theater for the first time in 3 years!
Awesome the campaign we have now. Our draw elf has a baby displace beast and an arc has an owl bear as a mount lol.
WOW, please do a lot of these videos for promotion, they are great for anyone who need more informations than only the basic generic monstrer in the fantasy
"Some particularly mean DMs have done things like put them at the bottom of pits."
I feel attacked... repeatedly...
Wow... They made the Owl Bear look cool. I can't wait to see it.
Gelatinous cubes were clearly created by magic-users to guard and/or clean their dungeons.
In a world where magic is real, monsters don't need to evolve, they can just be created.
I'll wait for the Deathbringer movie.
a man of culture
I love them jumping into the gelantious cube lol
God, I hope this is finally the D&D movie we've always deserved!
Owlbears: When an owl and a bear love each other very, very much...
The movie really looks like it cares about its source material which is usually a great sign.
I wish they made the tiefling more hellish. I didn't even see the horns on first watch, and her eyes are too normal. Everything else is incredible though
So excited to see Neverwinter! As a huge fan of Neverwinter Nights from back in the day it'll be amazing to see it on the big screen!
So great to see the care and attention put into this movie that unfortunately was missing from the highly campy one 20 years ago.
The most unbelievable thing to me in the whole trailer is that there's only 1 non-human partymember
truth...I was half expecting a dragonborne. thank god even the Tief freak looks mostly human.
I remember creating my first D&D character. He was a half-dragon orc raised by a black dragon. He had to learn that the hatred his foster parent had towards him was the only passionate "love" he knew. When the black dragon was killed, my character went crazy-raged and hated the human race and only the human race. He carried the black dragon's skull as a backpack and potion bag.
I loved that character, even though I can't remember his name, he was a great warrior and protector of black dragons.
(Edit) I also have a gelatinous blob named Gaggeroth. He's purple, multi-eyed which are his trophies and works for Death as the Gatekeeper to the Underworld.
Hey with the black dragon in the campaign I’m playing in right now, i was lucky enough to tall my way out of its den and leave unharmed but had to bargain a bit to get out.
we killed a black dragon in my campaign. I removed its head, had it stuffed, and carry it on my backpack. Just so people know what they might be getting into if attempting to ambush us.
@@mattvancamp764 a dragons head is way to big to carry on your backpack.....
0:55 I can't help but notice that Michelle Rodriguez suffered none of that sticky effect at 0:17 . Now yes, she could have immediately saved against the grappled condition. Still, missed opportunity to showcase that aspect of the mimic.
I hope Chris makes a cameo in this!
I want Critical Role to make a cameo.
@@cameronmcewen9666 apparently they do!
Now I want to run a spelljammer campaign and make a plannet a mimic.
My players would never trust anything ever again
I love that he referenced Waffles!
Is there anywhere I can go to listen for hours to Chris Perkins describe/explain all creatures/places in the D&D universe ?
I see Chris Perkins, I immediately think of Spurt
14:09 LOOK GARY THERE I AM
Wait that Druid was supposed to be a Tiefling? Huh. Didn't have the eyes so I just assumed she was some kind of Fey.
Tieflings don't have one specific look, not even their eyes.
@@Tensen01 That hasn't been true since 3rd edition ended. Modern D&D since well before this movie started production has included a very specific physical description for Tieflings and one of those things is solid color eyes.
@@paxtenebrae You're assuming they throw out all old lore as soon as a new edition is released. This trailer alone is clear evidence that this is not the case, and that tieflings still do have room for significant variation more akin to their original description back in 2e's Planeswalker's Handbook.
You can either accept this fact, or you can stamp your feet like a petulant child and claim this isn't "real" or "correct" D&D because it diverges from some bit of minutia that you imagine to be far more important than it is.
@@nonasuomi282 Holy hyperbole batman! She just didn't look like a Tiefling. I'm sure they made the choice so the actress didn't have to wear body paint and blinding contacts. It's fine.
In my current campain we are in the under dark and made friends with a gelatinous cube who is now in our party
I watched the trailer and it looks really good, but they showed so many monsters. I really hope they didn’t show all of them and we get more monsters like the beholder.
I also want Vecna as a villian
Be pretty cool if there was the Kraken.
Later this year, we might get another trailer.
@@NoahDaDudeBroMan Only if it doesn’t look like what we see in the Monster Manuel.
Yes, it would be a pity if they missed the chance to show beholders the way they are meant to be in (A)D&D - previous beholder appearance in movies looked ok but lore-wise was terrible. This movie seems to be doing things properly - e.g. the mimic is awesome.
The Black Dragon in the trailer is the EXACT picture I have of my evil villainous Black Dragon in my campaign at this moment.
Oh god... every thief's worst nightmare! I'm watching.
I just wanted confirmation that the fat red dragon in the trailer is Themberchaud. I love that fat dragon from the underdark
*holds up a baby owl bear* How is this not cute ?
In most lores mages made Gelatinous Cubes and a lot of other oozes were created to clean dungeons and sewers. Also I do hope we get a few more DnD races on screen. Pretty happy to see a tiefling but looks like the rest of the group is humans.
My choice for ideal draconic voices:
Old White Dragon (Steve Buscemi)
Ancient Black Dragon (David Bradley)
Mature Adult Green Dragon (Lena Headey)
Adult Blue Dragon (Michael B. Jordan)
Great Red Wyrm (Angelina Jolie)
Directors and producers shouldn’t forget that D&D dragons can talk.
I’m really glad they went with this tone for the movie. It’s the tone which most D&D games are played.