Gamer watched DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. Reaction, First Time Watching
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- We've had THREE other D&D movies before this of wildly varying quality. Is the fourth time the charm? Will we get a movie that pays respect to the game and the gamers who love this franchise?
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The intro scene where they plead for their pardons is a perfect representation of a party being fully committed to their plan and executing it before the DM has a chance to tell them that their bard passed his charisma check.
Leading up to the movie's release, they got the actors together for a campaign as their characters. Chris Pine, apparently, kept trying to use animal friendship on everything. From the sound of it, they had a lot of fun, and both Pine and Michelle Rodriguez praised the game for inspiring creativity, camaraderie and problem solving.
Yep. And Michelle Rodriguez had even started playing D&D as a teenager. She gravitates toward action movie roles because she's genuinely a geek about this stuff.
I like to imagine Xenk is a joke NPC who appears in all of this group's campaigns, always super overpowered but never actually DOING much. (The most significant thing he actually does in this movie is saving Edgin from the dragon.) And when the party talks about the stories they've heard of him, they're actually referencing previous campaigns.
I also like the idea that the botched heist from Edgin's backstory is the previous campaign that fell apart, which is why everyone already has established characters, except Doric's player who was Forge in the original campaign.
Xenk is DM NPC 😆
"Okay, so let's do some brainstorming. I'm thinking this campaign will take place two years after the previous campaign ended."
"Ended? It dissolved before we could get to the Korrin's Keep heist."
"Well, yeah, but it's been a while for us, so it makes more sense to start after a time skip. Sophia, since you said you wanted to play a druid now, Forge will be an NPC for this game; you might encounter him at some point."
"Cool. Did you get that text I sent about the stuff I wanted to do with my Wildshape?"
"It was a long message, but I think we can wing it. Chris, Michelle, where are Edgin and Holga now that it's been two years since we saw them last?"
(unison) "In jail."
@@ffreed Yes, this, exactly.
Xenk's the DM's PC from a campaign he played 10 years ago before he got stuck being the forever DM and gets shoehorned in to every game now so that the DM can have a little fun styling on the player's PCs. That's why Xenk is the one giving Simon the Rocks Fall Stare when he instantly rolls a 1 on interacting with the bridge puzzle and ruins it.
heard that Xenk was going to be D'rzzt dourden but they decided to change it
18:58 I wish more people appreciated the paladin going in the perfectly straight line.
15:54 "Janklee" means "blessings" in the draconic language, that dragonborn was basically saying "Bless you", to Xenk, the word has nothing to do with jangling coins.
pretty sure dzienky is thanks in polish language :D
Fictional languages can sound similar to real life dialects.
The pudgy dragon Themberchaud is actually a lore character from Forgotten Realms. He was kept by the duergar to heat their forges and they would supply him with copious amounts of people to eat to the point where he got extra fat and lazy since all he had to do was keep their forges lit. Also I'm fairly certain the Holga had the Tavern Brawler feat due to how many improvised weapons she used.
it feels so much like the actual game, there is an epic plot going in the background while a family of bumbling idiots stumble into saving the day.
Yup. That's... pretty much every game I've ever played.
They did a really good job of feeding the audience just enough information to follow along. Some decisions were controversial among players (no spells for the bard or druid, unlimited Wild Shapes), but they allowed non-gamers to understand what everyone could and could not do. Also we got to see Edgin give Inspiration numerous times, especially to Simon.
I saw Edgin'sn stat sheet. Every spell he knows can be cast silently and is part of him inspiring others. So yeah, it's ver shown overtly, but he IS using some magic.
@@my_randomology that's my head canon as well and a great way to show bard magic, while differentiating the classes for non-players.
That's a good decision for me, it separates what each of them does and makes it easier for the audience to follow along. Simon does magic, Doric turns into animals, Edgin inspires and Holga smashes
I think the DM is letting Doric flit between animals for the duration of her Wildshape. Like, instead of changing once, she activates WS and is allowed to switch back and forth for only one use (until the duration expires).
Also, Druids can Owlbear at my table now (with others on a case-by-case basis).
@@DavidWright1138 She never cast any spells too. Homebrew give up spells for expanded wildshapes.
I feel this movie did a great job of portraying the shenanigans of a proper dnd game. XD
Right? Never too serious and usually hilarious.
17:05
We've got a Bard, a Barbarian, a Sorcerer, a Druid, and a Paladin.
Not a single class with intelligence as a primary ability.
I really like how this movie portrayed different moments in gaming. One that stands out to me is during the "Speak With Dead" scene, one of the dead-speakers mentions the Paladin Zenk and that he's who they need to find. Edgin clearly doesn't "roll well" on his History or Religion, or basic Intelligence check. But the other three do when Simon speaks up and delivers more information about him, and then Doric chimes in with something and then after a little more conversation with Edgin, even Holga goes "Yeah, I heard of him." It's just a very "everyone but me passed their check" moment.
Very few noticed the magic missile. Also I think what doric did when she said "Simon, counterspell" was the spell Guidance. Though she didnt per say touch him.
I hope the franchise continues and maybe hopefully one day we might see the classic D&D novel trilogy of Dragons of Autumn, Winter and Spring which I am shocked no one’s tried to make movies of yet as they are wonderful stories.
@@TheWaynos73 With as many characters that are in the Dragonlance Trilogy you would need to do a Game of Thrones type series to do it justice. A movie would not cut it.
@@jang7675 Ewwww Dragonlance......
I think what this movie did above all other attempts exceptionally well, was balance. They were able to balance the real lore, comedy and a great story and make it enjoyable for everyone, dnd fanatics and regular people combined.
I would argue that it is very irresponsible to NOT give your child and amulet of invisibility in the d&d universe
I absolutely love watching reactions of actual DnD players to the movie, who then recognize all the references, little details and lore drops haha.
Bonus points for also being a fan of the videogames like Baldur's Gate and NWN for that extra fanservice appreciation. Great reaction, you've earned another sub! :)
Late to see your reaction, but as an avid DnDer since the mid-90s, this movie was a trip. The story had heart, tension, heroism, and the perfect type of banter that felt organic, not forced.
Not to mention the very clear moments when someone rolled crap and the DM had to improvise to keep the campaign moving.
Also, shoutout for the symbology clip from Boondock Saints. Nice. 😂
I got the feeling that the film’s writers and actors actually role played a campaign with an expert DM and recorded the sessions then took their experience and wrote the movie from that - which would be an insanely clever way to write a story - as its all character driven choices that lead to unexpected moments rather than the standard cliches of Hollywood storytelling
the actors not so much, but the directors and writers of the movie are big ol' DnD fans and players.
@@dehro The actors actually played a mini campaign with their characters instead of doing table reads.
@@Tensen01 yeeeeees and im sooooo down to see the footage for that
I think the Red Wizard wanted them to fight in the arena, because they are powerful, and will be turned into one of their servants.
That's what I figured, too. More mid-level PCs for her to control.
I have another theory; in that scene Edgin cast Suggestion on her to make her do something that made sense to her as sadism but would give them a chance to escape.
@@GriffinPilgrim Or he just rolled well on his persuasion.
@@TheBlarggle But then it would have affected Forge too. Suggestion is single target.
D&D player since 88. Back in AD&D there was an optional class feature that would let Druids turn into magical beasts.
In 3rd/3.5 there was a feat, Magical Beast Wild shape, would let Druids turn into said creatures, aka owlbears and the like.
Doric turning into one was a throwback to older work.
The only thing not RAW was how often Doric could Wildshape in the chase scene. That was done for tge Rule of Cool so is acceptable.
I remember the 3.0 feats, yeah.
I love how they made the Paladin insufferably good and true, just like it should be. :) Im in my 50`s so i played the original Gary Gygax D&D. In the original Dungeon Masters Guide, one of the pencil drawings right at the beginning of the book is a pic of a thief stealing from a dead comrade, and the title at the bottom is: `No Honour Among Thieves`
Really enjoyed your reaction! Pretty much agree on all points. It's remarkable how spot-on they got the tone. You can tell the directors and writers had playing experience, as well as two of the main cast (Sophia Lillis as Doric and Michelle Rodriguez as Holga) and a lot of passion for the source material.
Also, they played a game as a cast set, apparently, just after the events of the movie as a sort of chemistry test/get to know em and man I would have killed to be a fly on the wall of that session!
Imagine if getting a cast together to play a TTRPG of their characters became standard for Hollywood chemistry tests.
"Okay, you all have signed on for a heist movie, and we want you to get to know your characters. So we're gonna have you play your characters in a little game called Fiasco."
Shout out to my boy Elminster, Sage of Shadowdale, Aumar. seeing his legacy on screen is fuckin nuts. DnDHAT was fuckin wild, and Bradley Cooper just to flex, its a shame nerds didnt show up in droves for this movie
Maybe home sales will be enough to push for a sequel?
Not many people know this, but Simon has a distant cousin descended from a dragon.
@@my_randomology This movie seems to be finding an audience on streaming, if the reaction videos are anything to go by, so one could hope!
It made about 50 million dollars in profit so far .. May not be worth the risk of a sequel but it did not lose money.
The thing that is weird is Elminster Aumar is still Alive as far as I know.....and he isn't black.....
As a Chosen Favored of Mystra Elminster Aumar no longer Ages and is Immortal barring injury or disease......
"1d4 damage + strength" -- but it gets better! She's canonically got the Tavern Brawler feat, so she also gets plus proficiency on that potato 😁
fun fact, in the labyrinth part: the dwarf is tom morello (hope I spelled it right), guittarist for rage a gainst the machine, who is a huge nerd and asked for a cameo XD
Wait, REALLY?!
he's even credited on the wikipedia page (they say spectator but you know) and if you pause the scene on a good shot you can spot him under the (great) makeup
@@my_randomology Another fun fact....one of the parties in the maze was character for character the Group from the old D&D TV show.....
5:54. He thought a lot actually. This was his plan. Kill time until Jarnathan showed up and use him as an escape.
9:44. Aka, too low of a CHA stat.
17:15. The intellectual devourers didn't go for any of them because none of them have a high INT stat (Barbarian = STR, Bard = CHA, Druid = WIS, Paladin = WIS, Sorcerer = CHA).
19:00. You skipped two funny things so far... Simon accidentally making the entire bridge puzzle fall & the Paladin NPC walk directly over the rock as if it was a video game and that was his path!
19:14. Dragonflies are symbols of change, rebirth, etc.
21:47. He is a Bard that never uses any of his spells (there are players who forget things that their character can do), but hands out Bardic Inspiration like candy & who took the Inspiring Leader feat.
24:10. Bigby's Hand vs Mordenkainen's Hand.
I used to doubt this movie's portrayal of the barbarians improvised weapon and throw... and then I played BG3...
It was established early on that Holga had proficiency in potatoes.
Such a fun movie. The fight choreography was on point as well.
I kind of saw it as Holga being a Fighter with Unarmed Combat style (and Tavern Brawler), Edgin as a Rogue Mastermind with Performance. But whatever.
I think Forge was meant to be the Rogue.
I'm not a ttrpg player but in baldur's gate, wildheart/totem barbarians can throw food to blind enemies so that was my first assumption lol
Dnd starts as Knights of the Round Table but ends up as Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As an avid Dungeons & Dragons fan, When i found out about this movie, I was downright psyched... and when I saw it in the theater, I was impressed!
Keep up the reactions! New subscriber here! ❤
Larian is making Druids wildshaping into Owlbears canon in BG3.
I wonder, since Bradley Cooper plays a Halfling in this, does that make him a MINI cooper? 😂
Damn it! The joke was RIGHT THERE!
I think Holga is a LVL 10 barbarian. Too many attacks a round for a mere LVL 8. And you're the first reaction I've seen to identify a black dragon. The acid breath gives it away
Her official stats put her at level 5. But yeah, they fudged things a bit for the sake of the movie, which I'm fine with. It's not like DMs haven't been fudging numbers for decades to make games more interesting.
If you consider Dorkness Rising the greatest D&D film ever, then you will LOVE the book series by Drew Hayes called Spells, Swords and Stealth. First book is called NPCs. It's fantastic, funny, but also incredibly epic, but also splits that in-game "real world" concept like Dorkness Rising does. Seriously, check it out, you won't regret it. The audiobooks in particular are fantastic
Only thing that would've made this movie better is if they went shopping in like three different towns and each shopkeep was the same guy, just with a beard or a moustache, and nobody mentioned anything about it.
Okay, it is now on my bucket list to sit across the table from you in a D&D session.
...
I need a more adventurous bucket list.
Been wanting to record a game for two when I get GNOSIS, the game system I created, off the ground.
@@my_randomology I discovered long ago, both when playing and during the years I was professionally writing for various RPGs (notice how I subtly worked that in there? 😜), that when it comes to mechanics, I'm really good at working with and modifying existing systems, but I'm not really good at coming up with my own.
But I'm always interested in seeing what other people come up with.
I had a lot of fun watching your reaction. You got a lot more of the references than the other reactions I've seen, and it was fun to learn about them as a very casual player.
Probably because a lot of people who watched and reacted to this, never played D & D before. (Like me for example lol)
I love the gamers dorkness rising,
I wish people would react to it
I don't know if you listened to Holga, but I think she was a part of Wulfgar's Tribe of the Elk. He is one of the characters from Icewind Dale series.
...wait WHAT?!
@@my_randomology I caught it while watching your reaction.
Sure Druids can't turn into Owlbears, nor do they really have that many wildshapes to burn. But there's a fine balance between Rule of Cool and Hero Characters. :)
I also think people who haven't played the game could enjoy the movie as much as RPG gamers. I play D&D and many times in the movie I could imagine a DM trying to embellish something and players doing tantrums becuase their low rolls, plus real messy group dynamics.
"Smells like mushrooms, and everyone looks like they wanna hurt me." 🤣🤣🤣
It was fun. Enough Faerun stuff to keep gamers in. Not too much to push everyone else out. Just don't expect full LotR.
The intellect devourers was such a good bit, because all of them are classes where INT is a dump stat.
The reason the red witch allowed them to fight in the games - is because they would be powerful undead under her service.
I love that you referenced Dorkness Rising. I absolutely love that movie. I also love JourneyQuest (which features a lot of the same actors). I am hoping for another season of that one because I have to see what happens with Perf... and the cleric!
This movie desperately needs a rifftrax. At the cage scene in the opening: Shoot her! Shoot her!" (giving jurassic park vibes) When they are breaking up ice starts singing opening song from frozen, "Born of winter air and mountain rain combining...." This movie would be so easy to rif or rather MST3K
HA! I actually made the frozen joke in my reaction last month. Well, not THAT one, but *A* Frozen joke at that scene.
When I watched this I felt like a writer was converting his/her D&D campaign and put it on screen.
In the best possible way.
One, really enjoyed the reaction. Two, loved the Red vs blue quote in there
It was a quest, a nicely told story about a quest :) and not an End of the World story. If they do a DnD 2 type movie, hopefully it will be another party, and another quest.
And the party from this movie shows up for a scene or two to help or get info from. That's happened a fair amount in the series of campaigns I've played over the years.
SUPER LOVED THIS MOVIE, the only sad part, is that the Paladin was originally written for Drizzt so he could be used to tie future movies together.
Wait, REALLY?!
Great reaction, MMdC! I saw this with the kids when it opened in theaters, and we absolutely loved it. To be honest, I actually cried a little in the end.
It was pretty nostalgic listening to you talk a bit about the old campaign. I do, indeed, remember a dragonborn wearing a necklace of eyelids. We all had some great moments, and those were all great sessions! Didn't our halfling rogue perform a coup de grace on a red dragon once?
Anyway, I've been DMing for my kids for a couple of years now, and it's their favorite game. They're 13, 13, and 12 now, and they love DnD more than video games and movies. Thanks for having been such a great DM all those years ago and giving me a reason to come back to the game after all these years!
BTW, I HIGHLY recommend watching The Legend of Vox Machina if you haven't, already. The characters, story, artwork, and music are phenomenal.
Ok - just to answer the question - is Edwin(?) a bard or is he a rogue?
It's all RIGHT THERE in his back story! He WAS a bard - then switched classes to Rogue! (Possibly back to bard at the end?) So he's multi-classing, which is why he's not actually the best at either! But his PLAYER is having fun, which is all that matters.
ALSO - his PLAYER is a GENIUS at Xanatos Speed Chess! (See TV Tropes for the reference for Xanatos Speed Chess)
Yeah, I looked at his sheet after the movie, and yes, full bard, but his spells can all be cast without somatic components and are only for negotiation and social encounters. Also, yes, I am *quite familiar with Gargoyles, thank you ;)
@@my_randomology I didn’t even know there WERE stats to look up! But that just goes to show how well the movie played to us old grognards that we could GET it without even having access to a character sheet! LMAO! 🤣🤣🤣
The rule concerning wild shapes is that a druid can only turn into a creature as many times as the VFX budget will allow.
That's a good rule.
This movie was so much fun! Like others, I wish it did better at the box office so we could get a sequel. But this one was great either way.
Two movies I always throw out for D&D movies that are off the beaten path are Zero Charisma and Of Dice And Men. One is about someone being THAT DM/friend and the other is about a table of friends and how life happens around them. Great reaction!❤
Oh I love your edits. Super hilarious and such a great reaction
I enjoyed your reaction and how on point you were identifying spells, creature etc. I was just enjoying the movie so much the first time that I didn’t attempt to mentally identify everything. It wasn’t until the second and third time that tried to name everything.
When the intellect devourers ignored the party it was because no one’s class was intelligence based.
I also had a laugh at Edgin’s joke about Xenk when he left the party at the beach as it relates to how party members tend to move in a straight line and that obstacles are not considered obstacles when moving. 😂
The directors strayed from the RAW mindset with things like the owl bear and the number of wild shape uses etc but just like any DM would,they used the rule of cool. More please. 👍
The paladin was done so well.
The mid-credit scene. :D lol
Gotta say the memes were on point, I enjoyed your reaction a lot good sir! 👍
Hide behind the pile of dead bards!
Okay,you get a sub. The editing was Superb!😂❤
When Doric say her parents didn't want to raise a tiefling-child, proof me wrong, but usually doesn't one part of the parents have to be a Tiefling to get pregnant with a Tiefling child?
P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.
Newer editions, yes. But in older editions, a tiefling could be born to almost anyone. Maybe a devil pact occurred in their ancestry. Maybe someone wanted to play a trick on them. Whatever.
@@my_randomology Thanks for the answer. 👍
The poor scorcer... WILL YOU STOP ROLLING 1'S
23:50 Not really. Have you counted the amount of wild shape forms and uses per day Doric has? For having that many Doric has to be at least level 18.
Simon also has to be at least level 14 because he's able to cast Bigby's Grasping Hand which is a level 7 spell. If the hands are supposed to be Bigby's Crushing Hand he's at least level 18 because that's a level 9 spell.
Like I said at the end, they fudged around with the rules here and there. Their official stat sheets have them at Level 5 each.
@@my_randomology Yeah that....in that case they shouldn't have given them abilities the characters cannot have until they're high level.
Doric uses a total of 7 Wild Shapes in the chase scene. Depeding on the edition that's either level 21 (in 3.5) or 20 (5e). Wild shaping into a magical beast (the owlbear) is an epic level ability. They also completely ignore that Druids are full spellcasters themselves which means that even without her wildshape Doric would be able to hold her own against Sofina.
Don't get me wrong, I love that scene in the movie, but when looking at the rules Doric is an epic level character without question.
Only one of the characters is believable as being around level 5 - Edgin.
Even Holga is way too powerfull for such a low level considering how many trained guards she takes down all by herself without having any difficulties. I'd say she's at least level 10.
And Simon - as I said before: He casts either Bigby's Grasping Hand or Bigby's Crushing Hand. Assuming it's the weaker Grasping Hand he still has to be level 14 to have access to that spell.
@@HH-hd7nd One, I think the screenwriters' focus in the movie was more on giving cameos to cool stuff in D&D, whether it's spells or character races or creatures. They used a lower-level party so they can be underdogs in the story, but it seemed like they still wanted to show the coll stuff that could be done in D&D.
Two, they weren't sticking strictly to 5th edition because WotC was trying to test a new edition while the movie was being made. Why adhere strictly to one edition if those rules could be obsolete by the time the movie comes out? It didn't turn out that way, but the people making the movie didn't know that.
You have a truly impressive variety of video clips.
What I have is an obsessive memory for scenes, jokes, and quotes. Gods help me...
@@my_randomology Out of all the characters, Kira is the only one who didn't get a character sheet. If Forge is already the Rogue of the party(before he betrayed them), wouldn't she be something else?
I'm surprised you didn't make the joke about Marlamin..... It's a Mini cooper..... *rimshot* Thank you I will be here all week....
OMG the joke was RIGHT THERE! HA!
There are official stats for the characters, but they gave everyone too high Intelligence. Holga has the lowest at 11 and I think all the others have at least 14.
In 4E Druids could at will wild shape into a beast or fey beast (such as an owlbear) but only of your same size, so you would end up with a medium owlbear, not a large one like in the movie.
In a campaign would there be a saving throw jumping out the window on Jarnathan and could you actually die and have to end the game right there?
I'd give them a saving throw. At least a CHANCE to not die.
Nice intro 👌🔥
You better not stand in Xenk Yendar's way. He'd walk all over you if you stand in his very straight line 😅
This movie made me so happy and the best part I took my mom who never played the game and she had a ton of fun too. Its definitely not a perfect movie but I believe it to be a good to great movie. Moonlight glade/10
If you haven't already, you really should check out _The Legend of Vox Machina,_ the animated adaptation of Critical Role Campaign 1.
"What's that Wild Wesr game?" Deadlands! It's the awesome Deadlands (especially the original vs the Savage Worlds conversion).
Unless you meant Boot Hill. Please, gods, I hope you don't mean Boot Hill.
DEADLANDS! That's what it was!
Ears was just about understandable, I've seen that concept in a couple of things, but EyeLIDS?!? That is just WRONG!
I didn't care so much for the movie for some reason. That said, I never tried playing any PnP games with a DM and that might be a good reason why. I did read a lot of D&D books (Dragonlance Chronicles being my favorite) and played CRPGs like AD&D Gold Box, Baldur's Gate, Dark Sun 1&2, Icewind Dale, NWN, etc, so I could catch a good number of the references yet I never had the official PnP exprience with other people which might be a key thing I'm missing to relate to the tone of the film and the goofy nature of the characters.
The film came across to me as almost "pure comedy" rather than an adventure with some comedy thrown in. The protags came across to me as have very thick plot armor with lots of absurd ways of being saved at the last minute which made it so there wasn't a single moment where I really worried about their fate, and there were so many jokes thrown seconds before or after emotional scenes that I didn't really feel moved by them.
For example, Edwin's initial backstory in the beginning which builds his ultimate character motives and emotional heart of the film didn't move me much at all when his wife died, since there were jokes seconds before and after with him deliberately fumbling and stalling his story. So the only effect it had on me was like, "Okay, so this is what motivates this character," along with a few chuckles. Then his multiple flashbacks later on dreaming and remembering his wife had little sentimental effect on me since I wasn't really moved in the first place by the loss of his wife.
All of this is normally something I find okay in a pure comedy if it's making me laugh a lot, but the humor in this film didn't seem to be my cup of tea so much. All I got were some chuckles here and there. I did really enjoy the graveyard scene; that was probably my favorite! It was also amusing to me to see Helga's halfling ex-husband, but I didn't really find enough build-up of Helga to find that scene nearly as funny as I think it could have been.
That's fair. I will say as someone who's been gaming for years, this is EXACTLY what a TTRPG is like behind the scenes. I can almost hear the player conversations as all this is going on.
@@my_randomology That seems to be something many of the fans pointed out as the film capturing very well and a blind spot of mine! I think a lot of the things I perceived as contrivances in plot and character seemed to resonate deeply with people who have actually played TTRPGs. If I ever get the chance to play one with other people, I might have to revisit the film and see how my perceptions change after such an experience.
What I always dreamed of seeing one day starting from childhood is a fairly serious take on a D&D campaign as with the case of many of the books as with the case of films and shows like LOTR, Willow (just the film), Dragonslayer, John Carter (actually think that film is way underrated for fantasy funs), Games of Thrones, HotD, etc. The closest to what I dreamed about seeing as a boy reading the books and playing the computer games was a 13-episode anime called Record of Lodoss War even though it wasn't based on D&D rules.
In particular, I'd love to see films or shows based on Dark Sun (my favorite of the D&D worlds)!
@@darkengine5931 Ooooooh Dark Sun. I ran a campaign that eventually got into the multiverse of D&D and we had a short run Athas.
@@my_randomology I love that Dying Earth meets Swords and Sandals Barbarians type of aesthetic to it. Just about everyone seems to require street smarts as well as a physique that's totally ripped if not totally jacked, both men and women alike, and even merchants and scholars given the harsh nature of surviving in such a dangerous and cutthroat world.
Also love how metals have become scarce requiring people to use much more primitive armor and weapons forged from the like of bone, obsidian, and giant insect carapaces.
In particular, I think it might be dull to some people, but I love how uniformly the inhabitants of the world look and behave given how much they largely had to uniformly evolve against the most brutal environmental selective pressures of the desert. It somewhat minimizes the variety of things we can see in the world and makes the whole world feel smaller compared to far more varied ones like Forgotten Realms or Mystara, but I think it creates the most striking and memorable aesthetic in exchange. Like the humanoid races in Dark Sun don't see so apart between the likes of human, giant, elf, and mul, with the exception of the likes of thri-kreen and halflings who evolved and developed their cultures more in isolation from the others.
Might be very subjective but I think when there's actually less pronounced diversity between the characters, I believe it has a tendency to force writers to come up with more nuanced and profound differences between characters. For example, the Klingons were my favorite race in Star Trek: TNG since even though they're so culturally homogeneous with so much in common shared in attitudes and behavior between Worf, K'Ehleyr, Martok, Kahless, Duras, Gowron, Kurn, etc, I think the uniformity actually helps me to notice even more how they're so uniquely different from one another. Establishing a conforming pattern can make us more alert to any deviations to the pattern, like the slightest dissonance in music that establishes a pattern of functional harmony.
It also reduces the need for nearly as much cultural exposition to begin understanding the characters. The audience gets to understand more of Klingon culture from every Klingon character they meet while simultaneously getting to know what makes that Klingon very unique in personality. Meanwhile if we were to try to describe the differences between a Klingon character and a Vulcan character, we'd have to likely begin by describing in large part the broad cultural differences between the two before we can really drill down to the most individualistic differences between the two.
So apologies for rambliness but I think less diversity in a world actually helps us focus on more nuanced, individualistic differences than the likes of human vs. elf, elf vs. dwarf, Klingons vs. Ferengi, etc, without having to spend nearly as much time focusing on their broad cultural differences. I think that's one of the reasons why I love Dark Sun so much!
I really enjoyed the movie even thought i never played table top AD&D
Just Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, plus i also read several Drizzt to Urden books.
Hey, that's enough to get a handle on things!
@@my_randomology surely. But the games and books are more serious, so while I loved the movie, it felt a little weird all the humor. I thought table top players wouldn't like it, but it seems all the laughter is normal in games and I am glad everyone enjoyed it. Usually when shown in movies or tv it's also very serious. Like Stranger Things
I remember playing only once a table top AD&D game session. And I remember laughing a lot. The DM was not very experienced, but there was this sand monster and nobody could defeat it, and a player said he took his dick out and pissed at the monster... And the monster ripped his dick off.
I remember people almost died in real life from lack of air because of the laughs...
@@rogeriopenna9014 Oh, the humor is there in every D&D game I've ever played. The books may be serious, but the tabletop shenanigans are NOT. This is closer to the spirit of a game than it is to the tone of the books.
did you catch the end credit scene? hee hee 🧟♂️
I saw it after I finished recording, yes!
Holy shit! I went to Uni with you!
Hey, Critter! Long time! What's up?
@@my_randomology howdy! My wife and I live in Nashville these days! Great to see you making content!
I never played DND in my life but this movie made me want to play a paladin.
One of the greatest things D&D did in the last 20 years was make it so paladins did NOT have to be Lawful Good. You can have a cause that covers the entire alignment spectrum. Wanna be a Chaotic Good paladin that fights against tyranny? Cool. Wanna be a Neutral paladin that fights for justice and balance in all things? Also cool. Go nuts!
@@my_randomology oh, that's so cool. I don't know much about D&D but I had some resistance to paladins because I thought they were like... Religious warriors. Like, they had to follow some kind of divine guideline, idk how to explain it (English is not my first language) and somehow in my mind I always related that to Christianity so I was like UH NO THANKS. So this movie kinda changed my mind.
@@besupaaa Weeeeeeell there's nothing right now which says WHAT religion you need to follow. There's literally the option to be a forest-protecting hippy or a Lovecraftian-worshipping warrior.
Seemed like a 17 to me.
you cut out the best parts... why
Because if i keep too high of a percentage or use too much of the popular sections, I get flagged for copyright.
Too many meme cuts imo. I get that they are cool. But please, not that many,
Dude has more videos of memes than actual reaction video.