Everything GREAT About Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!
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Published 2023-07-09
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All Comments (21)
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One of my favorite details is that Simon, as a sorcerer, draws his power from charisma, so it makes perfect sense that he was bad at magic until he gained more confidence.
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"But we approved your pardon!" was the best joke. I laughed so hard at this and it was the point where the movie totally won me over.
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"We approved your pardon!" Is 100% the DM having a planned story beat, and the player characters having a plan that absolutely disregards it.
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I just realised that at no point in this movie is Edgin concerned with revenge. He’s not trying to track down the people who murdered his wife to kill them back. He couldn’t care less about them for the whole movie. He just cares about his wife, and his daughter. I don’t know. That’s just a … really nice thing to see in a protagonist.
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"Jarnathan" is a very clear "oh crap I forgot to name this character" moment. Pure DND
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I loved that Egan and Holga don’t get together romantically. It’s clear they treat each other as siblings. I also love that Holga, as an aunt, gets appreciation for being there for Kira as a mother figure.
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I loved the "But we approved your pardon!" bit so much- I've seen so many hilarious situations where a party gets SO stuck on carrying out their dramatic, "clever" plan that they are completely blindered to everything else. Never even paused to consider for a second that a well-executed story could simply work.
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I love how genuine the guard's horror was when the illusion started glitching "...what is this madness?!"
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The bridge joke is my favorite because it’s kind of a meta joke. The amount of times a group will mess up an entire puzzle the DM laid out resulting in the DM giving them an OP item is astronomical.
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I want a sequel to this movie with all the same actors, but all of them playing different characters, like they are starting a new campaign
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As a DM the moment that hit my soul was when they messed up the bridge puzzle so the DMPC says " hey look a portal stick" because I spent three hours on this encounter and it will be played come hell or high water.
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Fun fact! The fight in the courtyard of everyone vs Safina is written to be exactly 18 seconds (3 rounds of combat). Each of the party attach once during that fight, Safina acts 2-3 times to account for her legendary actions
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Fun fact Holga using whatever is around her as a weapon is actually a feat called tavern brawler that allows use of improvised weapons
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As a player of D&D this movie was an absolute love letter to every fan, past, Present and future
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The Wildshape chase just embodied "The rule of cool" and a great DM is going to usually allow it to happen. This movie was simply amazing.
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As a huge D&D fan, the Johnathan scene was hilarious and a massive twist. Aarakocra are Neutral Good, meaning that they have a loose belief in what is right, making them the perfect type of person to smooth talk into giving you parole. I thought this was a really cool reference to the race and the escape plan completely through me off guard.
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One of my favorite things in the whole movie was the final fight where everyone's ganging up on Sofina. Rounds of combat in D&D are 6 seconds of in-game time, and every character in the final fight had 6 seconds between each action they took, each punch they threw, etc. INCREDIBLE attention to detail
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Xenk is the absolute perfection of 'NPC that the DM brings in to complete a specific task, but they can't stay because they're horrifically OP'
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I like the relationship between Edgin and Holga. They're not in love, but they're both parents to Kira. It's really nice to see wholesome well rounded characters who are opposite genders be very good platonic friends.
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What's funny about the Paladin character is that they're traditional portrayed as the "straight" arrow lawful good guy. And at the end of the scene where he walks away, he continues to walk in a straight line even though there was a boulder in front of him. It's so entertaining because aside from the joke, it truly symbolizes his lawful good character of being a straight arrow.
