10/10 it's a very very good movie I highly recommend watching it

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This movie was a cop out. It's a reboot adventure film.

@@2Bros-OVO well do you honestly expect them to make D&D a mainstream movie for casuals if they made it not a cop out? They make movies to provide entertainment and money, there has to be a middle ground for the broader audience. There would be no point if the movie didn't make money after all.

The movie was the best time I've had in a theater in a long time - and I watch every Marvel release opening weekend. As for this video, your audio mix is a bit low.

That is perfect.

Also the party succeeding on History checks on Xenk one after another. It's these little touches.

especially since overtime our flesh deteriorates and loses strength over the vocal cords.. making it impossible to speak after a while.

That's probably my favorite part of the film. You can actually *see* the influence of the DM pop up from time to time.

I never thought of that until I saw a comment like this and you know what I completely agree with you, really brings realism to the whole movie

DM gives PC a magic item that grants Speak With Dead At-Will. Every party would 100% abuse the absolute hell out of that on every corpse until they could find what they wanted.

@@innerbeast415 the joke he gives them the item but its bringing them nowhere lol

Ik! Cuz science says that ears can still hear a few min afterm you die

question: can the dead still speak when not spoken to in a session like in the movie? and if you ask your group questions to ask, would that count as a question?

​@@CoolJoshido212depends on the GM

Truly rarest of it's kind

i was so pleasantly surprised to see the amount of wonderful artwork in this scene. Didn't see this movie becuz box office and critical mixed reaction to it. but it seems genuinely made with care, maybe ppl got angry that it was 'woke' or something but it seems like it'll age well.

At least that PART of the movie will age well.

@@GuineaPigEverydayIt’s not just that it looks “woke”, it doesn’t feel like an immersive experience and more like people from contemporary times cosplaying in the Lord of the Rings.

​@@jonathandixon1305what does this comment even mean??? Its a DND movie. A game where people literally play pretend.

You get your story run forward You laugh your asses off with your friends at the table And you probably all ate too much pizza or something along those lines

Use your imagination

Yup, exactly that. I had an encounter where my party needed a mage to defeat the magical defenses against teleportation of a keep they needed to infiltrate. The mage was held in a warehouse in the docks with Kuo Toa. This was all the info they bothered to set out with. If they had taken a bit more effort they could have figured out: - The identity of the mage they needed (wasn't even a skillcheck, they just needed to ask the question). - That the warehouse was a factory that they used to make magical constructs out of dead sailors and broken ships. - That the mages in the warehouse were wearing collars that would blow them up if they used magic - That the collars could be unlocked with a control rune - That Kuo Toa were patrolling the premisses and so magical invisibility or shapeshifting would not work. So they first sent out the druid disguised as an albatross to scout, which got immediately shot at. Then they posed as fishermen, got in, almost set off the collar on a mage, managed (by virtue of some god tiers rolls) to convince the overseer to lend them a mage. This mage told them they needed to save a totally different mage for their purpose and when the party suggested helping them free the rest he promptly teleported off. They then went in again, claiming that the mage had managed to steal their control rune and escape while someone else set another part of the warehouse on fire. In the confusion they took the mage they needed and a party member and said mage teleported out, but the rest of the party had blown their cover and the rest of the mages still captive were in danger of dying due to the fire they started. Queue combat where basically the only spell that resolved was counterspell, an angry half finished shipwreck golem shot up more of the warehouse causing even more fire and smoke, and just general pandemonium until the party member and mage that escaped earlier returned to help them and the rest managed to get away. They did save most of the captives though and burnt down the factory. This entire part of the session was planned to be 2 hours tops. Took em 5 :p

@@elonwhateverAre you sure this wasn’t BG3?

@@rasmus9595 Funny thing about that. BG3 came out the week after and two of my mates that play in my campaign were playing it with me. So after about a month of playing when we got to this point we were like: "huh, that's uncannily familiar".

The last time my party used Speak with Dead it was a murder mystery with 3 bodies. We ended the session after finding a Cleric that could cast the spell and hiring him. Since we would have travel time and such we were allowed to prepare our 15 questions in advance as well as some alternate questions depending on the responses. It made things go so much more smoothly, plus it was a fun discussion over discord over the week as we debated what questions to ask.

Since I play Baldur's Gate 3 since its release, I can totally see this now.

*history checks

​@@iamarnold3577He's probably a PF player, AKA old school hard core DnD lol. It's Knowledge History and Knowledge Arcana there

@@NYCharlie718 PF is not hardcore old-school it's a 3.5 equivalent, old-school is like 1e 2e and moldvay.

@@Ryan-mr3zf When DnD One comes out, DnD 5E is going to be old-school and hardcore

happens in the real world. although that bath tub did look like a nice metal one that would keep nice and hot

I felt this fucking scene because I literally had that happen to me like 2 weeks prior and I got a fucking concussion for the first time. Lmao

This almost happened to me when I was 15 more or less. I slipped just after the bath just like him, but fortunately enough i was further away so I only smashed my back flat against the floor.

instead of live leak those guys get the "roll dice" screen. He got out of tub and the screen popped up and rolled a nat 1.

Given that I am a fan of slapstick (The Three Stooges, for example), that scene had me in tears when I first saw it. I still laugh!

Me during my BC Calculus exam.

I felt that in my soul.

i laughed ao hard at that scene it hurt bro.

Sounds like me during a math test at school😂

Hopefully some day somebody will pass him by, ask "how the fck are you alive?" and he'll explain and immediately die for good.

I mean, the first thing anyone would say upon walking into that grave yard would be, "whatvthe hell happened here?" Which he would then explain and die.

Some poor grave keeper is gonna have a very long explanation to his “what the hell happened here” question lol

​@@saintdane7336kinda expected it to show up at he end of the movie somehow during the end fight

If it helps, the game's description says the spell ends after 10 minutes even if you don't ask all your questions.

no freaking way. that is amazing.

Really? 😂 it was astarion who botched it for me with another one.

man, I've spoken to dozens of dead people and not had that happen. just gonna mark it on the list of things to keep a look out for next playthrough.

Probably minthera in the goblin camp?

I had that happen to me as well. I was screaming in both frustration and amusement. I'm usually against strangling the party's Wizard, but Gale was begging for a full garrote at that point.

it was with the last one. you need to watch past the credits

@@toomanyaccounts I know they left the last one incomplete, I was just saying it would have been funny if one of the corpses collapsed after 4 questions instead of the 5 the spell specifies because he was bad at math and couldn't count

​@@binarysmilethe spell is good at math

@@binarysmile unfortunately, its the spell that's keeping track of the questions, not the one being "revived", so I think that maybe the guy would try to drop dead after question 4 and then realize they aren't done with him.

The guy with the torch even said "won't you ask him the last two questions" and the guy dropped after the third question after that. And you thought there was yet another question? Honestly hilarious to me how this works with the actual joke What's 2+2

From what I hear, the movie would have done better if Hasborough haden't tried to revoke the D&D open license. Many fans supposidly boycotted the theater release in protest. It took too long for Hasboro to back down, so many fans didn't go, and they didn't stream it either.

@@Zebulization It wasn't just the OGL (although that was a major factor). Hasbro had been acting scummy for some time at that point and people were fed up with the company. For example the 30th Anniversary of magic the gathering at the end of the year before this came out was a fiasco ($250 pack of cards). They sent the Pinkertons (the company that used to go around Union busting) to someone's house because they messed up. And several other incidents that all just made their fans angry and the backlash was felt by this movie at the box office.

@@TraskLargero I read about the thugs. I remember thinking: "If you actually thought that they somehow stole the cards then involve the police, or your lawyers. Don't hire mercenaries."

It would've done better if it didn't release against John Wick

@@charge2025 After reading your comment and the ones above it, it's kind of ironic to me that a movie made by a company who went to such lengths as hiring mercenaries, lost to a movie literally about mercenaries lol.

Mf was either the DM's OC or the Christian kid of the group who later left mid session after his mom caught him

@@martinxy1291 He was basically just the DM telling them "Just get to the next quest stage already...-.-"

@@martinxy1291He’s the one friend who can never make it because of scheduling conflicts so when he finally can make it to a session the DM makes sure it’s special for him

I like to think it is a veteran player called in as a guest by the GM so that the party gets more competent for a time.

@@kingskelett6265 I think Xenk is DMPC

@@joshuablade6974 Furry calling the Browny dweeb. What an age we live in, now all we need is a feet guy and margot robbie and we got ourselves a movie.

So to make up for the jerk who commented, I’ll say that your story was hilarious and made my day. Though on re-read, wouldn’t the answer be “yes?” Since the cleric is asking if that will be all.

@@animeotaku307 I was going with him finding a zeal for life and wanting to do more after the priestly service. Like having a curse lifted, and the priest handing him the bill before the service is performed and literally asking him if he only wants to die, and he going like "No, i plan to visit MacBaldurs later" but being cut off after he says no. Tho now that i really think about it, I cant say which is better.

It seems to me the question has to be asked by the same person. It's always Chris Pine asking it here. If that is the case, he's doomed to shamble across the Earth looking for the one man who can bring him peace. Or crawl. Or just lie there as he decomposes slowly. Conscious all the time until the very last atom desintegrates...

@@michaeldeboer 0:13 one of the other characters asks the question "why did you say 'OK' after that?", of which the Undead answered as his 5th and final question before falling back into his grave. Either this was a missed detail on the VERY FIRST body, or anyone can ask the questions, they just gave Edgin the reigns as the party leader to reduce the chances of asking a useless question before they got their information.

That's good. I don't know the first thing about D&D. I just really liked the film, it was funny.

No. The most accurate representation of what D&D is like was already made years ago: The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. Look it up and give it a watch. This movie is a more accurate representation of what the players IMAGINE the game world is like. Although one thing I will say is inaccurate was the Paladin Xenk. That is how a Paladin SHOULD be played... but sadly, that is rarely how they ARE played!

@@felixfeliciano7011 Xenk wasn't a player, he was a DMPC. That's the entire point. He's a DM insert who guides the players on their quest, which is why he was particularly pissed when they fucked up the bridge puzzle, and why he says "I have given you the tools, it is up to you to use them."

I didn't even know that this is a game adaptation 😂 I just loved the movie 🔥

@@hamzasat Why do you think it is called " *Dungeons and Dragons* : Honor Among Thieves"?

Not Low Investigation Rolls. More the Players and the DM keeping it straight. The Spell does only let you answer 5 Questions and they did ask 5 Questions. They just didn't ask the right ones. Now you think Players would maybe go aside for a bit, agree to a set of questions then ask properly but I also know some Parties wherein that just doesn't happen because that option never goes to their heads during the moment.

​@@radiobehemoth9334They were also asking the wrong people.

​@@radiobehemoth9334The "Was that a question?" moment was totally one of the players asking another out of character, only for the DM to be a prick XD.

I loved this movie for a lot of reasons including that it looks like they went practical/shot in real places when they could. It makes such a huge difference

Those movies are 90% CGI during battle scenes.

It’s a lot cheaper than CGI now too. Probably spent more on editing than paying actors and wardrobe.

XD

Pretty sure something similar happens in the post-credits scene.

More like, see the zombie "hey, why are you alive?"

Imagine someone is wandering through the cemetery, hears the whispers of the undead saying "Ask me anything", then the guy asks a very important question thinking it's like a kind of fortune teller, just for the corpse to answer "I don't know" and fall dead

I watched in theaters. Never saw a trailer. Best movie I've seen in an entire year. Nothing has topped it.

Well, it probably would have, but the DM made up Xenk as a way out of the dead end the players had maneouvred themselves into.

@@KingLofiOne It's like Honest Trailers said. Xenk is an NPC dropped in by the DM to get these idiots unstuck and back on the main quest.

@@srirajbalaraman6184 It's like D&D players would notice, not what Honest Trailers decrees because they also noticed. The same thing happens later with the conveniently discovered "Hither-Thither Staff" after the party bungles the stepping stone riddle.

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Or if the name of the book the corpse had named would be the key

Same actors, different characters

@@bodenkingnah, same actors/characters, different campaign

same, the chemistry between the entire cast is phenomenal!

I’ve never played either, but I am interested in the lore of the Forgotten Realms. And I think my most favourite scene would be Themberchaud.

​@@cameronmcewen9666that guy's a fun one. He has his biggest role in the out of the abyss module, where he can hire the players to get rid of the forge clerics trying to replace him due to how greedy and fat he is

Paladins are the best mate. ;3

Its Ven, Sven is the one die slipping 😊

I mean, it would've been nice if Xenk used lay on hands to heal him up! 😡

So what's 2+2?

@@CommanderShamilI’m bad at math

@@andytorres6052 *thunk*

Okay, 1. What's your fave book? 2. What's your fave song? 3. Which direction is Baldur's Gate? 4. What does 6555 mean? Someone else think of a 5th question.

@@JohnZ117 How was your First Time~? X3

"I didn't" Actually made me laugh harder than any movie in recent memory

i think this is second to the potato throw

Yep. Hopefully, the next willow season comes out way better if they make a season 2

Pretty sure willow was cancelled.

If you looked at Willow as a D&D movie/series, you did it wrong from the start. No wonder you were disappointed.

Willow is better than this.

​@@cdc_9873it was cancelled because it was overflowing with wokeness. The actor also passed away

even more funny that traditionally bards are musical story tellers, so the fact he didnt know the guys makes it all the more funny

​@@marvthedog1972is he a bard? Or a rogue with musical instrument proficiency.

@@baonkang5990 That is what I was thinking. Edgin could be a Rogue with high Charisma and the Faction Agent background, because one gets proficiency with a musical instrument.

@@baonkang5990 He's a bard, the company had a questionnaire that asked how viewers would feel about a 'spell-less Bard' (and also if the Owlbear being rule-illegal mattered). They just didnt want to have all the hybrids having spells for sake of character variance.

African or European?

@@MrLightningbob i don't know that!

@@xavreim6957 You gotta be a king to know those things

@@xavreim6957 _dies_

What's your fav color?

Agreed.

I liked that instead of going with a fighter or something as the main lead, they went with a bard

Yeah. Too bad Wizards and Hasbro fucked up prior with their stupid OGL move.

​@@tripler2833 what movie?

lmao i kr

I thought the same😂 i play it with a buddy and we burst out laughing becaus we botched some interrogations in the same way.

Fantastic movie

No doubt about it. It's very fun to watch. Super enjoyable

true, true

​@@moisesfreire6408 it's sad it bombed at the box ofdice

Speak with Dead is a 3rd level spell in regular DnD.

he looks like Kamil

Oh my god CHris Pine would be a fucking _awesome Young Venkman.

It was horrible. Then again, they designed it that way. I mean, when you rewrite things to make sure you emasculate the male leads, what do you expect?

​@@myrhevYou must be fun at parties

I agree. Saw lots of bad reviews but wanted to check it out because I liked the trailer. Glad I did. Was like watching a table top session. After this and vox machina, want to see more DnD stuff.