Congratulations guys!!

Fun Fact The origins of Owlbears is a rather...weird one; long story short, a crazed wizard thought it would be a "fun" idea to mesh an owl (regardless of species) and a grizzly together

Bro yess! I completely agree 🥹🔥

such an apt way to put it 😄

You are not wrong

Between this and BG3 it's kinda felt like our year.

Same!

Originally they were kicking around having Drizzt Do'Urden for that role. I would have freaked the F out in theaters. :::holds up OG childhood 1989 copy of The Crystal Shard signed by the man himself::::

Yeah, and the portal staff thing is a classic gizmo a GM has to come up with to help the players out after they screw up a puzzle etc!

@@JnEricsonx Imagine they end up in Menzoberranzan

@@f.g.5967 They're in the Underdark after all.

It reminds me of a thing in my campaign where a character wants to get revenge on their Noble Djinn dad(I won't go into detail but the dad is 100% a bastard and deserves it), and a mysterious NPC they've had encounters with is slowly talking them through recontextualizing their quest as him needing to die for the betterment of the world rather than them specifically wanting to kill him for personal reasons. There are reasons for this that I won't get into here, but it's an interesting interaction and that on-screen moment made me think of that.

In true DnD fashion, a player/actor does something dumb because they thought it would be funny, and the DM/director lets it happen because it is, in fact, funny

@@pabloc8808 Agreed! Some of the best moments of any RPG I've played or run are exactly these types of moments. 😅

I thought it was a joke about how NPCs that have awkward walking paths, but this works too lol.

I've also heard that the director deliberately didn't shout "Cut" because he wanted to see what Page would do.

@@malcolmrowe9003 That is actually what happened. Director decided to wait, and Rege not knowing what to do decided to continue portraying straight as a stick paladin thus walking stiffly over the boulder . An amazing impromptu moment

It was a standout moment in a movie made of standout moments :D

A perfect representation of a failed concentration check.

@@gawainethefirst DM: Okay, make a stealth check. Simons player: Uh... 3... DM: ...... Roll a concentration saving throw... Simons player: Uh.... 1....

Fun fact: When this movie was in pre-production, the director talked to Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast and asked is there a maximum security prison anywhere in Faerun, because he had a great idea for the opening scene (which turns out to be Edgin and Holga using Jarnathan to escape), and Chris realized that there is no maximum security prison anywhere on Faerun, so he created Revel's End in the adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden, which takes place a few years before the events of this movie happens.

@@LightStreak567Icewind Dale.....where's Drizzt? :(

@@JnEricsonx All I know is what he is doing in current events. According to the synopsis of the latest Drizzt book that will be released this month called "Lolth's Warrior", he is involved in a civil war in Menzoberranzan. A large group of drow are starting to wake up and question their loyalty to Lolth, while others remain blindly loyal, so a war is brewing in the city.

@@LightStreak567 I havent read since around 1000 Orcs, which I apologized to RA because there's no decent book stores around by me anymore.

@@JnEricsonx Wow, you have a lot of catching up to do, but it will be worth it. You'll be surprised to see the life Drizzt has currently.

He told he was named after his owners favorite smells.

@@dansmart3182 to be honest, I think they are everyone's favorite smells!

@@dansmart3182 "Fresh Cut Grass, Oatmeal, Pussy, " I was cracking up.

Is a Canon dragon though.

@@JnEricsonx Technically, ALL the monsters are Canon. But I've been playing D&D for forty years, and I have never, ever encountered a chonky dragon.

Totally agree. Have been playing pen & paper RPGs since 1984. No Computer based game can replace the fun and interaction between players within the group and with the GM/GM. Just took out my Call of Cthuluh books and be preparing a new campaign in 1920s Germany. German CoC material is awesome. Well, it has litte to do with D&D besides sharing the. RPG background, but... 😊 Since Hollywood is running out of ideas for good movies. Maybe some of these RPG adventures could be a nice idea for a new movie? CoC, Chill, Vampire, Werwolf, 7th Sea, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Mage, Twilight 2000, etc. There are so many backgrounds out there. And so many scripts/adventures already written, that possibly could be Adapter to the small and big screen. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game

@@JAFG_2603 Nice! I ran some Trail of Cthulhu tabletop games but my favourite was combining it with the much more 'crazy improv' combat stuff from the Classic Marvel RPG for a 'Knight Rider and Ozzy Osbourne vs Cultists' campaign I ran. I love how warped that Marvel game is - for a start, it encouraging you to burn away your previous experience points to modify in-game dice rolls etc XD

The best thing we can do for it is get other people to rent it or watch it on streaming. Those numbers would show up on the studio's radar as potential/likely customers for the sequel.

@@marauderdz I would love a second movie but it's probably unlikely since they already sold off the studio that made the movie

But considering how much people loved the movie I hope creators of this will think of an idea to organize a kickstarter/fundraiser to be able to make second movie. I would deffinetely find money to donate towards making sequel a reality

Apparently, Revel's End was created due to this movie. It was in the writing stages at the same time Rime of the Frost Maiden (a Campaign Module) was being written. The writers of the film approached WoTC looking for a remote prison somewhere in Faerun, so the WoTC writers put one in the new module that the film could use.

I honestly find Michelle Rodriguez hit or miss a lot of the time, but yeah, her & Chris Pine made this movie so much better with how much fun you can tell they're both having.

Eh, it wasn't that far off from recouping its budget at the box office. Thanks to the positive word of mouth, there's an excellent chance they'll make a profit after rentals, DVD/BR sales, and streaming.

nope, it was joke about how direct and unyielding paladins are

A new campaign is a freaking brilliant idea.

I don't think it is Elminster. *Simon* thinks it is, but the figure always dances around his assumptions. "I'm an Aumar, too." I think it really is no more complicated that it was Simon's imagination and insecurities blocking him. The man is a representation of those insecurities.

Certainly, this would be much better if it had made like $500M and a sequel was no doubt. But, I think things could be rosier than they seem. First, Hasbro kicked in some of the budget so the studio wasn't out $150M. If they got the return they wanted as a D&D advertisement, it seems reasonable that they'd do so again. Second, it was filmed in the *heart* of the pandemic in Northern Ireland, with all of the vast protocols that required. Everything from a 2 week quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, to all the heath checks and cleaning they would have had to do on a film set, up to replacing the entire sound team last minute (with a BBC nature doc team of all things) when they came down with COVID. All of that HAD to be expensive. And lastly, lots of the practical effects stuff won't have been discarded. That won't have to be reinvented for a potential sequel. In the end, I can absolutely see my way to a $120M D&D movie budget, which is more like $80-100M for Paramount depending on Hasbro. Even if the sequel did no better at the box office (which honestly is unlikely given this one has had legs in the streaming markets), that still puts it in profitable range. And if they can not screw up the release window (one week before Super Mario...sheesh. I went 8 days after release and couldn't get it in IMAX anymore...), there's even more potential. With this cast and creative team, they could *crush* a movie at that budget, IMO. In recent news, Paramount CEO has actually said specifically that D&D sequel is possible, though they would have to bring the cost down (this isn't a surprise, and in line with what we expect. Just depends on how much). And, Hasbro just finished selling eOne to Lionsgate (previously the company that handled their TV and movies) but specifically did *not* include the rights to, among other things, D&D media in the sale. That may hint, to me, at future plans with the IP.

The other aspect is I believe Hasbro kicked in a bit of the production budget. If they've measured success on that front as an advertisement for the game itself, they'd probably do so again (especially with D&D Next launch around the corner). Which means Paramount's production cost wasn't $150M. Plus, the next one has lots of built in advantages. Even if the sets are down, all the practical creatures I'm sure were just mothballed, so they don't need to recreate all of them. And, this one filmed in the HEART of COVID protocols in Ireland. It's not talked about, but that *had* to add significant expense. Things like 2 week mandatory quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, all the heath checks and cleaning, etc. Shoot, the whole sound team was out with COVID the day they were filming the scene in the cavern where they escape Themberchaud and they had to call in literally the only other sound team in Northern Ireland at the time that could do the job - a BBC nature documentary team. All of that adds up, and I bet it added up in a very significant way.

The remarkable part for me was that even though Holga's death and subsequent resurrections via the tablet was telegraphed from a mile away, it still managed to resonate emotionally to me. They play it out just long enough, hit you with the music and the Kira flashbacks and it just works IMO.

1. Barbarian doesn't mean stupid. 2. Tam's take over of Thay and turning it into an undead country happened a hundred years before this movie. That is such a horrific event that eventually the whole world would know fairly shortly.