Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 -1st Watch/Reaction/Review

greatest joke in this movie most people missed, Bradley Cooper as a halfling means he's a mini cooper

Xenk: "So you blame his mother for his corruption?" Forge: "I blame my mother"

Jarnathon feels like a name the DM had to make up on the spot for an NPC they didn't intend on naming.

The hither/thither staff feels totally like something the DM would pull out to fix that the puzzle was screwed up.

I wonder exactly how many people went and found the lore on Thumberchaud the fat dragon and added that to their next campaign. Yes, the fat dragon is d&d lore and was created by Gary gygax apparently when his cat laid down on the table during a session.

The reference to the animated series was golden.

"He's a lich, he's a lover..." Brilliant. lol

And just imagine this conversation with the 3D FX team.... Producers: You are going to do the displacer beasts... And you are going to do the owl bear... Now, you, we need to do the pudgy dragon.... Last FX tech: And what am I doing? Producers: We've saved the most important model for you... We need a potato...

"She's throwing POTATOES!"

The Red Wizard Sofina was played by Daisy Head... Anthony Stewart Head's daughter

The part where the illusion spell of Chris Pine breaking down had me DYING!! Hahaha that was the most hilarious part ever!

As a lifelong D&D (etc) player, what I love about this thing is that it plays like a D&D game. So many things. Such as when they accidentally collapse the bridge so the DM (the person running the game) has to feed the players a way to continue ... in this case with his portal staff. Things like that, and the crazy lateral thinking of the players, happen all the time in D&D games.

One of the best aspects of this movie is how they scoured the Monster Manuals for all the monsters no-one uses. Intellect devourers, gelatinous cubes, displacer beasts owlbear - they even had two baby rust monsters. Hell, even the dragon wasn't standard -he was a chonky boy.

One of the things I really loved, is that of the few lore accurate characters from forgotten realms lore, they decided to bring in Themberchaud. I did not expect them to use him and I am really happy they used him.

One of my favorite tropes from the game is Simon being the keeper of stuff...there is always that 1 player that gets stuck holding all the party's stuff

This is so good - and Themberchaud is the BEST boy. We love us a chonky dragon.

I love imagining the argument between player and DM over whether Holga is proficient in potatoes.

So apparently that walk away scene from the paladin wasn't scripted. He just started walking out of frame and it was noisy for some reason and he didn't hear them call "cut" so he just kept going and the bard ad libbed that whole later half of the scene on the spot. Also, later in the scene while they are talking you can still see the paladin way off in the distance.....still walking....

The reason neither Ed nor Doric cast any actual spells is the non-D&D players would ask, "If they can use magic, why do they need the sorcerer?". Also, the pudgy dragon is Themberchaud, an actual creature in lore - though, when last seen, he was in the Duergar city of Gracklstugh, a couple hundred miles from where they were in the Underdark.

One of my favorite scenes was where Xenk was explaining the hideously complicated means to get across the bridge, then, of course, Simon fuckered it all up. That was 1000% the DM, through their DMPC going off about the awesome trap/puzzle they took several hours to create...and the PC's just screwing things up, like we always do. And when Simon looked over at Holga and asked 'What's that?...even before he could say another word, I looked over at my wife and said "That's a DM ass pull", and I was right! I cant count the number of times I've had to make stuff up, literally out of thin air, to keep my games moving, after the PC's did something silly/horrifying/mega-awesome. Awesome movie; Incredible reaction!! Love all y'all!!