Edgin + being completely normal in his reactions to Xenk

A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part

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ive now watched the movie and it turns out that's his name

I love you goofy looking aarakocra, dragonborn and tabaxi. I love you hiring bridgerton guy just to be hot and untouchable and having his first major scene staged so that one tiddy is always artfully exposed. I love you well choreographed fight scenes and a beautifully chaotic representation of six seconds of combat. I love you compelling plot point of attunement requiring a successful role with your spellcasting modifier. I love you solving puzzles by shoving round p(ainting)egs into square holes. I love you forcing Justice Smith to do a British accent for no reason. I love you level 20 NPCs who can’t help the party against the big bad for ambiguous reasons. I love you bigby’s hand slap fights. I love you Nat 20s on potato attacks. I love you owlbears, mimics and gelatinous cubes. I love you dragons, I love you dungeons. I love you dnd movies that love dnd.

How is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves different from other blockbuster action films?

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

I saw the dnd movie with my partner and took away only what was intended.

Specifically D&D™️ things about that new movie that I enjoyed very much

The entire party having low intelligence/wisdom bc let’s be real who doesn’t have either one of those as their dump stat

Receiving a magic item from the DM -> forgetting about it -> a party member going WAIT DONT WE HAVE THAT -> everyone using the shit out of the magic item and completely wrecking the DM’s plans

Travelling between locations that are geographically days/weeks away takes <5 minutes because the DM doesn’t want to do random encounters + the party doesn’t have a ranger who needs to feel useful by tracking

No healer + no rogue/ranger = everyone is constantly exhausted and has no idea of the traps/monsters in their surroundings ever

Druid being the most OP member of the party

The DM’s friend/sibling coming over to play their high level paladin from another campaign for an afternoon and then just noping out

The DM planning an elaborate battle arena with multiple well thought out stages and the players immediately find a way to circumvent it

Out of all the decisions made for the film, I would have to say the best one had to be when they introduced Xenk by having him serve absolute CUNT™ and then casually leaving

LOOK AT THEIR REACTIONS PLEASE!!

Excellent observation by others: the fact he took off his jacket like he was about to dive into the water or wrestle the fish but no, he just wanted to be dramatic asf for no reason and then ofc you can hear the players ask the DM if they can smash romance Xenk but they can't. Also the SHIRT?? SLAY!

Edgin + making Xenk smile

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves making Chris Pine's character a bard and then having him fight by using his lute as a melee weapon whacking people left and right with it? Absolutely hilarious

Before production began on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the main cast played a session as their characters. (It's a shame the big studios stopped caring about bonus features, because there was a time when we would've gotten a whole featurette explaining how the game went.)

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"So you make plans that fail."

"No!"

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here's my holding out for a hero xenk edit <3