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D&D Movie (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TigerClawTV@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world
 

Anyone seen it? Is it awful?

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[–] phrankygee@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It’s a great fun movie. The plot’s great, the pacing is great, the references are great, the comedy is great. It’s a fun adventure with a relatable team of misfit heroes.

It takes some liberties with the game mechanics to accomplish this. If you can’t forgive that, you’ll have a rough time, especially if you like wildshaping druids and spellcasting bards.

[–] NumbersMan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While it does skirt some game mechanics, probably due to it being a movie and it's a strange medium to adapt, it also does some really cool subtle things with the mechanics. For example, in the final major fight all of the characters attack in the same order. They're in initiative!

[–] phrankygee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife suspected this about that final fight, but it goes by quickly in the theater, and unfortunately it’s streaming on one of the few services we don’t have or want to pay for, so we haven’t re-watched it in a pause-able format.

[–] relative_iterator@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

May the seas be friendly to ye matey

[–] whofearsthenight@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This, pretty much. Pretty hard to be 100% game accurate and make a good movie. Appreciated where they took license, and where they stuck to some (often, obscure) lore.

[–] MrBodyMassage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They also show one of the characters, the bad guy if I remember, having to use concentration for a spell!

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