Gamer watched DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. Reaction, First Time Watching 

Yep. And Michelle Rodriguez had even started playing D&D as a teenager. She gravitates toward action movie roles because she's genuinely a geek about this stuff.

Xenk is DM NPC 😆

"Okay, so let's do some brainstorming. I'm thinking this campaign will take place two years after the previous campaign ended." "Ended? It dissolved before we could get to the Korrin's Keep heist." "Well, yeah, but it's been a while for us, so it makes more sense to start after a time skip. Sophia, since you said you wanted to play a druid now, Forge will be an NPC for this game; you might encounter him at some point." "Cool. Did you get that text I sent about the stuff I wanted to do with my Wildshape?" "It was a long message, but I think we can wing it. Chris, Michelle, where are Edgin and Holga now that it's been two years since we saw them last?" (unison) "In jail."

@@ffreed Yes, this, exactly.

Xenk's the DM's PC from a campaign he played 10 years ago before he got stuck being the forever DM and gets shoehorned in to every game now so that the DM can have a little fun styling on the player's PCs. That's why Xenk is the one giving Simon the Rocks Fall Stare when he instantly rolls a 1 on interacting with the bridge puzzle and ruins it.

heard that Xenk was going to be D'rzzt dourden but they decided to change it

pretty sure dzienky is thanks in polish language :D

Fictional languages can sound similar to real life dialects.

I saw Edgin'sn stat sheet. Every spell he knows can be cast silently and is part of him inspiring others. So yeah, it's ver shown overtly, but he IS using some magic.

​@@my_randomology that's my head canon as well and a great way to show bard magic, while differentiating the classes for non-players.

That's a good decision for me, it separates what each of them does and makes it easier for the audience to follow along. Simon does magic, Doric turns into animals, Edgin inspires and Holga smashes

I think the DM is letting Doric flit between animals for the duration of her Wildshape. Like, instead of changing once, she activates WS and is allowed to switch back and forth for only one use (until the duration expires). Also, Druids can Owlbear at my table now (with others on a case-by-case basis).

@@DavidWright1138 She never cast any spells too. Homebrew give up spells for expanded wildshapes.

Yup. That's... pretty much every game I've ever played.

Right? Never too serious and usually hilarious.

That's what I figured, too. More mid-level PCs for her to control.

I have another theory; in that scene Edgin cast Suggestion on her to make her do something that made sense to her as sadism but would give them a chance to escape.

@@GriffinPilgrim Or he just rolled well on his persuasion.

@@TheBlarggle But then it would have affected Forge too. Suggestion is single target.

I hope the franchise continues and maybe hopefully one day we might see the classic D&D novel trilogy of Dragons of Autumn, Winter and Spring which I am shocked no one’s tried to make movies of yet as they are wonderful stories.

@@TheWaynos73 With as many characters that are in the Dragonlance Trilogy you would need to do a Game of Thrones type series to do it justice. A movie would not cut it.

@@jang7675 Ewwww Dragonlance......

the actors not so much, but the directors and writers of the movie are big ol' DnD fans and players.

@@dehro The actors actually played a mini campaign with their characters instead of doing table reads.

@@Tensen01 yeeeeees and im sooooo down to see the footage for that

I remember the 3.0 feats, yeah.

Imagine if getting a cast together to play a TTRPG of their characters became standard for Hollywood chemistry tests. "Okay, you all have signed on for a heist movie, and we want you to get to know your characters. So we're gonna have you play your characters in a little game called Fiasco."

Maybe home sales will be enough to push for a sequel?

Not many people know this, but Simon has a distant cousin descended from a dragon.

@@my_randomology This movie seems to be finding an audience on streaming, if the reaction videos are anything to go by, so one could hope!

It made about 50 million dollars in profit so far .. May not be worth the risk of a sequel but it did not lose money.

The thing that is weird is Elminster Aumar is still Alive as far as I know.....and he isn't black..... As a Chosen Favored of Mystra Elminster Aumar no longer Ages and is Immortal barring injury or disease......

I think Forge was meant to be the Rogue.

I'm not a ttrpg player but in baldur's gate, wildheart/totem barbarians can throw food to blind enemies so that was my first assumption lol

Wait, REALLY?!

he's even credited on the wikipedia page (they say spectator but you know) and if you pause the scene on a good shot you can spot him under the (great) makeup

@@my_randomology Another fun fact....one of the parties in the maze was character for character the Group from the old D&D TV show.....

Her official stats put her at level 5. But yeah, they fudged things a bit for the sake of the movie, which I'm fine with. It's not like DMs haven't been fudging numbers for decades to make games more interesting.

Been wanting to record a game for two when I get GNOSIS, the game system I created, off the ground.

@@my_randomology I discovered long ago, both when playing and during the years I was professionally writing for various RPGs (notice how I subtly worked that in there? 😜), that when it comes to mechanics, I'm really good at working with and modifying existing systems, but I'm not really good at coming up with my own. But I'm always interested in seeing what other people come up with.

Probably because a lot of people who watched and reacted to this, never played D & D before. (Like me for example lol)

...wait WHAT?!

@@my_randomology I caught it while watching your reaction.

HA! I actually made the frozen joke in my reaction last month. Well, not THAT one, but *A* Frozen joke at that scene.

And the party from this movie shows up for a scene or two to help or get info from. That's happened a fair amount in the series of campaigns I've played over the years.

Wait, REALLY?!

In the best possible way.

That's a good rule.

Yeah, I looked at his sheet after the movie, and yes, full bard, but his spells can all be cast without somatic components and are only for negotiation and social encounters. Also, yes, I am *quite familiar with Gargoyles, thank you ;)

@@my_randomology I didn’t even know there WERE stats to look up! But that just goes to show how well the movie played to us old grognards that we could GET it without even having access to a character sheet! LMAO! 🤣🤣🤣

Newer editions, yes. But in older editions, a tiefling could be born to almost anyone. Maybe a devil pact occurred in their ancestry. Maybe someone wanted to play a trick on them. Whatever.

@@my_randomology Thanks for the answer. 👍

OMG the joke was RIGHT THERE! HA!

Like I said at the end, they fudged around with the rules here and there. Their official stat sheets have them at Level 5 each.

@@my_randomology Yeah that....in that case they shouldn't have given them abilities the characters cannot have until they're high level. Doric uses a total of 7 Wild Shapes in the chase scene. Depeding on the edition that's either level 21 (in 3.5) or 20 (5e). Wild shaping into a magical beast (the owlbear) is an epic level ability. They also completely ignore that Druids are full spellcasters themselves which means that even without her wildshape Doric would be able to hold her own against Sofina. Don't get me wrong, I love that scene in the movie, but when looking at the rules Doric is an epic level character without question. Only one of the characters is believable as being around level 5 - Edgin. Even Holga is way too powerfull for such a low level considering how many trained guards she takes down all by herself without having any difficulties. I'd say she's at least level 10. And Simon - as I said before: He casts either Bigby's Grasping Hand or Bigby's Crushing Hand. Assuming it's the weaker Grasping Hand he still has to be level 14 to have access to that spell.

@@HH-hd7nd One, I think the screenwriters' focus in the movie was more on giving cameos to cool stuff in D&D, whether it's spells or character races or creatures. They used a lower-level party so they can be underdogs in the story, but it seemed like they still wanted to show the coll stuff that could be done in D&D. Two, they weren't sticking strictly to 5th edition because WotC was trying to test a new edition while the movie was being made. Why adhere strictly to one edition if those rules could be obsolete by the time the movie comes out? It didn't turn out that way, but the people making the movie didn't know that.

What I have is an obsessive memory for scenes, jokes, and quotes. Gods help me...

@@my_randomology Out of all the characters, Kira is the only one who didn't get a character sheet. If Forge is already the Rogue of the party(before he betrayed them), wouldn't she be something else?

I'd give them a saving throw. At least a CHANCE to not die.

DEADLANDS! That's what it was!

Hey, that's enough to get a handle on things!

@@my_randomology surely. But the games and books are more serious, so while I loved the movie, it felt a little weird all the humor. I thought table top players wouldn't like it, but it seems all the laughter is normal in games and I am glad everyone enjoyed it. Usually when shown in movies or tv it's also very serious. Like Stranger Things I remember playing only once a table top AD&D game session. And I remember laughing a lot. The DM was not very experienced, but there was this sand monster and nobody could defeat it, and a player said he took his dick out and pissed at the monster... And the monster ripped his dick off. I remember people almost died in real life from lack of air because of the laughs...

@@rogeriopenna9014 Oh, the humor is there in every D&D game I've ever played. The books may be serious, but the tabletop shenanigans are NOT. This is closer to the spirit of a game than it is to the tone of the books.

I saw it after I finished recording, yes!

Hey, Critter! Long time! What's up?

@@my_randomology howdy! My wife and I live in Nashville these days! Great to see you making content!

That's fair. I will say as someone who's been gaming for years, this is EXACTLY what a TTRPG is like behind the scenes. I can almost hear the player conversations as all this is going on.

​@@my_randomology That seems to be something many of the fans pointed out as the film capturing very well and a blind spot of mine! I think a lot of the things I perceived as contrivances in plot and character seemed to resonate deeply with people who have actually played TTRPGs. If I ever get the chance to play one with other people, I might have to revisit the film and see how my perceptions change after such an experience. What I always dreamed of seeing one day starting from childhood is a fairly serious take on a D&D campaign as with the case of many of the books as with the case of films and shows like LOTR, Willow (just the film), Dragonslayer, John Carter (actually think that film is way underrated for fantasy funs), Games of Thrones, HotD, etc. The closest to what I dreamed about seeing as a boy reading the books and playing the computer games was a 13-episode anime called Record of Lodoss War even though it wasn't based on D&D rules. In particular, I'd love to see films or shows based on Dark Sun (my favorite of the D&D worlds)!

@@darkengine5931 Ooooooh Dark Sun. I ran a campaign that eventually got into the multiverse of D&D and we had a short run Athas.

​@@my_randomology I love that Dying Earth meets Swords and Sandals Barbarians type of aesthetic to it. Just about everyone seems to require street smarts as well as a physique that's totally ripped if not totally jacked, both men and women alike, and even merchants and scholars given the harsh nature of surviving in such a dangerous and cutthroat world. Also love how metals have become scarce requiring people to use much more primitive armor and weapons forged from the like of bone, obsidian, and giant insect carapaces. In particular, I think it might be dull to some people, but I love how uniformly the inhabitants of the world look and behave given how much they largely had to uniformly evolve against the most brutal environmental selective pressures of the desert. It somewhat minimizes the variety of things we can see in the world and makes the whole world feel smaller compared to far more varied ones like Forgotten Realms or Mystara, but I think it creates the most striking and memorable aesthetic in exchange. Like the humanoid races in Dark Sun don't see so apart between the likes of human, giant, elf, and mul, with the exception of the likes of thri-kreen and halflings who evolved and developed their cultures more in isolation from the others. Might be very subjective but I think when there's actually less pronounced diversity between the characters, I believe it has a tendency to force writers to come up with more nuanced and profound differences between characters. For example, the Klingons were my favorite race in Star Trek: TNG since even though they're so culturally homogeneous with so much in common shared in attitudes and behavior between Worf, K'Ehleyr, Martok, Kahless, Duras, Gowron, Kurn, etc, I think the uniformity actually helps me to notice even more how they're so uniquely different from one another. Establishing a conforming pattern can make us more alert to any deviations to the pattern, like the slightest dissonance in music that establishes a pattern of functional harmony. It also reduces the need for nearly as much cultural exposition to begin understanding the characters. The audience gets to understand more of Klingon culture from every Klingon character they meet while simultaneously getting to know what makes that Klingon very unique in personality. Meanwhile if we were to try to describe the differences between a Klingon character and a Vulcan character, we'd have to likely begin by describing in large part the broad cultural differences between the two before we can really drill down to the most individualistic differences between the two. So apologies for rambliness but I think less diversity in a world actually helps us focus on more nuanced, individualistic differences than the likes of human vs. elf, elf vs. dwarf, Klingons vs. Ferengi, etc, without having to spend nearly as much time focusing on their broad cultural differences. I think that's one of the reasons why I love Dark Sun so much!

One of the greatest things D&D did in the last 20 years was make it so paladins did NOT have to be Lawful Good. You can have a cause that covers the entire alignment spectrum. Wanna be a Chaotic Good paladin that fights against tyranny? Cool. Wanna be a Neutral paladin that fights for justice and balance in all things? Also cool. Go nuts!

@@my_randomology oh, that's so cool. I don't know much about D&D but I had some resistance to paladins because I thought they were like... Religious warriors. Like, they had to follow some kind of divine guideline, idk how to explain it (English is not my first language) and somehow in my mind I always related that to Christianity so I was like UH NO THANKS. So this movie kinda changed my mind.

@@besupaaa Weeeeeeell there's nothing right now which says WHAT religion you need to follow. There's literally the option to be a forest-protecting hippy or a Lovecraftian-worshipping warrior.

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