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    The Speak With Dead scene I thought was well done, and the heist and sneaking into the carriage I thought was a very D&D plan…

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    I fucking loved the Themberchaud scenes and Chancellor Jarnathan. Honestly the entire movie sounded like an IRL game, I think that’s why I enjoyed it so much.

    “Chancellor Jarnathan enters the chamber -”

    “I GRAB JARNATHAN AND JUMP OUT THE WINDOW”

    "…Roll a grapple check. Goddamnit.

    Lmao

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      I would love to see an analysis of all the rolls in that game… It would make a great youtube video.

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    I liked the whole movie, but honestly my favorite part was the reveal at the beginning for why they were waiting for that one judge.

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    There’s so many great scenes, like the Intellect Devourers completely ignore the party, and the fact that all of their classes use intelligence as a dump stat. Or how fantastically shot that entire escape from the tower sequence was. Or how clever the intentionally jumping into the gelatonus cube was…

    But my absolute favorite scene was when the paladin was walking away and Edgin said oh no there’s a rock in his way, will he go around? And he walks straight up and over it. It had us dying, we had to pause it because we laughing so hard.

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    I liked the small cameos in the maze battle scene. The characters from the 1980’s cartoon show made an appearance, even if they didn’t say anything.

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      Also exactly how it would be introduced. Intricate puzzle the DM spent hours designing, fucking it up instantly, then just being like oh shit, lucky we had this staff the DM made during his portal playthrough

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    This movie made me so sad in unexpected ways. Went in blind expecting a half-assed cash in and was blown away by how damn good this movie actually was and how much I enjoyed just to be disappointed that it bombed at the box office and we will probably never see another installment.

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    The fat dragon is what really landed the movie for me. That? That was a DM decision, based on the players and the DM being memelords. Straight from the tabletop.

    It really just demonstrated that the whole movie is a DnD campaign (agglomerate homebrew) with extremely high production value, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

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      The fat dragon, Themberchaud, is actually a canon obese dragon. He’s in the Out of the Abyss module and some others.

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        Huh, TIL.

        Still, without knowing that, it looked exactly like the kind of collective meme the table would come up with and beg the DM to add.

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          Absolutely, the whole movie felt like that which was a big part of it’s charm. Watching the first scene I could imagine the players asking the arrakoan chancellor’s name, which the DM hadn’t prepped, so he just made up Jarnathan on the spot…

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      The fat dragon made my wife lose it. She just kept saying “He looks just like the cat when he smells chicken.”

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    A lot to be said, but I think my favorite little thing was the rust monsters eating scrap for the 1.5 seconds they were on screen. Entirely unnecessary, but showed they put in a good amount of thought to the film.

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        I believe it is in one of the first Neverwinter scenes, the camera pans down into an alleyway and there are two fighting over something (a pocket watch?) on a rafter. They are mouse-sized, which is a smart tweak.

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    “But we approved your pardon!”

    Simple, hilarious, and sounds like the DM response rather than the character.

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    The chase scene where the druid constantly wildshaped was amazing. Also Themberchaud.

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      It was! The music really made that part excellent.

      Themberchaud was the fat dragon right? That was a very homebrew dnd moment… The movie was good at that.

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    Favorite part is probably simply that they made such a good and well written D&D movie that managed to both convey the feeling of a D&D game to actual fans, and still be enjoyable and accessible to non-fans.

    Favorite scene though, if I had to pick one? Probably Doric’s wildeshaping chase, and the whole Underdark sequence. Themberchaud was such a chode, lol.

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    I loved the camaraderie of the characters. It reminded me of playing DnD when I was in middle school. It made me wish I knew people who played now, I would love to get into it again. Fun times.

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      Is there a place on here to find dnd groups? That would be a great idea to have a community for that or start something within this community.

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        My vote would be to just use this community for that purpose until the community gets big enough to split out.

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        I would be interested if this existed! I live in a rural area so would be surprised if anyone immediately around me plaed, but you never know. Also, maybe people play online?

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      It was fun to watch and somewhat refreshing. I’ve seen way too many crappy movies where the protagonists constantly bicker and insult each other through the entire story

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    Amusingly enough, it’s at the end where the Doric the owlbear ragdolls Sofina and yeets her into a building. It’s exactly what I expected for a DND death. Everything else was super solid but that ending just sent me.