Dungeons and Dragons

2022 - 7 - 22

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The New Dungeons & Dragons Movie Looks . . . Surprisingly Great (Forbes)

The new Paramount Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves, is surprisingly faithful to the D&D experience.

I mean, it could still be terrible—I’m jaded enough to not get my hopes up too high—but this trailer is definitely a pleasant surprise. I did make it to both the Severance and Dragon Prince panels Thursday and am sallying forth to many more today. Ben Stiller, at the Severance panel, was revealed to also be a Comic-Con virgin. So, in very broad strokes, this looks like the kind of campaign where the Dungeon Master (or DM) has tried pretty hard to craft a serious story only for the players to basically turn it into a running gag. The Chris Pine-led adventure film appears to actually understand and appreciate what an actual session of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming is like. . . . D&D nerds?

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First Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves toy has Chris ... (GamesRadar+)

Chris Pine battles a flesh-eating jelly square in the first Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves toy.

Other D&D toys based on the movie and the game at large have been promised, so we expect additional figures to be unveiled shortly. Full-size Dragonborn and Aarakokra mannequins have also been seen at the film's pop-up tavern, so it seems as if this D&D flick is going all-in on the game's deepest cuts. Judging by items stuck to the outside (you can see what looks like Michelle Rodriguez's axe from promos in one of the product shots, for example) and the skeleton parts that are included, we can only assume these poor souls failed their Dexterity save and were gobbled up.

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Chris Pine shows off his high kick at the Dungeons & Dragons panel ... (Daily Mail)

He's a long way from Notting Hill! Hugh Grant makes his Comic Con debut alongside Chris Pine as British star admits he almost turned down his villainous role in ...

'And gives you a world you want to hang out in. 'That's kind of what you're looking for as an actor. And happy to be entertained. I believe that's why the Jonathans [the directors] thought of me for this, my reputation.' So that was the real challenge.' 'My agent said, "I'm going to send you this Dungeon and Dragons thing,"' he told those in attendance.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Chonky Red Dragon ... (Comicbook.com)

The new Dungeons & Dragons movie trailer appears to feature a specific red dragon from D&D lore. This week, Paramount Pictures revealed a first look at ...

The official description for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves reads: "A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. The red dragon is likely Themberchaud, who appears in the Out of the Abyss adventure. That's because that red dragon is almost certainly a specific red dragon pulled straight out of D&D lore.

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Chris Pine hints at Dungeons and Dragons plot (Manhattan Mercury)

The 41-year-old actor will play Elgin in the new fantasy movie – based on the role-playing game of the same name – and explained that it has taken inspiration ...

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The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie trailer ... (Boing Boing)

https://youtu.be/IiMinixSXII The first official trailer to the long anticipated/much feared Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves, premiered at San ...

The trailer ticks all of the anticipated boxes. You've got your dungeons, your dragons, gelatinous cubes, owlbears, mimics, displacer beasts, the Underdark, and more. The first official trailer to the long anticipated/much feared Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves, premiered at San Diego Comic-Con 2022.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Wins Over Hall H With ... (Game Rant)

Two clips at Comic-Con establish the tone and reverence that the filmmakers and cast are bringing to Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

The other clip from Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was more action-oriented in nature. For incorporating D&D concepts and lore, the scene worked well enough to ratchet the tension and offer some fun surprises. Essentially, the scene was like a mini-D&D session, where the group is trying to reach an end-goal while avoiding an enemy. The filmmakers and cast behind Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves took to Hall H well-prepared. The first Dungeons and Dragons clip sees the four main characters, played by Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, and Sophia Lillis resurrecting corpses in order to gain intel on the whereabouts of a special helmet. The Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves presentation included three exclusive clips: one behind the scenes featurette and two clips from the movie.

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Official Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Poster Uses ... (TheGamer)

Both games have Intellect Devourers, but the art is slightly different between D&D and Pathfinder.

It seems BossLogic might not be enough of a D&D fan to have known the difference between Pathfinder and D&D monsters. The one you see in the poster is actually from Pathfinder, not D&D. There’s plenty of Dungeons & Dragons references in the trailer to satisfy even the most ardent D&D fan, but those fans might have noticed something a little strange about one of the movie’s posters.

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Chris Pine hints at Dungeons and Dragons plot (Black Hills Pioneer)

The 'Dungeons and Dragons' movie is being directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and star Michelle Rodriguez says the filmmakers "really care" ...

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Image courtesy of "Forbes"

The New Dungeons & Dragons Movie Looks Surprisingly Great (Forbes)

The new Paramount Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves, is surprisingly faithful to the D&D experience.

I mean, it could still be terrible—I’m jaded enough to not get my hopes up too high—but this trailer is definitely a pleasant surprise. I did make it to both the Severance and Dragon Prince panels Thursday and am sallying forth to many more today. Ben Stiller, at the Severance panel, was revealed to also be a Comic-Con virgin. So, in very broad strokes, this looks like the kind of campaign where the Dungeon Master (or DM) has tried pretty hard to craft a serious story only for the players to basically turn it into a running gag. The Chris Pine-led adventure film appears to actually understand and appreciate what an actual session of Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming is like. . . . D&D nerds?

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The History of Dungeons & Dragons Isn't What You Think (WIRED)

In 'Slaying the Dragon,' author Ben Riggs goes deep into the backstory of TSR to reveal a company in disarray.

I thought that I was going to tag 3rd Edition on as a chapter of my book. At one point TSR claimed to be the largest publisher of fantasy fiction in North America. They claimed that there were millions of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels in print. Because we can certainly agree that role-playing games are something worthy of being created, but how are we going to make sure that the people who create them make a decent living?” “Even though it’s an artistic high point for the company—and maybe ever for the brand of Dungeons & Dragons—it didn’t make any money.” It was not at all the story I was told. “That was the story I was expecting.

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The Dungeons and Dragons Movie Director Has the Perfect Origin ... (Gizmodo)

John Francis Daley, co-director the new D&D movie, has the most heartwarming connection to the franchise.

“It is really the feeling you get when you play the game and that really is what we tried to do here with this film. “I’ve been an avid player since I was 14 years old and I was an actor on the show Freaks and Geeks,” Daley said in Hall H at Comic-Con, to much applause. Anyone skeptical that there’s a new Dungeons and Dragons movie coming out is completely warranted.

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Dungeons & Dragons movie: trailer, cast, synopsis and everything ... (British GQ)

Watch the new Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer starring Chris Pine, Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page.

The Comic Con trailer gave us our first look at Pine, Grant, Page and Michelle Rodriguez in the movie. Remarkably for a cultural object often relegated to nerd fodder, it will be the basis for a multi-million dollar Hollywood adaptation led by some massive stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant. If you'd have told us this could happen five years ago, we wouldn't have rolled the dice, we'll tell ya that much. If it wasn't for Stranger Things, with the Hawkins boys being the noted D&D aficionados in contemporary popular culture, would we even be talking about a Dungeons & Dragons movie right now?

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