The Dungeons and Dragons film: Calls for shameless fan service

[R_J_K75]

There's a little comedy in it. Especially if you think that Kevin Sorbo is funny when trying to be serious. (He has a few walk-on parts as the main character's mentor.)

Cool, I found it. Probably watch it Monday after the Wild Card games.

 

[Aeson]

Because we already have LotR. Or The Witcher. Or a hundred other straight fantasy stories.

Sure, they could do it straight, but, then, how is it not just "generic fantasy movie"? What makes it a D&D movie?

The way I see it, I would like the movie to show what I've only been able to imagine for the last 30 years. Seeing people play the game is reality and takes away from the fantasy. If you have scenes with people in the real world it takes you out of the fantasy. This will unlikely win new converts to the game. In case it does, have some merchandise tie-ins at the ready. Keep the meta stuff out.

 

[Ryujin]

The way I see it, I would like the movie to show what I've only been able to imagine for the last 30 years. Seeing people play the game is reality and takes away from the fantasy. If you have scenes with people in the real world it takes you out of the fantasy. This will unlikely win new converts to the game. In case it does, have some merchandise tie-ins at the ready. Keep the meta stuff out.

I"m not so sure about that. If it was done in the way I mentioned previously, as an intro to the players and characters just at the beginning of the movie, it might help to draw people into the idea of participating in the fantasy.

 

[R_J_K75]

Not to get too far off topic but between the lawsuit and false starts hasn't this movie been in development since ~2012, if not earlier?

 

[aco175]

I could go for a Monty Python reference. Castle of Arrrrrr... Maybe say something like "Of course it's behind the rabbit, what are you an idiot."

 

[Fifinjir]

While making a plan, a character describes a possible failure state as “rocks fall, everyone dies.”

 

[LongTimeLurker]

Characters talking about their alignment.

This would be meta and kind of dumb. But characters talking in their alignment language? That might be interesting.

 

[Ryujin]

This would be meta and kind of dumb. But characters talking in their alignment language? That might be interesting.

Thieves Cant and Druidic are one thing, but I always thought that alignment languages were problematic. An alignment would be a very personal thing. How do you know that it's 'safe' to use your alignment language with someone? Around others, in general? You're potentially revealing an awful lot about yourself, whether or not the other person can understand what you're saying. Just because I don't understand Russian, that doesn't mean that I don't recognize that you are, in fact, speaking Russian.

 

[R_J_K75]

Thieves Cant and Druidic are one thing, but I always thought that alignment languages were problematic. An alignment would be a very personal thing. How do you know that it's 'safe' to use your alignment language with someone? Around others, in general? You're potentially revealing an awful lot about yourself, whether or not the other person can understand what you're saying. Just because I don't understand Russian, that doesn't mean that I don't recognize that you are, in fact, speaking Russian.

I'd say alignment languages are the same as thieves can't or druidic. Only those who are supposed to know it can. Doesn't mean someone that can converse in an alignment language won't use what you say against you, but neither do the other two.

 

[Ryujin]

I'd say alignment languages are the same as thieves can't or druidic. Only those who are supposed to know it can. Doesn't mean someone that can converse in an alignment language won't use what you say against you, but neither do the other two.

Only those who know an alignment language can understand it, however, that doesn't mean that revealing yourself to be True Neutral is going to be overlooked by the True Neutrals around you.

When it comes to the others Druidic isn't likely to be used outside of religious ceremonies, or meetings of the clergy. Thieves Cant, by its very nature, is a set of clandestine codes, gestures, and even urban tagging that is used to communicate things that you don't want to be known by the general public. I see those as being very different from walking up to someone and saying, "Wasn't that slaughter last night wonderful?" in Chaotic Evil.