D&D Movie/TV Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves At San Diego Comic-Con

Attendees of San Diego Comic-Con this year will be able to immerse themselves in a 'Tavern Experience' promoting the upcoming D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves, IGN reports. It will be a 20-minute experience in which you can interact with D&D critters and characters. Additionally, guests can try both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions of 'Dragon Brew'.

Additionally, on Thursday July 21st, during the convention, the films cast will be on stage and fans will get a sneak peek at the movie, which is due out next year.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves includes in its cast Chris Pine, Hugh Grant, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, and more.

D&D Movie/TV - Honor Among Thieves: The New D&D Movie Officially Announced

Paramount has announced the title of March 3rd, 2023's Dungeon's & Dragons movie -- and it's HONOR AMONG THIEVES! The cast includes some Hollywood heavyweights -- Chris Pine, Rege Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, and others. The release date was announced back in August: ‘Dungeons...

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[Parmandur]

I just hope it does well enough to get an Eberron based limited series or three.

I'm just setting expectations to dumb fun that elicits a smile or two. Anything more is gravy.

But it could go all the way. I couldn't have predicted the Guardians of the Galaxy being a big hit before Iron Man came out (largely because I had never heard of them). You never know how deep this well will go.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Sometimes it should be about celebrating the game and the fans you have. Not everything needs to be a ROI on a spreadsheet.
I have friends that have small, Indie RPG tables at various conventions, but you're telling me that WotC can't even make an appearance at the biggest gaming convention in the world?
It's like they don't care about the game or fans anymore - just marketing to casual pop culture fans.
But it's not like this is new. I know they haven't been trying for years. It's just that this is way over the top.
Complaining about GenCon being too expensive?! WotC just doesn't care about people actually playing the game.

More people who play the game are at San Diego Comic Con.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I don’t think the game is even really secondary to the brand, so much as the game is vastly less niche, and so they aren’t running things like it’s a super niche thing.

 

[Reynard]

I just hope it does well enough to get an Eberron based limited series or three.

I have said this for years and will repeat until doomsday: Eberron needs a Clone Wars scale and quality series. It would be a runaway success.

 

[bedir than]

Good luck getting in. Don't know what the pandemic has done to ticket sales, but it used to be even day passes were sold out within minutes of going on sale, and that was months ago. I assume it's still the situation. But maybe not?

The Honor Among Thieves tavern isn't inside SDCC and is free. There is registration to get in.

 

[Parmandur]

The Honor Among Thieves tavern isn't inside SDCC and is free. There is registration to get in.

Nice.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I have said this for years and will repeat until doomsday: Eberron needs a Clone Wars scale and quality series. It would be a runaway success.

Absolutely. Ya got factions on factions, high adventure, weird magic and tech, dragons that can sensibly be part of an ongoing story, all kinds of goodies to fill a story with.

Treasure Planet, Indiana Jones, noir detective stories, and “WAR! War on the horizon as Aundair threatens Thrane with immediate reprisal…” in the papers.

 

[Parmandur]

Absolutely. Ya got factions on factions, high adventure, weird magic and tech, dragons that can sensibly be part of an ongoing story, all kinds of goodies to fill a story with.

Treasure Planet, Indiana Jones, noir detective stories, and “WAR! War on the horizon as Aundair threatens Thrane with immediate reprisal…” in the papers.

I honestly think any movie executive who looks at D&D and sees expa alive franchise potential is 100% correct: the books literally have infinite random story generators, there aren't the same sort of limits that exist for any other franchise.

 

[Lanefan]

The last few times I was at GenCon (2015 and 2016) it was, visually, all Paizo all the time. Next to no WotC presence other than a few individuals who I believe were there as either volunteers or invited guests but not as formal WotC reps.

When you consider that a) one could argue that as GenCon and D&D have been almost inextricably linked together since the founding of each (implying that each has some small inherent duty to the other), and b) there's also a big M:tG presence there with many tournaments etc. run by non-WotC people of IME and IMO marginal competence at best, it seems more than passing strange that WotC has abandoned GenCon to its 3rd-party contractors.

 

[Maxperson]

My Comiccon ticket is for Sunday, but I wasn't planning on attending this year with Covid upticking. Then I saw this and was like, "Maybe I'll go." Then I saw that it was every day BUT Sunday and was like, "Never mind." Besides, as my wife reminded me, if I did go on Sunday it would be alone, as she and our son will be on a boat to Catalina. I suppose I really ought to go with them.