D&D Movie/TV Here's The D&D Movie Trailer!

"Who needs heroes when you have thieves?" The movie arrives March 3rd, 2023. Here's the trailer! When they said it was inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy, they weren't kidding! We have dragons, owlbears, mimics, gelatinous cubes, quips, and more!



There was also a clip shown at San Diego Comic Con where the party cast speak with dead, and got to ask five questions. Also, apparently, the D&D cartoon characters from the 80s have a cameo!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

It is all laughs and fun until the day Hasbro wanted to sell the action figures of the ethergaunts because these are original creatures protected by copyright.

I love for Doric the druid as the most beatiful tielfling in Faerun.

I hope this movie is going to work in the box office because the no-nerd audence is willing to see a mixture of epic fantasy + comedy. There is a strange effect when a comedy doesn't try to look funny.

D&D movie is not imitating the style of "Guardians of the Galaxy", but this is the one what has been imitating the style of D&D groups.

The poster shows tentacles. It may be a creature whose name starts with Illi.. and ends with ..thid.

* We shouldn't be surprised if now WotC designers are interested into a shapesifter class like the Pathfinder sifter. My suggestion is to recycle the game mechanics of the Vestige Binder and the incarnum totemist shaman, but a simple and faster version, easy to be understand by new players, and fast fights when these are enemy nPCs.

* Disney should be really furious if Paramount gets the licence to produce an animate serie based in Dragonlance. I mean Laurana, Goldmoon, Tika, (even Kitiara as the bad girl) and company could become serious rivals for Disney's princesses.

 

[darjr]

In the art, acid breath is usually shown as a jet of green slime.

But most real world acids are clear liquids, as shown in the movie.

If they were done, they could release it next week. That's why the release date is next year.

If you look at the trailers to Jurassic World, say, the CGI changes significantly from one trailer to the next to the final film.

Sure, never mind normal editing. Oh and post filming. Oh and timing with toys and merchandise.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Hey! Anyone see any Drow? Or Dragonborn?

You going to work your way through the Monster Manual to list all the monsters not in the trailer?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So, this is a remake of Conan the Destroyer?

 

[humble minion]

What are the odds that druids don't get the ability to shift into an owlbear form in the near future? I think we're going to see this in the game at some point in the future.

On a side note, frankly, that's way overdue. Things like griffins, owlbears, rocs, and the like, critters of animal-level intelligence and no special magic powers, should be treated as beasts just the same as animals are by the rules. They're just fantasy animals, after all.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Y'know, just spitballing here, but, this might explain some of the new direction that WotC seems to be taking. With the combination of the re-release 5e books, and a new movie coming out, they might be expecting a fair rush of new players. Not a totally unreasonable expectation, hopefully.

So, it would make sense to do stuff like, say, simplifying stat blocks. After all a streamlined stat-block is a lot easier to run for a new DM who isn't some massive D&D nerd who's been playing for decades. (not me, of course, I would never talk about myself. ) Or the new settings like Radiant Citadel or now Spelljammer. Stuff that isn't really tied into earlier D&D as much. While lots of us know about Spelljammer, or have heard of it, there's so little actual canon there, and so few people who actually care about the canon, that they have the freedom to actually do whatever they want in the setting.

Like I said earlier, there does rather seem to be a perfect storm coming all together in the next year or so.

Yeah, that would make sense. Or it could be that they wanted to do both and just happened to stumble into the scenario of "hey, this D&D movie will probably get a ton of new people into the hobby. Oh, and the 50th anniversary of D&D is coming up, and 5e still has some rules that some players have been asking us to simplify to make playing easier, so we should do something with that."

Either way, this could be huge for the hobby. D&D's already more popular than ever. This could be one of the final steps needed to make the hobby more mainstream.

(Note: I'm not saying it isn't mainstream right now, it is. But comparing how mainstream the hobby is now to how much it could become after the movie is out is like comparing how mainstream Marvel was before its movies came out to how mainstream it is now.)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

D&D movie is not imitating the style of "Guardians of the Galaxy", but this is the one what has been imitating the style of D&D groups.

I would say Guardians of the Galaxy imitated a typical D&D party.

 

[humble minion]

(Note: I'm not saying it isn't mainstream right now, it is. But comparing how mainstream the hobby is now to how much it could become after the movie is out is like comparing how mainstream Marvel was before its movies came out to how mainstream it is now.)

While Marvel as a corporate entity is gleefully rolling in cash from the MCU, I wonder how much of it has translated back into people buying the comics? Cos, I mean, I'll be happy if the D&D movies is successful and gets a broader audience than just pre-committed D&D fans, but what I mostly want from it, and any spin-offs, TV shows, etc etc, is to recruit a bunch of new players to the hobby.

 

[darjr]

You going to work your way through the Monster Manual to list all the monsters not in the trailer?

Seriously?

I mean what did they leave out?

 

[humble minion]

I mean what did they leave out?

I didn't see an invisible stalker.