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    D&D Movie/TV Dragonlancing TV show being worked on by WotC confirmed

    LOL that is too funny. They should get Chris Geere and Aya Cash (who played a great supervillain on The Boys) to star and call it You're the Worst: the Dragonlance Chronicles. I would be okay with Laurana starting off unlikable. Her transformation from sheltered, spoiled princess to powerful...
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    D&D Movie/TV Dragonlancing TV show being worked on by WotC confirmed

    I'm most interested to see how the series treats Raistlin and Kitiara as they are the most morally problematic of the main characters. There's a wide range in how they could be portrayed and still remain true to the source material. Raistlin's slow descent into evil over the course of several...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]

    I am happy and relieved they made a good movie. Based on both the critics' reviews and audience reviews, the large majority of people who saw D&DHAT enjoyed it. They created something I could see myself occasionally rewatching years later for fun. Sometimes good quality films don't find a mass...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]

    I saw the film a second time this weekend with a friend who has no experience with D&D but has taken one or two film classes. She enjoyed it and had no trouble following the story. She was struck by how high-magic the world was and the quality of the special effects. Doric was her favorite...
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    D&D General Best edition for DnD lore

    Yes, I agree. While overall I look back on 2E less fondly than 3.X, 2E was superior in terms of lore. I kept a number of my 2E lore books. The only 3.X lore book I kept was the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting by Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams and Rob Heinsoo.
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    D&D General Best edition for DnD lore

    Faiths & Avatars by Julia Martin is an outstanding 2E book about the Gods of Faerun. So many great details about the Gods, their relationships with one another, their churches and specialty priests. One example was the book said Talos was courting Beshaba with the hope of controlling bad luck...
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    D&D General What *is* D&D? (mild movie spoilers)

    I think a large factor was generational. The children and teens who grew up playing D&D in the 1980s and 1990s because middle-aged adults working in media. They advanced professionally to the point where they could create and authorize media projects. And their long experience playing D&D...
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    D&D General What *is* D&D? (mild movie spoilers)

    The lesbian subtext between Xena and Gabrielle was another way the show broke ground during the 1990s. They helped pave the way for couples like Jesper and Wylan on Shadow and Bone. The queer subtext might seem passe to young LGBT today, but as a young gay man in the 1990s I definitely noticed...
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    D&D General What *is* D&D? (mild movie spoilers)

    Xena was one of my lifelines in an era when fantasy was considered an unwanted stepchild by Hollywood. It was unusual to see a female antihero as the main character of a TV show in the 1990s. Dana Scully, Buffy and Captain Janeway didn't have Xena's checkered past. She set the table for the...
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    D&D Movie/TV DADHAT hits $80,856,963 box office

    Another good performance from Michelle Rodriguez is in Widows. Her husband was secretly working as a bank robber with several other men. Then they are all killed during a heist and the criminals they stole from come looking for their money. The story is what happens to their wives afterward. The...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    That sounds like something a disciple of Shar would say. ;) It would be interesting to see how her priests/followers would be portrayed in a future D&D film. Her nihilism might resonate with a contemporary audience (Gen X?).
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    A 2022 study posted on the website for the National Library of Medicine noted that critical reviews do affect box office revenues: Do critical reviews affect box office revenues? The good news for Honor Among Thieves is the reviews have been very positive. Audiences have also reacted...
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    D&D 5E D&D in the Grishaverse

    I enjoyed both seasons of Shadow and Bone on Netflix. If it was turned into a tabletop RPG I want to play a heartrender! :love:
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]

    I took a bathroom break when they first arrived at the cemetery and were preparing to cast speak with dead. I already saw this preview clip before the movie and didn't need to see it again.
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    D&D General What *is* D&D? (mild movie spoilers)

    For me D&D is high fantasy, high magic and a somewhat comic-book level of reality. A 10th level fighter can take out an entire phalanx of enemy soldiers! A wizard throws fireballs and turns people into toads! A cleric calls down miracles in the name of their god multiple times a day! A druid...
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    D&D Movie/TV Rate the D&D movie

    I gave it an 8. Going in the buzz I heard was moderately positive. The movie was a little better than I expected and much better than I feared. It was well-cast and accurately captured what a D&D session might look like if it was turned into a feature film. As a dedicated caster player I...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]

    The two Johns (Goldstein and Daley) said Xenk represented the too serious character optimizer and Edgin represented the casual player who didn't learn the game rules. Perhaps your description was the D&D player they had in mind when they created Doric. I think Holga is supposed to be the D&D...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]

    I got the impression Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) has a fetish for halflings. Besides her last halfling lover (a surprise cameo by Bradley Cooper) there was a shot of her looking at another halfling man near the end of the movie. Speaking of cameos I heard some of the Critical Role cast were...
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    D&D Movie/TV The D&D Movie Reviews Are Coming In

    I enjoyed the film. Some random thoughts which include minor spoilers: *The movie is an action comedy and heist film. *I could tell the creators were familiar with D&D. At times I was thinking -- That's resilient sphere. That's scorching ray. Oops, that was a failed saving throw. *Chris...
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