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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 8984817" data-attributes="member: 6787650">The owlbear actually looked and moved poorly--I can't usually spot CGI but the owlbear was obvious CGI because e.g. it was cartoonishly inertialess. The bear from Cocaine Bear was 30x better. Maybe they should just have used the Cocaine Bear bear model instead of an owlbear. It wouldn't have changed the story at all. It's a fairly small flaw overall. Other minor flaws exist (Edgin's backstory chemistry with his wife is not great; some of my friends are quite disappointed with how little character development, in their minds, Doric and Simon got) but for the most part the people who made the movie for Hasbro did great, whereas the people who wrote the 5E stat blocks and magic items for WotC really dropped the ball.When I saw Guardians of the Galaxy I immediately set out to recruit my friends and family to see it, because "it's not a comic book movie!" (Just a good, funny movie.) Honor Among Thieves doesn't rise to that level, but if the goal to is set expectations for what D&D is like (of any flavor or ruleset including Pathfinder, AD&D, Gamma World, or Dungeon Fantasy--any game that can be loosely described as "kill monsters and take their stuff"), then it does the job better than I ever expected, while also being a fun movie.Nice job, scriptwriters and actors!</blockquote>