D&D Movie/TV Here Come The D&D Movie Gaming Tie-Ins!

While there has been no mention of any official sourcebook or adve nture which ties in to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, with less than two months to go some news of licensed products have started to emerge. Of course, there will always be Funkopops and dolls and other merchandise, but Ultra PRO has announced some gaming accessories based on the movie.

From ICv2:

Dice Tower (MSRP: $49.49)

• Dice rolling and storage
• Holds 40+ standard RPG dice
• Strong magnetic closure

Foldable Dice Tray (MSRP: $24.99)

• Magnetic corners that close in, out, and upside-down
• Measures 8.5x11 when flat
• High quality materials ensure your gaming table is protected

Printed Leatherette Printed Book Folio (MSRP: $49.49)

• Inside of book folio features spot UV detailing
• Embroidered red ampersand logo and book name on binding
• Back cover is secured in a pocket while the front cover is secured with an elastic strap

Character Folio (MSRP: $10.49)

• 10 single-pocket pages for character sheets & notes
• Two 9-pocket pages for spell cards
• Inner pockets in front and back
• Sticker sheet for enhanced organization

Playmats (MSRP: $21.99)

• Soft fabric top helps protect cards during gameplay
• Non-slip rubber backing keeps the playmats shifting during use
• Approximately 12"x13.5" and lies flat
• Makes an excellent oversize mousepad for your home or office

 

[MarkB]

These are all third party products, so they don't have access to everything.

Why WotC is not releasing more stuff themselves is a mystery, to be sure.

In terms of actual game-mechanical product, they do have a very set-in-stone product schedule over the next year, combined with them developing and playtesting a semi-new ruleset. (Plus that whole try-to-take-over-the-gaming-world project they were expecting to be working on). Quite possibly they simply didn't have the time and staff to dedicate to developing any serious tie-in material.

Also, the studio have done a remarkably good job so far of keeping a very tight lid on the actual plot of the movie. All we've had to go on is hints from some interviews plus the trailers. That tight security may have extended to not even letting WotC know all that much detail about it, at least in terms of allowing any of their product development staff in on it (they're not exactly immune to leaks, after all). So WotC may simply not have been in a position to develop much that ties in with the details of the movie, thus the only tie-in products so far featuring nothing more pertinent than some publicity material.

Maybe they'll work on something in time for the streaming release.

 

[rgard]

So? Chris Pine's character gets eaten by a gelatinous cube? Major spoiler.

 

[MGibster]

I have an elementary schooler who throws dice like she's at the craps table in a movie, so I've been considering getting her one.

"Mama needs some new school supplies for her kids!" -- Wizbang Dustyboot's elementary school teacher (probabably)

 

[payn]

Because they aren't releasing a new edition, and I know folks have trouble accepting this, but if you use DnDBeyond it is sort of obvious. There isn't going to come a moment when all your content on DDB is suddenly no longer usable. All the books that you buy this year will continue to work with books that are published the year after, just as your books from 2014 will work with books from 2024 and beyond. Everything is interconnected on DDB.

What will likely happen when the updated PHB comes out is that the 2014 edition becomes "legacy content," meaning they will stop selling it but you can keep using it if you prefer. When Monsters of the Multiverse came out, my Volo's and Mordenkainen's content didn't go anywhere. When I finally did purchase MotM, several months later, it supplanted them...until I toggled them back on, as legacy content (I prefer the way they handle spell lists for creatures).

The old editions paradigm is dead. WotC needs to keep everything compatible because the the backbone of the game is no longer the books on your shelf, it's the integrated marketplace of DDB.

Ok, but in 2024 the game will have minor differences and maybe they want to highlight that with a movie tie in gamer set for the anniversary. I didn't mean to set off your aint an edition change alarm bell. We still dont know what to call these updates, and they will continue, and at some point 2014 will not really be fully compatible. I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there.

 

[Reynard]

They knew a movie was going to come out and they knew they had X slots on the schedule. It was trivial to give one of those slots to a tie in -- which is why lots of folks thought Keys might be it.

It's a dropped ball.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So? Chris Pine's character gets eaten by a gelatinous cube? Major spoiler.

Which character goes into the cube in the trailer? I just saw it was someone jumping out of the way of the displacer beast in the arena, but not who. (And this is an extremely well stocked arena, for the record.)

 

[Dire Bare]

Which character goes into the cube in the trailer? I just saw it was someone jumping out of the way of the displacer beast in the arena, but not who. (And this is an extremely well stocked arena, for the record.)

If you look at the artwork in the OP, and which also appears on the packaging for the gelatinous cube action figure, it's Chris Pine in the cube. It's also clear in some of the trailers that two characters jump into the cube, and one of them is Pine.

 

[Emrico]

I am definitely going to get the dice tray if it's decent quality. I don't have one yet and I like the style and size of that one.

 

[Juomari Veren]

This warns the Magic player in me that there'll probably be a Secret Lair drop in March that includes a crossover for the movie, not that Ultra Pro hasn't made accessories specifically for D&D before but that art on the binder/playmat looks better than your standard run of the mill concept art.

 

[Argyle King]

At least two of the products seem to push using cards while playing D&D.

Is it common to use a lot of cards while playing D&D?

The dice try is kinda cool, but it's difficult -for me personally- to ignore that it is virtually identical to a tray that I bought for around $10 a few years ago. The main difference seems to be a newer version of the logo. That doesn't bother me though. The "official" store at the college I went to was the same way: what would otherwise be a basic $3-$4 notebook turned into a $10 product when the school logo was on it.

I'm sure that somebody out there is the target audience for these products.

I can see now why there was/is so much concern over other people being able to use the old open license to put out products.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So? Chris Pine's character gets eaten by a gelatinous cube? Major spoiler.

We see his flesh slowly being dissolved by acid. It's a horror movie, alternative title: Bards Die Horribly.

 

[James Mishler]

We see his flesh slowly being dissolved by acid. It's a horror movie, alternative title: Bards Die Horribly.

I dunno... Bards getting up close to monsters... Not sure that's really a horror movie.

Maybe something more NSFW is going on there?

Maybe this is how we get Gelatinous Cubelings...

 

[DMZ2112]

Bunch of apparel and book tie-ins on Target.com:

Honor Among Thieves : Target

Shop Target for honor among thieves you will love at great low prices. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup plus free shipping on orders $35+.

www.target.com

This thing doesn't show up on the above search but it makes me wonder what the "Golden Archive" is:

Dungeons & Dragons Golden Archive Gelatinous Cube

Read reviews and buy Dungeons & Dragons Golden Archive Gelatinous Cube at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.

www.target.com

Oh. Jebus. Okay. Hugh Grant action figure.

Dungeons & Dragons

Shop all Dungeons and Dragons collectibles!

hasbropulse.com

 

[delericho]

Because they aren't releasing a new edition, and I know folks have trouble accepting this, but if you use DnDBeyond it is sort of obvious. There isn't going to come a moment when all your content on DDB is suddenly no longer usable. All the books that you buy this year will continue to work with books that are published the year after, just as your books from 2014 will work with books from 2024 and beyond. Everything is interconnected on DDB.

That's all true... unless it isn't any more.

The old editions paradigm is dead. WotC needs to keep everything compatible because the the backbone of the game is no longer the books on your shelf, it's the integrated marketplace of DDB.

We don't know if, or if so to what extent, the OGL debacle has changed their plans. If they want to take OneD&D into a much more closed ecosystem, they'll now need to make more extensive changes than they had planned. I wouldn't be too quick to assume that the plans of six weeks ago are still valid today.

 

[delericho]

Maybe they'll work on something in time for the streaming release.

Even that doesn't give them much time - these days it seems to be about 2-3 months from theatre to streaming.

 

[Azzy]

Well, this is underwhelming.

 

[Dire Bare]

Bunch of apparel and book tie-ins on Target.com:

Honor Among Thieves : Target

Shop Target for honor among thieves you will love at great low prices. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup plus free shipping on orders $35+.

www.target.com

This thing doesn't show up on the above search but it makes me wonder what the "Golden Archive" is:

Dungeons & Dragons Golden Archive Gelatinous Cube

Read reviews and buy Dungeons & Dragons Golden Archive Gelatinous Cube at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.

www.target.com

Oh. Jebus. Okay. Hugh Grant action figure.

Dungeons & Dragons

Shop all Dungeons and Dragons collectibles!

hasbropulse.com

Some of those t-shirt designs are nice! And most of the shirts are coming in around $18!!! If you do a broader search under "Dungeons & Dragons" (instead of "Honor Among Thieves"), there are a few more tie-in shirts and stuff, and lots of interesting non tie-in D&D shirts and stuff! Sticker books, coloring books, pop-up books, other books . . . .

 

[Dire Bare]

Found an "Honor Among Thieves" Monopoly game on Amazon! Now we have two official D&D Monopoly games. This new one actually looks somewhat interesting . . . and I don't like Monopoly!

https://www.amazon.com/Monopoly-Dungeons-Dragons-Thieves-Inspired/dp/B0BFG3HD18/ref=sr_1_31?crid=3B0JB4VVDZQO&keywords=dungeons+%26+dragons+honor+among+thieves&qid=1675300636&sprefix=dungeons+%26+dragons+honor+among+thieves%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-31

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yes. A whole lot of "we do no editing we just publish clickbait" websites have used the $45M figure in their articles and so it's spread through the internet as fact. But it's actually the figure from the 2000 movie, and articles of a less clickbaity nature attribute it correctly and say basically we don't know the budget of the D&D movie yet.

If you google "D&D movie budget 2023" you find a nice mix of clickbaity articles with no fact checking proclaiming it to be $45M and other articles comparing it to the 2000 movie and using the $45M figure to describe that movie.

I could have sworn early on, like before we even knew the name of the movie, just the directors mostly, that one of them said the movie was a $100 million dollar blockbuster or something, probably just a ball park figure, but I can't find it.

I don't think this movie cost more then $150, if that, which is the lower end of blockbuster budgets, which was smart. Marvel/Disney movies are increasingly fameous for being wasteful for budgets, including an insane abuse of CGI, including for things that can be done cheaply with practical effects, but also tons of reshoots, and shooting multiple versions of a single movie, then scrap booking it altogether, a ton of expensive actor.

In contrast D&D: HAT relies as much as possible on practical effects, on site locations (including an actual erupting Volcano in Iceland!), and so on. No actors more costly then Chris Pine, etc..., so the threshood for profitablity is very low for a blockbuster.

 

[EthanSental]

Seeing the cinematography of just this trailer compared to the Mythica series on Amazon prime…the difference is telling in the quality. It looks like a well done movie and I plan on going to watch it. Should be entertaining. I realize some may want to think of their dnd movie like their mental version of shining knights on quests dnd adventure but maybe forget that half the fun or more of a dnd campaign is the fun dialogue interaction between players and in this case actors in the movie…I’m skipping inputting the overused meme of LoTR and Monty python adventure.

Also thanks to those people posting links to merch for us, much appreciated.