Spoiler-free review of the new D&D movie.

[Blue_Kryptonite]

In what game DONT you hear lines like that?

Mine.

To each their own, indeed. But man, I'd likely be either kicked out or walk off your game so fast no one would remember I was there. Sounds a little like the "musical Xena Episode" or "Angel is a demonic vampire puppet" or "Toss me!/Mammoth Shredding Legolas" sessions are relatively rare in your playstyle.

 

[GentleGiant]

Yeah, especially when previously, in the cave, his

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breath weapon

appeared to be

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gas

.

It might just be me, but wasn't that a wholly different

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dragon - a "standard" black dragon

?
I've only seen it once, so I might be misremembering, though.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

It might just be me, but wasn't that a wholly different

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dragon - a "standard" black dragon

?

I'm highly certain that it is the same one. Barak (sp?) called it out by its size category,

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a colossal black dragon

. It is really likely that this was a usage of a D&D game term in the movie, and the movie is chalk full of game terms spoken by the characters. How many

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colossal black dragons should be sleeping under the same mountain.

But the change breath weapons does seem odd. Possible to handwave it away by saying that the dragon is unique, a supposed dragon god after all. Why not handwave it as a superior unique dragon that does really have multiple breath weapons. *shrug*

 

[Fast Learner]

That was my rationalization.

And yes, definitely the same

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dragon

. That's the plot of the film.

 

[Wormwood]

That was my rationalization.

Here's mine:

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He's not using his breath weapon...he's casting Fireball. Lots and lots of fireballs.

/grasping at straws

 

[Wraith Form]

Mild spoilers ahead. You've been warned.

Upper_Krust's observations were decent, but I have to say the first "pro" in his spoiler list....well, if she'd gotten naked I'd be a happier man. She was very pretty but couldn't act to save her life.

Oh, wait....none of them could act to save their lives.

It was cool to hear offhand references to D&D modules thrown around in the script (The Ghost Tower, Barrier Peaks, Jubilex, Shrine of Kuo-Toa....wasn't one of the mage-dudes wearing a robe of eyes? But the eyes were metal clasps that kept the robe closed?)

I didn't see the first D&D movie, so I'm not speaking from that reference point.....but I'd wait to rent this, people. It was crap-tastic-awful. Except the aforementioned girl, who should have kept her mouth shut and just looked tall & gorgeous. (And, sigh, naked.)