@John Patrick Why would I care what they have to say. They are paid to be clowns. Most people aren't, which is why their tom foolery campaigns rarely amount to anything.
@Bill bob Critical Role and Dimension 20 would like to have a chat with you. After that, you might want to check in when VLDL. Shenanigans are their bread and butter.
@RICO PARADISE I say this as a Christian, no one ever accepted Christ because of a JPvid comment. Conversion happens when people reach an understanding of their sin and that they need saving. Your best bet for helping them see that is face to face conversation.
@VulcanForge Interestingly, sin just means “to fail” or “miss the mark” so it’s not made up. Unless of course someone is a hardcore postmodern relativist but that’s almost a separate issue.
Looks like they have at least attempted to make things right. Obviously, it took a lot of pressure. However creative commons is a bit difficult to undue.
even better when you can see the bard/thief can always escape from the binds as they could literally just slip their hands out and is just avoiding the fight.
D&D is marketed as a serious high fantasy action/adventure game, but it is plays as a high fantasy comedy with elements of action and drama sprinkled on top.
@Yawar Apuyurak and that's why the McElroy Brothers and Critical Role are the bests at this, so popular their campaigns have been adapted into comics and animated series
@Jacob Nordin 10 years here and i agree 100% and I add, the moments that stick with you heapen when at the very first initiative play at the start of the last fight that ended a 2 year campaing the lvl 20 wizard gets his head choped off by the Balor vorpal sword. 😂😂😂
@Topo Gigio I care about people in the campaign I run actually getting into the role playing a hell of a lot more than I care about them being sticklers about the rules. Rules Nazis make playing the game a bore and a chore. I want the gang to have fun not get hung up on rules and how to exploit them.
Yes! That's what some people critizicing this movie seem to miss. Sure, D&D was written in the books to be "serious", but the community is different, most people play it as a comedy. Old or new to the game, doesn't matter. Most people have played most of their games as goofs.
I’m so excited to see this movie. I’ve seen the Jeremy Irons movie but that didn’t really feel like D&D. This feels more like it was trying to capture the energy of the players’ personalities bleeding into their characters plus some inclusions of staple monsters like displaced beasts, owlbears, etc.
@Malaficus Shaikan You will enjoy DnD but you don't want it to be woke? That literally makes no sense. DnD is one of THE most woke games of all time and its amazing.
@Sam S. What about the female black lead that is so stunning and brave taking on the bad man by her own without the stupid white supremacist male with the small penis.
@RazzleFrazzle Some serious generalization of Marvel movies or shows if you think they are all non serious and stale but also, Marvel movie formula or not, this how DnD has been for years, what were you expecting?
Wow, this sure does look good! Pity thanks to Cynthia Williams and Chris Cao it's likely to underperform compared to what it could have done. If I were Chris Pine, or all of the actors really, I'd be considering a lawsuit against executives so incredibly bad at very basic aspects of business that they hamstrung a project I put my time and effort into *two months* before it was due to come out. Don't see this. Under any circumstances. The executives behind Wizards and Hasbro right now have to be made to suffer if we want to have a D&D *worth* having in the future.
Ah, this takes me back to the year 2000, when Dungeons & Dragons was a cheesy trash bin of a movie, and the OGL was a perpetual license intended to ensure the game would remain in the hands of the community in case corporate assholes wanted to strangle D&D in pursuit of short term profits. Fun times.
@storyteller0111 Ohhh gotcha. It's hard to tell what magic user is what class on the screen lmao. Didn't expect Hugh to be a rogue but I won't complain. Thanks for the info
@storyteller0111 I just read up on the lore, and it states Forge Fitzwilliam is the new Lord of Neverwinter, ultimately deposing Dagult Neverember at the end of the 15th century. But according to the lore, Nevember held ultimate autocratic power over Neverwinter as of 1496, so I wonder what’s gonna happen to Neverember during that 4 years gap. I hope this is something the movie will explain
@xDracolich Nah, his name is Forge Fitzwilliam and he's definitely a rogue :) This takes place after Neverember's rule, if I got the implications of some of the directors' comments right.
Given the normalization of D&D as well as the success of shows like TLOVM, I definitely think this movie will be more successful than previous films and I’m overall excited to see it!
I can definitely see a good franchise built around D&D if it appears to be made with as much love and care as this film seems to be, albeit not with a grander mythology being built up like the MCU. Preferably the next installments would be standalone sequels taking place in different realms with a different cast of different characters. Maybe they all take place in the same world, the characters just don't intersect. Who would you like to see in a D&D film?
@ND It doesn't matter if its like a Marvel movie, this is just how DnD games play out. Besides, what would you have done differently if you were to make a dnd based movie?
@Meat Head optimistic that is better. With what looks like a Forgotten Realms setting, with the Red wizards being necromancers ( bald heads with tattoos ) and what looks like a lich, Szass Tam maybe?
@terranova210486 Yeah but it seems like their goal with the teifling was to make her look like Black Widow, which is disappointing. Like they decided the different races were too weird for average audience and forgot who they were marketing for.
@Mr Sardonicus I'm hoping Hollywood strikes a balance between bringing out the heavy hitter's early to snag an audience and then have nothing for the sequels and appealing to the learned like us who know who the big characters are. I'd love to see Larloch, Halaster, ect... But the layman won't have any idea how big these characters are
The goofiness actually works here since it gives off the vibe of an actual D&D campaign. I've never been in a campaign where the players took it seriously.
@Hiair first of all take a chill pill and watch either the McElroy Brothers or Critical Role for their takes on a "serious" campaign, and second, the manuals are more of what you would call guidelines anyway
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This literally just feels like a marvel movie. ... or do marvel movies just feel like a group of people messing around at a table while one person tries to tell a story?
Gods I can "see" their character sheets and all the terrible rolls their doing. Can't wait to see it. I just hope that all this hype they are showing will not be a disappointment later.
If you consider silly fun home-brew campaigns I play with my friends to be the "source material" than this looks like the most accurate-to-the-source-material D&D movie ever.
@Bill bob wow, what a subjective view you share here as a rule.. "Most homebrew games are this and that" Well I (and i bet maaany more people) share a different experience. Namely that homebrew games are more flexible and interesting than sticking a 100% to a book. Also a small reminder: Your way of playing is not the ultimate goal or the best way. Everyone seeks something different in a game and that is a good thing
@Bill bob of course l. WotC wants DnD to become like a "real" brand. With recognizable characters and worlds and universe.. they don't care about the game, they care about brand recognition
@ToudaHell Not true at all. Homebrew are usually weak in substance and not taken seriously. Why? Because most GM don't understand rules themselves, so they fake it (homebrew). D&D is the Advanced tier of game, just as AD&D. It is not Basic D&D, which is why it's hard for many people to grasp the rules or remember them.
This looks like great fun! I just reacted to it on my channel. It's good seeing Chris Pine in this. I'd like to see him doing more movies than he currently does.
Really hoping this movie is good. Last two years been playing a hell of a lot of Arpgs, going back through to bauldurs gate, wasteland, fallout, neverwinter, divinity. All the main titles. So this is absolutely perfect on that note. Also cant go wrong with Michelle Rodriguez as the barbarian. Shes super passionate and a very strong woman. Also beautiful soul, with a mix of chaotic neutral in alignment :P (She doesn't take any crap haha)
It's a shame that Wizards of the Coast decided to attack the gaming industry and their partners by breaking over 20 years of promises about their Open Gaming License. Can't do good things for movie viewing when a significant and vocal portion of your target audience wants nothing to do with anything licensed from Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast. I feel sad for their partners and licensees having to deal with such idiocy. Not to mention the producers, directors, and cast not deserving it. Tortious Interference, anybody? It isn't like Wizards hasn't done this before and didn't know there would be a backlash.
Does every movie that comes out have to have the “James Gunn/Joss Whedon” style of humour? After a while, the witty repartee and banter gets to be grating.
0:36 "And unleashed the greatest evil the world has ever known...", wait...Vecna!!, well my good sir you are indeed the greatest evil the world has ever known!!! (again). 😅
@Hiair stop sayings its bad because you dressed up and took your campaign so seriously its effected your logic and reasoning why people would like this.
The more I watch this and read the comments, the more I expect a twist that this is a story within a story of a group of young persons playing a campaign
Instead of Marvel movies we need some Wizards of the Sword Coast movies..... There is so much potential it's crazy. I would especially like to see a live action of Drizzit.
I love how much this feels just like one of the campaigns I've played with my friends over the years. It's epic and silly in equal measure. Can't wait to see the whole thing.
@Peterstoric I mean, yeah we do. But D&D is unfortunetly an owned brand and untill Paizo and his Team figures out something major (which they are currently working on), we don't have much else than what already exists based on Hasbro's "fair use." I'm definetly happy that services like D20 support Paizo, since that means I can still play with my friends (when we can't meet up) without worrying about WotC's crap.
@Alan Heller my reasoning as well. Yes, they get support if the movie goes well but so does the idea of more dnd or even just fantasy movies in general. I love superhero movies and all but we need to have a new major player
@unB10 I know you are. I just don't support the boycott of the Movie, because I want to see more D&D Movies in the future. But other than that, f_ck them... I'm really glad that Paizo is doing something about it. Especially with all the Services that already backed them up.
Kind of sad this will most likely be boycotted because the D&D Community is still pissed off at the executives at WotC. So much wonderful work has been done on this!
@khornetto not my intention. Hasbro has 100% screwed up. The only thing the moron executives understand is money so we are hitting it. Making sure their movie flops will hit the executives in the money. That doesn't mean the actors and others wont get hit a bit as well. Unfortunate collateral damage?
@D4l4m4r how brainrot must you be to think that watching a movie os somehow more of a roleplayer thing than protecting the whole rping ecosystem that has been built over 20 years and WotC wants to destroy. Such a roleplayer genius we have here.
DM: Okay, here is the adventure that I've worked so hard on... PCs: We're going to do this instead. DM: But... but... You can't do that! Come back here! Oh, no! This is all getting away from me! PCs: Wheeeee! I'm all in with this movie!
It's cool, but, why not include the real-life side of D&D and follow a campaign, putting those players into the characters and switching between 'universes', showing some of the rolls, like bring a real campaign to life. This feels just like another fantasy universe movie franchise set in D&D world, with Guardians of the Galaxy energy.
I love how much this feels just like one of the campaigns I've played with my friends over the years. It's epic and silly in equal measure. Can't wait to see the whole thing.
It's like a mix of the last D&D games and Rings Of Power of Amazon, with that "Thor Love And Thunder" touch we like so much (hell they even hired the same actress to play the same role of "empowered ass kicking woman"). I mean... It's perfect. What could go wrong?
I'm going to say D&D die hards will be split on it. It will probably make it's money back but I'll be surprised as hell if it turns out to be a major blockbuster. It's giving off some marvel vibes though which isn't a bad thing. The trailer makes it look like the last Netflix Witcher series that bombed so hard it was banned in Hiroshima.
If I buy a ticket to go and see this movie, are Wizards of the Coast going to revoke it as I try to sit down, or will they charge me a subscription or micro-transactions to actually use a seat while watching the movie?
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What an awesome trailer! I sure hope that one of the companies associated with it isn't engaging in clear anti-competitive and anti-consumer business practices that threaten the industry and community this movie is made for! That would surely compel me to boycott the movie, which would be a real shame given that the actors seem to be really enjoying their role, and there appears to be actual passion and interest in the project, which is rare in the current climate.
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