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      I was really hoping for a post credit scene where some passersby saw the raised dead in the grave and freak out. Asking him something like "are you okay?!“ and he just says, “no, I’m dead” and immediately falls back down.

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        Just to echo what others have said, it is way better than it has any right to be.

        The movie somehow manages to effectively capture the feeling of playing a casual campaign with friends. The story is played completely straight in-universe (as in, there is no outer-level frame narrative of nerds with character sheets gathered around a table), but you can just sense where the tabletop RPG tropes were woven into the plot.

        Edit: also to clarify, the specific movie others are describing is D&D: Honor Among Thieves. Not any of the bad D&D movies made in the early 00’s.

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        I can vouch for the dnd movie hard, I went in because my dad made me, and I was ready for it to be garbage. My only real complaint is druid wild stape doesn’t work like that RAW. It really was quite excellent.

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          There’s definitely room for Rule of Cool. I always allow Druids to do magical beasts, with the caveat of “I can say no if shenanigans”.

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            Yeah I feel that, I didn’t want to push the rules at the time but I wanted to run a druid with a much bigger emphasis on wild shape, and the movie was pretty close to what I wanted. I’m mainly jealous.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    Here’s some good questions to ask:

    What. Is your name? What. Is your quest? What. Is your favorite color? What. Is the capital of Assyria? What. Is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?