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D&D Movie (lemmy.world)
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Anyone seen it? Is it awful?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

While it does skirt some game mechanics, probably due to it being a movie and it's a strange medium to adapt, it also does some really cool subtle things with the mechanics. For example, in the final major fight all of the characters attack in the same order. They're in initiative!

[–] phrankygee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My wife suspected this about that final fight, but it goes by quickly in the theater, and unfortunately it’s streaming on one of the few services we don’t have or want to pay for, so we haven’t re-watched it in a pause-able format.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

May the seas be friendly to ye matey

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yar har and fiddle dee dee

[–] phrankygee 1 points 2 years ago

Meh. If I actually want it bad enough, I’ll buy it. Someone somewhere has to actually pay for the content you salty sea rascals enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This, pretty much. Pretty hard to be 100% game accurate and make a good movie. Appreciated where they took license, and where they stuck to some (often, obscure) lore.

[–] MrBodyMassage 4 points 2 years ago

They also show one of the characters, the bad guy if I remember, having to use concentration for a spell!