The Speak With Dead scene I thought was well done, and the heist and sneaking into the carriage I thought was a very D&D plan…

I fucking loved the Themberchaud scenes and Chancellor Jarnathan. Honestly the entire movie sounded like an IRL game, I think that’s why I enjoyed it so much.

“Chancellor Jarnathan enters the chamber -”

“I GRAB JARNATHAN AND JUMP OUT THE WINDOW”

"…Roll a grapple check. Goddamnit.

Lmao

BUT WE APPROVED YOUR PARDON

There’s so many great scenes, like the Intellect Devourers completely ignore the party, and the fact that all of their classes use intelligence as a dump stat. Or how fantastically shot that entire escape from the tower sequence was. Or how clever the intentionally jumping into the gelatonus cube was…

But my absolute favorite scene was when the paladin was walking away and Edgin said oh no there’s a rock in his way, will he go around? And he walks straight up and over it. It had us dying, we had to pause it because we laughing so hard.

“But we approved your pardon!”

Simple, hilarious, and sounds like the DM response rather than the character.

Aside from the how well the humor landed I thought that the fight scenes were really well choreographed. Not this mention how every character follows the initiative order in the final fight scene. Pretty nifty. Overall it was a great movie.

Probably the bridge. DM crafted such an amazing puzzle and the paladin being a good boy learned it perfectly. Group was like: You know it’d be fun to see what the DM does if I accidentally put my foot on it.

Also the five questions. You could see that coming from MILES away but it was still hilarious.

I liked the small cameos in the maze battle scene. The characters from the 1980’s cartoon show made an appearance, even if they didn’t say anything.

JARNATHAN! Probably because it was both funny and kind of meta to me. It just really seems like a name a player would improv on the spot after the DM asks for more backstop info, haha. Jonathan? No, to normal…Jarnathan tho… that has potential.

The major illusion scene and the flashback scene of Holga with Kira. I have a 9 year old son, not a daughter, but Holga taking her on as almost her own flesh and blood is so endearing I tear up like a baby every time.

I loved the build up in the beginning, the chains, all the guards looking nervously at this big brute. Then he walks in to the cell and gets absolutely destroyed by Holga.

She clearly rolled a 20 on her kick him in the knees attack, from that point on the encounter is over. Also Edgin calmly discussing the poor choice he made by touching her potato.

I also thought it was very well done, bringing the potato gag back at the end of the movie.

It’s been a minute since I saw it but I thought the humor was well executed. There’s a lot of talk lately about how modern blockbusters (read: marvel) are oversaturated with humor, but I feel like Honor Among Thieves struck just the right balance for a movie about DnD.

Edot: will say that my friend still cracks up whenever he thinks of Themberchaud so that’s probably where his vote goes

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I loved so many parts🤩

„Jarnathan!“

The Paladin NPC walking away in a straight line

The melting face of the singing illusion

The speak with dead spell, like the whole scene: where they realize how arbitrary it is that it’s dive questions, how many people they have to wake up, the questions they ask and of course how they forget one🙈😂

Just such a great movie :) I hope there will be more :)

This movie made me so sad in unexpected ways. Went in blind expecting a half-assed cash in and was blown away by how damn good this movie actually was and how much I enjoyed just to be disappointed that it bombed at the box office and we will probably never see another installment.

So many parts

The failing illusion check when trying to sneak into the castle

“Jarnathan!”

The dude walking a straight line right over the rock.

And the fact that they made a D&D movie that was all around fantastic. Like whatever that uwe boll movie that happened earlier has now been rectified.