Timing didn’t work out for them.  Instead of releasing it after everybody was basking in the afterglow of Baldur’s Gate 3, they released it right after everybody got pissed off about the Open Game License fiasco.  Oh, well.

calling a concert with a late start ‘false advertising’ fills me with murderous rage.

It was also great in that it didn’t require the viewer to realize that at all, or to know anything about the game itself, but still had all those nods to the viewers that did.

To me it was a really worthy spiritual successor to The Princess Bride - just a fun, funny, poignant, top-to-bottom perfect fantasy adventure movie.  Absolutely loved it, and so did the kids and everyone else I know who saw it.  JUST MAKE A SEQUEL, YOU IDIOTS.

No but Glenn Powell has joined the Beastie Boys.

I think you could make a good high fantasy show and still have it feel like D&D as long as they used the same kind of elements. Like, one of the things I loved about the movie was how I knew the names of the spells being cast. Use the right elements and make it so it feels like it’s following the D&D rules and it will…

buddy, glass houses - we’re the kind of freaks who still hang out on a website comment section. it’s worse!

Okay, so this really hit home for me. I think every D&D group has had similar experiences, where a seemingly minor thing breaks up the band and suddenly those characters don’t exist any more. Let’s share ours.

Has this guy never heard of Madonna before? Provocative and sexual is her entire thing.

Jesus , there was going to be a live action D&D show ..and now there isn’t , because we cant have nice things obviously .I’d take any party based fantasy show at ALL , (the only fantasy shows we ever get seem to be cliche riddled YA chosen one types , or turgid series based on existing doorstops of books, a fun! show…

But surprise pornography is the best pornography!

Kids ends on a conservative, punishing message, as all three leads end up exposed to HIV.

That is too specific a description not to be real.

Hughes et al once made their DM so mad that he stopped their D&D game. Not that hard.

I’m not into dwarves.

I suspect the fantasy genre in general and D&D in particular will be the first/easiest genre to get disrupted by generative AI.

Forget this, I want a show about a group of friends falling out after a screening of Tim Burton’s ‘Planet of the Apes’. (If any film could make people never want to see each other again, it would be that one.)

You never had a gimlet?

This is a difficult needle to thread, because what made Honor Among Thieves work so well was that it wasn’t just another fantasy story - it was someone generating a fantasy version of exactly was was going on in a D&D game. It leaned so hard into the gaming tropes that I really felt like I was watching a gaming group…

Honor Among Thieves was really just too fun.  It’s a shame it didn’t do the numbers it needed too.