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That movie was the shit. It had no right to be as good as it was until you realize that it was a movie made with love by true D&D nerds, designed to feel like the cinematic retelling of an actual campaign, crit rolls, weird player personalities, DM nudging, and all.
The DMPC character who just walked off into the horizon in a perfectly straight line when his job was done is my favorite minor detail of the movie.
Xenk was great - that walking off bit was apparently because they hadn’t called “cut” yet and he just kept walking. So they let him, then turned it into a gag.
I think he was supposedly crafted as a replacement for a planned inclusion of Drizzt as a character, but I like my headcanon that he’s basically the DMPC sent to deus ex machina them out of their worst fuckups.
Hes clearly there because Drizzt's player couldn't make it that session but the DM had worked his intro into an integral plot point so he winged a DMPC to fill the role.
That movie was perfectly written for its target audience. Every D&D player knew what was happening, knew how it happened, and could easily imagine the DM's exasperated facial expressions as they dragged these lunatics feet first into a good story.
Need a mage movie where it's just 5 people arguing that the others cannot exist in a functional universe and the only truth is their own.
I introduced a "small one story structure, its walls no wider than the span of a single door" next to the farmhouse my players were investigating. They didn't believe the owners who told them what it was for, and went to check it out for themselves, hackles up and weapons drawn.
It's an outhouse.
Just an outhouse.
Just once in my life I'd love to play DnD with the most unsmilingly pompous tryhards in the world so we could all be severe and straight-up Tolkien characters talking like books.
Then I'd publish the session recording so that everyone could see that it's not a dream worth having and we could all move on to feeling fine with our regular silly bullshit.
I'd watch it. The fandom for a dnd podcast like that would be rabid, I think
...isn't that essentially critical role?..
Grog and his dynamics with Pike, and/or the mere existence of Jester Lavorre, makes that categorically false. Way more shenanigans & tomfoolery than the earlier comment was asking for.