D&D Movie/TV There's A New Trailer For D&D: Honor Among Thieves

A brand new trailer for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie has just been released! The movie comes out March 31st. This trailer very much highlights the tongue-in-cheek nature of the movie and is filled with one-liners. The trailer also gives us a good luck at the Red Wizards of Thay, along with the mimic, the owlbear, and other iconic D&D monsters.

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[humble minion]

That was my first heartbreak with 3e on the first month in. I wanted by Rogue to swing from a chandelier, the GM applied an approximate DC, which was very high for a 1st level character. I feel flat on my face. Years later, C&C and DCC - both d20 engines - found ways around that.

In our first ever 3e game, in an epic campaign that the GM had been planning for years and had done massive amounts of world-building work, commissioned art etc, our entire lovingly-created and voluminously-backstoried first-level party got wiped out when we all rolled 4 or below on two successive Climb checks EACH, and fell off a relatively innocuous knotted rope while climbing down a cliff on the way to the very first dungeon.

 

[humble minion]

I would have agreed with this, and still mostly do, but this has reached the Washington Post. That's pretty darned mainstream and a pretty big audience, even if only a fraction of the WP readers see this article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2023/01/19/dungeons-and-dragons-open-game-license-wizards-of-the-coast-explained/

I have to admit, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in meetings between WotC/Hasbro and the studio right now. WotC is a big cheese in the field, but they'd look like ... well, a minor 3pp writing PDFs for $3 and selling them on DTRPG under the OGL, when compared to any major Hollywood studio.

I wonder what the studio's take is on the whole OGL thing and associated uproar? They MIGHT be heavying WotC to cave in and make all the bad press go away before it can damage the movie's profits. But they also MIGHT have been partially responsible for the new OGL anyway, pressuring WotC to amend the licence to ensure nobody else can make a nearly-D&D film and compete with them. Or both of the above might be true, consistency never being a particularly valued or necessary quality among vast corporations...

 

[Xyxox]

In our first ever 3e game, in an epic campaign that the GM had been planning for years and had done massive amounts of world-building work, commissioned art etc, our entire lovingly-created and voluminously-backstoried first-level party got wiped out when we all rolled 4 or below on two successive Climb checks EACH, and fell off a relatively innocuous knotted rope while climbing down a cliff on the way to the very first dungeon.

I wish I had a dollar for every TPK that happened when I ran OD&D at the age of 13 & 14.

 

[JEB]

Before the OGL stuff, I had been planning for months to organize a "private watch party" for my gamer friends to see this. We would have taken over an entire theater and watched it as a unit, subsidized by myself. But it's not happening now...

 

[EthanSental]

Before the OGL stuff, I had been planning for months to organize a "private watch party" for my gamer friends to see this. We would have taken over an entire theater and watched it as a unit, subsidized by myself. But it's not happening now...

Sounds like a fun time missed out by all the friends that would have been invited! Give it a little time and another pass as that sounds like a blast of a time! (And invite me)

 

[teitan]

One thing 2E had that really helped was the thing where you could say you were doing some cool awesome badass stuff as Fighter or whatever, and it was just a -4 to hit and did whatever the DM said it did. That I felt really helped.

So much less cool than DCC where it would be sure, get a three or higher on the mighty deed die.

 

[JEB]

Sounds like a fun time missed out by all the friends that would have been invited! Give it a little time and another pass as that sounds like a blast of a time! (And invite me)

Eh, not stopping my friends from going on their own dime, if they really want to. Though I get the impression they'd also be inclined to skip it now, based on conversations.

It's on Wizards at this point to change my and others' minds on this. If they do so before the movie leaves theaters, all the better.

 

[Mistwell]

First time in many years that I’ve got at least one film per month I’m looking forward to seeing in the cinema.

Well don't tease us, what's the list!

 

[Greg K]

So right. People in these forums who want to see the movie but who are boycotting due to the OGL fiasco are only punishing themselves.

I found sitting through the trailer to be punishing enough.

 

[cbwjm]

So many people in this thread just seem to hate fun