It took me a little, this wasn't top of my list, but yeah, I did get around to seeing the D&D movie.
It's a DND adventure, but where someone is telling you their idea, and it's never as much fun as playing it yourself. Chris Pine gets a party together, gets captured, then has to get another party together to get payback on the first party he got together. And in doing so, encounter a lot of DND references.
And I got them. Displacer beast, yep, meteor storm, okay, different classes, of course. But this isn't an entirely faithful depiction of an adventure, as battles are not done in initiative order, instead one person can act like they have tons of action points. One at a time might make for a more boring battle, or you could take it as a challenge to show off properly! Or just have standard fighting, I guess we can put up with that too.
But my main complaint is the thieves side. Why do we always have to focus on the disreputable people? When Star Wars put out its recent RPG, it started with the scoundrels. And so when this rpg reboots, we go into the conmen side of things. Where's the heroes actually fighting evil? Now, fine, the PCs are murder hobos, but that's not the story we tell others. Just seems like a miss to get into the good vs evil easy story, and no doubt if there are more of these movies, they'll be all about Chris Pine, and so we're going to stay on the ignominious side.
Anyway, aside from complaining, yes, I did enjoy this, even if I thought there could have been better aspects.
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