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They used a Led Zeppelin song about alternative lovin. Kind of an odd choice if you ask me.

Nah, I used to be a DnD snob, but I've converted to WH.

I mean Battle of Evermore vs Whole lotta love? I'm sticking with odd factor, but I get people think it's cool.

I did get a chuckle out of the owl bear flopping around like a fish.

The 2nd trailer is somewhat a mix of flat humor and cringe ...and 'whole lota love' again, no score yet.

Though now that I think of it I could see this a new format for on going DnD series.

ccs wrote:


So.... pretty accurate to what goes on in many actual games.
Including the one I'm playing in atm.

Yeah this is what I was referring to, but said better. I could see this being a thing, party dynamics as part of blending the player experience with fantasy.

Looks like they recruited Baby Sinclair now that he's all grown up.

It will be worth a sit down with a few beers for sure. I probably won't go to the theater for it.

ccs wrote:


Still a considerable step above all the previous D&D film efforts though....

Sadly that's a pretty low bar to clear.

That's pretty amazing to hear in this day and age. I haven't even looked at the criticism yet, but if that's true, it sounds like it will be more of a cult classic as time goes by.

 Easy E wrote:
I saw it. I did not read the thread before posting.


This is a Marvel-style, Fantasy, Heist movie. If you are into that, you will like it. If that is not what you are expecting, you will not like it.

Pretty simple.

I suspected that, so I stand firm on having a few beers handy when that time may come.

 Lance845 wrote:
It's good that he wraps it up by saying none of it actually matters.

That's why they call it the Forgotten Realms.

I realize it's unpopular to admit this, but I liked D&D before it had it's own mythology.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Adeptekon wrote:
I realize it's unpopular to admit this, but I liked D&D before it had it's own mythology.

Well Greyhawk was 1980 and Forgotten Realms was 1987 so sometime in the mid to late 70s? Plus I will not stand by while someone besmirches the integrity and awesomeness of Dark Sun. Now if you want to hate on Al-Qadim that would be reasonable.

I can't comment on Darksun, the cover art looked cool, but I never played it.

And sure GreyHawk, let's just say to a much lessor degree these early campaign worlds were more like islands than verses (or how a lot of people like myself looked at them, --not speaking for the big time Gen Con goers and the like.

Besides my friend's older bros and crew playing in these worlds no one I knew really paid too much attention. Modules were just that, injectables into whatever realm you desired whether written for something larger or not. Many of us were either running our own campaigns with our own lore or just writing up random scenarios for the next get-to-gather (a fun, not-so-serious, rinse and repeat).

Moms bought me basic set when I was 8 (shhh don't tell I was under the recommended age of 11 or whatever, right before the Satanic Panic began making waves with the 1980's media), so I started there, then played one module of Expert, and skipped to 1st AD&D, and so on from there.

The ongoing development was to be expected, people need to make money, but at the time I hated it. I didn't need a ton of rules and pre-made to play.

AD&D got me into mythology, and from there history (I already had my foot in the door with Tolkien). When people started escaping into Forgotten realms I scoffed at it as a kind of Tolkienish wannbe. (did the same with Warhammer, and now I'm here)

I couldn't understand why people wanted more of someone's profit orientated make-believe versus the rich common wealth heritage of actual cultural history and lore ... which if I might add, pre-www was still quite mysterious to many of us outside of the Ivory towers of the universities. Having only TV documentaries to enlighten (Good God) beyond the physical library ... damn I feel ancient.

Deities & Demigods covered all the real world cultural mythologies we needed, and when they didn't we made them up ourselves or elaborated on those further by diving into those real world mythos and folklore on deeper levels. No one lore to ruin everyone's indy campaign settings.


Freedom.


/diatribe

I still have nostalgia for 1st Ed, but since I've been looking back on this, I learned about Dungeon Crawl Classics: https://goodman-games.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/, and would like to see if they are truly the spiritual successor to early D&D.

Basil Poledouris score for Conan is iconic.

Times have changed, and are changing yet again. It is what it is. D&D will evolve as brand names do for better or for worse. The good thing is one of the core premises of D&D is making it your own, bending the rules, or forgoing them altogether because after all it's your world, not Ed Greenwood's.

For the classicist, this movie may not be it. I'll give it a shot in due time. I'll keep an open mind and try to be entertained, though I'll surely have an opinion either way.

But in time The Forgotten Realms will live up to its name, and as all things before, it too will come to pass.

Height doesn't matter. Unless you're online dating.

Reach doesn't matter if you can hit the groin.