Why wasn't the D&D movie more "D&D"?

They really are working on the sequel?

Please, tell me you’re joking.

I feel as though I have just been bitchslapped with a tome of ineffable darkness.

Yep, a sequel all right.

Please! The henchman had blue lips, thank you very much.

I mean white lips? C’mon, that’d just be stupid. :rolleyes: :wink:

When everything but the quicksand sucks, I daresay you have a problem.

The line that broke up me and my friends was “That’s just like you thieves. Always taking things that don’t belong to you!”

Why, yes, Damodar, that is, indeed, just like thieves. In fact, I daresay that’s the actual definition of the word “thief”! And they say fighters are stupid.

Yeah, he did a great job as Yoda, giving Obi Wan’s “The Force surrounds us” speech, while hanging out at the Ewok village. That’s what I loved about this movie: the originality.

On the other hand, the film did lead to this Nodwick comic, so it wasn’t a total waste.

The biggest problem with the D&D movie is that it wasn’t very D&D at all. Low level characters don’t do that stuff. There was no party dynamics. I’m sure any amount of written current adventures would have done much better. They could have even taken any number of the current written books and done well with those. Hell, a pubescent 13 year old first time DM could have done better than that dang movie.

They didn’t make a fan’s movie. They made one wanker’s movie. A fanboi’s movie would have been better than this. Elminster and “That Drow Ranger Guy I Can’t Remember Right Now For Some Reason” and Minsc would have drawn the D&D crowd.

I’m hoping the second movie is a done right movie. A low level adventure introducing some characters in one of the established campaign worlds. They meet some of the luminaries in that world, they fight some monsters, they go through a dungeon, they win some phat loot.