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.
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.
I’m annoyed that I expect Hollywood executive, as always, will take the wrong lesson from it. They’ll see it underperformed and think people don’t want a D&D movie, rather than that they shouldn’t have released it between John Wick and Mario.
I don’t know enough to say whether that’s what did it in or not, but it was still a phenomenal movie that was liked by critics and audiences. It’s definitely a marketing problem.
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.
I’m annoyed that I expect Hollywood executive, as always, will take the wrong lesson from it. They’ll see it underperformed and think people don’t want a D&D movie, rather than that they shouldn’t have released it between John Wick and Mario.
I don’t know enough to say whether that’s what did it in or not, but it was still a phenomenal movie that was liked by critics and audiences. It’s definitely a marketing problem.