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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

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This movie is looking like it might bomb.

A few weeks ago, it was revealed that D&D's Wizards of the Coast (WotC) was trying to revise the decades-old Open Gaming License (OGL) so that they could, among many other things, restrict the material in, gain ownership of, and charge royalties on D&D fan and third-party content.

This has ignited enormous backlash among D&D players and geek/gaming social media:

- D&D Beyond subscriptions are plummetting

- players are leaving D&D in droves for the roleplaying game Pathfinder from WotC's chief competitor Paizo

- there is a movement from this movie's core demographic to boycott this movie

This situation with WotC and Honor Among Thieves is reminiscent of DC and The Flash, with the companies having gone silent for an extended period on promoting the movies.

Wizards of the Coast has caved! Under pressure from their customers and other RPG companies, WotC conceded today, giving up, at least for now, their plans to revise the OGL, thus allowing the previous OGL to stand.

This might help save this movie from bombing. That said, more cynical D&D players think that WotC is going to go right back to trying to revise the OGL in a few years, once the furor from this time has died down and when they don't have box office to worry about.
 

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Apparently the review scores on this one are coming in relatively high. I guess my eyes weren't deceiving me when i liked the trailer. This might actually be worth seeing
 

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Apparently the review scores on this one are coming in relatively high. I guess my eyes weren't deceiving me when i liked the trailer. This might actually be worth seeing
I don’t trust generic critics. IIRC, the critics liked GhostBitches as well.
 

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Apparently the review scores on this one are coming in relatively high. I guess my eyes weren't deceiving me when i liked the trailer. This might actually be worth seeing
well every D&D type movie they have came out with in the past rated about a C type movie at best.
So even if the movie makes it to a B type movie it will be an improvement.
 

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I watched it.
It was a fun movie.
I know I often see things differently, but when Michelle Rodriguez is answering questions seriously was funny AF to me.
They all played off each other really well.
Guess after all the attempts to make a very serious D&D movie & failing miserably they decided to change it up.

If you want to watch a fun movie. I recommend it.
 

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I can’t imagine paying to see this. But maybe it will be worth the 90 mins to see it for free when it hits the streamers. Maybe.
 
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