Collin // 28 // He/him 🎨 Mostly art, some fandoms, and a lot of nonsense 🚀

 

oldschoolfrp:

There are plenty of real reviews out there, but I’ll just add that the D&D movie is, finally, what I was hoping for when the first discussions about making one popped up in the 80s. It’s a fun action movie that clearly is based on the game to a great extent, yet is accessible to everyone. My party of viewers included me, who started playing in the 1970s, and someone who had played a little in the ‘80s but none since, and someone who had no knowledge of the game beyond its name. No one felt like they weren’t the intended audience.

We see a party coming together with a mix of humans and fantasy races, the different abilities of the complimentary classes are highlighted, their backstories unfold along the way to varying degrees, and everyone gets to contribute to the team effort. The theme of 'found family’ plays an important role.

Major locations and factions are faithful to an official published campaign setting. The necessary dungeon and dragon both appear. All of the creatures are from the Monster Manual, most being unique to the game from its earliest editions. Most of the magic can be identified easily by spell name, with a few exceptions for the effects of magic items & artifacts.

The main variations from core rules are concessions to movie making that could be considered house rules. The druid wild shapes many times for the same reason you don’t see gunfighters stop the action to reload in classic westerns. It effectively showcases the character’s most notable ability, just as the bard is shown inspiring others throughout the story, without bogging down in the mechanics of spell casting in a way that also could step on the sorcerer’s role as the pure caster.

(Minor spoiler) My favorite moment seeing my own gaming experience on screen would be when the party hears a confusing verbal description of a difficult floor tile puzzle trap and fails to solve it in the intended way, bypassing it to get on with the story.

godzillabreath:

I had the honor of designing a wonderful, motley crew of Greenfolk characters for @jointhepartypod ’s new campaign. These were a blast to create, and I hope you all listen to their new upcoming campaign!! 🍀🐞

t4tails:

i-restuff:

t4tails:

t4tails:

meowth team rocket will go episodes forgetting he himself is a pokemon and his main hobby will be breaking the law, attempting to ruin a childs life, and generally being an asshole and thats cool but then hell curl up on a table to go to sleep and im like OHHH… HES A KITTY.. hes just a little cat. a little kitty cat meow meow meow. mrow

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insanely cat moment

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lemme just, put these here…

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showing these pics to eachother like pokemon cards

lesbianshepard:

lesbianshepard:

the absolute fucking height of comedy is scientists and scholars getting into fights over incredibly niche subjects. the idea of nerds in labcoats and suits getting close to blows over something that only like 20 people care about is so funny. 

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this is what real comedy looks like