Dungeons & Dragons Movie Location Sets Up 2 Iconic Video Game Cities
The location for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves sets up the big-screen debuts for two iconic video game cities, Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter. In an announcement that confirmed the title of Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons movie, it was revealed that the story will be set in the Sword Coast, which is a part of the Forgotten Realms.
Based on what very little is known about Honor Among Thieves, it’s likely that the adventurers featured in the story will all be original characters. Thus far, none have been tied to existing heroes and villains in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. However, it certainly can introduce some familiar locales. Over the years, several campaign settings have been developed for the tabletop game. Each is packed with its own cities, continents, world powers, political systems, and more. One of these settings is the Forgotten Realms, which was originally created by fantasy author Ed Greenwood and used as the backdrop for his Dungeons & Dragons stories. Since then, it’s become the backbone of a long list of D&D campaigns, video games, and novels.
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The confirmation that Honor Among Thieves will take place in the Forgotten Realms’ Sword Coast region makes it possible for the film to explore Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter, which are the settings of two of the most well-known video games in the RPG genre. In the Forgotten Realms, Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter are two major cities located on the Sword Coast and the focus of the adventures that played out in 1998’s Baldur’s Gate and 2002’s Neverwinter Nights (as well as other D&D video games). The two BioWare classics (and Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn) have reputations as precursors to
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