What my party of D&D nerds thought of Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
WARNING: CONTAINS SOME MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.
For the past year, I’ve been spending a few hours a week opting out of real life to go adventuring through a mythical land with my mates. No, we don’t do psychedelic drugs, we play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).
This weekend, my party and I decided it was time for a real-world adventure to see the swashbuckling new movie version of the game we love a lot – like a completely normal amount. Very normal.
Come with us now, to the magical land of Lower Hutt, where treasures await the bold in a mighty temple to sound and light that is the Event Cinemas Imax Theatre...
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“There were a lot of Easter eggs in there," says Barnes, who's been playing D&D on and off since the ‘80s, and put our party together.
"They set it in the Forgotten Realms, which is a classic D&D setting. And they referenced a bunch of classic characters and spells like Mordenkainen and Bigby. But I think mostly they got the tone of playing D&D right. It was epic and serious in a way, but also gently took the p... out of it. I think that's the spirit of the game, really. Never take yourself too seriously.
"I felt the characters represented players a little bit. Like you had the players who take it very seriously, which is like the paladin character. And the people who just like, don't really care what the rules and just freewheel it, which is Chris Pine's
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