I actually hope theyd play around with interpersing them playing versus the in-game story.
Im just imagining how hilarious it could be to see one of the characters doing something FUBAR and it just smashcuts to them at the table looking horrified.
it just smashcuts to them at the table looking horrified.
Please. This is a D&D table we're talking about.
One person would be on their phone, not paying any attention, one person would be "business as usual, then?", and another would be "but it's cooler than last time!" while the DM is just in an exasperated state of "why do I play with you chucklefucks?"
Don't forget the person who's frantically searching through the spell list in the players handbook trying to look for all the particular rules and caveats for whatever spells they're planning on casting next turn.
That's always what happens, it just becomes general fantasy based on the canon lore rather than playing with the fun meta things. I'd want it to just play on every trope and meta-joke to make it a DND movie and not a movie based loosely on the background lore.
Same here! Imagine how funny it would be if all the side characters kept trying to convince the leads to go to this one location and the movie is basically about the main characters avoiding the plot in favour of nonsensical wackiness. Part way through the movie there's a gargantuan plothole and here the voice of one of the players say "that doesn't make any sense." Cut to the game table and an argument with the DM who insists that it was the plan all along. But the DM reluctantly agrees to retcon the thing that caused the plothole and the movie rewinds where we then see the altered version of events.
A background lore based movie that still shows what player characters do with the lore would also work I think.
..have drizzt being all sad and edgy and the main cast ruin the gravity of the scene.
It sounds like it would be the most annoying thing ever. It may as well just pause the film, have someone walk on screen, and tell you to not care about a single character cause theyre not real and nothing will happen. It will also pause every 30 seconds and remind you that you are watching a movie.
Iāve been delaying showing my kid the Lego movie in large part because I donāt think heāll fully āgetā/appreciate this and other referential aspects of it.
I feel like he needs to at least have 1-2 years of playing with proper Legos (not mega blocks or Duplos) under his belt first.
Luckily thereās not nearly as much pressure for him to watch it like there is for Star Wars (friends and relatives keep getting him Star Wars toys), which I feel should be started at an even later age
You can't pull off OOP's joke with regular non-D&D players without using the table as a framing device.
The reason why something like the Lego Movie can pull it off is because they never present their characters as anything other than Lego figures doing Lego things. The reveal that the whole thing is just a play narrative isn't difficult to understand - the kid was making the story up the whole time. There's going to be people who won't understand that a D&D is functionally the exact same thing. To those viewers, a D&D movie without a table framing device is basically indistinguishable from a fantasy movie, whether or not it has comedic elements.
I think they should put it in the movie because it's not like it would diminish the experience for people in the know.
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u/Emberashh Chaotic Stupid Dec 18 '22
I actually hope theyd play around with interpersing them playing versus the in-game story.
Im just imagining how hilarious it could be to see one of the characters doing something FUBAR and it just smashcuts to them at the table looking horrified.