Tag: Dungeons & Dragons

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Reviews

I got to see an early screening of the new Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves.

It’s a fun movie.  Knowledge of the game isn’t needed, though players will definitely get more out of watching this movie.

That’s not to say the movie can’t/won’t be enjoyed by non-players.  It’s almost structured like a Marvel movie, in the way the movie sets everything up, from the setting, to the characters, to the reveal of/by the big bad.

One particular group cameo made me smile a lot.

Having only seen two movies so far this year, this one was more fun than Quantumania.  This one I actually want to see again.

Recommended!  Two thumbs up!

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So far, so good for The Mandalorian Season 3.

Halfway through and we’ve had a lot of stuff happen to Din Djarin and Grogu, not to mention to Bo-Katan and Dr. Pershing.

And we have yet to see Moff Gideon.

Looking forward to the back half of the season.

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D&D Thoughts

Why did it take me so long to look up how to armor a bear and finally discovering ‘barding’?

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My list of goals while playing role-playing games should include “Do Something Awesome”.

In our last session, we were fighting some big creatures, and my character’s turn came along, and another player said something like, “C’mon Chris, do something awesome!”

A few die rolls later and I brought down one of the creatures to a sliver of health on his hit points bar.  Another character finished off the creature.

So yeah, paladin smites are awesome.

When they hit.

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Otter race?!?!?

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Post-Game II

After another successful online D&D session, I again revisited my character and how he did in the adventure.

My biggest problem was with paladin spells, my character cast 3 and failed on 2 (Command, Compelled Duel) while one resulted in nothing significant (Detect Magic).

So I went and redid the prepared spells for my character.

I dropped Command and Detect Magic, and added Heroism and Searing Smite.

Hopefully Kal Jadestone will be more effective in this next adventure.  His bear companion Zod has played better than he has.

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Post-Game

I have no memory of this, but when I was really little, maybe even before I was born, my Dad would play chess in the company chess club.  He’d play on Friday nights, and according my Mom, when he’d get home, late, he’d still be down in the living room or dining room, setting up a chess set, and studying it, looking where he made a mistake that cost him a match.  I don’t know how long he would do that, couldn’t be more than an hour.  Or two.

Flash forward to now:

We played Dungeons and Dragons online last night, and the first thing I do when I get up this morning is futz around on Roll20 and DNDBeyond, looking at my newly leveled character and figuring out how to make spells work correctly from the online Roll20 character sheet.

I did that for about 2 hours before I realized what time it was, and took a shower.

Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I guess.

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I do like the online tools for D&D, but I miss face to face interaction.