Quote from: Shasarak on July 22, 2022, 05:20:43 PM

Quote from: Innocent Smith on July 22, 2022, 03:36:06 PM
The thing I find most amusing about this movie is how the comments are full of people who obviously have never played any other edition (or have only ever watched Critical Role) complaining about owlbear wildshape and the tiefling being a normal skin color.

There was a Tiefling?

The shape shifting white girl. If you look at her head closely, she has Tiefling horns sticking out from her hair.

Quote from: VisionStorm on July 22, 2022, 06:06:50 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on July 22, 2022, 05:20:43 PM

Quote from: Innocent Smith on July 22, 2022, 03:36:06 PM
The thing I find most amusing about this movie is how the comments are full of people who obviously have never played any other edition (or have only ever watched Critical Role) complaining about owlbear wildshape and the tiefling being a normal skin color.

There was a Tiefling?

The shape shifting white girl. If you look at her head closely, she has Tiefling horns sticking out from her hair.

Oh, I thought that was the Druid.

Quote from: Dylan Logos on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM
It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

I wasn't seeking approval or kudos or whatever the hell else you're projecting onto me. I was giving my opinion.

In fact, how the hell would I "garner some easy kudos" in a forum that, by design, doesn't have any of the clicky arrows/upvotes/stars that other social media does?

You see, I like this place because I can say what I think, people may disagree, and nobody comes out the worse after the discussion. In fact, this thread exposed me to the trailer, which I had no idea was out and, as I said before, it failed to impress me. I still think this will be a pile of crap, though not as much of a pile as Amazon's rape of the Second Age.

My recommendation is for you to go back whence you came (likely TBP or ENW), where your brand of accolade-seeking behavior is rewarded.

P.S.: Oh, I got it now, you're the Necro King going around ressurecting 15-year-old threads and shitposting everywhere.

Just another troll.

Quote from: Dylan Logos on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

The trailer for the movie looks like shit. The only slight saving grace is Chris Pine, and that's not saying much. Without him, this flick would be a complete dud. The only white male protagonist is Pine (who is disrespected by his non-white male teammates), and the only white female protagonist plays the role of a tiefling....and tieflings are descended from demons or devils. Let's popularize demonspawn!

I'm sure TPTB will successfully launder plenty of money with this film. Whatever. Not interested.

Quote from: Shasarak on July 22, 2022, 06:32:22 PM

Quote from: VisionStorm on July 22, 2022, 06:06:50 PM

Quote from: Shasarak on July 22, 2022, 05:20:43 PM

Quote from: Innocent Smith on July 22, 2022, 03:36:06 PM
The thing I find most amusing about this movie is how the comments are full of people who obviously have never played any other edition (or have only ever watched Critical Role) complaining about owlbear wildshape and the tiefling being a normal skin color.

There was a Tiefling?

The shape shifting white girl. If you look at her head closely, she has Tiefling horns sticking out from her hair.

Oh, I thought that was the Druid.

Tiefling Druid FTW!

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb on July 22, 2022, 06:53:34 PM

Quote from: Dylan Logos on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

The trailer for the movie looks like shit. The only slight saving grace is Chris Pine, and that's not saying much. Without him, this flick would be a complete dud. The only white male protagonist is Pine (who is disrespected by his non-white male teammates), and the only white female protagonist plays the role of a tiefling....and tieflings are descended from demons or devils. Let's popularize demonspawn!

I'm sure TPTB will successfully launder plenty of money with this film. Whatever. Not interested.

It really sounds like you're saying it looks like shit because it's not white male enough for you. Your screech of insecurity is deafening.

Quote from: Innocent Smith on July 22, 2022, 03:36:06 PM
The thing I find most amusing about this movie is how the comments are full of people who obviously have never played any other edition (or have only ever watched Critical Role) complaining about owlbear wildshape and the tiefling being a normal skin color.

Planescape Tieflings tended to relatively normal skin tones. Not sure when they picked up the more exotic tones. Probably 3e. Instead they tended to more exotic facial or even body features.

Quote from: Shasarak on July 22, 2022, 05:20:43 PM

Quote from: Innocent Smith on July 22, 2022, 03:36:06 PM
The thing I find most amusing about this movie is how the comments are full of people who obviously have never played any other edition (or have only ever watched Critical Role) complaining about owlbear wildshape and the tiefling being a normal skin color.

There was a Tiefling?

She has small horns.

Greetings!

Of course white people are being marginalized. In film, music, in academia, business, everywhere, white people are discriminated against, and vilified.

Hell, we have an Editor at the NYT, Jong I think her name is--that wrote on her Twitter that white people are the problem in society, and that white people should be exterminated. Women everywhere should not breed with white men.

She kept her job, and was applauded and celebrated for her vicious hatred and racism.

So, yeah. I imagine the D&D movie will show all kinds of minorities and women as being "stunning and brave"--while white men especially are laughed at and depicted as incometent doofuses. Naturally, according to the Woke, if you are a minority, you are special, and uber, and beautiful, and if you are white, you are inferior.

I don't have high expectations for the D&D movie.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Looks like total drivel to me, but with a hidden "Spot the Monster" drinking game inside.

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb on July 22, 2022, 06:53:34 PMand the only white female protagonist plays the role of a tiefling....and tieflings are descended from demons or devils. Let's popularize demonspawn!

WOTC has been doing that since 5e came out. See my comments in some old threads about just how demon-happy they have been. To the point of ret-conning quite a few classic monsters to now either be demon spawn, or demons were somehow involved. Not to mention it feels like about every other module seems to be demon themed. Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss, Descent into Avernus. And technically Wyld beyond the Witchlight as its hag and possible demon goddess themed.

They probably went Tiefling because they used to feature in Neverwinter and are relatively easy to costume if you drop the tail and keep the horns small.

Quote from: Omega on July 22, 2022, 07:48:45 PM
WOTC has been doing that since 5e came out. See my comments in some old threads about just how demon-happy they have been. To the point of ret-conning quite a few classic monsters to now either be demon spawn, or demons were somehow involved. Not to mention it feels like about every other module seems to be demon themed. Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss, Descent into Avernus. And technically Wyld beyond the Witchlight as its hag and possible demon goddess themed.

They probably went Tiefling because they used to feature in Neverwinter and are relatively easy to costume if you drop the tail and keep the horns small.

  Not since 5E--pretty much since they acquired D&D. One of the first things they did when buying D&D was announce the reinstatement of the 'demon' and 'devil' names, 3E certainly didn't stint on them (although a lot of that was under Paizo's run on Dragon), and 4E folded warlocks and tieflings into the core.

Quote from: HappyDaze on July 22, 2022, 07:17:41 PM

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb on July 22, 2022, 06:53:34 PM

Quote from: Dylan Logos on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

The trailer for the movie looks like shit. The only slight saving grace is Chris Pine, and that's not saying much. Without him, this flick would be a complete dud. The only white male protagonist is Pine (who is disrespected by his non-white male teammates), and the only white female protagonist plays the role of a tiefling....and tieflings are descended from demons or devils. Let's popularize demonspawn!

I'm sure TPTB will successfully launder plenty of money with this film. Whatever. Not interested.

It really sounds like you're saying it looks like shit because it's not white male enough for you. Your screech of insecurity is deafening.

Dude, I'm not white enough to pass a racial purity test. You're barking up the wrong tree. But I do at least recognize low doses of neo-Marxist wankery when I see it. I also recognize Hasbro trying to normalize and destigmatize evil races like dark elves and tieflings and orcs in modern D&D, because the people who control the IP seem invested in subverting and inverting morality. Remember that Hasbro is the same company that utlilizes slave labor in China, produced and sold a pedo doll that moaned when you touched the crotch, and had a bunch of pedos running stuff in their conventions for Magic the Gathering.

But "whatevs". Hollywood (a.k.a. "Pedowood") really doesn't need me to give them any shekels.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on July 22, 2022, 02:21:31 PM

Quote from: Reckall on July 22, 2022, 02:17:44 PM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on July 22, 2022, 12:54:35 PM

Quote from: C-nt the Bunty Snuggler on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

The funny thing is that visually, it's not bad. I'm hoping for a beholder just to see how they work it.

There was a beholder in "Big Trouble in Little China" (or at least a beholderkin). Kurt Russell sent it away crying IIRC.

Probably beholderkin. No offense to Jack Burton but I doubt he could've swatted an actual eye tyrant that easily.

Among the many fun things in BTILC there is Jack Burton who is introduced as the classic "Kurt Russell in a John Carpenter movie" hero, but he is anything but. Killing Lo Pan at the end is literally the only thing that he manages to do. His biggest strength across the movie is to pass from embarrassment to embarrassment without losing his swagger, while everyone else does all the work.

Quote from: HappyDaze on July 22, 2022, 07:17:41 PM

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb on July 22, 2022, 06:53:34 PM

Quote from: Dylan Logos on July 22, 2022, 12:44:35 PM

Quote from: BronzeDragon on July 21, 2022, 03:03:42 AM
Get a load of this:

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-look-at-the-characters-from-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves

Granted, these are just stills from production (before all the bells & whistles are added in post), but oooh boy.

One way to sum up the vibe is "That D&D movie + 5E awfulness + cheap as all hell production design)".

I wonder if the non-playing D&D "fans" will like it though...seems to be right up there with youtube D&D shows.

It seems that basically no one agrees with you, BronzeDragon. Here you were, thinking to garner some easy kudos by ragging on this great-looking film and by making a sly appeal to the knee-jerk anti-woke zealotry popular in these parts. Try again next time.

The trailer for the movie looks like shit. The only slight saving grace is Chris Pine, and that's not saying much. Without him, this flick would be a complete dud. The only white male protagonist is Pine (who is disrespected by his non-white male teammates), and the only white female protagonist plays the role of a tiefling....and tieflings are descended from demons or devils. Let's popularize demonspawn!

I'm sure TPTB will successfully launder plenty of money with this film. Whatever. Not interested.

It really sounds like you're saying it looks like shit because it's not white male enough for you. Your screech of insecurity is deafening.

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