Based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting and has no connections to the previous film trilogy released between 2000 and 2012. The film stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

In Dungeons & Dragons, the players form an adventuring party who explore fantasy worlds together as they embark on epic quests and level up in experience. The Dungeon Master (also known as the DM) is the game's referee and storyteller. There's no winning or losing in D&D - at least, not in the conventional way.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was set in the premade D&D Forgotten Realms campaign, meaning that nearly all you saw in theaters had been previously written to play on the tabletop game. But don't worry; the movie wasn't written entirely out of a cookie-cutter.

Honor Among Thieves has to appeal to both audiences: those who are familiar with D&D and those who aren't. It clearly excels in the former, but while it does ultimately achieve the latter, it doesn't completely avoid the pitfalls experienced by similarly ambitious lore-heavy IPs that attempted to break into cinema.

Ed Greenwood Confirms Honor Among Thieves' Canon to Forgotten Realms' History - IMDb. Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood stated that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be canon.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is certainly let down by the scale of its own ambition in places, but I still had fun - more fun than I've had watching a fantasy movie in years, actually. It's incredibly funny and overdelivers on the necessary ingredients to appease anyone who's ever rolled a 20-sided die.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” a comedy-fantasy movie from the directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, is a loose adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, more commonly known among fans as D&D.

"The game allows us to be ourselves and someone else at the same time," Perkins said in an email. "D&D is also a great creative outlet, allowing us to craft our own fictional characters, worlds, and adventures, and that's very appealing when the real world is quickly burning to a cinder."

A study of primary school children suggests that even when played using online tools during the recent pandemic, D&D helps to develop important life skills in language and communication, perspective-taking, self-awareness, empathy, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving.

The D&D movie benefits from all these source materials, but the bare bones of the plot share a striking similarity with a vastly underrated Fourth Edition module which clearly inspired some of the plot of the film: Gates of Neverdeath.

With Wizards of the Coast involved in the production, they have had the opportunity to step in and fact-check the lore and magic to ensure that everything stays true to D&D's established rules. Every D&D spell and ability in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has been checked and double-checked to ensure accuracy.

Surprisingly good with a lot of jump scares Was definitely age appropriate for the 11 year olds, but might have been too much for my 8 yr old. There is a ton of fighting, but very little to no blood and gore.

For the purposes of this policy, "canon" is the term given to a piece of Realms- or D&D-related information that establishes its status as an official part of the Forgotten Realms fictional universe.