Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

What’s the DnD movie about? Who are the members of this adventure party? Edgin, Holga, Simon, Xenk, and Kira must fight the evil Red Wizard of Thay, Sofina, and her dastardly conman companion, Forge. Whitney Van Laningham goes frame by frame to break down everything you might have missed in the D&D Honor Among Thieves!

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PATREON PRODUCERS:
Comically Inclined Studios
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Karen Wang
Rick Denmon
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Written by: Whitney Van Laningham
Producer: Zach Huddleston
Producer: Brandon Barrick
Post Production Supervisor: Riley Auskelis
Staff Editors: Drew Coombs, Joshua Steven Hurd
Editors: Ed Vilderman, Kelly Joule
Camera Operator: Dashiell Hamingson

[BlastedOblivion]

I liked that the sorcerer was a terrible sorcerer because he wasn't confident enough since sorcerers are a charisma based class.

[GreenNightlight]

My favourite detail with the intellect devourers is that the group is ignored because none of them are intelligence based classes

[catello]

Another fun detail you missed was that the Helm of Disjunction was surrounded by lead shavings, which prevents anyone from using Locate Object to find where it was

[jonah]

When Xenk leaves the party and Edgin comments about how he's walking such a straight line ignoring the minor terrain made me laugh.

[sfrea]

minor detail was during the underdark the two humans held lanterns while the tiefling and halfelf didn't maybe due to having darkvision.

[omerhoffmann]

The maze is a brilliant nod to the square ruled paper players use to draw maps on.

[celticson]

I thought that Jarnathan being late for the hearing seemed a lot like a player being late for the game so they start without him.

[toastmilke]

It's more a knowing joke than an easter egg, but my favorite bit from the film was when Simon says something along the line of "You can't use magic to solve EVERYTHING!" Many DMs, as well as a few game designers, have said that throughout the years. About as iconic as Edgin saying "You did not let me finish my backstory!" at the beginning (like a lot of players have exclaimed.)

[SpecialInterestUnit]

When Doric was beating down Saphina it definitely felt like a "how do you want to do this" moment and Doric obliged in a classic DND way of intense brutality

[Rufus]

The paladin is 100% a DMnpc. Killings things without rolling and then walking straight towards the horizon without stopping.

[sethwing]

This movie is a testament on how a good writing and passion can make even the weirdest or often times uninteresting movie into a great hit. This reminds me of the first guardians of the galaxy. I dont know dnd. But this movie, curl my interest in dnd.

[JustinSFilm]

Fun thing I heard in some interview about the film, is that Jarnathan, the Arakokra, is the name of the character the directors played together during the cast campaign they played before shooting.

[bilbo]

I'm so happy you pointed out the rust monsters and axe beaks. I love that they added D&D creatures that weren't crucial to the plot. I feel like it adds depth to the world building.

[RolePositiveGaming]

I didn't see it in the video, and haven't seen it in the comments, but the painting they cut up to use for the portal was of none other than Volothamp Geddarm, author of Volo's guide to Everything! Well done video.

[DrewTrox]

I loved all the "game mechanics" moments! My favorite was when Doric breaks Sophina's concentration in that final battle.

[Achridian]

Jarnathan was 100% an on-the-spot DM-made name and I love it. DM: “There are four people on the council”
Player: “What are their names?”
DM, reading through the module: “Voss Anderton, human, Jil Torbo, a halfling, Kriv Norixius, a dragonborn, and
*realizes that there were only 3 listed and they tricked themselves into thinking there was 4 when they were prepping
“Jarnathan the Aarakocra.”

Players, immediately bursting into laughter: WE HAVE TO KAKE OUR PLAN REVOLVE AROUND HIM THATS HILARIOUS”

DM, internally: “oh gods, what are they about to do?”

[DarudeSandworm]

Was great seeing D&D get an actually good movie.

[ozpin]

My favorite detail was that during the speaking with corpses scene, when they question the first corpse it takes exactly 30 seconds. A round of combat in D&D is 6 seconds long, and it takes 5 rounds to ask 5 questions...equaling 30 seconds.

Similarly, it only takes Sophia six seconds to kill all the guards - a single round of combat.

[phntmthf]

9:24 fun fact! In 4e, druids *could* Wild Shape into owlbears, because they were classified as “magical beasts” instead of monstrosities.

[yoyomama]

I loved how Holga acted the part of having Intelligence as a dump stat. Coming up with terrible plans (sneak into a castle as a deer, throw an ax with a rope on it across the chasm)