• TCGM@lemmy.world
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    The fat dragon is what really landed the movie for me. That? That was a DM decision, based on the players and the DM being memelords. Straight from the tabletop.

    It really just demonstrated that the whole movie is a DnD campaign (agglomerate homebrew) with extremely high production value, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

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      The fat dragon, Themberchaud, is actually a canon obese dragon. He’s in the Out of the Abyss module and some others.

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        Huh, TIL.

        Still, without knowing that, it looked exactly like the kind of collective meme the table would come up with and beg the DM to add.

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          Absolutely, the whole movie felt like that which was a big part of it’s charm. Watching the first scene I could imagine the players asking the arrakoan chancellor’s name, which the DM hadn’t prepped, so he just made up Jarnathan on the spot…

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        Huh, TIL.

        Still, without knowing that, it looked exactly like the kind of collective meme the table would come up with and beg the DM to add.

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      The fat dragon made my wife lose it. She just kept saying “He looks just like the cat when he smells chicken.”