Dnd have been relatively a rather niche series that had been shunned by normies for a long time and Hasbro finally decided to test how the popular RPG series fare for general audience with a blockbuster movie. While the production suffered so many delays in the production, I believe the movie is a good success because it manage to be a good entertainment both for mainstream viewers or Casual DnD fans like myself.
Honor Among Thieves story is a basically low level campaign of DnD PCs with a Human Bard as main character fighting against his old rogue companion and an agent of powerful lich in the realm in order to save his daughter, Traveling across many places in Forgotten Realm for the quest and encountering many sorts of people including allies. Honor among Thieves is a good DnD adaptation because the series perfectly capture the essence of this Role playing series beloved by many where the adventurers are not the top of the food chain like those typical shitty Isekai series and need to brave many dangers by relying with their wits and abilities considering they will get TPK'd should they try to fight a Red Dragon with Isekai mindset. The ever present sense of mortality is truly what makes the adventure a complete fantasy experience.
My Favorite character from this movie is the Paladin, Xenk Yendar who just serve as powerful NPC ally in this movie because he is a good adaptation of a Lawful Good archetype. I think Honor among Thieves is successful enough to warrant a continuation, though i really doubt it will be hard for this Bard party to commit on the next adventure, given the nature of movie production.
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