‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Easter Eggs: 6 Ways ‘Honor Among Thieves’ Delights Hardcore ‘D&D’ Fans

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conjured up $38.5 million at the box office this weekend — a respectable figure given the movie was based on a tabletop role-playing game from the ’70s.

And whether you’re an old-school D&D player (like this writer) or a newer fan (thanks to “Stranger Things”), “Honor Among Thieves” includes plenty of fan service.In the tabletop game (and licensed video game adaptions), players take on different classes or jobs, the archetypes being fighter, cleric, thief and wizard.

Amongst those archetypes may be variations; fighters can be rage-driven barbarians, or divine-infused paladins.Each major character in “Honor Among Thieves” aligns with an existing D&D class: Michelle Rodriguez’s Holga is a barbarian with her favored weapon — a battle axe; Rege-Jean Page is a paladin who is almost comically virtuous.It’s fun seeing these classes and their abilities come to life on the big screen, including some more obscure ones like Chris Pine’s storytelling bard and Sophia Lillis’s shapeshifting druid.“Honor Among Thieves” also gives them interesting backstories — Page’s paladin is cursed with dark Thayan magic, Lillis’s druid is a tiefling raised among elves — that prevent them from being too cookie-cutter.“Honor Among Thieves” has a terrific bestiary that includes classic monsters like fire-breathing dragons (one very overweight one named Themberchaud) and re-animated skeletons (who provide more humor than horror).But there are also the intellect devourers, which resemble giant brains with dog legs, displacer beasts, six-legged predator cats that cast illusions, and gelatinous cubes, giant jellies that slowly dissolve anyone who gets trapped within them.