‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Review: Game On
metroweekly.comdo not call it a “board game,” I was advised by one friend in-the-know) was the focus of steady and significant controversy from critics, mostly concerned parent groups, who believed it to be connected to more than two dozen murders and suicides.
It was not, of course, but facts have never gotten in the way of a good ol’ fashioned moral panic.Eventually, conservative Christian parents found other things over which to fret and ban — video games, Harry Potter, trans children (such diversity of hatred) — and Dungeons & Dragons (also known as “D&D” or “DnD”) fell off their radar, leaving only a bunch of lovable nerds and geeks and the occasional xckd comic reference in its wake.I’ve never played D&D, but it feels as though every other friend of mine has had some sort of history with the game.
I invited one of them, Sarah, along to a recent critic’s screening of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (★★★★★).I intentionally went into it completely ignorant of the history and culture of this game and its fanbase.
There is no shortage of film critics counted among its devotees, whom I’m certain will write far more eloquent and nuanced takes that primarily cater to the organic community that has sprung from, and thrived through, the culture of the tabletop battlefield.
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