Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

 Neverwinter!  Icewind Dale!  Baldur's Gate!  THE HARPERS!!!!!

This movie is definitly a trip for 2.5 (the brown books) players about the Forgotten Realms.

But is it actually also a good movie?  The story starts with the bard Edgin pleading for prior release from jail, together with his companion, the barbarian Holga.  He is an ex Harper that turned to a life of stealing when his wife was killed by disciples of a Red Mage he had arrested.  Even though the parole was approved, before they heard the ruling they make a daring escape.

They arrive in Neverwinter, learning that their companion Forge became the lord there, and is the self-proclaimed uncle of Edgin's daughter Kira.  He is reinstating the High Sun games, and they learn he and the Red Mage Sofina had doublecrossed him years ago, resulting in their capture and imprisonment.  Fleeing the city, they recruit Simon, a so-so wizard they adventured with, and the druid Doric.  They must find the Helm of Disjunction, an artefact that can break the seals on Forge's vault, and where a tablet is kept that can bring back his dead wife.

Asking Holga's ancestors in a graveyard where the battle took place for the Helm, they meet the paladin Xenk Yandar who hid it in the Underdark.   They manage to retrieve it from the perils in there (that chubby dragon was hilarious), but Simon has trouble mastering the Helm.  They try another plan to enter the vault, but as they get captured they are brought into the arena (and say hello to the actors of the original DnD cartoon).

They escape the games and steal the boat Forge's treasure is on, but as they see the city being under thread of being wiped out by Sofina's magics, they return to stop her.  In an epic duel, and with the help of Kira, they manage to slip an anti-magic bracelet on her, but Holga is mortally wounded.  Edgin decides to resurrect her instead of his wife, as she has become a part of their family.  Crowned heroes, Forge on the other hand is now imprisonned in Revel's End...

So this movie was good fun, and surely worth the watch, and not only for the nostalgia as I mentioned at the beginning!