{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "the princess bride is exactly what a dnd campaign would look like as a movie like? the delightfully weird cast of characters...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186344212403/", "html": "

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the princess bride is exactly what a dnd campaign would look like as a movie like? the delightfully weird cast of characters with their own quirks, the strange pacing and narrative that still Works, the absolute absurdity of it all, the jumping back and forth between wanting to be serious and it being really funny, hell its even Told like a dnd story through the use of the grandfather being the one telling the story

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what a fantastic fucking movie

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also like the character backstories are SUCH dnd backgrounds like? \u201cim out for revenge for my father who was killed by a guy with six fingers on one of his hands\u201d \u201ci bumped into a band of pirates and their leader liked me so much he ended up having me take on his title to retire\u201d

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that is the Exact shit that people come up with for dnd characters

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DM: having narrowly escaped Humperdinck, you find yourselves in the dangerous Fire Swamps

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Westley: do I know anything about this area? Any danger?

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DM: roll a history check

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Westley: 15

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DM: you know of rumors of giant rats in the swamps, as well as quick sand

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Westley: what do I know about the giant rats?

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DM: roll nature

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Westley: [nat 1] \u2026\u2026 rodents of unusual size? I don\u2019t think they exist

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DM: hey what\u2019s your passive perception-

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In contrast, Record of Lodoss War is literally a transcribed D&D campaign by people who were still too obsessed with reenacting Tolkien to have fun

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(Lodoss was originally released in the mid-80s, Knights of the Dinner Table started running in 1990, the \u201cI attack the darkness!\u201d Dead Alewives skit was \u201896)

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That\u2019s… actually an interesting point, there was definitely a point where the canonical text for that crowd to model its medieval-pastiche adventures on went from Lord of the Rings to Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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