If I ever have a fat orange cat, I'm calling him Themberchaud, the Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh.

How could anyone "figure that out" if they didn't know the film?

I'll be honest: I've never seen the movie, but I have seen enough references to it and memes made from screenshots of it that I instantly guessed what it was. The fact that we're in rpgmemes did help.

And also the parts where the GM is going "this would make the scene better even though it doesn't work that way" like the scene in the graveyard.

...it's an *okay* movie: perfectly servicable Standard Hollywood Treatment^TM^; competently directed, performed, and edited; genre trope in-jokes liberally sprinkled throughout... ...i believe most positive reactions stem from defying expectations that it be a ***bad*** movie, rather than actually being *good*...

The best scene was where one character was in handcuffs and kept rolling too low to get out and the camera kept switching from one character who was doing awesome stunts back to them doing nothing useful the whole fight.

Yep, and at some point the DM lost his patience with the group and introduced a friendly OP NPC (the paladin) to get the story rolling already.

I believe they meant in case you didn't research it yourself or someone else didn't answer.

Absolutely not. I fucking loved this movie. It pivots between things a few times and they're all interesting. It's got humor too. It really captures what a d&d campaign feels like.

B- b- but Owlbears aren't a beast! A- and she wild shapes too many times in too short of a time period!

I have a plush of him! I love it!

Another meme I enjoyed was that the DM made up that the hither thither staff was magic just so they could cross the bridge and then the party proceeds to break a poorly thought out, unintentionally over powered item.

Didn't mean the manuals bro, but the general vibe of an actual group of players doing random shit

Nah, that wasn't an NPC, that was a friend who showed up for only a week. That's why they asked him if they would see him again before he left.

I thought it was clear I was mocking the people who had a problem with that aspect.

Also possible, yes. The way he almost acted like a robot at the end was a dig at him being an NPC, I thought. But it could also be a dig at Paladins always being straightforward, literally. That's the great thing about the movie, many gags work on several levels.

Sorry, the internet has damaged my satire perception

You're okay

The best part about that scene is that while he's fumbling his escape rolls, Edgin's still churning out Bardic Inspiration so Holga can continue kicking ass.