Summary
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a successful movie entry for the franchise that combines serious fantasy storytelling with player shenanigans.
- The major characters in the movie have well-defined classes and subclasses, such as the bard Edgin being a College of Eloquence subclass and the barbarian Holga belonging to the Path of the Berserker subclass.
- The movie features a diverse range of characters, including a paladin, a sorcerer, a druid, a rogue, and even powerful villains like the Red Wizard of Thay, Sofina, who specializes in the School of Necromancy.
Considering how big 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons has become, it's surprising it's taken us 22 years to get another movie after the 2000 flop. Regardless, we finally have a successful movie entry for the franchise, thanks to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The movie features both the serious fantasy DMs work hard to create for their setting and villains, and the stupid shenanigans the players end up doing, along with less serious supporting NPCs.
And, as most fans tend to do in these adaptations, associating everyone's classes, spells, and skills, among others is a big point of debate. Who is who in this movie? What are their classes? What should I expect from them? Well, other than the last question, let's find out.
Updated September 4, 2023, by Lucas Ellinas: By now, the classes of Honor Among Thieves’ major characters are well-known, even if they can be a bit unintuitive at first glance. What we don’t know are their subclasses. Fortunately, Wizards of the Coast put stat blocks for them on D&D Beyond. Using the information found there, along with evidence from the film, we can make some educated guesses as to what the subclasses might be.
9 💧 Edgin Darvis, The Bard 𝄹
In a very well-thought casting choice, the charismatic (pun intended) Chris Pine is a bard named Edgin. He is the main protagonist, the leader of the group, the party planner, and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:party's face as well. He makes the decisions, and the improvisation necessary when his plans fail. A good part of the story also revolves around his backstory with his family, primarily h⛎is daughter.
A curious detail here is that he doesn't act much like the bard class, but more like an NPC or even a rogue who plays the lute. But he functions more like a real-life bard, meaning he doesn't possess any spells.
Subclass: College of Eloquence
Edgin may not cast spells in the movie, but his Stat Block on D&D Beyond does give him a few. However, 𓆉they are all subtle, social options, like Message and Suggestion.
That probably takes the most magic-focused of the bard subclasses off the table, and Edgin is clearly not much of a melee fighter, so the colleges of valor and swords don’t fit either. The spycraft he did for the Harpers might suggest a whispers bard, but the best fit is probably eloquence. Bards from this college a♐re focused around smooth tal♓king and inspiring their allies, which is exactly Edgin’s role in the film.
8 Holga Kilgore, The Barba🐓rian
A nice counterbalance to Edgin's humor is Holga, portrayed by the amazing Michelle Rodriguez. She acts more seriously and with the attitude of someone who j💎ust wants to get the job done, which is fitting for barbarians. Still, her simpliciജty in the way she deals with her problems also opens a lot of room for good humor. Why talk your way out if you can just knock someone down?
She is also quite a powerhouse, taking care of people by herself, which also merges beautifully with the class associated with her. After all, barbarians are usually the strongest class at first, while the other need a few levels to show the same level of competence in combat. She's responsible for some of the best fight scenes in the movie, though she may make new players think a barbarian alone can easily take care of multiple people. This is true depending on the level, but still not the most common scenario.
Subclass: Path of the Berserker
Like many of Honor Among Thieves’ main charact🍌ers, Holga doesn’t cast any spells. And you might think that’s not especially unus⛦ual for a barbarian, but most barbarian subclasses come with some sort of fancy effect, like getting bestial features, growing in size, or creating lightning.
The only one that doesn’t is the barbarian’s barbarian, the berserker. Berserkers get angry, hit things very hard, and don’t🧔 get much more complicated than that. And while Holga has many layers to her character, her combat style is extremely simple.
7 ꦬ X꧅enk Yendar, The Paladin
The Smiting hero is here. Along with the brawn of a barbarian, we also have the brawn of a paladin within our midst. Played by Regé-Jean Page, mostly known for his wor💜k in the series Bridgerton.
His role in the movie is rather simple but still fun to see. His personality is a lot more serious and straightforward, being an even bigger counterbalance to the others' humor. For the DMs and veteran players out there, he feels a lot more like a DMPC, who helps the party with a specific problem before peacing out. Because, if he stays in the party, he might solve everything by himself, as he seems a bit over-leveled for the mission.
Subclass: Oath of Devotion
Xenk is a fairly basic paladin. He ཧfights for noble ideals like truth and justice, and lacks the bells and whistles possessed by some of the fancier paladin subclasses.
The most basic of all the paladin subclasses is easily the oath of devotion. These paladins also happen to be great at fightin🍨g undead, which would come in handy for someone who has person✱al history with the Red Wizards of Thay. Additionally, Xenk’s description on D&D Beyond does say he swore an oath of devotion, which makes this seem like a safe bet.
6 𒐪 Simon Aumar, The Sorcerer
Played by the only actor that could give this role justice, Justice Smith plays the one character so far with a relatively normal name: Simon. From a magical lineage, not only is Simon a sorcerer, but he's a wild magic sorcerer, being one of the few characters who has a subclass mention. He's also a half-elf, rather than a human.
He's responsible for the group's magic, and known for his knowledge by giving the occasional information drop, and for storing crap, as he's the one with a bad of holding.
Curiously, the group has two other spellcasters, Edgin, and Doric the druid. However, these other two don't use magic because, if they did, it would undermine Simon's usefulness in the group.
Subclass: Wild Magic
As alre🥃ady mentioned, we basically already know Simon’s subclass. It’s pretty clear that he is a wild magic sorcerer. In the movie, he says💖 his gravity-flipping spell when you first meet him was the result of wild magic.
Additionally, unlike many of the characters on this list, his D&D Beyond Stat Block basically tells us the answer, describes him as having wild magic in his veins and having him rolling wild magic surges in gameplay. That’s about as clos🐈e to confirming Simon&rs⭕quo;s subclass as they could get without literally doing so.
5 Doric, The D♔ruid
We have Sophia Lillis as Doric the druid. She also represents the non-humans; Doric is a tiefling. Her appearance resemཧbles offiꦅcial D&D tiefling rather than the more artistic representations given by the community.
Unlike the rest of the party, which consists of people who know one another, Doric is a newcomer, only knowing Simon beforehand. And, as mentioned before, she doesn't use magic, but is a very powerful teammate thanks to all of her Wild Shape abilities. And whoever DMed this movie gave her a lot more Wild Shape usages before needing a rest, that's for sure.
Subclass: Circle of the Moon
Pretty much the only Druid-y thing we see Doric do in the movie is use Wild Shape. She changes form many times, and into some powerful creatures, suggesting that she has a high level of mastery in the abili🌸ty.
The Druid subclass with the strongest f🐷ocus on Wild Shaping is the circle of the moon. Of course, your average moon druid will never be as good at wild shaping as Doric is, but they get closer than any of the other subclasses can.
4 🌠 Forge Fitzwilliam, The Rogue
Hugh Grant blesses us with his presenceꦛ in this film as a rogue. And you know that when a rogue manages to reach old age, tha🐼t means the guy is excellent at what he does.
He's also the amazing example, or perhaps stereotype, of the "don't trust the rogue" trope. He's a master of deception, talking his way out of situations rather than relying on combat. He has a strong presence wherever he is on-screen, making a very threatening and entertaining character at the same time, all while being a bit insufferable to people.
Subclass: Mastermind
Forge doesn’t engage in many of the traditional rogue activities during the moviꦜe, like sneaking, theft, assassination. However, he is♉ an exceptional manipulator, fooling the rest of the main cast and the entire city of Neverwinter for his own selfish desires.
And there is a rogue subclass that specializes in deception: the mastermind. Mastermind rogues excel at determining the strengths and weaknesses of others and concealing their own designs. They can then use those advantages to tri🦂ck both friends and foes, Forge’s modus operandi.
3 Kira Darvis, The.�🌟�.. Other Rogue
To be fair, Chloe Coleman's Kira acts more like a supporting NPC. She's part of the Edgin backstory (she's his daughter) and also has a close relationship with Holga, who functions as a surrogate mother to her. However, rogue is still a bit fitting for her.
Though she's not a master of deception like Forge, she behaves a bit more like a thief, and she does participate in occasional missions with the adventurers. She acts similar to a low-level DMPC or that player who can't appear in every session, so they have a character who comes and goes in the story, being in some missions, but not all of them.
Subclass: Arcane Trickster
Kina is still extremely young, so even her identity as a rogue is hardly set in stone. That said, assuming she continues down that path, there are a few options t🌺hat make sense.
considering her history as a tagalong with the movie’s titular thieves, thief feels like the natural choice. However, given her affinity for using magical artifacts, arcane trickster mig𒊎ht be a better fit. The subclass does all of 𝓀the normal rogue shenanigans, but augments them with a bit of magic, just like Kina does.
2 Sofina, Th🌃e Red Wizard Of Thay
Good heroes need powerful foils. Sofina, played by Daisy Head, is a wizard, and a high-level one at that. She's also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a very serious villain, almost clashing with the♐ humorous tone of the movie a💃t first, but still being fitting. It gives off that feeling when the DM is actually doing the hard work of performing an intimidating villain while the players are just goofing around with the baddie.
An important point here is that she, along with many others in the movie, is one of the Red Wizards of Thay, a powerful group of villains f🅺eatured in D&D campaigns. Their goal is to bring the undead into the Forgotten Realms, ruled over by a dangerous lich for leader, Szass Tam.
Subclass: School of Necromancy
Sofina spends her screentime casting spells most powerful wizards are capable of. Thematically, though, which school of wizardry she belongs t𓄧o is not exactly subtle.🏅 As a disciple of Szass Tam, a master of the undead arts (and an undead herself), the school of necromancy is the only real choice.
Oh, and her descr🌟iption on D&D Beyond says she specializes in necromancy, which pretty much confirms what the movie already tells us.
1 Szass 🐻Tam, The BBEG
Like a good DM, the movie makes it very clear that there are bigger, 'badder', eviler guys out there. Szass (Ian Hanmore) makes brief appearances, but it builds the stage for sequels and more adventures to come with this party. And teasing a lich as a future enemy is simply frighteni🌳ng.
Though Szass is teased as the "Thanos-Level threat," he's not the most powerful lich out there (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hello, Vecna). Regardless, either he'll be the ultimate enemy for these adventurers to fight against, or others will be teased when Szass takes center stage as the villain.
Subclass: School of Necromancy
Szass Tam is a character that existed before the movie, so we have more information to draw on for a potential subclass. And if we assume he operated in the same way as a player character, he would absolutely be a necromancer🍸.
Before taking control of Thay, Tam was a member of the Council of Zulkirs, a group of wizards that ruled the nation. Each was associated with one of the wizarding schools, and Tam was the Zulkir of necromancy. Also, he wants to turn everyone into an undead, an ex♒tremely necromancer-y goal.