History Film / DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves

** The entire second act revolves around getting and using the Helm of Disjunction. [[spoiler:Simon finally manages to master it and break into the vault... only to discover it's completely empty; Forge put it all on an outbound ship. The Helm isn't used again for the rest of the film.]]

* TheTeam: Naturally, for a movie based on ''the'' [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons tabletop RPG]].
** Edgin is TheLeader, who comes up with the plans and the person to whom everyone looks to for guidance.
** Holga's strength and fighting prowess make her a natural fit for TheBigGuy but she mostly serves as Edgin's [[TheLancer lancer]], being his closest confidant and friend.
** Simon is a purely magic-based combatant; his role in the group is to come up with unorthodox ways around their various obstacles.
** Doric's shapeshifting gives her a variety of roles, such as brawn (especially in owl-bear form), espionage, and lateral thinking.
** Xenk the Paladin is a GuestStarPartyMember who guides the heroes through the Underdark and proves himself a much more capable combatant than the rest of them but takes his leave once his part in the quest is done so the others won't be OvershadowedByAwesome.
** Kira is TheHeart of the team, being beloved by everyone and acting as their MoralityPet. She also assists in various heists with her invisibility necklace.

** Simon casts ''Speak with Dead'', telling everyone that once a body is raised, they can only ask a total of five quesitons before the spell is spent and the corpse is dead again forever. This seems to imply asking the reanimated corpse five questions only, unfortunately, the party ''asking each other'' also counts...

** Simon casts ''Speak with Dead'', telling everyone that they can only ask the corpse five things before the spell is spent. Unfortunately, the party ''asking each other'' also counts...

* NoKillLikeOverkill: After Owlbear-Doric delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Sofina, Edgin stops her because "I think that's enough!", only for Sofina to keep moving, so Doric delivers ''another'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown before tossingher into a wall.

* OneLastJob: The heist in the flashback prologue was meant to be Edgin's final job, but it went awry and he wound up in prison.

** During a chase scene, a dragon destroys the bridge the characters are using, Doric loses her footing and is left dangling on a ledge before being helped up by Simon, having apparently forgotten that she can shapeshift into a bird or another animal that could scale up the ledge just fine. It's possibly justified by the stress and panic she might have been feeling, but noticeable all the same.

* PowerNullifier: Doric and Simon have anti-magic shackles locked around their wrists before they're put into the High Sun Games, though only on one wrist. [[spoiler:Doric has hers pulled off her arm as she is almost pulled into a [[BlobMonster Gelatinous Cube]], while Simon has the keys to his tossed to him by Edgin after their escape from the arena. One is later used to depower Sofina, allowing Doric to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown finish her off in her Owlbear form]].]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: After Doric delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Sofina, Edgin stops her because "I think that's enough!", only for Sofina to keep moving, so Doric delivers ''another'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown before tossingher into a wall.

*** Those statblocks are for parties to fight against the main cast, not to play as them. They're given extra hit dice to make them tougher boss fights. Judging by their abilities (Doric wildshapes into a CR 3 creature, Simon casts a 5th-level spell), they are 9th level, with Xenk being a little higher and Forge and Sofina being built directly as boss encounters who don't even try to emulate player character abilities.

** Sofina's true appearance is revealed [[spoiler:during the final battle when it looks like she's managed to trap the party with another ''Time Stop'' spell; looking like a rotting corpse with tattered, moth-eaten robes. It's because Simon finally had the talent to counterspell it, the party were all faking being time-frozen to sell the ruse, and Kira used her invisibility necklace to move in and slap an AntiMagic bracelet on the red mage as she had her villainous rant, with the moment her true lich form is reavealed being the moment Kira made her move.]]

** Forge's reaction when he sees that [[spoiler:all his stolen treasure is falling through a Hither-Thither portal to spill across the city.]]

** Sofina's true appearance is revealed [[spoiler:during the final battle when it looks like she's managed to trap the party with another ''Time Stop'' spell; looking like a rotting corpse with tattered, moth-eaten robes. It's because Simon finally had the talent to counterspell it, the party were all faking being time-frozen to sell the ruse, and Kira used her invisibility necklace to move in and slap an AntiMagic bracelet on the red mage as she had her villainous rant.]]

* HereWeGoAgain: Much to the exasperation of the Pardoning Council, the Halfling councilwoman in particular, [[spoiler:Forge attempts to escape justice, much like Edgin and Holga had in the beginning, by using the winged Council member Jarnathan to glide out of the window. Unfortunately for him (and for poor Jarnathan) the Council have since had said window bricked in.]]

** Sofina's true appearance is revealed [[spoiler:during the final battle when it looks like she's managed to trap the party with another ''Time Stop'' spell; looking like a rotting corpse with tattered, moth-eaten robes.]]

** For example, at the climax, Edgin's life is narrowly saved when Holga disrupts [[spoiler:Sofina's]] concentration on the spell she was using to animate the statue attacking him. This is exactly how it would work in the 5th edition rule set.
** In an earlier scene, a group of intellect devourers show no interest in attacking the party, which Edgin takes as somewhat insulting; the group at that point consists of a bard, a barbarian, a druid, a sorcerer, and a paladin, none of which are classes that rely very heavily on the Intelligence stat.
** Similarly, Simon is depicted as a rather inept sorcerer, something he's deeply insecure about. This makes sense as Sorcerers are charisma-based casters, and Simon is demonstratively ''not'' a charismatic individual, so he likely doesn't have a very good spellcasting ability.

* OdeToIntoxication: ''Juice of the Vine,'' the melancholic melody that celebrates to the joy alcohol brings to the uncertain and perilous life of an adventurer:
--> ''No fortune found, nor faith divine''\\
''Come close to topping the juice of the vine!''\\
''With cherry crew, we sip and sway''\\
'' Let's tip the tankard and waste the day!''\\
''Ree, raw! Well ye' ken! Our toils can wait for a time!''\\
''We saw the folly of men, who'd rather than revel repine!''

--> ''No fortune found, nor faith divine''
--> ''Come close to topping the juice of the vine!''
--> ''With cherry crew, we sip and sway''
-->'' Let's tip the tankard and waste the day!''
--> ''Ree, raw! Well ye' ken! Our toils can wait for a time!''
--> ''We saw the folly of men, who'd rather than revel repine!''

-->'' Let's tip the tankard and waste the day''
--> ''Ree, Raw! Well ye' ken! Our toils can wait for a time!''

* UnwantedRevival: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Edgin explicitly states that Zia's death and finding a way to bring her back is what's currently motivating him and has been ever since he learned about the way to do it. [[spoiler:Xenk]] tries to convince him that perhaps she wouldn't ''want'' to come back to this plane of existence, and Edgin might be robbing her of a new life. [[spoiler:While it's unclear whether that's true, Edgin ultimately decides that Zia is trying to tell him not to selfishly focus on bringing her back just for his own feelings, because she didn't mind dying if it was to save Kira. Instead, he revives the newly dead Holga, who very much ''does'' want to be brought back.]]

* CargoConcealmentCaper: In order to rob Forge Fitzwilliam's vault, Holga stows away on a carriage that's bringing cargo there.

** During their excursion in the Underdark to retrieve the Helm of Disjunction, the party is brought before a complicated bridge puzzle which almost immediately ends up botched beyond repair. Just when it seems like their journey is about to stop dead in its tracks, Simon suddenly makes an extremely useful discovery: [[spoiler:the seemingly unassuming "walking stick" that Holga took from her ex? [[DeusExMachina Turns out]] it's a powerful [[MagicStaff Hither-Tither Staff]] that lets them [[ThinkingUpPortals create portals]], allowing them to bypass the puzzle entirely and proving to be a valuable tool for the rest of the film.]]
** Later as the heroes act out their plan, [[spoiler:they use the Hither-Tither Staff to cast a portal onto a painting that gets snuck into the castle's vault, which they intend to use as an easy way in. This gets thwarted as the guard bringing the painting in carelessly lets it drop face-down onto the floor, thus treating the heroes to a portal that leads directly into solid concrete, forcing them to think of another way to get in. [[LampshadeHanging The group briefly discusses why anyone would just let a fancy painting fall onto the floor like that to begin with]].]]