Knights of Badassdom Might Just Be A LARP Movie Worth Watching

Making a movie about roleplaying games is a tricky task, where you have to balance presenting the game in a manner that is recognizable and true to source… without requiring your audience to actually know, intimately, how to play the game. I mean, I don’t understand how anyone could not like tabletop roleplaying, but apparently they exist. So far, the best treatment of the genre I’ve seen is the D&D episode of Community.

Which is interesting, because Danny Pudi is also in Knights of Badassdom, a movie about LARPers who accidentally summon an OC succubus while IC. So is Peter Dinklage. And Steve Zahn. And Summer Glau.

The only question is: Where is Felicia Day?

(via ThinkProgress.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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