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CCSS: 6.EE.A.2.C, 7.EE.B.3, MP1, MP6
TEKS: 6.3D, 6.7D, 7.3A, 7.3B
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By the Numbers: Dungeons & Dragons
Paramount Pictures
Get ready to roll! Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits theaters on March 31. In the movie, a ragtag team of adventurers tries to save the day after a theft goes wrong. The movie is based on the classic role-playing game famous for its fantasy genre and many-sided dice. Players create their own unique characters and stories as they play Dungeons & Dragons, or D&D.
Chris Pine, who plays a bard named Edgin in the movie, played D&D with his family—and he loved it. “It’s virtually impossible not to get sucked into the fun of the game,” he says.
Read on to learn more about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the game. Then plug in the numbers to solve the equation below and reveal a final fact.
5
Number of characters in the party—or main group—featured in the film: a bard, a barbarian, a paladin, a sorcerer, and a druid
50 million
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Number of people who have played D&D as of 2020, according to Wizards of the Coast, the game’s current publisher
4
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Total number of Dungeons & Dragons movies. Honor Among Thieves is a new story and isn’t related the earlier movies.
12
Bianca Alexis
Classes, or types of characters, players can pick from in the basic D&D rules
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