SYNOPSIS (with spoilers)​​

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The film opens on a medieval melee between a knight, a dwarf, a sorcerer, and a bunch of orcs. The melee dissolves when teenage ELENA bursts into the basement where her brother BRAD and his friends CARLOS and RAJ are role-playing those characters in their Weapons & Wizardry (W&W) game. When the boys later find a mysterious game module made by the creator of W&W (at an estate sale), they can’t wait to play, but are one player short. Brad asks Elena to sit in. She agrees but plans to sneak out to a party. When they roll dice to start the mystery game, a portal of green light sucks them into the game world as their characters: a DWARF, an ELF, and a KNIGHT. Except Brad, the game master, who transports as his weak, teen self. 

 

In the game world, the players help a village defend against a dragon attack that kills HAWK, the village blacksmith, and get assistance from DRYGA, a wise old man who tells them about a mythical green castle in the Dark Forest that may hold the key to their returning home. BREE, Hawk’s daughter, offers to guide them to the castle in order to take vengeance on the dragon. In the forest, Brad is badly injured in a fight with an Owlbear and must be healed by Elena. As they take refuge in the Dark Forest, a lurker watches them. Later, the gang tumbles into a magically cloaked tunnel network where Raj kills a carrion crawler. Then at the Dragon’s lair, Brad is killed by a blast of poisonous dragon breath. 

 

Devastated but determined, the players fight and kill a stone golem causing four new dice to materialize. Dryga appears, takes the dice, and reveals that he is DAVE GARY, the creator of Weapons & Wizardry, trapped in his own game for months. Dave holds Bree at knife point to force her to carry the Dragon’s treasure back to the real world. The Dragon returns, knocks the dice onto the ground, re-activating the portal of green light and zapping everyone back home, including Bree, Dave, the Dragon, and a very alive (but blind) Brad. Angered by the theft of its treasure, the Dragon attacks and eats Dave. Carlos attaches M-80s to Bree’s arrows, and she brings the beast down with a well-placed shot to its mouth. The heroes celebrate their defeat of the dragon, and Brad’s vision begins to return. Elena and Raj kiss, and the gang decides to bury the dangerous game module. That is, until Bree asks if they can help her return home.