Well crafted, but ultimately toothless

Dungeons & Dragons hardly carries the stigma or cultural baggage it used to. It’s slowly bled into the mainstream, helped along by appearances in shows such as Freaks and Geeks, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Community, and most recently, Stranger Things.

But The Dwarvenaut is hardly a movie about Dungeons & Dragons; in fact, D&D appears to function more as a glossy window-dressing than anything else. It’s really a movie about Steve Pokorny. Pokorny founded Dwarven Forge in 1996, a company that sells three dimensional terrain for gamers to use during their D&D sessions, rather than relying on flat tiles or hastily drawn maps. The film alternates between following Dwarven Forge as they attempt to reach a Kickstarter goal of $2 million, and a biography of the perpetually cheerful and adventurous Pokorny himself: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/the-dwarvenaut/