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AAlViking reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4 with
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I think that's maybe an unintentionally misleading way of putting it. Mearls' team absolutely provided Larian with information about... -
AAlViking reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
There were a ton of other games I remember getting play in the 80s and 90s too. Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, Deadlands, L5R, Traveler...
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AAlViking reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Because the broader impacts and individual risk level are way lower, D&D dominance is not nearly as intense at suppressing alternatives...
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.The tangent came up because someone stated D&D was just like MS and Windows. Except they have very little in common because MS used all...
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AAlViking reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
The stakes to society are way lower in TTRPGs: WotC market leadership status doesn't give them massive power over society.
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.My point is that people sure seem to keep trying to say that D&D is in spite of the system. I disagree. The brand has a lot of...
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.If past performance guaranteed sustained popularity we'd still gave Pan Am, Toys R Us, Blockbuster just to name a few off the top of my...
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.There are a lot of reasons. What's your point?
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AAlViking reacted to UngainlyTitan's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Totally agree with you, it could have been something else. Being a first mover is part of what got D&D to this point. But if it never...
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.You keep putting words in my mouth. It's an open market, WOTC is not doing anything to prevent competition. Other than that? There have...
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AAlViking reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Better how? and to whom? I agree with you of course, but those two questions are the crux of the issue. D&D isn't a better game than...
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AAlViking reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
Matt Mercer is on the record for saying that he switched to D&D 5e because it was easier for him to run live.
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AAlViking replied to the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players.That's not what they say on their wiki.
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AAlViking reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.
You’re aware that CR started as a private game, right?
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Which is not answering my question. I don't understand why killing minions is different than any other monster. It seems like you're...