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I should add that I share a lot of narrative freedom with the players to add story elements; that's just how our game has evolved. So...

I guess I’m going to find out! I’ll report how it worked with my group. I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t, and stretching the...

In a profit-oriented D&D production, this is a lovely idea. In your home game with Steve doing every munchkin thing possible, it...

The Polygon writer strikes me as someone whose primary experience of D&D is watching Critical Role and certainly not engaging with any...

That, and the DMG standard "immediate" level up isn't going to be in the middle of combat or a dramatic moment, it will be afterwards...

During the leveling up episode, Brennan confirmed with each player what class they were leveling up in. Presumably if any of them had...

5e doesn’t really comment on the subject, but uneven party levels are certainly less common outside of Adventurer’s League. This is by...

I think what sets the method Brenan is using apart is the fact that he’s leaving it up to each individual player to decide when they...

your example and Brennan's practice are both considered standard 5e From the 2024 DMG

I think they would work fine together. In fact, a long rest seems like a good opportunity to roll your hit points and select a few...

Indeed, the mechanical incentive is just to level up as soon as possible! The only reasons to save it are narrative, or maybe because...

Yeah, it's striking how much of this is just how Brennan does things generally, and how putting it on the much, much bigger platform of...

For the two who have leveled up this way in Critical Role, it was kind of like a Second Wind situation (spoilers ahead for episode 10):

So, I haven’t been watching the new season of Critical Role; it lost me during the endless slog of the first few episodes (how it felt...

Yeah, it’s pretty cool! They had a “leveling up” bonus episode where they rolled the HP they would gain when they level up and chose a...