Recent content by Maxperson

Hmm. To me the PCs are just another ingredient added to the mix. A dash of lava in a cave here, a pinch of red dragon there, toss in some PCs and viola!

But those logical details ARE part of the play experience. When the PCs approach the region with the dragon's lair, they will see the impact it is having on the region and that impact affects the play experience. The local ecology and economy are going to be present in play, and to me at...

It's not that cooking is eating. It's that assembling the ingredients is part of cooking.

Oh, and they still don't. One of the cast in this last season was declared a sorcerer with innate powers who differed from a wizard who used a spellbook, but sorcerers didn't appear until 3e. :p

I'm very confident that 5e would be significantly less without Critical Roll. Not only are we looking at all the people Critical Roll brought in directly, and all the others it brought in indirectly through those people it brought in directly, but we are also looking at every other major D&D...

There's no way that it's scripted. I can fully believe that they know in a general way what major plot points are coming up, but they don't know the details of that plot point, nor do they know what will happen on the way there. Not unless they are better actors than most of the A listers out...

Dang it! Now I can't move.

Stranger Things was more popular as a an entertainment show, but I very much doubt that it brought in as many D&D players as Critical Roll. D&D was mentioned several times over the seasons, but Critical Roll is all D&D and fans of that show are much more likely to move to 5e. Out of all of...

I doubt it. You are only looking at people directly influenced by it. What needs to be considered is that there are not only huge numbers who were directly influenced by it, but even larger numbers influenced by people playing 5e because they were influenced by Critical Roll. And then more...

I'm pretty sure that Earendil flew to Oz.

They're both. They are all participating, yes, but they are also all coming up with things that the others don't know about in advance, which makes the others an audience for the one with the spotlight.

Brennan is much more narratively focused than Matt is, which alters the feel of the game. I like season 4, but not as much as I liked seasons 1-3.

The issue isn't that it's digital, but rather that the digital is exclusive to DDB and not available for purchase as a PDF for those of us who don't play online. We get that such small releases can't be physical.

Do they look the same to you?!