Recent content by Nathaniel Lee

I've enjoyed the nearly four years that I've been using Roll20. It's a helluva lot easier to set up and run sessions there than in person, for sure (although I do miss in-person play). Of course some quirks here and there, but especially with the Beyond20 plugin, things tend to run pretty...

I watched the video when it came out and heard what he had to say. I'm hopeful that the promoted intent translates into the finished product, but we've gotten no previews of that content... 🤷

I was, of course, being super hyperbolic about there being no rules at all in the DMG, but my point still stands that there is really very little in the DMG that isn't "fluff". We're basically talking Chapters 8 and 9 here, and Chapter 9 is entirely variant and optional rules. I certainly...

Same here. The PHB is where the actual mechanical rules of the game reside. The DMG is "just" fluff and the MM is just statblocks around base mechanics that aren't really changing. I'm looking forward to seeing what "fluff" they actually change in the DMG.

Where do you get this idea? I in fact wouldn't be shocked if the market for 5E is bigger than the market for most of the previous editions combined. Digging back through some old posts here, it seems like the 5E Player's Handbook already beat the 3E, 3.5E and 4E Player's Handbook lifetime sales...

That's fair, although that's more an informal descriptor than what they're actually calling it. It's an adjective: "the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide" as opposed to how they actually called earlier editions, like "4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game". And IIRC while the...

Most definitely this. To Wizards of the Coast as an entity, "D&D" basically means what most everyone else refers to as "5th Edition". They've never actually even officially referred to it as "5th Edition" or "5E". To them, it's just "D&D". And of course they're only going to care about their...

How big a deal was the Nentir Vale by the time Critical Role came around in May 2015, almost a year after 5E launched and Forgotten Realms had been once again clearly established as "the" setting of Dungeons & Dragons? By the time Critical Role started, we already had the two Tiamat modules as...

Those stats aren't necessarily helpful. Critical Role has been around for significantly longer than that. They started off as just one of many programs under Geek & Sundry's banner, way back in May 2015, less than a year after 5E was released. June 2018, the start of the data, was when they...

If things like Stranger Things and Critical Role never came around, 5E would still have been the number one TTRPG. It just wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is now or reached the levels of their multiple, consecutive "best years of D&D ever" numbers.

I agree to an extent... if combat takes a shorter amount of time and that leads to more combat scenarios in a single session, that would be an overall plus. The trend of less and less combat on the show is a major part of why it's becoming harder and harder for me to stay even remotely focused...

None of those games were the one that fueled their actual campaign. I don't think we should be under any illusion that people were rushing to make Crash Pandas or Honey Heist the bedrock of their fantasy RPG campaigns. ;) Completely unrelated: After all this time in these forums, I only just...

Same here. My TTRPG and board game collection is starting to look like my video game and Blu-ray collection: tons of unwrapped items that will probably never be unboxed.

None of which are TTRPGs. Darrington hasn't done much at all. That Ukotoa game reviewed pretty badly. This new card game supposedly is pretty good, but honestly the commercial they filmed for it completely turned me off to even trying it.

I wouldn't consider these forums to be representative of the Critical Role fanbase. They are diehard. I would say that their fandom to the show and the creators far outweighs their fandom to a system: most are probably just playing some version or iteration of the show, whether that's in the...