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Not sure that they did this intentionally, but this campaign is going to give them some amazing data, almost as if they were A/B testing. On the Reddits, there are constant debates over whether the audience for CR is there for the combat which is reliant on the D&D engine, the S class...

Def have a lot to like in each group, I just hope that Ep4 was an anomaly in terms of pacing. 3 encounters over 5 hours is waaaayyy to slow for my taste and my biggest issue with C3. And both the Seekers and schemers have lots of players who like to push scenes too long. Brendan had been doing...

Wonder if there is any consideration of pivoting this project to something else. Give what's been done to a developer to use as the foundation of a squad based game. Create 10-12 pre made encounters, then set up online rooms that pair 4 PCs against 1-2 DMs for a single battle in the encounter...

Also, Tal's C2 class was an already existing homebrew class of Mercer's, not something he created specifically for Tal. Edit: Ninjad

For me the issue with Matt is that he's capable of so much more that what seems to be going on with Sir Davios, but maybe he'll surprise me as the campaign unfolds. But for now it just feels too Lanister son for me. Bolaire won me over in Ep4. I was thinking along the same lines as you, but...

As someone who only liked (and didn't love) BLeeMs three mini-runs in C3, I've been loving almost everything about C4. The only thing I'm really bouncing off hard is Matt's character. I would have much rather seen him do something more whimsical like The Traveler. Luis' character I'm still on...

And the end of the day, WotC ran into a want vs need issue with Sigil. Do I want a VTT capable of doing 3D terrain and the kind of epic battles that I experienced in BG3 (battles as dynamic as say the main Moonrise Tower encounter are very difficult on a 2d map or ToM)? Yes, I would love...

No, I'm saying if she had pushed one more time after the warning, that Brennan would have been justified in having Primus unleash on her. As it was, she took the warning to heart so we never got to that point. Failing the save earlier wasn't supposed to kill her, it was meant to warn her...

And it's the players choice to not listen to explicit warnings from the DM that their course of action could lead to severe consequences. For my personal DM style, had I been running that situation and Marisha had pushed again after the explicit warning, I would have broken from the scene and...

Re Primus and Murray, that’s exactly the kind of high level play that I love watching. Should almost come with a “professional players, don’t attempt at home” warning. Marisha and BLeeM are highly skilled, empathetic, storytellers. I have no doubt that Marisha understood she was playing with...

And to control the pace, you don't need to run 20 rounds of combat every long rest, you just need the party to believe that there could be 20 rounds of combat before that long rest. Vary your adventure days, have the occasional after BBEG lieutenant fights (where the BBEGs lieutenants show up a...

So, one of the old rules of film and television was that you should be able to enter a show at any point and within 10 minutes understand what's going on. That was largely because the old film reels were about 10 minutes in length (a feature film being made up by many of those reels) and if you...

My personal guess is that Sam is playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer and Assamir who been made to believe he's a human cleric by his family. I'm guessing his grandmother made some deal with a Solar or other powerful celestial post the god war to bring some divinity back into the world, and the...

From what I've seen 20 episodes into Worlds Beyond Number, BLeeM has an excellent ability to allow for emergent storytelling even while pacing sessions to be exciting and rich in conflict. There are always 'big things' happening in the background of WBN, but each episode is a treasure unto...

2024. Ran a 2014/2024 hybrid game for the last year, but that campaign is taking a break and now I'm playing in a 2024 exclusive.