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SSeramus reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with
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I don’t know that I would expect any setting to be completely original at this point. Not even really sure that’s a worthwhile goal for... -
SSeramus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
I mean, that’s like one of the key fundamental building blocks of European fantasy. The specifics of what technology the preceding...
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SSeramus reacted to DarkCrisis's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Not to sound like an ass but CR isnt the first to do that. I applaud them for taking a lot of old AD&D stuff (and other sources)...
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SSeramus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Yeah, D&D itself is fundamentally pastiche. Taking your favorite ideas from a variety of sources and throwing them together into a soup...
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SSeramus reacted to DarkCrisis's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Just know that a lot of stuff was cribbed from other sources. Like his Dark Elves are 90% Shadow Elves from Mystara. Which is fine...
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SSeramus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Notably, Exandria’s pantheon is the 4e pantheon (with the serial numbers filed off in the published books, though they used the original...
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SSeramus reacted to Aurel Guthrie's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
If a continent at war, a multitude of major threats, elder evils that could destroy reality as we know it, dragons that can topple...
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SSeramus reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Exandria is my favourite campaign setting, by far, and a worthy successor to Greyhawk, while also incorporating most of the classic...
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SSeramus reacted to Savage Wombat's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
I found them to be a good example of what other worldbooks should do, in terms of evocative, original locations and plot hooks. But...
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SSeramus reacted to billd91's post in the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc. with Like.
Yeah, not gonna do that because, quite frankly, one of the nice things going for it is the campaign setting already has an audience of...
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SSeramus replied to the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster.Oh certainly, I'm happy to let them have their fun, and used to exist in those spaces (very prevalent in freeform RP circles) for many...
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SSeramus reacted to Mort's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster with Like.
Yes, narrative consequences are a thing. As my group (2 Dragonborn, 1 Tabaxi, a halfling and a dwarf) found out trying to bluff their...
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SSeramus replied to the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster.There are definitely places where roleplaying half angel/half dragons/half gods with eyes of 2+ different colors, smirking, you can...
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SSeramus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster with Like.
I don’t know how else to interpret accusations of attention-seeking and making characters with Isekai anime backstories. 🤷♀️ I don’t...
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SSeramus reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster with Like.
Haha, no. I can see why you might get that impression given Liam’s proclivity for playing tortured, emotional characters, but that’s...