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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
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It's okay to not like things. It's doesn't mean you have to act a certain way about it. Some people get so mad about anything to do... -
SSeramus reacted to zakael19'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.
The only reason I have any attachment to FR is because of my childhood nostalgia for BG 1 & 2, and the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting...
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SSeramus reacted to doctorbadwolf'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.
Dragonlance caught on because the novels resonated, and only because the novels were populated. I love DL but it isn’t all that...
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SSeramus replied to the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc..New-ish at the time. What usually happens is a trope is used for a while, then it suddenly explodes into popularity, then gets...
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SSeramus replied to the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc..Everything you love can be reduced to equally simplistic terms. It's okay to say a setting just doesn't resonate with you. No more or...
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SSeramus replied to the thread Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc..Exandria has never been a "unique" setting. Instead, it takes some of the coolest elements of other settings and puts them in one place...
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SSeramus reacted to Angus MacDeth'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.
The best thing about Tal'Dorei and Wildemount is how easily they can become continents on the opposite side of the world as the Nentir...
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SSeramus reacted to Swarmkeeper'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.
We are currently running a campaign in Wildemount and the subclasses, feats, and spells are all available to the players, which has been...
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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.
I agree - it's a feature, not a flaw! When a setting is too idiosyncratic, I don't want to run it - it feels like the property of the...
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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 Like.
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...
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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.
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...