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Which is why I called it typical Session 0 stuff.... Sam has said several times explicitly that he is doing something to make it more entertaining. There is no subjectivity or supposition there. And, yeah. Played D&D since the 1970s with over 1000 different people. I don't think they've...

It depends upon what you mean by scripted. Are they reading lines off a teleprompter? No. However, they do have discussions about what they will and will not say on the show. Some of that is just like any typical session 0 stuff "Sam, let's downgrade the sexual assault humor ... Don't...

Nobody is asking them to do anything. It is an offer. There is nothing that is tying them down. The number is daunting is a real thing, but it shouldn't be because it is essentially like not take free money because you're being offered more than you can spend right now.

For the rest I agree - we're on different pages. For the first point - I agree that the reluctance is there ... and it makes sense in environments where you don't have total access to the entire run easily, or there is such a huge variety from which to choose ... But Critical Role is the...

This seems to be a problem like being young too long or having too much money. We have a few examples of them playing non-D&D games ... and there is always a dip in the numbers. Candela Obscura is pulling about a third of what Campaign 3 is pulling - and it has enough of the main cast (with...

I (jokingly) object to this poll on the grounds that it failed to include the first Gem Dragon - Vorel, elder brother to Tiamat and Bahamut. And yes, I know that there is nothing official that explicitly ties Vorel to being a Gem dragon ... but his name means beautiful, and in draconic lore...

Dude! Don't pick on his accent! He comes from the same town that Scooby Do does and they're proud of how they speak! (and don't say that Scooby spoke that way because he was a dog ... all the other dogs spoke clearly).

People have said that for decades without realizing their game: They push for short term gains and trash the IP - then they grab whatever is going to next fill the gap and squeeze it too. Long Term profits is only more important than short term profits when you don't think you'll control the...

It brought a retired party out of retirement at 20th level. Well, it was mostly retired PCs. Critical Role is covered by a union, but the production was not categorized in a way that required them to cease production. Both Actual Play and Creator Owned projects had different treatment under...

I don't think they would do it again anytime soon. You have to be able to sell your setting to players, and we're such a divided fanbase (and world) that anything you do is going to be offensive to someone. They have established IP - they're better off running with it. If they held the...

I have two answers here: 1.) For a published adventure - only in very limited circumstances. If you have an NPC that is supposed to spend prolonged time with the PCs, I think it is wise to give the NPC some depth so that they don't get boring or turn into one liners and comic relief. If that...

We're going back and forth - and all I am seeing is people holding true to a premise despite the metrics that indicate their belief does not hold up. Good luck to you.

Well, if people overwhelmingly used the wizard over the fighter on DnDbeyond... if the surveys taken by WotC of the wider populace revealed that people preferred the wizard to the fighter by a large margin ... if I was at tables and people were systemically not enjoying playing fighters because...

There was a mission statement. A mission statement is a ststement of how you intend to solve a problem. This is literally asking how to fix something. Think about that statement you just made. You're saying you want to fix the disparity without resolving the question of whether the disparity...

I'd normally pass this up without a thought, but they used comic book trappings for psionics on their cover ... and I've long said the psionics work best when we emulate comic book characters with them. I may have to give it a look...

You're not saying they don't know better - you're saying they think fighter better fits their character idea even though more experienced players know there may be better options. Check. You could say a cleric is defined by prayer, a rogue by stealth, or a wizard by spells. There is a lot more...

Geesh. This place is a broken record. Why do people keep insisting that the game is horriby broken when it is the most successful edition in history. If you can't fix it, perhaps it just isn't broken. An insane number of people have enjoyed playing every class and every race in 5E. Some are...

I see your point. It does not hold up for the reasons I've already said. Further, your argument seems to think that this 50% excess of fighters over wizards that we see in the various surveys and metrics is being caused by an overwhelming number of new players playing fighters because they...

No u at the end, right? Not an expert here, but why not the Kensei? Because he also kicks and punches? From the wiki: Under Tanjiro's rather kind and friendly shell, is a person with a growing fire of rage and vengeance inside of them. More from the wiki: Through his heightened sense of smell...

Your view contradicts publicly available information. Again, I encourage you to look at the information coming directly from Amazon and from the store woners themselves. I am not guessing. I am not even introducing the view - I'm just repeating what the people that are directly and...