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  1. Rikka66

    Critical Role Critical Role's Matt Mercer Updates His Bloodhunter Class

    We know the three subclasses in the book are the Echo Knight, the Chronurgist, and the Graviturgist. . It's been confirmed nothing else will be in it, whether it be Gunslinger or stuff from Tal'dorei
  2. Rikka66

    D&D 5E (2014) Am I no longer WoTC's target audience?

    The lesson they learned from TSR was not to release tons of settings with 20 supplements each. The tie-in starter sets are a very different kind of product from that. I wouldn't call the connection between Birthright and Game of Thrones a "no-brainer". That's the kind of fad chasing that has...
  3. Rikka66

    Critical Role Wildemount: Most Pre-orders Since D&D Core Rulebooks

    Based off the Pathfinder wiki Torag seems to be their version of Moradin. Though Torog tricking the dwarves with an alternate identity would make a decent story.
  4. Rikka66

    D&D General Old Campaign Worlds - What Have You Used And Why?

    Dark Sun: The only setting I ran specifically to play in that setting. The game couldn't pick up steam and we only went a few sessions, but I still hope to return one day. Nentir Vale: Stole some resources (Hammerfast was the biggest one) for my own world. Forgotten Realms: Again, stole...
  5. Rikka66

    Critical Role Wildemount: Most Pre-orders Since D&D Core Rulebooks

    I can't speak for the entire run of Critical Role, but they were using mind flayers and a beholder as antagonists in the first episodes. And while I can see WoTC "encouraging" them to run one-shots in other settings, I doubt they are going to risk the ire of fans by turning their main campaign...
  6. Rikka66

    Critical Role Wildemont <--> Tal'dorei: Relationship?

    The animated series will likely occur before then, and would be a much better opportunity. I imagine, whatever the agreement was with Green Ronin, that using the contents of the Tal'dorei book without Green Ronin in a new book would be very complicated.
  7. Rikka66

    D&D 5E (2014) Am I no longer WoTC's target audience?

    A risk you'll always have, especially the farther you get into an edition's life cycle, is that monster's books won't have the monsters you want to use. Especially as they burn through the most famous and setting-generic ones and have to to start diving deeper into the bestiary. And if you...
  8. Rikka66

    Critical Role The New D&D Book Is 'The Explorer's Guide to [Critical Role's] Wildemount!' By Matt Mercer

    Speaking of this, do we know anything about the 4e "if Essentials hadn't happened" setting future? I know a Nentir Vale book was a casualty, but I've never heard anything else. I can't imagine a Planescape book was a possiblity.
  9. Rikka66

    Critical Role The New D&D Book Is 'The Explorer's Guide to [Critical Role's] Wildemount!' By Matt Mercer

    Suggesting they liberally license settings isn't really a realistic proposition. If they wanted more books, they'd either expand their team or contract more freelancers a year. 5e is doing well enough that the problem isn't budget cuts on the D&D team. Avoiding a creation of glut or the...
  10. Rikka66

    Critical Role The New D&D Book Is 'The Explorer's Guide to [Critical Role's] Wildemount!' By Matt Mercer

    Your 22 year old player would have been 7 or 8 when Eberron was released in 2004. Too young to have cared about it, obviously, but long past "barely walking". And if she started in say, middle school, Eberron would have still been a young setting. I get it, time is only getting faster, but...
  11. Rikka66

    Critical Role Dunamancy from Wildemount

    The real solution to the Warlord-conundrum: make it a wizard.
  12. Rikka66

    Critical Role The New D&D Book Is 'The Explorer's Guide to [Critical Role's] Wildemount!' By Matt Mercer

    I'd be interested in hearing your logic on this detailed.
  13. Rikka66

    D&D 4E Am I crazy? I've just gotten a hankering to play 4e again...

    I believe they sent emails out to subscribers and waived the fees for the final month. Better safe than sorry of course, though.
  14. Rikka66

    D&D General On gatekeeping and the 'live-streaming edition wars'

    I'd be curious to learn what years had the most crunch, in your opinion, outside the obvious of 2014 and 2017. Are we specifically talking about player content crunch? 2015 was SCAG and the EE Player's Companion, and you've already cited that as a weak year. 2016 was a few races from Volo and a...
  15. Rikka66

    D&D General On gatekeeping and the 'live-streaming edition wars'

    Then your argument is that they have slowed down in releasing content that is of interest to you, not that the actual release schedule has slowed down. Which, hey, more power to you on that opinion, but they aren't the same thing. You're seeking more setting agnostic content, which is...
  16. Rikka66

    D&D General On gatekeeping and the 'live-streaming edition wars'

    They've had a consistent schedule of "two adventures + extra book" since 2015. As far as I can tell 2018 and 2019 only expanded on that. I'm not sure how you can claim that they've slowed down.
  17. Rikka66

    Critical Role The New D&D Book Is 'The Explorer's Guide to [Critical Role's] Wildemount!' By Matt Mercer

    Essentials Kit isn't a follow up. It takes place in the same town as the starter kit and could be run concurrently, but I would say it was designed to be even simpler and easier to run for newbies than the starter kit already is.
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