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Right. It’s Critical Role’s fix D&D project. It just so happens that a lot of the pain points CR felt needed fixing were also pain points other gamers felt needed fixing. Hence its popularity.

Yeah. That's one way I can see this going sideways and turning good game design into a cash grab. When I initially heard there would be cards I was incredibly leery of the whole thing. I think they did a great job of integrating the cards and not making it a cash grab. In future, I hope they do...

Great news. Love me some Spider-Punk. https://deadline.com/2025/08/spider-punk-animated-feature-daniel-kaluuya-ajon-singh-sony-1236478287/

Especially those who started playing 5E because they watched CR.

That’s not what the article says. Here’s the quote. “Mercer & Co.’s recently announced Campaign 4 will likely be using the D&D system like the three previous ones.” It’s a guess, like everyone else’s.

Absolutely. Though sometimes it’s hard to tell what or when your first is. But there’s also how much of a thing you engage with. Superman first appeared in comic books on April 18, 1938. Superman with Christopher Reeve came out on December 15, 1978. By the time the film came out there had...

“Silence is a lesson learned from the many sufferings of life.” —Seneca, Thyestes, 309

The trouble with Snyder’s Superman is it’s Nolan’s Batman in red and blue. It’s the wrong character with the wrong powers doing all the wrong things. Superman doesn’t need to be updated and certainly doesn’t need to be remade as an anti-hero. As seen with the success of Gunn’s Superman. Kindness...

And by extension, making Superman a terrible person...making Superman not a hero...etc.

No real way to answer that generally, but I know I'd much rather play Daggerheart than 5E. Daggerheart is faster in combat than 5E and it's far more engaging because of the freeform initiative system. If that's intimidating, use the optional spotlight tracker. It's great. Monsters are cleaner...

Imagine that.

If you run into trouble with initiative, just use the optional spotlight tracker. Works great.

Sure. But it’s more than that. Vowels and consonants are formed differently in the mouth. That's what separates the mouth sounds. Most W sounds are far closer to vowels than consonants. If you’re from the US, loose, goose, and goo make a long O sound. Hold that O sounds and pay attention...

https://www.dictionary.com/e/w-vowel/

You could simply use the International Phonetic Alphabet. But that's more about pronunciation than spelling. Good luck getting people even in the same US state to agree on how words should be pronounced...to say nothing of Australia, England, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland...

It's tragic that the world seems hellbent on becoming a cyberpunk dystopia, but what's even more wild is how so many people are falling all over themselves to be the mustache-twirling villains. I mean really. You're not even important enough to be Nameless Background NPC #679 in some corpo's...

I’m curious about something. Is there a common name for or way to find the old-school d20s that had 0-9 twice? I know Chessex is doing some new ones for MCDM’s Draw Steel but I’d love to get ahold of a few generic ones. Thanks.

Yeah. We know the names of two of the people at the table. Brennan and Matt. Beyond that, nothing.

I stopped that one, too. Probably earlier than you are in the book.

In one of the videos I watched there was mention of also researching NPCs to discover their motivations/pitfalls. Is that in the book, too?