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That's fair, although that's more an informal descriptor than what they're actually calling it. It's an adjective: "the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide" as opposed to how they actually called earlier editions, like "4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game". And IIRC while the...

Most definitely this. To Wizards of the Coast as an entity, "D&D" basically means what most everyone else refers to as "5th Edition". They've never actually even officially referred to it as "5th Edition" or "5E". To them, it's just "D&D". And of course they're only going to care about their...

How big a deal was the Nentir Vale by the time Critical Role came around in May 2015, almost a year after 5E launched and Forgotten Realms had been once again clearly established as "the" setting of Dungeons & Dragons? By the time Critical Role started, we already had the two Tiamat modules as...

Those stats aren't necessarily helpful. Critical Role has been around for significantly longer than that. They started off as just one of many programs under Geek & Sundry's banner, way back in May 2015, less than a year after 5E was released. June 2018, the start of the data, was when they...

If things like Stranger Things and Critical Role never came around, 5E would still have been the number one TTRPG. It just wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is now or reached the levels of their multiple, consecutive "best years of D&D ever" numbers.

I agree to an extent... if combat takes a shorter amount of time and that leads to more combat scenarios in a single session, that would be an overall plus. The trend of less and less combat on the show is a major part of why it's becoming harder and harder for me to stay even remotely focused...

None of those games were the one that fueled their actual campaign. I don't think we should be under any illusion that people were rushing to make Crash Pandas or Honey Heist the bedrock of their fantasy RPG campaigns. ;) Completely unrelated: After all this time in these forums, I only just...

Same here. My TTRPG and board game collection is starting to look like my video game and Blu-ray collection: tons of unwrapped items that will probably never be unboxed.

None of which are TTRPGs. Darrington hasn't done much at all. That Ukotoa game reviewed pretty badly. This new card game supposedly is pretty good, but honestly the commercial they filmed for it completely turned me off to even trying it.

I wouldn't consider these forums to be representative of the Critical Role fanbase. They are diehard. I would say that their fandom to the show and the creators far outweighs their fandom to a system: most are probably just playing some version or iteration of the show, whether that's in the...

The overwhelming majority of Critical Role's fanbase are people who never played TTRPGs before: their loyalty isn't to the system but to the show. They'll follow the CR team wherever they go. And any new viewers are almost guaranteed to be people in the same boat, so like @elawai said, they're...

That's awesome! I don't think I could ever justify the cost of airfare and hotel to attend that. I'll have to hope PAX Unplugged sticks around in perpetuity. :)

I'm curious what the growth of the Critical Role user base is. I'd be surprised if viewer numbers are still exploding at anywhere near the levels from years ago. It'll definitely put this game in front of some people before they even know what D&D is, but how much will that really be? I'm also...

Any mention of them finally supporting homebrew classes, homebrew non-magical items, custom languages, etc.?

I thought that the movie was great. I liked that it had dramatic moments, but didn't take itself too seriously... that it had humorous moments, but didn't fall into the trap of wink-wink nudge-nudge making fun of the source material. I thought the action sequences played out pretty well. I think...

I can attest to this. I got a Meta Quest 2 right after Thanksgiving, but I never really had a chance to play anything on it until I finally tried out Resident Evil 4 a few nights ago. Things were okay at first, but the action started picking up and I found myself rotating around, turning my...

Also, what are you searching on? One thing I noticed was that for some reason when I did a search in Acrobat for "One D&D", one of the instances didn't show up, even though it was clearly the text "One D&D". I've seen this weird behavior in the past with some PDF documents, perhaps something to...

Last paragraph of left column on the first page of that document:

I don't know what to tell you. I'm looking at it right now.

Given that they added a bunch of new conditions, I'm skeptical that's the reason...