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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    So 2 things: 1) I actually find most warlock concepts very fraught precisely because most patrons are usually framed as antagonists in campaigns. YMMV of course. 2) A fiend of GOO is terrible yes, but they are traditionally removed from the setting, ie, while they are a force in the world, they...
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    Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

    As I stated elsewhere, Daggerheart at this time only has ten lvls of PC progression. This may be expanded upon later, but there may be an internal decision that until that happens, it's not a good showcase of the system to try and craft a multi year story with the system.
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    Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

    What I really appreciated and would like more of is "how the sausage is made." ie, that Mulligan is not creating all of this whole cloth on his own. There is a whole team of people crafting this campaign which he is running. While I think cries of the "Mercer Effect" are overblown, there is some...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    So the supposed sticking point holding back Dark Sun returning is how central slavery is to the world and much of the narrative. One solution some have given which I agree with is to center the PCs are being opposed to the practice. In my opinion, there is no way to do this with the...
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    So looking back after the recent announcements: 1) Yep, still D&D. 2) As already announced, Mulligan is the new GM. 3) So new setting. I don't buy into it being far future Exandria. 4) The original cast is there... but not every week. West Marches style is a choice and we will see how well it...
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    Sorry. it's 5am. Cackling loudly might wake up my wife. No. Good God no.
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    I was swayed to pick up Daggerheart by watching it being used for Age of Umbra. Funnily enough, the campaign itself was just way too arch and labored for my tastes, but the rules really were sold well. But also again, I am not a large AP consumer, so I'm not a good judge of what makes for the...
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    For clarity, I have no horse in this race. I am just positing a discussion of branding and expectations. I think the only item that needs to be kept to call this Campaign 4 is that it go on long enough to be a campaign and not a short series. Minimum run of a year, with some breaks, so you get...
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    In what you are describing, they are still the same setting, just with the focus pulled further out. But if the next game is Cyberpunk Red for the system and setting, it's a new animal.
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    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    I think this is a reasonable take and expectation. But it's not the branding. The branding is this is #4.
  12. Professor Murder

    D&D General Critical Role Season 4 and the Ship of Theseus

    So the question I am proposing is this: How will Critical Role Season 4 be Critical Role? Well, what unifies the previous seasons? What traits do they share that make them Critical Role seasons as opposed to other APs that the Critical Role studio has released up to this point? 1) It's D&D...
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    What’s a song that makes you cry (not just from sadness, but from feeling too much)?

    I had a good friend once say this felt like my theme song. I hadn't heard it before but yeah, she nailed.
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    Another issue: How often are new books released? And as a longtime consumer of gaming, how often are new editions released? Ex: Chaosium puts out a new hardcover for Call of Cthulhu about 3-5 times a year which run $40-60. I can deal with that and don't buy every release. The current edition of...
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    What's Your Price Limit?

    Right now, $75 for a single book would make me balk but I could see my way to do it, if it felt "complete." Roughly $60? Sure. Like once a quarter. Small A5 type ttrpgs? $45 would be my balk point, but say 30-40? Sure thing. Will these numbers change in say 3-5 years? Unfortunately yeah. My...
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    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    Basically, I am always more concerned with what people do because of what they believe than what they believe. Believe in ghost, in existence beyond death? Cool. How does it inform on how you live, how you treat others? Ghosts aren't real? Sure thing. Same question as above.
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    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    Like a lot of supernatural or fortean weirdness, I am agnostic when it comes to ghosts. I don't actively insist that they are real, and I expect that any given ghost siting has a non-ghost explanation. But if I were wrong, I would accept it. Ghosts are possible but unlikely.
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