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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    Not sure that they did this intentionally, but this campaign is going to give them some amazing data, almost as if they were A/B testing. On the Reddits, there are constant debates over whether the audience for CR is there for the combat which is reliant on the D&D engine, the S class...
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    Def have a lot to like in each group, I just hope that Ep4 was an anomaly in terms of pacing. 3 encounters over 5 hours is waaaayyy to slow for my taste and my biggest issue with C3. And both the Seekers and schemers have lots of players who like to push scenes too long. Brendan had been doing...
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    D&D General 'Project Sigil' 3D Virtual Tabletop Finally Laid To Rest

    Wonder if there is any consideration of pivoting this project to something else. Give what's been done to a developer to use as the foundation of a squad based game. Create 10-12 pre made encounters, then set up online rooms that pair 4 PCs against 1-2 DMs for a single battle in the encounter...
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    Also, Tal's C2 class was an already existing homebrew class of Mercer's, not something he created specifically for Tal. Edit: Ninjad
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    For me the issue with Matt is that he's capable of so much more that what seems to be going on with Sir Davios, but maybe he'll surprise me as the campaign unfolds. But for now it just feels too Lanister son for me. Bolaire won me over in Ep4. I was thinking along the same lines as you, but...
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    Critical Role Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 4 is a High-Octane Rollercoaster

    As someone who only liked (and didn't love) BLeeMs three mini-runs in C3, I've been loving almost everything about C4. The only thing I'm really bouncing off hard is Matt's character. I would have much rather seen him do something more whimsical like The Traveler. Luis' character I'm still on...
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    D&D General 'Project Sigil' 3D Virtual Tabletop Finally Laid To Rest

    And the end of the day, WotC ran into a want vs need issue with Sigil. Do I want a VTT capable of doing 3D terrain and the kind of epic battles that I experienced in BG3 (battles as dynamic as say the main Moonrise Tower encounter are very difficult on a 2d map or ToM)? Yes, I would love...
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    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    No, I'm saying if she had pushed one more time after the warning, that Brennan would have been justified in having Primus unleash on her. As it was, she took the warning to heart so we never got to that point. Failing the save earlier wasn't supposed to kill her, it was meant to warn her...
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    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    And it's the players choice to not listen to explicit warnings from the DM that their course of action could lead to severe consequences. For my personal DM style, had I been running that situation and Marisha had pushed again after the explicit warning, I would have broken from the scene and...
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    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Re Primus and Murray, that’s exactly the kind of high level play that I love watching. Should almost come with a “professional players, don’t attempt at home” warning. Marisha and BLeeM are highly skilled, empathetic, storytellers. I have no doubt that Marisha understood she was playing with...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    And to control the pace, you don't need to run 20 rounds of combat every long rest, you just need the party to believe that there could be 20 rounds of combat before that long rest. Vary your adventure days, have the occasional after BBEG lieutenant fights (where the BBEGs lieutenants show up a...
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    Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue

    So, one of the old rules of film and television was that you should be able to enter a show at any point and within 10 minutes understand what's going on. That was largely because the old film reels were about 10 minutes in length (a feature film being made up by many of those reels) and if you...
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    Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue

    My personal guess is that Sam is playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer and Assamir who been made to believe he's a human cleric by his family. I'm guessing his grandmother made some deal with a Solar or other powerful celestial post the god war to bring some divinity back into the world, and the...
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    Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue

    From what I've seen 20 episodes into Worlds Beyond Number, BLeeM has an excellent ability to allow for emergent storytelling even while pacing sessions to be exciting and rich in conflict. There are always 'big things' happening in the background of WBN, but each episode is a treasure unto...
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    D&D General What version of D&D are you playing?

    2024. Ran a 2014/2024 hybrid game for the last year, but that campaign is taking a break and now I'm playing in a 2024 exclusive.
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    Critical Role's Campaign 4 Opens With a Funeral and Plenty of Intrigue

    Def feels like we're getting primarily Epic seriousness that will be sprinkled with comic relief rather than lighthearted adventure that occasionally get's serious. I'm a big fan of how C1 and pre-covid C2 did it the later way. That said... I'm willing to give Brennan a try with the more epic...
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    Critical Role Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced.

    Makes sense. With three different tables, even if one or two wipe out, there is still story continuity with the third table. That's an elegant solution for the problem of how to continue a story after at TPK.
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    Wheel of Time S3

    That is some serious mission creep. And yeah, my main concern with the series (and even the last three books) is that it needs a really good edit. Maybe 25-30% cut out and it would really pop. At the same time, I don't mind an author writing their way out of trouble and just going for it...
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    Wheel of Time S3

    Finished the series yesterday! An absolutely epic conclusion that resolved it's conflicts with grace and power. This will go into rotation for me with The Dark Tower and The Expanse as once a decade or so re-reads, I think. Not sure where I'd rank it among those three long series right at the...
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    The Mandalorian & Grogu Trailer

    Brought a smile to my lips, but not enough to bring me back to Star Wars.
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