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CR will not address the Orion situation, ever. However, he has discussed having his own personal issues to work through at that time that were making it difficult for him professionally. And there have been some unsavory allegations about aspects of his conduct that I don't want to go into but...

Agreed - for me, Tharizdun was the obvious choice to give the "Cult of Chaos" a little more context and meaning. It's also an opponent that pretty much everyone agrees is Bad News, which makes things simpler for beginners.

Here's my first draft of the modifications I am making to the Keep section: Borderlands Keep Location: About a half day’s travel northeast of Rockguard Garrison, the Borderlands Keep is the Dwendalian Empire’s farthest outpost in the disputed and largely lawless territory between the Empire...

I bought the digital version on DDB; beginning players are making their own characters with access to all the current rules, and our first game is on Thursday so I’ll report back on how it goes running it on DDB. So far I have 6 players so I will have to beef up the encounters. BTW it cost me...

Absolutely! And that's my hope! But then why this trailer? I was buzzing for this campaign and now the trailer has me all worried that it will feel more like Mulligan's last stint on CR (though to be fair, that story didn't come from him, and the ending was literally preordained). Edit: going...

Nobody’s denying that you can do serious story beats. It’s when they become the focus that improv acting becomes tedious - it’s the same conversation, over and over, as Campaign 3 richly demonstrated. It may have worked for some folks and that’s awesome, but there’s a pretty strong consensus...

I think there is plenty of acting talent. But there’s a reason no one goes to the improv for serious drama.

According to WotC they are.

Yeah, a lot of Critical Role's stuff has gotten more serious in tone over the past few years, to its detriment, IMO. When Mulligan was announced for this series I was very hopeful that he would bring that fun D20 vibe, and his early Q&A with Mercer was very positive. So I was quite surprised by...

Yeah, lots of Eberron stuff has made its way into my campaign. Because it's cool!

To clarify, I don't think the player had any specific plans - I think they were just looking at their spell list and spitballing. We had had a game in which a door had a large, demonic visage carved on it, so perhaps that's what inspired the line of thought. They never brought up carving a face...

This makes me very curious to know how much of WotC's current sales are digital. Are digital releases factored into those numbers? They have to be increasingly significant for 5e.

I felt like I was clear that I was discussing plot contrivances - when story logic and consistency goes out the window in service of specific plot point that the writer wants to get to by hook or by crook. Yes, that's what opinions are. Am I expected to add "art is subjective and this is my...

I don't doubt it - he could make the phone book sound good. Look, I'm not denying that there is some good dialogue in Tolkien, just as there are some good lines in Star Wars. But Tolkien's default mode is to have someone declaiming rather than conversing. It works for him because Tolkien, but...

Except I love the first two Alien films - the second is my favourite movie. And there the bad choices make sense, and are called out. When Dallas breaks protocol, it both makes sense in the story (he's not a scientist, it's his friend), it is immediately called out by Ripley, which establishes a...

It's bad writing when it is done or the sake of plot and is inconsistent with what we know of the characters and with how we would expect people to behave. People behaving stupidly in Dumb and Dumber is not bad writing. Scientists failing to follow anything vaguely remembering basic scientific...

Ugh...that trailer has lowered my anticipation for the new campaign, significantly. I did not particularly enjoy BLM's last time DMing CR precisely because the story was dark and apocalyptic. Same with Age of Umbra. Remember when Critical Role used to be fun? A bunch of friends hanging out...

Great article - it is really striking to see the difference in how TSR (relying on Random House advances) and WotC have approached the game, and particularly how disciplined WotC have been with 5e, the game's most successful iteration. Sometimes less is more.

Eberron belongs too much to its author to ever feel like my world. I loved Greyhawk because it left so much room for you to make it your own. Now I love Exandria because, despite being arguably developed in more detail than any other D&D world (and yes; I am aware of all the Forgotten Realms...

He's a complete outlier, whose style was wildly out of synch with 20th century literary trends. In many ways, he could be considered a bad writer. He's often expository, his dialogue is often stilted and not how real people talk, he relied heavily on stereotypes, his class and gender assumptions...