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The best way to compete is to stake your ie. Unique space. For example, aiming to be the worlds greats space fantasy RPG is a better goal because WotC doesn’t already own the brand. It’s pretty consistent in business that once a brand is as established as D&D, it won’t ever give up its lead...

Exactly. D&D adventures are the biggest driving force to acquire new players. Over a decade of 5e, you could watch PHB sales bump up every time there was a new adventure released. It’s also the biggest reason WotC stayed with 5th. So that DMs have a wide range of stories to entice players with.

Ha, yeah they had to figure out something since BM and BLM were taken for very differ t concepts. as for the 13/3. Yeah it’s ambitious, and I give everyone props for even attempting it. It’s either gonna be a masterpiece or explode from within.

If you haven't, check out BLeeMs Worlds Beyond Number podcast. It's longer format, has a ton of world building and is IMO, the best thing he's done. As for table composition, as someone else said brilliantly upthread, this campaign CR will discover if they are the cast of Friends...

I'm wondering if you think they sold-out? LIke, I don't know Metallica or The Red Hot Chilli Peppers or something. I think they're just a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors who play dungeons and dragons on the internet, made it big and want to keep the dream going as long as they can while also...

Started the final book today! Thought Towers of Midnight was very solid, but suffered a bit from not having Jordan writing it (Gathering Storm I felt was spot on to Jordan's style/tone). As a side note given today's news, can't help thinking that BLeeM is going to attempt something on the...

You know, this isn't really that crazy. Is it complete coincidence that the UA came out on the same day that the C4 announcement was made? Everyone is assuming Dark Sun, but what if it's BLeeMs home brew world that we're going to see starting in October.

It came from people who have an anti WotC agenda. They were trying to manifest the end of WotC via Daggerheart/CR by making the presumptive argument that CR playing anything but DH for C4 would be an admission that the system wasn't good.

I think this is really showing to be true right now as half the DH reddit is losing it's mind, while the other half is trying to calm the waters. DH is a cool system with a lot of potential (emphasis on potential), but it's gonna get strangled by those who's only interest in it was as a D&D...

It's like this. Lexus exists because no matter how nice you make a Toyota, people won't accept it as a luxury car. Critical Role is a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors who play Dungeons and Dragons. Change either of those two elements, and you have to rebrand. When the cast switches to...

The gameplay loop was already becoming stale after 8 episodes of Age of Umbra. I can't imagine it after 50 or 100 episodes. There just isn't enough substance (monsters, spells, abilities, magic items, lore) to easily hang a long form campaign on the system yet. I also strongly believe some of...

In the end, it was really as simple as the opening line of every one of their 400 or so main campaign episodes. That's what CR is.

It's official now, C4 changed directors, added to the cast, and changed settings (maybe, I'm not completely convinced what they are describing isn't a post C3 Exandria), but kept the system. Interesting to hear Matt say that CR is 'Nerdy ass voice actors playing D&D' and those are the two...

This campaign sounds amazing. For those worried about Daggerheart, I wouldn't be. The system is solid, they will continue to promote it, and in a few years once it's had time to mature as a system, they may switch over entirely. But DH wouldn't be able to handle a production like this right...

I'd argue that it's not combat, but the monster ecosystem that makes D&D special. It's an amazing bit of world building that can really drive campaigns and ground them. One of my big problems with Age of Umbra specifically (and DH in general) is that the monsters are built only to be a...

Law and Order is an interesting comparison. It changes cast, directors and writers (PCs and DMs) all the time and remains Law and Order, but if it was suddenly set in Laos (Setting) and changed to a relationship drama about police and lawyers (system) I don't think people would consider it Law...

Spot on. And that tight control was even in their Daggerheart Age of Umbra campaign, in a system specifically built to be player directed.

That's great insight. Yeah it wasn't any singular thing that led to the increase in the amount of improv being done by the cast to stretch things, but the more they rely on it (for any reason) the more of a slog the show feels, IMO.

Yep, and happened right about the time that they decided to ditch as much D&D IP as possible, creating a bigger workload for Matt. The response to that was to rely on the PCs to improv longer so they could stretch the story beats out and give Matt time to build things from scratch. It...

Fair enough. I think they'll do one more long form campaign before moving to the short stuff. Numbers might have been down for C3, but they are still on an episode by episode basis far higher than any of their other content and when taken as a whole represent 10s of millions of views. My own...