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This isn’t how I took that comment at all. It sounded far more like Brennan thanking the behind the camera people at D20 and CR for their hard work in making these TV shows possible. Camera operators, set design, lighting, makeup, etc. Not that other people were co-DMs.

Yeah. Between Tal and Liam, Liam is the more dramatic and dark goth type. Tal seems to be more attention seeking and performative “look at me.” I wouldn’t describe either of them as spotlight hogs.

Do you have a source for this? The blood hunter definitely seemed more put together but the gravity barbarian seemed like Matt was literally writing it as the campaign went along.

He’s literally the only one to do so. He’s the only one who has played a custom character in every campaign. C1. Only custom character was Tal’s gunslinger fighter. C2. Tal has a custom class, blood hunter. Marisha has custom subclass. C3. Both Tal and Sam have custom subclasses. We’re...

It comes down to the workload involved. Homebrew is great, forcing the referee to do a mountain of homework for you is not. Compare a class in OD&D to one in 5E. In OD&D, playing a dragon PC would be “you can fly, breathe fire, and have bite/claw attacks” and balance largely doesn’t matter. In...

No, but it does generally have constraints like pick something from the listed options. Taliesin seems like the kind of person to continually say no, I need to be more special than that. See C2, C3, and now C4. C1 made sense because they converted from PF which had gunslingers as an option. But...

To each their own. I think it's an interesting premise for an anime; terrible as a D&D character. Would be great in any other system that could actually accommodate something like that easily. It feels like he'd rather be playing some other game but can't, so he's importing the character. Or...

Matt's doing the typical edge lord stuff. It's as common as dice. Bothersome and annoying but not game breaking or groan-worthy. I do agree and hope he's doing it with intent rather than just finally getting a chance to be a jerk so is. For me it's Taliesin's character who's the glaring red...

That has the opposite effect on me. They’ve known that 5E is coming for two years, what the changes are, and it’s still an ongoing dev process for the VTT module. That tells me the changes are absolutely massive and that 5E will be dramatically different from 4E. If it were a few minor fixes and...

I was going to ask in another thread, ¿what’s a good way to measure PBP games? I run them fairly regularly but it seems like a weird outlier. How many posts? How much time spent reading and writing posts? Given I read in snippets and work on writing posts in fits and starts on my phone at random...

No. I really hate the voices players largely fail to do when playing RPGs. It’s one of those better no gaming than bad gaming things for me.

Right? How many millions did they just flush down the toilet?

Water's not wet without a citation on Wikipedia. It's been a reliable source for more than a decade.

That's really depressing. Bottlenecks and monopolies are always bad news. Makes me thankful something like the OSR/NSR exists. Lots of free-flowing creativity and people trying all kinds of games. It's almost like those two are directly linked.

Yeah. This is the internet. Most opinions expressed are by people who only have a theoretical knowledge of a topic and they pretend to be life-long experts.

Yeah. This is why I don't like really built-up VTTs. Gimme something that's a digital white board with a die roller. The ability to import images and maps is a plus but not required. Paying for system modules or adventures that are locked into someone else's business, servers, etc just seems...

Oh gods. Yeah, that'll be tedious as hell if they are. Here's to hoping they're not at the same table going forward.

I find it distasteful even in this context. I hate railroading with a passion. If it were curated in the sense of the players being in on it, then . But it could also be read as the NPCs simply having a goal and pursuing it regardless. Or it could have been Brennan improvising something to

At most quite a few gamers seem to want their VTT to handle all the system bits and math with a click, but not the fully visual experience of a video game. If they'd stuck with that full automation, it probably would have been a winner.

Yeah. How many blinking red lights do you need before taking the hint. Also, at the end,