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This is a really cool idea that I would be way too paranoid about data security to use. Hopefully others who are less guarded about such things will enjoy it.

Yeah, this was also done for the sake of making CR estimations more reliable. ‘14 CR monsters with abilities that could be avoided with saving throws tended to be overvalued, especially when the monster had to hit an attack roll first to force the save, and then the effect could still be...

I absolutely hate what they did to lycanthropes. A vampire taking normal damage from nonmagical weapons I can live with, even though I preferred them having that resistance. But werewolves not even getting regeneration that silver turns off anymore is a travesty in my opinion. That’s the single...

Well, it makes for more consistent difficulty, for sure. With nonmagical BPS resistance, monsters were often too easy if you had magic weapons and too hard if you didn’t. Just giving those monsters more HP does make estimating their difficulty much easier and more reliable across tables, which...

Yeah, that is often the case, but not always. And since it’s worked into the stats instead of called out as specific features, it just ends up looking like loose design instead of unique traits.

Being so wildly antagonistic towards the character whose death brought the party together is a very bold choice. I don’t think I’d have ok’d the concept if I had been the DM. But I’m very curious to see how it develops.

Oh, and the attempt at alphabetization was a dismal failure.

I was very excited for the changes initially - I think, for example, that putting save bonuses with the ability scores instead of in a list looks cleaner. I think more unique abilities instead of lists of spells is great for usability. I’m a fan of doing away with non-magic...

Personally I think it’s very unlikely to be how the regular sessions go. Here they’ve got the whole cast present and are cutting around between scenes with a few of them at a time, whereas the regular campaign is more likely to have only 4 or 5 players involved in any given session. It’s also...

Sorry, I think the question mark made my comment less clear. I meant it in a “but critical role does have a plot” way, and the question mark was to express confusion because it seemed like you were suggesting it didn’t.

Critical Role has a plot…?

I mean, the funeral was the backdrop of most of it, but a lot of things happened at that funeral. We met a lot of characters, learned about who they are to each other, what they care about, how they reacted to this tragic event. We learned about the world via characters who are invested in it...

Your parenthetical “barely” is what I meant about there not being a lot of what I call exposition. Those things are introduced, yes. They kind of have to be, they’re things that exist in the fictional world and are being interacted with. But we don’t get lengthy diatribes about what these things...

Same way TotM works in any other edition. Just focus on the statuses those movements force characters into or out of. Able move without provoking OA, not able to move without provoking OA. In Paladin’s aura, not in Paladin’s aura. In the AOE, not in the AOE. Frame things in terms of tradeoffs...

Kinda poisons the data well doesn’t it?

I completely agree! To reiterate, I really don’t think that choice had any impact on the character’s survival. It’s a choice that I wouldn’t have made myself, and would probably have annoyed me a bit if I had been a player at the table. But I absolutely don’t think It could have made any...

Very true! This is part of why I’ve eventually fallen off of the previous campaigns. If my attention drifts, I check my phone or something (which often ends up happening during long combats) I very quickly get lost and it’s hard to figure out what’s going on again. That, and because the episodes...

Yeah, I tend to prefer when systems give the player some sort of carrot for doing those sorts of voluntary self-nerfs. I’ve seen a few where that’s like the main way you get XP (or the game’s equivalent character advancement resource), and I like that a lot. But when it’s just a choice to be...

I didn’t think it was a lot of exposition, but maybe @TheAlkaizer is using the term differently than I do. There was a lot of narration, and a lot of dialogue. But that’s to be expected in a game that’s literally played by talking. When I said that there was a lot of lore but not too much...

I agree that her RP choice was not why that death happened, at all. But, didn’t she also voluntarily give herself disadvantage on attacks? Again, I don’t think her not doing that would have changed the outcome one bit. But I do remember thinking it was a choice I probably would have gotten a bit...