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This is one of many reasons it's an apples and oranges comparison.

Except: Casablanca is two hours, total. It isn't being improvised. It has a plot. Kind of an apples and oranges comparison. Also, it seems a bit early to be comparing Season 4 of Critical Role to an acclaimed classic, based on a four hour funeral episode. IMO. That said, obviously Episode...

And having read through it, I think I will prefer to homebrew my starter game. I actually quite like these adventures, but they’re more aimed at kids.

I feel like people watched a different episode than me. If you came back an hour later they were still at a funeral. That's basically all that happened. Aside from the short side story with Thimble, it's four hours of people talking at a funeral. Hell, the funeral was still going when it ended -...

It's also a good setting if you prefer a grittier style of play, as it has a mechanic to make resting difficult and thus forces players to worry more about resource management.

I’m a heavy planner but I also plan with a lot of breadth so the players have tons of options. And I love using random encounter tables. So there winds up being lots of ad libbing, too.

I have the 5e guide - it's really rich and detailed. I'm glad to see it being ported to another system so more folks can try it out. I'm also glad that WotC isn't trying to enforce exclusivity with having it on DDB.

I never, ever use "the heroes have to save the world" as a plot device. I think it has diminishing returns, and it is much better to raise the stakes by building the plot out of the character's backstories and relationships. Stakes come from emotional investment, not from ever larger...

Yeah, its habit of flattering the author is lame. To me it doesn't read as insincere, since it's not sentient, but it is a dumb quirk that I wish they would fix - I just roll my eyes and ignore it.

These claims are patently untrue. AI is being used in a ton of different productive ways as we speak, and has been for years. Hallucinating (an inaccurate term for what is happening, since it implies sentience) is a problem in some situations, but relatively rare and not an issue in many...

I'm kinda assuming Halloween prop, but it also looks like it might be a horror-themed cake.

We bring surströmming to our annual family Midsummer party as a way of initating newbies (my family is Scandinavian). Frankly, I would rather eat people. Note that, much like Irish people, surströmming is traditionally served with potatoes.

Yeah, I wasn't sure how much he wanted that character back, at the time. He's spent far more time on the replacement character, who has become quite a fan favourite (my spouse's favourite character, BTW). It's funny that they are pitching this as more "serious" when the first trailer was...

Nope.

I'm just rewatching early Season 2 and am on episode 29, so the scene in question is pretty fresh in my mind.

I don't think there should be another class - I think D&D already has redundant classes, and I'm not seeing anything that is particularly conceptually distinct and couldn't be covered by a subclass. I definitely don't want to see psion or warlord (in particular, I think warlord is a problematic...

That's fair, but I'm speaking from my perspective: I'm seen him play the tormanted character a lot. I would love to see what he does playing a different type. We got a bit of it in AoU but his character wasn't around for long. The whole episode, I kept thinking that they could have used some...

One can only hope. I dunno - for me it's a strange way to start a series. Four hours of people talking and not doing much of anything. There's little story momentum or energy - there's barely even dice rolls, let alone combat. Imagine deciding to check out CR and this is what you tune in for as...

It's only noticeable to nerds like us. My players couldn't tell you the difference.

Shows you how closely I read consents! Oh, yeah 20 years being the maximum length of time with RPGs is way lot for this forum. I'm at 45, and I'm think I'm pretty typical around these parts. Although for your purposes, maybe 20+ years is essentially all the same data point anyway.