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Polygon is reporting that Critical Role will be using D&D for campaign 4. https://www.polygon.com/dnd-critical-role-war-daggerheart/

"Some familiar faces" definitely suggests to me that C4 will NOT have the full crew of original players as regulars, just "some" of them.

I haven't seen anything about the system for next year's live shows. This past weekend's live show used used Daggerheart and was set in Exandria, with the C3 party. The October 7 live show in New York City features the C2 party; hype copy doesn't specify a game system. Info on those 2 shows...

WotC doesn't own Exandria. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount and Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep are licensed products. WotC also published Rick & Morty and Stranger Things D&D boxed sets; it doesn't own those properties either. Critical Role can do whatever it wants with Exandria (such as...

Exandria isn't exclusively a D&D setting, though. Critical Role owns the rights to it.

They're using Exandria for Daggerheart in the upcoming live shows. If C4 is Daggerheart, why not announce that on Saturday?

I think the mixed-level party is an inevitability in 1E. The idea of "balance" as we think about it today wasn't as prevalent in that era, but the unequal experience level requirements for various classes in 1E actually are an attempt to achieve a level of balance/power parity between classes...

e It's clear that Mercer is burned out and needs a break from running any long campaigns for a while. In the past ten years he has done three multi-year weekly (more or less) campaigns in front of a massive international audience. I can't imagine the pressure and fatigue of that. I think it'll...

That gap has narrowed a LOT in the past year. Plus, because of Dropout there are a ton of people who know Brennan due to non-TTRPG stuff. He may not be better known than Mercer as a GM at this point, but he might actually be more famous than Mercer overall. Dimension 20’s live shows draw just...

Tbh of all my predictions, this is actually the one I’m most confident about.

I think Mulligan as the GM plus no mention of Daggerheart in the announcement means it's likely that they're staying with D&D for campaign 4. If it's Daggerheart, there's no benefit to not saying so and hyping it. The announcement was all about new stuff, so if it's still D&D, that's not new...

They use “board game” so pervasively in the Stranger Things set’s marketing copy in the DNDBeyond marketplace description that at first I honestly wasn’t totally sure it was actually D&D adventures.

I wanted Honor Among Thieves to have an epilogue scene where we learned that Chris Pine was a D&D character and the player was Patton Oswalt.

You'll be forgiven for having forgotten this, but Keys from the Golden Vault was promoted as a tie-in product at the time of the movie's release, and the book released I believe 2-3 weeks before the movie. One of the adventures in the book is a prison break set in Revel's End (the Icewind Dale...

Huh. Did anybody like the ones in the DMG? I wanted to, but I sure didn't.

The way these work is that the media outlet (in this case Game Informer) pays for a limited-time exclusive. Once the time elapses, the story gets shared more broadly. I wouldn't call "getting a media outlet to pay you to promote your own product" a marketing failure by any stretch.

"Devil, Metal, Die!" and "Scream of the Crop"

Just wanted to flag that, on DNDBeyond at least, WotC has fixed the misplaced treasure pile/centipedes map error on the lair map for Death at Sunset. I'm not sure if they'll be stopping by my place to correct my print copy though.

I feel like this UA is the first UA where a design priority was pretty clearly "only have this subclass do stuff that DNDBeyond is already coded to do."