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<blockquote data-quote="eayres33" data-source="post: 7511262" data-attributes="member: 6808932"><p>I listen to the new season of critical role on my commute and I love it. I love Mercer as a story telling DM (though he is a bit hit and miss on the rules, for an experience DM) and I love the great role play. Now there is a lot in the CR game that is playing as entertainment, mostly Sam as Nott, and I hope most players that watch it understand that element but maybe not.</p><p></p><p>I don’t know why the people who champion the show would DM NPCs to steal the spotlight because that isn’t the case on the show. Mercer has some NPCs that will stay with me but with the exception of a villain they never step into the spotlight. I could see some newer DM’s trying to replicate the Guest Stars with NPC’s which would be bad. The Guest Stars play as PC’s sharing the spotlight, and sometimes taking it for a session, add to the show and would be great for a drop in player, (I have a drop in player from out of state who will play one or two sessions and I hope her character takes a key role for that time) but would be bad if it was the DM running them week after week. </p><p></p><p>And for canceling a session if they don’t play in character, well that’s a session 0 issue, it should have been defined what game you are playing. I DM for friends and family and we are slowly expanding the RP element, (I’m not forcing it, just as the years have gone on the players have become more comfortable with RPing and are finally starting to play off of each other’s characters and utilize their backgrounds.)</p><p></p><p>Long post short, to late I know, I love CR, but it didn’t teach me to RP, I’ve been doing that for years, spent a good long time in an awesome SWTOR play by post RP, but I enjoy CR and listening to it has given me many great ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eayres33, post: 7511262, member: 6808932"] I listen to the new season of critical role on my commute and I love it. I love Mercer as a story telling DM (though he is a bit hit and miss on the rules, for an experience DM) and I love the great role play. Now there is a lot in the CR game that is playing as entertainment, mostly Sam as Nott, and I hope most players that watch it understand that element but maybe not. I don’t know why the people who champion the show would DM NPCs to steal the spotlight because that isn’t the case on the show. Mercer has some NPCs that will stay with me but with the exception of a villain they never step into the spotlight. I could see some newer DM’s trying to replicate the Guest Stars with NPC’s which would be bad. The Guest Stars play as PC’s sharing the spotlight, and sometimes taking it for a session, add to the show and would be great for a drop in player, (I have a drop in player from out of state who will play one or two sessions and I hope her character takes a key role for that time) but would be bad if it was the DM running them week after week. And for canceling a session if they don’t play in character, well that’s a session 0 issue, it should have been defined what game you are playing. I DM for friends and family and we are slowly expanding the RP element, (I’m not forcing it, just as the years have gone on the players have become more comfortable with RPing and are finally starting to play off of each other’s characters and utilize their backgrounds.) Long post short, to late I know, I love CR, but it didn’t teach me to RP, I’ve been doing that for years, spent a good long time in an awesome SWTOR play by post RP, but I enjoy CR and listening to it has given me many great ideas. [/QUOTE]
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