D&D 5E Call of the Netherdeep: marketing has begun, screenshots thread

carmachu

Explorer
Im not a critical roll fan. But I trust a Mercer adventure to be more what I’m looking for then Wotc design team at this point
 
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I guess I don't understand if it's a "real adventure" or a marketing tie-in? Like is it more "Rime of the Frostmaiden" or "Rick & Morty?" Can I use it if I don't know anything about Critical Role?
I wouldn't want to get something that is just "here are the stats from your favorite characters from the show and watch them do cool stuff."
It seems to me to just be a normal D&D adventure book (so more like Rime of the Frost Maiden). I've seen no indication that the characters from the show will be featured in it (I think that would be listed as a selling point if they were).
 


Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
I guess I don't understand if it's a "real adventure" or a marketing tie-in? Like is it more "Rime of the Frostmaiden" or "Rick & Morty?" Can I use it if I don't know anything about Critical Role?
I wouldn't want to get something that is just "here are the stats from your favorite characters from the show and watch them do cool stuff."

No one has seen it yet obviously, but it seems to tilt more towards Rime of the Frostmaiden rather than Rick & Morty. Meaning, yes some background knowledge on Critical Role would be helpful (which is not so different than knowing Forgotten Realms lore for RotFM), but it's probably not necessary to run this adventure.

I am fairly certain that few characters from the show are statted up. For one, this is set after campaign 2 of CR. And I feel like that would be advertised if their PCs were statted, as they are for the Tal'Dorei Reborn book.
 

Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
how is the introductory adventure in wildemount? would it compliment this potentially?

Mercer was interviewed somewhere, and said his intention is very much for any of the introductory adventures in Wildemount (there are 4) to be used as an intro to this one. The 4 are all pretty different so unlikely have any direct ties, but they seem to be level appropriate introductions and are are on Wildemount, where the Netherdeep campaign book begins.
 



Parmandur

Book-Friend
I guess I don't understand if it's a "real adventure" or a marketing tie-in? Like is it more "Rime of the Frostmaiden" or "Rick & Morty?" Can I use it if I don't know anything about Critical Role?
I wouldn't want to get something that is just "here are the stats from your favorite characters from the show and watch them do cool stuff."
It's a straight Campaign book. And since Exandria is pretty standard D&D, aside from the detail work, it should be easy enough to file off the serial numbers and put it in any world. Probably will have a sidebar for that purpose.
 




theres a screen shot of a goblin cleric. Why are they calling it tier 1? its not a renaming of level 1 as the goblin has over 40 hp

any idea?
Haven't been following it too closely, but I believe the idea is that Call of the Netherdeep has a "rival" adventuring group running around that the PCs can interact and/or come into conflict with. And because they're intended to be relevant the whole way through, these rival characters have multiple statblocks each spanning a range of levels/CRs, so you encounter different "tier" versions of them depending on where you are in the adventure.
 
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Retreater

Legend
My wife is a fairly big Critical Role fan. It's what sort of brought her into the game. In fact, we have a framed print from the 1st campaign, signed by all the cast, in our living room. However, I've never been able to get into it. I don't watch streaming games (and actually watch very little episodic tv in general).
Especially since the show has come out on Amazon Prime, she's really getting into it again. I suggested maybe she'd like to get this and try running a game herself. Apparently that suggestion backfired, because now she wants me to run it.
I am very bad at pre-published campaign worlds. I can't remember details from Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Golarion, or any other big settings. Especially for fans of that setting, I won't be able to present the world in a way that's reflective of all the hours of media that came before it.
So I'll be on the lookout for any of you who decide to run this online so I can suggest she join your game. Haha
 


teitan

Legend
For me... everything Wildemount is amazing and sounds like a blast to play in or DM. It's honestly my favorite 5e book along with Theros and Ravenloft. It's just a really good book. Bazzoxan is amazing and Xorhas is a different type of Drow city and empire and has hints of conflicts with Lolthites. The new Taldorei book is great too.
 

My wife is a fairly big Critical Role fan. It's what sort of brought her into the game. In fact, we have a framed print from the 1st campaign, signed by all the cast, in our living room. However, I've never been able to get into it. I don't watch streaming games (and actually watch very little episodic tv in general).
Especially since the show has come out on Amazon Prime, she's really getting into it again. I suggested maybe she'd like to get this and try running a game herself. Apparently that suggestion backfired, because now she wants me to run it.
I am very bad at pre-published campaign worlds. I can't remember details from Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Golarion, or any other big settings. Especially for fans of that setting, I won't be able to present the world in a way that's reflective of all the hours of media that came before it.
So I'll be on the lookout for any of you who decide to run this online so I can suggest she join your game. Haha
I'm in a similar position - most of my players are CR fans, but I'm just bad at listening. They will probably want me to run this, but they probably know more setting lore than I do, which is a worry. I usually use FR not because I like the setting (I think it's a boring hodge podge) but because I know the lore well.
 


Retreater

Legend
Matt's making it out like he designed this adventure to be particularly roleplay heavy.
Bleh. Roleplaying is what happens during the game - as a natural extension of the drama of the combat, mystery, exploration, and what the players bring to it. It's not what is published in the adventure - that's just like publishing a short story.
 

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