D&D General Critical Role Ending

[Umbran]

Designed to hold up on the battlemat, and in shapes for PC's and a variety of 'generic' monsters.

Gummy aboleth. Sure. That's appealing.

 

[billd91]

Gummy aboleth. Sure. That's appealing.

I hope the mind flayer one has a soft, chewy center where his brain would be. I would also settle for nougat.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I hope the mind flayer one has a soft, chewy center where his brain would be. I would also settle for nougat.

A Beholder candy could be a Jawbreaker filled with gum in the middle (kind of like a Blow Pop).

Give it 10 years, and stuff like this might actually exist.

 

[CleverNickName]

Gummy aboleth. Sure. That's appealing.

Use the right color of Jell-o and you can have to-scale gelatinous cubes!

 

[Khelon Testudo]

Printing chocolate 3d minis shouldn't be too hard to extrapolate from current tech.

I think there's a 50/50 chance that the next campaign will be set somewhere else than Exandria. Or at least on a yet-unknown continent. Matt Mercer loves to explore his worlds with his players.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

A break time between two seaons should be good. I wonder about an agremeent between CR and WotC to play in some D&D legacy setting. Ravenloft has got its own game-live show. Dragonlance and Dark Sun could in the future, but these aren't published yet. FR doesn't need. Then Eberron and the settings from Magic: the Gathering are the remaining option.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Do you think there'll be another months long break between?

Do you think they'll keep playing DnD or change to a different system? Six years is a long time for DnD.

I see them as extremely unlikely to switch game systems. Firstly they already changed from Pathfinder to 5e D&D when they went to streaming because it had a bigger audience. I don't see any other system claiming the crown by time campaign 3 starts. Secondly some of them are not naturals for mastering trpg rules systems and get stressed out by having to remember even all the 5e rules they've been playing for years while being watched and critiqued by a huge audience, a new system is less a fun change of pace and more a burden as performers, which, at the end of the day, is what they have to be. Thirdly they do a fair number of one shots in other systems (which they give themselves wide license to flub the rules of, because it's just a one-shot) so they can scratch the want-to-try-something-new itch there. Fourthly they have a strong business relationship with WotC and 5e having gotten one of their setting books published as official 5e content, something no other third party has achieved for their own IP in this edition.

I think it's unlikely they will get off the 5e boat until it is definitively supplanted as the dominant tabletop game (either by a future D&D edition or something else). The only way I see them jumping ship for something else before that is if their own in-house publishing company (The Darrington Press) produces a game system of their own and they decide to really bet on it hard, but so far I've seen no sign that they have that sort of ambition for the publishing end of things.

 

[Azuresun]

I'd be surprised if they do not play D&D for the next campaign. First, they at least seem to enjoy it. But just as important they are now strongly associated with D&D. They also have the cartoon and a campaign book.

Besides, some people are quite happy playing D&D and don't see a need to switch systems.

I'd quite like to see them try a Cyberpunk campaign. Anyone who doesn't skip the ads at the start of each episode will know exactly why I'm saying that.

 

[hopeless]

Or a Traveller one!

 

[Khelon Testudo]

Firstly they already changed from Pathfinder to 5e D&D when they went to streaming because it had a bigger audience.

Actually they changed from Pathfinder to 5e D&D because Pathfinder was too crunchy for live play. As you do say further down, they've only got limited attention to pay to both the rules and the role-play; some handle this better than others.