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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8289077" data-attributes="member: 6910340">He didn't say "all I care about is combat." There is a huge leap between saying, "As a show, I wish they would push the story along at a faster pace" and saying "GET TO THE FIGHT! ALL I CARE ABOUT IS FIGHTS!"People can run their games exactly as they like. But this game also happens to be a performance, and, as such, subject to reasonable criticism. Not insults, but reasonable criticism."They're massively commercially successful" does not insulate them from criticism or mean they are flawless. Obviously. Or else Friends would be considered like one of the greatest pieces of art ever created by Western civilization. No one on Critical Role would assert that the show has no flaws.In campaign 2 of Critical Role, part of the reason some storylines were never addressed is because the players chose to spend hours and hours and hours of the airtime chatting in character, shopping, describing their magic mansion, bullying monks at the library, doing guided meditation, and hanging out with blood-soaked mass-murderer Essek who they weirdly decided was a cute, funny pal. If those were your favorite parts, awesome. If you would rather that the campaign had a bit more story momentum and better pacing, then I agree with that criticism.</blockquote>