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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8388624" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Ok? Whatever it may have started out as, it is now a performance, produced for a massive audience, which for people who enjoy performing for an audience, is different than a private game.I have seen these recordings and I disagree with your assessment of them.It doesn’t matter what they might have done, what I care about is what they did do, which is that they made it into a performance for a massive audience, which for people who enjoy performing for an audience, is different than a private game.It’s not unfounded. It’s reasonable inference based on the knowledge that they are professional performers, and therefore likely enjoy performing for an audience (which would make it different than a private game).Again, I disagree that it doesn’t change how they act. The earliest recordings are different than the show when it first started, is different from the show now, is different from their live shows. Because an audience changes a performer’s performance. Usually for the better.Great! I don’t think it should change your enjoyment of the stream. If the impression you’re getting from people saying “it isn’t the same as a home game” is “you shouldn’t enjoy it as much,” you’ve got us all wrong.I do enjoy it, and I think it’s great for the hobby. That doesn’t mean it’s the same thing as a home game.It matters because, as Snarf’s thesis states, regarding it as “just like my home game, but with better acting and production values!” diminishes the work the actors and the off-camera crew are doing. And because it brushes over the fact that what works for a home game doesn’t necessarily work for a game-as-performance, and vice versa.That doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t take away anything from the show. If Critical Role (or whatever D&D stream) inspires you to be a better DM or player, great! If you’ve learned valuable techniques from watching them, great! I’m just saying, it’s a different beast than a home game, and deserves to be recognized as such.</blockquote>

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