Critical Role Critical Role show kickstarter update: Backers have to get Amazon prime to get the show

[Maxperson]

wow, Amazon is $13 in the US? It's A LOT cheaper here in BRazil (I think there's a first for everything)

LOL $12.99 a month. Or in our house, $441,294,301 a month after all orders are tallied.

 

[Vaalingrade]

The volume of the screaming really isn't all that important, is it?

That... I never said anything about the volume. I'm talking about the one-sidedness.

Like you never hear anime fans claiming D&D ruined a fantasy anime or harassing people in their fandoms for playing D&D.

 

[Mort]

LOL $12.99 a month. Or in our house, $441,294,301 a month after all orders are tallied.

I had to disable Alexa voice ordering and password protect ordering every other way (to at least add in an extra step). Not enough impulse control among any of us in the household!

 

[Maxperson]

I had to disable Alexa voice ordering and password protect ordering every other way (to at least add in an extra step). Not enough impulse control among any of us in the household!

I think I've ordered all of 3 things on Amazon. My wife and daughter on the other hand have multiple packages coming literally most days of the week and 1 on the rest. It's a very rare day that nothing arrives.

 

[Argyle King]

I know very little about Critical Role and even less about the show. I wouldn't know about the show at all if not for this thread.

I do have Prime though.

What is the show about?

 

[Parmandur]

I know very little about Critical Role and even less about the show. I wouldn't know about the show at all if not for this thread.

I do have Prime though.

What is the show about?

A D&D party (Gnome Bard, Gnome Cleric, Goliath Barbarian, Half-Elf Rogue, Half-Elf Ranger, Half-Wlf Druid, and a Human Fighter) going on D&D Adventures. Somewhat serious, somewhat tongue in cheek.

 

[Bolares]

I know very little about Critical Role and even less about the show. I wouldn't know about the show at all if not for this thread.

I do have Prime though.

What is the show about?

It's basically a retelling of an arch that happened in their campign before they started streamming, and one of the archs of their first campaign.

 

[Mannahnin]

It's basically a retelling of an arch that happened in their campign before they started streamming, and one of the archs of their first campaign.

*arc (forgive me)

 

[mewzard]

A D&D party (Gnome Bard, Gnome Cleric, Goliath Barbarian, Half-Elf Rogue, Half-Elf Ranger, Half-Wlf Druid, and a Human Fighter) going on D&D Adventures. Somewhat serious, somewhat tongue in cheek.

Well, Percy is a Fighter with a custom Gunslinger subclass (since he was a Gunslinger when their home game was using Pathfinder).

 

[Bolares]

*arc (forgive me)

Thanks, thats one where the translation always tricks me. The words for arc and arch translate to the same word in portuguese so I often get confused.

 

[Mannahnin]

Thanks, thats one where the translation always tricks me. The words for arc and arch translate to the same word in portuguese so I often get confused.

I figured it was a linguistic thing. I just always feel like a bit of a tool correcting the English of someone who's obviously quite fluent, especially when I've got at best a few words in any other languages.

Both languages get the two words from the same root, if that's any consolation.

arc - Wiktionary

en.wiktionary.org

 

[Gammadoodler]

*arc (forgive me)

It's a difficult impulse to resist.

Should see my eye twitch when I see "marital" for "martial" and "rouge" for "rogue".

 

[p_johnston]

I'd argue that the only reasonable assumption is that a Kickstarter creator will do what they said in the Kickstarter they'd do. If we started holding creators to assumptions (reasonable or otherwise) rather than the things they actually promised, we end up in a very strange place.

That's fair and if it was merely a case of people backing with different assumptions about how it was distributed I think I (and many other people) would be a lot more ok with the situation. At that point i would have said they could have been more clear but not put them at fault.

I think the much bigger issue is them using the free trial to cover their promise of getting the first season free. That's the point where I would draw the line of they did something wrong. It also makes me less likely to be charitable to any misunderstanding earlier in the process which is why i brought up what i felt could be a reasonable assumption and point of confusion.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It’s a general human thing. The ease of posting whatever combined with the ease of misunderstanding combined with large groups which are bound to have a few folks have “takes”.

Oh, I don't know. I give out my opinions in person all the time.

 

[Maxperson]

It's a difficult impulse to resist.

Should see my eye twitch when I see "marital" for "martial" and "rouge" for "rogue".

Yep. Marital rouge and martial rogue are two very different things.

 

[Gammadoodler]

Yep. Marital rouge and martial rogue are two very different things.

Much different thread to discuss how marital classes are underpowered.

 

[Maxperson]

Much different thread to discuss how marital classes are underpowered.

Just try telling my wife that. I dare you!

 

[Azzy]

wow, Amazon is $13 in the US? It's A LOT cheaper here in BRazil (I think there's a first for everything)

Insert bad joke conflating Amazon, the Amazon rainforest, and the hometeam advantage.

 

[Seramus]

I mean... it's hardly just outside the D&D fandom. IIRC, currently on this very site there's a mess of contentiousness surrounding very low-level, low-magic play. Someone around here has even complained that a whole 10% of the game is "wasted" on levels 1 and 2, and that campaigns without magic shops are somehow anathema to enjoyable gaming.
Inexplicable ire, indeed.

There's even someone who doesn't like Bards.
And before that, someone who didn't like Paladins. Especially Gnome Paladins.

 

[Azzy]

I mean... it's hardly just outside the D&D fandom. IIRC, currently on this very site there's a mess of contentiousness surrounding very low-level, low-magic play. Someone around here has even complained that a whole 10% of the game is "wasted" on levels 1 and 2, and that campaigns without magic shops are somehow anathema to enjoyable gaming.
Inexplicable ire, indeed.

Yeah. There are some days that I don't want to read the boards because some of this. But, then, I feel like that with engaging with the general human populous most days.