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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9175882" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>The former is not "scripted" or anything like it. That's the kind of conversations all tables have (I run games at a <em>school</em>!). Preferred pronouns are given at the first session and on character sheets as a matter of course - calling that scripted is like saying the game is scripted because they have given their characters <em>names</em>. Not mentioning players who left under legal circumstances is, again, hardly scripted by any normal definition of the word (note that Ocaba's <em>character</em> is subsequently brought up in the show).</p><p></p><p>So what we have left are some theories about why players made certain choices or the DM building the plot. I have not observed the players making choices that seemed scripted ever, and I've seen every episode, most of them twice. I mean...shopping? Scripted? Have you played D&D? So this sounds like someone's theory, not actual evidence. And the latter is...yeah, the DM prepares story elements well in advance. And on the aftershow Matt Mercer has revealed many, many side-quests or even major plot points, battles, etc. that were prepped but never happened due to player choices (the most famous example is probably the battle with hag who cursed Nott...or rather lack of a battle).</p><p></p><p>Critical Role has been very clear that the show is not scripted, rehearsed, or pre-planned except to the extent that, yeah, any DM preps their material. Calling a bunch of people, in effect, liars based on basically no evidence other than an unsupported interpretation of the show is not cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9175882, member: 7035894"] The former is not "scripted" or anything like it. That's the kind of conversations all tables have (I run games at a [I]school[/I]!). Preferred pronouns are given at the first session and on character sheets as a matter of course - calling that scripted is like saying the game is scripted because they have given their characters [I]names[/I]. Not mentioning players who left under legal circumstances is, again, hardly scripted by any normal definition of the word (note that Ocaba's [I]character[/I] is subsequently brought up in the show). So what we have left are some theories about why players made certain choices or the DM building the plot. I have not observed the players making choices that seemed scripted ever, and I've seen every episode, most of them twice. I mean...shopping? Scripted? Have you played D&D? So this sounds like someone's theory, not actual evidence. And the latter is...yeah, the DM prepares story elements well in advance. And on the aftershow Matt Mercer has revealed many, many side-quests or even major plot points, battles, etc. that were prepped but never happened due to player choices (the most famous example is probably the battle with hag who cursed Nott...or rather lack of a battle). Critical Role has been very clear that the show is not scripted, rehearsed, or pre-planned except to the extent that, yeah, any DM preps their material. Calling a bunch of people, in effect, liars based on basically no evidence other than an unsupported interpretation of the show is not cool. [/QUOTE]
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