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Curmudgeon's Corner: So, what's the deal with Critical Role?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7849058" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Nothing wrong with hope.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry. Accepting that one quote is by no means "data"... we still have to understand that reality is under no obligation to unfold as we desire it. I know that, since they started with D&D, it would be nice to think that CR's major impact would be D&D related, because, we care about RPG play. But the anecdote before us suggests that may not be the case. </p><p></p><p>CR's impact may be more toward the entertainment industry, television, and streaming media, than back to the game that spawned it. And that makes a heck of a lot of sense, really - the impact of, say, Nethack, was not back into the D&D it sort of emulated, but forward deeper into video games. And CR may be based in D&D, but it is <em>as much</em> based on streaming media and play of Twitch - it just started as a group of really talented people playign on Twitch, right? So, it is just as likely, or even more likely, to have more of an impact on twitch-type presentations than on RPGs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7849058, member: 177"] Nothing wrong with hope. Sorry. Accepting that one quote is by no means "data"... we still have to understand that reality is under no obligation to unfold as we desire it. I know that, since they started with D&D, it would be nice to think that CR's major impact would be D&D related, because, we care about RPG play. But the anecdote before us suggests that may not be the case. CR's impact may be more toward the entertainment industry, television, and streaming media, than back to the game that spawned it. And that makes a heck of a lot of sense, really - the impact of, say, Nethack, was not back into the D&D it sort of emulated, but forward deeper into video games. And CR may be based in D&D, but it is [I]as much[/I] based on streaming media and play of Twitch - it just started as a group of really talented people playign on Twitch, right? So, it is just as likely, or even more likely, to have more of an impact on twitch-type presentations than on RPGs. [/QUOTE]
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