Did anybody watch Matt Colville's new campaign stream?

[Matthew Perkins]

Though I bet they address heaps of this stuff in the second stream tomorrow. I think they've been practicing by running the PCs through danger rooms to learn their characters better.

 

[cmad1977]

Is it a podcast as well? I’m not likely to sit and watch a stream. I’ll listen though.

 

[SkidAce]

Is it a podcast as well? I’m not likely to sit and watch a stream. I’ll listen though.

This is my preferred method also.

 

[Retreater]

I watched the first hour of it, since I'm a fan of Matt Colville's and Kickstarted the stream. This is still longer than I've watched Critical Role or any other D&D stream.

I liked that it "felt" more like a real D&D game than a bunch of actors doing voices. I had to stop listening due to real world obligations, and was planning on getting back into it until I started reading the negative comments about the extent of the railroad, the Kobayashi Maru set up, etc. All this seems contrary to Colville's DMing advice and it sounds like a poor game overall. As a player, I doubt I would return after a first session like that.

 

[mortwatcher]

In the diary video, he talks about the first episode. The heavy railroad of the first episode was with player consent and went pretty much as expected. I personally am not the biggest fan of this, but if they players agreed to it, that's fine in my book. I look forward to the part where they get to the Capital and the actual play starts.
Also would like some introduction to what the new classes are to have a reference.