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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7768060" data-attributes="member: 37579">I commented on this discussion on Twitter a few days back, arguing the &quot;Matt Mercer/ Critical Role&quot; effect is just a modern (and more widespread) take on an existing phenomena. How many people got into D&amp;D from the video games or the novels and expected a very similar experience? Specifically, how many Dragonlance fans moved onto D&amp;D and expected their campaign to be very similar to the War of the Lance or rather than making a copy of a Vox Machina character they ended up making a Drizzt clone? Matt Mercer has become the gold standard of DMing. He's knowledgeable of *most* of the rules, and is quick to keep things moving if he doesn't know and only stops to check if he's really uncertain. His descriptions are solid and he's good at managing the table, doing his best to keep the players from becoming bored.But, as he says, he's been DMing for twenty years and has experience in acting and a vocal field. Plus, he has spent the last three-and-a-half years DMing live in a weekly show that has very limited above the table chatter, so he's &quot;on&quot; for long stretches of time. He's been through a crucible. He'd better be good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7768060, member: 37579"] I commented on this discussion on Twitter a few days back, arguing the "Matt Mercer/ Critical Role" effect is just a modern (and more widespread) take on an existing phenomena. How many people got into D&D from the video games or the novels and expected a very similar experience? Specifically, how many Dragonlance fans moved onto D&D and expected their campaign to be very similar to the War of the Lance or rather than making a copy of a Vox Machina character they ended up making a Drizzt clone? Matt Mercer has become the gold standard of DMing. He's knowledgeable of *most* of the rules, and is quick to keep things moving if he doesn't know and only stops to check if he's really uncertain. His descriptions are solid and he's good at managing the table, doing his best to keep the players from becoming bored. But, as he says, he's been DMing for twenty years [I]and[/I] has experience in acting and a vocal field. Plus, he has spent the last three-and-a-half years DMing live in a weekly show that has very limited above the table chatter, so he's "on" for long stretches of time. He's been through a crucible. He'd better be good. [/QUOTE]

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