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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7588835" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Yep. A lot of groups are heavily influenced by Critical Role, whether they realize it or not. Somebody sees Matt Mercer do something they think is cool and starts doing it. Then somebody else who doesn’t watch Critical Role sees them do it and decides to start doing it too. Before you know it, “how do you want to do this?” and “you can certainly try” are mainstays of D&amp;D, and most people don’t even realize where they came from.Side note, that is what the word meme means, not a funny image with a caption. Meme theory is a model of cultural evolution that mirrors biological evolution. A meme is a carrier of cultural information just as a gene is a carrier of biological information, and like genes, memes are copied from one person to the next, and small changes or mutations occasionally occur in the copying, which over time can lead to broader changes. The game telephone is a great example of meme theory in action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7588835, member: 6779196"] Yep. A lot of groups are heavily influenced by Critical Role, whether they realize it or not. Somebody sees Matt Mercer do something they think is cool and starts doing it. Then somebody else who doesn’t watch Critical Role sees them do it and decides to start doing it too. Before you know it, “how do you want to do this?” and “you can certainly try” are mainstays of D&D, and most people don’t even realize where they came from. Side note, [i]that[/i] is what the word meme means, not a funny image with a caption. Meme theory is a model of cultural evolution that mirrors biological evolution. A meme is a carrier of cultural information just as a gene is a carrier of biological information, and like genes, memes are copied from one person to the next, and small changes or mutations occasionally occur in the copying, which over time can lead to broader changes. The game telephone is a great example of meme theory in action. [/QUOTE]

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