Critical Role Linda Codega interviews Critical Role on Fandom, Rumors and the Open DnD Movement
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Vaalingrade
Legend
I didn't know who Linda Codega was before this mess. So happy I do now.
OB1
Jedi Master
I think one of the interesting things about CRs response is the separation of independent developers and open gaming. They strongly support independent developers in the RPG space, and talk about many methods for indies to get their content out there. I don't think this is just semantics around what they (possibly) can or can't say about WotC and the OGL given their contractual ties.
Also, would love to see C4 of CR be a Sci-Fi/Horror RPG set in a VERY changed Exandria, maybe 10,000 years after the events of C3, that uses their own system
Also, would love to see C4 of CR be a Sci-Fi/Horror RPG set in a VERY changed Exandria, maybe 10,000 years after the events of C3, that uses their own system
overgeeked
B/X Known World
That was a good interview. About 2/3 of it on the cutting room floor, though. Still not sure about the “future proofing” comment Linda made. That didn’t seem to make it into the video.
I like that Matt and Marisha are talking up playing new games, new genres, and the near future. That’s awesome.
Destroy Exandria as we know it in the next few dozen episodes of C3, get out from under the D&D Beyond sponsorship, and launch into a new game with a new genre. I wonder what horror game they’d play. They already did a Call of Cthulhu one-shot and Ashley’s not-Aliens horror/sci-fi one-shot.
I like that Matt and Marisha are talking up playing new games, new genres, and the near future. That’s awesome.
Destroy Exandria as we know it in the next few dozen episodes of C3, get out from under the D&D Beyond sponsorship, and launch into a new game with a new genre. I wonder what horror game they’d play. They already did a Call of Cthulhu one-shot and Ashley’s not-Aliens horror/sci-fi one-shot.
bedir than
Hero
Also, would love to see C4 of CR be a Sci-Fi/Horror RPG set in a VERY changed Exandria, maybe 10,000 years after the events of C3, that uses their own system
I cannot fathom Critical Role putting at risk their massive Prime Video contracts in order to keep a minority of their fans happy. Whenever they play non-D&D the viewership plummets.
OB1
Jedi Master
I imagine that if they switch from D&D for their main campaign, it would be to use their own system. They'll keep promoting other systems in one-shots and with ads in their stream, but I couldn't imagine them moving from D&D to play someone else's system full time. Their interest is in promoting independent publishers, not open gaming (at least that's what I get out of their statements).
OB1
Jedi Master
Hmmm, but is that because of the system or because it's not the main storyline? And I definitely don't think they'll leave D&D due to the OGL controversy, I think they'll do it if they feel it furthers their own business to do so, similar to why they revised their Fan Content policy and didn't release material from Tal'Dorei revisited to the OGL commons as they grew.
bedir than
Hero
Clint_L
Hero
Hmmm...I checked, and that's not what I see. It looks to me like whenever they play non-campaign stuff viewership plummets. Whether it is using D&D or another system (some of their non-D&D games are among their most popular one-offs).
Which makes sense - folks are naturally more inclined to want to keep up with a serialized story than a one-off, particularly when those one-offs often feature different casts.
This leaves open whether viewership would plummet if they switched the main campaign to, say, Pathfinder (where it began in their home game) or their potential home-made system.
I'd argue that fans are loyal to the CR brand, not the D&D brand.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I've been following them since they appeared on io9 with amazingly snarky review of the Thor Love & Thunder trailer (which turned out to be pretty prescient), and they've been just really doing great with TTRPG news, by far the best of any non-specialist TTRPG publication/site, and better than many that do have that as a major focus (like Bell of Lost Souls). Just really fun as a person and good knowledge of the TTRPG scene (like, not as familiar with older RPGs as me, but much more familiar with what's going on right now).
Ruin Explorer
Legend
That's a misunderstanding.
Whenever they play non-campaigns their viewership plummets.
If they played a campaign, with full main cast, no-one would care what the system was. The cartoons and their success helps show that - they're barely even recognisable as D&D - you could as soon see them as almost any fantasy RPG.
