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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9762874" data-attributes="member: 54840">One thing I think is interesting in their decision calculus is that D&D may be familiar but D&D 2024 is not. If they made the decision a while ago, they made that decision when D&D 2024 was very new. Sure, it's mostly just 5e, but there's a lot of little changes going on in there. So, for that, we could really consider it a new system and I don't know if they did. We'll see how that plays out.This is obviously a huge win for WOTC. I think it's really interesting that it wasn't any sort of sponsorship deal. If you were WOTC, how much would you have paid for CR to use D&D 2024? What if they had chosen D&D 2014, which better fits the goals they state?And, if they had chosen, Daggerheart, I think that would have been a huge blow for WOTC and D&D 2024. I bet there was a lot of big exhales of held breaths when WOTC found out CR was using D&D 2024."Oh, Mike. Critical Role isn't that important to a huge behemoth like D&D!" some might say. Well, not according to WOTC:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180318162847/https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16666344/dungeons-and-dragons-twitch-roleplay-rpgs-critical-role-streaming-gaming" target="_blank">The rise of D&D liveplay is changing how fans approach roleplaying</a><a href="https://nerdist.com/article/insight-check-greg-tito-of-wizards-of-the-coast-talks-about-the-future-of-dd/" target="_blank">Insight Check: Greg Tito of Wizards of the Coast Talks About The Future of D&D</a><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5489813/dungeons-dragons-dimension-20-critical-role-madison-square-garden-stadium" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5489813/dungeons-dragons-dimension-20-critical-role-madison-square-garden-stadium</a></blockquote>

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