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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7697317" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yup.  It's the exact reason why the Friday livestreams WotC posted were always so blah to me too.  No one was a performer, so they provided no "performance".  And really... you need performance for something like this to hold a person's attention.  No one wants to watch people just sit around and goof off.Which is why Critical Role has been as successful as it has been, because every single participant is an actor.  They know how to inhabit a character and they know how to remain in character and they know how to give their character wants and strive for things to give the show propulsion.  They know how when it's time to be serious and when they can afford to fool around... but even more important the fooling around is in character.  It's the characters who provide the humor based on who they are, rather than the players making jokes at the expense of the game.  As you say... the players aren't treating the tone of Ravenloft with the way deserves.I'd have no problems if the PCs occasionally made a joke as a way to lighten their own mood because of how oppressive being in Ravenloft is.  But that's not what we're getting.  We're getting a bunch of players uncomfortable, unwilling, or unable to actually immerse themselves into the setting, have their PCs react with any semblance of honesty, and instead making jokes and meta commentary about what is going on.And that's just not compelling to watch.</blockquote>

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