Hey /tg/ I hope you are excited for the new season of Critical Role?I hear it's going to be super sweet and fix many of your complaints about the show previously!
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I'm not expecting much, but I'll probably give the first few episodes a watch, if only to see how the whole "tables as genres" thing pans out. I anticipate everyone just watching Matt's group and skipping the other episodes.
>>96497360Is this guy as good of a DM as Matt Mercer? I don't really follow eceleb stuff.
With the adoption of a West Marches format, which comes with a bit of an air of lethality and a new DM that's not afraid to let the hockey gloves hit the ice it's bound to be a more engaging experience than S3 was. That was dogshit.
>>96497360I have nothing against critical role, but i still find it crazy so many people watch 50+ episodes of a like 5 hour show
>>96497416Not to be a pedant, but I'd hesitate to call campaign 4 a "proper" West Marches game. The preset groups alone disqualify it, and given that there's a group focusing on the "political intrigue" aspect, I doubt some of those fuckers are even going to be doing much marching
>>96497435people go crazy about this shit
>>96497508ohhh jeez i wish people got tattoos of my D&D character.(no I don't, that's dumb why would you do this.)
>>96497409No. Brenden is a comedian but a shit story teller. Also is solely for the dregs of DnD and those who think Drag Queen DnD is entertaining.
>>96497435Especially when the majority of that 5 hours is just the normal bullshitting that comes with DnD. Checking spell wording, trying to figure out what they want to buy from shops, checking notes, planning on course of action, etc.
>>96497409He's a very different kind of DM, but he's very effective at creating dramatic moments and whipping off into speeches. He prefers to really work with his players to get down to the core of what their characters are and what they care about. As a result, he knows exactly how to hurt them.>>96497416It is not really West Marches. There's just multiple groups.
>>96497435I believe most actual play audiences listen to it as a podcast and simply jump skip half the episode if there's combat. These skirmish fights of no consequence that are nearly every single one of them that go on forever is just a really bad part of the format though. While this medium doesn't have a lot of potential, there's yet to be a show that has players really knowing the rules so it's a smooth experience and where the combat is short and very impactful so you're always on the edge of your seat when things go down. I think they tried that with Age of Umbra, but I was so bored with it and the player characters and mood at the table were just anathema to any sort of grimdark setting that it just wasn't very engaging to watch, despite being more lethal and with a more engaging combat system.
>>96497409He's been great in short railroady content. The hope is that with a longform format he will relax the railroadyness and respect player choice a lot more than what Matt did for campaign 3. The way he ran that alone makes it worth to putt Matt on ice and take the gamble on a new dm, it was that awful.
>>96497924Multiple groups that MIGHT be interchangeable (they haven't confirmed either way yet) in a living world is pretty clear cut west marches to me pal
>>96499997>pretty clear cut west marches to meWords have meaning.
>>96497360Are they finally going to have a reasonable number of players at the table at a given time? I tried to watch C1 but couldn't focus with people constantly chattering and talking over each other.
>>96500181Terms change with the times old man, you are using it in relation to games from 20 years ago, I'm employing the commonly accepted modern usage. Don't get snooty with me because you refuse to modernize.
Are open tables that revolve around dm schedules(as opposed to player schedules) considered West marches?Here's how one server I was a part of worked.The caravan is heading West to escape an ever growing plague. The caravan currently has 100 horses(later rebranded into morale after players fucked with metacurrency too much)Whenever a dm calls for a mission, players must answer the call and survive or the caravan loses morale/resources.There are two kinds of missions: wild encounters, and custom dm missions(usually curated after wild encounters go awry, and do not cost the caravan morale if ignored, but usually resulted in more XP or a chance at magic items.My prediction is that Brennan is going to go hey I'm running a battle heavy session next, who wants in. Im running an intrigue session next Thursday who wants in, and chances are the people who enjoy that play style are going to be relatively consistent, but might want a change of pace
>>96497360I generally enjoy Brennan's comedy and improve in other shows and games, so despite not giving a shit about Critical Role I'm curious to see how this plays out. It will probably be entertaining if nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibyK0TgGDNc
>>96497360Really? Because I hear it's going to be hot garbage. Just like every season.
>>96497409>rolls 20>"Now that's what I call a Critical Roll"every time
>>96497360Honest question: WTF is Critical Role? I hear it mentioned now and then but I have never bothered to look it up since D&D past 3.5 doesn't exist in my opinion. Some kind of podcast?
>>96501440It's a rpg stream where people well known people in the voice acting industry play dndStarted on geek and sundry 10 years ago and has since then become it's own brand
>>96501440a group of actors playing (as in acting) a game of dnd
>>965014403.5 sucks
>>96501440>D&D past 3.5 doesn't exist in my opinionimagine stopping with the worst D&D edition
>>96497409Not really. He's a one-trick pony and that trick only works when someone behind the camera can ask for a second take on a funny line or reaction.
