How come Hollywood failed to recognize massive success of Critical Role and translate it into epic fantasy movies?
>>223447427Poor Travis.
They did make that Dungeons and Dragons movie a while back
>>223447465did he die in ukraine?
>>223447427Because a bunch of losers sitting around a table imagining they're badasses will always be pathetic and cringe and Hollywood knows that
>>223447526It made them into millionaires though. They fell off as soon as they started increasingly catering to tranny fans though, and never recaptured the magic of campaigns 1 and 2
>>223447427Actors can bypass hollywood and do their own shows on yt
>>223447427I hate this nepobaby dyke.
>>223447427I cannot imagine watching this crap. Anime is more respectable.
>>223447427It's too cringe. Literally. Performative D&D playing.
For me it's when Satine Phoenix successfully transitioned from being gangbanged and pissed on by beaners into a lucrative GM career only to try and scam some fat Karen who killed her career.
>>223447731You'd watch if all your favourite waifus were playing>>223447787>PerformativeThat's the very definition of D&D games dummy. Did you think you'd be slaying real dragons?
>>223447427I call it Shitical Hole with Fatt Fercer
This thread made me look up names I haven't thought about in years
This honestly hurts my soul.
>>223447837>That's the very definition of D&D games dummy. Did you think you'd be slaying real dragons?Not really. Most people are really chill when playing tabletop RPGs and don't resort to cringe shit like this. Played Vampire The Masquerade 3rd Edition for 20 yrs btw.
>>223447427The first few seasons on twitch really captured the D&D spirit and felt like just a couple of friends playing.Then it became popular and they felt the need to "entertain" the audience or stand out.It became soulless.On the one hand, Hollywood became incompetent slop peddlers,but on the other hand, audiences are so goddamn retarded and will just go watch the absolute lowest common denominator garbage.
>>223447945Why?
report eceleb threads as off topic
i dont really have irl friends to play dnd with but if it has theater kids out the ass then perhaps it was for the best i never got to play it
>>223447427mighty nine and vox machina are really good
>>223447954No one wants to watch a bunch of non-emotive dweebs mumbling incoherently in their basement
>>223447427That's the sort of girl that, before 2007, would have been calling you a faggot and a loser for playing DnD.
>>223447837Idiots are mis-using that word constantly all of a sudden.Some influencer must have taught them it.
>>223448147wrong image
>>223447821I thought her career was kill because of her "abusive" ex
>>223447427The last thing a box of donuts sees before the blissful dark.
>>223448184Zoomies have been misusing the word for years, their latest buzzword is larp.
>>223447427They got an Amazon tv show out of it
>>223447990Yeah you can tell they were doing shit to entertain the audience and not themselves.
>>223447427How long was that ago. She's fat now.
>>223447871tomar...
>>223447427She sucked in vtm: la by night.
>>223447427This is friend simulator shit on the same level as RLM Just find a local dnd circle and go play yourself
>>223447427They don't deserve it after memory holing Orion stalin-style for being a little mean
>>223449932God I wish Rich Evans would do a D&D show.
>>223449692too bad she's the voice of a chaarcter I liked in Apex back when I liked Apex
>>223447427is this a real woman or a tranny, google wont tell me
>>223450081trannys are real women, chud.
>>223448147>No one wants to watch a bunch of non-emotive dweebs mumbling incoherently in their basementThere's actually a lot of play channels with genuine dorks.
for me it's the really edgy but gay furry werewolf play channel
>>223447427we should go back to beating up people who play tabletop games
>>223449692How is it possible to have an asian face that makes Kim Jong Un look good? She is revolting
This same thread is still up on /tg/.
>>223447427what the FUCK is even this?I don't know anything about what's going on in this thread, I don't recognize any faggot in these pictures and so I feel threatened.Mods, do your jobs you filthy fat fucks.
>>223450171I'd rather watch Ms. Marvel go at it
>>223450837God you just know that fat little mudgoblin has had a mile of white cock run through her.
>>223447427So damn unlikableI wonder if the other side loves her so much
>>223449692All that and no leg, armpit or forearm hair?
>>223450968
>>223450837She's so cute and nerdy.
>>223447427How come that Orion guy became persona non grata for being kind of annoying and a bad player but this wretched creature can do stuff like this at the table?
The only DnD "streamers" that aren't absolute pieces of shit are the Avantris grifters and even they are cringe.
>>223451527Theater kids have flipped standards of etiquette.
>>223447427someone should start an e-celeb catan channel
>>223451527the rules at the table are, you can be cringe or you can be a perv. You can't be a cringe perv
Every single thing I used to enjoy has been ruined by these people. Anime, films, games, everything. I hate them so much it makes me sick.
>>223451740Critical Wood
>>223447427wym, Critical Role successfully monetized their audience and now has two ongoing Amazon shows, live action coming up and is now a half-a-billion dollar company.
I read they outlawed dungeons and dragons along with the dice because it was making the authorities to uncomfortable.
>>223452041No anon, that's dragon dildos, not dungeons and dragons.
Think Erika, Marisha and Mercer are swingers?
>>223452226
>>223452226Mercer is an obvious cuckchair guy. He probably sets the "story" of how Marisha going to get dicked down and narrates it.
>>223452010Aw shucks, good for them. I'm dreaming of writing about my groups Dungeon World adventures into a script and making a few thousand yuro bucks. 80-00's "year x tech", cool shitty cars, decapitation, fairy tales and realistic depiction of alcoholism.
>>223447837You know damn well what he means. Stop being obtuse. It's the obvious mugging for the camera and hamming it up for epic clippable moments for social media later that rubs everyone the wrong way. You're smart enough to know the difference between that cynical crap and what's to be expected in the context of a roleplay centric tabletop game.
>>223447990>captured the D&D spirittherein lies the problem. forgotten realms and it ilk are a bastardization of northern european folklore
Who watches other people play DnD? The fun is literally sitting together with your friends and playing yourself.
not a single one of the players knows even the most basic rules, even though they've been playing for fucking years and get paid ludicrously. its really funny, just not funny enough to keep me watching.
>>223452438Rules are for autists.
>>223452226matt wears nail polish, there's no way he isn't a cuck.
>>223452453perhaps they shouldn't play a game entirely based on them then, when i tried watching i always closed it when matt had to once again try explaining the most basic things to them.
I like brennan but I cant watch dimension 20, too boring and fake, even after show where they talk about what happened is better. Also brennan was in ted tv show, they green screened him in, he wears his usual clothes and DMs for the characters
>>223449692She seems like a try hard.
>>223452438>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO USE EMCUMBERANCE>NOOO WHY AREN'T YOU USING EXHAUSTION>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO ATTUNE YOUR MAGICAL SWORD, EVEN IF IT'S NOT CONVENIENT FOR THE PLOTThe rules should be bent and outright ignored if they are gay
>>223452438the insane thing is they used to play pathfinder too, which is way more of an actual game than dnd, which they switched to for filming their gay theatre kid production. they'd be so unbearable playing pathfinder.
>>223452499yeah this normification of dnd is what they go for. the players still cannot handle it. now settle down kiddo, don't blow a casket.
>>223452438Its the DMs job to know the rules.
>>223452499>The rules should be bent and outright ignored if they are gayYeah and it says so very edition of the DM manual.
>>223447427I'll never watch this theatre kid trash.Only the OG actual play series for me.
>>223452356Stop dreaming and start writing. People are putting out content every day
>>223447497>They did make that dogshit Dungeons and Dragons movie that flopped hard a while backfixed
>>223452624It wasn't a D&D movie, it was a fantasy movie set in Faerun, which is a setting in Dungeons and Dragons.
>>223452401People have complained about non-emotive and meek players since the early days of the internet. Not every group goes after the same play style and some want it to feel more immersive. They want more improv and that need was answered in these types of yt channels, hence their popularity. Meanwhile 'normal' playstyle channels don't have anywhere near the same popularity. You guys probably don't even watch the channels that have the playstyles tha you're fawning over but you all know the OP's
God I wish my group could actually fucking stay on topic, I would have recorded our sessions and edited them down to 1 hour episodes. Our game is so much better of a set of characters than the collection of freakshit in Critical Roll, so much a better story, actually has a main character and no one bitches about it, yes he could still die but it's still better for there to be a focus on a protagonist. I really want to make some shitty illustrated narration of the campaign notes at some point because I genuinely think people would enjoy it. Unfortunately I draw at a middle school level.
>>223447427Would
>>223448147Also, these are professional voice actors, even if they are not into DND and nerdy stuff they ve been doing DND adjacent things for decades, it's like saying that some stereotypical 90s dweeb should be voicing the characters in baldurs gate or smth
>>223452484>no fun allowed!
>>223448147Exactly noone wants to watch mentally ill people playing with kids toys and running computer apps like in Warhammer conventions
>>223447427>Critical RoleI've never even heard of this shit outside of people complaining about it here. How are you even exposed to it in the first place?
>>223450621It's because some chuddy chudderson made this gif go viral on twitter few days ago
>>223452499That's how people played DND originally I know that because my uncle used to in the 80s, the autism about attacks and tactics came later when video game Rpg people started getting involved
>>223452747They claim they're not interested but they can tell you each cast member's life story
>>223452780Dnd in the 80s was all about murder dungeons and rerolling your character every other sesh
The best thing they ever did was funding Dispatch. Their dnd game will be shit btw, just like their shit cartoons.
>>223447619What made them into millionaires was fostering a unique parasocial relationship with mentally ill people who watch them
>>223452665Again, it's not about the roleplaying or the emotiveness or immersion. It's about the painfully insincere pandering to the audience. This shit is embarrassing in the same way pro wrestling at its worst is embarrassing. If they want to dress up an improv session in a thin D&D paintjob to attract a gang of secondaries with low expectations that's their prerogative. But it doesn't mean it isn't shit.
>>223452811And also lists of mentally ill pseudolesbian zoomer girls, never forget those, they pivoted to these stuff and Smosh now that they can't obsess over harry potter due to terfmeister rowlinger
>>223447427>tfw wkuk made the only good d&d stream/show >tfw travis necked himself before round 2
I can't think of anything more cringe than watching other people play DnD.Imagine being such a fuckin loser that you need parasocial friend groups.
>>223452851Why not? Watching someone try to use a crossbow without really knowing what a crossbow is, is refreshing and hilarious
>>223452822>this performance... is performative!
I don't like Dungeons and Dragons. I like RPG video games though.
>>223452747My redditor brother tells me about how good the show is all the time in between telling our parents he "forgives them" for voting for Trump, and complaining about the existence of AI.
>>223452949Same, though anytime I've played DnD, the DM has been pretty ass so that's probably why
>>223447427is that her roastbeef vagina? fucking gross dude
>>223452411Zoomers are a generation of social retards who'd rather watch other people having fun on their phone than actually have fun themselves. They also don't drink or fuck, so there's not much point assembling in groups.
>>223452963I just don't like the idea that I have to contribute to the story. That feels like pressure. I want someone else to make the game and I just play it.
>>223452908>can't distinguish between cynical pandering and roleplay generallyNo wonder you're into this stuff. Let me guess, you're a huge AEW fan too.
>>223453005>Tony Derangement Syndrome even infesting ttrpg fandomsKWAB
>>223447526How is imagining being badasses while playing Dungeons and Dragons any different from reading a book or playing a video game or participating in an airsoft gun battle or even watching a movie where people with huge amounts of empathy and philosophical insight and the right Leftist Progressive ideology imagine themselves as the hero in the film?
How do people survive the cringe of playing D&D? Am I missing some sort of cringe suppression gene that allows people to engage in idiotic activities like this?
>small group of weirdos have this smug idea:>"they're ROLE-PLAYING games: they should be about ACTING CHARACTERS and TELLING STORIES, not merely exploring dungeons!">entire internet turns on their stupid theorycrafting about 'storygames' and 'indie' games where you're like, Mormon preachers in 19th-century French but it's actually all inside a schizophrenic's head in the post-apocalyptic future and oh oh instead of dice it uses Socratic dialogue and a roulette wheel, maaan!>entire internet collectively laughs at these dumb theatre kids and their queer ways.>2010s>YouTube channel>some voice actors play D&D>ruins the hobby basically overnightwhat the fuck
>>223453069Doing idiotic and cringe shit with your friends is fun.
>>223453069Even children know how to have fun roleplaying. You are more retarded than a child.
>>223452871this is what a person who isn't good with a crossbow thinks.anyone that's good at anything would rather be doing the thing than watching someone suck at it.
How is picrel on this? No one ever brings her up
>>223453069I think the "performance" aspect of RPG's have changed a lot since DnD shows became popular.Like when I played back in high school it was more just doing problem solving with friends. What was interesting was using the limited mechanics to overcome a situation. Like we would never do cringe theater shit or have long dialogues. Mostly just stuff like "I tell the shopkeeper to fuck off" or whatever. But that might just have been my group.
>>223453089Never saw any kids play or discuss D&D. It's always boomer age faggots with painted hair and tranny attire
>>223453074Voice actors are proof that you can take the kid out of the theater, but you can't take the theater out of the kid.Also that theater kids will inevitably ruin anything they get their hands on.
>>223453172You never saw it because the people into it know it's cringe and they play in hideaway places. That cringey way of playing is also why youtubers had to clean up their act if they really want to make a living off of it. Just look at >>223453168 for example. His way of playing might be fun for those involved but normies don't want to watch that for hours on end
>>223453168come home anon>>>/tg/osrgignore the weird splitting and hipster splinter groups (you know what the internet is like)
>>223453243>His way of playing might be fun for those involved but normies don't want to watch that for hours on endit could be interesting if it was edited well, maybe they could put animation to it or something. people watch vidya streams (not just for the personality, look at speedruns as problem-solving exercises).a big problem is that in the internet/video age everyone watches this stuff and emulates. every old D&D module has the standard warning like>if you are NOT the Dungeon Master, stop reading here!in any IRL gaming place someone at some point will inevitably bring up or copy 'that time on Critical Role when...'in hindsight, D&D up to AD&D was breddy fuckin smart. someone somewhere was the first person to ever think of using a 10 ft pole to poke the ground ahead, in case there's a hidden pit trap. but all those rules on time and light and carrying shit aren't just 'for fluff' they actually MATTER, they're a logistical risk/reward system and it's why you can't just heal by sleeping in a dungeon corridor.i don't know why people went off that side of the game. you hand-wave the journey from Waterdeep to Neverwinter because that's 'boring', when it SHOULD be playing the frigging game. it's like if a vidya was all cutscenes and QTEs.
>>223453052you're essentially watching people do improv, I like DnD but I don't get the appeal in watching other people play, no matter how much ''better'' they are at the game than my own group. If people like it, great, but I don't get it.
>>223447954>Played Vampire The Masquerade 3rd Edition for 20 yrs btwbasado, the only group I ever found for the game in my town disintegrated on session zero
>>223453112everyones favourite crazy american aunt
>>223448162nta, we played dnd/cthulhu in the school park in 2004 and no one ever gave us shit at all, even got a passerby twice as a recruit. DnD wasn't reviled like anime since it was actually something people did in groups, you got the same kind of attitude theater kids would get but nothing like bullying or serious insults.
>>223453497Friend group that they wish were part of.
>>223453172>painted hair say no more i know just the guy
>>223451740in 20 years of occasional Catan, I've never won a single game.
>>223453168Yeah wild that larping has become the norm now
Just how big is this group? When I played back in the day it became unplayable with a group of over 5 people.
>>223453497>I don't get itThe same reason reaction channels are successful, they don't have a group orr any friends of their own to play with.
>>223452748>gif
>>223453560Try to build towards a 3:1 port early. All the worst players I've ever played against either don't use ports at all, or hyper-focus on one 2:1 port.
>>223447427I thought there was an animated show or movie or something.
>>223450621But her head is more rounded as in consistent with larger amount of frontal matter of the brain (according to at the time physiognomy)If anything, Lovecraft has the skull of a creature with less matter in their prefrontal cortex. Would make sense too, as that is where ones sense of the outside world develops, so someone racist would likely have less matter in those regionsThose are also the regions that would allow a person to not homogenize sets. The less developed a person's brains is at organizing information, the broader and less defined their categories will be, as well as being less numerous.
>>2234474272, 3 hour long episodes, and like 20+ episode per campaign. They need to figure out a better way because I usually lose track of whats going on
>>223453172>>223453555don't forget picrel. literally the 'i'm not a SJW, but...' guy from that one comic. dude was all about 'safe spaces' and so on, one day he made an on-stream joke about a sci-fi robot character having a cyber-orgasm...WITHOUT ANYONE'S CONSENT! he is now banished from the internet.what a strange time in history.
>>223452438This is why you watch Glass Cannon instead. They're both generally better actors and also actually play gaems.
>>223453555>>223453625they both suddenly became pc around 2019 because of how many troons were fans of them and paid the bills
>>223448020The cringe is off the charts.
>>223448040No one is celebrating her here bro.
why does everyone hate this woman? she hasnt done or said a single controversial thing other than being cringe on camera
>>223453672Ghost of Yotei is a Playstation game and she's the face of it.
>>223453672Shes annoying. That's enough
>>223453672I watch dropout shows with her and she is very loud and not very entertaining
>>223453672Im a chud so you know
>>223453676>video games have 'actors' nowthis is one of those things that i wish remained a weird 90s experiment.
>>223453676>Ghost of Yoteiis it that unplayable?
>>223453672xer is ugly and lgbtqiahiv+
Its funny that dnd went from a hobby for people who never have sex to a hobby for people who have non stop sex(theater kids)
>>223453706what's left, at this point? D&D was always 'less accessible' than TV/movies, yet here we are.do we need to gatekeep, i dunno, Kurt Vonnegut novels or something?
>>223453706this is why performing arts schools should close down, when theater kids are part of regular schools they are just an alternative form of nerds, they get a good bashing on the head or a wedgie here and there and either grow out of it or become jewish writers, but when left on their own they become, unhinged imagine the glee club or the person who played oberon being the most famous and the alphas in any school
>>223453736https://youtu.be/JiuP5JMWpq4?si=ewy2hse4btOtIowE
>>223453692from what little I've seen it doesn't look much different from the Tshushima gameplay-wise
>>223453763i had just her in mind when writing it
>>223453718do a truly niche and asocial hobby like fishtanks or something
>>223453692It's the same as Tsushima but with even blander writing. And you can swap the VA to the Jap one who's 10 times better in the performance
>>223447427At least they care about Ukraine
>>223453718Historical wargaming is 100% middle-aged white dudes
>>223453787And she was a prom queen
>>223452795a lot of people just used the basic mechanics and setting to do their own thing, just like they do now
>>223453052tell me you've never been to a DnD session without telling me you've never been to a DnD session
>>223453799Nah, the rock,paper,scissors aspect isnt the different, and ultimately why I decided not to play it.
>>223452685people don't watch for the story anon
>>223453827Background noise because most of the viewers are terrified to be alone with their own thoughts
>>223453316>all those rules on time and light and carrying shitmost of the groups I've been in nix anything that's too cumbersome to play with, otherwise you filter out the casual players. It's already a miracle if a new player takes notes at all or remembers what happened last session.
>>223453497So? How does getting rich from doing improv make them losers?
>>223453813my brothers friend who was a total loser everyone would make fun of for being in every single play since kindergarten, switched to a music/theater school for the last two HS years and everyone even people who went to school with him were fawning over him being a performer, some probably had even forgotten he was the same guy the were making fun of
>>223453853I'm not the original anon you were talking to, I'd never say they were losers for playing a hobby I enjoy in a more viewer-friendly fashion, simply questioning the entertainment value of it I guess. I don't understand why people go to see regular improv either.
>>223453788i'm thinking of joining some text-based furry MUD tbqh.maybe Gaia Online were just the casuals/secondaries, and if you overcome the cringe plateau, you join a rich and rewarding world beyond the *glomps* and wolfdicks.
>>223452226ew
>>223447427fags n dungeons: the show
>>223453813i didnt vote for her
>>223450621grog smell fish n egg rolls
>>223452458this. he definitely cleans off her bfs
>>223452570only reason, imho to watch that was webb, perkins and occasionally binwin. they were funny
>>223450171Go on...
>>223453647What a faggot
>>223453885How come furries always eventually are the last survivors of these kinda games? I hear SS13 is mostly furry servers now as well.
>>223454089I know you are but what am I?
>>223447427They have a couple of pretty popular animated series at Amazon Prime. One at S4, other at S1 and S2 soon.
>>223452665>>223452718Devora Wilde is relentlessly hot.
>>223453112I only remember her as Mel Gibson's daughter in What Women WantApparently she is shit at DnD. She is playing it for 10+ years and still froze when she needs to roleplay or do moves.
>>223454339i ve seen this movie 30 times had no idea this was the samep erso nas her
>>223453052>participating in an airsoft gun battlethey are cringe to watch too
>>223454152How many furry media do you see around
I would watch some big tiddy bitches play warhams
>>223447427The thought of playing this shit is a lethal level cringe. The thought of watching others play it is incomprehensible.
>>223454883It's just like with kinky sex. Doing it in person is fun, watching others doing it is cringe.
>>223452499Oh come on, you dishonest fuck. If you actually ever watched this trash, you'd know that's not what it is. It's more at the level of>combat>"it's your turn, eceleb va, who has been playing this game for years now">"eh... what can I do again?"Or them just entirely misinterpreting what all their shit does and what they can do, like the druid in the recent season acting like she just has plant omniscience.
>>223454883Yes, dnd is cringe, but grognard dnd is the good type of cringe. The influx of theater kids during 5th edition has done insurmountable damage to the brand, the level of cringe has reached maximum overdrive. We must return to tradition, following the lead of Gary "No Foids Allowed" Gygax and Ed "The Degenerate" Greenwood.
>>223453625I remember this. It's amazing how he willingly ruined his career which also included some shit photography work, deleted his entire online presence after saying he will go into therapy because he created a robot character that was a rape threat to one of the characters. It's also amazing how willingly everyone at the table played along to fuck up his real life. You could see a morsel of disaster drop at the table, how hungry they all were. Peak Floydian years. Nowadays zoomer ecelebs drop one IRL rape charge per week for engagement and nobody gets sued or cancelled.
>>223455013>dnd is cringe,It's not cringe at all, it's a fun and creative social activity and you've simply built a prison of hangups and insecurities hoping it will make you less of a pathetic nerd in the eyes of people who don't even know you exist.
I've always been interested in trying D&D. I'd really like to believe the actual roleplaying can be done in a way that isn't as terminally cringe as these faggots make it look. You'd probably need to lay down some ground rules like no romance, no thieflings, no playing as the opposite sex and no subversive shit like rolling an bookish orc or a dwarf who loves elves and hates caves. Basically anything that would be anathema to the average wokoid laroer with special snowflake syndrome.
>>223455033Nigga I've been running games with the same group for two decades, stop projecting. It's still cringe regardless of how you look at it, especially if you play it like these theater kid faggots. Maybe read my next post fully before responding you fucking dumb bitch.
>Cringeons and Cringeons isn't cringe
>>223455064*read my post fully next timeJust woke up, forgive me for my transgressions and apparent ESL
>>223455062It all depends on the DM. You're basically just writing a story together but if the guy outlining the story sucks, it all falls apart
>>223455013i can believe Ed Greenwood knew the answer to this question before it was asked.
>>223455062Tieflings were fine until 4e, when they all became streamlined Asmodeus-cursed special snowflakes. During 2e they actually felt like the spawn of fiendish entities, with a lot more "traditional" deformities that our ancestors considered demonic or whatever. And you'd actually have to roll for everything:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Tiefling_Tables_(PWH)Basically, a lot of your gripes can be solved by simply... playing the older editions.
>>223455064>gary gygax the chud.png >AD&D 1E opens with a foreword about how great diversity is>they've even caught wind of FEMALES playing the game!chudbros, our response?
>>223455193This is why DND 3.5 is the Windows 7 of DND.
>>223452401nobody would watch a stream of 5 beardos casually rolling dice and grinning a little when they get a good roll
>>223455236>>223455234>>223455193Mork Borg and OSR in general is unironically the only way to save the genre. It lowers the bar so number crunching spergs go elsewhere while taking the best elements of roleplaying and combining them with feat-based gameplay with only few dice and the only thing you need to care about is that the DM is not too trigger happy.
>always wanted to play DnD but never had any friends
>>223455283>number crunching spergsAt least half of the fun is sperging out about the rules in the eternal religious battle between>the common sense >DM's interpretation of rules he managed to remember>the Great RulebookI'm sure we would drag Copilot and Chatgpt into this today, to have yet another side of conflict to balance others if something went not in our favor.
>>223450609It's the dyke hair. She looked genuinely cute long, long ago
>>223453625>www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoenthEiHA&feature=youtu.be&t=4367I can't believe he would rape a robot IRL baka.
>>223455310And if you try to find a group now you'll probably end up with a bunch of people who got into d&d by binge watching critical role during covid. They'll all want to be the snarky, marvel quipping bard and will pause combat whenever anyone rolls a 20 so that they can take a picture and tweet about it.
>>223448191>but you dream, virgins
>>223455798>They'll all want to be the snarky, marvel quipping bardNigger, DND was always for normies. In 00s everybody wanted to reenact reddit tier comedy scenes from Pratchett's Discworld.
>>223447427I really hate how YouTube keeps recommending me dnd content when watching shorts. All of it is cringe.
>>223455732it's a stupid ephemeral moment nobody should care about.it's a hobby where 'i rape the corpse ololol' was the norm, you have actual autists who literally flip tables, or just socially awkward types whose humor might not mesh with others.but these professional adults all immediately put on their>this is NOT okay!faces, like they know that's how they're 'supposed' to appear.the dude with pink hair cackling at what he probably considers futuristic/sex-positive is somehow not the biggest faggot in the room.
>>223456104If you play pnp RPGs with women, you can forget about having any fun at all, unless you don't care and the whole thing is just an excuse to interact with others.
>>223456104Yeah it's retarded. But he cultivated that culture and had to eat shit for daring to shine any light on how gay it is. In the games I've played, I usually ran high CHR just to win over slutty NPCs and almost always got a laugh.
>>223447526They were paid $250 million for the rights to make fucking CARTOONS of the stories.Reminder that the entire "phenomenon" was artificial and that all of them were nepo industry plants.
>>223456180If you do ANYTHING with women you can forget about having any fun at all. That includes sex btw, it isn't actually fun, you're just being hit by billions of years of evolution of cope.
>>223447427I hate how performative faggots like these guys ruined DnD
>>223456213>In the games I've played, I usually ran high CHR just to win over slutty NPCs and almost always got a laugh.as a joke it gets old, but idk it's there, in the rulebooks. just one of those things like Monty Python quotes.but the whole hobby got infiltrated. they are currently re-releasing some classic D&D novels, but they are using AI to alter the art to e.g. cover up chainmail bikinis.that bothers me, tbqh. classic fantasy artist from the 1980s, commissioned to do a badass cover, it has some cheesecake? well that's STOPPED being fine, 40 years later.just let boys and men have things, man. hobbies, spaces.
>>223447427>Record of Lodoss Wartrash>Riftwartrash>MalazantrashAll media based on the creators' RPG campaigns is trash, schlock, garbage
only dnd campaign i've watched was folk and dagger by please stop talkingbeen thinking of watching acquisitions inc, haven't been able to find a group that isn't cringe
>>223456475Rolling for my harlot encounter.
>>223456556>saucy tartFuck yes.
>>223456475Oh what the hell. Lets see.
>>223456104>it's a hobby where 'i rape the corpse ololol' was the normNo it absolutely was not. That was never the norm.
>>223448099vox machina is painfully reddit. go back
>>223447887Isn’t this guy a homo?
>>223456475rollin
>>223457026>cheap trollopwell, at least I get to save my hord of gold
>>223456500>he doesn't like Ultima 1 through 6faggot
>>223447427Epic fantasy is too expensive to make00s boom only happened due to LotR success.80s boom only happened due to Conan20s don't have its LotR or Conanneither did 90s or 10sit's dire situation
>>223452226I think Matt, Marisha and Luis (Azune from the new Campaign) are in a polyshit and Marisha is cuckqueen.
>>223452226What the fuck is the context of this?
This is the only really funny DnD YouTube campaign, everything else seems to be toothless quirk chungus stuff. RIP Trevor .
>>223456615I remember putting together a group as a teen and every 1 in 3 guys was like that desu.
>>223447427Amazon has made multiple animated shows based on their autism. Live-action costs too much for a niche concept.
>>223452718>The DM has to plan the long rest for the partyWhat kind of railroad filled campaign is this?
>>223457276In nu-D&D, the DM is more like a Netflix showrunner, so a lack of long rests is like a TV show being poorly paced.
>>223457206Because you were horny teens dumbass.
>>223455732I can't believe people got offended over this lmao. It's a fucking robot.Also that blonde woman feigns outrage to the point she can't speak but is suddenly able to plug all her content at the end. Interesting!
>>223452811lol exactly. This is essentially true of most nu-media stars.
>>223447427is that soiboi looking at her flat ass?
>>223457392>travis>soiboi
We always had to deal with the theater kids, but we kept a good balance until this shit happened. I don't know if we will ever recover in a cultural sense, obviously they don't disproportionately affect my games but I had to stop DM'ing public games because it just wasn't dnd anymorealso its not just theater kids, theater kids are fine. It's the kind of kids who ONLY did musicals and posted on tumblr that are the problem.
>>223453112One one hand, she's bad.Getting-payed-millions-and-still-never-bothering-to-learn-how-to-play-after-a-decade bad.On the other hand, she clearly doesn't like nor is interested in the kind of overacted 2drama4you tier1to5 campaign CR is based on and would probably be okay just watching and hyping the others but the format imposes that she's regularly thrown in the spotlight too where she always deer-in-the-headlights
>>223457479Laura was always best girl anyway.
normal people who dont know what they are doing is always kino, i dont wanna watch or play with some smelly manbearded chud like the quartering
>>223456180>it's a foid picks a completely random esoteric race episodeI hate this shit. I want to restrict all player races to the PHB. It's practically anti-worldbuilding too, because no DM is realistically going to try and account for the innumerable different expanded races. So when you play modern D&D, race is practically irrelevant.
>>223457479Hyphenated-phrase-as-adjective writing will always be lazy and cringe
chuddy chuddersons hate these people because chuddies are largely autistic unable to understand irony or humour, everything has to be literal to them
>>223457613I don't believe I'm autistic, though I've never been formally assessed. However, from my standpoint, you have to be mentally off to enjoy these grotesque caricatured facial expressions. I really don't understand why everything has to be dripping in personality all the time now. When IShowSpeed was getting popular, I watched some shorts featuring him and all he does is shout and clap and do flips like a clown. It's repugnant. Honestly, I prefer speaking to older people and ESLs more than native English speakers, because this bizarre culture has now proliferated to the offline world and infected otherwise normal people. Some Pole or boomer that just says normal things with a normal facial expression and doesn't scream or shout or guffaw is refreshing.
>>223447526You're literally doing that right now.
>>223457414>>223457530I'm under the impression that - taken from their habitat - they would at the very least lean rep
I tried getting into this. It's too lame. Ive been told by a friend that plays DnD that Mercer is just top tier regarding what he does. But I don't see it. Im not a DnD guy so I guess thats why?but the way they play it makes it so not interesting to me.I loved some GURPS reports though.>>223457613now smosh does it too? sigh
>>223447427>a bunch of assholes acting like retardsisn't that what shows like big brother are for?
>>223457582>It's practically anti-worldbuilding too, because no DM is realistically going to try and account for the innumerable different expanded racesThis nigga didn't play DND 3.5>Player: OK I take this exotic race from the obscure "Complete Moron" rulebook, it has the perfect boost for the stats I need>DM: <pink wojack face>
>>223458226it was a paid sponsorship by wizards of the coast, and they were doing it like 12 years ago too
>>223447427Is that the quirk chungus made flesh
>>223453112She’s cute! She’s a libtard, isn’t she?
>>223457613how come the women are doing the basedface this time? or is this the case there women aren't actually women?
>>223458353all of them are trans
>>223458284smosh? 12 years ago? with Joven, LCorn, Sohinki, Mari and the others? I dont remember it, but its totally possible. At least they were actually gamers unlike the theater kids
>>223458275As someone that DID play 3.5, it was total ass.Bloat for Bloat's sake.
>>223447619>>223452811Well, that and the fact that they're all union bigshots
>>223458549They're not bigshots.Outside of Critical Role, they're all D-list voice actors.
>>223447427it's a bunch of people sitting around a table talking, you might as well ask why hollywood failed to recognize the massive success of podcasts.we already see what the next logical step in production values for this kind of content is, and it's cutting to snippets of people acting out the scenes as they play.if you actually cut out the table from these table top games, it wouldn't be as good, half of the entertainment value comes from the people at the table interacting with one another. their personalities.
>>223458586I'll admit to not having ever watched it, but weren't Laura Bailey and Matt Mercer involved? They're about as high up the chain as you can get.
>>223458615Neither of them are high profile voice actors. They're D-list.
>>223458650So who's a "high profile voice actor", in your opinion?
>>223458663Steve Blum, I guess? No American voice actor is really high profile because its a joke career in America.
>>223458275You're right, I didn't play 3.5, but I assume older versions were less pozzed and the campaigns at least allowed for racial distinction in the settings. Fucking LMoP starts off with everyone living in a happy multicultural utopia. In practice, no DM bothers giving unique characterization to the halflings in the town. They all just blend together into generically human. It's lame.
>>223458226Mercer is "top tier" because he makes you feel like a heckin Marvel chungus hero. That's why half their party are nobility or from another dimension or some shit.
>>223457582The only good thing about the post- 4E DND are scalies as one of the main playable races. Not some crappy monster girls, but real honest to God scalies, with claws, snouts, tails and BOOBS.Everything about the "modern" DND sucks, but scalies are good.
>>223447427eww, gross. Are you sure that things even human?
>>223449692GIB ME CHONK CHINK RIGHT NOOOOW REEEEE
>>223458695You can just say you don't know any voice actors. We'll judge you less for being honest about it than for pretending to know what you're on about.
>>2234587364e was the worst slopfest edition D&D has ever done.
>>223455283Kill yöursölf, subhuman pretöntious hipster faggöt. Your shitty coffee table artbook is not a game.
>>223458713>everyone living in a happy multicultural utopiaI'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing here. It's a fucking fantasy setting. Your traditional generic fantasy setting looks like a trade hub in the medieval Middle East. A lot of skilled weirdos came from far away lands to serve The Lord or work for The Guild. Visit a really backwater place and you will be more likely pestered by locals for news, dragged into a local conflict, scammed or robbed, rather than lynched for being a weirdo. In the worst case scenario your weirdo is treated like a historically accurate gypsy unless he has money.That being said, this kind of setting is also as far as possible from the utopia Californians imagine in their rotting brains.
>>223458769No argument here. But at least it had scalies.
>>223447689I watched this randomly for about 2 minutes and had douchechills the whole time.
>>223449692I wanna punch her face so bad
>>223457363you heckin chud that poor lady playing a manbot was internet raped in her neck port fuck you
>>223450621It's "for the life of me", you god damned ESL bastards.
>>223447837I'll never forgive Jessica for not going fully nude in her prime.
>>223449937>They don't deserve it after memory holing Orion stalin-style for being a little meanHe was a drug addict and cheated on his rolls all the time.
>>223457204I liked TFS at the table, although Lanipator really is unfunny without a script.
>>223459028Fantasy worlds still have race relations and someone playing a screeching bug freak or a race with demonic blood should be treated with suspicion if not hostility.
>TRANS WOMEN ARE WOOOMENThese people are so fucking retarded and cringe
>>223458713Dungeons and Dragons was always gay bullshit for fag theater kids.
>>223459290No it wasn't, it turned into that and turned into shit though, like all nerd hobbies were ruined by the alphabet mafia and woke.
>>223447427I hate what they did to D&D.
>>223457204trukewhat makes it good is the stop giving a shit about dice rolls or any other cringe D&D stuff very early on and it's just becomes funny guys making up an absurd story by bouncing off each other
>>223459342I blame Stranger Things more. That’s when wotc started looking at D&D as more of a lifestyle than a hobby. Anyone who feels the need to wear role playing on their sleeve as something they’re good at it is a pathetic loser
Fuck D&D real chads play Rifts or Shadowrun anyway.
>>223447427an unsightly beast...
>>223459327Nigga you are doing improv and pretending to be a Goblin or some shit. You are a GAY THEATER KID.
>>223458907>waves away your reaching for rulebook to clarify whether tiefling lost 2 or 3hp when whipped with staff of avarice>delivers a freeform judgement and the game goes on seamlesslymad?
>>223459538Turn the lights off and Id slam her ass all night
>>223458713>In practice, no DM bothers giving unique characterization to the halflings in the town. They all just blend together into generically human.FWIW that was a step in the right direction. it's ARGUABLY a hexcrawl, and we were coming off the 3.5/d20 System era books that would explain every last crate's contents and who the innskeeper's family were (not useful in practice either, they were paid by the word.)classic modules like The Keep on the Borderlands and the Village of Hommlet will just say>7. ARMORY. Ran by Grog Ironbeard, 3rd-level dwarf. Surly temper, lost his left eye in a hobgoblin raid. Sells armor up to medium.and that was it, but that's all you need.i don't need branching paths of paragraphs of read-aloud, actual dialogue i'm meant to relay if the PCs hit the right trigger words. just tell me the mayor is cowardly and knows that Grog owns a map to the treasure cave. that's enough.
>>223459579We didn't do improv, we described things rather than act it out, more like writing a story together than acting out a story.
>>223459614Based. The first commandment of a good DM: don't bother your players with fluff irrelevant to the campaign.
>>223447427Solid players>Sam, Luis, Matt, Liam, Whitney, RobbieCringe>Taliesin, Marisha, Laura, Liam, Alex, Aabria
>>223452411yeah this is something I'm curious about. I felt the same way when "streaming" became a thing. How are you gonna watch someone else play a video game? What the fuck are you doing with your life.
>>223453823I've never been to a Dungeons and Dragons session but have played Icewind Dale and watched the horrible movie from the 1990s or early 2000s which I tried watching again a few mo ths ago but didn't finish.>>223454455Yeah, but at least it's a step up from playing CoD or Apex Legends.>>223453497Maybe the story, guess that's why people watch that Critical Role show. But then again, they can just watch the animated version for the story.
>>223459821>How are you gonna watch someone else play a video game? What the fuck are you doing with your life.I think if it's a competitive game and you are watching a top player explaining what he's doing it can be instructive, for example I like watching chess grandmasters explaining their thought process as they play, but obviously it doesn't apply to D&D or 99% of streamers in general
>>223459707Why even call them "players" at this point? Critical Role abandoned the tabletop game aspect a long time ago, now it's just a bunch of cringey theater kids doing improv. An outline is planned beforehand and these niggas know 85% of whats going to happen, it's not even dnd anymore.
>>223459821It's all background noise. I watch/listen to Yugioh content on YouTube while I work or drive because it's funny, but I still play it myself.
>>223460012I like watching TGS while I work out
>>223460149I like Master Saga as it has devolved to 6 people screaming over the top of each other while the "villain" team pulls better cards than everyone else and keeps winning. Plus, they're all retarded and refuse to read.
>>223459583You don't need some eyesore artbook to make shit up on the fly. Rulebooks exist so you won't need to make shit up the fly in fact.Also arguments over whether 2 or 3 hp were lost is the actual game part of the game. When your conflict resolution is entirely vibes based then you aren't playing a tabletop game, you are larping as tabletop gamers.
>>223460387Nah, it's still a tabletop game. Narrative supersedes math. If anything is unclear, DM makes a ruling, everyone moves along.
>>223447427>Character does or says something moderately epic and elevating>Inserts "Fuck" or "Fucking" in itseriuosly - CR and their shows would have been 80% more watchable if they've gotten rid of this
