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[Erotic Materia]

If any of you follow Critical Role, the most well-known D&D podcast, you're probably already aware of this, but if not, the first 3 episodes just dropped today.
I've already watched them, and I am loving it. It's very much not a kid's show. Hell, you see titties in the first 5 minutes. Plus the swearing, gore, etc. It's a great show so far, and very faithful to the base content.

YOU SHOULD WATCH IT.

 

[Leafonthebreeze]

I have such a weird resentment about Critical Role because on the one hand, it massively increased the number of people who want to play table top rpgs, but on the other hand all they want to play is D&D which is... kind of a really shit system unless you're in it for combat and maths.

Don't get me wrong, as Critical role showed, it's very possible to do engaging storytelling with d&d but its way harder than something like 13th age, or one of the other more open, story based systems.

Also I just love World of Darkness and now no one wants to play it and I'm salty about it

I did listen to the first couple of eps of the second CR campaign while half asleep on a 19 hour train journey but I can't really think of another situation where I'd want to listen to someone else play a ttrpg for that long, but clearly I'm in the minority there!

Anyway show looks pretty and maybe I'll give it a go lol.

 

[Erotic Materia]

I have to admit that even I have put off listening to CR for a while... They really lay the drama on thick at times, to the point that I found myself fast-forwarding multiple times an episode. To that end, I searched around and found a much more casual, light-hearted D&D podcast that flows much quicker, and a lot of the dead air/particulars about dice rolls/etc are edited out. It's called "Not Another D&D Podcast", or NADDPOD. Much more digestible.

Also I just love World of Darkness and now no one wants to play it and I'm salty about it

I don't actually know anything about this, I'm gonna look into it ?

 

[Leafonthebreeze]

I know a lot of people like The Adventure Zone as well as a dnd podcast.

World of Darkness is a big old hole to go down, I specifically like Geist and Changeling, but the majority of people who are into WoD are into Vampire the Masquerade. The videogame is based on the ttrpg.

Geist was the game that got me to buy my own dice and now I have all these d10s and nothing I can do with them

 

[ForceStealer]

WoD was my first tabletop experience. Werewolf Apocalypse, specifically.

 

[Odysseus]

I never saw the appeal of watching other people play table to games, but then again, I still watch let's plays lol.

 

[Teioh]

As one of the 88,887 backers for this, yeah I'm very happy that they made it 18+ and I love what I've seen so far

I never saw the appeal of watching other people play table to games, but then again, I still watch let's plays lol.

This is almost exactly what my sister said to me tbf I'm not a TTRPG player and watch CR purely for the players improv acting.

 

[ForceStealer]

The draw of seeing proper voice actors do it was certainly real, but yeah it was just way too much of a time commitment. I watched a handful of episodes way back at the beginning. A big draw for me is that I was super into a lot of those voice actors specifically from Tales of Xillia which almost all of them were actually in as main characters, but it was just way too much to try and keep up with. I tried to put it on while I worked, but it was too distracting, lol.

I had "discovered" Matt Mercer because of his role as Alvin in Xillia, to which I stereotypically first thought "he sounds like Snow" (that is, Troy Baker). I then looked up some interviews with him and saw one where he talked about playing D&D with fellow voice actors and I thought "this guy seems awesome." Then critical role started and I had gotten in JUST in time to feel like a hipster in finding Mercer before he was cool Now if I happen to be sitting around idle on a thursday, I'll put it on in the background, but I have long given up actually trying to follow the wider story.

 

[Lord Noctis]

Hey, so this is basically the best fantasy series I think I’ve ever seen. Like, I honestly can’t imagine a better representation of D&D ever being successfully produced, and I say that as a guy who is pretty optimistic about the upcoming 2023 film.