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Dexo posted:In a long running sandbox like Matt runs it's probably a bit more dangerous to do cutaways as he has to be way more flexible about situations, and might have to change stuff around. Matt still does them, he just usually involves one or two of the players.
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Nemo2342 posted:Matt Coleville also does stuff like this, so it's certainly not limited to new DMs. Branson Reese from Rude Tales does it, and it helps set the mood a lot more. He does the little bits at the end sometimes as well, and it works really well to build tension for future episodes.
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I知 also pretty sure making the players enter the warehouse had a huge amount to do with having a warehouse battle map already made for the production and not having one for the docks ready to go (where presumably they would have had to fight otherwise).
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TotalHell posted:I知 also pretty sure making the players enter the warehouse had a huge amount to do with having a warehouse battle map already made for the production and not having one for the docks ready to go (where presumably they would have had to fight otherwise). I've had to panic find battle maps online because players decided to start a fight where I didn't expect and I run my games with a bunch of improv, so I feel that if you're making actual big sets. I think Matt with the infinite amount of production money for the games has a bunch of backup maps made for "urban setting" "ruins" "forest" etc. for when stuff he doesn't expect to start a fight, happens.
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TotalHell posted:I知 also pretty sure making the players enter the warehouse had a huge amount to do with having a warehouse battle map already made for the production and not having one for the docks ready to go (where presumably they would have had to fight otherwise). I think Aabria even said something like "I spent a lot of time making this map, we're gonna use it!"
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To be fair, it could of been pretty easy to mod that map into an alleyway. Just make the elevated portion like a loading dock for wagons. To be fair though even that probably would of broke the flow of the season. I won't scream railroading at Bria because yeah, it is the first session of a 8 part miniseries. She obviously had a few initial hooks set to get this thing running and now that they've had some significant decisions they've made to set the stage for where we go from here I imagine it's going to be a bit more free form. If you go by that logic about how it was always funny to end in the warehouse - the first few episodes of campaign 2 were railroady as gently caress wrt the circus and they made it through alright.
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Campaign 2 could have done with a little bit more railroading during the Eiselcross arc.
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For real though, I'm super looking forward to where this campaign goes. The only one with a brain cell is also the only one with a conscience currently, so this is shaping up to be a fantasy Cohen Brothers movie. Seriously, imagine like, Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski if the protagonist was a Himbo Chad Dwarf Sorcerer and his pack of bumbling idiot friends.
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DeathSandwich posted:To be fair, it could of been pretty easy to mod that map into an alleyway. Just make the elevated portion like a loading dock for wagons. To be fair though even that probably would of broke the flow of the season. And honestly could have used a bit more railroading since Matt let them spend most of episode 2(?) chasing down a wild idea they had that was never going to lead anywhere.
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remember how matt had to write up a bunch of stuff he didn't think they'd be touching until late in the game because they decided to go off on the high seas instead of following the obvious path he had set for them? a little bit of railroading is fine, especially in a limited 8 episode series. hell, matt could do with a little more himself.
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Joey McChrist posted:remember how matt had to write up a bunch of stuff he didn't think they'd be touching until late in the game because they decided to go off on the high seas instead of following the obvious path he had set for them? Honestly, all of this is why I make each level a separate adventure instead of going full sandbox. Players can't jump fully off the railroad tracks if they agree on what conflict needs resolving at the onset.
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DeathSandwich posted:For real though, I'm super looking forward to where this campaign goes. The only one with a brain cell is also the only one with a conscience currently, so this is shaping up to be a fantasy Cohen Brothers movie.
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Double Agent posted:I feel like this is the closest we're going to get to a CR game of Fiasco. This crew would be amazing at Fiasco 
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The vod is up on youtube now. https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1409587450507268097
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I've found that the Underdark is great for a sandbox campaign. Give the players a central hub area (such as a trade outpost) and have tunnels radiating out from it that lead to other locations with their own factions.
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DarklyDreaming posted:This crew would be amazing at Fiasco Yes. YES. YES! Imagine Sam playing Fiasco.
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Keru posted:The vod is up on youtube now. https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/1409669764163588100
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That's kinda wild, and implies there will be more billboards? Billboards for a limited run series for a very niche side story to a D&D live roleplay video series. Crazy times.
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Disappointing Pie posted:That's kinda wild, and implies there will be more billboards? Billboards for a limited run series for a very niche side story to a D&D live roleplay video series. Crazy times.
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They had billboards for the start of C2 as well (while still with G&S).
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Hulk Smash! posted:They had billboards for the start of C2 as well (while still with G&S). I frequent the coffee shop in this photo and it's how I got into this series 
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Froghammer posted:They're a burgeoning multi-media empire now. It was only a matter of time Will their dedicated streaming service cost more or less than Alpha did?
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xarph posted:Will their dedicated streaming service cost more or less than Alpha did? It seems to be doing... well, not great, but at least passable for Collegehumor / Dimension 20 and it keeps the lights on over there. But I think Critrole has better viewership and they make good money both from the sponsorships and the Twitch subscriptions. Considering how quickly Geek & Sundry folded after Critical Role left, it seems reasonable that they in fact do pretty okay for themselves. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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All those places are are like Patreon but where they manage the processing and dont have to pay Patreon. It's a pretty standard Model now.
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People on reddit are stupid, I'm finally catching up on ExU and Aabria is a loving DELIGHT.
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xarph posted:Will their dedicated streaming service cost more or less than Alpha did? I知 just excited for the exclusive miniature I値l be receiving on the anniversary of my subscription to CR+.
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CR's already doing way too well doing its own thing, but if it wasn't I'd see a lot of value in them bundling together with the other properly successful d&d stuff bundling and giving full access to their various archives, while also adding in video streams/unedited versions of the ones that are just podcasts. For the most part everyone's just doing their own patreon or other similar system though, and just because someone's a fan of one d&d thing doesn't necessarily mean they'd like another one, so the current approaches seem to be making sense and doing well enough.
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TotalHell posted:I知 just excited for the exclusive miniature I値l be receiving on the anniversary of my subscription to CR+.
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Have they discussed whether Exandria Unlimited is going to be more than this initial 8 episode run? And by that I mean I feel like Exandria Unlimited is a good over-arching name for a spin off show and not just this one series. It'd be neat to get a sidquest series like this every six months or so.
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Disappointing Pie posted:Have they discussed whether Exandria Unlimited is going to be more than this initial 8 episode run? And by that I mean I feel like Exandria Unlimited is a good over-arching name for a spin off show and not just this one series. It'd be neat to get a sidquest series like this every six months or so. The way they phrased it at the start was that it was going to be a name that they use for other stories as well.
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The way they introduced it during the State of CR made it sound like it was their way of signal-boosting other players/dm's as well as having guests on where they get more than 1-2 episodes to play, as well as letting Matt rest and actually be a player.
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Keru posted:The way they introduced it during the State of CR made it sound like it was their way of signal-boosting other players/dm's as well as having guests on where they get more than 1-2 episodes to play, as well as letting Matt rest and actually be a player. I think there's a good benefit to there being like secondary games and such woven into the schedule such that Matt is able to take it easy every few weeks. I got to imagine he works his rear end off near constantly when he's in DM mode. Hell, Aabria is doing essentially the same thing with Dimension 20 too, and giving Brennan an opportunity to be a player on his own show.
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DeathSandwich posted:I think there's a good benefit to there being like secondary games and such woven into the schedule such that Matt is able to take it easy every few weeks. I got to imagine he works his rear end off near constantly when he's in DM mode. Hell, Aabria is doing essentially the same thing with Dimension 20 too, and giving Brennan an opportunity to be a player on his own show. just remembered this is tomorrow https://twitter.com/dimension20show/status/1409916452774240257
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eke out posted:just remembered this is tomorrow God I want to see Brennan and Matt together as players making some poor DMs life a living hell.
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DeathSandwich posted:God I want to see Brennan and Matt together as players making some poor DMs life a living hell. Just run the EXU and new D20 streams simultaneously.
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eke out posted:just remembered this is tomorrow "There is a native population of peacocks in the Pasadena area" Yeah no poo poo one of them stole my sandwich once 
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The way they talked about exu in the state of the roll, felt like they were setting it up to potentially run on non-thursdays during the main campaign as well
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Paracaidas posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/erikaishii/status/1410103482447654913 Confused, excited, deeply troubled and questioning.
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