Ya'll ready for the best D&D ever created?

>kickstarter

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>more forgotten realms type shit

>bunch of losers whining on 4channel
>funds two million in two hours

Top fucking kek

Friendly reminder that BEGGING OR ADVERTISING is not allowed here.

It's a cartoon, it's relevant. They don't need begging they've already surpassed 2 mil

>Critical Role
>the best D&D

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Not anymore, its full of normies now

Someone give me the rundown on why some dude named Orion was cut out of this.

>Kickstarter
Abandon ship

I legit have no idea what critical role is

The english voice actor for jotaro Kujo plays dungeons and dragons with illidan stormrage and Jaina proudmoore. also theres some other people too.

advertising is one thing. But is it really begging when they're about to break 2 mil.

Drug problems and cancer that led to more drug problems that led to hiv

Sounds like you just hang out with a bunch of normies, you faggot.

Seems odd to cut someone out for HIV assuming they got clean. I guess it's hard to ever trust someone who had a drug problem again.

More like doing coke on set, picking fights with the crew and constant shit posting online.

And as a player...kind of a spaz that wasn't really respecting that he wasn't the only person at the table.

Like leaving in the middle of a bossfight. Or you've got a player visibly frustrated and begging the party to hurry up because he wants to get out of town and adventure and Orion's all 'I'd like to buy every single mirror in the entire city and begin construction on a solar powered super laser'.

T. Roastie

Looks meh at best and God the opening sounds bad.

Continue being upset about people miles away somehow stopping your weak ass from having fun, you whiny faggot. I'm gonna go keep having fun playing games with my friends.

>entire thread is just two normalfags arguing over who's the most normalfag

Like you motherfuckers would even have the attention spam for a podcast series.

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He's a fucked up druggie who was making passes at Laura.

>t. Normie

FACT:

All work no play > critical role

They already have a comic

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it's already the most successful animation kickstarter of all time, and it's probably going to become the most successful film kickstarter of all time.

seriously why isn't this being discussed more?

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>Bunch of pasty-ass elves, humans and half-breed scum
>Only one halfling
Lame.

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He also was constantly trying to make spells do things they aren't supposed to do, like using an offensive ice spell to make an iceman style ramp for him to fly on, or and cast spells he didn't have slots for.

Overall he was a shitty person to be playing TTRPG's with, much less to make a weekly broadcast with.

>Can't tell the difference between Halflings and Gnomes

Two gnomes, zero halflings

And lied about his dice rolls

>Gnomes
Lame.

and Sonic is the DM

Christ

If I had that guy as a player at my table I'd probably have ended up decking him in the face. How'd the show ever get off the ground with him involved for the first dozen episodes?

Haven't watched this but enjoyed The Adventure Zone. How's this compare? Man an animated cartoon for Adventure Zone would be rad. It's already got a comic apparently

>Lame
That's why Sam Riegel picked it

TAZ is the McElroy's having fun with DnD as an accessory. Critical Role is much, much closer to your standard table fare, to the point where combat sessions can last two hours on some occasions.

Also, CR has over 360 hours of content compared to TAZ's...50-60 something.

>TFW you'll never have professional level animated content of your DnD games with your best friends as you run a small but successful media empire that you just use to fuck around together

It's not fair

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MILDLY SPICY TAKE:

DnD/Tabletop Podcasts/Videos, while sounding entertaining on paper, always devolves into constant Player bickering, Pseudo celebrity snarking, and DM rulefagging other than delivering an exciting, in character fantasy experience.

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i dont mind the d&d or the people making it, i would totes want some medieval fantasy stuff, i enjoyed tigtone a little, still a little worried cuz kikestarter

Only 45 days to go and they are only at 4 times the goal. Will they make it guys?

away, furry

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my time in /tg/ has convinced me otherwise.

Because critical role is shit.

>checks

well damn

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>Is that standard?
No, but if they are truthful, it means they they are going to pay the animation studio what they really deserve, and that's amazing and a rare sight.

They've made something like >50k in the 10 min since i posted that even.....

source?

Don't forget they're at the table with Roy mustang, Teddie from Persona 4, Elie from The Last of Us(sometimes), and... The DM's wife.

Critical Role is that popular? Again haven't seen it

I mean I guess the idea of a bunch of VAs playing DnD and messing around together making crazy epic tales is neat but to get that much that fast? Wow

Grog is a goliath, there are two gnomes, and only one actual human. Also a bear.

I wouldn't have expected it either but..... as someone who has never cared about D&D and only clicked here to see if it might be interesting.... the idea of a high quality animation with an actual plot is enough to make me want to back it.....

I think we can all agree Sam is the best thing about the series.

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That's the best part about an animation being produced by people who WORK in that industry. They actually want to pay everyone fairly! Hooray!

>An actual plot.

And there's the problem.

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins by Darkhorse comics

That most modern shows don't have a plot? Or is that a problem with Critical Role?

>critical role
There's a lot better d&d/tabletop related media that would be a much better choice for this.

The American Dad WoW parody looked better
>no shadow run cartoon
youtube.com/watch?v=g_bFc1cCTJg

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Sure, let's see them have such a successful kickstarter then.

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I hope they do user

Yeah jokes aside, me too.

I want 'The All Guardsmen Party" to try this. Of course that would require Games Workshop to let someone do something with their property and GW just making money off royalties or whatever rather than running it into the ground.

I hope this paves the way for other tab shows to be animated. I'd love to see a Spout Lore cartoon or Adva Sageb and Shootouts

I would love to see a Neoscum cartoon
youtu.be/sNWeGMsz_48

Wish we had a rip of TAZ: Here There Be Gerblins to storytime. It's neat.

I want to see a Kenshi cartoon
youtube.com/watch?v=wXo24imR_54

I'll never understand why such a boring and dysfunctional group has such a rabid fanbase.

>dysfunctional
thats the best part. They just have fun with the game

This is why I don't like shit like Dragonborn or Tieflings. Goblins and Kobolds, however, are fine for a specialised Dante Must Die mode type deal... that actually sounds really fun.

Because it's entertaining.

>rabid fanbase

How are they Rabid?

Have you even seen The adventure zone Fanbase?

Now they're rabid.

Bump for 3.5 million

It's not even there yet you fag

just wait a few minutes

There, now it's 3.5

It's not like an online game you retard. You get to pick who you play with

That's the most elaborate way of saying "nonhuman races trigger my autism" possible.

People relate to behavior, not appearance. It doesn't matter if they're covered in scales or have two heads, if they act like a human people will relate to them. Pic related is a sponge who lives in a pineapple underwater, but he's relateable in his actions and thus became one of the most popular characters in the history of animation

Also, there's plenty of fiction starring nonhuman characters. Some of our oldest stories are about anthropomorphic animals and/or mythical creatures. And even if that wasn't the case, coming up with new ideas isn't anywhere near as hard as that pic makes it out to be

I was joking about autism earlier, but I legit think whoever made that image is actually on the spectrum

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For the quality they're advertising yes.

>All the cast members approved their own character designs over months
>Laura Bailey personally oversaw Vex's big ol' titties

She continues to be a gift that we do not deserve

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Based Mommy Laura

I'm not completely sure how I feel about the art. It kind of has that weird 80s saturday morning cartoon feel

I'm hoping they'll touch it up a little bit now that they'll have millions of dollars to blow. This was an out-of-pocket demo reel, after all.

Gotta respect her for going out of her way to make sure all her characters are fuckable

So it's basically normalfags ripping off j/a/pan's Japanese tabletop/talk culture where they make animated retellings of their ttrpg sessions. Maybe Steven Universe's criticisms against anime references is unwarranted since apparently people pour millions to Japanese culture anyway

Question of the hour:

Vox Machina or The Mighty Nein?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

>Normalfags
>Matt Mercer started his career cosplaying sephiroth, Taliesin's been doing anime longer than some people have been alive, and the most normalfag of them all, Travis, begged his future wife for a gig on Dragon Ball Z

>japan invented watching other people play a game
Fuck off back to /jp/

Vox Machina is superior for now, but Mighty Nein have a lot of room for growth. I expect my opinion to change by the end of the campaign.

I dunno, I'm torn. Everything sort of flipped around between campaigns.

VM
>Travis and Tal are great
>Laura and Liam are boring
MN
>Travis and Tal are boring
>Laura and Liam are great
The only constants are that Sam is always amazing, Marisha is always shit, and Ashley is always missing.

I'll say Vox Machina for now, although the Mighty Nein have really grown on me. It's still early days. Tal's already changed characters, and I have a sneaking suspicion Travis is getting bored of Fjord and may try to have him offed one of these days.

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The Mighty Nein is slightly superior mostly cause I like more asshole A-team vibe they give off. They do the right thing eventually and if it has a shit-ton of gold attached but might also unleash a titan-sized Godborn serpent for a few extra spells

Gentlemen how is Sam so based?

I have a hard time liking the Nein. I think they're *trying* to be the fun chaotic neutral asshole A-team you're describing, and a lot of their plot threads have gone that way... but some of their adventures have gotten a little murderhobo-y: Nearly murdering a guy for being a pig to Jester's mom, pillaging ships as pirates, almost releasing a Lovecraftian horror, and I swear to christ Jester's gonna run off and join the fucking evil drow empire just to avoid being accused or racism

Shit is supposed to pour out of your other end, user!

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He seems to genuinely have a lot of fun throwing himself into the characters. Plus "comic-relief character suddenly mans up or has a super dramatic moment" is one of Yea Forums's favorite tropes (pic related) and Sam knows how to play it well.

Scanlan blowing up at the team is still one of my favorite moments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_Hkb5pYfo

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Because he's Awesome.

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the best people that play dnd are the people willing to play as a human or a race that isn't "cool". Nothing sucks ore than a party of edgy monsters and elves in a setting filled with normal humans

I want to like Beau but holy shit sometimes she's unbearable.

At least two of Critical Role peeps are as diverse as Steven Universe crew and weebos. They would be aware of this phenomenon for years

Literally nobody outside of japan besides you knows about this shit.

People who think this have only played like three characters. Once the novelty of the setting wears off it becomes a lot more fun to try the more exotic races

1. He ordered his guards to kill them for just showing up in a Public Works facility, didn’t give them a chance to do or say anything just KILL ON SIGHT

2. They were under duress and were as nice as possible to the people they pillaged and didn’t kill anyone

3. You got me there, the party should have protested way way more

4. She doesn’t know they’re evil, heck we don’t even know if they’re evil, they’re worshiping a different diety

Why the fuck is the Yea Forums thread about this shit actually comfy while the live generals on /tg/ are legitimately the worst

>heck we don’t even know if they’re evil
They're fucking death-worshiping nigger elves, of course they're fucking evil.

>around dark elves
>watch yourselves

Because Yea Forums is a comfy place. Yea Forumsmfy .

The idea is fine, Critical Role is ok, and I'm glad that almost everyone involved is having success.

But those are some of the worst stretch goals I have ever seen for any kickstarter.

$20US for a fucking sound file of a song not even 2 minutes long.

$50US for an unsigned art print and stickers.

$100 for fucking dice.

Seriously why are these stretch goals so god damn stingy?

Why has D&D become much more common place these days? Nothing against it, just curious.

Because the /tg/ threads are full of autistic spergs obsessively checking to make sure Matt's tracking hitpoints correctly and status effects correctly.

I mean... Yea Forums is full of autistic spergs too, but I suspect they're more interested in characters, stories, and world-building shit.

/tg/ has been following them since their inception and the shitters in the group, Marisha especially, just wore on people as time went on

This show and Stranger Things, mostly

This isn't actually a good enough story to turn into anything real. It's more than fine as a D&D campaign but as a fucking cartoon (for adults, more than likely)?

I can't wait to see this fail. The chances of success are honestly so low.

Because only 17% of the money is paying for the rewards, 74% is going directly to making the show, and the rest goes to Kickstarter and credit card fees. So you’re actually paying $17 for the dice.

Skype, discord, and other video chat services going mainstream had a *lot* to do with it. The game becomes a lot more accessible to average joes when you're not having to organize and schedule the entire thing around the logistics of going over to somebody's house for four or five hours.

Some would argue that's part of the fun and that some of the interpersonal interaction gets lost over video, and I would agree in general, but I'm not vehemently opposed to people doing it that way if they can make it work.

t. Dark Sun Boomer

Because /tg/ is filled with Anons that actually play RPGs other than DnD and are far better at shitting down the throats of anyone who tries to argue with them. Most people in Yea Forums have a very basic understanding of RPGs and Critical Role, so they have no real reason to throw a shit fit about it. It's a common trend that threads about most topics are much less volatile when they are not on their associated board.

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Merch costs a lot to make user

I'd be fine with that, but it's people obsessively checking the cast's Twitter and spinning up random stories about how they all hate each other

Like fuck off this is a DnD game, not TMZ, I'm not a 50 year old lady

She's not nearly as bad as she used to be, and even if she is, this shit is 4 hours long per episode. I can't imagine watching the thing if I hated a cast member

The only thing that's got me fucked is the writer. Yeah, Spiderman, Galaxy of Adventure, and Justice League Action...hooray....

5E made it easier to play
Bunch of voice actors for games holding a livestream of their sessions

This is a very generous way of looking at it. I'm not paying them a cent and I'm going to be able to see the animation, same as the guy who pays $25,000. You're paying $100 for brand dice, stickers, and a print smaller than most pieces of paper.

It’s a new story taking place before they streamed. It already succeeded. It raised 3.5 million in 12 hours. It’s being animated by Titmouse.

The rise of RPG inspired media

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It sounds like they're working with a professional writing crew to make a single stand-alone story as opposed to trying to adapt entire parts of the campaign.

people on Yea Forums don't give as much of a shit, they don't care about the ongoing holy wars within whatever niche community

you talk about video games on Yea Forums, you get buried in consolewars shit flinging up to your eyeballs

you talk about anime on Yea Forums and it's basically impossible not to say something tantamount to blasphemy and get pilloried

you talk about books on Yea Forums and you get swarms of pretentious cocksuckers sneering at you for not reading some other author in the same field who is oh so much better but you've never heard of them because you're a pleb

it just goes on and on

>5E made it easier to play
Also this. 5E streamlined the FUCK out of D&D (for better or worse).

I’m not trying to be generous, it’s the literal breakdown of where the money is going per the Kickstarter page. You’re not paying for the stuff, you’re paying to make a show exist, the stuff is a bonus.

This is why I hate the idea of gatekeeping. 99.9% of the time casuals are significantly more pleasant to talk to because they don't care about stupid shit

Kickstarter isn't about presents dumbass, it's about paying to see something made. Presents are a bonus.

Most larger products don't have rewards until the hundreds, and it can be as little as a producer blurb in the credits.

This is just them clearing out merch. I'm not trying to suck their dicks but this seems like you don't understand what Kickstarter is

>Merch costs a lot to make user
I have nothing against CR or their kickstarter, but these rewards are pathetic. I haven't backed many kickstarters, but the ones I have I always felt like I was getting a good value for my reward, even if the final end result had the risk of being shit. I backed the Banner Saga years ago and for $50 I got full access to the game and a full sized poster. When I back tabletop games like Guild Ball, I didn't give them $50 and they just said 'thanks we'll make the game now have some stickers for your trouble'.

>b-but it's an animation it's different
Just check out the Little Witch Academia 2 kickstarter. $50 bucks got you a hard copy bluray of the film, as well as a physical art book. CR clearly knows that their fans will just throw money into the aether if it means they get to see their favourite imaginary characters move around on a screen for 22 minutes.

Take Mercer's dick out of your ass and just admit that these rewards are shit.

Yes, the rewards are shit. I'm not going to download the cringy theme song they send me.

Thing is, I paid because animation is expensive and most animation these days cuts cost these days by having low framerates. I'm hoping they can avoid that, and that's what I paid for.

Again- the rewards are secondary. Kickstarter makes this clear when you sign up, you aren't using the thing as a store nor are you supposed to. I've seen projects with great gifts and projects with ass, it doesn't fucking matter because that's not supposed to be the point of you donating money.

Nice argument fellow reddit poster!

Fell's five.

Kickstarter rewards are usually only worth it when the reward is the thing you're funding. I put in $100 for the Ava's Demon kickstarter a couple years back and got two FUCKHUGE hardcover books out of it.

So you're literally throwing money into the aether like a blind fanboy.

>Critical role

Hard pass on that gay shit senpai.

No, because if the product falls through, they don't charge me.

Because Yea Forums sees Critical Role and they see some fun VO doing a fun little game

When /tg/ sees Critical role they see the exact problems with DnD promoting "Lolsorandom" and DM fudging that makes real life games so utterly fucking horrible to play.

It won't fail because it's literally a Wizards of the Coast project and you're paying for it instead of making them.

Nice work, you're cancer.

It's funded, your money is forfeit.

>Funding a Kickstarter when the Company behind Critical Role is literally a WotC asset.

It's like when people funded Shenmue 3: A painfully obvious corporate cashgrab hidden behind "funding" something.

CR is it's own company, they have permission from WotC but they're still completely seperate in funding.

Also you're basically saying I shouldn't use Kickstarter for its intended purpose. For all the people who bought the Academia 50$ pledge, there were presumably thousands more who gave the default 10$ just because they wanted the thing to get made in the first place, and that makes up the bulk of its funds. If everyone had your attitude about it, Kickstarter wouldn't exist as a platform.

No shit. I only gave 20 so I don't feel like a faggot about it

>Almost 4 million
>45 days to go

Holy fuck how much money is going to end up being tossed at this thing?

Might as well make it a fucking series

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CR is an independent production company

WotC is too broke to afford CR lmao

>CR is an independent production company
>Never play anything other than WotC shit
>Only recently got legal seperation from WotC
>Still have many PR people from WotC

It's a shill company, plain and simple.

>thread becomes uncomfy

fug

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Oh no, people giving real opinions about CR being the soul-less corporate PR machine it actually is instead of mindlessly consuming? How dare they!

>legal seperation from WotC

...You mean Geek and Sundry? Felicia Day's tabletop channel? CR was never owned by WotC

>People

You know we can read the timestamps on your posts, right?

>A few very legitimate criticisms about Critical Role
>Starts crying

Hello there Critical Role shill.

>9 people donated over $20,000

Who are these people who donate that much?

Stop samefagging

Yeah even as a fan that shit weirds me out, like do something productive with that money

Maybe when you stop shilling a corporate PR company.

Geek and Sundry is owned by Legendary studios, so it's not going to let this fail.

They are divorced from Geek and Sundry you absolute retard

I say this as a fa/tg/uy and a Yea Forumsmrade but these days Yea Forums is somehow a more chill place. Over on /tg/ there’s been an uptick in people going “normies REEEEEEE” over some popular positive attention being driven at our hobby. To say nothing of rsther devisive and uselessly unconstructive arguments about editions of games and games over the old ability to get things done.

I’m just gonna say it, moving all quests to /tg/ was the start of this. Then pushing for the creation of /qst/ brought out the worst in people and things kind of felt broken ever since then. Now its just half hearted elf slave what do threads and less interesting topic engagement outside of the generals which have their own problems.

Now with PF2e dropping and 5e starting to swell in content size I think its headig for another schism of a few of its pillars. Warhammer content stays the same, and we’re making so much less entirely original /tg/ craft now...I used not to be an oldfag but now feel like one...has it really been nine years?

Time is like water...at least there are still good threads every six months about how horrifying abyssal underwater settings would be.

I see that absolutely nowhere.

Its a big thing, CR have started uo their own studio. This was announced a few months back. Now GS is trying to fill the void by having the actress from Daredevil run a D&D show.

>Might as well make it a fucking series
I think most people would be fine with that.

Literally the only thing I ever show up there for is All Guardsmen Party

I miss old /tg/

bleedingcool.com/2019/02/19/critical-role-announces-split-from-geek-sundry/

TAZ gets heavy railroading by Griff with the occasional spin by his bros and Clint. For all intents and purposes, Griffin's telling an immersive story and every now and then the players make a minor change and get jokes in. Amnesty is just as bad with this. It's very well crafted, short n' sweet.
Crit Role is extremely long, with 4 hour sessions, but it's 8 or so pro VAs playing casually with much less emphasis on story usually. Matt's also a pro DM with tons of D&D experience, but every episode has lots of slow lulls or shenanigans that go here and there. It's much realer and much longer, but Matt has lots of story stuffed mapped out + there's way more character focus so there's lots of branches.

Sounds like some people forgot Quest threads were the cancer that destroy all OC due to their constant bumpage and inability to fucking end.

Also on topic: Critical Role are a PR group for WotC, the fact they've been shilled directly by the DnD podcast and mercer constant has free shit sent to him is obvious enough, It's basically the WWE of tabletops.

>Kickstarter goals
>Literally nothing
>Not even free copies of the setting books

So, besides CR and TAZ, anyone on Yea Forums have any other recs for tabletop/dnd streams/podcasts?

I like
>Acq Inc: The C-Team
>Flintlocks & Fireballs

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuNLwLRy7g-gqLLBAltHkhNcpsJ9MYOCH

youtu.be/g1ym2wrKdfQ

youtu.be/QPCG3ICEIKg

None, because tabletop streams are fucking cancer.

Shoving them all into /tg/ made it worse. A standalone /qst/ before turning /tg/ into the warzone of quests would have been better...better for everyone.

As of now, the video will be 88 minutes long. A series or a full fledged 2d movie(s) might be the end result.

>DnD promoting "Lolsorandom" and DM fudging that makes real life games so utterly fucking horrible to play.

As someone who plays (GURPS), I don't really see it? People always bitch about how much Matt fudges shit, but outside of him going easy to avoid TPKs, I haven't really seen it

CR has a bigger presence than WotC ever did, Matt would have to be a literal retard to go down that route

>CR has a bigger presence than WotC ever did.

It's painfully obvious GnS and CR are production company assets, nothing is genuine, the entire game Mercer plays is designed to be as marketable as possible.

>Fudges rolls to allow the best outcomes based on viewing data
>Constantly allows PCs to lie and cheat
>Avoids any sort of direct conflict with the PCs, they always get their way
>Story is predictable hollywood shlock.

It's by the numbers trash "Oh look at our DnD how wacky"

>It's painfully obvious GnS and CR are production company assets, nothing is genuine, the entire game Mercer plays is designed to be as marketable as possible.

If this was the case they wouldn't have started C1 halfway through an existing campaign

Fucking hell can we stop arguing in circles and samefagging the thread

D20Babes Kurt Wiebe writer/creator of Rat Queens leads his wife and a few of their friends on a D&D campaign (only 30 episodes)

youtube.com/watch?v=N3inP5o1ajI&list=PLncwCLZNSFQ3_LlmN_ArLfgjAegLBxjvx

Hyper RPG's Pencils and Parsecs
Its weird and highly crowd funded/fan interactive but after a few episodes they work out the kinks and it becomes amazing

youtube.com/watch?v=KPLi-G9KUhE&list=PLHKocVDXoWBs3gJmHCSTMkxM6zv6mvpG3

Roll4it's Sounds of Silence
Vampire the Masquerade 5e game. Its a well made game that actual captures a nice mature gothic horror vibe that White Wolf was going for with 5e that most people can't actually do well

youtube.com/watch?v=9wTWbTgslRc&list=PLefFB0SBo4P4ce5b0Ue4rFi2zZ-F0XtWR

Roll4it's Layla the Vampire Slayer
This is just a fun show I want more people to watch

youtube.com/watch?v=Dlus4T4FXi0&list=PLefFB0SBo4P7dpxfJep-kMTK-ZlqhfIvo

why feed the troll?

Because it's late and I have nothing better to than make myself look like a CR dickrider as I yell at a shitposter and feel stupid for doing so

Millions of dollars of WotC jewgolds being poured into marketing, and the fact that their digital tabletop tools are integrated with fucking Twitch of all things. As if I needed another reason to give it up.

Now THAT'S a show I'd pay for.

Oh boy I hope the cartoon captures how insufferable Keyleth is

>tfw you know why Nott hates water

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Based

Anybody else got tabletop characters they're playing currently?

I just started as a Artificer Druegar whom's bar got burned down, who moonlighted as a resistance leader in his youth.

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44-year old Guardsman in a battalion full of young kids. Grumpy old dickhead, which isn't the most ideal situation seeing as he's the medic.

*young kids in this case being 18-25 year olds, not literal kids

>kickstarter.com/projects/criticalrole/critical-role-the-legend-of-vox-machina-animated-s/description

>A brand new story was crafted by the cast of Critical Role and scripted by our good friend and talented TV writer, Jennifer Muro (Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Spider-Man, Justice League: Action). Muro is one of the most sought-after writers in the industry and she’s written an in-canon adventure that takes place before the events of the streaming show.

God some people are dumb as fuck. Am I the only one who isn't an idiot when it comes to hiring writers?
Well maybe the director, executive, producer who will edit the script will be better, right?

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I don't like the facial features and head shapes, not 1 bit. Hopefully Titmouse will fix it.

>Am I the only one who isn't an idiot when it comes to hiring writers?
Careful that inflated ego doesn't pop, user.

>critical role

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are they OK with WotC? Copyrights and shit?

Literally sponsored by WotC and shill for them.
youtube.com/watch?v=A4BuL886bJA

Redpill me on these guys.
How the fuck did they get 4 million in few days?
Their youtube channel is almost dead and twitch has somewhere 150k~ followers.
It's just bunch of folks recording their dnd party and that's all? What's so special about it?

they get upwards of 30k live views on youtube every time they stream and twice that on twitch
thats not taking into accunt direct donation schemes like this kickstarter
go to twitch and look at the sub count and you'll realize, they are getting paid six figures each to play D and D once a week. Then they all do VA work on top of it.

Ok, thx. Still don't get it why so many people watch these. dnd is fucking boring unless you're playing yourself and even then not so much fun there.

You clearly need to watch the last episode of campaign 1 where they all fight Vecna and find out yourself.

Shouldn't I watch it from the start to understand what's going on?

Oh boy more fags who found out about DnD from Stranger things coming into the hobby, what a treat

>almost $4million
>44 days to go
Boy I hope they got some stretch goals prepared.

>You mean Geek and Sundry? Felicia Day's tabletop channel?
belloflostsouls.net/2019/02/rpg-critical-role-goes-independent.html
Chinks have a controlling stake in Legendary

Sorry I replied to the wrong second user

They just separated from Geek and Sundry and can finally upload their VOD's to their own Youtube channel, so their channel isn't dead, it's just being born.

Well, yes, but if you want to understand why watching people play DnD is so awesome... the most epic fight they have in the series is a good point.

You could also watch the episode where they fight Thordak. Fighting a big red dragon in all his glory

I mean, if you want to understand EVERYTHING, then yes. If not, then just know that Vecna is a mortal who discovered how to turn himself into a God and Vox Machina (the IGN for the group) sought help from other gods/deities on how to stop him. They receive holy trammels and a tome that has a ritual that can banish him past the Divine Gate, a barrier that prevents gods from interacting in the Prime Material Plane.
Everything before that sort of pales in comparison to the final fight, but it's still really cool. Chroma Conclave arc, they have to fight 4 dragons by finding powerful weaponry called Vestiges of Divergence There's a lot of world-building (I'm surprised how much Matt does behind the scenes) and character/NPC interaction and growth, so if you have the time and are interested in D&D or just wanna listen to it while doing other stuff, I recommend it.

Okay, I'll check vods then. Anyway, I hope their animation will be good since there is no good fantasy series anyway and their characters at least look decent compared to all these calarts abominations.

>their characters at least look decent compared to all these calarts abominations.
Plus, it was a proof-of-concept/teaser animation, so they can only get better.

4 million dollars now

We're getting a series at this rate boys

If DnD is the normie RPG (I mean, it's probably always been, but YMMV), what games should an EPIC GAMER like myself be playing? Only other ones I've tried actually playing are Cypher system (capeshit) and FATE (scifi shit).

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GURPS

DnD 4e

I like d6 a lot, especially Star wars d6. It's simple, deadly and fun

whats wrong with more people playing a hobby, faggot? Also, D&D's been mainstream for DECADES

Hobbies die or are significantly casualized when they go mainstream.

Spite bump
Modern DnD is full of normies

>Modern (whatever) is full of normies
What's the problem with that? I never quite got the anger towards new people that will only make your hobby grow

Yeesh

FATAL

They should just make a movie dedicated to the ridley plotline and climactic ambush scene.
Its the best the show has been.
And no, riashan doesn't count.

Hey man, just because it's true, it doesn't mean you're right

Off to /crg/ with you plebian of mediocre taste.
You know I'm right but the sad truth is that they will give us something really shitty so we get hungry for more and pay another 6mil.

DnD has always been casual

They're not doing an existing point of the campaign and they never will, Matt has been adamantly against adapting one of their sessions because it inherently requires some retconning. This is an original story in between the home game and the stream

You're on a board with Steven Universe and RWBY generals and we're the cringy ones here?

iirc /rwbyg/ and /sug/ get exiled to /trash/ when they aren't actively airing.

I got an 85-year-old former soldier. Ever since he was 12, he had served in a feudal lord's army as a lowly peasant soldier. Gets captured and conscripted into the victorious lord's army everytime his own gets crushed.

Since he's so old, no one will force him to fight anymore. So he wanders the land, trying to find his childhood home and recapture his lost innocence, maybe start a family as well.

/rwbyg/ was the spinoff thread for /trash/ that turned into OC porn stories,then died. Different then the main general on /trash/

So if they'll make the video 88min longer at 3mil, what aren't hey gonna do now that it's at 4mil?

At this rate they'll have enough to make an official animated movie that could have limited theatrical release. Like they could take this to a fucking film festival at this rate.

I think the plan is if it goes high enough they make a movie, if higher, a short series

Are you stupid? You don't donate to a kickstarter for rewards. Kickstarter is about making sure products, content, or services can receive the funding they need to exist. And while yes, you, without donating, can receive the content, you're only able to do this because others have fronted the cost. Not everyone can make the same decision to not pay for shit as you, and a lot of people are smart enough to understand that.

>the only valid opinion is not liking things
God you're dumb. Even if you weren't fucking wrong who gives a shit?
>"Oh no some people gave WotC money to make a movie they want to be made"
Braindead

A movie, plus three(?) one shots so far. They could probably do another few one shots and blow the rest on making the animation fucking gorgeous.

Yeah he's full retard, doesn't understand that the vast majority of backers for any kickstarter are the default 10$ and get nothing.

I kinda understand what D&D is about but I never knew it was so popular.

It's had a huge resurgence over the last 5-10 years.

The magic of the internet has allowed niche groups to gather incredibly easily on a day to day basis.
That being said I am amazed they've got a big enough following to instantly get 4million dollars.

Never played it, but D&D inspired the RPG genre in vidya men. Some literally use some of the campaigns settings like PS:T and Baldur’s Gate.

DnD is improv. By its very nature it does not at all lend itself to scripted television. I don't know why people make this mistake over and over and over and over and over.

You can't expect to get away with downplaying the actual comradery and fun the players are having being in a room together improvising shit to make it a coherent story, it'll never fucking work.

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It's still really not popular, but fifth edition did bring people back from other similar games and casts like Harmonquest and Critical Role have popularized a very performative form of loose DnD that isn't really representative of play at an average table.

Give me the crossover stretch goal.

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>Streamlining the game made it worse
Wow

In one campaign, a Dragonborn paladin of conquest trying to keep his teammates out of trouble like a more derisive JK Simons in Whiplash while also trying to stop Tiamat from being summoned.
In another campaign, I’m playing an aaracokra thief accompanying a gaggle of royalty searching for divine artifacts while also babysitting a bipolar princess bard who is also has a ghost of goddess sharing her body
Both games are going pretty good so far

Young Paladin in the vein of Zapp Brannigan, essentially on a mission of conquest masquerading as holy order (lel manifest destiny)

This

I've had some of the best comic/cartoon discussions on /tg/ ironically. I feel like the reason why is because the boards meant for certain subject attract the most autistic and passionate people to them who have very strong opinions and only enjoy content a certain way.

Why do people like this, again? I gave it a shot last week and it was fucking awful.
>Five minute dream sequence
>Five minutes of two party members talking
>Ten minutes of the rest of the party getting filled in
>Ten more minutes to have breakfast and break camp

What is the fucking appeal? Everyone is constantly doing retarded voices, it takes absolutely forever for anything to happen because of how big the table is, the setting is generic to the point of being painful, most of the people at the table act like spastic murderhobos in a vacuum despite having these elaborate, tortured backgrounds that I would be ashamed to pen as a teenager and whenever Mercer is describing something you can clearly hear his own cock in his mouth - plus, math is blatantly fudged on both sides and people never get punished for their stupidity. As far as I'm concerned it's fucking cancer through and through.

then leave.

>Now with PF2e dropping and 5e starting to swell in content size I think its headig for another schism of a few of its pillars.
Good. Fuck Paizo and fuck WOTC; TSR will save D&D from the grave.

archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/64967096/#q64967768

I don't hate it, but I'm surprised that Vex is a bit manly to match Vax when almost everyone does it the other way around.

nah man, time wisards shark edition is best. followed by Maid RPG, followed by Exalted 3e combat system with 2e lore and worldbuilding. With F.A.T.A.L at the bottom.

She actually seems pretty good.

Which makes it a shame that they're not putting non subscription vods up and nobody can watch it.