The Role Playing Public Radio Forums
General Category => General Chaos => : Henry Hankovitch October 19, 2015, 03:02:20 AM
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So one of the guys in my weekly game says to me, "do you watch Critical Role?" And then I did. And it was pretty fucken boss.
It's this 5E D&D actual-play series, with a bunch of professional voice actors. What really makes it good, though, is that this isn't an "internet celebrities awkwardly play D&D together" sort of thing. These guys had already been playing together for a long time, and then the Geek & Sundry people suggested making a show out of it. So they have this really great group dynamic--playing naturally off of each other, genuinely having a good time playing the game.
The only negative I'd say about the show is that, given it's a D&D game, you tend to get these 45-minute long combat sequences that can really drag. Not really a fault of the players--there's only so much you can do to make dice-rolling and hit points interesting for a third-party viewer. Everything else is gold, though.
(I did a quick search beforehand and "critical role" didn't come up with any hits on the forum, so I'm hoping there aren't like three different discussions already in progress that I missed...)
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I watched this for a bit.
It's a cool diversion but lacks the more character focused stuff I really love in tabletop.
They aren't shy about interacting but I haven't really seen a dramatic scene yet which is probably just my fault for only watching it streaming on twitch.