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You’re not really offering criticisms. Mostly just insults. CR seems to really anger you. It’s hard to take you seriously when you’re this mad at a show. Have fun with that.

One other key selling point: all the CR books are on DnDBeyond, including the Maps VTT.

Or if, as you already point out, you are looking for an up to date, fairly standard fantasy setting. Of which category it is currently the best option offered by WotC, in many opinions. Maybe that will change when the next FR source book arrives. Dark Sun is not currently available so that’s...

I know that these sorts of tiers appeal to lots of folks. I hate them. I think that threat inflation leads to boring, predictable stories where the stakes no longer really matter. And I think that's why so few campaigns run to high levels: the stakes have become unrelatable. Above all, I do not...

I would love to see a setting guide built around Vasselheim, along with a series of short adventures. It's one of the first Critical Role settings, played a big role in Campaign 1 and a significant role in Campaign 3, but has lots of room for development.

I went with wayfarer for my monk precisely because sailor didn't make sense and wayfarer was the second best option.

Command is way more useful now, and I like it, but I still allow players to be creative with the commands because usually they choose something funny and entertaining (e.g. "poop"). It's still risky because you've wasted your turn if the opponent saves, but now players are actually using it.

I'm far from a hard core min-maxer, but I have to agree with @ECMO3 that the way backgrounds are currently done leads to some weird fits if you are trying to find a background that complements your class, and I do think that is something that most experienced players at least think about. You...

BTW they were attached to D&D. As in, directly pushed by TSR. Greyhawk was drawn from Gygax's home campaign and then brought in as the first default setting, and then Forgotten Realms was heavily pushed by TSR as the new default setting to displace Greyhawk. Neither of them "caught on"...

Can you count the Cornetto films as a trilogy in the same sense as Star Wars 4-6? I love all three, especially the first two, but while they share actors, themes (to a certain degree), and pay homage to each other with some gags, there's no shared story or even shared world. To me, it feels...

It's okay to not like things. It's doesn't mean you have to act a certain way about it. Some people get so mad about anything to do with Critical Role!

I disagree that stakes have to be fundamentally different at high levels, and indeed I feel that this often leads TTRPGs into trouble (not to mention stories in general, MCU). Opponents need to be stronger, but the stakes should always feel personal. For example, a threat to a loved one or...

I think that there's an important distinction between creativity and innovation. Creativity often involves iterating on an idea, perhaps offering a new perspective, an expansion, an interesting synthesis, etc. Innovation is creative, for sure, but also suggests significant, even disruptive...

As far as "Rule 0" goes, it's never left D&D. The current DMG explicitly endorses house rules and interpretations. You're expected to do what works best for your group. So you can adapt circle magic to assuage any concerns. Personally, I think that if players can work out a way to launch a...

My issue with it has nothing to do with players trying to figure out how to use it combat. It's that it substantially changes wilderness adventuring to make it less...adventuring.

I agree - it's a feature, not a flaw! When a setting is too idiosyncratic, I don't want to run it - it feels like the property of the creator. I might think it is totally cool and admire the heck out of the creativity, but I want a campaign world where I can impose my own vision. Exandria gives...

It'll feel so good when you are done, though!

For the past few years, WotC's communications on the game's future have been strikingly anti-innovative. They don't exactly frame it that way, but that's what they are doing by declaring that 5e is the system going forward, except now it is just "D&D", and any changes will be small and...

Exandria is my favourite campaign setting, by far, and a worthy successor to Greyhawk, while also incorporating most of the classic tropes of other D&D settings, particularly the Forgotten Realms. It's essentially an 21st century version of the classic high fantasy setting. Much like Greyhawk...

I don't want D&D to wildly innovate. I think its inertia is a feature - there's a lot of value in having a common denominator for the hobby. It brings people in, and gives smaller, nimbler creators something to innovate from. One of my favourite aspects of 5e is that it felt familiar to someone...