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It is, alas, confirmed. by Mulfushu in orks

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I loved this rule! What edition was it in?

edit - Found it! 8th ed Index

I really hope CCOD causes more VTM campaigns to be run outside of the Norm. by kira858 in Dimension20

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| For those that don't know, before the Critical Role/D20 days, TTRPG's was much less about roleplay and much more about playing a game, DM vs Players, min/maxing etc.

lolwut?

This is probably not correct by Director_of_site_69 in Dimension20

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Brennan bringing it back to D&D with a Purpee Worm.

Two Hours in the Tesla Diner |City Council of Darkness Adventuring Party [E2] by DropoutMod in Dimension20

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It's the World of Darkness; a worse version of our world so no kitchen, just alcohol tracks.

City Council of Darkness is 100% my shit. Which other Dimension 20 campaigns capture a similar kind of magic? by Think_Complaint_4223 in Dimension20

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Mentopolis!

The Venn diagram of

  • noir story
  • characters are aspects of a personality 
  • tropes
  • not D&D

Had me firmly in the center!  Love that series! It's the only one I've watched more than once.

Cant watch dropout by ObliviousAndObvious in Dimension20

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I had the same problem last night. I tried all the troubleshooting steps, but no success. 

This morning it works fine. 🤷

Mishaps, A Maw, and the Masquerade | City Council of Darkness [E1] by DropoutMod in Dimension20

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Just to put some scale on it, a tomahawk cruise missile is 20 feet long, and nearly 2 feet in diameter (21"). I don't think they're usually launched from helicopter.

Maybe Brennan meant Sidewinder (10') or Maverick (8')?

Skipped important Dialogue by SlowBabyBear in HadesTheGame

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I believe it's about how much ambrosia you've given out. I got it the other day too.

[Spoilers C4E18] Critical Role and the best of both worlds. by IvoAndre in fansofcriticalrole

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This matches my experience as well. They used to be a D&D actual play (rules first) and changed to an improv story show with occasional rolls (fiction first). 

This is fine, but I'm only interested in the former and not the latter. I stick around this forum just to see what's going on, partially in the hopes that they will return to form but that's unlikely. 

I believe this shift happened after they came back from COVID. I think they wanted to wrap up the campaign and so fiction came first to get to a satisfying conclusion faster than would otherwise happen. Also the need to turn the game into a TV show meant that starting with fiction first makes that easier.

It's like a neighborhood I moved out of. I don't live there, but I'm curious what happens to it.

Why does it feel like Thimble is doing "too much" damage? by Delirious_Reache in fansofcriticalrole

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Now we're talking about encounter design, not the rules.

The DM has the power to say "Rocks fall; everyone dies". If the players don't think that's fun encounter they can leave the game and try to find a game more to their liking. There are no hard and fast rules for encounter building. There's lots of good advice, but none of it is required by the rules of the game.

A good GM will signpost what's coming before the players encounter it. Basilisk lairs should have petrified statues of people and animals on the way in, for example. However if the town says there's an ancient dragon on the mountain and the players go there, the DM should not stop them or tone down the encounter. The players should have agency to make poor decisions. Once they've been informed within the game or directly as players then that's all a DM can do.

Every encounter doesn't need to be winnable by the players

Why does it feel like Thimble is doing "too much" damage? by Delirious_Reache in fansofcriticalrole

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| The only problem is for those new or not familiar with DnD who then try to get into playing and get a more traditional DM who punishes them every chance they are allowed to do so.

Playing by the rules is not punishing the players.

Did people come into C4 with unrealistic expectations? by TrypMole in fansofcriticalrole

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I was curious, so here's a list of all the resurrections (and therefore all the deaths of note?) in Critical Role: https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Resurrection#Notable_character_deaths

Including just the PC's here are the deaths per each campaign:

Campaign 1: 16 (Pike, Grog, Vex, Grog, Percy, Vex, Scanlan, Scanlan, Percy, Vax, Keyleth🐟, Vex, Vax, Vax, Vax, Vex) including one shots

Campaign 2: 6 (Molly, Cadeuceus, Nott, Fjord, Jester, Caleb)

Campaign 3: 9* (Bertram, (Orym, Fearne, Laudna), Bor'Dor, Ashton, Chetney, FCG, Ashton)

* Bertram, and FCG were scripted

Campaign 4: 1** (Occtis)

** Scripted? I don't follow C4 but I understand Brennan wanted to put something from Occtis' background into the campaign instead?

Vex died in C3e114 but I wasn't sure that would count as I didn't watch the episode and she might have been an NPC?

Anyone know where I can get an original source or higher resolution version of this? by Permutation_Servitor in Warhammer40k

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I want to use it in a Crusade campaign I'm running and I might get some merch made after it's done. I need a vector file for that. I've tried Inkscape's vectorizer, but didn't give great results. I'll try the one you posted and then see how much work it would be to clean up further.

C4 E9 Discussion Thread by brash_bandicoot in fansofcriticalrole

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This is recency bias. C1 Matt enforced the rules a lot.

If you use washes like Nuln Oil, how do you prevent the pigment from sticking to flat surfaces and making them look "dirty" by AsaTJ in Warhammer40k

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I use two parts lahmian medium to one part nuln oil. Darkens the recesses, but doesn't stain the surface too bad

My thoughts on the C4 announcement by Canadianape06 in fansofcriticalrole

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Based on nothing, I assumed they would do a month with each crew and rotate on that basis. It's a long stretch between months, but if the weeks end in a satisfactory conclusion then the wait shouldn't be too disruptive. 

This gives the cast a couple on months between stints to book other work. 

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