Quote from: remial;1071119Later when the PCs faced the goblins, the goblins hit everyone with sleeping gas, and dragged away all the female characters for the breeding pens.  One of the players became upset that his transgender fighter, who identified as female, was not dragged off as well.

That was when I, from another table, started laughing, and had to leave.

While this is hilarious, I doubt it has anything to do with CR.

Quote from: S'mon;1071132While this is hilarious, I doubt it has anything to do with CR.

it doesn't entirely, I partly needed to vent, and I was pretty sure that I could find an audience here that would agree that the events were pretty f-ed. Where as TBP would see me as a transphobic monster

Quote from: remial;1071158it doesn't entirely, I partly needed to vent, and I was pretty sure that I could find an audience here that would agree that the events were pretty f-ed. Where as TBP would see me as a transphobic monster

Well I would be upset if he didn't TPK all the remaining players. It's not like the Goblins would have left any alive nor are they known for having sleeping gas.

If the Goblins are going to differ from the source for GM convenience, then they might as well also appeal to player sensibilities.

Quote from: Rhedyn;1071171Well I would be upset if he didn't TPK all the remaining players. It's not like the Goblins would have left any alive nor are they known for having sleeping gas.

There was a Goblin Slayer episode where the Goblins used sleeping gas - the protagonists blocked the vents and sent many of the goblins to sleep instead.

Don't you know anything? :eek:

Quote from: remial;1071158it doesn't entirely, I partly needed to vent, and I was pretty sure that I could find an audience here that would agree that the events were pretty f-ed. Where as TBP would see me as a transphobic monster

Yes, but the flip side here is that some of the posters don't believe that racist gamers could possibly exist.

Quote from: remial;1071158it doesn't entirely, I partly needed to vent, and I was pretty sure that I could find an audience here that would agree that the events were pretty f-ed. Where as TBP would see me as a transphobic monster

Wait, what you described actually happened? I thought you made up a story...

As for Critical Role, I was never insterested in watching, since watching other people play an RPG sounds like a terrible and boring use of my free time. Upon seeing a lot of threads (mostly on ENWorld) talking about it I decided to watch a random episode to see what the hubbub was all about. One thread started by Morrus to gauge what sort of youtube content ENWorlders watch said something like "besides Critical Role", which made it sound like some important shit.

God....how godawful must stuff be in order to shoo people away from it? I watched maybe 5-6 minutes and was bored out of my mind. I coulnd't watch enough to make up my mind if they were fully scripting it, but it did strongly resemble my country's favorite pastime, Soap Operas (which I find mind-numbingly unwatchable). So, I don't know enough about it to decide if I agree with Pundit or not, but if the rest of it is as bad as the short sample I watched, kill it with fire.

Quote from: BronzeDragon;1071217Wait, what you described actually happened? I thought you made up a story...

oh, how I wish it were made up.

Quote from: remial;1071225oh, how I wish it were made up.

In many, many different ways....I'm SO glad I'm old.

I wonder how many videos Smon watched to try to find the least fake-seeming CR possible?

Quote from: RPGPundit;1071250I wonder how many videos Smon watched to try to find the least fake-seeming CR possible?

I only watched the one - I wanted the one where a PC died as I thought that would be interesting but that was what the search turned up.

I thought seeing how a PC died would be easier to detect any scripting.

Critical Role is simply a tv show, nothing more. There may be some who are fooled into believing that an actual game is taking place but really, if they are too dumb to know the difference then the gaming world should rejoice. I don't have time to do all the gaming that I want and certainly no time to watch others mimic playing a game. The show is simply a soap opera for gaming geeks much like pro wrestling is for men. It has as much to do with actual gaming as pro wrestling does with competitive sports, which is to say zero.

Quote from: Valatar;1071116I couldn't watch more than a couple minutes because I was afflicted with boredom; other people gaming is just uninteresting to me.  What I saw looked like a normal enough gaming group, just in a much snazzier gaming room than I have and with really good microphones and sound editing; DM guy definitely seemed to have some radio announcer bass tweaking going on at the very least.  The roleplaying itself seemed standard fare for my experience, people acting out in character and fucking around.

+1.

Mercer seems respectful of the hobby. His players love his game. The fact that they're actors drives the style. Not my thing to watch other tables game, but it doesn't hurt the hobby. As someone who runs tables for young people, I appreciate anything that keeps the pursuits I love alive and kicking (now if someone could just do that for Strat-o-Matic, I can die in peace).

I thought the episodes done for Wil Weaton's Titansgrave were well done and interesting.  Part of it was that it was (for me at the time) a new system and setting, but the fact that I could understand what everyone was saying, as they spoke clearly, and that the show was fairly obviously edited for time and celerity helped as well. (My only real issue with it was they played through the Titansgrave book, which kinda spoils the adventure. And I still want a followup to either the show or the book, as both were good starts to something more.)
Mercer and his ilk, for as 'great' of 'voice actors' as they all are supposed to be, sound like they are trying to speak while keeping a mouth full of oatmeal in their mouths.  That and the characters were, IMO, flat and unintresting.

Quote from: cranebump;1071271His players love his game.

You mean, his employees?  I'd certainly expect them to act as if they love his game, considering their paycheck depends on it.

Quote from: kythri;1071304You mean, his employees?  I'd certainly expect them to act as if they love his game, considering their paycheck depends on it.

Hey if I was paid to play FATE or Apocalypse World, I could fake enjoying it for the camera even if I had dull, glazed-over eyes for the whole performance. Oh... It absolutely is like porn.