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I can't believe so many here played D&D. I thought it was terrible, simplistic, shallow, restrictive and just for kids. I refused to play it. AD&D, otoh, is pre

• hinkley 5y ago
  The Crit Role people, if you watch the interviews, have a shared perspective that a campaign is a collaborative fiction writing exercise akin to improv comedy. The DM writes a Choose Your Own Adventure, and the players work together to convert that into a long form story. I think it’s telling that a couple of the characters are notoriously bad at fight mechanics and action economy, and yet the story part glosses over some of that. The story happens despite the dice rolls. All the dice say is whether the heroes live at the end or are martyred to the cause.