#but same with d20 fans!

[arinmoss]

also the d20 drama is saur funny to me like people are allowed to hate a guy. thats allowed u know. hell if i saw brennan lee mullligan hate i wouldn’t agree with that person cause i like him but i wouldnt say anything cause baby girl what would that accomplish? theyre not gonna change their mind lol

[mrserendipitous]

BLOODRUSH STAR PLAYERS!!!!

[rainebownerd]

You guys he was being so plain because he knew!!!! He knew that if he went all out all the time like Aabriya, we wouldn't survive it

[househaunterz-art]

Jorjuj :)

[disastergenius]

by far the worst take i've seen so far post-ep19 of Junior Year is that having a week-by-week live play would have allowed fans to essentially influence the direction of the story in the way they want it to go and that would have resulted in the cast being more sympathetic to the Ratgrinders (ie getting them a redemption arc)

why do you feel the need to try and control this story? YOU ARE NOT THE ONE TELLING IT. if you want to tell a story please go write your own, or go write fanfiction to cope or whatever but you don't get to say that the players are telling the story wrong when it's their story they are telling

[feelingtheaster99]

I CANNOT stop thinking about Fig’s conversation with her mom… specifically when Fig talked about how she didn’t like to be asked about herself or have attention focused on herself and that’s why she often becomes other people

[bidoofenergy]

not to CR DiscourseTM but maybe some of us dropped campaign 3 because the one (1) POC at the table turned out to not be a permanent addition and we were really upset because we loved him in EXU and by that point we had already started paying for dropout (#SummerOfAabria) and d20 isn't perfect but we were finally seeing POC at the table, in the plural, and maybe we decided to not spend our time watching the table full of white people and their occasional guest of color

[wardensantoineandevka]

What is with the constant posts from D20 fans acting like CritRole fans don't know what a comedy is?

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s The Ravening War episode 2

[bonnetsharks]

My nerdy dad stumbles across Um! Actually on yt and becomes a fan

He starts watching some other dropout stuff (breaking news, game changer), “wow, that redheaded guy is really funny”

I tell him that those are the same people who make the dnd show I’ve loved for YEARS, but he brushes off my recommendation of D20 because of how long the episodes are and because he’s never been into Dnd

Like 7 months later he finally plays BG3. I receive daily ramblings about his character (he made a Druid and put all his xp into animal handling so he could befriend as many dogs as possible).

Falls in love with the roleplay aspect of the game (“it’s like I’m writing a book! They keep putting my guy into situations and I get to figure out what he’d do!”)

Yesterday, ten months after I first offered it to him, he finally asks for my Dropout login so he can try Dimension 20 on a long car ride

In less than 24 hours, he has listened to 8 hours worth and planned an entire dnd party with the other teachers in his department

I have never been so proud

This man spent my entire childhood indoctrinating me into his obscure interests and now I get to do it back

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

HEY WAIT I SAW THAT TOO

Omg...CottonCandy BitchFuck...

[imstacks]

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[medusamagic]

I wasn't going to say anything about the Dropout thing (and I'm still not going to make any statements on Dropout's internal structure) but the way that y'all have been responding scares me. This all started because a few trans women were uncomfortable with D20 making the only trans woman in the series' introduction be "serpent bearer," and Dropout fans responded with a whole bunch of blatant anti-sjw talking points from a decade ago.

Like, this is blatantly the same thing as whining about "DEI Mandates™" and shit. You realize that, right? Do you see the pipeline you're going down?

[onlycosmere]

The Kickstarter goes live tomorrow!

When Brandon Sanderson began working with Brotherwise Games on the first adventure for The Stormlight Roleplaying Game, he considered how it could help him fix holes in the narrative of his bestselling fantasy series. He settled on a mystery from the first Stormlight Archive book, The Way of Kings, that will have big implications for the fifth book in the series, Wind and Truth, which will be released in December.

The Stormlight Archive is set on the planet Roshar, where 10 heroes known as Heralds spent millenia protecting humanity with the help of highly magical swords dubbed Honorblades. All of them abandoned their duties except Taln, the Herald of the Common Man. Despite Taln’s best efforts, the forces of the vengeful god Odium have returned. Taln was left maddened by his ordeal and soon after he first appears in the books, his Honorblade goes missing. Its whereabouts remain unknown.

“The adventure is answering that question,” Sanderson told Polygon. “What happened? Where did it go? What’s going on? And you get to be part of the story. We were looking for an adventure you could do that would intersect with the canon of the books in an interesting way, and allow you to fill in a hole yourself.”

The Kickstarter for the d20-based game goes live on Aug. 6 along with a beta preview of the rules and a first level adventure meant to walk players and game masters through the setting and core mechanics. The hardcover Stonewalkers Adventure, where players encounter Taln and learn what happened to his honorblade, will be released in 2025 along with the Stormlight Roleplaying Game Handbook and World Guide.

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Players will hunt for Taln’s honorblade across Roshar, from the Shattered Plains where much of The Way of Kings is set, to the magical forest of the goddess Cultivation, where bold souls can receive both a boon and a curse. There are a mix of dungeon crawls, puzzles, chase scenes and prison breaks. As they choose how to approach the problems they face, player characters will be able to attract the attention of spren, spirit-like beings who can bond with like-minded people to bestow them with incredible abilities. Completing the mission can allow them to join the newly re-founded ancient order known as the Knights Radiant.

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The PCs can meet major antagonists from the books, including the twisted Herald of Justice Nale and the traitorous General Meridas Amaram, and learn how the talking sword Nightblood first featured in Sanderson’s 2009 book Warbreaker wound up on Roshar. As they move through key moments from the series, like the emergence of a raging storm that brings Odium’s most powerful lieutenants back to the world, Sanderson welcomes players to reshape his narrative.

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“There’s a lot of cultural details being filled in, but at the same time, we dig a little bit further into what each order of Radiants’ oaths, spren, and motivations are,” Sanderson said. “There’s some new stuff there that I think fans will really enjoy.”

[rooksilver]

see the thing about kipperlilly copperkettle is. of course she’s a deeply nuanced and victimised teenage character. of course she has a neglected mood disorder that isn’t her fault. of course she was manipulated and groomed.

but at the same time. she chose the shatter-star. she killed all her friends. her actions and more importantly her motivations were selfish, entitled and came from a place of privilege. she is literally that rich white private school girl whining about how she’s at a “disadvantage” because she doesn’t have any struggles or trauma to put on her college app essay.

SHE CAN BE BOTH. she IS both. so many d20 fans are acting like its a binary choice, love her or hate her, but it’s NOT. did she deserve to die? probably not. but were the bad kids justified in killing her? fuck yeah. both of these things can exist at once