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crickwater · 3 years

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omg i love what caldwell is doing with the nullar being tired of the sillyness of the world! it's such a fun concept and the idea of a gd killing themselves cause they're tired of the world they created..... its just all so smart cause the main fun of trinyvale is that sillyness and having someone suddenly acknowledge and dislike that in the world is such a cool twist. generally it's incredible to see caldwell's progression as a dm, going from struggling to balance combat and asking murph how to roll initiative for enemies and overly railroading in the first couple of episodes to making some of the most unique and cool encounters and items and letting the players really shape his world!

#like both the gbbo encounter and the vurliss encounter are so unique and fun!#you can v much tell murph is caldwell's main dm cause they both really shine in making combat encounters that are unique and engaging #and really well paced #which is so impressive #cause like I love d&d combat so much and when you're playing it it's so fun but it is the hardest part to translate into actual plays #and so often listening to combat feels so slow and sluggish and boring in actual play shows #but murph and caldwell really manage to make combat super fun to listen to and also possible to actually keep track of in your head #in the seasons where they don't have sets the combat gets kinda sluggish and hard to follow #but murph like. mastered the actual play theatre of the mind combat he's so good at it and caldwell clearly picked it up #anyways trinyvale is so good. the worldbuilding is so interesting the pcs and their dynamic is so funny the combat is so good its just. ugh #I was a little worried I wouldn't like it cause the first like three episodes are a little messy and railroady #which to be fair I think was largely due to it being a live stream at first. being a beginner dm for a live stream sounds stressful as hell #but once caldwell got a handle on it and they stopped livestreaming it got so good!!!#like. I have so much to say abt his dming style and also abt how trinyvale compares to grad #cause I think there are some v interesting parallels there #n e ways. is anyone actually reading this sbsjsksk #I'm basically using tumblr as a place to write out my random thoughts abt whatever I'm into at the moment but sometime I'm like #is anyone actually reading my deranged rant? sound off in the comments if sjdkskfkls

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