#this does remind me that some people have been weirdly acting like c3's big crossover battle were like...d20-level pre-planned

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Haven't caught up with NADDPod (or. any podcast. the podcasts start coming and they don't stop coming) and forgetting my headphones on this trip did not help, but on one of the chat episodes leading into the finale Murph mentioned they were planning to move to shorter campaigns. TAZ has done this as well, and I'll admit I have mixed feelings, because there are so few truly long-running campaigns out there and I think there's a unique sort of story you can tell with longform. On the other hand, TAZ has gone pretty open-ended (Vs. Dracula was 30 episodes, which is not short, either, and I wouldn't be surprised if Abnimals ends up running about that long as well). I also think that WBN swung so far in the other direction the fandom lost interest. Anyway, I wonder if Critical Role is going to do this post C3 because if you leave it short or medium but open-ended in terms of episodes, I think you can still tell a very good story, even though you can't do something with quite as epic a scope. You also don't run into the failure of ambition thing I mentioned before, in which you allot 4 or 8 or 10 episodes and then kind of run out of time; if you say "we're aiming for Not 100 episodes, but if we land between 15 and 50 we're good" I think it works out much more smoothly.