• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Woah.

    Do we know if Mercer will be playing as a PC? Surely he won’t just go into hiding for the whole Campaign 4 or whatever.

    Edit: Ok. I’m watching the official Campaign 4 announcement on the CR YouTube channel and they do confirm that Matthew Mercer will be playing a character in Campaign 4.

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    7 days ago

    I wonder if this will negatively affect their ratings. This is a big change and Mercer is a huge draw for the show. I haven’t enjoyed most of their non-mainline material for this reason, he’s my biggest draw.

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      6 days ago

      Brandon is a next level DM, easily on par with Mercer. His voicework, improv, experience and enthusiasm for DnD is amazing. Hes been DMing for over 20 years, has run endless campaigns, and D20 has sold out venues like madison square gardens for shows. Hes got serious chops.

      It will be different, it may be worse, but it may be better.

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      6 days ago

      Idk if it’s a troll comment or not, but I do believe that Mercer tried to give the players more imaginative and creative freedom.

      That may have been what you were picking up on as possibly him not leading as much as he has in the past.

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        Campaign 3 was all about Matt’s story and nothing else. It was shown repeatedly that player choice mattered far less than the story Matt wanted to tell. Campaign 3 showcases Matt’s worst Dm’ing. Also all the God bullshit, they should not try to tell a story about religion when not a single one of them gives a shot about it.