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If there’s that many, one of them better damn well be another Shandalar game.

  • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    their own official DnD game is the complete opposite of BG3 in terms of monetization, popularity and critical acclaim

    I don’t follow. You buy a book and you play. Critical Role brings in more viewers than most primetime network TV shows ever could. They had a controversy around changing their monetization that didn’t come to pass, is my understanding, but the complete opposite of BG3?

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      I think they’re referring to Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance which came out in 2021, not to tabletop D&D

    • Diotima@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      Dark Alliance was a bit of a mess from what I hear.

      Critical Role does great, but for the most part Wizards has left its own setting to languish. Most of the lore from Faerun is now 100+ years out of date (in-game) with new sourcebooks rehashing versus moving the world forward. Unless you’re a Drizzt fan, you’re not getting a ton as far as… well, anything is concerned. Even Dark Alliance is a rehash of Salvatore’s fiction.