It's not very doable for me to watch livestreams due to timezones, so I have always only watched them on youtube.

Its normal to see a change in viewers as life change. They went from a novelty to a standard show. I normally wait for about 10 to 15 episodes to be out and then i binge watch because i hate watching 4h a week and wonder for 5 days whats next.

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I have given C3 a few tries. I can never get invested. C1-C2 was incredible.

I hate using "balor" for balrog and "halfling" for hobbit (or even dumber: "treent" for ent, I mean c'mon), I always use the actual word, specially now that it's public domain

I think another thing most people dont think about is that, streamed or not, CR is a DnD campaign, and if you can get 2 really great campaigns in a row, great! But generally speaking, you're not gonna have campaigns that appeal to the audience the same way as the players all the time- just think about how hard that is! I think people get too concerned with the production side of it, ignoring the cast stating exactly how much they think about that aspect during play, which is to say, not that much

I lost interest in CR for two reasons: 1. It's hard to keep up with 2. When I started watching other DnD creators, I realized how sappy and sentimental CR felt and I just don't jive with that.

me and everyone I know who watched the show regularly stopped doing so with either the end of eeason 2 or definitely with season 3. I-t started with not having the energy or the interest in all the extra content they created. But it seemed that you missed out on insider jokes by not watching it. -Then ofc season 2s end was rushed and season three was so convoluted and slow that it just wasnt as much fun. -This was part because Matt was working too much on worldbuilding for all these projects. Suddenly he couldnt wing it anymore to not contradict his own ideas. -Also everyone wanted to be as twisty as Sams characters. Which made their backstories way too complicated. -There is also the political correctness. In the highschool onehot we can see how the actors themselves struggle with the concept of pronouns. They often assume wrong and their characters barely asks thanks to Matt just telling them. (It would highlight how awkward it is to ask people first thing). And even after they knew they made mistakes. And these are LA people in the biz. When they cant do it how can average people who never get to interact with a special pronoun people? -And political correct and risky humor dont work together. You can only have one. Vex for example stopped winking and be easy very early on. The brotherl visits stopped for grog and scanlan. -All the seasons were completely the same open world playstyle. They missed the chance mixing it up with dungeon crawls or survival. The ball was my favorite part of season 2 since the rooms gave clear objectives for these chaos people. -Planning and action paralysis got out of hand. -With the success the characters became more protected since remerchendizing would be expensive. -Some disliked the aggressive political stances. Liam attacked those conservative school boys on twitter. -Others hated the financial dishonesty about the streaming income andthe crowdfunding. -I find the parasocial relationsships with a certain type of vulnerable audiences has gotten creepy. This has also spawned the most important point -The fandom is awfully toxic. Worst I have EVER seen. And I grew up with Warhammer teens.

People just like to shit on popular things. At least they're not going after cast members any more.

Speaking as someone who hasn't watched my of C3, honestly, I'm more if a binger and so are a lot of CR fans. I prefer waiting until the series end so I can watch without having to wait for weeks for it to upload. I also watched on twitch for a while, but tbh the community is SO toxic (either hyper negative or hyper positive) that it turned me off paying money for it, even for early access to the episodes.

It's anoying how woke it became, they try to force the agenda all the time, and that sucks, they don't know how to make stories anymore. There are players that not even try to learn their characters... i mean, you play this for long time and don't even know how to play... that sucks, at least if you are earning a salary for playing a game, you SHOULD know how to play it...

Never mind the views. Their twitch subs are down significantly and that's where a good part of the money is coming from.

I like watching KZbin version better, I have a premium account and I don't have ads at all on KZbin. On Twitch sure I can skip the ads but I already have Premuim and I don't want to spend extra money to skip ads when I already can. CR is one of my favorite D&D streams for gameplay, as a growing DM Matt Mercer has helped me become a better DM for my players. I describe more and genuinely enjoy doing my arsenal of accents and voices (I used to be nervous about it). My players are enjoying it. The D&D community used to be a bunch of nerds that united in a game that they all enjoy. I miss those days.

Welcome to D&D, where the effects of stuff that makes you tired are more extreme, dangerous, and despised than the rules about getting stabbed, thrown off a cliff, or set on fire.

I'm hoping this will become another Geek & Sundry / Dropout. There's lots of potential there. Marisha was one of the main creators behind a lot of the shows during G&S's heyday, and I hope they start doing more things like that on here.

Gotta love all the internet trolls who have nothing better to do with their lives than ruin entertainment for everyone else who enjoy it.

OK, to answer your questions: 1. Yes, I find your thumbnail ckickbaity. An arrow pointing to the cast of CR, with the title ‘It’s a LIE’? You knew this will trigger all the brainwashed fanboys and they will click. 2. I stopped watching CR because of it devolving into a scripted show run for the audience instead of the players. Fake drama just to get more views and subs. I prefer real D&D. 3. Financially, no one knows where CR stand as they keep their finances a secret. They’re all millionaires but that’s all we know. Are they trying new things because their ‘sales’ are down? Or are they simply trying to expand? Will they switch to Daggerheart completely or is it just a side hustle? We will never know. 4. I assume WotC is to blame for general drop in D&D interest. I myself have completely converted to PF2e as I find it to be a system far more superior to 5e (or 6e) in all aspects and because I refuse to support a company that is so utterly unscrupulous and treats its customers and he community like brainless cash cows. I love D&D and I want to save it but WotC is on their best way to destroy it. Well, if they go bankrupt maybe someone else will buy the IP, maybe someone who actually cares about more than just the bottom line. Therefore, WotC will never, ever, get another penny from me.

Basically content creators are following the template created by cable news where polarized rage equals more money.

I find myself more and more clicking on "Do not recommend this channel" when videos use a clickbaity thumbnail and ride the D&D/CR Drama trends. A channel in particular seems to make its money from weekly CR drama reporting, dramas that don't exist anywhere but in their head. They had good informative videos at one point, but now it's only clickbait and made up dramas. I won't miss them.

spell components are generally not consumed unless the descpription says so, if you have a pile of bat poop (guano) you do not need to find more to cast fireball. Spells like snare, which consumes the rope used as a spell component however, you do need more rope after the spell.

Rule 5 is wrong specifically in 5E. Many other comments have cited the RAW statement from 5E which is correct. I think it is worth mentioning in previous editions the ruling was that casters could not cast more than one leveled spell per round because casting magic is exhausting. This is assumed to still be the case in 5E.

Did you make a new channel with the same name?

Thanx for the concise explanation of Beacon. I saw the announcement by CR but hadn't had the time to figure out what it was really about. I'm not a big fan of the idea of Beacon. I rotate my prime sub to different twitch channels thru the year. Remember cable, when we payed like $80 dollars a month for TV? Didn't we all cut the cord to get away from that.. now with $5 here and $5 there, I'm pretty close to paying as much each month as I did for cable.

Is this a useful tool that can save time and reduce DM pressure for hobbyists? Yeah, 100%. You can go nuts and use other ones to generate images or even songs that fit your world. But I think it's important to give more context than "it can do great stuff". ChatGPT has tons of limitations, especially the free version. It will basically give you a random sample from all human-written scenarios and room descriptions that were scraped from forums, website and published material (meaning you might have found it yourself in original quality with a search engine). It will not enforce coherence within its own stories or even plausibility, as the video demonstrates. It will not strive to be original, quite the opposite actually. The tool is useful, but it helps to understand it better if you use it. Also, there is an ethics question hidden in there. ChatGPT and other AIs (especially free ones) are trained on material they often don't have copyright to. Using this can be at odds with supporting your favourite creators, so you should be aware of it and decide where you stand. I'm disappointed that the channel, as content creators themselves, just recommended free generative AI wholesale and did not mention these issues.

Wow, it's almost like pathfinder 2e is a good idea and even DnD is catching up XD

My homebrew has 13 levels of exhaustion. The players are continually rolling against it. Every 6 hours, after combat, after any activity. Each roll has different levels of exhaustion to beat. It is useful for someone in the party who can make vitality potions to reduce exhaustion. Penalties alternate between -1 to no damaging rolls and damaging rolls up to -6 for both at level 12. Along the way speed is gradually reduced. Bonus actions, reactions and extra attacks are lost.

Thank you for pointing this kind of crisis.

You summed it up quiet easily and I agree. But, what I don't agree on is using this rule more often than once in your campaign. Maybe twice. Your story should not be structured that your players feel the need to skip rests. Sure, once in a while having a cool time pressured story arc in your larger campaign seems cool. But on the average I'd say, exhaustion rules should not be needed.

I always enjoyed the rules on exhaustion as it is. Albeit I also removed it from being generated from subclasses like the berserker barbarian. I always found it to be a fun way to bring the players to attention when going on long journeys. A gentle reminder at first as they make their first survival checks to hunt for food at disadvantage. If they hit second level I usually bring a combat like wolves attack or something similar to that so the party can eat and recover afterwards. I've never had a player hit 3rd level of exhaustion but I would imagine then that we are playing in a extreme environment game. In the extremely bizarre situation of 5 levels of exhaustion I guess I would possibly offer the players an escape from their terrible fates at a cost of doing something for a entity they would otherwise never assist or as a boon from a players deity/patron. I feel like the rule of -1 per level is really weak for something that is suppose to show wear and tear of the characters journey or conflicts. I know many players that would happily ignore a -3 to any roll. Only ever paying it mind once it starts to reach 4+ and in much higher levels would be annoyed by the trivial and tediousness of it. In base rules disadvantage on ability checks is functionally a -4 on their ability to recover by means of interaction with the world. It doesn't impose much in terms of combat effectiveness meaning players can take the time to recover in most cases i.e. sleep, or forage/hunt for food.

I think the 5 and 10 point systems are trying to cover two different concepts. The 10 point system is focused on general fatigue. The 5 point system is for attrition like severe starvation, dehydration, exposure, and disease. One needs rest the other should be treated.

I've never understood why people have difficulty with this rule. It's never been a problem at any table I've ever played at or run, and I've been running it for 7 years. Also, when you say "most tables" where are you getting that data? It's not very hard to remember, and it simulates being not just tired, but exhausted pretty well. I'm actually planning to add the -1 to dc's, but otherwise keep the rules unchanged. I feel like the 6E rules are kind of nothing sauce, and just too many degrees with not enough change between them. And it's even more to track than just a condition. But I guess it's a ymmv situation.

I don't feel this thumbnail is clickbait as it uses the word explained therefore I know I'm getting an explanation

AI makes outlining things very easy. I like togo with a prompt like "Lets use this concept and summary for a DnD 5e adventure. The main enemies will be (x). this is the concept (x) and adventure summary (x). We are designing this with the goal of being a 5-room dungeon for a party of (x) at (x) level. The room format we are looking for is (x), and it is set in (x). Please generate a list of encounters that can fit in these themes." Then you get the list, and select the ones that fit best from there. Once the basic outline for the dungeon has been completed, I write the basic room descriptions and detail the planned encounters write out the goals, enemies, and exits. Hand that off to the AI, and you have the quick version that you wrote, and if your players want more detail you have that ready to go too. It's really good for populating towns and villages with NPCs too. "This is a medieval village for DnD 5e, set in (x). Please create a list of important NPCs, their basic descriptions, locations, and disposition."

Of all the deities and creatures it was ultimately the human farmer that ended up being the most powerful or at least that was our paradox

With my rolls, even one level is debilitating. Disadvantage? Well might as well have me sit out of the game. I'm never going to roll high enough for the cool things or even hit things. So this new system seems better for my luck, even if I think it's too weak. I like the current rules, just wish there was a few more ways to remove levels.

I used an exhausted dice, like the opposite of bardic inspire. starts at -1d4 and goes up 1 dice per level until 1d12. After that death.

I think that while a smart party can avoid Exhaustion when it's a -X method, it would actually be really useful to have more ways of gaining Exhaustion than just failing to prepare, neglecting rest, or walking faster than normal. What if you could take Exhaustion... ...instead of Death Save Failures? ...to deal more damage? ...to use a stronger spell? ...to use an exhausted feature? ...to do more? Personally, I kinda like using Exhaustion to prevent Death Save Failures, or when Players go down, since then they aren't as keen to do the "healing whack-a-mole" trick, but if they do go down, they can still fight for their lives, and an Enemy can hit them once to "confirm" a kill, without it feeling unfair for the Players (as it's mostly a couple more debuff stacks when you get up).

You can "teach" the LLMs details about your world and campaign and have them take it into account, but you need to use a third-party clients like SillyTavern with their integrated "world books".

I just started running "Call of The Netherdeep" last week. I will be using the new exhaustion mechanics for that campaign, at least. For peeps not in the know, Call of The Netherdeep leans heavily on exhaustion in the story. Since half my table are new DnD players, I do not want to punish them too hard, as they are still learning how to play. To make things easier on everyone, including me, I will use the new mechanics. Should make everything smoother. Also, I will homebrew it that if you rest for a full 24 hours, instead of just the 8 for a long rest, I will remove 2 points of exhaustion. The players can balance out if they have enough time to rest that long or not.

AI is a tool like many other resource. I think it can help provide inspiration to varying degrees, but not a full solution.

I've been using chatgpt for several months I have to do I lot of retuning to what it gives me and will often have to give it the story all over again so it can give me the right information, depending on it for names is not a great idea as it will just recycle the same sir name with a different first name and vice versa and will give names to elves like stronghammer so it doesn't really know what it is doing but can give you good ideas to start with but you will need to fix almost everything at some point. I would give it a 3.5 out of 5 but at least it can get you started if you just want something quick to start.

I'm curious what makes you think these are The "7 Most Forgotten Rules," as you claim. Most of them are pretty well known rules within the community, from my experience. There are certainly many other videos from more popular channels that state several of these rules are interpreted incorrectly, but not outright forgotten. Also, you (sort of) misinterpreted #4. Creatures are on the list of things that Can grant cover. In order to do so, the target must be on the exact opposite side of the 'cover' from whatever is firing. A single step to either side usually makes this a non-issue. The 'cover' must also actually block line of sight to at least half of the target's body, meaning anything sizes large or bigger isn't getting cover from a medium creatures, friend or foe, and if your ally is small sized then they're likely not granting cover to anyone. Also; Most DMs ignore this rule because, despite what some people imagine, players aren't actually standing dead still when it's not their turn. So long as it doesn't count as an action, 'flavor' movements are allowed, even outside of your turn. Ducking or side stepping within your 5-foot square, to give an ally a clear shot by exposing more than half of the enemy's body, is allowed within the rules. You just need to communicate to let the ally know you're doing this, but talking also doesn't require an action.

RAW is that if you cast a bonus action spell, you cannot use a spell that is not a cantrip. It does not limit the amount of spell slots you can use, only that a bonus action spell limits your ability to use spell slots. This means if you somehow have the oppurtunity to cast a spell on your action, so long as you did not cast a bonus action speed spell, you can cast 2 spells using spell slots in a turn.

i love 5e but this is y i sail the seas cause its a better expeirence then they offer i mean not only is ale cart gone but the discount you would get doesnt apply automatically now you have to call customer support they are banking on you not calling and just biting the bullet and paying full price its a scum move

nice vid xD

i find it funny they pull ale cart after they put 3rd party on the site

ah youre awful i will stop watching now, thanks!

-1 from rolls -2 from speed -3 from max hp Every level of exhaustion

Godawful exposition.

I run "courses" of D&D for kids on behalf of a local community group. Each course is seven 2-hour sessions: a Session Zero, plus six game nights. I've started using AI to plan the course. I'll feed it a basic outline like, "I need to plan for six two-hour RPG sessions. They are in an arctic environment. I want it in the style of the 5-room dungeon. I want to include a young white dragon, and end in the lair of a demon. Can you give me a suggestion?" The AI then gives me an outline listing each "room", as well as the projected events of each session. I can then take those notes as inspiration and flesh it out as the players progress through the story. It is great when you are having writer's block and just need some inspiration to flesh things out.