I am not going to lie. I watched the "D&Diesel" on youtube with Matt Mercer and wondered how scripted this was. There did not seem to be any edits and the short little adventure ended perfectly in under 30 minutes with Diesel scoring 2 critical hits perfectly ending the mini campaign. I would love to hear any one else thoughts, while knowing that I may be wasting your time or insulting you by asking...but please indulge me. I have just begun watching Critical Role, and a few others with only Nerdist "Force Grey Giant Hunters" completed. Short I know...I have only been back in D&D for about 4 weeks. Thank you.
Haven't watched the D&Diesel episode. From comments made by Matt, I get the feeling the adventure was suppose to last longer and for some reason or another it had to be cut back to 30 minutes. So the ending perfectly under 30 minutes was probably "DMed" meaning that Matt may have fudged hit points, story elements, and other factors to make sure it ended in less than 30 minutes, because that is literally all the time he had.
With that said, its entirely possibly that Diesel rolled two 20's in a row. Dice aren't known as the most perfect statistically as they either favor the 1 or the 20 (unless you spend a lot of money on them, or possibly get the clear ones).
...Yeah, but a droid's not gonna rip your arms off if they lose. ... [Vin Diesels] have been known to do that. ... I recommend a new strategy: let the [Vin Diesel] win. (What was going thru Matt Mercer's mind while DMing that day.) ;P
I watched the episode, and never had the thought it was scripted. Yes, they were all actors, but I thought it was a great example of how to run a quick campaign. It actually inspired me to work on quick ideas like this for my daughter and her friends who might only be able to get together once and only for an hour or two. This was short yes, but wow, awesome idea for just a short time line. Genius is what I thought. And yes, I've seen people roll 20's consecutively before. The chance of the luck is either with you or not. And that is why I will always roll my dice and never succumb to a game where a computer does it for me.
It looked heavily edited. Very much like the Force Grey episodes. Most likely for the specific objective of being within 30 minutes run time. Probably cut out a lot of crosstalk and majority of jokes.
Can compare with Force Grey episodes and their live shows.
I would like to believe those criticals were random because that's just cool, but I don't think it even needed to be scripted. Vin played an immortal witch hunter who had basically whatever powers he wanted. Everyone else was just along for the ride because the point of the whole story was that Vin was in the room. Matt did an A+ job of running a very polished, very short adventure.
DISCLAIMER: I enjoy Vin Diesel and his movies as much as anyone else (maybe Riddick a bit more than most :P), and I most definitely LOVE Matt Mercer and his DM-ing style.
I have watched the episode shortly after it was released, and while it is indeed edited and the story is extremely railroaded (could not have been otherwise for a 30 mins adventure), I enjoyed it, but I found Vin's performance quite cringe-y... I know he's a long time D&D player, and MAYBE (just maybe) he was a bit nervous of showing his nerd side on camera that way, but he gave me the typical impression of the guy at the table that almost always passively listens to what's going on until there are dice to roll for combat... I might be wrong, but that's the impression I had.
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I am not going to lie. I watched the "D&Diesel" on youtube with Matt Mercer and wondered how scripted this was. There did not seem to be any edits and the short little adventure ended perfectly in under 30 minutes with Diesel scoring 2 critical hits perfectly ending the mini campaign. I would love to hear any one else thoughts, while knowing that I may be wasting your time or insulting you by asking...but please indulge me. I have just begun watching Critical Role, and a few others with only Nerdist "Force Grey Giant Hunters" completed. Short I know...I have only been back in D&D for about 4 weeks. Thank you.
Haven't watched the D&Diesel episode. From comments made by Matt, I get the feeling the adventure was suppose to last longer and for some reason or another it had to be cut back to 30 minutes. So the ending perfectly under 30 minutes was probably "DMed" meaning that Matt may have fudged hit points, story elements, and other factors to make sure it ended in less than 30 minutes, because that is literally all the time he had.
With that said, its entirely possibly that Diesel rolled two 20's in a row. Dice aren't known as the most perfect statistically as they either favor the 1 or the 20 (unless you spend a lot of money on them, or possibly get the clear ones).
...Yeah, but a droid's not gonna rip your arms off if they lose. ... [Vin Diesels] have been known to do that. ... I recommend a new strategy: let the [Vin Diesel] win. (What was going thru Matt Mercer's mind while DMing that day.) ;P
I watched the episode, and never had the thought it was scripted. Yes, they were all actors, but I thought it was a great example of how to run a quick campaign. It actually inspired me to work on quick ideas like this for my daughter and her friends who might only be able to get together once and only for an hour or two. This was short yes, but wow, awesome idea for just a short time line. Genius is what I thought. And yes, I've seen people roll 20's consecutively before. The chance of the luck is either with you or not. And that is why I will always roll my dice and never succumb to a game where a computer does it for me.
It looked heavily edited. Very much like the Force Grey episodes. Most likely for the specific objective of being within 30 minutes run time. Probably cut out a lot of crosstalk and majority of jokes.
Can compare with Force Grey episodes and their live shows.
I would like to believe those criticals were random because that's just cool, but I don't think it even needed to be scripted. Vin played an immortal witch hunter who had basically whatever powers he wanted. Everyone else was just along for the ride because the point of the whole story was that Vin was in the room. Matt did an A+ job of running a very polished, very short adventure.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
Agreed. Entertaining to watch and fun advertisement for the movie.
DISCLAIMER: I enjoy Vin Diesel and his movies as much as anyone else (maybe Riddick a bit more than most :P), and I most definitely LOVE Matt Mercer and his DM-ing style.
I have watched the episode shortly after it was released, and while it is indeed edited and the story is extremely railroaded (could not have been otherwise for a 30 mins adventure), I enjoyed it, but I found Vin's performance quite cringe-y...
I know he's a long time D&D player, and MAYBE (just maybe) he was a bit nervous of showing his nerd side on camera that way, but he gave me the typical impression of the guy at the table that almost always passively listens to what's going on until there are dice to roll for combat... I might be wrong, but that's the impression I had.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games