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I just find it hard to be empathetic when I've meet people interested in DnD that literally tell me they would not play with me.

There's been a lot of talk about the decline of 3rd spaces in the past decade and people just seem more isolated in general.

watching a youtube video

Can we talk about DnD?

Just not a very realistic setup to advertise for the average group.

You got rdm debuffing every mob, keeping multiple buffs up on the whole party - all things that are fine on their own - while also dealing dmg themselves, meleeing, sleeping, doing crowd control and also main healing at the same time while you got 2 cors, a geo, a dd and no tank.

A great time for the 1/6 people in that party that actually get to have any fun.

also dealing dmg themselves, meleeing

Yeah, real relatable setup.

Did someone say you would. How would the game know to give you objectives if you weren't online to get the update. It's the 8th round. Not the 1st.

Hybrids work great! Just need a sch to storm you, a geo to buff your magic attack and your physical attack and lower mob magic defense and and two cors to do both magic and physical rolls. Oh and a rdm to give you haste and also frazzle and dia every mob. See, it's easy, anyone can do it.

Thanks bro, will get right on it.

The egg hunt one is actually time consuming since you can only get a few eggs a day. Harder on low population servers.

Can we talk about DnD? Let's talk about DnD. What's going on? What's happening here? Oh! I know. DnD has been on a downward trajectory as players are losing interest in the game in recent years and many people blame the likes of Matt Mercer and Critical Role. What many new dungeon masters have taken up is Matt's style of DM'ing where they shoehorn their players down a specific route or path. They want to tell a story. Much like Matt. What they don't realize is that's Matt's version of the game is not true to the game's essence. The objective of the DM isn't to tell a story. The players tell the story. The DM is supposed to build the world that said story unfolds in. Railroading is when Matt tries to push his players into a particular play pattern conducive to his story that he wants to tell. He effectively gatekeeps the rest of the world the players are traversing through and inadvertantly unauthenticates his players experience. So what are we talking about? What does any of this mean? It means Critical Role was never inteded to be a true play through of the game so much as it was meant to he promotional material for Wizards of the Coast. It was a hey this is how cool our game can be when played by talanted players. The problem is that's not the true essence of the game. The true essence is the tale of the adventurers. It's not the DM's job to get the players to defeat Vecna and save the world. This assumes the players are hero's when they may not be. The goal of the DM then is to build Clock Town. Vana'diel. It's to build a living breathing world that the players can go out and write their own story in. The challenge of the DM is being flexible enough to allow your players to traverse throughout the entirety of your world while still maintaining a sense of time, character impact, and growth. If in the start of the scenario they're like hey the moon is falling! It's gunna crash and destroy the world! Someone save us! The players might choose to just piss off. Maybe they don't want to save the world. Maybe their story is one of looting and pillaging as they traverse the lands lawlessly. I don't know. That's for the players to decide. You have to have nonplayable characters with routines and time activated events. Say you save a farmer in act one. In act three you find that now there's milk for sale as a result of your deeds in act one, but if you don't then there's no milk for sale. Yes. Sometimes players will miss out on cool sidequests and items that could range anywhere from necessary to optional. Maybe not saving some woman means you missed out on a key that unlocks an optional dungeon. A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. As the DM you have to set your emotions aside. You can't be let down because one of your players missed out on a chance to claim a robe of serpents. You have to let them play the game as they want to play it. If your band of players decides to be murder hobo's, let them; but let there be consequnces. Have wanted posters start showing up in towns that fit the descriptions of the travelers and create an opposing force to combat them. If you run through Camelot killing all the villagers, eventually Arthur's going to send Lancelot after your ***. So there's gatekeeping in the sense of DM's not allowing for players to fully explore the world they've been cast into that can negatively impact their experience as players. So then gatekeeping is bad right? Kind of. Sometimes the DM may gatekeep players so that they don't enter an encounter they are ill-prepared for. If the DM says maybe it's not a good idea to go to the Ash Lake, it might be a good idea to listen. Just because areas are open to players from onset does not mean it's always a good idea to run in head first like Leroy Jenkins. It can result in a party wipe that ruins everyone's experience. But again, I would argue that's not up for the DM to decide for the players. If they really want to give it go, let them. It may level set their expectations for future campaigns and they'll be less brash about charging head first into dangerous situations. So was it really Critical Role and Matt Mercer that ruined DnD? I'd argue no. I'd argue it's the gatekeeping of players by other players up to and including the Dungeon Master. It's players that want to DM without understanding the role of the DM. They think being the DM is like being the leading actor. The star. The center of attention as all the other players must bend to their will. This has caused a divide in the community amongst those that want to play the game as Critical Role and those that just want to play the game. Some people go on decade long campaigns and build life lasting friendships much as you players have in Vana'diel. More can always be added to the world. Things can be retconned. There doesn't have to be some ultimate goal of defeating Vecna to save the realm. Maybe during the campaign one of the players are brought to death's door and they must traverse through the Shadowfell to retrieve said player's soul from the Raven Queen and said player becomes warlock at the end of it. Who knows!? The point is, some people get so worked up with the meta as it were, or in this instance Critical Role, that they gatekeep others from entering the game for not wanting to play the game as they believe it should be played. This ruins the experience for players seeking to enter the game which is why DnD is in decline. Gatekeeping might be good for Matt's twitch stream to create a more digestable broadcast for viewers to enjoy, but it's a facade. The majority of the time gatekeeping is bad.

No.

Like what do these bots gain?? What is the main objective

the internet is failed.

Like, you just see comments randomly and always have to wonder if thats a real person

Randomly watching a youtube video of a movie scene and you see this



Like, why would he just comment "OK" like some bot, click ok

Can we talk about DnD?