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i fought the law and the law won
I tried watching the first video for Critical Role and...the average length of a video is HOW LONG? Also my computer crashing repeatedly didn't help (thx flash plugin) but I just kind of found it boring? I mean I get there are funny/interesting/whatever bits later on but I can't be arsed, man.
(I saw a funny bit last night which, despite my initial resistance made me wonder if perhaps I should Check This Thing Out).
And it just made me think that if I'm going to watch people playing D&D, I'm going to want it to be people I'm playing it with. Although given the choice, if I were going to play an RPG, it wouldn't be D&D. Because I dislike it anyway (and no, I don't dislike it because it's "for nerds"*. I am a STEAMING GREAT NERD. I dislike it because, as I mentioned a while back (I think), it runs on "default fantasy setting" and that's boring as heck to me.
"But Jae!" you cry. "You watch Game of Thrones and play the Final Fantasy games!"
Yes, but. I watch GoT because I have crushes on three of the actors and I like the costume design. Also I want Arya to kick arse. But that's as far as it goes. As for the FF games, I'm sort of playing for the point of completion by this point. And my faves are the ones that aren't out and out fantasy (although none of them have been straight up fantasy as defined by a Westerner anyway).
The fantasy books I read are ones that aren't set in a generic Tolkien-esque world. At this point in my life, I'm not even sure how I got through Lord of the Rings in the first place.
I honestly think my problem is like that of werewolves versus vampires, which I was bemoaning earlier on twitter. It's over-saturation.
Also I kind of now get the people who don't understand people who watch let's plays. I love LPs. I actually really enjoy watching people play vidya offline (though since I haven't done it in years, I imagine I would be the worst kind of backseat player these days). I don't find watching other people RP that engaging. I might give it another go another time, but it wasn't working out so well today.
(That...just kind of reminded me - the one time I played in a CCG (and failed MISERABLY! IT WAS GREAT!**) and then my one friend at the time started a game against another friend and I was watching them play while waiting to go home and. It was incredibly boring. Possibly because I didn't know the game, and I still don't really get how CCGs work but. Maybe it's that sort of thing?)
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*I feel the need to disclaimer because apparently this is the only reason people dislike D&D.
**I lost every single round and I loved it! Some of the people I played against face-palmed a lot because I was so bad at it!
(I saw a funny bit last night which, despite my initial resistance made me wonder if perhaps I should Check This Thing Out).
And it just made me think that if I'm going to watch people playing D&D, I'm going to want it to be people I'm playing it with. Although given the choice, if I were going to play an RPG, it wouldn't be D&D. Because I dislike it anyway (and no, I don't dislike it because it's "for nerds"*. I am a STEAMING GREAT NERD. I dislike it because, as I mentioned a while back (I think), it runs on "default fantasy setting" and that's boring as heck to me.
"But Jae!" you cry. "You watch Game of Thrones and play the Final Fantasy games!"
Yes, but. I watch GoT because I have crushes on three of the actors and I like the costume design. Also I want Arya to kick arse. But that's as far as it goes. As for the FF games, I'm sort of playing for the point of completion by this point. And my faves are the ones that aren't out and out fantasy (although none of them have been straight up fantasy as defined by a Westerner anyway).
The fantasy books I read are ones that aren't set in a generic Tolkien-esque world. At this point in my life, I'm not even sure how I got through Lord of the Rings in the first place.
I honestly think my problem is like that of werewolves versus vampires, which I was bemoaning earlier on twitter. It's over-saturation.
Also I kind of now get the people who don't understand people who watch let's plays. I love LPs. I actually really enjoy watching people play vidya offline (though since I haven't done it in years, I imagine I would be the worst kind of backseat player these days). I don't find watching other people RP that engaging. I might give it another go another time, but it wasn't working out so well today.
(That...just kind of reminded me - the one time I played in a CCG (and failed MISERABLY! IT WAS GREAT!**) and then my one friend at the time started a game against another friend and I was watching them play while waiting to go home and. It was incredibly boring. Possibly because I didn't know the game, and I still don't really get how CCGs work but. Maybe it's that sort of thing?)
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*I feel the need to disclaimer because apparently this is the only reason people dislike D&D.
**I lost every single round and I loved it! Some of the people I played against face-palmed a lot because I was so bad at it!
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I tend to associate D&D/Pathfinder with the gameplay systems they use, not so much their base campaign settings. I've never actually played a tabletop RPG that used a WotC/Paizo-published setting or campaign. Does Critical Role go with its own world, or...?
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