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.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, that would make more sense. I thought that was a licensed deal like anything else.

[–] Diotima@kbin.social 1 points 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 Most of the lore from Faerun is now 100+ years out of date (in-game) with new sourcebooks rehashing versus moving the world forward.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.