Critical Role's Brennan Lee Mulligan ditched D&D's dice in Campaign 4: no roll needed because a PC monologue was "too good."
Performance now overrides actual gameplay.
This isn't D&D. It's scripted celebrity theater pretending to be gaming.
They. Don't Really. Play.
My life update is that I got my Master’s in Anthropology last week! Which means that i’m smarter than like 90% of the adult population in a subject no one has ever heard of
Famously, this is why western warfare abandoned firearms in the mid-1600s, and why heavily armored men-at-arms continue to be the premier force in resolving disputes down to the present day.
the phrase "don't siege leningrad, take it immediately" popped into my head out of nowhere and i had to start frantically digging through my archives to find this absolute gem again