@_210Percent These critics also always manage to gloss over the fact that they're watching a TV show and that watching your crunchy home game would be incredibly boring.
This is framed to make it sound like they're not using dice at all. This was a single instance of rewarding player effort, which is explicitly part of the game and has been since its inception.
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.
@vindictivebirds@Spec_owl@DemzDeliver Those are the type of people you think are going to go to the trouble of registering for tickets through a government website?