Exandria is the name of the world on which most events of Critical Role take place. Tal’dorei and Wildemount
can you help with a Nat20 question? I’ve recently started playing 5e and rules say on a crit you roll the damage die twice, but on CR, it seems you have the player multiply their die roll x2. Am I following that correctly & is that just your preference as DM?Aye, just my preference!
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 29, 2021
Happiest of Holidays and Merry Christmas to you all!
To celebrate, let me share this clip my brother recently found from maaaaany years ago. (And excuse my brain transposing some letters. I blame reading a lot of EGM growing up) pic.twitter.com/ga7dSGTfsq
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) December 25, 2021
The answer to if I’ve “always been this awkward”? YES.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) December 25, 2021
Our old go to is the 4d6, drop the lowest, six times then arrange as desired.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) October 22, 2021
Rubber trees exist, but also alchemical compounds devised by lost arcane societies of old can certainly function as a flexible wheel. 😉
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) October 22, 2021
running a gamesoon at my local game store from Explorer’s guide to Wildemount, and i had a question? Are there centaurs in Exandria Asking for one of my players who wants to play a Centaur Paladin There are! Canonically in Tal’dorei. 🙂
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) October 14, 2021
with a brand of castigation, is a rogue is marked, can they just not sneak attack the person who marked them? Since they always know where they are Sneak Attack comes whenever they have advantage (the defender is harried, the rogue has other benefits, etc), so not necessarily. I personally would say it might greatly reduce the effectiveness of them using the Hide action/ambushing.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 7, 2021
We had a rules disagreement regarding a blood hunter’s Brand of Castigation. Does the target know that they have been branded? Is the brand visible? I couldn’t find a clarification online anywhere. The brand “sears” itself into the target, so I imagine they would be aware. 😉
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 5, 2021
On a related note – can the target of the blood curse feel that something has changed? I imagine they wouldn’t be sickened to the point of taking damage obviously, but might they feel a little off? That’s entirely up to the DM, but I could imagine a physical discomfort, aye.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 6, 2021
I have a question about transitioning in Exandria. What are the options? Like Polymorph? Potions? Or Surgery?
I have a new party and all the players are Trans in real life, so I’d like to know in case someone wants to be transgender in the game 🙂 I personally imagine both surgical and magical options (potions, spells) available. In our second campaign, Caleb developed a spell that can do this quite easily: pic.twitter.com/31BJVlkK4Q
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 13, 2021
