The Matt Mercer Effect
A few weeks ago, a Reddit topic comes up about Matt Mercer and the Critical Role effect and how it might affect the GM and player community, especially for the D&D players and those who are now coming in the hobby. If you do not know it, Critical Role has become a popular YouTube program by showing D&D 5e games played by voice actors and actresses. They focus on acting and dynamic play. They play RPG even with famous Hollywood figures (like Vin Diesel and Terry Crews ). For some, it is brilliant, while for others it is frustrating, as is the case of our friend from Reddit, who created the following topic in the forum: How do I beat the Matt Mercer effect? I'm running a campaign for a lot of first-timers, and I'm dealing with a lot of first-timer problems (the one who never speaks up, the one who needs to be railroaded, the NG character being played CN and the CN character being played CE). Lately, however, there's a new situation I'm dealing wit...