{"id":1432110,"date":"2025-12-19T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7gSfgQhDpWuJ5C9ThhnhL7"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:52:48","slug":"brennans-latest-trick-on-critical-role-is-actually-one-hes-done-before-breaking-with-dd-tradition-to-let-players-choose-when-they-level-up-instead-of-just-after-theyve-taken-a-really-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/brennans-latest-trick-on-critical-role-is-actually-one-hes-done-before-breaking-with-dd-tradition-to-let-players-choose-when-they-level-up-instead-of-just-after-theyve-taken-a-really-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan’s latest trick on Critical Role is actually one he’s done before\u2014breaking with D&D tradition to let players choose when they level up, instead of just after they’ve taken a really good nap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critical Role’s fourth campaign<\/a> is a banger\u2014and while I haven’t kept up with it as much as I’d like (it’s Christmas, you’ll have to forgive me for not having four extra hours to put aside every week) I have still been tuning in and keeping up with secondary news when I can.<\/p>\n

Thus it reached me through the grapevine (some people call it Polygon<\/a>) that Brennan Lee Mulligan was changing D&D forever, shaking things up, the madman, the maverick! He was doing so by, as the video below from the official Critical Role channel details, allowing players to level up at a time of their choosing\u2014doing the pesky things like rolling for HP in advance, but otherwise letting them hold off until a satisfying moment occurred.<\/p>\n

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