You Can Now Watch Critical Role's Full Zelda: TOTK-Themed One-Shot Special On YouTube

I’ve just woken up and read that headline six times and no idea what it means. I am an old person now xx

@sixrings It's almost like Zelda is a Nintendo game! How dare Nintendolife report on a Nintendo related event!

I’m kinda interested in this. I like watching role-plays but I don’t like Twitch. I hope they put it on YouTube.

German Ganondorf is voiced by Mickey Mouse 's archenemy Pete.

Making a Zelda tabletop rpg scenario is a nice and creative idea.
I never had a pen-and-paper adventure, but I am sure it is a great experience. Maybe I will watch this stream when it releases on Youtube tomorrow.

Some Discord friends and I actually played in a campaign of Cyberpunk RED (Tabletop RPG and the basis of 2077 ) set in a far future Hyrule. The Sheikah had become the global conglomerate SheikahTech, and the five races lived in uneasy truce in a now-fully developed nation. My character was a cranky Goron combat medic named Mokoy (see if you can pick up the reference), whose family sunk into debt sending their bright kid away from the factory and mining towns and into med school.

We nicknamed the campaign "Ocarina of Crime"

@Dragonslacker1 I’m probably much older than you, my kid just graduated college, and I’d probably be confused as well only I just finished watching season 2 of “The Legend of Vox Machina” and it was so good I’ll be watching this on YouTube. Well as long as it isn’t too long.

BTW I find so many article headlines on both NL and PS much more confusing than need be b/c nobody uses “ around titles to break up the words. It’s such an easy fix but alas.😝

Anyway “Critical Role” is a group of friends, comprised of a lot of voice actors, who play way too much Dungeon & Dragons, which is a pen & paper dice based “role playing board game” and apparently they seem to be taking a break from D&D to play a fake pretend board game of Zelda TotK and stream it on Twitch and YT.

Hope that helps.😁

Edit: ok just checked and the live stream says it was 5:17 which is about 4 hours more than I want to watch. Maybe 3 nights if the first night is good. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@sixrings And yet you continue to comment on many of these about it. Many years ago I went to buy a book in a store and saw there was a 'buy one get one free' offer going. I only needed one, but took advantage of the sale and got another. The second book was god awful and I realised despite the sale, it would have been cheaper just buying the one book. The same applies here, It actually is less of your time wasted scrolling past an article on the homepage/timeline than it would commenting every time about the abundance of articles. Its once every 6 or so years a new zelda comes out, let people enjoy it to the fullest.

@rjejr I'd imagine that rather than it being, "a fake pretend board game," they're just using the rules from D&D in a Hyrule setting.

I wish them all the fun but I am NOT a fan of Mercer's DM style, and am kinda sad that his style has somehow become something of a benchmark to aspire to. But still, hope people enjoy it.

@Indielink "a fake pretend board game," they're just using the rules from D&D in a Hyrule setting

Well it's a fake pretend board game in relation to them playing the video game Zelda TotK. The title of the article isn't " VAs Play D&D set in Hyrule". 🤷‍♂️

@rjejr No, but it says “VAs Play a One-Shot set in Hyrule” and a one-shot is I believe exclusively a D&D term

@BabyYoda71

One shot is at least ttrpg exclusive, it implies that a single session will contain the entirety of the story they want to tell.

I, for one, am extremely excited. I love DnD, I love Zelda, and this will have Liam, Mercer, and Emily Axford? I'm sure she won't be able to completely get up to her shenanigans but she's hilarious

@BabyYoda71 "one-shot is I believe exclusively a D&D term"

Was D&D even around in 1907? 🤷‍♂️

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-shot

Hope they have fun with it but I won't be watching as due to personal reasons, I'm no fan of Critical Role despite loving Matt Mercer and most of the voice actors that are series regulars.

When I first read this I thought they were making a stand alone Zelda tabletop RPG. Now I realize they aren't doing that

@Dragonslacker1

Hahahahah i am glad i'm not the only one seriously 🤣

@Dragonslacker1

Dungeons and Dragons has been around for 50 years. You aren't old, just not part of that fandom.

Critical Role is the top paid Twitch channel, abd a group of voice actors that range from Fire Emblem to Naruto to The Last of Us. If you play video games or watch anime, you've probably encountered several of the cast members.

They are collaborating with Nintendo of America to do a "one shot" (a DnD session that only lasts for one session, as opposed to their usual hundreds of sessions) and they are setting it in Hyrule. Most likely taking the ruleset for DnD 5th Edition (5E) to create a story and characters that could exist in Hyrule, but with structure and rules they're familiar with. 5E is a super flexible d20 based system that has seen many properties incorporated into it. There's a Star Wars 5e, Final Fantasy 5e, Pokemon 5e. They're all fan made games that use the bones of DnD 5e to great success. Basically you could Google any IP that interests you followed by 5e and someone has tried making it.

@rjejr No but it does say that they're combining Tears with tabletop RPGs.

Although at this point we're just arguing semantics.

@Classic603 Yeah, I googled it after and it’s in other TTRPGs as well. I agree, Emily is hilarious.

So excited by this. Being a long time critter aka Critical role fan and Nintendo/Zelda fan boy - this is what its like when interests collide!

I really hope they release the rules they used for this one shot.

@Indielink I watched it for about 5 minutes and decided ti wasn't for me so I'm done anyway. 🤷‍♂️

@Darknilious I believe this was a homebrew of PbtA (Powered by the Apocalpse) if that helps you.