How Critical Role’s Elden Ring One-Shot Hacked D&D Rules
Matthew Mercer, voice actor and primary Dungeon Master for the Critical Role Actual Play series, ran a special one-shot tabletop RPG campaign set in the world of Elden Ring, FromSoftware's dark fantasy action RPG. To emulate the tense, unforgiving combat and exploration gameplay of Elden Ring, Mercer heavily modified the rules of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, introducing new spells, abilities, and resources for his players to manage as they explored the Lands Between, encountered signature characters/enemies, and tried to «speed-run» through certain challenges with physics-breaking exploits.
This isn't the first time that Critical Role, the Actual Play tabletop gaming group famous for streaming long-running Dungeons & Dragons campaigns on Twitch and YouTube, has run one-shot sessions set in the worlds of tabletop fantasy video games. In 2017, Mathew Mercer ran a one-shot TTRPG adaptation of Middle Earth: Shadow of War, his players taking on the role of grimy, gritty Orcs and Trolls in the Dark Lord's army, while his 2020 one-shot of Doom: Eternal put players in the shoes of an eccentric group of demons sent on a one-way suicide mission against Samuel Hayden and the Doom Slayer. The Diablo one-shot, designed to commemorate the remaster of Blizzard's Diablo II, featured a dark and edgy party of adventurers who made fourth-wall-breaking comments about how every foe they killed dropped gold, while The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood one-shot told the story of waiters, bartenders, chefs, and bouncers trying to run a classic fantasy RPG tavern and serve difficult customers.
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