Critical Role's Brennan Lee Mulligan ditched D&D's dice in Campaign 4: no roll needed because a PC monologue was "too good."
Performance now overrides actual gameplay.
This isn't D&D. It's scripted celebrity theater pretending to be gaming.
They. Don't Really. Play.
Community note
The claim "This isn't D&D" is false. The Dungeon Master's Guide explicitly permits DMs to "use dice as rarely as possible... the DM decides whether an action or a plan succeeds or fails based on how well the players make their case, how thorough or creative they are..."
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