Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’ve been balancing work, personal creative writing, Blue Prince runs, and further episodes of Dimension 20, as I munch through its second, fantasy New York-set season. After watching so much Critical Role, I’m feeling a little foolish about only now checking in on the work of a dungeon master whose style and priorities are so much closer to my own. Basically everything I have issues with regarding Matt Mercer’s style is resolved by Brennan Lee Mulligan, who shares my preference for more direct, narrative-driven sagas where player agency is exercised through the moment-to-moment action, rather than through choosing their approach to an entire continent’s worth of potential conflicts. It’s a far more cinematic, propulsive approach that allows for significantly more coherent character arcs, and has me taking all sorts of mental notes regarding player direction and NPC construction. I’ll likely have more to say on that later, but for now, let’s quit with the dilly-dallying and get to the week in films!

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