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Matt Answers Your Questions!
The Character Sheet is back with more fantasy and TTRPG news, and today we are sitting down with Critical Role's legendary DM and the man who created the Age of Umbra frame for Daggerheart, Matthew Mercer, along with Daggerheart lead designer Spenser Starke, to talk about the settig for Critical Role's upcoming Age of Umbra mini series! Is Age of Umbra just set in an alternate version of Exandria? Will horse stacking return as Critical Role dives back into a soulsborne setting? Just how did games like Kingdom Death: Monster inspire Matt Mercer in the creation of Age of Umbra? Find out as we talk with Critical Role's Matthew Mercer and Spenser Starke in our exclusive Age of Umbra interview!
Timestamps
0:00 Coming up
0:23 Introducing Matt And Spenser
3:17 How Age Of Umbra Was Created
7:00 What Is The "Umbra"
11:44 Is This An Alternate Exandria
15:56 Kingdom Death Inspirations
20:52 Favorite Kingdom Death Monsters
24:13 Age Of Umbra World Guide Book
26:47 Lighting Round: Soulsborne or Salzburg!
~ 17:33
Matt Mercer: "The way it begins and kind of evolves in this terrifying, survivalist space where you don't really know why you're here and why things are the way they are, you just are being hunted. In that dark realm, what little bit of light there is, is found through community and the survival of the community. That theme to me is very cool and inspiring and terrifying especially in a world that is ever terrifying in its own right where the survival of community is so important. So, to me, if anything that was definitely the biggest element I wanted to carry over into Age of Umbra was the idea of "These small communities are all they have" and what little bit of connection they have to work together and try and work towards trying to reverse this decay, to try and find a way to save the world in the midst of this very very dark space. That sort of heroic plight was very very interesting and something we didn't quite have in a campaign frame. So that was definitely what I pulled from Kingdom Death Monster."
