In between doing their primary marketing campaign and the occasional new factor, the Crucial Position crew has executed TTRPG one-shots themed round particular video video games. Often timed to return out round a title’s launch window, previous one-shots have included the likes of Elden Ring, Elder Scrolls On-line, and Doom Everlasting.
In a number of weeks, the subsequent sport to affix that listing can be Nintendo’s lately launched Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. On Friday, the crew revealed they’d partnered with the developer to run a one-shot set on the earth of Hyrule. So for those who’re nervous about potential sport spoilers on this, it doesn’t sound like you must be. When requested on Twitter, the Crucial Position workforce confirmed there could be nothing spoiled, and that the one-shot’s “story and characters are of our personal creation. Everything is solely impressed by parts of The Legend of Zelda.”
Working the sport would be the present’s major DM, Matt Mercer, who additionally voices Ganondorf in Tears. (You may additionally know him as Scorching Ganondorf.) The gamers include Crucial Position co-creators Liam O’Brien and Marisha Ray, together with current transplants Emily Axford (Dimension 20) and Robbie Daymond (Exandria Limitless/Marketing campaign 3), plus newcomer Omar Najam (Dimension 20). On Twitter, Daymond described the one-shot as a “superb fever dream…it’s totally unhinged,” whereas Mercer known as it “pleasant to play formally in Hyrule having grown up desirous to BE in Hyrule.” With how large Crucial Position is by itself and the way Tears has principally grow to be most individuals’s Sport of the 12 months, the synergy is smart and should probably deliver some Zelda followers into the TTRPG fold when all is claimed and executed.
Crucial Position will premiere its Legend of Zelda one-shot on Thursday, Could 30 @ 7 PM PT (so 9 or 10 PM, relying on for those who’re Midwest or east coast) by way of its Twitch and YouTube channels.
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