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Circle of Spores is also a fun idea
That I think Sam would run with
Just play a fun little guy who has spores in their blood.
I can't see him playing another cleric right now, but maybe if he wants to be a support character... Spirit bard? Celestial warlock? Stars druid... Some type of ranger...
He's played a Warlock before in EXU, and he is known to stick with what he knows.
rogue maybe?
what about ... artificer?
I don't think we will see him play a class he's mained in a campaign before .
Does EXU count as a campaign though, or a limited series?
BEcause he played a Warlock/Bard there.
And I think he'd be a great full Warlock,
Pact of the Chain maybe as opposed to Blade like Fjord.
or Tome, even.
Celestial Warlock, Pact of the Tome would be sick.
True . But that wasn't for a long period of time. I would love to see him play a celestial tome lock.
(What if he plays a Warlock of the Changebringer just to break our hearts? I would cry so many tears)
Why is everyone leaving?
An exandria unlimited mini??
oooooh story split!!
lol srsly?
im not always watching the live streams so its confusing
Tary was an artificer in C1, but he wasn't really a main PC so maybe?
FCG went nuclear and killed himself and Otahan
ah gotcha
Dang it, I was going to go to bed, but now that aabria is here, I'm not sure I can....
I've been waiting for them to catch up with the crown keepers but thought it would be a one-shot!!
They have her backpack and swords
Wonder if Sam is going to be on team aabria?
And who else is on this team... Please please please let Brennan be here tonight.
Oh wow, if he is, he's probably not rejoining the main crew anytime soon. We might be looking at another multi episode split group
i wonder if matt will get to be a player with dariax... or maybe theyre planning on merging the two groups and that will bring in Sam's new character?
If this is a moon team, we better see a celestial tome lock with the ASPECT OF THE MOON simply for flavor.
there are moon-based subclasses in the taldorei book too
wizard, sorc and.. cleric?
Crown keepers!!!!!!
Matt is playing? I don’t know how to process this
Lol
He does the accent really well
gotcha. that makes sense
Hill giant
Flat 21
So Morrighan is a 12 strength level 13 harengon paladin dedicated to the matron of ravens... Very interesting.
fighting lolth possession??
Really did not expect to come back to sudden Exandria Unlimited session
$50 to haste Opal!!! 😈
the barbie voice 
What in the sam hell is going on here, Aabriaaaaa
Hashtag Blessed lol
The Spider Queen really needs her champion in line for what's next
betrayer god champions are not getting asked nicely
Wait, Aabria is here? The Crown Keepers? What I miss?
It is interesting to me how many people are upset/bothered by switching to Exandria Unlimited characters. The Crown Keepers are where we first me Dorian, Orym, and Fearne. Go back and watch at least the first mini-series, Prime. It is truly a great adventure. Plus, watching Matt as a PC is worth it. Oh, also Aabria is a wonderful storyteller.
looks like from twitter it'll be a 2-episode interlude before getting back to the regular crew
ill admit EXU wasn't my favorite as it felt like a lot of short vignettes vs a coherent singular story like I'd expected, but the characters are fun and interesting so a short break is fine with me
I think the story, specifically Opal's, also seems like it'll bleed into the main campaign, so I don't think it doesn't make sense to reintroduce the Crownkeepers
Considering their individual connections to gods (Spider Queen, Wild Mother, Raven Queen), it absolutely will tie into the main campaign to stop THE GOD EATER.
I think the bother comes from the change coming IMMEDIATELY after the death of FCG. Previously the death of a PC would usually lead to 1-2 episodes of the remaining party figuring out what the hell to do now. Instead, there is zero follow-up and viewers are hurled into the middle of an already ongoing conversation that has nothing to do with the previous "build up" of the last dozens of episodes.
And the 25-minute conversations taking place in 6 seconds of combat rounds were unbearable IMO
Ngl, I find all the people complaining about it unbearable. Like, get over it and just watch the show, don’t got to be so dramatic.
Yes, a lot of people are complaining about it. Ngl, there might be a reason for that.
Some people don’t click with aabria’s style of DMing she tends to like alot of talking during combat and lots of narrative moments
I can also understand to a degree the frustration of having such a huge shift in the plot immediatelt after such a heavy moment in Bell's Hells's story
I'm not saying people should go out of their way to ruin everybody else's fun or anything, but it's easy enough to just go, "Well, this isn't for me. I'll be back when BH is back."
Probably because the shift was planned well in advance.
I think she's implying that the people who don't like the shift to the Crownkeepers are people who don't know how to have fun. Which I personally find to be a bit of an unfair reductive point-of-view.
FCG dying was not planned, so the massive shift is exactly that, because it wasnt planned, so was a little jarring for some.
It's a little weird pacing wise, and while I don't mind it personally, I could see why it would feel too disruptive
I just think people like to complain, and the most vocal are normally the most negative in most fan spaces.
I like your point(s) of view.
I loved Aabria in calamity, wasn’t a huge fan of Deanna but liked the chemistry. I absolutely can’t stand her as a dm. She is very much a “it’s all about me” dm. She HAS to inject her thoughts into everything. No moment is just allowed to be had. There has to be some lul randomz comment in there too. Also, this last round of her dming really felt like someone trying to mimic Brennan. I still think she’s kick ass and I love her in the other dropout stuff I’ve seen her in.
And fair admission - she still runs circles around the average DM (definitely me) I’m just comparing her to the others at a professional level.
Aabria is a decent DM, but her DM-ing style is very roleplay/narrative-based.
Also why would you not try and pick up bits and pieces from BLM, the G.O.A.T DM
FCG
FCG.
Yay, we got Robbie back with the Hells
aabria came for blood for sure, and I know a lot of rules were RoC'd away and folks were mad about it, but at the end of the day the story told in that fight was very good
I loved the image of Mori leading Cyrus's soul to the afterlife 😭
Oh shoot Dorian’s brother died?
yeah spider queen killed him
Anyone else feel they have watched the last 2 episodes of CR and nothing has happened, none of the story has stuck in their head. Just 6 hours of weird combat/talking
My wish came true!
I think they’ve also been trying to time things with guest schedules, live events, Candela Obscura and Daggerheart stuff, so pacing definitely has felt a bit off recently
This may not solely be critical role topic but it involves critical role. Anyone have any quotes that I could use and put on my graduation cap?
Long may he reign
What are your favorite Critical Role characters?
Also is anyone watching the livestream?
And now the Hell's are being complete jerks to Keyleth and everyone else.
"How dare you keep sending us group of screw ups on these dangerous do or die missions?!"
"No, no, it's alright, you don't have to go."
"Hey, I was just kidding. We just wanted to see your reactions, and figure out what leverage we have."
Chetney, please roll that 100 now if you need any more motivation to do everything you can to stop Ludinous.
Hotboi has returned, and now we’ve captured Astrid
lol happy beacon day everyone
i bet caleb and astrid use that shop to exchange information 
Hey, has anybody figured out what makes FCG tick? Is it like an arcane battery that absorbs and releases charges in the form of damage? I know Matt designed a homebrew cleric domain for Sam, but I believe it has to do with FCGs sub race
Appeared to be a modified warforged but not much past that and doesn't seem to follow a lot of the concepts of it
We know that aeormaton are the exandrian warforged equivalent, but not too much about them in general. Especially not fcg who seemed a lot more customized in various ways
Hmm. Hopefully Crit Role release their homebrew classes and races at the end of C3. Gunslinger and bloodhunter are awesome, but I’d love to see how other stuff like FCGs “overkill” works
Looking at it from hindsight, Fjord proposing to Jester had to be one of my favorite moments simply because how hard it is to catch Laura and Sam off-guard.
They have released homebrew in their third-party books, but considering they’re working on their own Daggerheart system, I’d be hard pressed to believe they’re gonna be working on publishing any 5E system any time too soon. Which is not to say they won’t in the future, just that I don’t think there are any immediate plans to do anything other than their own systems’ stuff at the moment.
That’s fair. I wonder if they’ll do their next campaign in Daggerheart just to completely get away from the WoTC IP
I don’t know that they’ll ever fully break off from 5E for the purpose of their stream, but I’m sure they’ll be pushing their own systems (both Candela Obscura, which is already published and often streamed, and Daggerheart, once it’s fully published).
I have either a brilliantly terrible or terribly brilliant idea.
When it comes Chetney especially.
It might give him a heart attack, but let's have him meet his kids, if he has any.
What do you mean by "Overkill"?
Like, are you talking about FCG's stress system? Because I think that one is entirely on Sam's end here because he wanted to have that gimmick.
CR live right now
More importantly, Tusk Love!
Aaand Pumat Sol is back too.
I love Liam but he always makes such emo characters
It’s more immortal Lich queen
Less girl boss
what a packed episode, we got interrogation, cerberus assembly lore, shopping, grief therapy, essek lore, dunamancy lore, team bonding, light romance, team tension, team pvp, and deep romance + angst
I feel like his characters really help ground the party. Keep the chaos in check
Yeah, Liam does a good job of playing the straight man role in a group of chaos gremlins.
Being the voice of Illidan, you’d think he’d be more apt to embrace the chaos
I cannot recommend dimension20’s fantasy high jr year enough. The last fight had something like 10 different casters on the field with counter spell, an effectively two story battlefield, npcs with stakes to protect, and multiple combat objectives. And an incredible battlemap with wires and LED
Everyone was on top of their abiltiies, spells, and checks, basically the kind of dnd play CR forgotten
Oh my God... That thorim ad. I really want Liam and Tal to play German characters next. That was fantastic.
More aeor shenanigans ahoy!
when does the episode start this week? or is there no episode
i missed the intro last week
No new CR episode this week cuz they’re streaming their live on-stage Candela Obscura event
I am very curious if they'll save Sam's new character reveal for the live show
Looks like that may be the course... Unless they plan to replace his slot in the party w/ Dorian??
I'm barely half way with the second lmao
watching matthew lillard pop up on critical role for an ad read but not a real character is so funny yet so heartbreaking, i hope he shows up in campaign 3 somewhere
I saw thw S3 intro omg
I can’t wait! Gonna have to rewatch the series before it drops, I wonder if we’re going to get more awesome songs
I’m almost positive we will
We got some fun original songs in the first two seasons, it would be a damn shame if they just decided to stop on S3
I’m just mostly curious to see whether Mercer is voicing the Whispered One or if they cast someone else to do it
I wonder who they will get to voice thordak now
its not easy to replace someone like Lance Reddick (RIP)
I’m curious as to whether or not he had already recorded his lines, but agreed. Not an easy guy to replace.
Does the chapters mean new campaigns? Because I can't access c1 on spotify
Nor the start of c2
You're likely looking at the Critical Role Spotify channel, which doesn't have all their episodes. Campaign 1 and campaign 2 up to episode 19 are on Geek and Sundry
I am, are those on yt or Spotify or are those apps
There’s a link to Spotify
Spotify (which I mentioned)
Ok I just found a playlist with all of c1
starting the countdown to Thordak in campaign 1. very exciting stuff so far
Oh boy... So the live show had a thing happen:
Sam's back. Playing a Minotaur or Tiefling (Probably this) Paladin/Bard.
STR: 20
DEX: 12
CON: 14
INT: 12
WIS: 8
CHA: 19
Braius Doomseed. 18 AC, 114 HP
(What's been posted online with screenshots of his character card)
(And him dressed up of course)
Surprised they didn’t make it a livestream as well
He's also a paladin of Asmodius.
Which is bound to get interesting
Can I ask a question about CR campaign 1?
What does the deathwalkers ward do? Like in stats, and abilities
https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Deathwalker's_Ward
page might contain spoilers
But in the show it makes him go fast, is that a thing that was added in?
The show isn't the game
The mechanics and abilities of everything are all different
Some for copyright. Most because it's no longer a game in the show, but a story
they changed a lot of details for the show. like the ward was essentially combined with his boots of speed
Yeah, iirc Vax was loaded up with magic items by the tail end of the VM campaign
Yea, and Vexs Blazing Bowstring and spells were just rolled into Fenthras abilities
Riegels back… back again…
Yes and no…. Vax had about 600ft of movement by the time he unlocked the wings in the campaign.
He’s back! Brennan returns!
Sweet! Another flashback mini-arc run by Brennan!
Set in aeor so everyone will talk like bolo
God I can only imagine
I just saw the tiktok for Downfall and omg I'm so excited to have Brennan back
I was wondering why he was the opening MC for the live show but didn’t play
I'm still a bit behind so I didn't know he was there (started ep 97 last night)
when an age of arcanum floating wizard city needs to be destroyed, you gotta call in brennan
When you need your heart and spirit destroyed, you call him in too
critical role is on?
I really like how Critical Role is doing Abridged episodes.
is critical role on?
Cr is on break for the last week of the month and then next week is a us holiday so no episode then either 😭
next 3 thursdays are doing DOWNFALL which is another EXU mini-campaign
and i know im mostly alone on this but im not an Aabria fan
I don't think Downfall is EXU technically? Though it seems to share similarities to Calamity. And I love Aabria but she is not in it, its DMed by BLeeM with players Ashley, Taliesin, Laura, Noshir Dalal (from the mortal kombat one-shot and a Candela), Nick Mariani (an actor new to CR I believe), and Abubakar Salim (also an actor, I think he has only hosted a 4sD for CR?)
Yeah, Downfall isn’t officially being called ExU. It’s more like they’re watching a flashback within C3.
That said, I can understand the confusion. Especially considering it almost feels like a spiritual successor to Calamity, which was also DM’d by Brennan.
EXU - exandria unlimited is a few small adventures run by different DMs aabriya and Brennan
I cannot believe how late I am to campaign 3, I’m nearly finished the first episode and realized how much I’ve missed out on 💀
That would be his boots no?
You are in for a wonderful ride!
I love Dorian so much, he’s such a funny character, I just wish Robbie could stay permanently lol
Robbie was such a wonderful addition to the group. They had a lot of great guests in C3 so far
The abridged series does help for catch up and rewatch I've found
@polar thunder was it in calamity when the tree exploded and took someone’s arm off cause there rings exploded?
Yeah, Marisha’s character lost an arm when Aabria’s character blew up the big magic tree in Calamity
So i origially started with CR3 and then after ab 30 ep started over at CR1. Im now on CR2 ep 65.
my question is: do i need to watch all 144 ep to understand everything that will happen in CR3?
There are a few call backs to things that have happened in previous campaigns but Matt is quite good at reminding the players of this stuff if their character would know it
Don’t forget that this new party doesn’t have meta knowledge of things that have happened before
However, far more than C2 has, C3 has a lot more callbacks to both previous campaigns so it's got a lot more spoilers for them
C3 uses the events of c1 and c2 as foundation
Ah.. so that's why Sam had left the show for a hot minute. Damn
||Cancer|| is just beyond rough, but glad he's recovering well.
That was a rough video to watch, but I'm glad that he is okay sharing his story. Makes total sense that he took time away.
Let’s be honest, Critical role would never be the same without Sam, he’s such a integral part of the cast, he’s a true pillar to CR’s success
Just saw that vid myself and goddamn does it hit close to home im glad he's okay
I just saw the announcement. Haven't watched the video, but damn. Glad he's doing better now
I haven't even got to the episode where Sam stopped appearing, so my assumption based on knowing he was absent was just that FCG died
In hindsight it make a lot of sense why critical role did a unlimited so soon after Fresh cut grass’s death they where probably trying to help give Sam a bit more of extra time with his treatment in privacy
Now that I think about it, you might be right, and it would make enough sense
I think we’re seeing Predathos at work.
All their names are getting voided after all
Ayden is just MADness incarnate
Stream keeps stammering for me and I keep missing things
Love the robots accent
Right on the money Dyno
I might’ve underestimated what was going on here. Here we have Aeor coming down to subjugate
What the huh
Are these people playing as Gods?
There’s some chicanery afoot that I don’t yet understand
Not sure just yet. Also, we’ve got demonic engines. Wonder how many miles to the bone devil? lol
So, ASHA is a diurD lol
These are betrayers. Full evil party. I’m here for the burn
I’d be afraid of Laura… she’s always been really goody goody… her being evil is kinda terrifying
I would not think Purvon would be hanging around any enemies of the Raven Queen. Though all Gods had it out for Aeor
I have a feeling that that earth genyasi has something to do with Ashton’s backstory
I’m thinking that the gods gave themselves mortal bodies
Good lord they’re all playing prime deities born into mortal bodies
Oh this is gonna be fun
I'm trying to pin down who all is who. Only one I'm reasonably sure of is Laura is the Raven Queen
I'm assuming Arcadia is Ioun.
Milo is for sure Asmodeus
The Emissary I think is here on behalf of the Wildmother
I thought Ayden was the Dawnfather but his interaction with Milo makes me less sure
The halfling could be the spider queen?
Taliesen might be Correlon
I don’t think asmodeus is among them … he was already here … his herald was already among them
I've seen folks say that the Tortle is Torog and T'shar is Bane or Tiamat
Apparently the binary on each of the cards translates out to their domain
Now I wish I had gone and grabbed screenshots lol
Trist is the moon weaver I think
Oh found it them.
Yeah Arcadia is Ioun
I think the robot is Sehanine
ASHA: Nature
SILAHA: Beauty
Trist: Mercy
The Emissary: Law
Ayden: Dawn
Emhira: Death
Stormlord ain’t here
So I think that Asha is Melora, Silaha is Corellon, Trist is Raei, The Emissary was supposed to be Erathis, Ayden is Pelor, and Emhira is the Raven Queen
I don’t think Raei is here based on Milo’s joke. Plus, her name being Tryst, I think she’s the Moonweaver
The Emissary seems more in line with the Wildmother, but she and Erathis are quite close
Umletta for sure spider queen
The turtle is torog
Oop I’m wrong
Aydens player just confirmed it
I love that Ashley is her own first character’s god
I like that moment there where Laura asks about the pre-history of the Gods... because she wasn't there.
Ok, so I'm guessing that they're both the Gods, but not only the gods. Like Arcadia said earlier, it took a while for the brains to catch up.
I know this is backstory but man this episode is so slow. Overacting just a SMIDGE
Tshar could be the ruiner
Not mentioned
Pelor out here with these new testament vibes lol
Peter Griffin: “ah ah he said it he said it!”
ASHA(Melora?) can barely hide her detest for the Raven Queen
Can’t wait for the four sided dive where they say who’s who
There is also CR cooldown show to watch
iirc Gruumsh loses his eye during the Calamity. And this is relatively early on.
Tali would absolutely pull a Vecna
But that behind the Beacon subscription
I don’t think Vecna’s around
Vecna happens later
Cannot be Vecna, because he's not a god yet.
Vecna only becomes a god during the climax of campaign 1
Prior to, he’s a lich. A powerful one, but not a god.
Man, what a concept for a mini arc!
The gods take mortal form to conspire to the end of aeor
I think Matt made the right call handing it back off to Brennan too, after how incredibly Calamity went
For the viewers at least, not the characters
The gods of exandria incarnating in mortal forms was not what I was thinking Downfall would be lol
I love finally getting to see the gods for who they are now, and not who they portray themselves as to the mortals they want to follow them
Ayden/Pelor is the most notable one IMO.
They could retconn it. He had captured several cities during the early calamity
Because The Dawn Father ain't exactly the most chill of the primes.
That’s why I’m unsure it’s him
I think this is the Dawnfather before being battlehardened
Really different vibe from Ayden
I don’t trust any of them, but I think this is the Dawnfather before the war changed him
I’m pretty sure Dawnfather was always a hardbutt. He was in the exuc vision
I can see an arc happening wherein this is how we get to him giving Deanna a sunburn for questioning if he was worthy.
The ExU C vision could just have easily been a vision fabricated by Asmodeus to corrupt Zerxus
Idk that the battle with Tharizdun has happened yet either.
Tali is Vecna… I’m almost certain. At the beginning he said he was hungry plus it’s such a Tali thing to do
You can’t trust a vision given to you by the god of lies
Taliesin is almost certainly Melora imo
It isn’t possible. Vecna isn’t a prime or betrayer god
Can't be. Vecna doesn't happen for several eons here
ASHA is also literally a wolf.
This isn't human lady who turns into wolf, this is Wolf turning into human lady
Also, anybody else getting this vibe that during the Calamity there’s a race of wolves that can turn into humanoids? Like a counter-werewolf?
And that’s what Galdric is as well?
Galdric is just a regular wolf, who was the partner to the champion of the Matron.
I love how Brennan has brought Purvon in on both his EXU campaigns lol
Idk, I kinda got the impression that that “old guardian” who guarded Ehmira all her life was one of Asha’s people. Maybe something happened along the way that made him no longer be more than wolf, but he still vows to serve the Queen
lol Purvon is Brennan’s Essek
The character he’s just gonna keep bringing back from now on
*Allura
Well, Allura was Matt’s personal PC. A little different, but not by much I suppose.
Matt brings back Allura for himself. He brings back Essek for his players and the fans
Are you guys sure they’re all primes and not Betrayers too?
🤷 idk, since in CR1, they just said he was a regular wolf with some divine power.
Right. So not just a wolf
We’ve already mentioned who all are playing betrayers.
I think anybody who is a Betrayer is an NPC
All of Brennan’s NPC people were betrayers in that last conversation. All the domains listed out for the PCs relate to the Primes.
ASHA: Nature
SILAHA: Beauty
Trist: Mercy
The Emissary: Law
Ayden: Dawn
Emhira: Death
Speaking of, Asmodeus being a priest of the Dawnfather somehow feels so deliciously despicable
Disguising himself as a man devoted to the Prime he hates the most
I would’ve liked to have seen some of the gods that aren’t mentioned much. Like Sehanine
Nice to see Corellon and Erathis (or at least her Emissary) to make their way into the ring tho
My understanding is that they are not exactly the gods, since the gods went and incarnated in these bodies and had to live as these people here. If folks have played recent Assassin's Creeds here I'm feeling like they're how sages work in that story. Completely unique individuals who have the alternate identity of the gods running around the background in their heads.
They’re talking super openly about who their PCs are in the cooldown
I see I need to spend me $5 😅
Taliesin (regarding Asha seeing the Emissary): “I’m pissed!”
Brennan: “Listen. If I was expecting to see my wife somewhere and a giant made of ice and stone was there instead, I’d be pissed.”
Yea, ASHA is demonstrating how Melora is red in tooth and claw.
Where are you getting this list? Did you come up with it or did cr tweet something
In all their cards that got shown for their introductions, you've got bits of binary after their names. Punch em into a translator and that's what spits out.
https://x.com/Erick4401/status/1811610694808138137 I didn't think to grab em at the time, but thankfully this person did.
Also, I think the gods consecuted themselves
In Cooldown, Brennan calls them all Avatars here
Which is why their stats look so strong for seemingly “commoner” looking people
Going into how while ASHA and SILAHA are in 100% lockstep with who their divine selves are.... Tryst and Ayden kinda don't.
Raei and Pelor got really into RPing as people lol
Method acting to the divine level
Also funny how the Raven Queen has gone full circle here. Humans > God > Human
They make a note about how sad it was that the first of the… “Tengarians?”… to step up to save their home instead of running away are the ones who are called the Betrayers
The primes just froze in that moment
Ok, so in the opening, Laura was playing the original god of death.
And they bring up how hilarious it is that Ayden and Tryst are so paternal towards the mortals that they can’t even think of killing them, meanwhile Emhira spits back that she’s literally murdered one of them before.
Give Aeor half a shot and there’ll be no gods above
Am I the only 1 who thinks that SILAHA is Moradin\the all hammer?
Yeah Tengar seems to be some pre big bang planar state
That was the birth of the universe
The only person who ties in to a consistent reason that the gods would do this is Tal’s character
The act of destroying a god seems to be like breaking gravity or the strong nuclear force
You just unmake reality or critically destabilize it if you do so
But, also, they caused this? The betrayers caused the calamity and now they’re buttmad that humans are like “to heck with this?”
This is a kobiyashi maru scenario that humanity can’t win
The wiki community seems to think Milo is Asmodeus, and Asha is the wildmother
whats this?
im so confused
The translation of the binary codes on each character's card
ah ok
Basically our first clue as to which god each character is playing.
Milo is asmo 100
The creepy halfling is Lolth. The jacked up intentionally crippled tortle throwing up fishhooks is Tharzidun. The barbarian woman is Gruumsh
I think the tortle is Torog
I know he's got the whole chain motif going on and Tharizdun is the Chained Oblivion, but Torog is the god of torture and enslavement, which was more of the vibe I got off of Zaharzht
Especially considering Tharizdun is a madness that even the Betrayer Gods won't cooperate with.
My personal theory is that Tharizdun is actually Edun, the elderly sounding Light from Tengar and the first to be turned to "nothingness" by Predathos, and that the name Tharizdun is actually translated from the Lights' language saying something along the lines of "That What Was Edun".
I gotta wait till Monday unfortunately to re-listen to some bits
Not related to the PCs or gods: When Brennan first mentioned the name of Hawk's Hill, did anyone else immediately wonder if it's named after Travis's character from EXU: Calamity??
Also worth remembering Cerrit was a ranger, which I think Brennan mentioned was the most prevalent job at this time and place due to the nature of surviving in an ongoing apocalyptic event.
Cerrit was a rogue https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cwjcqn96s35r083r8ma6q/Cerrit_L14.pdf?rlkey=eqj0g0x0ugqswlthf0899l005&dl=0 (link to character sheet)
That’d be a cool way to follow up on him.
Right, idk why I thought he was a Ranger
He’s got a bit of a ranger vibe
I finally reached the fight against Ottohan and FCG's death.
Holy SHIT. That was climactic as hell. I don't think I've ever seen Matt cry like that before.
Or yknow. It's just RoC
Based on what? How do they know how much HP she had to begin with?
Ah
Yes, absolutely, that was mandatory
My perspective is they play the game for themselves first and the audience second. That it's both a game and a story and Matt as the DM does have the freedom to tweak aspects behind the scenes as he sees fit, so long as it's not manipulative/malicious/obvious/etc. If Ottohan truly did have merely 20HP left out of 600, I honestly don't feel like letting him have that kill is that offensive
That said, my one concern was I did think she would at some point try to grab the backpack back, though my guess is she knew it would take time for her to reattune to it and so it wasn't a priority
It's a SICK weapon name
Could also be a factor, but I still stand by what I said
Also, I'm now on the next episode and it's so weird seeing Matt as a player. I know he's done it before, but I've never actually seen it
Oh, really?
What does she do?
Ah
Is this a common occurance or this batch of sessions specifically?
Emily...
The girl who played Prism?
And Aimee was Deni$e, right? And now Opal?
I noticed, so many comments were talking about how she just shows up and wrecks house in her first episode as a guest. Didn't know she or Aimee DMed, though?
I dunno why. I thought it was fine
Gotcha
But yeah, I didn't know either of them were DMs
Oh, you just said you would swap Aabria for Emily or Aimee, I assumed that meant as a DM
I would be so curious how Emily would DM based on her performance as a player
I've seen a LITTLE bit. I never watched past episode 2 of Candela Obscura, but I did take a brief glimpse at most of the first episodes to see how they started. And Liam literally started by having them roll for something saying "That's right, none of you have said a word yet and I am coming for you"
And I saw a clip of him DMing a Critmas one-shot, but it was mostly focusing on Travis cutting Santa to shit
Also, I don't watch D20. It looks interesting, I heard Brennan is an amazing DM as well. And I know Matt DMed a sort of prequel campaign for him at one point
Yeah, I knew ahead of time that they were gonna swap the cast a bit because apparently it was meant to be a surprise EXU batch of episodes and I assumed Brennan would be the DM
And Aabria would once again be playing Deanna, since I saw her in the thumbnail. I also assumed Aimee would still be playing Deni$e. Do you know what happened to her? I assume she died, but how?
Oh, ok. Thought it would make sense that they reunited since that was her goal, to get back to Dariax
Oh, really? How so?
Is THAT what that's meant to be??
I know it had something to do with some candy-esc world, but that was it
I've also never seen Game of Thrones, but the idea of that style of world made of candy does sound whimsically disturbing
Like medieval Willy Wonka
Worlds beyond number?
Oh, ok
What do you think of Aabria when she's a player as opposed to a DM? Because as a player, I thought she was fine on CR
Oh. Ok
The only part I remember finding slightly annoying was when she killed one of the goats for no reason
I insert various characters into this world as I watch, wondering how they would interact with the story and players, but there's one in particular who I tend to use and I remember when that part came up, I literally imagined my character being so pissed off that he took the remaining goats back up to Uthadurn and ditched the group mid-mission
Partly because it would've been piled on top of the lingering stress from the failed mission at the Malius Key, losing half their party, and FRIDA stating an initial indifference to Ludinus' schemes due to his own indifference toward the gods
I'm still not sure I understand as much about Aeor as I should
Like all I really know about Aeor is that both FRIDA and FCG were from there, Ludinus gets a lot of tech from there, is probably there now (as of episode 92) and FRIDA was defending a Malius Key-esc device before his memories were wiped
I'm sure they've said more up to this point, I just don't remember a lot of it
Gotcha
Also, I saw a clip involving Sam's new character that has me concerned
I have no clue what the context is, but part of me isn't sure I want to know
It was Sam's character flirting with Imogen and Imogen not shutting it down, causing Taliesin to go slackjawed and Marisha to leave the table
I'm relatively new to CR, them being at episode 30 in campaign 3 when I started and this being their first campaign I saw. Still the only one I'm remotely caught up in. So I never see why other people dislike it so much. I like the characters and the world a ton.
As for the shipping, in a D&D game, I would find it a problem if it was the audience shipping the characters. But them shipping themselves and establishing relationships between themselves, I have no problem with as long as everyone at the table is ok with it
I've heard campaign 2 was their peak and I've started it, but it's such a huge undertaking to start a whole new campaign
They seem pretty engaged to me
Am I? I feel like it's possible I still won't be able to tell a difference
Like I said, I did start campaign 2. I think I'm about 10ish episodes in? It seems similar so far
Does Vox Machina the show start at episode 27 of the campaign?
More than likely with Daggerheart if it's in the public release phase
But yeah, I really like campaign 3. I love Matt's storytelling, I love how much fun the players have at the table, I love the set and budget, I love the characters and the callbacks to previous campaigns even if I don't understand them
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe they'll add more to it over time
Never liked Star Wars
But I get it
Haven't seen Matrix 4, but I did see a review of it, so I think I get it
I also haven't seen 2 or 3
You don’t need to watch c1 and 2 to enjoy 3, and 3 is great it’s just a different group dynamic that some people don’t gel with
For me it’s not because they are playing from a perspective that they don’t know what happened in the previous campaigns only 1 character has some knowledge of it and that’s orym
I can tell, as that's what I've been doing
And Laudna
What with Delilah and the tree
Laudna doesn’t know that much about what happened in the campaigns though just that she was killed
Not the point I was making
Question
Aside from your thoughts on Aabria herself, is the story in this batch of episodes worth watching? Or would it be ideal to just skip to when Matt returns and Dorian rejoins Bell's Hells?
I think right now my main problem is just that I know nothing about these new characters aside from Dorian and one of them's having a huge story moment encounter that I want to be invested in, but I just don't know what's going on while everyone else at the table does
You can skip it not a lot really happens and it’s a lot of really detailed narrated combat rp
The players can know but the characters don’t know, I’ve watched a few episodes of c1, c2 I’ve watched twice and all of the side stories and can enjoy c3 without knowing about the c1 NPCs
Gotcha
I don't know what that means
But yeah, I just skipped to episode 93, toward the end when Matt and Robbie are alone. Missed Cyrus' death
I think I would be more invested if I actually followed EXU
Like I never even saw the story Fearne, Orym, and Dorian had before they arrived at Jrusar
So Calamity, then Downfall?
Noted
Thanks
Found this amv and it's such a vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pkkxvJFkWU
(Spoilers for up to episode 100)
I'd actually say overall BH might be the least shippy when it comes to canon PC romance. C1 had all the female characters in love with Percy and ended with 3 canon romances, and c2 had everyone in love with Jester and ended with 2 canon romances (4 if you include PC/NPC), but c3 and BH doesn't really have a central 'everyone is in love with X' character (maybe kinda fearne?) and it looks like maybe only one canon PC romance? It hasn't ended yet though so maybe they'll end up or epilogue with more
not to say thats a good or bad thing, I enjoy when the vibes are different in the different parties
I personally LOVE Aabria as a player & candela GM but dislike her as a D&D DM
And I personally believe that someone new to CR should hear out a variety of perspectives... and mine is that bells hells is a really good campaign while campaign 2 was the 1 that felt like they lost interest on the format, but all of them have their charms of course
And CR is only as scripted as any entertainment company scheduling forces their media to be "scripted" in so that FCG, as admitted by Matt, would've shut down as Sam had to take his leave if they didn't die... which if you're one of those tables who doesn't approach D&D party "misscheduling" as ignoring the player character for the session(s) their player is going to be missing by finding some kind of explanation
Yea.... basically everything that people use as "proof" that CR is scripted are just... things I've had/seen happen in home games before
The main thing is "players knowing stuff about what's going to happen to their characters beforehand" which is literally just. The DM and player talking out of game and planning where they want the character to go?
So that people can get what they want out of it
Matt is a very good planner and lets his players explore the world and their backstories if needs be. This comes from playing with the same group of people for 10+ years live and who knows how many before that in their home game
Literally the most normal thing to happen in a ttrpg
And I don't know how you think I'm saying its kayfabed when I'm saying the opposite
Again, most normal thing to happen in a game
Average DM behavior
Ok?
It's still incredibly common
Especially in dnd
Can you rephrase that
We already know it's pre recorded. Has been for a long time
That's why I asked you to rephrase it
Because your statement didn't make sense
This statement did not make sense. Hence why I asked you to rephrase it so that I could understand what you were attempting to say
I think it's almost entirely irrelevant to the people who enjoy the show
I think the majority of people who would care are people who already think the show is scripted and dislike it because of that
But that's literally an entirely separate discussion
Nor one I particularly care to have with you
No, I started a different discussion based off a comment from a different person. The question you asked me is the start of a completely different one. One that I don't have any interest in having with you. I'm dipping from this discussion now
Matt has a plan and the players trust him to bring them on a great story and journey. It’s not scripted but has story beats he wants to follow
Cr 2 had a totally different direction it should have gone in and the BBEG was planned something different to what we got.
Even if it is scripted the story is still wonderful and I kind think it’s more like wrestling if anything they plan who is going to win the match but sometimes something goes sideways and changes it … matt has an idea of what he wants to happen but sometimes the roll of the die change it up a bit … it is a DM’s job for the party to have fun so that’s all he is doing is making sure his party is having fun … we just enjoy watching it
TPK is total party kill?
It’s not scripted it has planned story beats and the players for all their faults do a good ish job at keeping their players alive, yes Matt pulls his punches sometimes but he’s said many times he could of killed half the party if not for bad rolls
They do a good job keeping themselves alive barring a few C1 instances lol, and that's not a bad thing at all. I do wish things felt more risky, but in fairness, c3 hasn't been my thing since episode 40-ish, so that may just be bias on my end.
Yeah, I do recall him admitting that he pulls punches sometimes, but sometimes the dice just suck bad enough. I think it’s a pretty common practice among a lot of DMs who just don’t openly admit it tbh.
Most DMs I know will do as much as they can to help their party succeed. Sometimes the dice wanna tell their own story though.
Except you forget that it’s often not just the important rolls that can make or break an encounter
Hey, to each their own
But the players say what they rolled? Do you want a camera on the dice as well?
I think if the cast thinks we’re not privy to that information then we just have to respect it. Not our business how they run their table.
They kinda already are, at least to the other surrounding players. The people sitting next to the roller can usually see what's being rolled. There's no real way to make all rolls from all players visible to the audience without a very clunky and intrusive recording setup or being so far away that either a lot more editing is required or you still can't really see what's being rolled due to distance. If it was just for the DM, maybe that could work, but for everyone at the table, it would become a mess real quick. Unless everyone switched over to digital dice, which honestly, is just much less satisfying than physical
personally i feel no need to check their math, just happy to be along for the ride. That said stats sites like omen archive are an interesting glimpse into the averages
I agree. It's just good fun
Downfall!!!
Neat to see how Erathis decided to stay out. She cannot bend no break in what she is. Because her stability gives Exandria its lines
Aw. Melora misses her wife, and had a present for her
Corellon you little jerk! Starting up a cult in Aeor!
Slitch is my new favorite character
“20 big bottles of booze!”
“1 bottle of booze.”
“Yay! :D”
Ooooo god art
The Archeart beats
They really shouldn’t leave the spider queen to her own devices lol
Yea, Lolth's just dying to ruin this place
“Amen” lol
lvl 0 commoner 70HP
Asmodeus is so lucky that this is Aiden and not Pelor.
Funny how the two light domain gods were the ones to committ to this bit so damn hard they made whole new personas
it feels like ayden represents an aspect of pelor that was lost or suppressed after this event
This poor mage is about to be vaporized
Hooo boy oh boy
Asmodeus snaps his fingers
neck snaps
Golden scythe!
Hey, specific confirmation of the ruiner
rebellious angel here, asmo come pick him up
So … odds that Aeor is destroyed because the gods collectively do it… or it’s destroyed because they all get in a fight and it was collateral damage?
It's always been blamed on the gods, Aeor's fall. That here is where the gods united to strike down the city
Ok that's cool. Enemy spellcraft, these 10,000 page essays honed over centuries.
"No"
Ueletta is just in a speakeasy like “hey team? Hello??”
Is critical role that campaign that got an animated show?
Kirby
I can’t get over how umletta was just full stop left behind 😂
snuck off long ago TBF
“Things are popping off without me???”
she is a lolth avatar, right?
Ye
Holy
Umletta: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN I MISSED THE WHOLE THING?!”
Don't trust
If she’s not either doing some shenanigans or is super salty about being left out then my immersion is broken because that is hella sibling energy of “why wasn’t I allowed to play too”
My theory is that since ayden's mortal avatar is young and they all implicated that the gods possessed these humans in a process similar to consecution where a mortal starts off their childhood as a different individual and into teenage and by adolescence they remember and essentially become their past or in this case divine selves
And so I think Ayden bounces between believing that he's somehow the direct son of pelor and... well... pelor
They talked about it on the first cooldown, this is somewhat the case. In some of the Avatars, it’s the case where the Avatar is part of the god, such as Asha and Silaha. For Trist and Ayden, it’s more like Raei and Pelor are parts of them.
oh yeah makes sense, he is both an individual and a conduit. must be a weird existence
I should watch the cooldowns, i keep forgetting cause its so late for me when the stream ends ^_^;
I don't know if it is a spoiler but I can't stand watching full length episodes of critical role. My mind tunes it out no matter how loud it is. HOWEVER. I love Yasha/ Beau's relationship and I will watch compilations of them.
One of my group members didn't like that they were queer, so I'm thinking my next character could be queer.
My last character, before he joined, was Ace.
I’ve also done the same, he’s not the DM so I decided to make my character bi, mainly basing it off the Yasha/ Beau relationship lol
🤣 lol
Hey guys, ik this is probably old news to most people but I'm trying to watch campaign 2 but a huge amount of it is just gone from YouTube. Are there ways to still access it or can you just not watch campaign 2 anymore?
its up on geek and sundry's channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tiwbzkOjQxD0jjAE7PsWoaCrs0EkBH2
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tiwbzkOjQxD0jjAE7PsWoaCrs0EkBH2&si=Nc0Rx69gV8nHDTR0 it’s on their YouTube channel
I found out the problem was the content settings on my YouTube account
I JUST found out the context behind the Sun Tree hanging
And by extension, the context behind Laudna's backstory
Kinda surprised that Laudna doesn’t have a weirder relationship with Vex
How much weirder can it get? Resurrecting a Demi-Lich’s (who has personally tried to kill you and your whole family) phylactery essentially against your husband’s wishes out of guilt and remorse, even though she’ll most certainly come back to kill you, your husband, and lay waste to your city…. Again?
Exactly how could that relationship get “weirder”?
Oh sweet, apparently Travis Willingham teased an animated Calamity miniseries
Laudna could've ended up holding a grudge against her, both for how she was killed to threaten Vox Machina, as well as how by taking down the Briarwoods, Laudna didn't get the magical training she was hoping for from Delilah.
Plus there's the matter of how much the De Rolo's might genuinely want her quite dead, since she's propping up Delilah in her head.
this makes a lot of sense. Calamity just begs to be turned into an animated series
Especially with it being short enough to just do a single season miniseries
yeah exactly. and the story is pretty straight forward and easy to adapt too
I had a suspicion they eventually would. Calamity seems pretty well-beloved in the fanbase
I've yet to see someone say something negative about it.
Only "negative" thing I've seen is people saying it was railroaded/pre written. But it was also coming from people who think that CR in general is pre written so... yea.
Also likely coming from people who don’t understand that mini-arcs do kinda call for a bit of railroading, mixed with a whole lot of player buy-in.
Like if you only have 4 sessions, you kinda wanna minimize wandering off on side quests and try to keep focus on the mission
i mean its prequel, brennan had multiple ways in which the Calamity could be triggered set up and the players really couldnt stop it. it was always about the journey, not the destination and everyone understood that. I guess thats could be seen as railroading but I dont see it that way personally
Me neither. Or rather, it’s a little railroading, but I don’t think that’s an inherently bad thing.
https://youtu.be/SxqzFYKqidI?si=dXnGPnyF6J2LTv9_ brennans take on railroading
It’s a good explanation of what he does
Railroading is really only bad when paired with the removal or refusal to acknowledge player agency
More like dangling the carrot
There's a subtle line between railroading and a storyline that is compelling/ urgent enough that it demands attention. "Railroading" IMO is mostly only an issue when, as @worn violet said, player urgency is forcibly removed.
where should i start out in campaign 1 if i’ve watched the legend of vox machina?
ufff like episode 56 or so
24 is the briarwood arc
and 55 is then end of season 2
Samuel
Here we gooooooo
I’m hearing that tonight’s game is SIX HOURS so I’m definitely not catching all of it lol
Tonight's stream is six and a half freaking hours... my god...
I'm definitely watching the restream tomorrow
LOL
oh wow
That’s definitely what the emissary is for
So I did some calculations... If the city dropped 80 feet on one side in a split second, fast enough to make everyone fall to their deaths, that means the other side lifted up at the same rate. That's somewhere between 25 and 50g's of force on everyone and everything on that side that lifted up 80 feet instantly.
Every time I see the players freak out I giggle and want to be like, Mufasa voice, “remember who you are”
Also oh my goodness gracious Cognouza!
Surely this would bare minimum catapult them all into the storm, or perhaps even smear them across the ward from the sheer Gs of being so abruptly lifted
It begins
The vibe in the room is the scene in iron giant where the fed goes,
LAUNCH THE MISSILE NOW
lol the double damage
20th level characters are tough lol
Ohhhh brass dragon
So there’s a third dragon somewhere
Yup
Called it
What the heck happens if the party wipes
Aeor does crash
The weapon doesn’t fire
paladin aura, as always, doing work here
also ayden making a true tank damage absorption build work
I am proud of this lawyer
It does specify that creatures don't double up on damage hahaha
Oh yea, this is meteor swarm. 40d6 damage
OH YOU BEAUTIFUL GOD
there are still 2 hours left
Truly, the Archheart beats
That is truly divine
And um, Aiden became immortal.
THE EMISSARY HAS NOW BECOME A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
OH MY G O D
And yea, 4/7 divine wards are now gone.. Mortality is quickly becoming a suggestion
I’m fully stealing these divinity rules for my campaign
Wait… they can do 9th level spells every turn
They can just do meteor swarm again
Casual 60 persuasion
You could persuade a father to eat his son with numbers like that good lord
Doesn't the 9th level have to be within a domain they grant?
And 5/7 now
The Emissary is the single most protected being in existence right now lol
NAH, Just give the dragon its breath weapon back
emissary feels like their failsafe, just not divine enough to avoid godkiller tricks and traps
They're the only one not getting all this
Please... please archmages of Aeor... I wish you'd make 38 DC
now thats a dawnfather line
6/7
And they are now gods once more
7/7 wards gone. Divinity has arrived in Aeor once more
Asmodeus you scamp
This truce only existed till Aeor was no longer a problem after all...
God fight!
classic sudden but inevitable betrayal
I just clicked on the broadcast thinking it was the rebroadcast
Ate a bunch of spoilers
Went to the still-being-uploaded VOD
6.5 hours yea
Oh yea... if they want to erase the weapon from existence.. there is only one way to ensure it is destroyed.
🥹 The Emissary just wants to go back home now.
Yea, she messed up bad. By giving that knowledge to everyone in Aeor, she guaranteed all their deaths.
Given that the Bells Hells are witnessing all this. I can't wait to see how exactly this affects their views of the gods
And this was the straw that broke them. Aeor would be the last time, and so the Divine Gate would be crafted.
I really didn’t think I’d be able to stick around for the whole thing but it was just too gripping
What a mini arc
Hello.
You a Critical Role stream fan?
What's our theories on the classes the betrayer's mortals were? I think Zaharzst is order of the profane soul blood hunter, Umleta is a gloomstalker ranger, Gruummsh is path of the zealot barbarian and Asmodeus is trickery domain cleric
Tiamat way of the ascendant dragon monk?
Im thinking maybe one of them is a warlock
According to the CR wiki, Umleta is a Rogue, Gruumsh a Barbarian, Asmodeus a Cleric, and Zaharzst is... nobody's too sure. No subclasses confirmed.
They took their divine forms before they could really utilize their mortal forms' subclass features.
Ouch, and he got a crit on it
Luckily there's enough healing in the party that they should be able to out-action economy her
It’d be kinda hilarious if ludanis was like “join me” but then immediately after Delila kills them all
Yeah, rough encounter to have after all the previous encounters. I thought it was just gonna be a character moment but its a full on boss battle
.... I kinda want that armor for my monk
Did they die I tapped out like an hour ago
Nah
how should i first get in to CR
This came up just the other day in the #dnd-media channel: #dnd-media message
Bell's Hells lvl 14 roundup.
- Ashton Barb 14: New Path feature
- Orym Fighter 14: ASI
- Imogen Sorc 14: Revelation in Flesh (We bout to see some body horror from her)
- Fearne rogue 4: ASI
- Dorian Bard 14: Magical Secrets and Master's Flourish (Unlimited flourish options but only with a D6)
- Laudna waiting till after current ritual. Either Sorc 11 (6th level spellslot) or Warlock 4 (New cantrip/spell)
- Chetney Blood Hunter 13: Brand of Tether (You leave when I say you can) and more Blood maledict uses
And Delilah is in a jar now
Oh gods.....
NOTT!
JESTER!
YOU JERKS HAAHAHA
Please let Jester appear this episode
Yep, Revelation in Flesh be so fun
GROG
I think that Scanlan's now the only one who hasn't shown up yet
only in a poster at that random theater in jrusar
Is the first echo knight in the 3rd critical role campaign?
I believe the mighty nein have fought an echo knight in sewers of Zadash in episode 9? but if you're talking about a major character being an echo knight then technincally no otohan is a psi warrior
They fought one after following the worm tunnel to Xorhas no?
is CR going live tn?
Yes, I believe so—there was one or two there
I believe otohan was a weird mix of psi and echo she had echos when they fought her the first time
She basically had a backpack that gave her all the Echo knight abilities ontop of her own
I wonder if the memory of the infinite hungry emptiness of Praedathos is enough of a fragment to satisfy Orym’s pact with Nanna Mori
Wait, was that Chetney’s pact or Orym’s
Chet's. Orym is bound for service to Nanna. Which he agreed to because he doesn't feel like he's surviving this
Oh gods.... they're still on the whole "Oh, maybe we should just let Ludinus unleash the God eater."
Yea, learning about how pre-gods, everything just cycles around.. idk how to feel about just instantly getting deleted and repurposed into several rocks or so.
With the Gods, there is that continuance.
Hahaha, yea Ashton is absolutely gonna get yoinked by Xhorhas in the future lol
Blast from the past but i just finished the Pit Fiend fight in Campaign 1 Episode 76 in the Plane of Fire. I didn't count the HP on the Pit Fiend but did Matt make it easier on them given how the fight was going ? Or was i just thrown off because He didn't give us any of the usual "X is starting to look rough" for the Pit Fiend ? It was just dead all of a sudden.
He definitely did not take it easy on them.
Yeah it was not easy going as it progressed but the very end felt like it came out of the blue so i wondered whether Matt reduced the remaining HP behind the scenes to spare them.
What titles!
Hi there! I’d like to start listening to Critical Role, starting with season 1, on Spotify if possible. I found a Reddit post that said that this playlist was season 1, but it seems like they are starting in the middle of the action and like there was a campaign I missed. Can someone point me in the right direction or let me know if this is the earliest available season? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7596zsSRRxGzl2mcdeF99d?si=MD5sWWYFTbyHgBNBs5tIAA&pi=u-nxo3CK71QC2d
Campaign 1 doesn't start when the party first meets
Before it was a stream it was a home game, so they had done stuff before that they reference
if you need a quick summary of the pre-game stuff i can do so for you
just ping me
actually, this one paragraph summary from the wiki probably gives you all you need:
The team met in the swamp town of Stilben as a ragtag group of mercenaries in search of work. After doing a few odd jobs they traveled to the city of Emon, where they managed to halt a demonic insurrection within the throne, and gained a reputation as heroes and had a keep built in their honor.
Thank you both so much! I was wondering if that was the case, especially since the audio quality is not the best 😂 Seems like just a group a friends recording for fun so far
production values eventually go up but it's rought at first for sure
yeah you will notice huge improvements on quality in the first 30 or so episodes
Missed the fact the also halted an adult blue dragon posing as the general of the city from causing further trouble... that might be important later 😉
I put every curse on wennan wee wulligan for making me feel so bad during the last episode of EXU:Calamity
Watching the apocalypse take place really was a sight
I want to watch critical role but it's too long, any condensed versions?
The current campaign (#3) is doing abridged versions from the beginning, so they’re not caught up with the latest events. The animated Legend of Vox Machina series encapsulates and streamlines the first campaign, so that might be worth looking into. But that hasn’t completed either—season 3 is due in October.
alright I'll check them out
As above Legend of Vox Machina is great and shows a bit of pre stream and it’s a good introduction into Exandria. But if you want on stream stuff then I can recommend Exandria Unlimited, EXU:Calamity and EXU:Kymal is really good!
But if you want the OG cast then Search for Grog or Search for Bob are kind of stand alone one shots.
there was a 'crit recap' series you could use to get the gist of most of C2 as well (though there is a gap from ep 19-50 form when the switch form G&S), and they made an even more abridged cutesy animated version of it too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tiwbzkOjQy8yF8esjgVomDXKD-XmG20
I wish they had continued the animated recaps in C3 but I think they only did one before probably deciding to switch to the abridged episodes format 😔
Nana Morri is always so unnerving
They totally have no plan whatsoever smh
Winging it always works out well lol
Best of luck to the Hells here lol
Oh no they think they’re fighting them
The goal isn’t to kill them here, just make them hate each other! (Without blowing momogen’s cover)
Well they just failed their whole mission because they wanted to make it a fight
I said it last time, if they enter initiative they’ve failed
If the message gets out, then that’s that
The point wasn’t to kill the simulacrum or sorrow lord today
It was to sour the relationship between vanguard and Unseelie
Which they almost managed 🤦♂️
Oh
Well that’s helpful
Mixed success
Unseelie help kill luddy, then kill the Unseelie after
…and they threw away their advantage
🤦♂️
Just bloody go with it until the time comes to double cross after luddy is dead you imbeciles
Yea, they just cannot leave well enough alone
I’ve actively tried to get invested into this campaign like, three or four times and they keep irritating me
Critical Role peaked with C2, I’ll just say it
They’ve got the backbone of an eclair with any decision they make lol
These people would argue the morality of Vecna’s ascension back in c1
There are times when I wish I was a guest player in C3, so that I could after they pull Zathuda out of danger to slit his throat and the emissary’s throat then when the rest of them are like “omg why’d you do that” to just confront them with in character aggression and be like “No more half measures! I choose the Gods, because the only other choice is Praedathos!”
Then they’d make noncommittal noises about the eidolons and whatever and my character would be like “It doesn’t matter! There is no middle ground here that you can stand on! The Gods being imperfect doesn’t mean that they deserve to be killed, and any action that isn’t directed towards preventing that is abetting it.”
“If you do not support saving the Gods with your whole chest, you are my enemy.”
Don’t even have a Jester here to force them onto a path there
Yea, I'm not sure I trust Archheart here, because even presuming that Predathos could be tamed, that wouldn't make the gods run. Because it's been tamed.
Why would the Gods have to leave if they're entirely safe. If their predator now lives on leash.
Not to mention, how could they leave? Their ship was destroyed.
Without any spoilers, I’m not even reading a single message before me, is Critical Role worth it to get into at this point? Ive listened to Dimension20 and am honestly in love with Brennan Lee Mulligan, but I never jumped on the Critical Role train. Is it too late?
Ping me if you don’t mind!
It's absolutely worth watching! The party dynamics and unique characters are amazing, not to mention the awesome world and plots that Matt develops!
I’ve heard it’s usually a bit less goofy than Dimension20. Is that true?
you don't have to start with campaign 1 or 2 even! just pick one and start watching it! There's callbacks sometimes, but you don't need to watch the previous series to enjoy the later ones.
They’re on 3 now, right?
very much so yes. Their games have major stakes and while there are a LOT of running jokes, bits, and funny character moments, their games typically have a more "intense roleplay with some bits" vibe
correct! Honestly while I love campaign 2 a TON, campaign 3 has so much polish and freshness too it that they're both great places to start!
Well I plan to listen to all 3 if I start, so I might as well start with campaign 1.
if you start with campaign 1, you may not enjoy it as much because the quality that most people expect from CP is much, much lower than the later ones
so a fair warning there
Eh, I listen to Stumpt, their production quality isn’t much better than a group of friends on a couch with mics, it won’t bother me.
If you really just want to know the story of the 1st campaign, I recommend watching "The Legend of Vox Machina" animated series on amazon as it goes over their most important arcs
in that case sure go for it!
just never read the comments section
Alright, well, I think you’ve convinced me!
usually a lot of spoilers down there
no problem! Good luck and have fun!
Thanks a bunch. 🙏
np!
The lack of chatter about the show tonight tells me that I’m probably not missing anything important by skipping this week lol
Send help... they're puppydogging Predathos
Pet fey dragon time, woohoo!
Oops
I am absolutely a Campaign 1 stan.
People rag on it in hindsight, but in its moment, it was revolutionary. I got shown Ep. 69 after it went on YouTube in November (yes, that's why I remember it) and wanted to know what happened to get them to that point so bad, I binge listened during my overnight job and was caught up before Christmas.
As long as you're aware that obviously problematic player does find their way off the show, they become merely a tolerable wart of the first 26 episodes. It's sad because, when he's together, he's an asset. The unglued points makes everyone a little off, but the vibes come back.
And you can fast forward past the points that are obvious old-school Twitch stream vibes.
Enjoy your watch (I hope)!
The entirety of Vox Machina is OFFICIALLY FREE to watch on YouTube, up to the end of Season 2.
Official on the Amazon Prime YouTube channel.
EVERYTHING. FREE. OFFICIAL.
You now have no excuse* not to watch the animated series.
-# *Other than time, of course.
I originally posted a link to the playlist, but I realized that the series is TV-MA and most definitely not kosher for all ages.
I'd rather be safe than sorry for the Discord.
Up until October 3rd it's important to not so only for a limited time!
Thank you for letting me know. Will spread the word.
Time to binge!
Because I haven't seen it yet xD
BINGE BINGE BINGE!!!
So like, is critical role ran by WoTC or something? I’ve never watched it but it seems like it’s an “official” dnd campaign ran by the dnd people themselves or something
nah
its just bunch of voice actors streaming their dnd campaigns
their success lead to some colaborations, like DDB sponsorships and I think a D&D designer had a guest spot once or twice. And of course they got one of their books published by wotc, but their game and company remain independant
Speaking of their company. Season 3 of LoVM airs Thursday
cant wait
Don't forget! Till tomorrow you can watch the first 2 seasons of Vox Machina for free on Youtube
I might binge them again today just because
But they’re very big, yes?
yeah
huh didn't think they run the season 3 premiere on youtube
https://youtu.be/gf3pf3-rYuM?si=M7GZ39ZTx9nZnhDx link for the episode
Lovm s3 ep2 spoiler ||xerxes namedrop!||
The season 3 premier episode is awesome.
||the homage character to Tiberius was... interesting. Can't convince me Dohla wasn't meant to be that in at least some capacity||
LoVM S3E2 ||Holy J’mon sa Ord!!||
really? not the vibe I got from her.
||if her backstory wasn't literally a plot point pulled directly from Tiberius I would agree||
||that was a whole thing with him. That he was kind of obsessed with Allura. So much so that Orion commissioned fanart of the two of them... together||
||but wasnt this version obsessed with Kima?||
||no. That's why Kima was afraid of seeing her again. Dohla had a massive crush on Allura, so Kima figured she would be mad now that she (Kima) and Allura were together||
i need to rewatch that, because I remember it the other way around
there was a short lil convo about it
yeah I know, just heard it the other way around apparently
You might be right, would have to go back and check
I might have thought I heard what I was saying because of the vibe I was getting before she even showed up
||okay i just rewatched it and Kima askes Dohla about the time she had a crush on her.||
the campfire scene
As in the ||pseudo stand in for Tiberius||
Ah ok so I mightve just misremembered due to where I felt like the character came from
Idk, the vibes just felt like that's where she came from to me
Even if it's not meant to be a direct 1:1
its possible but I dont think they would be petty like that on purpose
I don't think it would've been them being petty tbh
More like an homage in an attempt to not write off the existence entirely? Kinda like how they played it in the actual campaign
but in the campaign, he died a hero, no?
making ||the only draconian we interact with a tiberius stand in, and then have them betray the party because of spurned love|| would qualify as petty to me
Yea, idk if they all still keep in touch. Would definitely be very crass, especially with how that story got handled in the actual campaign.
Just caught up. Would Orion mind?
How should I know?
Ok then, so it looks like the Divine Gate cannot be undone by anything less than the full cooperation of all the gods who created it.
OH
So, Raven Queen fell in love with the former god of death, and together they crafted the rite of ascension so that the god of death could finally end.
Huh?
RQ lore was pretty cool last ep
she was the most clear and real with BH than any of the gods, which makes sense given she was once a mortal herself
im on s2e23 rn, but im wondering about something from episodes 1-4, why did Kylre kidnap Toya? i never understood what her singing had to do with it
Hello!
The creature is a fiend it probably wanted to toy with its food before consuming it😅
hey guys do we know anything about the next episodes of s3?
like do they have a release schedule or smth?
It's a weekly drop. So next back of three should be on thursday
its batches of three? hell yeah. was thinking it was one a week
Yeah, I was under the impression that it was a 3 episode season premiere, then weekly from that point on. That’s how Amazon does pretty much all their other shows’ seasons.
s2 was 3 episodes a week iirc
I know s1 was to fulfil the kickstarter promise of it being free to watch, so folks could get the free month trial and still watch the whole season
omg the references on episode 4 of season 3
Good batch of episodes
indeed 🍷
The calamity series references had my jaw on the floor
Also, Scanlan leaving to go see Kayle wasn’t Bards Lament was it?
Cuz it wasn’t nearly sad enough
I just saw episodes 4 and 5 before this. This season has been amazing already
I'm loving the tie ins and references to the other series's
FINALLY.
Bells Hells and the Mighty Nein meet. And the players have control over them all
how did i forget to watch the new 3 episodes?! gonna do that now
They were really good
soo does anyone think they gonna adapt ||Arkhan the cruel and his role in the finale|| of the campaign for the show?
my guess they might wanna steer clear of tiamat
and multiverse connections in general
i mean this is all season 5 stuff so who knows
this is going to be so chaotic, im so here for it
I'm 50/50 on the thought
I wouldn't be surprised if he was written out (one off guest characters have all been thus far). ||And the role of "assisted them at the end" is really already fulfilled by characters who have been established. ||
It doesn't really affect the story much either to do so
Well there is the hand thing...that affects something
Oh gods… we were not prepared for this batch of Vox Machina episodes.
mmmmmmmmmmm
and I had to wait 8h yet to watch them
he is so cool though, and played by an actor friend of theirs. plus he did make like 1-2 appearances before helping them out in the end
though I can see cutting him if they dont figure out a good way to adapt him
sensational its the only word I can express r8 now
Also ty Troy Baker for being the best voice actor for an serious old elf with many MANY family issues twice
I’m on ep.8 right now, surely ||percy doesn’t stay dead right? I thought that in the main game they did a revival pretty immediately||
i doubt it, maybe vox machina find out that ||orthox has his soul or something and that leads to rescue and an opportunity of revival||
but thats speculation
|| from what i heard before season 3 started they promised things would be starting to go off the rails of canon this season like the game scalan being in a coma instead of dying ||
I'm watching C2E2 and I'm kinda lost I don't understand what's happening lol can anyone tell me where they are rn at 1:55:00
what
(tlovm 7-9 spoilers) ||I got the feeling Percy's revival might hinge on Pike figuring out her god stuff? Like receiving a revelation or miracle that would allow her to bring him back cause nobody seems to think that's possible right now. Also with her blood having healing properties, I had the thought she might be a blood descendant of the Everlight herself a la downfall||
Honestly that last bit was always sort of hinted at even in the actual stuff surrounding the campaign
Just finished Ep 7 but ||tbh the blood she smeared on the rest of the party's foreheads reminded me of the glow from when she stamped her blood on Zerxus's contract. Considering they had to fill so much of Pike's story with original stuff due to Ashley's absence from the stream, it makes me wonder if they're toying with the idea of Pike considering a pact with Zerxus before restoring her faith in the Everlight.||
Part of me feels like ||he might not, just because it seems like they're trying really hard to show how high the stakes are this season and makes the heroism a lot more of a challenge. Might be a challenge if all the characters that die keep coming back.||
Also ep 8 ||Thordak already sounds kinda different in this episode. Makes me wonder if this is around the time someone else had to take over for Lance Reddick...||
Oh god... Two groups into one... What a mess, and it's only like 5 minutes in...
Just finished 7-9. ||Even though I know the general story.... pain... pure pain right now... And that ending song.... my god... ||
matt is enjoying not having to do anything so much, everyone talk amongst yourselves 2x 😆
(watching beacon so only like an hour in)
i know right? they do grief and heartache so well in the show 😭
||Wish for Percy and Scanlan’s return. None of them are supposed to die after killing Thordak. Unless the animation storyline is different from the original version. ||
It was confirmed that || Lance had finished recording his role before his untimely passing || by sam himself
Gotcha
Like, I know the story exactly, and even knowing that, I was not prepared for the absolute devestation this batch of episodes brought....
Also, in case people didn't realize, BH is now level 15:
Fearne: +1 Rogue Level: +3 HP, +uncanny Dodge
Braius: +1 Paladin Level: +2 HP, Unknown ASI/Feat Choice
Imogen: +1 Sorcerer Level: +3 HP, Level 8 Spells and spell slot
Dorien: +1 Bard Level: +7 HP, D12 Bardic Inspiration, 8th level spell slot and spells
Orim: +1 Fighter Level: +2 HP, Relentless Feature
Laudna: +1 Sorcerer Level: +2 HP, Unknown ASI/Feat Choice
Ashton: +1 ~~Wizard ~~Barbarian Level: +8 HP, Persistent Rage Feature
Chetney: +1 Blood Hunter Level: +6 HP, Brand of the Voracious feature.
Absolutely devestated. I knew it was coming just by the episode title, and from the story of the first campaign, but at the same time... No way was I ready for that. My roommate saw it for the first time and was having to hold back tears. 😦
Unless you were talking about last night's BH episode, in which case, best filler episode ever. LOL
It was 7
Haven't seen 8 and 9 yet. Tbh I don't remember the campaign that well. My memory sucks
The cast is playing as both their Campaign 2 and 3 characters? That's going to be a pain to keep track of.
not in combat it looks like, but they did surprisingly well in just RP
the fan was a pretty smart idea from Marisha
The last three episodes of Vox Machina / Critical Role is absolutely insane😯
Earthbreaker Groon is officially my favorite character now.
He is and always will be a badass.
||scanlan is confirmed alive iirc, percy is darn near confirmed dead, truly sad boy hours for percival de rolo fans everywhere||
but but but.... no gwen 😭
Yeah, what a plot twist. And I kinda like him too
FWIW ||Percy was also killed by Ripley in the stream, even if he was revived sooner. There are enough changes to the stream’s lore that I think him being revived near the tail end of the season isn’t a huge stretch of the imagination||.
I notice that a lot of the ||deaths are revolving around the idea that the party cleric is currently in a position where she can’t revive people. Now that she’s learning to have faith in herself and not the Everlight, I wouldn’t doubt it if she’s now able to bring Percy back.||
Yeah but the only problem is ||Only Sam had a backup character with Darrington while Talie didn't have one, well he had but it was the paladin that came before Percy so I doubt||
Yeah because ||Scanlan leaving was planned. Percy’s death wasn’t.||
The Legends of Vox Machina was renewed for Season 4! YIPPEEEEEEE
well they made some interesting choices at the end, wonder if Season 4 will be a **major **departure overall from C1
like, it seems like ||bards lament and the time skip are going to be combined? are they gonna skip over tary||? do they even have enough story for 2 seasons without him? or are they gonna aim for only a single season and if they get picked up for S5, they gonna do something like the search for grog, wedding etc?
also apparently they arent giving ||Percy Cabal's Ruin||?
||Might be part of a time skip power up||
could be, true
||really fun depiction for scrying||
Screaming at the void rn
not literally post credit, right?
Not literally, yes.
A tease for season 4.
One year later.
well i mean, they don’t have the fourth season done yet
That's not why I said "one year later". :3
There was a time skip in-universe.
must've missed that screen, didn't see it
||unfortunately, probably something to do with it being kind of similar to vax’s vestige, they might bring it back later though||
anyways have i said how good this show is
aww i love that they did a rewind for the VM portion so we got more time with them
I totally love the way they did with Percy storyline.
Just got done with s3 for tlovm. Wow. Just.. wow. This season was amazing, the highs, the lows, all of it. See y'all in 2027 for s4!!!
(or whenever it comes out, haha)
Also, I only saw some artwork from last night, but one question remains... ||Why is scanlan a freaking horse?!?!?!||
|| video i saw just now says mid life crisis ||