Thread 96371013

FULL CAST
>Laura Bailey
>Luis Carazo
>Robbie Daymond
>Aabria Iyengar
>Taliesin Jaffe
>Ashley Johnson
>Matthew Mercer
>Whitney Moore
>Liam O’Brien
>Marisha Ray
>Sam Riegel
>Alexander Ward
>Travis Willingham

LIAM NO LONGER AT SAME TABLE AS LAURA

game: 5E 2024!
setting: some new shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY1JaWT-CKo

>>96371215
>"we like to play many different games around here"
this would be relevant if they hadn't made a dnd-esque game clearly meant to enhance their own type of dnd-style gaming. the cope is real. on a positive note this might crash daggerheart and give the far more interesting game draw steel more of a chance to succeed.

i was hoping they would drop Liam or melty but alas...
Aabria is a meh addition at best and i do not know who Whitney Moore is. Alex seemed cool enough in exu so overall improvement?

the picked dnd because of numbers simple as
way easier to get viewers engaged with the game rules everyone knows

west marches thing is very interesting though, they are planning for that pog moment when the parties meet each other

do we have any info on the other tables?

>>96371013 (OP)
When did Marisha get so chubby?

>>96371331
S tier
>robbie
A tier
>laura
>travis
>alex
>matt
>sam
B tier
>marisha
>taliesin
>liam
C tier
>ashley
>luis
>whitney
F tier
>aabria

>>96371013 (OP)
>schemers table
>I sneak up behind him to slit his throat
>amazing, roll a stealth check and an attack roll
>amazing, you succeed at both, and a crit at that, roll damage
>13 slashing damage
>you damage him, but you're not quite able to take down the completely oblivious unprepared enemy that you critted on
this is your shitty rai in the game as it's actually played because there are no clear rules on it, nothing else, looking at you 5egeneral

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Rolled 78 (1d100)

odds that this captures the magic and feeling of c1

>>96371285
Better to let Daggerheart fade into obscurity I suppose

>>96371373
he stabbed a 16th level+nidas through the back with a measly 15-ish damage, it's how brennan rules stuff like that

>>96371476
They already let Candela Obscura fade into Obscurady, Daggerheart is just another heartbreaker (Daggerfart.)

>>96371246
you mean 2024 dnd - right? Draw Steel is dead in the water

how the fuck is this not in daggerheart? they literally just killed their flagship game system

I think it's rather hilarious that they literally made Theater Kids: The Game and yet they're not playing it for their flagship Theater Kids Campaign Show. Really speaks volumes about their faith in it.
That, or Hasbro paid them a boatload under the table to not drop D&D. Doesn't seem terribly likely, though

The inclusion of Aabria means at least a portion of the episodes will be utterly unwatchable. She's by far the most disingenuous "industry" push that this scene has had to suffer. If she wasn't a black woman, no one would give her the time of day

>>96371976
thinking about all the fans who bought and shilled for the game only to be left behind mere months after launch and relegated to sideshows on their main channel lmao

>>96371643
because daggerheart is merch, same as a t-shirt, designed to extract money from idiots. Its not something to be played, even as far removed CR is from "playing".

>>96371331
Beyond the main CR cast I only know Robbie (remember that I hated him in S3) and Alex (he was pretty based in LA by Night). The rest are all literally whos

>>96372211
Beard guy between Brennan and Matt is Luis. He's been on some of their various smaller campaigns. He's alright. There are certainly worse people they've could've chosen.
Aabria is the black chick in back. She's been pushed real hard by both CR and Dimension 20. She's awful.
Whitney Moore is the white chick on the bottom right but I've never heard of her before today. No idea

>>96372127
Dnd is designed to extract money from idiots. Specifically the GM. At least niggerheart doesn't make you buy 3 books.

>>96372220
>poor guy worried about spending money on books (they're free online btw)

>>96371013 (OP)
I thought the whole point of making their own systems was so they wouldn't have to keep playing 5e for another 10 years.

>>96372253
When plantning season 4 they didn't know if Daggerheart would flop. Its coming for season 5

>>96372345
but they are in perfect control of if daggerheart will flop, they can decide to make their flagship campaign use it and be a gigantic showcase of the system
instead they literally gave up on it
like imagine wtf the guys who wrote the system are thinking?? thanks for the belief in us boss!
whether the system succeeds or dies was entirely decided by this, and they decided to kill it

>>96372247
Me pirating doesn't change the fact dnd is designed for dm to keep buying books, comparing the the 2 dnd is by the far money extracting idiot machine.

>>96372211
Luis was pretty cool in their Calamity miniseries

So do we have table arrangements yet?

>>96372369
I imagine they only really knew about the success once they were a couple of episodes into Age of Umbra and by that point planning for S4 was already well underway.

>Lee Mulligan has split the cast into three groups: the Swords, the Seekers, and the Schemers. Each will apparently embody a different playstyle.
>Swords - traditional combat-focused adventures
>Seekers - more lore focused
>Schemers - social intrigue focused encounters.
What will the tables look like?

>>96372467
from the video it seemed like
>Table 1: Matt, Marisha, Liam, Aabria, and Taliesin
>Table 2: Sam, Robbie, Whitney, Laura, and Travis
>Table 3: Ashley, Alex, Laura, Liam, and Robbie
Don't know which table Laura will feature at, seemed like she was at both, but Brennan said that the first few episodes will feature players rotating between tables before settling for now into one of the three.

Character speculations? Liam is likely playing a cleric, but beyond that?

>>96372612
Would he, though? He already played a cleric in VM post-Vax. I think Liam might go druid.
I think Taliesin might do something sneaky like rogue. He's more or less touched every basic archetype except that.
Travis will probably be a full spellcaster like a wizard or cleric.
Laura will probably do a martial melee class since she hasn't done that yet
I could see Marisha doing a heavy plate melee character. Don't worry, she'll still be gay
Ashley is retarded when it comes to game mechanics so she'll take 20 minutes to do one turn and still be as ineffectual as ever, regardless of what she plays
Sam is too much of a wild card to predict
The door is wide open for Matt to be anything since he doesn't have any potential overlap with past things

>>96372645
I think Liam said before he wants to play the 4 classic D&D classes, and the only one he hasn't played as a main campaign character is a Cleric. Also he seems to be going through the classic races which just leaves Dwarf and Elf.

>>96371013 (OP)
>game: 5E 2024!

>>96372345
>When plantning season 4 they didn't know if Daggerheart would flop.
>>96372541
>I imagine they only really knew about the success once they were a couple of episodes into Age of Umbra and by that point planning for S4 was already well underway.
What the fuck is there to plan? It's tabletop. So it's just totally scripted, huh?

Alex Ward was phenomenally entertaining in both of the By Night series, and we already know Brennan is a competent GM, so I'll give it an episode or two of a chance.

Having Iyengar on the cast is a big price to pay for that, though.

>>96372612
>>96372645
Alex going to be a rogue og warlock

>>96371331
laura bailey looks the same as she did a decade ago meanwhile marisha is unrecognizable

>>96372862
What a coincidence, they're playing the same shit they've been for a decade too. What happened to Daggerheart? LOL!

>>96372890
>what happened ro Daggerheart
Its shit

>>96371013 (OP)
That's like a dozen players.
There's no fucking way they run a 5e game with 12 players. I just don't believe you.

daggerheart dead already?

>>96373141
it's going to be a "West Marches" style of game [except it really won't] with separate tables on rotation

>>96373146
dead on arrival baby
boy oh boy can't wait to see the yt shills memoryhole DF existence and returning to dnd in the form of dnd5.5
shit is going to be the most entertainment these fuckers produced in ages lmao

>>96373174
uhhh but they're still doing age of umbra side campaign? they don't owe you anything! they just announced more daggerheart products! y'all being so damn negative!

>>96373162
I figured it would have had to have been a rotating cast.
That or they're playing a good OSR game where 12 players work fine.

>>96373232
But why aren't they playing Daggerheart?

>>96373236
I don't know or care what that is.

>>96373362
Neither does Critical Role

>>96371013 (OP)
i subscribed from the beginning, i couldnt do it anymore past pic related, i kept the bookmark incase i got bored and just put it on but i just couldnt watch it, season 1 was special it was all downhill from there

>>96373510
Thanks for letting us know. We here at /tg/ value your opinion greatly.

>>96373636
as you should

I want a D&D actual play show with Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny and Stephen Fry.

>>96373741
just watch Blackadder

>>96373741
I want them to use the fucking game they made instead of scamming their fans

>>96373755
The problem with Blackadder is that it ended

>>96373767
>scamming their fans
How so?

>was hoping for cr to move on to a new system since it would mean players and the industry large would more easily shift to new systems and reduce the influence of dnd
>nope, psyche, it's bg3 and critical role paving the way for dnd all the way for the next ten years

Maybe I'm too smooth brained, but why start fresh? Why a new world? They ended C3 with the Gods becoming moral, and they're making all the Gods in C4's world dead from a war. So.. if both Gods are dead in these two worlds.. then why not just continue in Exandria?

>>96373956
Probably allows the new dm more artistic freedom

>>96373741
make the OG topgear presenters play too

>>96373836
you are most right, most right

>Brennan said that sympathetic orcs was his entire foundaational inspiration for this new setting
What are the odds this isn't subversive virtual signalling shit?

>>96374921
>subversive
Dudes been like that forever. It’s hardly subversive for him at this point.

>>96375204
I've only watched him dm exu and there he was pretty based for californian theater kid standards but I'm slowly learning that's not his common way of doing things.

>>96373510
C1 was them throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck. In other words, they were playing genuine D&D (at least as close to genuine as CR ever got)
C2 was Matt pacing himself and trying to craft a cohesive narrative with longevity in mind. It got boring and safe. Not to mention they began to pander to the mentally ill portion of their audience harder
C3 was them "playing" a "campaign" with the inevitable animated series adaption in mind. It's literally just them storyboarding the show for the future. Like the big halfway point showdown of the Solstice was just them watching a bunch of NPCs from previous campaigns do cool shit. 100% scripted with no player input

>>96372345
Nah, that's retroactive cope. They knew it would sell well, because their audience is made of loyal paypigs who bought the whole boxset for Daggerheart without once looking at previews, demos, or playtest material, and have done similar things for everything else CR has ever sold.

Furthermore, their show is the perfect place to advertise and promote Daggerheart, allowing them to put on the same sort of awful, overwrought theater kid bullshit they always do, while enjoying the added benefit of being able to directly, and constantly promote their product, which would only mean more money for them, even if the game was ass.

Which means the real answer is that everyone working for Critical Role is a buck broken, brain rotted, hopeless D&D loyalist who is too fucking addicted to the taste of Hasbro's cock to even pretend to enjoy a different system.

>>96372603
>everyone I hate at table 1
>everyone I like at table 2
please let this be true

>>96371013 (OP)
the daggerheart grifting was fucking funny in hindsight
>WoTC massively fucks up
>playerbase uproar
>grifters go "guys we agree thats why we make a new system"
>go back to dnd slop after the dusts settle and they sold their dogshit system

masterfully done Matt Mercer

>>96375887
>They knew it would sell well, because their audience is made of loyal paypigs who bought the whole boxset for Daggerheart without once looking at previews, demos, or playtest material, and have done similar things for everything else CR has ever sold.
Yes. But they need to know Daggerheart will do well beyond their loyal paypig audience

>>96376619
CR's Loyal Paypig audience is already bigger than 99% of what the most successful RPGs that aren't D&D will ever see.

>>96376351
it doesn't make sense, they have no financial gain from going back to dnd, it's all loss
It's a gigantic admission of "this system actually sucks" which is crazy because 5e sucks so much already

>>96377054
or its because they were probably immediately planning campaign 4 after the 3rd ended at the start of the year, 2024 dnd just came out, and daggerheart was still months away from being released.

hell, they've admitted that they've already got multiple episodes completed and ready to go and the first one is set to be airred in Oct 2025

It really is a bit upsetting though.. I was kind of looking forward to seeing how Daggerheart would hold up in a 100+ episode long Champaign like C4.

>>96372685
>So it's just totally scripted, huh?
anon..

aabria is there just to that they can say they have a black person
everyone hates her obnoxious ass

>>96377146
the worst part is they had a bunch of really cool black guests over the years

hopefully they just shove her in the lame table that has 1 game every 3 months and everyone skips watching

>>96371331
top: chad - creep - incel - annoying black woman - coolest guy ever
middle: dumb hick - secret psychopath - LOUD irish man - gay bro - airhead actress
bottom: how do you do fellow kids - my wife - based mercer - homeless crack addict

>>96376619
>Yes. But they need to know Daggerheart will do well beyond their loyal paypig audience
By limiting its exposure and strangling it in the crib, instead of featuring it on their main fucking show? Retard.

>>96373203
This but unironically

>>96377146
Are we fr rn

>>96377054
WotC wrote them a check

>>96371013 (OP)
This is devastating for Daggerheart.

I don't feel bad though since the license was garbage

>>96377483
>pick Daggerheart for S4
>It performs poorly
>you're now stuck with trying to garner interest for your poorly performing game for 2+ years

>>96379011
>pick 5.5e for S4
>you can now safely do S4 while promoting your poorly performing game on the side

Can't wait to discover who's character is actually homosexual! Spoiler alert, it's everyone's! And maybe for this campaign we'll be treated to some new pronouns!

Are there any AP podcasts with the same level of storytelling but without the Californians?

>>96379690
They're probably going to have one of the PCs be a tranny this time. It's the only mental illness they haven't fully pandered to yet

>>96379690
That level of storytelling requires being creative so chuds are filtered out

>>96379011
>don't pick Daggerheart for S4
>It performs poorly
>you're now stuck with trying to garner interest for your poorly performing game for 2+ years
>candela obscura 2.0
>instantly lose all credibility and get exposed as the fucking shysters you are
All this after shilling Daggershart for all of Gencon LOL get fucked you scammer pieces of shit

>>96379690
You made this up in your head anon

>>96377100
Same. It's a cool little system that feels like a nice mix of dnd and pbta, and it seems really solid for the type of game that CR runs. But I guess 5e is more popular among their audience.

>>96379709
I could never tell if Sam's S2 char was supposed to be a trans allegory. I felt like maybe it wasn't originally that but sometimes cast members used phrases like "comfortable in your skin" and it made me wonder. I think Sam might not really go for all the progressive stuff and finds it funny unlike most others. Idk if I'm just imagining things though.

>>96380106
It was a bit disappointing that Veth didn't stay a goblin. It would have been better if she just accepted that the curse is apart of her and she just made dew with it.

Plus the goblin art of her is way better than the halfling. She looked fucking UGLY as a halfling.

>>96371331
matt you sly dog

>>96371331
who are all these people

>>96380718
>Alexander Ward, mostly known for the Vampire: The Masquerade stuff. He's entertaining there, dunno if he's any good playing D&D though.
>An overhyped sheboon that they somehow managed to make look even more like a man than she normally does.
>Robbie. He's cool.
>Luis, guy who played the Paladin that thought he could "help" the literal Lord of Lies Asmodeus. Good roleplay, I expect he'll play a gay again.
>Mrs. Foster
>Literal Who.
>BONUS: I know it's tempting but don't shoot BLM, Matt needs a break from DMing.

>>96380106
I 100% doubt that Sam's own vision for Nott/Veth had anything to do with trannies. But it's absolutely something that their mentally ill fanbase has claimed.
Reminds me of how just recently I was watching a 4-Sided Dive (I'm like 20 episodes away from end of C3) and it was after the Vasselheim meetings. One character, Highkeeper Vord or whatever his name is, was just an old guy in C1. But in the animated series, they made that character female. When that NPC appeared in C3, Matt seemed unsure which version to go with, so he didn't really specify in the moment. They brought it up on 4-Sided Dive, and as a result there were a few comments that were like "omg Vord is trans #transrights!" bullshit. They can't help but force their own mental illness into everything in front of them.

>>96371452
One of the groups will have its shit together. One group will be irreverent as is the style these days. The last will be obnoxious.

I hope hope hope the first is the one with Sam + Liam (I believe they made chars together to play together). Lest they are going to be foils to one another and then are are part of each of the lesser groups respectively.

>>96371013 (OP)
>5.5e
Lame

>>96382727
>5.5e
based

>>96380718
>>96380989
I don't follow CR closely, so I'm shocked to learn that Aabria and Brennan are not only a couple, but also have a baby.
c'mon man, you could've done better

but I hope he is more in control of his favouritism with her than Matt was with Marisha

>>96380718
The black guy did the voice of Darth Vader, probably the most famous voice actor they have on the cast.

>>96383447
Er, you ESL or something? Basic wiki search has Brennan married to one Isabella................

I miss the threads.
Is Campaign 3 drawanon coming back for the fourth one?

>>96371013 (OP)
Who the fuck are half these people?

>>96371331
She used to be perfect...

Cast is way too big. No way anyone is going to get involved with all 3 groups or rotating tables or whatever they're going for. The show started being overproduced by S2 but at least you could maintain the illusion it was the same group of friends from the start.

This fucking shit is still going on?

>>96388604
stronger than ever, they will make the bank with this campaign because it's exactly what their hardcore fans want

>>96388604
I'm pretty sure they're still top earners on twitch so most likely will keep going until the money runs out

>>96388910
most of their income is probably youtube, twitch pays like shit and yt has more viewers already even live. I wonder why they stopped making all the different non-dnd shows though

>>96388927
twitch gives a better cut

>>96388927
Probably because they weren't doing the same numbers as their main stuff

>>96388927
>>96388949
I thought actual pay from either platform was garbage, and that you needed sponsorships to actually make bank off of that stuff.

>>96389044
Compared to cost to run the show it's shit but they already make their money back with merch and amazon money now

>>96371331
She's so much better. Looks like she's had kids. Milf mode

>>96389403
I thought she was barren?

>>96371215
>pronouns on character sheet

>>96374921
>will the big fat faggot californian be retarded
hmm

>5.5e
>different DM
>original group split up
Honestly I have very little faith in this

>>96390294
Well you have more faith than any of us here

>>96390294
Isn't the new guy a successful career DM in his own right, though?

>>96390580
Yes, Brennan is a very popular DM. He's honestly pretty decent (most of the time). But Matt not DMing for a main Crit Role campaign is going to be weird.

>>96371013 (OP)
jesus that is a lot of players for a single campaign

>>96384250
James Earl Jones is dead

Do they follow the rules yet

>>96371331
>the token blackie

Lol

>>96371373
>allow instant death from unaware sneak attacks
>get booty blasted when enemies do it to them

Retard

Abria is less insufferable when she isn't DMing,
I like Robbie.
That Ward guy seems okayish from the snippets of Vampire stuff I've come across.
Luis was good in Calamity.

The two-table thing is weird but we'll see how it plays out.

>>96394417
I'm racist and I don't think I'll like a campaign that deviates from the all-white cast
I also skipped C3 and I don't know why everyone fellates this Robbie guy but that makes me dislike him already

>>96394469
Mostly I liked how well he and Travis got along.

At some point during C2 I had this realization that there's this strange dynamic with Marisha and everyone else where they move aside and let her take center stage, likely because they're all relatively accomplished actors and Marisha's only accomplishment is fucking Matt Mercer around the time he started streaming D&D. Like some weird charity or make-a-wish thing for their less fortunate """actress""" friend.
Thanks for reading my blog I just got reminded of this seeing they cut all of Scanlan's clutch plays and good roleplay from the most recent season of the animated series so they could make it seem like Keyleth did literally anything during C1.

>>96394469
go back to /pol/ you retard.
laura and sam are jewish, so you might not want to watch at all

>>96382643
By the sounds of things the groups won't be eternally locked in. They'll switch around as the game goes on and/or characters die. We'll see if BLM (fuck the faggot fandom, I ain't calling him Bleem) will actually be ruthless.

>>96394998
It's racist of you to say jews are a) a race and b) not white lol

>>96388910
I refuse to believe that even for a second. Hell I doubt the numbers were legit even back then. It just doesn't add up when they only stream one day a week.

>>96371331
Why does Travis, the largest Critical Role, not simply eat the other 13?

>>96395677
I think he is eating one of them, just not in the way you're thinking.

Brendan listed "Death (finality)" as one of the 5 core things he wants to design the campaign around but we all know they're too much of control freaks to ever let an important character die

>>96395601
Well if it's thousands of people and there's a tons of donations it all adds up overtime

>>96395760
According to him, another of the core things for this campaign is there are no "main characters". We'll see.

>>96396028
>*Liam sheds a tear*

>>96371013 (OP)
>12 players
How is that not going to be an absolute clusterfuck?

>>96396350
Because they’re doing a few intro with them all together but they’re splitting up and going their own way

Can't believe they're actually following up on their GODS ARE DEAD subversive ending of C3 yeah sure let's take D&D and uproot the very source of worship, how do Clerics even work?

>>96371215
Probably because Wizards cut them a fat check

>>96372541
Holy shit that sounds so gay

>>96376619
>But they need to know Daggerheart will do well beyond their loyal paypig audience
Well now it sure as fuck won't hahaha

>>96396925
It's a new and unrelated setting. They're starting fresh

>>96396925
>how do Clerics even work?
5e put a thing in for that back in 2013 where the clerics and paladins can get their power from the same source that the gods get their powers

>>96379690

Red Moon Roleplaying is audio only and pretty based.

Been listening to their CoC game and though there is the occasional virtue signaling in spite of the setting, I've had a lot of fun with it.

They also have the entirety of fucking WHFRP Enemy Within up.

>>96397739
>pretty based
>occasional virtue signaling
Contradiction

Oh wooow, Critical Role is the little bitch of Hasbro. Who would have thought?

> A bunch of shit-ass actors
> Create a role game that fails because is a bad copy of another
> Create another role game and try to sell it to others but never play it because you have 0 faith on it, its s cam or you hate it. Besides has a horrible OGL who fucks in the ass all the creators.
> "a world ruled by orcs, wooo such original". Its literally Draenor from Warcraft

I hope Matt Mercer and all his smegma addicts followers burn in hell.

When they first started streaming I enjoyed maybe 4 streams before it started to get boring. There were moments of humor here and there but it felt like a show for no-games.

Whenever I checked back in on their streams years later it felt more and more cringy every time, and the people at the table off-putting outside of Mercer, Bailey and Travis.

>>96395573
It's antisemitic to deny 4,000 years of history and tradition that separates God's chosen from white people, goyim.

>>96395677
Perhaps they are saving that for Comicon?

>>96397907

If they could control themselves, I'd have said it's completely based instead.

Sadly, we're in an age where the hobby is mostly Americans and their crippling insecurity about whether they're good people.

I stand by the shout, though.

These guys flip-flop like a pancake. They do an 8 episode run with Daggerheart, but then they announce that C4 will be DnD, and now they post a vid of Fearne being ported into Daggerheart? I'm so confused! Do you want to promote your new game or not? Why exclude it from C4?

>>96405390
They want to eat their cake and have it too, which seems to work well for Marisha

>>96371215
fpbp

>>96371013 (OP)
does this mean we are back? is there good days ahead of us? or am i just being hopeful for nothing?

>>96407640
If the last half of campaign 2 didn't take the wind out of your sails then nothing will

>>96407640
we're old and weary, /crg/ isn't coming back, but a shadow of it might persist for a few months

>>96407640
No. The only minor entertainment value is comedically pointing out how Critical Role doesn't even have faith in their own fucking game.

>>96407811
>>96407815
>>96407820
pain

>>96407811
I dropped it a bit before ep100 is it worth it to power through until the end

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iz9fpkroZ0

>it's winter
>c1 is in the middle of the CC arc
>stakes are high, episodes are amazing, everyone is on top of their game, the show is fresh and new
>the break comes one, this starts playing

you will NEVER feel this feel again

I remember being here when campaign 2 first started and how fun that was to hop on the train

>>96407914
No it is a fucking slog
Especially when they get to the ice land
Beau and Yasha have a date in the middle of them trying to track down the main villain

>>96371331
I’m excited for Mulligan to take the stage.
The guy is hilarious and I expect his DM style to be top notch with this crew.

>>96407914
Not really. There are some mildly cool things about Aeor, but most of it's boring and lame. Matt fails to balance enemies and has a special NPC that is geared to solo an entire party but that NPC also has an NPC party of his own so he's nonsensically overpowered. Then the final boss fight is basically a scripted event and they still suck shit because they're awful at combat. Until they're saved by the deus ex machina of the power of friendship
Also Marisha and Ashley have their characters be gay and dial it up to 11 to pander to the audience and it's insufferable

>>96377817
Failed your linguistics cheque

>>96372253
Hasbro might be bribing them with fat stacks.

If that isn't the case, they really are retarded, 'cause this is going to reflect terribly on faggerheart

>>96377095
Why are you talking about this like it's some hollywood movie that requires 2 years of preproduction?

>>96371246
>Far more interesting
>Draw Steel
lol

>>96408450
>Marisha and Ashley have their characters be gay
very based. Would love to watch those two tribbing

>>96408601
begone brit

>>96374921
>virtual signaling
>what you do on 4chan with your chudbrothlings

>>96396925
>>96397476
>>96397478
The new setting also has GODS ARE DEAD, they just died 70 years earlier in a mortal rebellion

>>96389414
That's pretty hot, it means that when they do their swinger nights all the other dudes can cum up her freely

>>96371013 (OP)
I hope their studio burns down with no survivors.

Lemme guess.
>It will still be a soap opera, LARPing, & playing tea party instead of an adventuring TTRPG.
>Brennan will also allow claims of cocked dice(Ashley/Laura) or loaded die/blurting "nat20" in important times (Liam).
>All PC deaths will again be a collaborative storytelling exercise (Liam,Taliesin,Travis).
>Yet again, there will be few honest consequences, and none will affect the DM's scripted outcome.
Brennan will be better at hiding the phoniness of it all, but CR will still be a fake game.

>>96409443
It's like wrestling, everyone knows it's staged but some people still like it

>>96409443
it's an entertainment show, for sure.
but from what I've heard Brennan say is, that he's got the first 3-4 sessions planned and from there it's up to the players, who are tasked to have create their own agendas they want to follow.
he also doesn't have a BBEG, he has multiple points/villains in the story and the players decide through their own interest which one they want to follow and brennan adapts to that

>>96409443
They're claiming it's going to be West Marches, which would be a radical deroute from their usual style

>>96409443
adding
>Liam will yet again backstory his PC to another, giving him a totally devoted love(Laura)/lackey(Sam)/bodyguard, then proceed to PvP and get upset when the others finally RP against it.
>He will again latch onto Laura's PC and do his creepy fondling performances on her.

>>96409579
His mother died your heartless cunt

>>96409456
If only instead of "...sit around and play DnD", the intro was "...sit around and collaboratively perform a DnD inspired play". I want them to show some conscience, but will take a lot to shake the grifter label after all the shady shit they've done (Kick starter to mandatory Amazon Prime bait-and-switch).

>>96409588
>every time they start to call him out on his shit at the table, he whips out "so and so is dead" backstory act (reminding them of his real life) so he can manipulate his friends.
Classy guy.

>>96371331
is this photoshopped?
I don't remember her looking like a crack whore before

>picture of a bunch of people
>tons of comments on the appearence of women
>nothing about the men

really makes you think

>>96409783
outside of greying hair, I don't think any guy in the cast changed that much in 10 years, but some of the women sure did

>>96371331
Maybe she's going to try to add herself to the Foster (making passes at fat girls) bashing train.
>restraining order tossed by judge
>harass Brian's dying mother.
>suit the original claims were intended to manipulate (said above judge) settled out of court.
Any word from that guy?

>>96372603
>>Table 2: Sam, Robbie, Whitney, Laura, and Travis

This is the table that starts fights and does hijinx.

Who is playing at the “Soldiers” table?

>>96412557
I thought the purpose of the western marches format is to use whoever is available
Why would they have set tables?

>>96413732
Because it's hard to fit in true randomization into a script

>>96413732
I think the idea is moreso “3 ongoing threads” but that’s me being charitable to the very concept of this new campaign (and Brennan) to begin with

>>96371013 (OP)
imagine watching people play a game instead of playing it yourself.

>>96414176
I don't have friends

>>96414180
Play with your enemies

>>96394859
>strange dynamic with Marisha and everyone else
She takes the most notes and knows Matt the best so people defer to her when it's time to make a decision for the story
She is melodramatic as an actress and seems to say a lot of cringe things that would be edited in a different format, sometimes with important NPCs she starts long and winding sentences in very formal language but then the sentences don't go anywhere and fall flat and it's awkward.
She is also the CEO of CR if I remember correctly so I guess she's everyone's boss? Idk if that affects their dynamic but maybe it does subconsciously as she'll be the one making decisions outside of the game.
I don't mind her though, I think she's fine really.

>>96415196
Travis is the CEO, Marisha is the Creative Director

>>96394859
anon, they are voice actors and theater kids who have some idea when its time to give character X his or her moment in the spotlight. This isnt rocket science nor hard to figure out.

>>96415196
she does the "lower voice and make it a bit raspy like a cool clint eastwood guy and start trying to outtalk the npc with anti-hero lines to put them in their place" but it usually falls flat. She's alright though. She's the most annoying when she tries to cockblock someoene from doing something unoptimal and detrimental to their character but good for the story like them leaving the group or having cursed items and shit, but Laura is pretty bad at this too so.

>>96409783
>heterosexual men care more about the appearence of women than they do of other men
that's a tough one to crack, anon
keep working on it, though, you may find some profound truth about the world beyond "I'm a really good person, but all these other people are terrible human beings who are stupid and evil, why am I so good and perfect and correct about everything?"

>>96415257
Oh, is that why they gave The Bard's Lament moment to Keyleth in the animated series? Perhaps I'm not articulating my point well enough, but every time I've checked in on CR since I fell off in C2 it feels more and more like Critical Role as enterprise just serves to provide Marisha the acting career she never had.

>>96413732
>Why would they have set tables?
Because there's money involved. People are paying money to produce the show and I (assume) people are getting money to star in the show. Even ignoring any claims of it being scripted, people want their money's worth and people want their check.

>>96394091
Why is this a bad thing?

>>96409721
Yeah I do not understand who the fuck said she looked good there. In all other pictures I've seen she still looks like a woman, an ugly one, but here? Man with long hair.

>>96415589
>4channel.org
>heterosexual men

>>96418002
>Oh, is that why they gave The Bard's Lament moment to Keyleth in the animated series?
What? How the hell would that even work?

>>96418540
Everything Scanlan does in the last 2/3rds of the Chroma Conclave is given to other characters or otherwise neutered
>Mordenkainen's Mansion is a magic item
>not present for Percy's death, Ripley escapes and is later killed by Vex and Vax
>Keyleth brings the goristro to the Vorugal fight with a portal
So there's really no grounds for Scanlan to get upset because he's basically worthless, he just kind of leaves after Thordak. I can't tell you why Keyleth gets pissy and leaves the party because I didn't actually watch it but she does.