Thread 96825049

Cute fairy edition

>Hero to many. Enemy to some. When Thjazi Fang is marked for execution, various figures from across his remarkable life unite to uncover the truth behind his grim fate. In a land still suffering from the fallout of dead gods and living in the shadow of a tumultuous rebellion, these disparate people will come together across the fractured world of Aramán and connect in ways they never imagined.
>As hope and victory fade, a question hangs over Aramán. Without the Gods, what great deeds now fall to us? And who, or what, shall grab their crown from themselves?

Confirmed Soldier Table:
>Thimble (Fairy Rogue)
>Teor Prideside (Nama (Lionfolk) Paladin)
>Kattigan Vale (Human Ranger (Beastmaster)
>Wicander Halovar (Human? Cleric)
>Tyranny (Demon Warlock)

No Table yet:
>Azune Nayar (Human Paladin/Sorcerer)
>Thaisha Lloy (Orc Druid)
>Bolaire Lathalia (Human? Warlock)
>Vaelus (Elf Paladin)
>Sir Julien Davinos (Human Fighter/Rogue)
>Halandil Fang (Orc Bard)
>Murray Mag'Nesson (Dwarf Wizard)
>Occtis Tachonis (Human Wizard (Necromancer)

Previous episodes
Episode 1 - The Fall of Thjazi Fang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mbynm0pGX0
Episode 2 - Broken Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQMuDAe4rE
Episode 3 - The Snipping of Shears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9sEmHv26js

i enjoy that Brennan calls out the DC to beat and rolls in front of the table. Also giving shit to important NPCs seems less tolerated.

>>96825049 (OP)
>a literally satanic campaign premise
Wow, they're not even pretending anymore, are they?

>>96825049 (OP)
What the fuck is this? Use the subject field faggot.

Before this campaign is over, Thimble is going to perform the DC80 Escape Artist check.

>>96826604
Yeah making another "yay we got rid of the gods, this was totally a good thing!" Setting right after campaign 3 was a bad idea.
Not mention it causes orc fatigue because the background is a god was oppressing the poor orcs, we ended up killing *all* the gods in the end just for their sake. And now the plot is the great houses and the fake religion are oppressing the orcs, so I guess now we need to destroy the entire Aristocracy and religion to make them happy.

>>96826703
yeah this thread is dead
people aren't going to find this on the catalog

Yeah, once the camera panned to this fucking weirdo I had to stop. This shit is so unbelievably cringe. How the fuck is this the most watched D&D show?

Also congrats on fucking up the thread, OP

Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door. Leather Club's two blocks down.

OP should probably delete and remake this if he wants replies.

>>96827753
Wtf Tal looks great.

>>96825414
Yeah I hope he sticks with the NPCs not taking shit (when a proper response is warranted). Marisha in particular has been insufferable countless times, especially as Beau. Matt was too much of a doormat in all situations

Is Tal playing the mask?

>>96827803
Yeah I think that's the idea.

>>96827803
>>96827812
Nah, he was unconscious. If he was playing the mask the scene would have played out.

Cute

>Brennan is Pugsley
>Everyone else is edgy goths except for the one guy who decided to dress like Forrest Gump

>>96827877
yes the joke which was stated after the cold open was it's "Oops All Alex Wards" except for Alex himself who dressed normally. They are all dressed like how Alex Ward normally dresses for roleplaying games such as LA by Night.

Imagine if we didn't have to deal with apebria.

>garrote
triggered

>>96827915
kek

>>96827892
brennan giving them the
>It's okay to bug out speech

Should be interesting. Turns out House Goth brought a battalian of the dead to fuck the corpses of their enemies into the ground.

that`s a lot of talk about fairness after yesterday's episode of D20 where he let the players reroll 28 times to succeed

Player death?
in my crg????
what happened??
we all know its 99% scripted but still

>>96827928
Yeah we all know they're gonna go on a quest to get them back and have a whole gay emotional scene about it

>>96827928
too much fanfare for this to not actually be scripted

Bah gawd, he killed him.

>>96827928
Brennan is soooo on rails, it's my only problem with him as a DM. I was hoping a long form campaign would be different compared to the EXU's but it's been exactly the same so far.

Brennan killing a PC on episode 4 in what was an unwinnable scenario is a very railroady way to raise the stakes. Definitely planned.

>sets a DC
>Aabria fails it
>still gives her the info
????

>>96827732
Based. Nobles deserve the rope.

>>96827975
And here I thought the gibs were on hold with the US government shutdown, but there they are.

Oh so the Seeker table will all die and play in the underworld.

>>96827732
It's almost as if orcs will always find a way to externalize the source of their woes, shunting any personal responsibility and removing layer after layer of civilization to do so. Curious, indeed...

>>96828006
Unironically Ive heard worst story ideas. They are seeking the grail to return back to life.

>>96827732
>"yay we got rid of the gods, this was totally a good thing!"

Except for the part where the state of the world has gotten explicitly worse.

>>96828048
>Except for the part where the state of the world has gotten explicitly worse.
Yeah they're heavy on concession stands and light on the facts that they fundamentally broke the cycle of the afterlife and those with the power to even patch it no doubt are going to be just as brutal as any gods.

This shit sucks.

>>96828065
Yeah I know
I'm not even watching and I know it sucks

>>96827987
Historically, those kinds of revolutions just end with the shadow people supporting the revolution setting themselves up as the new noble class or even worse, the inner party of communist regimen. Then once in power they systematically kill off all the revolution leaders and true believers to make sure they don't leave anyone that might start a counter revolution. Meanwhile the proles lives still suck and probably get even worse

>>96828065
As ponderous and predetermined as it feels, this is the first time I've tuned it to actually see them fighting something so that is a welcome change to me.

Didn't know that about new Druids. Good.

Where's Liam?

I grow tired of Ashley and Marisha trying to play their characters like stone cold badasses when they really can't pull it off. If anything, among the girls only Whitney has the attitude for it and that's not even the crux of her character.

>>96828124
yeah where is the main character, he would've saved everyone atp

apebria is insufferable

>>96828145
Fatherless behavior

there, PC death invalidated

>>96828145
we don't have to pretend she isn't chubby now anymore, right? Not even disparaging per se, women get older and bodies change. But that there is a chubby woman (I am aware she's pulling a face).

By the by, which team is her drag dwarf on? Schemers?

i prefer he comes back but its pvp

>>96828162
Assuming this table is locked she's definitely on the Schemers which seems to correlate with the characters that have direct ties to the city.

>>96828054
Yet no npc or player actually admits it was bad thing except for evil granny running the church who actually said killing the gods was stupid and just caused a clusterfuck and people still need religion.

But we're supposed to treat granny as evil even though even thing she said was correct

Alright clearly I just missed something I thought those guys disappeared like 3 turns ago

>>96828179
He just turned invisible apparently.

I think Brennan thinks of Ashley as his main character. He let her roll twice on her attack roll last week, everything only does half damage, she's immune to the worst effects, her character is canonically immortal. Kinda crazy how OP she is.

heh doody

>>96828215
The saliva in his mouth throws thick as he thinks of his doody

>>96828199
Ashley needs all the handicaps she can get.

matt carrying the team

>>96828199
Please understand, Ashley is special.

total ape death

>>96828248
Many are saying this

I wish I could be more excited about apenigar dying but it's all scripted anyhow, I believe anon's theory that it's a planned party wipe to seek in the underworld.

>what do you say In This Moment™
I instantly muted, so I'll never know

*pull his spirit out of the underworld*

>>96828254
>I instantly muted, so I'll never know
Here, got the screencap for you.

https://youtu.be/eIri9YLHpOg

>11
>Yeah sure why not

>>96828162
You're so lame.

my favorite twink gets to be raped to death. awful awful awful

I'm very quickly remembering that I stopped watching this trash because of all the theatre kid melodrama, not just due to the party's total aversion to literally anything actually happening

Ashley Jesus fuck dude...

This probably didn't need to be a 2+ hour fight

so good seeing smooth, quick and precise rounds with matt,

Seems like it won't be a TPK after all. Only Occtis is going to be chilling in the underworld.

>>96828274
Oh ok he did fail I rescind my snark

Surely Brennan rolled that attack with advantage because she was prone. Surely this isn't all scripted nonsense.

necromancer necromance himselfs to undeath

So they are just going to rez him? That's not as fun as the party going to the underworld.

>fails the roll by 1
>gets to do the thing anyways
Brennan Lee Mercer

Oh shit did Brennan actually do it?

>>96828396
He did tell them to make backup characters

There hasn't been a break yet has there? I don't know this new pre-recorded meta, do they generally average it out to four hours regardless of how long before the break or how does it suss out?

>>96828416
It's generally 4-5 hours long with the break at the halfway point, but it's never been exact. Sometimes they do the break within the first 90 minutes, sometimes it's like 2 and a half hours

also they've been prerecording for 5 and a half years at this point, it's not new. it's just that the format has slightly changed for C4 with Brennan wanting to do cold opens (which fucking suck, I hope they stop after the overture but my hopes are not high)

>combat
:)
>ashley in combat
:(

If the Occtis death sticks I will apologize to Brennan even if it was railroaded as fuck.

Can I romance Travis' character in this Dispatch game or not

not gonna buy it if it's het only

>>96828446
Am I the only one who thinks that the voice mixing in the mighty nein ad sounds like crap?

>>96826775
>squeeze through an opening 1cm wide
Bueno…

The Main Characters are finally in the spotlight.

>>96828527
>TFW your friends think the white streak your mom put in your hair for halloween was cool so your mom helps them each get on e before you go trick-or-treating
>TFW it looks better on them
>(You) secretly resent it but can't say anything because they're your friends.

Marisha doing her best /crg/ impression lol

>>96828553
Tig ol'Bitties flying everywhere, Legs in the Air, Back Thrown Out.

Talespin's hand tremors have gotten worse.

I don't like this guy

don't give him a solo scene bruhnnan

>>96828606
Yeah he was the most boring character in EXU and now he's playing another soldierman

Marisha seems so chill IRL it's a shame she's incapable of playing a character that isn't massively irritating

>>96828641
I didn't mind Laudna but I had to stop campaign 3 20 episodes in because it was too shit after Robbie left. Beau was insufferable though.

>>96828527
Luis has been so boring this campaign, holy fuck

>>96828641
yeah never would've thought that Keyleth would be the peak and it would be all downhill from there

>>96828649
She got much worse. All woe is me shit throughout the whole campaign. The worst part was when she tried to steal a magic item from Liam's character and then when she was caught she blamed it on him and guilted him (and the rest of the party) into giving her the item. (There's more context there but that's the TLDR)
oh and she was a lesbo with Laura's character and that got old FAST

>>96828649
>insufferable personality
>hot body
>lesbian
I'm sorry anon but Beau made me diamonds, literally MADE for corrective hatefucking

>>96825414
Too bad he just ignores the results of those rolls anyway.

>>96827829
I stand corrected.

Phrasing

>>96828649
Nah, Laudna's voice made her insta skip contender

>>96828698
>They killed him with Theatre
Thats kinda lame, I was thinking that the gods left it as a last fuck you to the ungrateful ones.

Holy shit this is so boring

So how does this mask shit work in game? He just can't die only his body? What if a player puts on the mask?

>>96828729
Maybe we'll find out!

I hate this sleight of hand to disguise spells bullshit. Just play a sorcerer.

>>96828729
Obviously the mask can be broken which would kill him
Putting on the mask would probably kill the PC that put it on
Think for two seconds nigga

>>96828747
>Just play a sorcerer.
Never

Liam is so full of fucking shit. Checks his sheet then announces the Nat 20.

They must really edit the hell out of D20

BOOOOOOOOO

>>96828778
>roll
>hmm... not that high... maybe my modifier will be good enough
>nope, not high enough
"That's a nat 20."

Yeah we know Aabria you literally just had a whole conversation about that

Nat 20s dont autosucceed ability checks.

>>96828833
Matt was never consistent about that (sometimes he'd ask for the actual total, sometimes he didn't) and Brennan is DEFINITELY not following that rule. He does retarded shit for nat 20s. Like Liam's character somehow hijacking Luis's character's message cantrip to talk to his brother before he was killed, which makes absolutely no fucking sense

Liam is so based

>Vaellus doesn't immediately jump in
Ashley please stop trying to play assertive characters

>>96827753
Am I watching the Addams Family?

Brennan's eye makeup makes it look like he's making a permanent "what the fuck are you going on about" face

Damn, I guess it will be another campaign with no real stakes.

my boy!

How very boring

>>96828089
Who is the hot black lady?

This whole anti-gods sentiment in this campaign is extremely gay. I hope Sam quintuples down on his made up religion to spite Brennan.

>>96828861
Matt Mercer.

This whole scripted fakeout with Occtis just makes me not care about this storyline at all. Feels cheap as fuck. I'll stick to the soldier table.

>>96828866
Don't get your hopes up. They were very negative towards the gods in C3 as well. They can't help it, they're Californians
jokes aside I don't give a shit about real life religions but to be so anti-god in a fantasy world where gods existing is indisputable fact and what they do/provide is readily observable is utterly retarded

>>96828879
Well they're dead so...

His death was legit scripted according to the Cooldown lol
The original idea was for him to be a Hollow One, and Brennan asked him if he’d be fine with setting that up IN GAME

>>96825049 (OP)
I finished watching up to ep 3 last night. I'll catch episode 4 the next week, I need the pause function.
But, I have changed my mind. This is officially watchable at least. It's still not a "real" dnd game and pretty much a radio theater show with visuals, but unlike campaign 3 it's not something that makes me bored out of my mind right away.
It's just such a pity they had to have such an ungodly high amount of players so their IRL time leaves them even less flexibility than a dimension 20 session. I don't think it will improve much when they split up, since they will still have to maneuver around things like "we have three episodes of soldier's before we need to go back to whoever." So Brennan will continue to be very hands on.

Soldier's table looks good, all in all. Sam's character is a bit too much of a bit character but that's pretty much all his characters, bits with pathos.
>>96827793
>Marisha as beau
It's annoying how blatantly she just plays that same character/aspect again and again. In the cooldown for episode 3, Brennan flat out said she was the closest to getting killed. Frankly, the only reason he held himself back was because, being honest, because it's a paid show, I bet.

By the way, what's the consensus on the way divine sense was handled in episode 3? Correct handling with those "tailor" people or should it have pinged on them being demons?
I assume tiefling's are mechanical standins for demon's incarnated into mortal forms in this setting, like Tyranny.

>scripted death
I was already hanging on by a thread and they lost me

>>96828886
Right. I was referring to their stances in C3, where the god were not dead.
I don't really care about C4's world thus far desu, it's been rather boring. Hoping the overture ending livens things up

Based Matt

Kill him again matt

Better yet kill aabria

>>96828890
Not surprising. They did a similar thing with Bertrand Bell in C3. Travis played him for a handful of episodes before they killed him off and brought in Chetney

>>96828890
It was obvious it was scripted when he was thrown into an unwinnable situation. It was a horrible decision though.

>>96828890
Oh. Glad we dedicated 4 hours to it.

Wow I really hated that. At least with Bertrand it was obvious that he was a joke character that was going to die.

I'm just here for someone to post the cooldown

>>96828876
Got to admit I'm more or less in the same boat.

>>96828886
They havent really explained what the gods are except that they seem to have the powers of at least an epic mage. Saying that an epic mage is dead is perhaps a bit premature (especially with a god killing weapon or two already unaccounted for,).

>>96828907
I mean it was exciting for a minute but no one is avoiding the scripted alegations this time.

So far, this campaign really feels like they're sniffing the hell out of their own farts. Everything about how this has been structured and ran is pretty terrible. I think viewership is going to fall off even quicker than it did for C3. But I suppose they have a chance to straighten it out depending on how things go now that they're split off into the tables

Brennan just confirmed in the cooldown that the whole thing was scripted because Alex wanted to play a hollow one necromancer

I'm all in on the Soldiers table, we didn't get the other two officially christened but I think it's fair to assume it's exactly what the two groups were.

>>96828926
4chan flags the link as spam
/l/VMK2bWfB

I just can't believe any of the rolls or story moments are organic. Everything feels fake as fuck and it's been that way since late campaign 2 when they stopped livestreaming. At this point I'm just watching for the banter of certain players (mainly Sam).

Hard to give a shit when it's a predetermined outcome with no stakes and none of the rules actually matter.

>>96828939
Not the same guy, but many thanks anon: watched the last CD through your post.

>>96828747
Fuck the 5e sorcerer for stealing meta magic from the wizards

Hopefully, and I'm sure this is just wishful thinking, now that the overture is over and the pieces are in place things will be less predetermined.

>>96827753
nice b8

>>96827975
I personally don‘t handle DCs as 0 or 100% either. The DC is the threshold for it to work out, but they‘ll get more if the result is higher. DC - 5 will still get you /something/ just not all of it, not enough to outright succeed

>>96828966
I‘m still surprised that people are surprised that this 4-episode overture is as scripted as they sad it would be. It is supposed to give the viewers the immediate backstory of the characters before they head out to separate tables, where it‘s actually going to be regular d&d.

>>96829663
I'm sure the Guy Known For Always Railroading will definitely stop railroading any minute now

>>96825049 (OP)
kek

>>96828089
okay, I will stop complaining about aabria if she stays goth/hot for the rest of the campaign

Why the FUCK couldn't we have had Matt be with the good table? I imagine they put him with apebria just to try and keep viewers when she's on screen.

i was so mad that she lived
not that it would really matter because the replacement character would be the same thing

>C1 - Players know they are going to max and win campaign from day one. Still cheat
>C2 - Players know they will complete their PC arcs that they've scripted though backstories. Still cheat
>C3 - Players know they still have all plot armor they desire to finish Matt's scripted story. Still cheat.
>C4 - Here we go again.
Yep, Critical Role has always been scripted/fake as hell, and the cast is still a bunch of control freaks, phonies, and con artists.
'Storyteller' is a synonym for liar, after all.

>>96830526
shut the fuck up you fucking nigger

>>96831399
Kill yourself theatre kid niggerfaggot. You do not play games.

>>96830129
I feel like they might be genuinely oblivious to how offputting Aabria is to large chunks of the audience. I'm sure they've seen the hate, but they just chalk it up to "racists" and trolls that aren't actually a part of the audience and only come in to stir shit up. Which is not true at all - there are many people who are actual fans and still do not like her.

>>96831878
in their world view it's immoral to have negative opinions of her class, and people who do are illegitimate

How did the Lady summon vines to entangle her when she was on the 2nd floor? Did the vines burst out the ground, then through the 1st floor, and then up to the 2nd floor?

Also, how retarded must you be, Aabria, to look at an angry Mat, who is aiming his sword at you to keep you away... Then you decided to.. walk into the blade?? Huh?? If he just thrusted his hand forward a tiny bit, it would have pierced deeper in.

Great campaign so far. I loved the nat 20 effect Brennan gave Matt against Primus Tachonis, that was cool

>>96831406
the brainlet seethes

>>96826604
>Killed all the gods
>All the demons are still alive
Couldn't demons just claim the portfolios of the gods and become more evil versions of them?

>>96828048
That's the problem with making your fantasy world align with your politics. You need conflict for there to be a game, and for the big, epic campaigns that cr "plays", the world must need fixing in a big way.

>>96825049 (OP)
Thjazi Fang was an insurrectionist. He staged his own Jan 6

>>96831878
The problem is she can't turn her dm mode off while being a player and it makes her into an obnoxious player whose trying to grab all the attention

>>96828833
any good DM would disagree. if a task is genuinely impossible to succeed, you wouldn't let them roll to begin with. Obviously a character cant jump to the moon on a Nat 20 but if you allow that roll youre the problem.

>>96837437
bonuses, retard
nat 20 doesnt auto succeed, but it can allow to reach 25 or 30 or whatever you say is the threshold of doable. Yes there are still impossible things that should not allow roll, but it doesnt mean everything you allow a roll should work without bonuses on a 20

>>96837845
anon, you're missing the point. yes, bonuses are taken into account.
The point is that if no matter what someone rolls+bonuses, if it's impossible to succeed you do not allow a roll.
Because a 20 is the highest possible result on a dice roll, if rolling it+your bonuses isn't enough to succeed, the roll was pointless.
It's not about "MUH NATTY TWENTY CRIT AUTO SUCCESS", for the vast majority of skill checks rolling a 19+your bonuses is also a success for the same reasons.
If someone rolling the highest possible result does not succeed, success was impossible, which means they shouldn't have been allowed to roll in the first place. It's not like with attack rolls where even a commoner can wound a dragon 5% of the time with a critical hit.

>>96837858
no, again, YOU are missing the point

if I allow a roll that requires guidance, the one specific person in the party who has the highest bonus, and maybe using some item that provides a circumstantial bonus (like a book in vanilla 24 or anything homebrew), I'm not gonna say to one character he can't try it and to another that he can. The roll is possible, the circumstances are slim, but everyone is allowed

Confirmed, this season is unwatchable without the Soldier's table.

>>96837299
Yes but it was against a predominantly human regime (fantasy's equivalent of white people) so it's ok and he's a hero

The scene of Occtis in the woods was pure kino
Also Julien is based as fuck

>>96837901
That's just not fun, though.

>>96825049 (OP)
>The Ozzie Fag

uh, uhm, ah, ehm, uh, ah, uhm, okay amazing ah uhm

how is this thread so dead, the campaign is fucking great

>>96842871
OP didn't put Critical Role and/or /crg/ in the title so people couldn't find the thread in the catalog.

Everyone is really good this time around and I'd rather complain about Aabria trying to be the main character than have to watch Ashley a single nanosecond longer.
Seriously, why does she insist on playing? I don't think she enjoys the actual play, she just likes listening to the story unfolding around her but she makes no conscious effort to learn the game or participate in the world meaningfully and always has no clue what to do or how to respond when others require her attention.
Take the situation in this episode where Arenessa is running away and shouts something about the Veil on the other side of the river and Ashley just goes "Okay?" because she can't get in the headspace of her character and is just observing like a cud chewing herbivore.

>>96843557
I suppose she resonates with a certain segment of the audience who love her antics and like to come up with their own fanfiction and such, rather than care about the actual gameplay.

>On a nat one you do not know the difference between letting go of the past and forgetting, and to forget would be an insult
>if you have to stay in pain to honor them, then so be it
YOU LEAVE MY BOY LUIS ALONE

Just for those who don't understand the hate for Aabria.

There's a vid on YouTube called "Aabria Iyengar's Behavior in the Critical Role Finale"

I'd post the link to it, but I assume posting youtube links are a big No No, so I won't.

For those who haven't seen C3, this shows how Aabria acted during that last episode of C3 and how she just HAD to involve herself in moments where everyone else at the table was trying to pay attention to Mat.

>>96844313
just watched it, I'm kekking at the surge of new comments just after C4 started airing
Aabria can be great, she just need to tone it down and stop butting in everywhere and I'm hoping that's just nervous energy/excitement from being part of cr

>>96844489
The problem I have with Aabria after watching all of critical's stuff for many years is that she ALWAYS needs to be involved. She just HAS to stick her nose in other people's scenes, and if she can't verbally do it, then she'll act it. And the constant sexual jokes about if this person is hot or fuckable..

I'm still a bit upset at how in C4, her Orc can somehow hear and see though the plants, even to the point of summoning vines out to block a dirt road to stop Wic's carriage from arriving to the home, forcing him to walk down the path to reach the front door. All of that WHILE she was kneeling, giving the last rights to the body. She just HAD to be involved..

>>96844313
>There's a vid on YouTube called "Aabria Iyengar's Behavior in the Critical Role Finale"
>I'd post the link to it, but I assume posting youtube links are a big No No, so I won't.
I don't know why you'd think that
I'll post it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEws46TSBAA

>>96844597
hugs and kisses :)

>>96844313
Remember when she bullied the cute latina newbie to tears when she DMd? Fuck that ape.

I literally don't care to watch but I'm interested in knowing what happens, anyone else?

>>96844729
Yes
It's called sunk cost

>>96843557
I liked Ashley's entrance in E1. I thought she was going to be a cold, no jokey, all serious elf who would fuck-over anyone if it meant getting her stone.

But then she started following everyone, just idly accepting to go along with the party, staying outside of Hal's house to stand guard, and then fighting with Mat's character shoulder-to-shoulder in E4. The whole image and entrance she gave fizzled to nothing.. Now she's like another Yasha.

>>96843557
The only time she seems even mildly comfortable during roleplaying is when she was doing quirky or sneaky shit on Fearne, like trying to pickpocket. In every other situation, she panics and flounders. I think she just sucks ass at improv and needs a literal script. Trying to play this super serious character seems like a huge mistae

>https://youtu.be/6vxeh5WOYBE?si=svs71-qMszlCiEO4
This is...kinda hot desu?

>>96845104
As much as Laura thinks she panicked doing that, she knew exactly what she was doing

Why was Thaisha walking directly into Julien's sword at the end there? How is that trying to show she cares for him? In episode one, she and Julien were arguing outside of Hal's home, but now she wants to hug him because his father died? Why didn't she turn and ask Aranessa to take him one said to cool down a bit? She knows the two of them are close, surly? And why didn't Occtis just say, "Hey dude, my own family killed me, calm down."

>>96825049 (OP)
I think this must have been the most boring episode of campaign 4 by far. Everything else boils down to that.

so what has happened so far?

t. checked out after 4h funeral in ep1

>>96845372
>>96844572
she was going to do her thing no matter what

>>96844932
> I think she just sucks ass at improv and needs a literal script.
unironically proof that CR is not scripted

>>96845431
t. tard

>>96845685
go back to sloptock

>>96846824
giwtwm

How much of the old stuff should I view before I am caught up enough to tag in?

>>96847038
this is a new setting unrelated to anything previous

>>96845104
How would her stealth roll affect the condition of the guy's pants? Because her roll wasn't great the guy is unwashed? Brennan seems to describe the results of skill checks in ways that aren't in any way related to the skills in question. He gave somebody a flashback to the dead orc telling them to trust people as the result of an insight check. He allowed Liam to communicate psychically on a nat20 insight check. Is this that "rule of cool" mentality?

>>96845685
>4h funeral in ep1
I think they're still at the funeral

>>96845880
It's scripted, just ad libbed. I'm sure they all know what's planned for their characters. I think the only surprises are what happens to other characters

>>96847116
no, it's the non-retarded-autist mentality where you actually understand the reasoning behind those decisions

>>96829055
Fuck the wizards for thinking they aren't already more powerful than they deserve.

>>96847419
Explain the reasoning, Mr. Non-retarded-autist

>>96826604
Supposedly he did "all the gods are dead" because the gods didn't all die at the end of C3, initially it was going to be a follow on but ultimately wasn't so he reversed it.

>>96828054
Isn't "broke the afterlife" just Divinity games all over again?

>>96828879
>anti-god in a fantasy world where gods existing is indisputable fact and what they do/provide is readily observable is utterly retarded
That's a deeply stupid take based on your clear Abrahamic upbringing. Just because entities like gods would exist doesn't mean they deserve our worship.

>>96849433
I would totally make a deal with them if it meant getting access to long range teleportation, resurrection magic, and it meant my soul was sent to a nice homeland instead being tumbling through the cold void.

>>96849433
It's anti-god because killing the gods clearly had over all negative outcome to Avery non orc, yet damn near no one in the game, npc or player, actually admits to it being bad call

>>96849480
you know that can also be a comment on how the mortals are actually retarded, yes? When the dm describes the death of the sun god as an event that apocalyptically ruined a whole sub-continent by casting it into eternal night full of horror and people are fine with this over having him as a god it either means the gods were truly bad OR people are truly retarded

>>96847121
it was another funeral, be it a short one

>>96843557
can't really kick her out when she's been part of the game since the beginning and a co-owner of the company.

I know she never had any idea how to play the game but now with the few changes in 5.5e it just confused her more. I think she's the "look guys, even somebody who seemingly never played d&d can play it too!" - person for the audience

>>96844830
and yeah, she's just personally too much of a softie to play a cut-throat character like Vaelus should have been and can't put herself into the shoes of sb like that.
she's just a sweetie pie, can't help it

>>96846993
Which one?

>>96849480
>>96849618
in my game the gods are gone too and people hate them and found a substitute in shinto-like spirit religions led by druids. druids are basically my setting's clerics and there are no actual clerics.

the reason why the gods are hated is because of a lack of understand what went down - a third party entity took control over them and during that time the gods enslaved mortals and demanded daily sacrificial offerings. when mortals managed to fight against the third enitity with the help of bahamut and his dragons, after defeating that entity, the gods where gone (not actually gone, they put themselves into an exile). people think that the gods have been killed - but they actually haven't, they at least keep things from getting out of control, but otherwise do not interfere.

the campaign is about finding out about the return of the gods and (that's gonna be the surprise: my party will accidentally help in) the return of the third entity and dealing with those consequences

>>96850067
matt in that particular image

that's quite the outfit. it's so impressively cringe it's kind of cool again. this kind of outfit really only works if you wear it with conviction, the kind that I don't want to have

is she trying to say she's got milk and wants to share
don't mind if I do

>>96853595
he tries, but he can never be him

So the opening to episode 4 made it pretty obvious that Bolaire is actually the mask, and he takes over whoever wears it, right?

>>96854298
yes, he's an object

>>96853595
They're all looking so old now, and the goth makeup just accentuates it

>>96849433
>doesn't mean they deserve our worship.
It doesn't doesn't mean that either. The biggest cudgel that athiests have against theism is the lack of evidence for the gods, once the gods are objectively real, it all becomes contractualism. Well Rooty Tooty didn't give the orks a good deal but orks are stupid so why do I care? Rooty Tooty did okay by me.

There's also the fact that an objective afterlife and morality that seem to be if not entirely, largely dependant upon the gods for upkeep. Again rooty tooty is fucking the orks in the ass but for six or so of the races it seemed fine

>>96853595
I don't think conviction can carry that. Even 'Don'tgiveafuckness' only works when you're young. Just remember you're only eccentric if you are rich otherwise you are just crazy.

>>96854411
>>96854298
Thats actually creepy as hell as should be cause for immediate destruction. Oh an unknown theatre mask from the god of theatre that we have no idea how it actually works is still around for some reason? And it eats people? Is there a reason we haven't dumpstered it yet? Or at least killed the host and put in a very nice box somewhere far away?

>Is there a reason we haven't dumpstered it yet

It slipped by in all the chaos, and his cover story is that he's just an eccentric museum curator that got cursed by a magic mask that can't be removed because of poor safely regulations for handling strange magical artifacts.

>>96843557
yeah that "okay...?" was really disappointing, she can't get in character. It's been a while since i've seen C2 but i feel like yasha also fell into the behaviour of just nodding yes to npcs & events while the other pcs explain what's happening.
just kind of blindly bumbling

>i cast thunderwave, i ASSUME you've sidestepped the spell's range
>i go to hug, it's almost like a grapple check
i fucking hate this half-suggestion plausible deniability "please let me do whatever i want" shit
>i walk into the blade
jesus fucking christ

>>96856714
Then there's the whole thing where Yasha has been seemingly dumped from the mighty Nein animated series with the excuse of "we're reworking her story" and "needed more time"

>>96843557
>>96856714
I think Ashley is the most introverted in the crew and actually finds the roleplaying and doing voices part of CR awkward when playing, especially when she knows she's being filmed.

>>96844637
QRD?

>>96854560
gotta be as old as a ghoul to look like one

>>96825049 (OP)
This campaign has so many silly and sentimental moments
>I put my hand on his chest to see if I feel a connection
>Roll a religion check
What? And why was it a DC 30 skill roll to remove a big stone from the open chest cavity of a corpse? Why was success described as a historic magical achievement that rivals killing the gods?

>>96857028
TL;DR (still a long explanation) - Orym, Fearne, and Dorian were originally from an ExU campaign that Aabria DMed with a couple of other players. Somewhere in the 90s episode count of C3, they had two episodes were half of each of those episodes (so basically 1 episode length in total) where Aabria came in to DM and those players also joined back up. It was tying up their story and also led up to Dorian rejoining Bells Hells for the end of the campaign. Long story short, Aimee Carrero was playing a character that was tied to some god or whatever and Aabria forced her to fight the other party members. It was dogshit, a ton of people complained, and I skimmed over all of that crap because Aabria is bad enough as a player and magnitudes worse as a DM

>>96858480
>And why was it a DC 30 skill roll to remove a big stone from the open chest cavity of a corpse?
Because he knew Marisha had a free success still in her pocket
>Why was success described as a historic magical achievement that rivals killing the gods?
We dont know. Why should he immediatly lore dump the entire significance immediatly, instead of keeping it a mystery for later?

>>96859421
>I skimmed over all of that crap because Aabria is bad enough as a player and magnitudes worse as a DM
I want to hear the gory details.

>>96859567
Then you can go watch the second half of C3 92 and first half of C3 93. I refuse to subject myself to her more than I have to
The biggest sticking point most people had was that Dorian cast Chromatic Orb and she forced it to do AoE damage so it killed off Dorian's brother. Which is utter nonsense

>>96859583
>The biggest sticking point most people had was that Dorian cast Chromatic Orb and she forced it to do AoE damage so it killed off Dorian's brother.
What the actual fuck? Why does anyone put up with her?

i miss C2

>>96859600
>Why does anyone put up with her?
Anon look at her skin tone and ask that question again
The were careful when they had Micah burton on for multiple episodes because they didn't want the same shit she did to rooster teeth to happen to them
Other anon didn't even mention how in EXU she forced Opal into the spider god route or how she jokingly (but pretty obvious seriously) told the players to stop ruining her campaign because she didn't plan ahead
Or how she makes all her characters she plays a horn dog type and even interrupted Fearne's moment in the last episode to the point that Matt had to have the entity Fearne was talking to cast wall of fire and silence on her character

>>96859668
I miss the first half of C2 before they just started to fuck around and run from every fight

>>96859684
yeah early C2 (especially caleb and nott) was peak, i wish they could have just stuck to a premise instead of devolving into sitcom characters

>>96830526
you seem to post in CR threads a lot for somebody who hates CR
why is /tg/ such fucking tsunderes?

>>96859721
I wish that the cast didn't choose crime life just because the characters hated the empire, they didn't go along with everything Jester wanted to do, Beau wasn't so terrible, Molly was a rouge or a bard instead of blood hunter because jesus christ is it still a bad class even after the reworks, yasha actually had a personality, and that they didn't treat romance like a bunch of blushing teens

>>96859668
those were the days innit

>>96860124
I just saw a pic from Marisha from C1 and gods, I would've dragged my cock through broken glass just to sniff her seat. Thankfully we have Whitney now that Marisha's hit the wall.

Holy fuck Aabria stop saying lets go after every single roll or action. I did not think she could get more annoying, but she has

>>96861215
i'm sure she'll keep exceeding expectations

can someone please tl dr the first 4 eps

How many of you were gullible enough to think there would be finally be unscripted deaths and encounter outcomes with Mulligan running the show?

>>96862279
First three episodes are basically just a funeral for an NPC and 12 hour lore dump. 4th episode is a long fight, a PC death, then surprise, death is meaningless again

>>96862279
Ahh everyone is gay liberation faggots of various flavours, the world is fucked because they overthru the gods, and then half the party got assmad that they didn't overhtru the petty bourguise as well. The petty Bourguise are now going to ass fuck all the kumbayah bastards by virtue of having been basically been made gods of the underworld and if you read between the lines, basically having a shadow spawning nuke like from 3.5 in their pocket if the peons get uppity.

oh and there was like 4 episodes of a funeral before it got to one of the good things. And one player is a creep ass mask that any reasonable person would SCP035 into the fucking sun. Currently the soldiers table is only real table worth watching.

>Robbie is the one who submitted the most character information by far
How come his character is so fucking boring?

>>96863714
Expecting a twist like the wolf is actually the brains and Kattigan is the companion

>>96828176
the granny is the only one who's in a position to observe the changes in real time.
and it's not that said was incorrect, it was her taking advantage of the situation for her own gain.
4channers still have no media comprehension, not shocked in the least.

>>96828836
familial connection, magic user in an incredibly intense moment able to alter the intent of magic
cmon man, go play a war game if RAW is all you care about.

>>96828176
I think. Outside of the Elves, nobody is really old enough to remember the time before the defeat of the gods

>>96864351
But muh christianity is heckin based

>>96862279
>god of war was a dickhead
>orcs figured out how to kill gods
>other gods said "oh fuck, gotta intervene"
>mortals said "fuck, seems we have to kill all the gods now"
>gods (and their mortal followers) vs mortals war
>gods die
>some years later
>surviving mortal followers of the gods became nobles (sundered houses) in the new world
>try to reestablish their grip on power again
>old anti god rebels start rebellion against old god-followers becoming noble
>inconclusive outcome of the war, both sides needs to get along
>game starts here
>old high priest of god house 1 made deals with a demon lord and started a fake religion
>old high priest of god house 2 goes full necromancy and tries to take over the realm of the dead
>old rebel hero is on to them
>gets executed
>old high priest of the gods houses 1 & 2 try to reestablish their hold on power again
>try to abolish local guards with their own troops and install puppet as head of arcane academy
>butcher good guy former god priest house Number 3 in a coup

>party 1 goes after former god priest house 1, with their fake religion and their pact with demons
>party 2 goes after former god priest house 2 with their play necromancy shit in the afterlife
>party 3 goes after takeover of political power in the city

>>96864494
thank you
that sounds understanding enough for me to keep asking for recaps but never watching

>>96864494
>>surviving mortal followers of the gods became nobles
Isn't it a bit silly to grant noble status to the losers of a war?

>>96866010
Depends on how the god war actually ended. We dont know how many mortals overall actually rose up vs how many mortals remained loyal to the gods. We know that the sundered houses had all been god aligned, as well as the faction that Vaelus, Ashleys character is from. Maybe after the gods all died it was a situation of "Shit is fucked right now, we can continue fighting and wiping each other out or see how we survive in this new world."

>>96856714
Maybe it'll be better when the focus is just on her comparatively much smaller group. I could see some players just feeling awkward in the outrageously massive group that CR used to have. Seven players is way too fucking much.

the coom shippers arrive

>>96867338
That's hard-coded in the fandom and the characters are somewhat designed with that in mind, desu

>>96867338
rare straight ship (already seeing fans coping that they are "siblings coded")

>>96868021
but there is nothing sibling like to them
its like an alcoholic and a sponsor. a gaslighting alcoholic but still.

>>96868021
That's funny because I always thought Laudna and Imogen came across more like sisters than lovers. But of course no one would raise a stink about that because yay pandering representation

>>96828527
The moment this popped up on my screen I felt a palpable "I dont want to watch anymore" hit me lol. And I'm one of the rare people who actually likes Liam most of the time.

>>96837404
Having her and Matt play at the same time makes it really obvious too. All of Matt's DMisms are just him flavouring his character and describing how he moves and adding flair to things and all of hers are "AND THEN I STOP HIM! THE DICE SAID NO? WELL I STOP HIM A DIFFERENT WAY! I CANT DO THAT? WELL I STOP HIM ANYWAY!"

>>96868293
its nice that they all have been quarantined at the same table.

>>96868333
It's odd because individually I dont mind any of them. I love a DnD edgelord so I don't mind Taleisin's edgecringe characters (although I do hate the obsession with being overly secretive about everything, which he at least so far appears to have dropped for this campaign), I don't mind Luis' verbose ramblings about the character's inner thoughts because every time I've seen him, he's been happy to push the big red button and he actually roleplays a character as a character with its own distinct personality, I think Marisha just being herself (big titty loud mouth kentuckian whore) will probably help her this season and Liam, for better or for worse, is typically a good anchor for a narrative that (through his own ego and desire to be main character) at least keeps a story flowing and progressing.

But you put them all together and it falls so flat.

>>96868333 Schemers will be a tough watch. Azune, Bolaire, Hal and Murray. Which is a shame, cause the Sundered Houses quest line is the best. Hoping after the first Soldiers mission, Wick and Tyranny swap with Azune and Hal (both of them showed an interest in going anyway).

>>96828527
I feel like Taliesin is one birthday away from a Trumpian neck vagina

>watch the recap to see if people reveal any extra details
>apebria says her character is "maternal"
>her character who left her children to go off and party
kek

I didn't bother to watch most of episode 4 (?) live, but I've been listening to previous ones when I'm not doing anything. Thoughts:
>Brennan needs to stop enabling these gay, one-on-one scenes that are an excuse for the player to melodramatically "act". Aabria is the worst about this.
>Matt, inversely, is really good at condensing his RP while retaining its substance.
>Brennan's DMing is otherwise good (it's Critical Role, it's going to be on-rails regardless) and I like his sense of humor.
>Laura's metagaming is already rearing its head, with her bemoaning how bad her luck was during the combat encounter with the thieves.
>I fucking hate scripted stuff, holy fuck.

>>96859668
How naive we were, thinking that the party's incompetence leading to the death of one of their own children would change anything.

>>96868404
>through his own ego and desire to be main character
i mean he actively took a backseat in the last campaign and we all saw how that worked out.
sometimes you need to lead the retard herd.

>>96868241
I stopped watching C3 early on but I get the feeling she was going for Dorian early on because she always wants a romance, but when Robbie left she didn't have a ton of options and just latched onto Laudna.

>>96869416
She was definitely going for Dorian. Did the whole 'fake fucking' disguise thing with him and everything. Marisha even called it out once.

>>96868849
Well we have set up a precident that characters staying as far as possible from their kids is the best way to keep them safe

In the new recap video they have interviews with everyone. Whitney just has normal makeup on and no piercings and she looks waaay better. Crazy how looking normal improves everything

>>96870477
She needed the slut makeup in order to activate the simps and make them care for her before she falls off in the following episodes

So Halandil is just Liam trying to capture the essence of Fjord right?
He must still not be over losing Jester to him.

>>96844572
The whole
>unlimited passive plant aware awareness and control
thing is insane to me and especially for someone like her to have it, it's like the ultimate tool to disrupt. I wonder if that is something they actually talked through during character creation or something she just thought her druid should be able to do as a druid on her own and when she started doing it live, they couldn't just stop her.

>>96873418
They have nothing in common other than being both half orcs. Your eceleb obsession has rotted your brain

>>96874518
>In this moment, Taisha picks up something happening on her continent-wide network of plants listening to anything and everything and inserts herself into whatever it is

>>96874518
She seems to cast spells outside of combat like a GM would, by describing the effect and not declaring that she's casting a spell. She cast heat metal on Thimble's gear by just saying "all the metal you're carrying starts to heat up." Laura just ignored her though

>>96874906
>Laura just ignored her though
best way to deal with her pathetic dm turned player cries for attention.
Other than to just straight up confront her bullshit with a "Im sorry, did I miss a call to roll initiative?"

>>96875743
Laura usually ignores all other female players that aren't founders though
she does not suffer any competition

>>96875758
mommy laura knows that apebria is not remotely close to her level

Does anyone actually give a shit about these sponsored one-shots? I never watch them. I tried one of them a long time ago and it was so fucking dumb

And this Dispatch one is more shill than sponsor since CR is directly involved with that game

>>96877007
No.

>>96877007
I liked their Heartstone one. But that might be because Jennifer Hale is a legend and one of my first VA crushes

>>96860614
They're both the same age, too.

>>96873418
Could be. It was the only part of the Caleb arc he wasn't able to script. It affected him deeply. He will latch on to Laura's PC at some point. Like the sadboy shtick, he can't help himself.

>>96878229
Brutal.

>>96873418
>>96879710
caleb being slightly interested in the ditsy tiefling is hardly latching onto laura's character when the only other pc options were the dyke monk and the non existent yasha.

>>96880246
Liam even said in one of the Talks or the wrap up that Caleb wanted to romance her.
>C1: scripts their characters as twins, then proceeds to say creepy shit like "let's pretend we are married"
>C3: Immediately starts shadowing her character
They could just adventure. Why the hell do people want to make want to write fucking soap operas and force ship? Trying to romance the PC of your friend's spouse, or even the one you call your female "buddy" in real life is creepy as hell, anyway.

>>96882602
The answer is theatre kids, as always

>>96882602
that's not what he said.

>>96882602
you are absolutely making up a narrative and i cant tell where its coming from.

>>96883766
Making it up? Liam literally said it.
Where it is coming from? Do you do "pretend" flirting with your friends and their spouses?
It all comes back to >>96830526. What CR has always done is the very thing creators of the TTRPG genre were trying to avoid. Just play role play your character instead of trying to write story-lines for them. If only they could RP instead of plotting shit, and being themselves if only they had super powers (always acting chaotic neutral instead of alignment).

based liam schizoposter

>>96884612
sure he said he was interested in caleb romancing jester but your take away seems to be that he's obsessed with laura based on that and a one off comment from cr 1, hell, in the third campaign i think their characters interacted the least amount of the entire stable cast.

>People talk about Liam's nat 20s
>Brennan rolls like 4 within the first 20 minutes

>>96885907
He's been doing that sort of creepy shit constantly for years. He can't even keep his fucking hands off of her for 20mins. What he does is not RP. He will use a time when the others are laughing to pretend to laugh as well just to touch her (picrel- it's the same move). He physically acts at the table (again RP is NOT doing this) just to touch her. You must be new to the show, completely oblivious, or willfully spinning such creepy shit to good for some suspicious reason.
You don't see Marisha, Sam, or even Travis trying to suckle Laura's tits like Liam does, do you?

>>96886471
No one in Critical Role's circle could play an honest game if their families' lives depended on it. They are all too narcissistic, phony, control freakish, and generally dishonest people to do it.
When their home "game" was created for Liam, of course CR will always be fake, no matter who is GM.

>>96886983
fuck off autist

>>96886800
now post all the times Laura affectionately leans her head on the shoulders of her fellow cast members

>>96886800
autism

>>96887096
It's ok when girls do it

>>96887096
>affectionately
That's the point. With Liam, there is always an ulterior motive. Whether it's saying "I don't want to metagame, so I'm going to...", while his whole character backstory is built to metagame (Orym knows VM personally and EVERYTHING they did, even the private stuff). Or manipulating his friends by pointing to his 'such and such is dead' backstories every campaign, with the cast knowing he is talking about his mother.
He's a piece of shit. I wonder if those defending him are too, or just gullible, parasocial dumbfucks.