Thread 96898150

Laura Bailey moans edition

Campaign 4 will be taking a break this week, a one-shot featuring the new Dispatch game will be broadcast instead. Next week it's the SOLDIERS TABLE.

Overview of the Overture | Campaign 4 | Ep 1-4 Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdLPwuKMlIY

Previous thread: >>96825049

i appreciate the post but there's not much point until the campaign episode.

So what did Thijazi see in the sky before his death that freaked him out?

>>96898150 (OP)
>Laura Bailey moans

>>96898874
>2 minutes of Laura Bailey doing VA for a sex scene
was this Liam's requirement for Critical Role's involvement with the game?

So tell me /tg/, why was YOUR character at the execution?

What did he/ she think.

>>96898897
Because you can kill a man, but not the idea.

>>96900562
you can if you fart on it.

>>96898897
The free early Amulet of Talos.

>>96900562
But you can kill the people believing in the idea. And most of the time, thats enough.

>>96898855
He probably rolled a nat 20 on a perception check and hijacked a wizard's teleport spell which sent his brain to the moon

>>96898897
To get one of those commemorative plates

So what is Critical Role even about? I only ever hear people that it's a thing, but never what it is about. Like what are the campaigns themselves about? Where do they take place? Is it a generic fantasy universe? Matt Mercer's own creation? Does he fuge the rolls so his players always survive? Are there different players for each campaign? Do they have an impact on the world?

>>96902123
It's a show where actors pretend to play a game set in a world where traditionally monstrous races live among humans. Think Zootopia or Sesame Street, but with emotional scenes where the actors actually cry about dead NPCs that they never met outside of their back stories. Also they killed the gods because gods are racist against orcs

>>96902123
It started as "hey let's livestream our weekly session because it's covid and everything is shut down" but now it's scripted and the characters never actually risk death unless that death has been preplanned by mutual consent. Several players have been seen openly cheating (rolls) but it doesn't matter because they have to hit each character's various story arcs so you're really watching people pretending to play 5th edition

>>96902123
Theater kids get together and "play" D&D.

All I know is that they talk super fucking slow a lot of the time. Very melodramatic.

>>96898897
>wtf kind of name is The Ozzie Fag? Also why this dwarf woman has a beard, that's disgusti
THAISHA ENTERS THE SCENE TO BE THE NEW MAIN CHARACTER

>>96902352
>>96902447
>>96902509
Whaaaaa-
and this is the Critical Role General saying this?

>>96902540
Truly anon, it has really declined in quality the last few years. The first campaign was legitimately entertaining but I tried and failed to maintain any interest at all in watching the third and fourth campaigns.

It's lost that certain something that made it special.

>>96902972
I'd still enjoy a lively romp in the sheets with mommy Laura tho

>>96902447
>"hey let's livestream our weekly session because it's covid and everything is shut down"
Actually, the first campaign started in 2015. It's often credited with 5e's success, especially with it ending up so popular with theater kid types.

>>96902540
People who actually play the game, at least on Reddit, used to say
>Critical Role is like the porn of D&D, don't get your expectations too high
But now, it feels more like it's the WWE of D&D. At least in porn, someone is actually getting fucked.

>>96903150
Fair enough.

>>96903163
Anyone who has actually played (so, not /tg/) knows that real games aren't anywhere close to this polished or narratively-complete.

Side quests and plot hooks get missed all the time. Characters accidentally get killed before their <whatever> arc.

It's just so obviously pre-planned I can't get past it

>>96898874
>>96898894
this guy is still schizo over liam being friends with a WOMAN.

>>96898897
just happened to be walking by, going about my business
thinking "literally who?"

>>96898897
Clogbee was keeping an eye for anyone who might interfere with the execution. Specifically, anyone using magic to disguise their appearance.

Thjazi's always been an arrogant upstart who thought he could fit the entire world into the palm of his hand. Good riddance.

>>96903771
>he scripts that their characters are twins claiming they are 'close buddies, like twins in real life'
>his character says "let's pretend we are married"
and "remember when we used to take baths together?"

>next campaign, tries to fuck her PC

That's some creepy shit for a friend to be doing, even if they are clueless theater kids. Not to mention him literally trying to script a scene kissing his friend's wife at the table. You really think this is acceptable behavior?
Try that shit with your friend's spouse at a table, and let us know how that goes.

>>96905258
>he gets away with it, while doing a live-action roleplay of it, while Adam Koebel got completely cancelled for just saying (without describing it in detail) that an NPC mechanic gave a robot player a "robot orgasm" by plugging a cable into their port

So Mulligan loves to hear himself talk even more than Mercer, and the new cast members have only the worst traits one can show at a table, just like the main cast. Yet /crg/ seems to be mutating into a fan board, with few still having the energy to call them on their shit. Is /crg/ doomed to the crapper like the hobby?

>>96898855
Birds probably

>>96902123
Critical Role is about watching theater kids yap for 3 hours while you wait for Sam Riegel to do something funny. I highly recommend it.

>>96903771
Whenever cr gets brought up on tg, some schizo chimes in saying Liam is totally creeping on Laura. I always assumed it was a pack of Laura gooners who had lost their minds, but it does make more sense if it's just one or two guys.

>>96905335
>players want gritty Westworld style game
>female player chooses to play male bot
>GM does exactly what would be expected in such a world
>player can't RP it out. not only not grasping where the scene was going, but can't make anything from it.
>player acts like she was assaulted in real life
>show and GM get cancelled
It would be tragic if he wasn't a guy promoting fucking over GMs and other players with "safety tool" snowflake, control freak shit. Your character IS NOT YOU, dumbasses! I blame CR for this shit too (Liam, cough cough).

Are these couple of Liam defenders autistic? Do they really think he doesn't cheat, the behavior with Laura's PCs is OK, and constantly fondling her at the table is not only completely innocent, but great role-play? Or are they just shady fucks themselves hoping tables will allow gooning over friends' spouses too? I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. Was.

>>96902123
>What are the campaigns themselves about?
Campaigns 1-3 (DMed by Mercer) were high fantasy taking place in Mercer's own campaign setting, Exandria. Campaign 4 is DMed by BLM and is set in a different high fantasy setting, Araman. From what we know of it so far the main conceit is that the races of this world turned on and killed their Gods.

>does he fudge the rolls so the players always survive?
Not officially, but there is clearly scripting to some extent going on, more so as the series has gone on.

>are there different players for each campaign?
The Mercer-led campaigns are based around the same core cast of 7 players with occasional guests, Campaign 4 has 13 players total who are splitting into 3 different tables, the campaign will follow different arcs with each table and presumably they will from time to time come together and switch up the line-ups.

>do they have an impact on the world?
Typically yes, the characters generally end up attaining high levels of power and influence, taking on world-ending threats etc. In campaign 4 the PCs look set to play a major role in a conflict between noble houses trying to fill the power vacuum left in the wake of the dead gods.

>>96898874
>plots to be next to her at a live event yet again
>tight seating
>get rejected
Rare moment of awareness from Laura

>how dare you humiliate me in public, woman!
>even if I have to write a scene to perform at the table, I shall suckle at those tits!

>>96905983
>>96906201
>>96906415
your schizo posting doesn't work as bait. all you are doing is constantly admitting you've never had a woman as a friend, and its really telling.

you don't have to be a normie to recognize the schizo.

>>96906718
Notice how anon doesn't find it strange when Sam or Ashley refer to Liam as "my husband" or when any of the other casts gets touchy, but only when Liam gets close to Laura.

>>96906169
>races of this world turned on and killed their Gods.
So how do clerics work then?

>>96906761
hell his most recent point is that she once sat on the arm of a packed couch.
you know, out of the actual thousands of times sitting side by side.
its bad comedy.

>>96906780
we've not seen any real clerics. one of the pc's might explore this. paladins are le godless

>>96903352
>Side quests and plot hooks get missed all the time. Characters accidentally get killed before their <whatever> arc.
I had a dungeon crawl end with a 3/4 party death.

>>96905823
>t. Liam O'Brien

>>96906780
We don't know yet, but one PC thinks he is a cleric but actually appears to be some kind of celestial sorceror.

>>96905983
I see it too. I honestly believe that Laura had them play twins in campaign one so that he wouldn't try to romance her. And he's the reason Travis doesn't like romance rp, but was forced to romance his wife's character so that Liam wouldn't.

>>96907182
>>96907415
schizo samefagging

>>96907437
Liam has the hots for Laura. You have the hots for Liam.

>>96907480
>no one has vpns, multiple devices, image editing software
>no really multiple people fail to understand what a friendship is because one is a WOMAN.

>>96907527
You're the person calling people schizos? I suppose I'm the one who blocked your toilet too.

>>96907622
>non sequitur reference

>>96907635
>You committed a logical fallacy, that means you really are everyone who makes fun of me

>>96907646
not everyone, just a schizo in this thread making random references only you would understand.

>>96907672
I have posted exactly once about Liam's obvious crush on Laura. You are the schizo. Get a fucking grip.

>>96907787
sure you did, thats why you got turbo defensive over some other anon's nonsensical schizo posting.
I swear you people are too dumb to even shitpost anymore.

speaking of gooning to laura,

>>96907834
This >>96907622 is turbo defensive? I'm making fun of you. But it's not fun anymore. You're boring. Keep posting about how I'm a schizo who spilled your drink and made your penis small.

>>96907901
I accept your concession.

If the guy that uploads the episodes on pixeldrain read this, can you please also upload the subtitles with the episodes?
thank you mate, love you

>>96905335
There is nothing more hilarious than the most stereotypical looking and acting shitlib imaginable getting fucked over by his own ridiculous purity tests.
>>96905693
He is honestly worse than Mercer. His entire shtick is creating heavily scripted shortform campaigns that allow him to pontificate at his players with his rehearsed le epic speeches.

Outside of DnD he is the most insufferable midwit imaginable who always needs to get the final word in.

his biggest downside to me so far is the lack of acting or voices. might as well tune out when his npc's are talking

>>96905845
it truly was the craziest case of a cancellation I have ever witnessed.

A lot of good content was lost because of this shit show.

Watching the Dispatch one-shot and it actually feels refreshing with only four players and Jasmine as a DM. Had some actual laughs, too.

Still don't give a shit about Dispatch or Daggerheart, but there's maybe hope that smaller tables will work in this campaign.

>>96906761
see
>>96888557
It's in everything he does. I didn't start watching him closer until I realized he was constantly fudging rolls and cheating abilities/spells. With Picrel same as >>>96886800, it's the same move (left) and clearly not a genuine reaction, or he forces physical scenes (right) to fondle her where she has to play along. I only remember a few times touching Marisha as being aggressive, like when he literally wiped her face with his hand like he was putting shit on her. So about those defending him...

>>96913172
On a side note, the physically touching is just another example of how Critical Role is completely clueless as to what role-play is. They still think it's performing a stage play. That's why they script PC arcs, the campaign outcomes/encounters are predetermined, and they cheat so much. They see everything as needing to create third-person scenes for an audience, rather than playing an honest game. They don't have the ability to inhabit a character where have little control over the result.

>>96913172
I can do it too anon

>>96913177
I don't have and actual 'Liam' folder yet, but there are A LOT pics with him labeled like 'creep', 'cheat', 'asshole', 'main character, 'sociopath', etc. Thanks for the suggestion though!

>>96913285
Find one with Travis suckling Marisha's tits please.

>10 years of Liam doing Orion shit every episode
and he doesn't even have a meth excuse.

>>96913177
It's interesting that you responded to him in 1 minute 30 seconds, and you responded to me yesterday in 2 minutes

>>96913550
not me nigger

is anything even real

Ashley is clearly there for the reactions. She's the one who has the best facial reactions of the cast, the others are lackbuster or like Matt trying to be stoic but it comes off as boring when shit happens

>>96905335
>pink-haired undercut freakshow gets cancelled
and nothing of value was lost dot jaypeg

>>96900814
Damn anon, you got me. GGs

>>96906169
>Campaigns 1-3 (DMed by Mercer) were high fantasy taking place in Mercer's own campaign setting, Exandria. Campaign 4 is DMed by BLM and is set in a different high fantasy setting, Araman. From what we know of it so far the main conceit is that the races of this world turned on and killed their Gods.
Is that seriously all of the worldbuilding there is? A high fantasy, multiracial setting, where the mortals killed their own gods.

Critical Role seems like it massively favors style over substance.

>>96914266
>and nothing of value was lost dot jaypeg
Believe it or not, but his campaigns with Itmejp were so much more interesting than the old Rollplay they did with Koibu (who I still watch, so I know exactly what kind of DMs they are). He looks like the most obnoxious SJW you can imagine, but he is actually more respectful than Koibu, when it comes to inserting his magical realm stuff into his game. And he is also much more knowledgeable about mythology and history.

I really hoped that Adam Koebel would become a right-wing grifter for his comeback, call everyone who was offended a weak pussy, who ruined his life over literally nothing and restart his career.

>>96916580
>Is that seriously all of the worldbuilding there is? A high fantasy, multiracial setting, where the mortals killed their own gods.

After four episodes, pretty much. I'm actually getting a War of Souls vibe from Dragonlance. The dead are restless, ghosts everywhere, gods are gone, magic has changed and old rule has been upended by revolutions.

>Critical Role seems like it massively favors style over substance.

This has always been the case. Tidbits of lore are dropped to set the stage in every episode, but otherwise it's character drama.

Guest hopes? Maybe some cool guests can save the Schemer & Seeker tables

>>96916580
>why is the new campaign world not as fleshed out as Exandria was after 3 campaigns with 120 episodes each
Do you have stupid

>>96918830
>>96919651
I am asking you guys, if it's worth it to start watching Critical Role. I don't know the differences between the campaigns, except that there are apparently four. So my question were all asked in the most general context. Should I watch campaign 1? Yes or no?

>>96919856
Yes. Its fun. If in doubt, watch the animated series of amazon prime about the first campaign, it already got 4 seasons. If you like the show, you will also like the campaigns. And if you dislike it, you just stop and do something else. Giving it a try wont hurt you

real talk. Did Tallisin unkowingly mindreak Erik Ishii when he first shaved her hair?

>>96919894
man that shit is ugly

>>96919870
idk why you would recommend the cartoon first. the appeal of the show is meant to be the "game"

>>96919856
If you're thinking delving into CR in general, yes, watch campaign 1.

>>96919856
Campaign 1 retains the most semblance of being a group of friends playing a real game, there's even a That Guy player who gets booted out after the first 25 episodes or so. From then on the production value increases but things get a lot more polished and scripted. In all cases though there is a bit too much mawkish character drama and *acting*.

>>96920173
its a group of voice actors from anime and video games. If you dislike acting, what are you even doing here. "Oh shit, thats the voice of Illidan from WoW doing shit!" is the whole appeal.

>>96920173
If I wanted to watch DnD without the drama & acting I'd be watching one of the 100s of other shows run by literally who normies.

>>96920204
Its not so much about disliking acting but getting tired of players not being able to walk down the street without a monologue about everything their character is thinking and feeling at that time, CR gets extremely self indulgent sometimes, but it does have a fanbase that enjoys this stuff even if it comes at the expense of the gaming aspects.

>>96920395
Well yeah, thats the appeal of CR. A bunch of theater kids doing theater kid drama and RP. If you want a more gameplay/ mechanic heavy experience, you´re better off at some other actual play

are newfags really seething about leemposting again?

>>96921121
I noticed that his characters sometimes end up naked while the other player characters don't.

>>96921121
it's entertaining until it's done unironically

>>96916580
The longer critical role has gone on, the worse the worldbuilding has become due to their personal politics becoming more extreme and the shitty behaviour of the players that Matt seems to encourage.

>>96921687
elaborate on how the worldbuilding has become shittier and how it relates to their politics and behaviour. Provide examples.

>>96921835
AI prompt-tier post.

>>96921835
Just look at campaign 3. The continent of Marquet was set up in previous campaigns as fantasy arabia which is a cool as fuck setting. In campaign 3 it was once again another generic as fuck fantasy Portland with no ethnic or cultural identity of its own.

On the bad player behaviour side of things, Matt is actually quite a shit GM when it comes to reigning in his players and how his NPCs interact with them. They constantly treat the PCs as the centre of the universe and if one even provides a minor inconvenience they act like sociopaths towards that NPC and Matt never questions or punishes them for it.

The anti-god storyline of campaign 3 as a whole was fucking awful and provided no interesting conversation at all about them. The PCs just decided to be anti-god on a whim, even jumping to raiding a temple and murdering priests with zero consequences at all. A massive self report on their real life views on religion.

At the end Matt played the gods like cucks because he himself cannot bring forth any kind of authority in his GMing.

>>96922032
>if one even provides a minor inconvenience they act like sociopaths towards that NPC
I remember the sewer technician in campaign 2. They sawed his hand off and threatened him to silence because the sewer system required an enslaved water elemental to run properly. They freed the elemental, which I assume caused the city's sewage to back up. It didn't occur to them that there might be consequences, or that Liam's character had an enslaved fey as a familiar
>Matt never questions or punishes them for it
He leans into it. However the players perceive the world and its inhabitants, that's how they become. Jester's mother was a horrible parent. She was an agoraphobic prostitute who kept her daughter locked up until adulthood, and so her personality was that of a permanent child. But a child with a penchant for drawing penises on everything, which hints at what she was exposed to growing up by her whore of a mother. But because everyone acted like the sun shone out of her arse, Matt retconned her into this kind, loving mother

>>96922148
>why is the party of societal outcasts and assholes dickish to some guy
>why didnt they think through all consequences of their actions
Are you aware what the point of the Mighty Nein is? Being chaotic dickheads and giant assholes is their entire thing

>>96922032
the retards literally got cultural sensitivity consultants for campaign 3.

>>96922562
This has been how they've acted for 3 separate campaigns. The fact that all they play are chaotic retard aligned characters with no push back proves my point.

Anyone have a download of the Fjord+Jester wedding? I heard Marisha made it about the lesbians again.

>>96914144
>shiiiiet, these crackas crazy

>>96923480
I'm hoping they made out for real

>>96914144
Matt looks like every troon i've met in real life.

>>96922032
It was nice seeing Brennan fire Marisha’s retarded ass character on the spot for acting like her usual stupidly uncharismatic smarmy self to a powerful figure.
Can’t believe they put her into the scheming/political party. I’m really hoping her stupidity gets her character fucking ganked

>>96922562
The mighty nein are the fucking worst and not in a fun way. They never got there shit deservedly pushed in and never leaned in fully to being assholes.
It’s this new gen liberal Mary sue archetype of the characters being dickish but then having there dickish behaviour justified and never rectified or even called out.

uhm, i was promised laura bailey moans?

What's everyone's take on BLM DMing now? Personally I love it since he's just better that Matt at literally every facet of DMing.

I HATE AYBRIA

>>96924459
He is better in some ways but worse in others. He really does love hearing himself speak at times.

>>96924459
I really like him. Feels he might push there shit in buts it’s still to early to tell whether he’ll just astroturf the campaign to stop any deaths.
That octis death and revive was 100% scripted bullshit but that dumb nigger doing absolute garbage in combat and mercer’s character ganking everything was peak.
Everything I know is telling me there playing a rigged, scripted game but the fact he gives the dc’s and rolls for everyone to see on insane shit gives me hope not to just blow off the campaign like I did in season 2 and 3

>>96924383
Marisha was generally the worst when it came to the PCs acting like fucking psychos if they are slightly annoyed or feel morally superior. The only people who dont are Sam and Travis (Depending on the character).

>>96924540
Remember when she heroically poured acid down the throat of a sleeping guard?

>>96924825
For literally no reason too
The guard was asleep and she could have just sleight of handed all his stuff away or knocked him out
But instead she decided to lay out which weapon to use to kill him with
It was interesting see all that in real time with both chats because everyone was asking why?
Example of Marisha just doing something because the others were going on a murder spree for no reason despite the fact all of the ones inside knew invisibility
Gotta also love the half hour the spent deciding code words and team names

>>96924825
ACAB

>>96902447
>It started as "hey let's livestream our weekly session because it's covid and everything is shut down"
are you retarded? it's been going since 2016.

Caught up on the vods in time to watch this episode live, so far Wick is the best character and Murray is the worst.

>>96898150 (OP)
>taking a break this week
>both Twitch and YT schedules say C4 EP5
I thought they were supposed to have some sort of staff

>>96924825
>>96924930
>Liam also crushes one to death.
>Chaotic Good
>Mercer then scrambles to make it so Evil shit had been happening, even though the PCs didn't know anything.

>>96925406
He crushed two guys to death and used the staff her got from Allura to kill others
Matt did show how much of a pussy he was by making it seem like evil stuff was going on just to appease the others
Even though a few moments prior he leaned into the 9 doing bad things by having the guy Jester was talking to say how it was a summer job

ok so ive only read recaps and dont even remember them anymore
who is playing tonight now that they are split? is it worth trying to watch again

>>96902123
>what is Critical Role
1 amazing campaign followed by shit that will never live up to it

>>96925608
This is the only good group of the three. It has kino Travis, coin flip Laura, Robbie who was the only good player in C3 even though his current PC kind of sucks, and the Sam + Whitney combo who is the best duo CR has ever had.

>>96924825
lol I hated the mighty nein so fucking much man.
Marisha somehow making a character worse than keyleth
Liam attempting to make himself into the new Percy with his main character syndrome going into stage 4.
Travis playing a fucking boring ass orc and trying his best to blend into the background.
Taliesan who played molly-ack!, got himself killed cause it turns out mercer’s homebrew this time was under leveled not over and in retaliation played a build that made dying almost impossible with a guy who would’ve abandoned these losers the first chance he got
Sam who’s character had no reason to stick around after turning back from a goblin and made his husband into a literal cuckold
Ashley who honestly had no character
And Laura Bailey who made one of the most annoying lol so randumb fucking characters I’ve ever experienced but somehow shined through the gruel and dogshit of the rest of the cast

how will liam manage to insert himself next to (inside) laura despite his character not being at the table

I hate that Matt couldn't be with this table.

the party with the most interesting characters and best RP moments is playing tonight

It's INSANE to think Laura of all people has the least interesting character in this group.

>>96925688
This group is too stacked, we need some diversity for ratings

>>96923638
Jester and Fjord are literally basedjaking in this, lmao

>laura
>travis
>robbie
>sam
>what's-her-face
holy fucking peak table
fuck everyone else

This campaign will not end until main character Halandil has gotten his finger in that Thimble.

>>96925688
Juliens goins to be the best thing in that other party and it won’t even be close

>>96925654
>>96925713
Can you please stop posting your fetish

Came in late. See they're still doing this retarded cold open bullshit. Fuck you, Brennan, stop changing the format for the sake of changing the format

>>96925719
What do you mean? I'm not Liam

>>96925725
You don't know how time works and its somehow somebody else's fault?

The cold open's are great. Fuck you.

>>96925741
No, me coming in late was not related to hating the cold opens, just that I was late on commenting about it.
The cold opens have all been retarded so far

Cant play Dispatch, listening to Laura on CR for years, i cant disassociate

Laura has DEFEATED the wall

>>96925733
Did they just say "Palmer"? That reminds me, what has their good buddy Amanda and her husband been up to lately?

Oh, you thought today was a soldiers table day?
Too bad!

I was promised Soldiers wtf

>next week we'll join the soldiers table
>just kidding lmao

fucking bait and switch bastards

We Want Whitney

what the absolute fuck was that intro, lmao. they have truly lost the plot with this campaign. could not look more pretentious if they tried

>>96925808
Damn, bitch, you live like this?!

>>96925815
It's a filler intro
It some how is more nonsensical than last campaign filler intro

Stevie Wonder lookin ass

When the soldiers table aren't on screen, all the other players should be asking "Where's the soldier's table?"

>>96925802
Much like their Kickstarter to mandatory Amazon Prime grift.
>MC Liam not being on cam for a week
You're still believing anything they say?

are we actually not getting soldiers?
if so im tuning out, what the fuck kinda bait and switch is this
>>96925815
pretty sure the intent is that it's supposed to be hal's theater troupe performing

>>96925826
Yeah I guess they decided faggy theater orcs was safe from being canceled, unlike the original C3 intro with the explorers

FFS they know the soldiers table is the only good content, now they are going to drag it out as long as possible to keep those viewer numbers up. Guess I'm going to once again wait for the VOD.

Matt and Luis should kiss

crazy to see this general alive again, i thought for sure it was extinct after the nightmare that was C3

>>96925867
I mean it still isn't as active as it used to be

>>96925867
To be fair it’s nowhere near as active as it used to be

>>96925867
the fact that we're (eventually) getting a table that's just robbie, laura, travis, sam and whitney has pulled some people (me) back
because that's a kino table

START THE BLOODY SOLDIERS

I still don't get why he pulled it out

Oh good Abriha still gets to try to be the MC

MY PLANTS SENSE ACROSS ALL DIMENSIONS AND HEAR EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE

aperia is fucking unbearable

aaaaaa shut up I don't like this guy get to the point

>>96925924
>>96925941
i was tempted to watch seekers table episodes because matt and alex are cool, but then they included aabria the unbearable
what a shame

>>96925925
did she seriously do this shit again
wasn't watching

>>96925941
>>96925948
She's not nearly as terrible as she is as a DM, but her whole "I use druidcraft in order to cast a 3rd level spell" schtick does get pretty annoying. She's still not the worst character though, that probably goes to Marisha's character.

why does anyone care about soldier's table? theyre just kicking in doors who gives a shit i want to see what the HELL is going on with occtis

>had a horrible day
>well, whatever, at least I can chill out and watch Sam do Sam things
>open stream
>get visual confirmation that it's the Sam table
>walk down the street while they're shilling to pick up dinner
>walk back, sit down
>no Sam
>mfw
Are you cunting me? What is the fucking POINT?

>>96925975
Marisha is the worst character. Aperia is the worst player. There's a clear distinction between these two things.

>>96925988
I mean, Occtus' table is probably the second best table.

>>96926000
And they couldn't stick them in the same table for some reason

Matts character is literally the fucking best.
>fighter/rogue
>human male
>noble
>no chill for these fucking retards

>>96925975
>>96926008
best case scenario would have been marisha, aabria, melty and liam all on one table
>>96925988
can't fool us aabria, get off this board and go back to explaining why your plants allow you to read the minds of everyone in a 10 mile radius

idk why you're complaining about characters/players when literally nothing fucking happens and we don't give a shit about what's happening
as far as I've been able to pay attention to it's been 12h of funerals

God damn I like Brennan but this is going to be a long campaign if he's just going to "nudge" them from encounter to encounter the whole time.

if aabria was as hot as whitney nobody would give a shit how she behaved or acted

Matt needs to go to Abribruhs table to try to salvage that bullshit

>>96926016
>as far as I've been able to pay attention to it's been 12h of funerals
Well in theory, that's supposed to be the "overture", it sets up the plot and reason for the different parties to form, and then after that each party would have their own adventures while sometimes crossing over. Hopefully this current stuff is just setting stuff up for the other two tables and we get back to whatever the soldier table is doing soon.

>>96926026
If Whitney were regularly soft DMing her interactions and inserting herself into every other moment she'd get just as much shit.

is BLM paid by the hour? like if he stretches this shit as much as possible he'll make bank? ive never seen a pro dm have such a poor understanding of pacing and the need for going back and forth between tension and relaxation

>>96926032
It feels like BLM is trying to set up a path forward for at least one of these groups, like how the soldier table was set up to pursue what's-his-face after the encounter with the rogues.

>>96926035
luis and robbie do that shit too though

>>96925988
you're describing the best way to play D&D: making shit happen instead of tiptoeing around it

Ashley's big voluptuous fucking TITTIES

>Episode 5
>still going nowhere. still just yapping
What would be a good mystery storygame they could use to perform instead?

>>96926043
>Travis realizing he's literally employing this guy

>>96926051
Make a wisdom saving throw

apparently soldiers table doesn't show up until after the break
why even call it a soldiers table episode, this is part 4.5 of the overture
what a waste of fucking time

>>96926051
>What would be a good mystery storygame they could use to perform instead?
candela obscura
daggerheart

I'm very confused. Why does Bolaire have any reason at all to care about the Tachonis kid?

>>96926062
Ashley...

That's it, I give up. Post sexy Laura's if something happens

>>96926062
His dad killed his dad. Ned Stark is keeping Jamie under his thumb so he can get revenge

>>96926054
>nat 20 for a 75
Looky, I can do storytelling too!

so when do they fight goblins or whatever?

>>96926075
combat is so fucking cringe gay and boring bro just go play a video game

>>96926081
>20 hours of exposition about a dead guy and a stone
all you have to do is throw in bisexual characters that dramatically talk low and the audience will lap it up

there were literally no war drums why do they keep saying this shit. theyre footsteps

retard im not asking for combat
make them have to sneak somewhere to grab evidence
make them have to flee from a crime scene they were framed for
make them have to chase a spy accross rooftops
make them have to escape a room filling with acid

TENSION
STAKES
DANGER

>>96926107
i can compromise
dramatic whispering

>>96926076
The fight last session was the worst the campaigns been so far so I'm not exactly jonesing for more

>>96926101
Classic Marisha misunderstanding something and then pushing it until it is too awkward to correct her. The war drums are now canon.

aaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

the first 4 episodes were supposed to be the setup!!
c'mon, let it develop aaaaaaaaa. its over, my hope is in the trash, gonna wait when 50 episodes is up. cya later in a few months /crg/

It's so weird seeing season 1 with a bunch of friends playing some d&d to whatever melodramatic theater play this shit has turn into. Like seriously, what the fuck is this

Why was this episode marketed as the start of the Soldier Table adventure when half of it is resolving the other 2 tables? This could have just been Overture episode 5.

>>96926137
The switch from livestreaming was a disaster for CR.

>>96926140
yeah this is a marketing flub on their part. they had this all planned out and couldn't execute it somehow

>>96925695
Its been forever but i miss that bit where he would read fan questions off flashcards, back when people gave a shit.

But im glad he went out the way he did in a drama fueled hell dive. Much more entertaining then whatevers being streamed now

>>96926076
I miss when people grasped that goblins, orcs, and every other bipeds were not supposed to be just re-skinned people.

this dull, droning shit is good for something. I'm sleepy enough to go to bed. Thanks CR.

Something's going to happen soon I can feel it

>>96926107
Tentsons, steaks, and daggers are irrelevant when nobody invests time and effort into their characters

>sneak sequence
Sleight of hand or stealth checks and aabria using her plants to soften everyone's footfalls in a 10 foot radius whenever she goes like druidic pass without a trace
>flee from a crime scene they were framed for
basically what just happened with the attack on the palazzo. besides aabria could just grow plants to cover up all the evidence.
>chase sequence
physical checks and aabria using her plants to ensnare the escapee
>flooding acid room
they already did this trope in vox machina but aabria would just summon an acid drinking deep forest emergence jutsu to slurp it all up

>>96898897
“Total orc death” I mutter chudily

>>96926191
I don't have
>maybe something will happen?
>WHY WOULD ANYTHING HAPPEN?!
saved

>>96898897
>Holy fuck, my taint itches so bad
>Maybe if I scratch it right as the rope snaps taut no one will notice...

You know what I really hate? The juxtaposition between serious drama and boisterous laughter. I cannot stand how jarring it is. Please make up your minds about whether you want a convoluted comedy routine or a good storytelling vehicle. Inappropriate, excessive, or unnecessary laughter is easily my biggest ick. Shut up.

whispering =/= acting

Oh boy I can't wait for the "people with jobs" table

WHEN WILL THE FUCKING TABLES SPLIT

Marisha metagaming again

>>96926233
just before break, returning after break with the soldier table

>I heard it I have sensitive ears
Oh my god fuck off marisha you stupid smarmy cunt

>>96926233
They literally won't, they already talked about this in the Q&A. They're just a colloquialism or a shorthand for a specific group of people whose goals are related or intertwined. They're going to remain very flexible and everyone is contractually required to attend every recording session, even if their characters aren't playing.

>>96926011
that's why he was careful to establish he was a bi faggot in episode 2, lest the audience accuse him of being too based

whats with this guy and birds

the bird imagery is forced and unremarkable

does anything scream sell out more than making christmas albums?

was marisha this bad as keyleth

>>96926026
That is immediately disproven with how people still complain about Marisha or Ashley. Both of them are hot and still get shit (deservedly)

but yes Aabria being ugly on top of acting how she does just highlights how repugnant she is in all aspects

>>96926291
Yes, and Beau. For some reason she just loves abrasive characters who never let shit go.

How come the BLEEM is able to get away with dictating what player characters are thinking or feeling even though that's supposed to be one of the seven deadly sins of GMing

>>96926291
Yes. Why she keeps playing int and wis based characters is a mystery
I remember her playing a dumb valley girl raccoon in one of there old one offs and it was actually really good from what I can remember

>>96926310
In this moment

>>96926310
Because he is running a 13 player campaign for 3ish years. He is taking liberties to push this shit through.

>>96926310
Honestly I would complain if cr didn’t make it abundantly clear that if you give these retards a sandbox and a wide room to make decisions they end up doing nothing and making decisions completely against the characters there supposed to be playing.

I love Laura Bailey.

Alright

>>96926335
MILF

>dahapshanee
Cool name. How come everything in this setting except the name Araman itself starts with a D?

>>96926332
The majority of Critical Role's "roleplaying" is just playing as cautiously as possible to protect their precious original characters at all costs... and then to act like suicidal retards whenever they think they're in a "safe" RP setting.
>Let's spend 2 hours talking in circles to construct the perfect plan...
>Oh, what's that, a shiny object radiating an aura of death has been brought into the room? My character does a backflip onto it, trying to break their neck as hard as possible!

My favorite moment playing 5e came from actually roleplaying as my character, even when doing so was objectively deranged.

robbie:
>okay while everyone talks i do some gross wolf shit

>>96926378
based

Should Laura and Travis be on the same side of the table with her hands out of sight like that

I dont understand how Occtis and Wick are literally the only interesting characters in this entire campaign so far

>>96926386
They're holding hands with me.

god this is such a nice change of pace
no faux-deep breathy whispertalk, no "my plants do X", no dogshit rp from marisha
just need brennan to talk a bit louder and i'll be cheering

does critical role have any racism in it? I really like plot where racism is a thing in the world, but the cast of character isn't ignorant. Like something like metaphor: refantazio

>>96926405
>Inmate 24601

>>96926400
Because they are actual characters in the story, not just vessels for their players class.

>>96926400
You have a thing for twinks

Brennan shines when he gets to be a weird little freak with zero plot relevance

>>96926347
Imagine if this was the show. Imagine getting a full length show of just these 5, laughin banterin RP'n. Knowing that critical role could be great again

>>96926418
Nope
They got rid of characters being racist after C2

Sam playing a character that fucks everything up is great.

whose worse: orion ocabra or aabria illyengar

>>96926473
Apples and oranges. Orion's faggotry is humorous on a meta level and could have only existed at a time when Critical Role wasn't an overproduced soap opera pretending to be DnD. Aperia's isn't entertaining, and it's the kind of self-indulgent nonsense that only becomes more annoying in an environment where no one knows how to say "no".

>>96926473
Well I'm free from Orion so

>>96926473
orion cheated rolls, wanted to erp with players and nps, took an extra hour to go shopping and constantly metagamed

She's 4" tall. That is far too large to be able to fit inside except the most absurd of locks.

I really like this npcs

>>96926496
And yet, not as bad as apebria.

>>96926511
Do animators jerk off when drawing this stuff?

>>96926511
Imagine.......

>>96926509
Abalang is fun

How many episodes until Whitney pegs Sam

>>96926526
You mean their characters right

>may the beam reach you
Literally fucking spat out my coffee that was the only diegetically funny piece of dialogue that has ever occurred in this campaign.

Whitney is distractingly sexual

Wick is a glowie

I'm gonna go ahead and give a shoutout to the anon uploading to the pdrain, hope you get some good head my dude.

soldiers table is so fun

>>96898150 (OP)
>septum piercing
dropped

>>96926582
Be the change you want to see

Fairy sex

*sips*

>17 nat 20s in 114 d20 rolls
Alright, fuck off already.

>>96926608
Tidal wave of semen

>>96926623
Someone with data science experience should determine whether this statistic is accurate in a scenario where each player is "allowed" to have one free Nat20 per session.

Laura totally didn't want the group to know about that place but everyone just meta'd it lul

>>96926666
checked and agreed. sometimes i wish people would just 3rd person that shit. "Yeah, I will do anything in my power to prevent that information from leaking to my party" eat my freshly washed asshole

can someone stop this chad?

>Tyranny is racist
Based.

whitney is really hard to get a read on

>Something's happening
holy kek

>>96926666
Something has to happen, it's been 5 episodes of yapping

>>96926683
Whats hard. She's Jester 2.0

>>96926702
not tyranny, whitney

>>96926702
Tyranny feels a lot more mature than Jester

>>96926174
Remember when Sam's character wore a mask so nobody would know she was a goblin? It was a completely unnecessary measure because nobody batted an eye at the half orc, the tieflings, or the giant, pink cow-man

>Racists see orcs - I see a Wizard, a Paladin, an Artificer, a Ranger, a Cleric, and a Bard.

wish this show had more breaks

>>96926734
you don't have to watch it live

Has any critical role villain ever been a rapist? And if so was it one from Liam’s characters backstory?

>>96926193
>I'll ramp up onto the roof on my BMX, drop down through the skylight, pop a wheelie, and knock the knife out of the bad guy's hand
>Or I could just control all the plants to do it for us again

>>96926754
I believe Vex was briefly sold into sex slavery pre stream but that's the only thing I can recall

>>96926753
mental illness disallows me to finish non-live episode

>>96926787
Based

I'm going to lose gallons to this table

You know a npc is going to be a morally good person when mercer/brennan brings up there dark skin

>>96926828
its darkened from age you fucking polbrained schizo

>>96926832
Fuck off to Reddit you dumb nigger

>>96926776
no she wasn't. why lie

They're going to get ambushed in the middle of the night and the fight will take up half the next episode.

>>96926841
Chill Captain Autism I was going off my faulty memory

did they mention why this episode started an hour later?

>>96926884
DST

>>96926894
huh?

>>96926898
the sun teleport 1 hour into the past

>>96926903
>tfw arizonan

Soldiers section was pretty fun all things considered

>>96926776
>>96926841
I mean that would explain why she ends up with Percy. Addicted to rich dick and such

>>96926754
Jester's mother was a literal whore (a famous one at that) and I vaguely remember a situation where an NPC was harassing her in some way. But that's about it

>>96926917
carried by abalang and the cute old gnomish man

why are they all fucking whispering

>>96926939
He was interested in her, but she wasn't interested in him, so they maimed him

>>96926982
Yeah Fjord cut his hand off and ruined his life because he hit on a woman that wasn't interested. The closest the Mighty Nein came to being straight up evil and only Sam seemed concerned over it.

>>96927011
Man sometimes I wonder how far gone morality is

>>96926754
they turned someone into a clone of vex and mailed him to her stalker once

>>96926754
fuck, didn't read fully and was about to Liampost but realizing that this is a Liampost.

>>96926955
They're acting

I've never seen CR outside of a bit of the cartoon. My campaign ended and I'm burnt out creatively on homebrewing, is the CR campaign setting fun to run? What's it like? I've been considering alternatives that aren't just Faerun for my next campaign

>>96927279
Assuming you are talking about the first setting Exandria. To be honest its sort of just another "close to generic fantasy, but here's the slight TWIST!" setting anyone could make. The races all more or less get along, only exception is that Fantasy Empire #12 is at war with basically Mordoor but the monster people aren't all chaotic evil, which could be interesting I guess if you lean heavily into one side and build up all the propaganda for your players, then show them that they are people. It uses the Dawn War pantheon which I hold as a top tier out the box pantheon. None of the races really have fun homebrew lore for their origins or anything, the world mostly blends together in a generic fantasy bowl of gruel. Also LGBT stuff is basically accepted everywhere, which for half this board is an automatic deal breaker.

Obviously you could reach different conclusions, but I would say that there are other settings that would be more interesting to run a game in. Greyhawk is good, Mystara could be fun to whip out, and there are always the weirder less mentioned parts of Faerun you could run a game in. The shit that hasn't been touched since long before 5e. Nentir Vale is also dope.

nothingburger episode. at least one group is moving

>>96902540
don't mind these retards, there's genuinely something wrong with almost everyone left posting on this dead board

>>96926754
The oni Lorenzo (where Taliesin had his character get killed) kidnapped Jester, Fjord, and Yasha. When they were finally found they never spoke about what happened. Lorenzo and gang were supposed to be Evil so...
As for Liam, his first PC kept making creepy incest comments to his sister, which she wasn't happy with. Caleb, his second one had some rooms he wouldn't let anyone see in his magical mansion. That, combined with his creepiness toward Jester and his admitted evil backstory, gave serious rapey vibes. His third Orym (who was claiming to be gay) was always tying to "sleep" in Ashley's character's crotch. His PCs always do the same sad act too to con the party. This one also gives the same vibes that something very twisted is in there just waiting to strike.

>>96926223
Most of it is performative/fake laughing too and way over the top. Most never forget they always have the camera is on them. I think they even have a monitor to see themselves. Instead of this interweaving party mess, they should've had 2 entirely separate campaigns adding Liam and Taliesin to Mulligan's shows people, and one adding Robbie to the remaining CR original cast.

>>96929031
>His PCs always do the same sad act too to con the party
didn't watch c3 but
c1: hey laura and marisha im so worried about your characters haha now you have to choose between playing your characters honestly or playing them at all
c2: i dont care about anything except altering the fucking past because that's such a tried and true benefit to any narrative but also be my gf laura i mean jester

This style of campaign only works (like different teams meeting the same NPCs) if there is no metagaming.
>Liam and Taliesin not metagaming

>>96926730
>big yellow eyes can bee seen through mask
Poor Sam trying to have consequences for stupid actions. Like his kid Luc getting nuked for good reason, only to have Matt bring him back unscarred, and completely unaffected emotionally.
Every campaign, the party fails upward. Just like Mercer and crew have.

>>96926485
Orion was a lesser version of Liam, without the added monologging.

>>96929595
>reminded of Orion, then Liam's shit over 10yrs
>spell check says monologuing is wrong
>go to dictionary 'monologging' to find correct spelling
>misread that spelling is incorrect
damn you Liam!!!

>>96929595
opioid abuse causes constipation. orion was definitely monologging

>>96898150 (OP)
Unfucking believable, was looking forward to a pure soldier's table episode (like Brennan said it would be) but no after the prologue it's back to the cast of nobody gives a shit.
Can someone tell me how much of this episode is the soldier's table? Or when they come back? Dear god, let brennan move on from these other nitwits fast.

>>96929031
Seeing as Yasha was a really shit barbarian (didn’t Ashley spend an ability score increase on fucking charisma?) I’d imagine it was easy for an o I and friends to dick the dyke.

>>96927279
Basically what the other anon said - if you or your players don't already have a connection to Crit Role, then there isn't really a point in running a game in Exandria. It's just a generic flavor of fantasy. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing that will stand out versus Faerun or any other fantasy setting you can come up with. Without the "oooooh I know this from CR" connection there is no purpose to doing it

>>96930307
Soldier table come back after the break.

So one table is people with day jobs, confined to one city who melodramatically whisper until the DM forces them to advance the plot and the other table is an actual adventuring party exploring the world.

It would make sense if they don't dedicate full episodes to one table because the viewership would tank for the non-soldier ones

>>96929595
Orion was kind enough to give Matt a list of shit he wanted to buy when shopping. All the other niggers turned it into shopping episodes

>player can choose between skill checks
>DM says "you can also try..."
>success!

>player fails roll
>other player can then decide to use spell to make them succeed

>NPC acts kind
>I moonlight as a criminal
Who the hell would say this to a bunch of strangers?

>PC owns a theater
>another PC talking to NPC says something like "it pretending to be someone else, playing a role..."

Every being (NPC, PC, Monster) in CR worlds essentially Chaotic Neutral dumbasses. They always end up self-inserting, even after 10yrs. Role-play is just too strange to them.

So the pinnacle of players and DMs today, equals the shit-tier of yesteryear. Thanks, Critical Role

If you like my cute indian wife Jasmine as GM in Dispatch one-shot make sure to watch her DM mini-campaign Coffin Run (Dracula's entourage adventure after Mr Big D gets the stake) and associated Adveture's Party (what CR stole with cooldown from D20).
Campaign:
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AP:
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>>96932684
Trigger Warning though: Erica Ishi