Critical Role discussions (and other DnD pods/shows)

at this point i think its obvious that ashley's problem was actually blindspot the whole time

 

Just finished episode 2 and it’s killing me that they are playing this campaign like they are at home. Don’t give a shit about stepping over the line

 

Also Opal is an amazing character. I love how the new players just jumped in with both feet, not taking a back seat at all

 

It's a great cast.

Also shows I think a table of 7 is too much. 5 seems much better to keep everyone engaged.

 

Have they said what race she is? I noticed this episode started with all the players introducing themselves and I think everyone but her said name, race, and class

 

human

 

Since I'm assuming we don't have a D&D thread, is there any place on the net I can find some free 1 shot adventures? Looking for around levels 5-10. Going to have 6 players and will be my first time running a game and I'm nervous.

 

Fair

 

Just run the Mighty Nein adventure with the gnolls as a one shot unless all of your players watch Critical Role. If not, Acquisitions Inc with Chris Perkins as the DM ran pretty much a bunch of one shots loosely strewn together. You could copy one of those.

 

During lockdown DNDbeyond/WotC released a shit load of 1 shots. I downloaded them like 20 of them. Still might be on their website.

I also have them saved somewhere but my laptop just broke so I need to find them somewhere I backed things up.


Edit here’s the website

https://dnd.wizards.com/remote/freematerial

could just take levels 1-5 stuff and upscale encounters

 

Should be lots here. Some free, some not

https://www.dmsguild.com/m/

 

I wonder if they'll explain more of the deal with Ted (I'm about halfway thru episode 6)? Aren't there only going to be two more episodes?

 

Matt Mercer is exactly as awesome as I thought he'd be as a PC. Also Aimee Carrero is absolutely the star of EXU. I wish I could see her and Sam play together.

 

Marisha to full time producer. Aimee in slot 7.

give the people what they want

 

I have finally reached C2E141. That fight in 140 was absolutely bonkers. Well done Mercer

 

EXU is really good, but not feeling the actual story arc. Guest PC leaving should help

 

I just keep coming back to: you've got like two more episodes. Where is this going?

 

Not sure how they wrap this up on Thursday.

Also curious if they'll announce when Campaign 3 will start

 

Yeah no idea how they finish in 1 more episode, but that was a very cool fight.

Aimee and Robbie are fantastic. Also continue to be impressed with Matt. Mercer is a really really good as a PC.

 

anjali has been terrible in all crit role content

 

Bold? prediction for campaign 3: Liam and either Taliesin or Sam have male characters that have a romance arc together

 

Liam has had a male romance arc in both campaigns, I don’t think we’ll see him go 3 for 3.

sam and an NPC is totally plausible/probable.

 

Sam played a gay character too already

 

I was referring to more like a full blown thing like Yasha/Beau, not the dabbling bi stuff he's done already. But you make a good point.

 

I just listened to the campaign wrap up and holy shit at all the planning Liam had done with Caleb

 

I think Laura is going to play a Fighter or Bear totem Barb. I think she just wants to do damage.

I think Liam will go Bard.

I think Travis will go Druid. Maybe battle master fighter

think Talesin will go Artificer.

think Sam will do something fucking terrible like Purple Dragon Knight Fighter or some awful ranger subclass

I think someone will for sure go Sorceror, guessing Marisha.

ashley will play a rogue.

 

Wonder if Mercer will debut any news subclasses for campaign 3.

I think someone will be a paladin and we’ll see several non traditional races

 

I would imagine they're all currently fighting over who gets to play the warforged

 

Kobold incoming

 

I would be surprised by a Battle Master strictly because Orym is one in EXU

Sam: wild magic sorcerer... um... centaur

 

Sorcerer is the worst class

 

I'm making a big henchman that is a shadow sorcerer/assassin rogue. Darkness spell that only you can see in should be nice for sneak attacks

 

Sorcerer just needs a bigger spell list. It's a great class.

 

Literally the only experience with Sorcerers I have is Tiberius from CR C1 and Matt playing one in EXU.

so I have no opinion

 

Sorcerers are just shit wizards

 

Ehh i disagree. They're just different. Metamagics give them some capabilities that a wizard couldn't touch. The biggest one being subtle spell, which makes them the single best party face in the game. Undetectable charms with the high charisma modifier a sorcerer should have are REAL nice for social encounters.

If sorcerers had a bigger spell list they'd have no problems, and wotc seems to know it. The tasha's sorcerers all had expanded spell lists. It's time for an official errata where every sorcerer sub gets one.

 

yeah, the two sorcerer subs printed in tashas did have an expanded spell list in the same way that cleric domains have an auto prepared list. sorcerer's are really great and, to me at least, are infinitely more fun than wizards. wizards just know a lot of spells (including steel wind strike). cool, thats not exciting (but steel wind strike is).

any reasonable homebrew for the other sorcerer subs make them quite good too, especially divine soul. and considering that the tasha subs do actually have that expanded list, id be shocked if any gm would be against a homebrew fix for the others.

 

Also "I have these innate abilities I don't understand and can only hope to control" vs "I'm gonna sit and read these books for a couple days"

Which one sounds funner to you

 

the one that doesn't require paying gold to learn spells

 

Im finishing up episode 7 of eXu right now and honestly, its kind of a let down. I've listened to mini-adventures like this and they've come off a lot better. If they knew it was 8 episodes and done, you can't just meander the story like its a full campaign (unless they plan on spinning this off). Also Aabria is a fine DM, I just don't love her style. They'll spend an hour where she just asks everyone how they are feeling or what they are doing when something is going on. Obviously role playing is a huge part of DnD but she seems to unnecessarily slow things down sometimes. Honestly its been a slog to get through some of these despite the incredible performances by Matt and Aimee.

 

finished up yesterday. 7/10. aabria is fine. just fine. not great, but fine. i liked the post credits bits she did but other than that meh. she slowed down a lot of shit but not even close to as much as aimee did combat. or really anything else that required knowledge of the mechanics of d&d. aabria just threw out inspiration and high level abilities whenever she wanted. and was often asking for weird ass rolls. "i'd like to try to pull the carrot out of the ground" "ok, make a spell attack roll"

the story was fun. the characters were more fun (except liam). is it c3 yet?

 

Think they've said expect a C3 announcement in October

 

Going to have to find a new campaign to listen to for the fall if they aren’t starting until then

 

The Adventure Zone Balance arc if you have never listened to it. It and CR are the only ones that have managed to hold my interest the entire way through.

 

how many episodes is that? I was thinking about going back and doing the first campaign of high rollers but the way they talk about it, it sounds like it was quite a learning process the first time through

 

67 1 hour episodes. Takes a few to hit its stride because most of them had never played before. They also are pretty fast and loose with rules, but the story is top notch and the guys are all funny as hell