CAMPAIGN 3 IS FINALLY ENDING THANK FUCK EDITIONAfter 120 episodes this disaster of a campaign which caused /crg/ to die off, the show's popularity to dwindle and CR's own subreddit turn against it, finally drawing to a close let's have a thread to witness the (likely) finale and discuss the future of the showQuick recap of the last story arc:>the party goes to the moon to stop a guy trying to release a god-eater>campaign goes full memberberries mode as PC parties from previous campaigns join up with them to fight the BBEG>the BBEG, a 1000 years old ultra-powerful wizard who's been scheming for centuries, dies like a bitch in an epic 1v9 fight after casting a mildly threatening level 9 spell and wasting all of his legendary resistances on concentration saves for said spell>the party stands alone in front of an eldritch being that wants to eat all of the gods>even now, after 120 episodes, the party has no idea what to actually do and a prolonged discussion ensues whether or not to actually release it>keep in that mind the BBEG's plan was to release it and the party seemingly had no objections to that plan, they simply disliked the guy>matt grows so tired of the party's fence-sitting he railroads laura's main character (sorry liam) to go forward and merge with itWith Matt's patience growing thin will the party finally face consequences after more than 3 years of dodging plot hooks and chaotic stupidity? Will he nuke his own setting? Will the characters from previous campaigns show up to save the day? Will the most powerful being in the universe be action-economied to death? Let's find outhttps://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole
>>94822947we back
>>94822947>consequencesAshley already invalidated them at the end of last session.
odds of a tpk tonight? (if matt does this, it would definitely be an accident)
>>94822947that campaign sounds gay as fuck, is Laura still hot tho? that's what I used to come here for.
>>94822998she's aged but i still think she's hot
>>94822998marisha has aged the worst. ashley was never hot but is fat now. laura still hot but milfier than before.
>>94822947buy an ad
>>94822990Realistically 0% but there might be some slight hope Matt decides to kill them out of spiteI know better than to be hopeful tho, they will win and be hailed as heroes despite being the least heroic party in any of the campaigns
>>94823056why would anyone advertise on this dead board?
>return a toothbrush after you've used it>they send it to somebody else
>>94823076>they will win and be hailed as heroes i can't wait for this shit to be over
>>94823093
kek that dude just invited himself to jump on stream for a shoutout?
>D&D >minis>not squareswhat's even the point?
>>94823119they measure it with rulers
>>94823123I can accept that, but I hate it
>>94823128
Imogen + Predathos
>>94823138They're gonna talk-no-jutsu through this encounter won't they?
The only real play I kinda follow is Adventures in Lollygagging, but on podcast format where I can slowly go through it whenever. I particularly like how they make 3-10 episodes and switch among small games like Die or Orbital Blues.I always knew CR was the big hitter that made the format popular but never got into it. Now that I've accepted the format should I watch CR? What's the main appeal? Can someone sell me on it?
>>94823152Yes, but they're also going to do a slog combat for 3 hours. Episode is 4 hrs and 23 mins long, break is at 3 hr and 9 mins
>can we take actions?>... yeah... combat hasn't started yetis this how people play D&D?
>I attempt to overcome a great one transformation through the power of friendshipAnd this shit will probably work
>>94823177>>94823204they’re all afraid to do anything because they instinctively know this is just a cutscene for Matt
Haven't watched in months. Has Liam been suckling those milkers regularly?
why are they so allergic to having things happen?
>>94823219Liam's acting is grating to me, I do not know why.
>>94823221because>>94823218
>>94823221You could say it's because they care for their characters, it's good to have that type of tension. But it feels boring for a streamed game.
Hey guys, what's happening tonite?
>>94823255OP promised Namek explodes today, only reasson why I'm watching.
I know we are all expecting merciful Matt, but realistically how are 7 15-level dudes supposed to win this encounter without some bullshit?
>>948232697 15 levels dudes can take a god
>>94823269>without some bullshitthere will be some bullshit
>>94823262
>>94823282
>>94822947Greetings /crg/, used to be an anon here around the first 20 episodes of this season. What did I miss? How bad is it?
>>94823291>used to be an anon here around the first 20 episodes of this seasonyeah I remember you, welcome back
>>94823152They did it with Molly in CR2
what's the party composition?
>>94823128>>94823184actually saw this the other day. Now I know why Laura does VA instead. Knew it would be bad, but very disappointing after seeing those pics.
>>94823312what’s it called?
>>94823300thank you anon
>>94823319Alamo Gold (2008)
where my One Piece D&D heads at?
What's Orion doing tonight?Captcha: W0W0
I'm putting together a team
>>94823331>Matt, I would like to roll for a half chub
>>94823291The entire campaign was like a rudderless ship, the characters did not particularly care nor engaged with the main conflict of the season (allowing Predathos to eat all of the gods vs. "Hey, maybe that wouldn't be so good actually"). There were multiple callbacks to previous campaigns, full episodes of them playing as their previous characters and a whole story arc of splitting the partyThe party was completely aversed to danger, utterly spineless and tried to uh and uhm its way to some sort of a finaleAlso the one moment of something happening (3 PCs dying during a single encounter with only 2 possible ressurections) ended up being a scripted mini-arc of the party doing stuff to make the dead PC come back. This disregard of any consequences on top of abysmal pacing is what made most people drop the show I reckon
>>94822947>CR's own subreddit turn against ittl;dr on this?
>>94823331I think I know 2. The one on the right was the one they kicked out early for being a wacko, the one in the middle was a scam artist. Who's the one on the left?
>>94823346slammed a door in Ashley's vicinity and got cancelled
>>94823346Ashley's ex husband>>94823341>The entire campaign was like a rudderless ship, the characters did not particularly care nor engaged with the main conflict of the seasonSo it's like CR2?
have the last sessions been this fucking dead as well? the entire cast looks fucking bored as shit.
>>94823354what was the official call?>>94823356>Ashley's ex husbandHe left so it wasn't awkward or was there a cool fight?I've left games for stuff like that, it happens. When you're just playing with friends that's something to consider
>>94823356Nah, season 2, they at least felt motivated to stop the bad guy's evil plan at the end.
>>94823345Even redditors are disappointed with the campaign and the most consistently upvoted posts all call for the party's imminent destruction
Dang, I could go for some tacos right now.
>god eater does 16 damage
>>94823372>He left so it wasn't awkward or was there a cool fight?I think she got a restraining order against him or something. Dude's online presence has vanished.
>>94823386I was about to say that. All this fucking hype for this big attack and all this nigga god does is deal 11 damage
this was a terrible idea because they’re too pussy to actually hurt imogen
>>94823369I think the only time during the past X sessions where they actually had fun was when they played as Mighty Nein
anyone give this a try yet?Next campaign is going to be on this, right?
>>94823386I think it's going for an engine accelerating, starting slow and getting worse?
>boss has a legendary action that pulls everyone close to each other>he doesn't use any AoE attack during his proper turnMatt...
>HOLY SHIT, HE REDUCES 1D4 FROM MY ATTACK? AND HE GETS 1D4 ON HIS ATTACK!?Aren't these mfers like level 15 or something?
>>94823407they’ve been cagey about it but that’s the speculation. it’s just a less good dnd.
>>94823420>Less good D&DHow so?
>>94823420D&D was toxic on the long run. Now they can only imagine never ending campaigns that take forever. They should do shorter games, maybe something to go back and forth. At this point they are burned out but scared of moving out of D&D, like with most groups.
>>94823431https://daggerheart.org/rules
if they end up not even really fighting predathos because it’s imogen that’s going to be so frustratingly anticlimactic that it would be the perfect ending to this shitshow of a campaign
>>94823431It's going for a more narrative based gameplay. The impression it gave me was that it was kinda trying to be a rules heavy Dungeonworld. It also comes with a bunch of printable power cards, so it has some 4e vibes as well.
>>94823158I would say if you watch any of it watch the first campaign. It's good but it's the only good campaign of theirs. >>94823341They probably received death threats for that (or more likely suicide threats) from people on twitter like they did in C2. They're probably too scared to do anything now in case there are consequences.
>>94823444why don't they just playe Dungeoworld like everyone bored with D&D but scared to try something new?
>>94823450They want to own the IP.
>>94823444>narrative basedeveryone says that but I don’t see it anywhere in the rules. 90% of your character sheet is about combat in daggerheart just like dnd.
>>94823450>>94823455What this anon said.>>94823458>everyone says that but I don’t see it anywhere in the rulesIt has that whole thing of rolling with Hope or with Fear to give you additional narrative consequences and outside of combat its very rules light. It's also not grid based.
>>94823417>>94823419this combat has so little combat it’s almost funny
The BWF case was dismissed, but he is still disappeared. any word?
>>94823486Hey, Sam and Travis are actually trying to do damage to this thing
>>94823419there's a paladin in the party, he got that spell at like lvl14.
Lets find out if the boss is stronger than the new Empyrean.
>>94823479but hope and fear are metacurrency, and most tables will just use it that way rather than in the pbta sense of yes/but/etc. I guess it’s like one point lower on the 1-10 scale of crunchiness than dnd, but I think it’s far from the pbta style game people seem to be trying to pitch it as.
>4 armed God>2 melee attacks and an AoE Mind SliverJesus Matt >>94823502Look up Kolyarut. Probably more dangerous than this as a CR20(Pretend this post was 900 seconds ago)
>>94823502Considering he deals regular ass slashing damage I'm gonna say noIt's probably like CR 17 or 18
>can I grab the tether?no, it’s ethereal >I try to grab the tetherit’s ethereal >it is?
>what did you target with your shatter in your last turn?IT'S BEEN LESS THAN ONE ROUND??
So, how are your games going? What are you guys playing?
>>94823553Dorian is top of initiative and he just went for the second time
>>94823554I'm tired as fuck of my players not paying attention
>>94823554Cloud Empress, based on Mothership but you go through farms eating with people and getting murdered the first time you try to show off. My players went to a village for a harvest festival. One barely survived a bad bet and eventually got shot dead, another one was almost raptured and the last one adopted/kidnapped an orphan.
>it's a melty turn episode
>>94823600Fucking hate this nigga so much
Is there a reason why the boss is focusing all of its physical attacks on a raging barbarian?
>chat>kujaaron : 62 months, crazy to see a friend group stick together that long!>friends
I'm going to the loo, tell me if something happens in the meantime kthx
It's been what, 10 years and 3 fucking 100+ sessions campaigns and Laura still doesn't know how Legendary Reactions work
hahahahhahahahahah
>>94823640>>94823606was that an intentional design?
Don't you just love silvery barbs /tg/ ?
do they still refer to Ashton as "they" and is he still a fag?
>that's a cri->silvery barbsNothing ever happens
>>94823666>>94823670Matt doesn’t tend to ban things like that during a campaign but might for the next one, as no one has taken lucky since c1.
>>94823684they're not using 5e anymore
Bro how does one barbarian attack take 5 minutes to resolve
>>94823667the PCs don’t talk to each other in this campaign. they just watch cutscenes while standing next to each other.
>>94823666>>94823670Its a very good spell at stopping Crits from attacks and forcing rerolls on successful saves. You need to put pressure on the spellcasters to use their reactions to slow its use or give your creatures immunity to level 1 spells or so.
>>94823691unclear at this point but definitely possible. even so, he wouldn’t ban it mid c3.
Does Liam still have that d20 that apparently has fifteen 20's and five terrible 1's (for a re-roll that's coincidentally just enough to hit)?
At this point I don't even watch the game I just post here. I am not missing anything.
this is imogen’s second turn.
>>94823712You really aren't, nothing fucking happens
she’s able to tell all of this from a 10 insight check
is it just me or does Laura look hotter than like 1-2 years agohow is this possible
I wonder if the damage they do even matters or is the entire combat filler between main character Imogen's turns like NPCs in a videogame fighting endlessly in the background to make a scene more interesting
Thank GOD I know I can go to bed and not cope something might happen
This is such fucking bullshit.>Matt clearly wants her to kill or eat this god.>Laura clearly doesn't want to do that, as she is trying to talk or pray to it or whatever the fuck>Matt keeps entertaining that idea, even tho shes rolling poorly and nothing's progressing>"I wanna try to use my memories to reach my friends">Alright, roll for it... ahm well... you try to do this by eating the godThis took 10 minutes
>>94823619someone ate a god, now the fight is even easier
>>94823752I wasn't paying too much attention.Did he prompt her or did he describe for her how she ate it?
>>94823752>oh and btw, this easy as piss boss fight is now even easier and your friends get temporary HPholy fucking shit matt
>>94823759He just described it after she asked to reach for Laudna's thread
>>94823752That has always been Matt's problem. He nudges his players towards things he wants them to do, but always entertains the random stuff they come up with which leads to constant meandering
>>94823759>Did he prompt her or did he describe for her how she ate it?She said she wanted to look for the webs of fate that connected her to her friends. Matt asked her what she wanted to do with them, since she was too distant from her friends to be able to communicate with them. She says she's gonna try to pull 'em, Matt asks her how she tries to do it, she explains and then he goes on to describe how she absorbs the god.It just felt railroady as shit, she clearly wasnt trying to do that.
It doesn't matter that it's not a game. What matters is the players are having fun. And you've never seen players have this much fun for 10 years. So Matt has succeeded at the only thing that matters for a dm.
I'm not into CR. I once saw Matt in a Dimension20 4-parter and he seemed fun, always ready and quick to react even when it went against what he wanted without being overbearing. Is he always this boring when he DMs or only in important fights?
>>94823779we’re almost through round two!
>>94823779
>>94823781I have never seen a CR combat Matt has enjoyed.
I wish he would do combat more like D20.
>>94823789I was gonna ask why didn't they play PbtA or something like that instead, but he wouldn't get to railroad people this hard in a game where the players decide story beats. It would never progress neither with this players.
>>94823781He's this boring only with his players because he needs to treat them with kiddy gloves
>>94823781he used to be pretty good in C1, at least IMO. He's good at doing voices, setting up the scene, doing descriptions, but ever since C2 his campaigns are just the shits.Everything is scripted and boring as fuck,it doesn't help it that 90% of the players are borderline retarded.
>>94823796Candela Obscura was pretty much rules light PbtA gay Cthulhu. Don't know how that went
>>94823792I think I'm biased because I only watched D20 when I was at my peak of D&D interest and I found the people playing funny in sketches and game shows. But I feel Brendan was so much better at making combat entertaining, like, it's night and day. I wanted to learn from him, I'd never want a session to go like this one.
>it's an Ashley turn episode
>>94823816At least she's not Melty>I roll an attack, hit, deal 3 different types of damage, apply 5 different buffs and debuffs with said attack half of which I'll forget and will only remind the DM much later to make both him and the player currently playing their turn confused
>burns it’s second legendary resistance to avoid 19 points of damage
LEEM CRIT LET'S GOOO
Man high level D&D is such a fucking slog
>>94823863They are just bad
>>94823863although there is truth to that, this isn’t because of dnd. this whole campaign has been a slog.
>>94823796They did a Vampires way back that was half decent, though part of that was purposely railroaded kills of Marisha and Matt so they could orgy at Burning Man
>>94823863Mix of them being slow and them having 8 PCs. We are level 13 with 5 in my campaign and rounds take like 5mins max
God Eater casts Cone of Cold+ as an action.
>>94823927>49 damage>saving throw 20 succeededThis thing is genuinely less threatening than an adult dragon
based sam
cool betrayal if only it meant something
I noticed everyone reacting but I didn't hear what happened after taking out the mask, what happened?
here comes all the cunty women metagaming all to shit like with ashton and the fire shard marisha is currently taking a second action on her turn, for example
>>94823993Sam has it and gave her a fake
Sam is always a madlad. Shame for metagaming Marisha.
Nice 6 seconds Marisha
>>94823993laudna tried to put on the raven queen mask and discovered braius didn’t hand over the real mask to her, he handed over a replica
what an embarrassmentwhenever anything happens that goes against laura or marisha's plan, matt folds like a lawn chair. he let her take two actions on her last turn. first he said it was her action to move away and use the mask, then let her take another one to search braius for it
>>94824040free perception rolls isn't a rare homerule, in general it can make combat more interesting as long as you have things around to... percept.
Melty's hand is shaking like crazy>messed up the math so bad he gets to reroll the damage
Holy shit I got up to brush my teeth before bed and Tal is still taking his turn
>>94824070>>94824072He also got a crit during every single round of combatAnd you guys think Liam is the cheat supreme
>UMM ACTUALLY MARISHA ISN'T METAGAMING AND TAKING TWO ACTIONS IS TOTES VALIDThe absolute state of crit chats
two and a half hours into the episode, this is now imogen’s third turn
>I wake up every Thursday and pray to the dice gods for a Critical Role TPK. Because the roleplay would be SO GOODwould it?
>>94824114no, but it would be fun to watch
I wonder if Laura is enjoying spending her turns rolling on Perception and Charisma playing Pac-Man inside the god-eater to potentially weaken an already easy boss instead of fighting it with the rest of the party
>>94824158In a better game Laura would be controlling predathos.
>>94824158she definitely loves being the main character
I liked the stealing divine healing mechanic ngl
consequences?
>>94824257>scripted consequences
>>94824265where?
>>94824240It would be amazing if the boss was actually dealing enough damage to make healing a more pressing issue. Only Sam did any healing so far and he really only did it because of the blind
all three women at this table are unbearable metagamers when anyone interferes, in particular, with their ability to get cool items or boons.
>>94824273I though you meant the phase change after she crawled outside which was the only thing she could do>>94824292yeah, I just found it an interesting mechanic. I feel it'd be hell to balance, maybe barely a thing if players limit themselves to healing word downed members.
>>94824326exactly, last episode was instantly invalidated, no consequences she's herself again
I hate silvery barbs
>>94824360would at least be bearable if it was 3rd level
>>94824345I thought the entire plot was about Predathos needing a host, but apparently he can just chill without Imogen
>Sam getting legit mad before having to swallow it so he doesnt get kicked out
>>94824401He fucking won
action: cast mage handaction: sleight of hand to steal something I hope laudna doesn’t get her mask that marisha is so set on
>>94824410>nah, he'd win
>>94824410You were saying? Girl Power ALWAYS wins
>>94824416third action: put on the maskfuck this game>if you want to use your reaction to give her advantage I’ll allow itfuck Matt Mercer
Holy shit, I would be fucking losing my mind if I was Sam right nowI would be UNREASONABLY angry
>>94824420Fuck this gay game
>>94824437I hope he just turns and executes her>Going to breakIm going to bed
>>94824401I'm not bothering to watch, what did he do?
>>94824373I think it's one of those spells that works under specific conditions, like shield. Shield feels awful for the dude that was sold on the big armor and its drawbacks, but if it's been a very long day and you're having to spend lvl3 slots for a fucking lvl1 spell it's a cool hard choice. Or you made them before getting there. But you need to make the player want to spend those slots to get there.
>>94824428I'd allow the jump into the mask at a disadvantage, it's fun. Not casting mage hand and using it in the same turn.>>94824453Stole a cool item and things got pushed for people to find out and take it back. I don't know the lore behind that.
>>94824485Mage Hand doesn't even allow you to steal secure things in the first place. It's a class feature of the Arcane Trickster.The entire thing, top to bottom, is BS
>>94824523I'm going to hold my sword out at melee range of the enemy and spin in circles, since my movement speed is 25ft does that mean I make 5 slashing attacks?
>>94824523fuck, that's true. I forget because mage hand sucks so hard.
>>94824552Okay apply the multiple attack penalty kek
>>94824552are you proficient in beybladingIf so let it rip
the saving grace is that it doesn’t seem like a boon for a specific pc, even though marisha and laudna definitely thought it was when she stole it from braius
I now truly understand the rage of rugby players when they chant refball.
the character art is so bad
of course they're going for the lamest option
>>94824623what's the ttrpg equivalent of taking a dive in soccer?
the gods saving themselves by becoming mortal and therefore immune to predathos is actually a decent outcome all things considered. at least BH aren’t actively trying to genicide them (although transforming a person into an amoeba is basically on par with killing them).
They are still unsure about what to do, Matt fucked up when he made the campaign as high stake as it is because with those players it is agonizing
>Braius is being treated as the bad guyAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Oh please, let them fail and die. Please.
>>94824721there's light intraparty conflict, it's a good thing. If anything it's better than what happens in real groups when someone steals plot items from another.
Can I get a tl;dr for why this campaign was a disaster?
>>94824751Bland cast of freak characters
C4 when half the cast is gone and there's a different dm I guarantee Liam will still be there every episode>now I get to be the main character
>>94824751Horrible pacing, characters endlessly debating in circles what to do with the plot and just little happening despite the focus being on the main plot more than in other campaignsAlso, even fewer and even less deadly encounters than in previous campaigns
>>94824751World changing event to the level of the gods in the hands of people that want to be walking around joking at the tabern and both the players and DM avoid finding a middle ground that makes an enjoyable campaign for an audience.
>>94824749Yes, if there was anyone at all on Braius' side.What we have is people freeing an all-consuming planar level threat, stealing items from Braius via DM fiat, and then going "wow you're gonna betray us again or do we have to kill you now?!"
>>94824773I won't be watching
Why aren't they showing the options on screen? This would be more interesting if I knew what the choices are.I feel the same with player sheets, stakes are hard to meassure without knowing where anyone is at.
>>94824813not enough budget for post production
Fuck the women are retarded
They can't even decide which boons to take Matt should railroad them harder or just make a low-stake campaign where the party can dick around and be funny
can we agree robbie is goated and the best thign about c3
AND NOW LETS INTERRUPT OUR CLIMACTIC MOMENT BY LEVELING UP TWICE
>>94824842He kind of seems like having a friendly dog around
these few minutes is the most dnd they’ve played in three years.
>>94822947You lied to me you son of a bitch
>>94824839The thing is they aren't all that funny. They're voice actors, not writers. Dimension 20 gets some great scenes out of nothing, but everyone has decades of experience writing scenes with this people. AiL is much more amateur, so they play games that limit your options and work in limited genres. Normal people just need to be funny once in 4 hours, maybe once every 2-3 sessions, and everyone will be happy. This people work best went prompted to hell and basically told what to do.
>it's another melty turn episode
four hours into the epic finale bbeg fight and as of now nothing has really happened. episode ends in like 30 mins or so
isn't dimension door a full action in exchange of taking people with you?
>>94825009it's a different thing that she just called dimension door
Genuinely how do y'all watch this? It's not even a fun kind of train wreck. It just sucks.
Matt is so done with this shit he just lets Ashley roll with the old version of the spell
>>94825024suck cost fallacy
>>94825030this is exactly what Matt wants it to be. it’s not as if the players have any agency.
spells can't crit right?
>>94825047Spells with attack rolls crit on a 20
So next week is gonna be phase 2 Matt sure loves his overcomplicated fights
two episode final boss fight? will we finally get an actual battle next week, unlike the last two anticlimactic bullshit episodes?
there’s still time for a tpk anons
Ok, that settles itPredathos is just Atropus from 3.5https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Atropus
>>94825062>surely the ancient wizard the players have been trying to stop for 100 episodes will be a challenge>ancient wizard dies like a bitch>surely a thing that eats gods will be a challenge>predathos dies like a bitch>surely his final form will be a challenge>???I wonder what will happen next week
Fearne Predathos head
>>94825088I hope Matt takes this chance to actually wail on the players, and I hope half of them die. realistically… I guess I’m not optimistic that it will really be that compelling.
>>94825099>His smile and optimism gone
Ludinus head
>Fearne is 10 levels of Druid and 7 levels of Roguesuper baka
Why does he look so dehydrated in the face and dead behind the eyes?
>>94822947>1v9 fightLiterally impossible for the 1 to do anything to the 9. Always get your solos a bunch if mooks to absorb damage.
>>94825154his wife went from looking like this>>94823195to this>>94823145and she’s a cunt
>>94825165both pictures are a skinny blonde, I don't see the issue.
>>94825154Don't get married, anons....
>>94825177here's the issue*casts disintegrate on your balls*
>>94825183sorry I meant you're balls
>>94825183you'll also turn 30 one dayif you want people to not change with age go for a fat asian lady
>>94825194The white woman seethes
>>94825177she’s a redhead and not skinny anymore. but also he’s older now and he’s the type who goes to burning man and his wife is a known pothead so he’s almost certainly a drug user as well which won’t exactly help him age well
>>94825218nah, the white man isn't free of the curseI don't even know when I started having a belly, I barely eat.
>>94825238You drink too muchSolvedYour body doesn't become immune to the laws of thermodynamics when you turn 30.
>>94825092>>94825099>>94825109thanks anon. did they say anything interesting?
>>94825256I don't drink, my metabolism just sinked at some point before I could adapt even if I had the time to do it.
>>94825282Not really, no.
>>94825343sounds about right kek. thanks
have a good night anons andC U Next Thursday!
>>94823407>xxGGERHEARTALEX I WOULD LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
Rate this episode out of 10
>>948253830/10 >noped out on Ashley's turn.
>>948253831/10 only because of how much (temporary) fun it was watching marisha bitch about not having her special mask that she arbitrarily decided was for her. it was then also fun to realize that the mask wasn’t a boon for the wearer but just brought them to talk with rq and she didn’t get anything special from it
Man I don't understand Matt's approach here. He must've spent hours designing this encounter with tons of mechanical depth but he forgot to make it challengingThe boss was constantly switching between gods he was drawing power from but all this amounted to were different flavors of mildly damaging abilitiesThe boss was able to absorb healing, but then he was never dealing enough damage to faciliate healingOne of the players spent the entire fight to weaken the boss from the insight, but once again none of the various powers were threatening so in practice that player's part was pointlessThe boss had abilities to move players around the battlefield but it was rarely used in an interesting wayOne can wonder why Matt bothers to put so much effort into encounters that he should know his players will just steamroll through due to sheer number of bodies and powerful magical items
>>94825436Also the way the mask worked completely destroyed the episode's pacing >Just take a 30 minute timeout when the boss has a handful of hit points left lmao>Also you getting those boons now will confirm a second phase is coming so no surprise bucko
>>94825441It's not actual "depth", anon. This is meant to be "cinematic", to facilitate specific things. It's meant to make them able to say that "WOAAAH PREDATHOS IS USING THE POWER OF ALL THE GODS", what it amounts to isn't relevant.
>>94825441It has something to do with them being fucking garbage and having like 100hp at 15.
>>94825256Man, the CICO thing is junk science. Don't drag that cult stuff into here. I want to shitpost about has-beens failing at games on camera.
>>94825504>what it amounts to isn't relevant.That's why I don't like the praise people give Mercer. He's average tier at best.An actually good DM would actually put the stakes of having these world changing things happen at a threat level.Or at least a mechanical relevant level.He just is about the fancy descriptions for the cutscenes he's imagining.
>>94823360There it is, the 'pretend to laugh along in order to touch Laura' maneuver
>>94822947Will the critical role cast finally switch to ad&d 1e as promised earlier last year?
>>94823495>>94823388>restraining order thrown out of court by judge for being frivolous and "to gain upper hand in litigation">the lawsuit by several women including Ashley for alleged harassment was dismissed.>Ashley's lawyer (who had to settle in his own rape case) was allegedly even harassing Brian's dying mother.CR and their circle are all horrible people. Don't be conned.
>>94823331Add Patrick Rothfuss there too. That fuck has been scamming his audience for over a decade and his "charity"'s tax declarations read like something by Capone.
>>94826526At least she's vaguely attractive...is that a wheelchair?
>>94826677I hadn't noticed it until you mentioned
>>94826526>the purple afro'ed black woman who smugly rewrites the very fabric of magic>but also carts herself around in a unwieldy medieval wooden wheelchairI wanna ascribe them some spite in these kinda people seemingly still trying to force that lame wooden wheelchair of all things, but the sad thing is, that at the core there is no genuine agency in that thing's continuous existence other than it being the most efficient symbol to show that this box has been ticked. How is their retarded audience to know how progressive and moral this is at a glance if she floated, was carried by a summon or had a magitech exo-skeleton, etc.?
>>94827139Riding a sick as fuck tarantula golem just doesn't scream 'disability'
>>948232697 15-level dudes sounds like a Nightmare for any DM, proportional to the amount of casters in the party
>>94827139>>94827154These retards have even made being crippled lame.I used to minmax paraplegic gurps characters in sick cyborg exoskeletons because I thought robocop was cool.
>>94827738it’s actually 8. don’t forget the mystery meat guest who they don’t seem to have the balls to make any sort of public announcement that he has officially joined the cast full time or anything, but at the same time they seem to act like it’s a given that he is indeed a full on member of the group now just like the OGs. for example, in the most recent oneshot they did, it was him liam and matt with three guests.
The PCs' outcomes have always been dictated (consensual/scripted deaths) along with the rigged campaigns. Of course they're still incompetent after a decade. When did you guys realize CR was storytelling rather than an honest game?
>>94825256It's not just calories.Your muscle needs change and maintaining them becomes trickier, your organs get bloated and process stuff worse, your skin gets softer. You can't stop aging, but you can accept it and find joy fucking people your own age.
>>94826089An actually good DM would create a feedback loop with the players. But he can't, the format won't allow it. >>94827154The issue is that I'd do that and my legs work pretty well, tons of people would. So it doesn't register as paralytic.>>94831438That's absurd, the storytelling would be decent and they wouldn't take ages to do stuff if it was all scripted.
Before the thread dies I unclench my fists.
>>94823407WAIT I THOUGHT DAGGERHEART WAS ANIMAL PEOPLE. WHY IS THERE A BLACK WOMAN IN THE ART.
>>94832748(You)
Kinda late for this, but does anyone have the greentext were that Orion in Review anon analyzed the Kraken incident with Marisha?
>>94833230Yeah I got ithttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/82555382/#82586751
>>94822947>campaign goes full memberberries mode as PC parties from previous campaigns join up with them to fight the BBEGThat sounds fucking awesome, but I can't be bothered to go and watch all that to see it, and I'm guessing if I would jump into the point where that happens, it won't feel earned and I won't know wtf is going on so I guess I'll never watch this campaign. Dropped it when they met that fey changeling, it just didn't have any speed to it and they had just been in a tpk encounter where everyone was allowed to live and then needed to go save a PC in order to get her to live as well. Wasn't feeling it at that point especially since the setting is so weird and hard to get excited about.
>>94822947Oh shit nigga this thing still happening?
>>94833547>casting lvl2 spells as a bonus action is a reassonable rule for higher levels2021 /tg/ had really shitty 5e takes
