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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Also congrats on fucking up the thread, OP

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

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

>>96827753
Wtf Tal looks great.

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

>OP rolled a 1

Is Tal playing the mask?

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

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

Cute

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

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

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

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>garrote
triggered

>>96827915
kek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bah gawd, he killed him.

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

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

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

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>>96827732
Based. Nobles deserve the rope.

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

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

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

>it's an Ashley turn episode

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

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

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

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

This shit sucks.

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

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

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

Didn't know that about new Druids. Good.

Where's Liam?

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

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

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apebria is insufferable

>>96828145
Fatherless behavior

there, PC death invalidated

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

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

i prefer he comes back but its pvp

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

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

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

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

>>96828179
He just turned invisible apparently.

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

heh doody

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

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

matt carrying the team

>>96828199
Please understand, Ashley is special.

total ape death

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>>96828248
Many are saying this

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

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

*pull his spirit out of the underworld*

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

https://youtu.be/eIri9YLHpOg

>11
>Yeah sure why not

>>96828162
You're so lame.

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

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

Ashley Jesus fuck dude...

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

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

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

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

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

necromancer necromance himselfs to undeath

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

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

Oh shit did Brennan actually do it?

>>96828396
He did tell them to make backup characters

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

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

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

>combat
:)
>ashley in combat
:(

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

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

not gonna buy it if it's het only

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

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

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The Main Characters are finally in the spotlight.

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

Marisha doing her best /crg/ impression lol

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

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Talespin's hand tremors have gotten worse.

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I don't like this guy

don't give him a solo scene bruhnnan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>>96827829
I stand corrected.

Phrasing

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

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

Holy shit this is so boring

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

>>96828729
Maybe we'll find out!

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

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

>>96828747
>Just play a sorcerer.
Never

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

They must really edit the hell out of D20

BOOOOOOOOO

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

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

Nat 20s dont autosucceed ability checks.

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

Liam is so based

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

>>96827753
Am I watching the Addams Family?

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

>He got better

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

my boy!

How very boring

>>96828089
Who is the hot black lady?

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

>>96828861
Matt Mercer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Based Matt

Kill him again matt

Better yet kill aabria

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

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

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

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

I'm just here for someone to post the cooldown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>>96827753
nice b8

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

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

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

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>>96825049
kek

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

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

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

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

>>96830526
shut the fuck up you fucking nigger

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

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

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