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WHAT THE gently caress IS GOING ON?!???
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What's this second half all about? they talking like I should be knowing what's going on but I have no idea
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AceClown posted:What's this second half all about? they talking like I should be knowing what's going on but I have no idea Opal put on a vestige of divergence for Lolth (or the Spider Queen or however she's called in Exandra) back in the EXU campaigns and eventually became her champion. Now it sounds like SQ is freaked out enough by Predathos that she's trying to forcibly remove Opal from the rest of the Crownkeepers and presumably make her go fight Predathos on her own.
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xeria posted:Opal put on a vestige of divergence for Lolth (or the Spider Queen or however she's called in Exandra) back in the EXU campaigns and eventually became her champion. Now it sounds like SQ is freaked out enough by Predathos that she's trying to forcibly remove Opal from the rest of the Crownkeepers and presumably make her go fight Predathos on her own. Thanks for the explanation but other than Dorian and Deni$e I honestly don't know who any of these characters are or who Opal is. Baffling choice to do this
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AceClown posted:Thanks for the explanation but other than Dorian and Deni$e I honestly don't know who any of these characters are or who Opal is. Are you one of those "always skips anything by Aabria" people? This absolutely will not make sense if so. This is the crew from Exandria Unlimited miniseries she ran between campaign two and three, with Erica Lindberg for a two-shot a little later. You may not recognize the crew without Orym and Fearne, who got their start with this gang.
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DeathSandwich posted:Are you one of those "always skips anything by Aabria" people? This absolutely will not make sense if so. I don't specifically skip anything by Aabria, but I only watch the main campaigns
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I unironically reccomend at least watching EXU Calamity, it might be my favorite thing Crit Role has released under their umbrella.
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AceClown posted:I don't specifically skip anything by Aabria, but I only watch the main campaigns Never a bad time to go catch up, or at least read the wiki. Despite what some people think about Aabria and her DMing style, she really let's the players shine and the core exu series was filled with so many great character moments.
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DeathSandwich posted:Never a bad time to go catch up, or at least read the wiki. Despite what some people think about Aabria and her DMing style, she really let's the players shine and the core exu series was filled with so many great character moments. The only thing I didn't like in EXU was the chase sequence where she didn't let anyone use bonus actions, it should have been a choice between a bonus action or an action IMO. Otherwise that campaign was really fun, and it was a perfect set up for campaign 3. I do still need to watch Kymal, which is now next on my watch list.
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sweet geek swag posted:The only thing I didn't like in EXU was the chase sequence where she didn't let anyone use bonus actions, it should have been a choice between a bonus action or an action IMO. Otherwise that campaign was really fun, and it was a perfect set up for campaign 3. I do still need to watch Kymal, which is now next on my watch list. The important thing to know going in is that Erica Lindbeck's character is an underpaid casino hostess with absolutely nothing weird about her
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AceClown posted:Thanks for the explanation but other than Dorian and Deni$e I honestly don't know who any of these characters are or who Opal is. I don't think it's particularly baffling, especially since Dorian himself has appeared in the main campaign. I imagine this was planned for a while, since they have to align schedules and all to do it (and it was done either same day or within close proximity to the first half since they referenced Marisha's hot dog costume). Coupled with the variety of deity-championing PCs within the Crownkeepers, I'm sure they wanted probably a one-off episode (or the equivalent of) to show the effects of Predathos/etc. on another batch of PCs, especially ones with close ties to Orym/Fearne. I'd also half-wonder if Matt nudged Liam toward contacting Dorian at some point in the near future so he could queue that transition up, with the idea that we actually see what happens to Dorian (and whether or not he's alive to receive Orym's last message). It's toeing the line of feeling a touch scripted but I enjoy the Crownkeepers and we might see the legit TPK of them next session. Edit: Another possibility is that this was a planned short-term perspective swap in the aftermath of what could have been a full loss to Otohan (all BH dead and/or captured) or just a general "meanwhile, elsewhere in Exandria..." after the party returned from Ruidus, but FCG choosing sacrifice to save the rest could have upended those plans a bit and made Matt have to slightly adjust when they'd do the swap. xeria fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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xeria posted:I don't think it's particularly baffling, especially since Dorian himself has appeared in the main campaign. I don't think this is a one-or-two-off at all. I think this is giving the rest of the players (except Matt) a month off, if only to decompress a bit. I'm actually expecting that this will last through the month of May. I almost think they might fast-forward the main party in time a couple of days to after they debrief and clear their exhaustion... but they probably won't because of that call to Dorian, which sounds like a response is forthcoming. *** I did watch EXU, but I didn't really like it much and have forgotten a lot of stuff. I find people play-acting drunk to always be tedious and obnoxious and never fun (this goes for anyone including the main cast), and S1E1 started off with an context-free confusing drunken party as the introduction to the characters. The off-screen Session 0 gets referred to a lot, enough to know it was how the group formed and that interesting and important things happened, but only in bits and pieces. It's like a person describing a painting they're seeing to you over the phone. There's also a mystery box element in Season 1, where a bunch of mysterious things get introduced, but because of the limited run of the episodes, very few of the story elements actually get resolved, which makes a lot of it feel like mystery for mystery's sake - pointless. Kymal was more focused, and therefore better, but it still had what seemed to me a very odd and somewhat off-putting notion of this new guild of Thieves apparently suddenly changing into a gigantic army with a "join or be slaughtered" policy, and killing its way through a good-sized town or city, which felt wrong on multiple levels.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I don't think this is a one-or-two-off at all. I think this is giving the rest of the players (except Matt) a month off, if only to decompress a bit. I'm actually expecting that this will last through the month of May. I almost think they might fast-forward the main party in time a couple of days to after they debrief and clear their exhaustion... but they probably won't because of that call to Dorian, which sounds like a response is forthcoming. Nah, BH are back in the next ep https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1781350994405965938 I think the first half of the next ep will resolve this story and then the second half is back to BH (and possibly with Dorian and Sam's new char?) but who knows lol
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I don't think this is a one-or-two-off at all. I think this is giving the rest of the players (except Matt) a month off, if only to decompress a bit. I'm actually expecting that this will last through the month of May. I almost think they might fast-forward the main party in time a couple of days to after they debrief and clear their exhaustion... but they probably won't because of that call to Dorian, which sounds like a response is forthcoming. Because of the difficulty of getting people's schedules arranged, it was very likely always the plan to have the Crown Keepers show up in this episode. In fact Matt might have been worried about a TPK, and scheduled this just in case they needed extra time. I think this happened despite what happened to FCG, it was already on the docket and couldn't be rescheduled.
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sweet geek swag posted:Because of the difficulty of getting people's schedules arranged, it was very likely always the plan to have the Crown Keepers show up in this episode. In fact Matt might have been worried about a TPK, and scheduled this just in case they needed extra time. I think this happened despite what happened to FCG, it was already on the docket and couldn't be rescheduled. Yeah, I got a vibe that this last session was always going to swap back to the Crown Keepers for an interlude but FCG's death + Liliana showing up at the end of the previous one might have necessitated some additional time spent winding down from that and setting up the perspective switch (rather than going directly from end of final Otohan battle -> Crown Keepers interlude from the start of the session). Probably was a negotiation with CR and Aabria, etc. of finding a block of time where they'd be available to record up to 2 sessions, just in case, even if the plan was for only a(n effectively) 1-session swap. Scheduling aside, I'm not sure if I expect this to end with Dorian joining back up with BH for an extended stint, especially with how possible it is the entire CK just fuckin' dies next session to Lolth-Opal, and Matt probably wouldn't have planned for a single PC death in the Otohan fight in order to schedule Robbie for more than one session with the rest of the CK. It still might result in a Dorian/BH reunion if Robbie was like, "yeah I've got plenty of availability!" but I'm expecting it to end with either a response from Dorian to Orym (if he lives) or a "...you don't hear anything in return..." from Matt if Dorian doesn't survive.
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xeria posted:Yeah, I got a vibe that this last session was always going to swap back to the Crown Keepers for an interlude but FCG's death + Liliana showing up at the end of the previous one might have necessitated some additional time spent winding down from that and setting up the perspective switch (rather than going directly from end of final Otohan battle -> Crown Keepers interlude from the start of the session). Probably was a negotiation with CR and Aabria, etc. of finding a block of time where they'd be available to record up to 2 sessions, just in case, even if the plan was for only a(n effectively) 1-session swap. Aabria doesn't strike me as a murderous DM. She plays up like she's going to gently caress people up, but she's just way too open to just letting the players do cool poo poo to really give me the feeling that she's going to merc the crew. Now, if they had brought Brennan "do you feel stronger at the shoulder or the elbow?" Lee Mulligan out to play as Lolth then those guys are dead people walking.
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DeathSandwich posted:Brennan "do you feel stronger at the shoulder or the elbow?" Lee Mulligan Goddamn Calamity was great.
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DeathSandwich posted:Aabria doesn't strike me as a murderous DM. She plays up like she's going to gently caress people up, but she's just way too open to just letting the players do cool poo poo to really give me the feeling that she's going to merc the crew. The chilling effect that line had on everyone at the table was amazing.
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I rewatched Calamity recently and it is indeed excellent It inspired me to re-sub to dropout to watch more of Brennan and Lou (and the D20 gang in general are awesome)
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Yeah dropout is an amazing amount of content for a couple bucks. I love the d20 crew and the editing on their eps
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I'm watching the Crown of Candy and  Brennan, you incredible monster... Reminds me talk about it in the Calamity wrap-up, where Marisha was like "I'm glad you're a good and moral person to the core, because it's terrifying what you're capable of"
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Marisha Ray's Nordverse (2024 reboot)
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Finally content I can relate to
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Three hours of Crown Keepers, break then back to Hells Bells. Preparing to be disappointed Dorian wont be back in the main campaign 
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