They talked about the polymorph rule just yesterday with Chris Perkins off screen and he said your mind stays the same in polymorphed forms. I assume however goblin-y Nott got would remain, and might slowly change as she lived back in halfling form.
Sadly polymorph only allows beasts, not humanoids. However Alter Self I believe would do the trick which is only a second level spell
Oh, right.
It would be kind of hilarious if Veth's voice was exactly the same as Nott's.
A big problem with Molly was Taliesin picked a combat-focused class that wasn't good for roleplay and wasn't very good at combat either - was supposed to be a glass cannon but Ghostslayer dual wield just seems rather gimped as the damage was mediocre and the drawbacks huge. Another Blood Hunter subclass would have worked much better or better yet a School of Sword Bard, perfect carnie with display of sword skills, lots of options to help control the battlefield with spells and defensive sword moves, and lots of out of combat skill possibilities. Just don't have him be a singing bard so you don't have to compete with Sam from the previous campaign and it would have worked out great.
I feel like Caleb wants straight-up time travel magic, which seems to be the whole deal with Dunamancy.
Molly would have been fine as a subpar character mechanically if he had an interesting personality. Unfortunately, he was undefined morally, had no backstory because of amnesia, had a very slippery accent, wasn't a particularly strong melee fighter and Taliesin also kept him far away from combat all the time anyway because he was used to playing Percy. His most interesting and characterizing ability of talking shit in Infernal to inflict damage also never worked because of his stats. There was just no there there in any part of his character other than a fun design; everything about Molly was unfocused. Taliesin wanted to play like three or four different archetypes, but didn't spec for any of them.
Should have clarified, more fleshed out as a character in his interactions with the party. I have no doubt he had a super fleshed out background for Molly, but we never really got to see it.
My theory is that he was a member of the cult worshipping that giant purple phoenix that was on the mural with Uk'atoa and the giant worm (the "crawling king" that was mentioned earlier in the campaign most likely). So we might get some of his backstory tangentially if that entity comes into the campaign later on or if they interact with The Gentleman's blood priest more.
I hope they keep in mind that they need a low intellect character for the next campaign to keep them grounded.
I was just noting that the two grounding characters of their parties have both had low intelligence scores. I agree with your post. I should have said Intelligence so it was clear I was referring to the stat.
I hope this is true. I don't really care too much for the G&S stuff, but I'm watching quite a bit of the Critical Role stuff. So I'd be nice if they got control over their stream back.
The best running meta gag was the bard who kept weaving bags and giving them to the fighter to carry. Cause they're a married couple in real life.
My hope is for talks to go the podcast route. easy to forget about when it doesn't show up in my feed.
Nearly all of Talks Machina (including After Dark) has been recently uploaded to Youtube. You can find the links to it on critrole.com.
It's been private since that playlist was uploaded last week.
They're linked to on the Critical Role website. They used to do that with the campaign, where it would be private for a couple days but linked to from the Critical Role Geek and Sundry page.
I watched it some but I didn't find it all that engaging because people kept talking over each other. That type of thing is fine for a home game but on stream they should be a bit more conscious of giving each other room and waiting for their turn. Now you have, like, two one-on-one discussions going on at the same time and occasionally even a fifth & sixth person chiming in and it just turns into such muddled chatter that at least I personally have a hard time focus on what is happening and as such I kind of tune out.
Reading this made me remember there's no episode tonight, and then made me sad.
The player that was putting me off from campaign 1 ended up leaving around when I was getting fed up. I started watching when there was a 50-something backlog in campaign 1, so it almost felt like I willed that to happen in real time.
