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Critical Role |OT| Is It Thursday Yet?
- Thread starter Dream Machine
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I could see that. It would certainly be possible for him to create a new identity if he wanted. The question would be why. Maybe he is trying to manipulate both the Empire and the Dynasty to help him master time magic.
I just thought Liam had a bad week. I guess I should have more faith in the cast that they're always in character unless they're joking at each other.
Catching Undeadwood Pt2 now, this is awesome stuff. It's kind of similar to what Dimension 20 does with their mini seasons and I think it's a great direction for CR to go. The oneshots are good but they never felt like they were able to fully explore the settings or premise and felt rushed. Having the space for 4-8 episodes with different systems, settings and DMs makes this super appealing. Brian is also a fantastic DM and definitely his best work.
In a Sam/Talisen kind of way. Questions didn't start for 30 minutes, once they did Sam derailed at every opportunity, brought everyone to tears from laughter on multiple occasions, Facetime with Arsequeef, Marisha joined in, Adventures of Ghost Cat. It was a topic filled episode.
Matt really needs to get away from single super monster combats. No matter how many extra attacks or regen or tons of HP, one failed save gimps the whole encounter, as we saw.
A bunch of lesser enemies can also lead to disaster for them. They don't tend to focus and think things through first so if they fought a pack of ghouls I'm sure they'd all be paralyzed and die.
That sounds like the kind of episode that would make me never watch Talks again
Yup, that's why the demon on the island boss fight (with the singing girl) is still one of the best fights, if not the best, of the campaign.
It was a great talks. Honestly, there wasn't a ton more that those two could have covered, given how little Cad and Nott are attached to whatever is going on here. What was asked covered things fairly well.
I'd hate for Talks to be too serious. The crew constantly dunking on each other, especially on Brian, is a great time for everyone on set and in the chat.
Now if Matt and Liam were there, yeah, a bit more focus would be needed as there's more relevant questions to throw their way.
I'd hate for Talks to be too serious. The crew constantly dunking on each other, especially on Brian, is a great time for everyone on set and in the chat.
Now if Matt and Liam were there, yeah, a bit more focus would be needed as there's more relevant questions to throw their way.
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That was a pretty great fight, made super tense because each member of the party could take only one or two hits without hitting zero hp.
For my money though the top five encounters so far have been:
1) The Avantika fight. It had the best mix of tension, strategy, and character development compared to any other fight.
2) The Minotaur Demon fight under the well. This is one of the only fights that honestly felt like it could end in a TPK.
3) The Second Lorenzo fight. A strong boss supported by three decent minions.
4) Merrow Priest fight under the Gentleman's safe house. All seven of the M9 were together and rested, but the water and number of enemies still made it feel like a close fight.
5) Anti-Magic Goelm fight. The golem was a solid fight, but having it chase them through multiple rooms felt really intimidating. It slightly felt like Matt was trying to encourage the party to fight the big enemies instead of wasting resources and running away all the time.
holy shit that guy is more Sam Riegel than Sam Riegel himself
As someone with zero interest in painting minis, it was fun. I don't know that I'll check out another episode though.
I tend to prefer using minis and maps when possible for combat, but haven't been able to really get into painting yet despite having some supplies on hand.
However, even when unpainted they are nice to have on hand.
However, even when unpainted they are nice to have on hand.
I use these and they're pretty effective:
It works well that all of my players also have minis, so they become pretty distinct in a battle.
It works well that all of my players also have minis, so they become pretty distinct in a battle.
I was consumed with Outer Worlds over the weekend so I didn't watch the episode until today, although I had read spoilers and reactions.
After watching the episode, going into the dreadnought wasn't nearly as dumb or suicidal as people made it out to be. It doesn't really advance their goal of finding Yussa, but I personally don't give a shit about Yussa and am more invested in the mystery of Halas, which the inside of the dreadnaught is certainly where they need to be for that investigation.
After watching the episode, going into the dreadnought wasn't nearly as dumb or suicidal as people made it out to be. It doesn't really advance their goal of finding Yussa, but I personally don't give a shit about Yussa and am more invested in the mystery of Halas, which the inside of the dreadnaught is certainly where they need to be for that investigation.
My group uses minis. Picked up a two different sets of the prepainted WIz Kids official D&D minis and you get quite an assortment. They're not terribly expensive either (they're also not super well painted or great sculpts but you get what you pay for). Me and a friend actively paint minis so every once in a while we'll paint a monster or something to fight. It's a lot of fun when you can have an actual big ass dragon on the table and all of your characters surrounding it. It adds a lot to the game and really helps to get invested into the scenarios when you can see your dude running around on the board.
Example from a session we had a few months ago:
Also some mini's I've painted for D&D under a spoiler so I don't clog up the thread:
My pc Acheron The Doom Slayer:
My friend's monk character:
My friend's monk character:
My group uses minis. Picked up a two different sets of the prepainted WIz Kids official D&D minis and you get quite an assortment. They're not terribly expensive either (they're also not super well painted or great sculpts but you get what you pay for). Me and a friend actively paint minis so every once in a while we'll paint a monster or something to fight. It's a lot of fun when you can have an actual big ass dragon on the table and all of your characters surrounding it. It adds a lot to the game and really helps to get invested into the scenarios when you can see your dude running around on the board.
Example from a session we had a few months ago:
Also some mini's I've painted for D&D under a spoiler so I don't clog up the thread:
My pc Acheron The Doom Slayer:
My friend's monk character:
THE EVERCHOSEN
lol, you joke but my boy is 100% just a chaos warrior from Warhammer. The Chaos Gods are his patrons for him as my Oath-Breaker Paladin.
My group uses minis. Picked up a two different sets of the prepainted WIz Kids official D&D minis and you get quite an assortment. They're not terribly expensive either (they're also not super well painted or great sculpts but you get what you pay for). Me and a friend actively paint minis so every once in a while we'll paint a monster or something to fight. It's a lot of fun when you can have an actual big ass dragon on the table and all of your characters surrounding it. It adds a lot to the game and really helps to get invested into the scenarios when you can see your dude running around on the board.
Example from a session we had a few months ago:
Also some mini's I've painted for D&D under a spoiler so I don't clog up the thread:
My pc Acheron The Doom Slayer:
My friend's monk character:
Your minis look really cool. Maybe I'll pick some up for my group around the holidays. It might be fun for us to all customize them.
Watched both Talks and Mini Primetime last night. While there were some parts of Talks that were funny I was ready for it to be over. Mini primetime was really funny, but also the perfect length. The shtick is funny, but would have dragged if they had gone any longer.
Pub Draw stays legit. Hope they never cancel that show.
Pub Draw stays legit. Hope they never cancel that show.
I want to watch Pub Draw live but it is always at the worst time for me (7 pm when I eat dinner plus World series this week).
Was weird seeing Sam playing the straight man for once with Mini Prime Time, I loved how confused he was lol.. Also the humor made allot of sense when I saw that the writer was Matt Key who used to be on G&S shows.
Was weird seeing Sam playing the straight man for once with Mini Prime Time, I loved how confused he was lol.. Also the humor made allot of sense when I saw that the writer was Matt Key who used to be on G&S shows.
Been avoiding this thread because I can't watch CR live and have to catch up when they finally put them on YouTube, but have been wanting to talk about Undeadwood.
As a huge fan of the show, which is probably my favourite of all time, I was really glad to see people here enjoying the series without any exposure to the television show.
I was wondering if my attachment to the show was blinding me, but damn is Undeadwood great. Brian is nailing the impressions
, and the music is absolutely fantastic. I love the camera angles as well, I hope they do more stuff like this, with these production values.
As a huge fan of the show, which is probably my favourite of all time, I was really glad to see people here enjoying the series without any exposure to the television show.
I was wondering if my attachment to the show was blinding me, but damn is Undeadwood great. Brian is nailing the impressions
I want to see Calamity Jane!
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Mini Primetime was fantastic, and seeing Sam have to be the confused straight man because of the absurdity of someone else was surreal.
Laura's was sent by a friend at Microsoft, but idk about the others
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On his way I believe
I thought it was a long bit but I think he's just late
Dude the one where Matt was dressed as the gunpowder merchant was very difficult
OBJECTION! HOLD IT! LOL Sam.
Our group just recently started playing. The first handful of sessions were 100% imagination, but then we got grids a couple sessions ago. Right now we just use colored dice. There was talk about geting minis, but noone really wants to spend the money and paint them just yet.
One of our players did a really amazing papercraft baby dragon though. So we make do.
Our group just recently started playing. The first handful of sessions were 100% imagination, but then we got grids a couple sessions ago. Right now we just use colored dice. There was talk about geting minis, but noone really wants to spend the money and paint them just yet.
One of our players did a really amazing papercraft baby dragon though. So we make do.