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Honestly for me the worst part of Keylith's arc was not even her fault per se. It was the run there where Vax had frequent 1-on-1 scenes with her where he let loose his inner emo. No one scene was bad but the frequency in a short run got to be a bit of a slog. e: lol what a snipe.
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Doltos posted:As someone who never watched CR and loved the show, Scanlan is the worst character since Jar Jar Binks. I think that appears in every negative review I've been seeing. I can easily see people who are unfamiliar with CR being turned off and never watching the show after episode 1 solely because of Scanlan. Doltos posted:It's the same problem as Keyleth ruining every fight by being super timid/cowardly before blasting off a deux ex machina spell. Their characters are drags, why should I cheer for them? Froghammer posted:Scanlon gets better. All of Season 1 is him pre character development. Scanlan, on the other hand, I have a tougher time seeing that way and justifying. Yes, his character improves (somewhat) on stream, but I don't know that the extended beads musical or the atonal jokes during the whitestone fights add anything to that eventual growth? You have his lack of impulse control leaving the team shorthanded (tavern fight, briarwoods round 1, desire to hit brothel rather than stalk Tony Hale), his inability to read a room (the rap, reginald, unsubtle beads joke at the soverign's table), that the team has tired of his bit (campfire), and that they think he's a joke (scanbo prelude). These are all the elements you need for a great character growth and redemption arc that can play out over 1 or 2 seasons and show incremental progress along the way. So gently caress it, later tonight or tomorrow I'll post the Paracaidas guide to Dawgstar hits the underlying issue well upthread. Scanlan plays better on stream because you can see Sam's tongue in cheek attitude about it and that it's cracking up the cast. Genuinely I get the sense that because the cast knows Sam is thoroughly not that guy they miss how Scanlan comes across, especially to those who've had negative interactions with people who cannot keep an appropriate table and use roleplaying and general nerd culture to creep. It's not like they don't get that dynamic, given Orion's halfchub idiocy (or the various "what works at our table and in our group may not for your's" comments around party members dating), they just don't seem to apply it with Sam and to Scanlan. Dameius posted:e: lol what a snipe. 
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That is a lot of words about a cartoon. Also, Scanlon owns
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Yeah I think Scanlon's great, though that might be because I've watched all of campaign 1. Honestly compared to early stream Scanlon he's pretty toned down in the cartoon. The Briarwood arc is so dark that the occasional joke feels like a nice way to break up the misery.
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Oh. My. Gods. If you can, tune into the Twitch watch party right freakin' now. They have Grog and Scanlan live in the studio. Not Travis and Sam, Grog and Scanlan. They've gone vtuber on us.
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Paracaidas posted:Jesus christ Grey, just add water. Mica: "It smells like cum and protein powder in here." Matt: "Mmm, familiar..."
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Every time Tal drops something like "I've been kicked by a mountain goat, it's not fun", I just want to hear more.
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Paracaidas posted:Every time Tal drops something like "I've been kicked by a mountain goat, it's not fun", I just want to hear more. When you are a immortal being you gets tons of life experience.
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Feb 23, 2022 04:33
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Everyone loves the guy who brings a guitar to the party. He'll gently caress your girlfriend.
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Interesting that Grey wasn't the first choice for Delilah! Would love to know who it was. e: I may have misunderstood "Scratch" in an animation casting context?Raged posted:When you are a immortal being you gets tons of life experience. Paracaidas fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Paracaidas posted:Interesting that Grey wasn't the first choice for Delilah! Would love to know who it was. e: I may have misunderstood "Scratch" in an animation casting context? Scratch is a temporary track usually used to let other actors have something to react to or to help animators time out the scene.
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Gaz-L posted:Scratch is a temporary track usually used to let other actors have something to react to or to help animators time out the scene. Yeah-- I think they said in a prior episode that they had Ashley read Delilah in the scratches and animatics. Since the main cast are all producers and integrally involved in the process as opposed to the guest cast who had much more limited roles, it makes sense that they would do the scratch lines for animatics themselves.
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Matt and Ashley did all of the scratch tracks for all dialogue in all episodes. They mentioned it somewhere at some point. Probably one of the promotionals or backer updates I saw.
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Feb 23, 2022 05:00
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"His dick's bigger, but it doesn't work." Offically canon.
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Can't cast Raise Undead on dick.
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Matt getting all emotional seeing his works being put on screen is good. I'm happy for him.
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Grey is a chaotic energy I was not expecting. 
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Grey is a chaotic energy I was not expecting. Even Sam is just sitting back and letting her do her thing.
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Dawgstar posted:I figured this one is worth showing, because it's an extremely Gamer moment. https://youtu.be/2mB-aM2bIBk?t=8687 Travis' headshake when Orion asks is pretty great. Oh wow that was awkward and hilarious. I have only done Pathfinder/DnD for a brief period but managed to have two different guys pop in like that. One turned out to be an actual nazi that was super obvious to me at least. Luckily neither lasted long but jesus the grognarditude was soooooo bad. They also spent hours trying to powergame and generally hijack any session. Love my boy Grog’s reaction. Always drawn to flawed characters or diamonds in the rough who become actual heroes than guys who start out fine. Key being unsure and scared at first was cool to me as they were a party of damaged gently caress ups. If she’s that way forever that would suck but it’s fairly obvious she won’t stay that way. I figure the show was good enough to give it that chance. Hoping all the characters grow from their starting points.
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So does the bear ever do anything useful in any of these stories?
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Chemtrailologist posted:So does the bear ever do anything useful in any of these stories? He is very cute.
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Chemtrailologist posted:So does the bear ever do anything useful in any of these stories? Just wait until they animate the Honey Heist specials, which are extremely canon and definitely vital to the Critical Role mythos. Real answer: Push El Burrito posted:He is very cute.
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Chemtrailologist posted:So does the bear ever do anything useful in any of these stories? Ranger as a class, and Beast Master as a subclass especially, were absolutely jank for quite awhile in 5e (Beast Master, as written, seems to have originally intended for rangers to treat their companion animals as expendable and replace them frequently as they died. This is.... not the ideal fantasy anyone has if they want to play a ranger with an animal companion). They've since seen some updates and Matt went out of his way to buff Trinket even before that so he'd be both more useful and also more likely to survive fights. That said, he's 100% more of a mascot than contributing member of the party. Although ironically, he was originally involved in the Whitestone arc (Vex didnt leave him behind) and Trinket actually got a killshot on a notable baddie, Tylieri, who wasnt in the show. Trinket put the guy's entire head in his mouth and bit it clean off. Sadly, he hasnt done much else of note combat-wise. CuwiKhons fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Push El Burrito posted:He is very cute. so he's the equivalent of a powerful elixir/weapon that never gets used "in case" you need it later
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so Orion lost 500 gold on that failed spell fusion. How much did they have? Everything costs hundreds of gold per transaction
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Gold totals have always been kind of meaningless past 1e when it was used as XP. Whitestone arc they basically had the gold to get one or two big ticket items and most of the consumables they'd want. By the end of the next arc they basically had no more real financial constraints on them and at most they just need to shuffle things around in the moment to make whatever purchase they wanted. They even had recurring payroll for their keep eventually.
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Alan Smithee posted:so he's the equivalent of a powerful elixir/weapon that never gets used "in case" you need it later As Cuwi mentioned, there's a bunch of mechanical jank that makes him not that useful in combat, plus Laura Bailey, who plays Vex, really didn't like the idea of him getting hurt so would avoid using him in fights. Plus the animators apparently don't like having to animate a realistic bear, so all 3 things combined lead to a mascot that doesn't really do much.
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Push El Burrito posted:He is very cute. Big role in Grog's one shot as well. Hopefully they animate that, they already had Scanlan bust in on people playing a D&D like game.
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Dameius posted:Gold totals have always been kind of meaningless past 1e when it was used as XP. Whitestone arc they basically had the gold to get one or two big ticket items and most of the consumables they'd want. By the end of the next arc they basically had no more real financial constraints on them and at most they just need to shuffle things around in the moment to make whatever purchase they wanted. They even had recurring payroll for their keep eventually. It was always funny that Vex was never really straight when they asked how much money they had as a group, although Matt didn't bother with copper counting anyway.
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Laura suffering psychic damage watching Travis have Grog "negotiate" with a merchant truly was a fun time had by all. e: Also I absolutely cannot wait for this scene next season, maybe season 3 if there is one depending on pacing? Link to video, putting it behind spoilers in case anyone has some kind of auto preview for YouTube URLs. Click link for spoilers. Dameius fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Laura was always in charge of bookkeeping buuuuuuuuut, Travis is the one who holds onto the bag of holding, which means he's in charge of what goes in there. There was a really hilarious moment at some point in Campaign 1, I forget when, where Laura and Travis were out of town and were Skyping in to play and at some point their connection froze. When they reconnected, Travis looked very sheepish and Laura had disappeared. He admitted Laura had just found out that at some point, the party had shoved something like 500 platinum pieces into the bag of holding and because Travis was the one in charge of that, he'd ended up forgetting about it (he had it written down, he just didn't remember it). That's the equivalent of 5,000 gold and Laura was outraged that somehow nobody had ever told her they had a huge pile of platinum in the bag.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvkjLdvXMk vtubing is the future
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getting deeper into watching campaign 2 how many of these intricate detailed battle maps does matt mercer make and then just never use because the party doesn't go into that particular swamp or whatever also was that echo knight guy supposed to be a major long term NPC he invented a whole class for and then the dude just dies in like one episode?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:how many of these intricate detailed battle maps does matt mercer make and then just never use because the party doesn't go into that particular swamp or whatever If he's like any other GM, the answer is "a lot."
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:also was that echo knight guy supposed to be a major long term NPC he invented a whole class for and then the dude just dies in like one episode? Usually it's the players who wind up using Matt's homebrew stuff that gets released eventually, but iirc this was more just to flesh out the world more. iirc it comes up again later and it's an official fighter subclass in the Wildemount book.
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I distinctly remember a point in Campaign 1 where the party had just mopped up a plot thread and had four different plot threads in wildly different directions they could go in and they couldn't agree on where they wanted to go before the session ended but they were firm that one in particular was one they wanted to put off until later. Matt, unsure of where they were going next since they hadn't decided, had to do triple the prep he normally did for the next session because he had no way of predicting which of the other three options they were going to take. For the record, they ended up going to the exact location they had decided they weren't going to go. Matt's despair was palpable. D&D baby.
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