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Caught the fireside chat last night and was struck with the idea of what questions they filter out from answering. Would love to know what question you would ask that you know would never be answered by the cast in a fireside chat or panel.

Mine would be: Do you avoid talking about C3 as much as possible because you also hate it or is it just a sound business decision?

This post is meant to be lighthearted folks. As a C3 fan, I don’t mind poking fun of the fact that it’s not the favorite child.

While I'm sure there will be some big revelations when everyone gets back together that shake things up, as it stands after the finales of all three tables, how would you divide them up for the next split?

My take:

SOLDIERS: It's hard not to see Teor and Thimble heading back out again. There's not much for them to do in the city and it's dangerous for them to stick around. I'd like to see Azune go with them, perhaps bringing a small group of NPC soldiers loyal to him to really bring the fight to wherever they go to next. Maybe to find his sister?

Put Julien in here, too. I want him out there hunting more Tachonis scum. If they can rally some other forces instead of just being a small, low-level group facing off against big threats, they can do some real, meaningful damage.

SEEKERS: Like a lot of people, I was disappointed in the first Seekers arc, and I put a lot of that blame on Brennan for bouncing them between tense NPC groups that had them under a watchful eye and not giving them much freedom to really SEEK. This should be the group digging into libraries full of dusty old books, going into dark places untouched since the time of the Gods, or into spirit or fae realms.

Let's get the Seekers into a dungeon-crawl style experience to really set them apart from the Soldiers and Schemers. If that happens, I'd keep Aabria, Occtis, and Vaelus, but bring in Kattigan to be their survivalist so they can stay out of cities more.

SCHEMERS: After their finale and the botched assassination, things are going to be heating up in the city and it'll be much harder to stay under the radar anymore with their direct involvement in the events. Still, they managed to save King Gus and that's a strong patron to protect them while they work to continue destabilizing Houses. Keep Hal, Murray, and Bolaire. They still have jobs and can use them to make a difference.

I also think Wicander and Tyranny could actually do a decent job infiltrating House Halovar by playing up the 'Oh I was so scared out there! I was misled by ruffians! Take me back!' angle. The family seems more interested in getting Wic back under their wing than killing or punishing him. They don't know he's actually maturing (slightly).

Now that we’re done with the first arcs, how would you rank the tables, from favorite to least favorite? I’m interested to see whether there are patterns in what people like the most and the least.

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I work at Amazon and super SUPER excited to finally try out CR after hearing about it for so many years. I want to use it as a podcast but am I going to be missing out on anything by not watching them/not being able to watch a screen directly?

I enjoy C4, I wouldn't fault the story, the RP, the characters, the production - all top notch - so why do I feel like there is something missing?

I picked back up a rewatch of C2, and the themesong nailed it for me : "they were always beside you, your nerdy best friends, and the DM to guide you".

I miss the friends around a table.

Sam straight from the office, Laura late stuck in LA traffic. Snacks. Chat at the table (and the live chat!). At the time I didn't have a d&d table of my own, so it was something to look forward to, and a window into someone else's.

I know they've moved on.

I know prerecording in bulk is easier.

I know parasocial fans were a problem.

i know the internet of old simply doesn't exist anymore...

but I would trade all the post production and detailed sets in the world for a casual weekly catchup with the original cast.

Thank you for attending my shower thought for the day.

Disclaimer: I don’t condone toxicity and this doesn’t anger me, this is meant to be constructive. Shout out to BLM – he’s blowing my mind, as is C4.

The sentence:

>Uh uh mhm uh ok uh ok Bolaire that is your turn and then that is going to be uh uh uhm you see uh King Gus uh yous uh uh who is badly poisoned.

To DMs and players alike, I know it seems intimidating to not use filler words. I promise it’s not, and it’s a detail worth handling. Leaving space between words is a good thing.

Not gonna lie, all my expectations were kinda wrong and I wanted to ask if I'm alone with this?

I thought I would like the soldiers best but for me they were only mid. I mean they had a few good scenes going on but nothing really mind blowing.

Then I was really excited for Matt as a player but he also turned out to be kind of a nothingburger. The Seekers in generel were pretty disappointing.

I thought I wouldn't care for the Schemers but oh boy was I wrong. Those 6 episodes were truly peak DnD.

I want to love this campaign. I have been a hardcore Critical Role Fan since viewing my first episode. I was Immediately drawn in and felt immersed in the stories. I watch Dimension20 and absolutely love BLeeM's brand of DMing. But for the life of me I cannot get into this new campaign. I cannot keep along with the story and often find myself asking? "What happened? Why are we here? Who is this character? What is the point of this interaction? Why do we care?"

I have always been able to pick up where I left off in a show, book or game and remember exactly what I read, what I was doing or where I am supposed to go. Not here. Not anymore. Not this campaign.

If I don't force myself to pay attention to the screen I have no fucking clue what is going on.

My question.....Does it get better? Does it begin to make any lick of sense? Do we get some actual D&D or is it just ongoing exposition from BLeeM with the occasional chime in from the "players"?

So, there are some CR fandom drama instigators that get talked about fairly often (losebetter, freckledhobo, Tess Fowler, etc.) but does anybody else remember when notorious con artist and fandom cult leader Andy "Thanfiction" Blake tried to ingratiate himself with the CR cast?

I think this happened like seven years ago, during Campaign 2, but I remember following it online a bit and it was so strange. Essentially, AB (who is an insanely shitty and dangerous person) started trying to ingratiate himself into the fandom by doing fanart and Percy cosplays, tagging various cast members on social media to get their attention. He went so far as attempting to relocate to LA and tried to worm his way into the social circle of somebody who knows the CR crew (Molly McIsaac), even convincing her to let him stay as a guest in her house for a few weeks. While he was there, he tried to get Molly to host a dinner and invite all the CR cast, planning to cook them an elaborate meal with a batshit insane menu (including actual guinea pigs he wanted to buy from pet stores and slaughter, plus wild peacocks he would "hunt in the Beverly Hills").

The dinner never actually happened, because Molly caught on to his creepy bullshit and kicked him out of her house (she talks about it on Twitter here) but it was a wild time. Various people alerted the CR cast and they stopped responding to his tweets/featuring his fanart, and Andy essentially slunk off with his tail between his legs. There's a longer recap of the events here, too, if anybody wants to go down the rabbit hole.

I've been following Andy Blake's shitty hijinks for a long time and he has a long history of trying to use actors/creators/artists to legitimise his shady activities. He's probably most infamous for the LOTR BitOfEarth fiasco where he ran scams, faked his own death, and became an abusive cult leader. He also started the DAYD cult in the Harry Potter fandom and, eventually, tried to stalk and get close to various actors from Supernatural. I think CR was probably a very attractive target for Andy, given how close the cast has been to the fandom and how open they've been to collaborating with various fans.

Bit ominous to imagine what he might have been planning for CR besides the world's worst dinner.