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CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 3 Episode 121: A New Age Begins

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Thank you for the 10 years and thanks Bells Hells for this adventure!

Updated this 8th anniversary piece to include Braius and did some small fixes.

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NATURAL FUCKING 20!!!!!!!!!

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Good Night Bells Hells

Good Night Mighty Nein

Good Night Vox Machina

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Critical Role just announced that Daggerheart is releasing May 20th. With Campaign 3 now officially over I would not be surprised if Campaign 4 begins sometime around the release of Daggerheart with it being used as their core rule-system. It gives them a couple months off to do the new EXU show, maybe another couple one shots and fun stuff (maybe more of the Daggerheart party whose name I can’t remember right now) and but otherwise on break, and then they come back swinging with a new story in their new game system.

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*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

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My beloveds ❤️❤️❤️

And guess what, they got a happy ending!!!!!

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Oh I’ve been waiting for this one…

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:)

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“somewhere with darkness and light, and we build a little cottage.” 💜🖤

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when marisha plays keyleth in front of orym and she's goofy and awkward and compliments opal's crown and then points at her own crown and says "this one CAN come off :)" and then laughs nervously and also calls people assholes and fails to open a bottle of wine and begs everyone to just call her keyleth when they try to use her title...ms. oftheairashari i missed you it's so good to have you home...matt doesn't know your heart..............

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tfw orym comes to you (keyleth of the air ashari) and stammers his way through asking if he can leave your guard and travel the world and you watch him from a thousand miles away and feel impossibly, brutally old because he can leave. he can go. you can't ever leave. you're shackled to being Keyleth Of The Air Ashari for all the rest of eternity and you can't just take the boy you love and travel the world...how many members of the air ashari have come to keyleth like this? asking for her to let them go? and does she let them go every time? flying like birds out of her cupped hands and away to where she can't follow them...everyone leaves her eventually but she's still here she's still right here she can't ever get away from herself she's still keyleth of the air ashari tied to herself until the planet stops spinning...

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so apparently i am celebrating c3 end by doing Bells Hells human AU!

Was this a plan? no

But it kinda lined up perfectly so here we go

THANK YOU BELLS HELLS CRITICAL ROLE I AM GOING TO MISS YOU 💜

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i got emotional last night while watching the finale, but i had to wait to watch the cooldown until today so i could get some sleep. i don't know why, but i wasn't expecting to cry watching it but this exchange just got me in the best way. 💜

thank you for putting it into words, @quiddie

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Mom, am I still young?

Can I sleep for a few months more?

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I think part of why I find all the posts talking about how Campaign 3 supposedly had no consequences deeply tedious is because 1) they don't engage with the way consequence was embedded into the character arcs and motivations, and 2) they often treat outcomes that were the result of the players working really hard to prevent a worst case scenario as evidence that everything was handed to them.

The reason most of the Hells survived the campaign is because their battle strategy prioritized protecting one another above everything else. Laudna died and they put everything they had into getting her back. They CHOSE to not accept it. It took them five episodes, a huge boss battle, and a roll-for-it res ritual to get her back, and each of those things barely worked. They were so traumatized by the experience that they were trying to give her just about every potion and protection item even til the end, when she hadn't even gone down for something like what, 60 episodes? Because they chose to save her, they lost their patron to Otohan, and they became less tied to one city. Because Otohan terrified them so much, they never faced them on their own terms, and only finally escaped her with FCG's sacrifice. It is not a removal of consequence that Laudna was able to come back; it is a consequence of how much they were willing to pursue it, and it had consequences that echoed forward and forward and forward. It impacted the way they moved throughout the story a great, great deal, and it is just one example.

We don't know all the consequences of the god situation because they are, quite frankly, too big for an end of campaign. But of course there are HUGE consequences—the order of the world and the cosmos has been changed! We saw some glimmers of what that means on a personal and political level, to be explored later.

"Consequence" unequivocally does NOT mean "punishment." You may be disappointed that a character/group of characters is not punished for what you perceive to be their crimes, but that does not mean that the narrative is without consequence. And if that is the specific kind of consequence you think is necessary for a good story, if you think that it is superior storytelling to punish characters, that is your prerogative, but I personally do not agree and think that viewing the story through that lens deeply misunderstands the ethos of Critical Role.

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Your name is Juniper, you’re a student at seminary school when the gods get turned to mortals, and your parents are both centaurs