#Campaign: the beyond

[jhonskii]

OH JESUS LORD GRIMMORNING SQUEEZING BETWEEN CROSSED ARM HOTTIES /silly

[ludinusdaleth]

"It's gonna be okay, right?"

'I don't know, but thank you."

"For what?"

"Weeks, months, I dunno, how long have we been together?"

"I don't know, months?"

"Feels like... years."

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 87, "Doorways to Darker Depths"

[bizlybebo]

would this jrwi character call you a faggot except im not elaborating on any of it

[nellasbookplanet]

Downfall has only just started, but already I'm deeply curious what Bells Hells reaction will be to seeing it play out. I've mentioned before that I suspect the dislike or outright disdain some of the party feels for the gods - most notably Ashton and Laudna, but also Imogen at times - is in part a product of the gods being so distant as to not feel like real people to them, and therefore being easy scapegoats.

It’s easy to see the mortal victims of Ludinus and the Vanguard as just that: victims. The Hells have met them, have been them. They have not seen or felt the gods suffer in the same way. Laudna even went so far as to blame the gods for mortal deaths and suffering after the solstice, even as the gods are the ones under attack. They feel uniquely abandoned by the world, and it's easy to blame these distant, powerful figures for their hardship. Certainly much easier than to see the mortal systems that enabled their harm, or to actively seek improvement on their own.

But to see the gods now, not just as people but as mortals, with all the flaws and vulnerabilities and fears of any of the Hells, with loved ones of their own and the same desperate sense of self-preservation as any living thing, will they be able to hold onto the disdain that they’ve clung to for so long?

[set-wingedwarrior]

Some info about the RWBY bonus content

[comikbook]

freya sketch

[starpie554]

WHAT-A-DO MY NAME IS KREMY LECROUX I LOVE UNICORNS

Setting up to DM this campaign myself! IM SO EXCITED

Edit: I HAD TO REPLACE THE IMAGE BECAUSE I FORGOT HIS LOVELY MUSTACHE HOW DARE I

[cryptidcassie]

The countdown to episode 69 grows ever more chaotic

[jellisdraws]

There is beauty in Cold Steel.

Ceres, in her new crime boss fashions

[criticalrolo]

calamity is so good. lou really embodies Exactly what it's like during the dramatic scramble to write down what fucking crazy thing the DM just said about your friend's character

[shadowgasps]

Im so extremely excited to witness Aabria's dmed space world for wbn but oh my god I'm going to miss Ame, Suvi and Eursulon so much. I hope it's not going to be 2 years before we get to see my www trio again

[spicyspell]

Isolde doodle from a little while ago!

[seawitchkaraoke]

I am so obsessed with Erika's and Brennan's willingness to play incredibly emotionally charged fights between characters that love each other in deeply complicated ways, like the amount of trust this shit takes to do in an improv show? Was obsessed with it in burrows end, am obsessed with it now in misfits and magic, will be obsessed with it when they inevitably do it again in the coming Aabria dmed worlds beyond numbers story, these two (and especially Erika for being so so willing to play the heel) kill me everytime, I love them

[mandiminimojo]

The party went to the Faewild and turned into kids! And so the DM asked me to draw icons for everyone.

[mandrellaeffect]

So basically at various points through the Wizard Witch Wild One campaign from Worlds Beyond Number, I have felt various amounts of horrified abt events, but there's something so special about a one-shot (WWW #2 The Clearing) that is committed to being violent against its players for world building reasons. These people were never meant to be there. Guess what that means for them [sparkle emoji] [crossbones emoji] [heart emoji]

[duckprintspress]

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