#c1e39

[ravendruid]

Delicious cattle. Raishan enjoys the taste of fear.

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

Akarot (Murph with an Adam Driver voice): You can't insult me, I'm a dirty little boy. I like to be insulted.

[imaginemyreality03]

So I’m new to DnD in general, and I just started Critical Role last year. I’m a very detail-oriented person so I’m very slowly making my way through campaign 1. I’m only on episode 39.

But something is standing out to me that makes me so SAD every time I see it. In the last like 6 or so episodes, Travis (Grog) has been trying to make more ability checks. The way his character is built is so single-minded in strength and athleticism that there aren’t many feats he can perform successful checks for that another party member cannot perform exceedingly well instead. So when he asks to make checks, even when someone else is making one, Matt usually just defers to another party member or says no because of advantages attributed to another player or lack thereof in Grog’s attributes.

(Which I kinda take issue with the concept of not letting people with lesser ability scores make checks. I wish there was a feature that when you make checks, the more you make, the more experience you would gain in that area. So regardless of your odds of success in a check, a failed check with still be valuable, as in life failure and practice are both valuable experiences that you learn from. And that would let you level up some abilities)

Now, I am in NO WAY bashing Matt for this, I don’t think there is anything wrong with his DM style. It’s just a result of circumstance of Grog’s ability scores and the roles that the rest of the party falls into due to their ability scores.

I can see that Travis knows he’s not gonna be the most successful one, he just wants to get to play. He wants to get to roll the dice. He wants to interact and have impact. He really takes advantage of the moments when Grog has power or influence in a situation and there is a reason those moments stand out so much (and this Kraven Edge sword is really gonna create some dynamic play for him I think, so I’m excited to see where this goes).

Outside of Combat/Survival, the most he gets to do is tag along with the group and do minor role play with NPCs that he still almost never has to roll for. And that makes it so hard for him to stay involved, and I am just watching him restrain himself in moments where Grog isn’t helpful, BECAUSE HE JUST WANTS TO PLAY! And Travis is so smart. He is figuring out Matt’s plays and making plans in his head sometimes faster than Talisen or Laura are. He’s by far my favorite person in the cast and my FAVORITE to watch. I just really hope he gets to actually PLAY DnD with everyone a little more as the season goes on. Because not increasing in intelligence doesn’t impact experience or instinct and both should be impacted by ability scores and both should get to move up regardless of his character’s restrictions.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[twinklestarss]

Vax'ildan + Calling Keyleth “Kiki”

C1E22 | C1E24 | C1E39 | C1E54 | C1E66 | C1E70 | C1E81 | C1E93 | C1E94 | C1E101

[marvelousbelladonna]

Love that they animated this moment

[squirrels-are-sleeping]

Travis’s face when 19 misses, six and a half years apart.

[yesifitswithyou]

Vax having this crisis and yelling and arguing with everyone (specially when it's with Vex) is bREAKING MY FUCKING HEART

[kobaltsoul]

19 misses

[makewavesandwar]

Percy and Scanlan trying to get Kaylie out of the stockade is one of the funniest fucking things istg

[ravendruid]

Travis: You just massacred people. You just committed genocide.

Matt: I just destroyed something that I built. It's a really weird feeling.

Laura: You destroyed your whole city, Matt.

Marisha: The whole city, everyone's dead.

Travis: Well done!

Sam: Not everyone, just a couple of dozen people. And Gilmore.

[savagegoodboyy]

keyleth accidentally turning almost everyone to mist and then scanlan getting swallowed by the purple worm is peak campaign 1 shenanigans

[starrazorr]

ok so ik it’s like a huge disaster and a ton of ppl died but i can’t get over how narratively cool the attack of the chroma conclave is. the way vox machina, these heroes of legend, are literally helpless against it. they are literally just citizens, specks in the crowd, watching this unfold, and all they can do is try and usher people to safety. especially since right before this vax had that whole “i don’t know what we’re doing or why” talk with his sister, to then immediately humble them is just........sheesh matt ur a master

[leadmeastraylittlefairy]

episode 39 of campaign one is such whiplash. the beginning is just people being agitated with each other and then the fucking dragons 😭

[silverlitskies]

oh my god there are four dragons this is the coolest but most terrifying moment of my life

[aquariusdeanw]

WTF HAPPENED JVNSOWJRBR FOUR DRAGONS OUT OF NOWHERE ?!?

ISTG IF GILMORE IS DEAD.......

[annemarieyeretzian]

keyleth being the one to see vax and calling out to him and vax softly saying “not now, kiki.” and keyleth keeping it to herself