#campaign wrap up

[utilitycaster]

tired: Campaign 3 is being unfairly rushed to wrap up and make way for a Daggerheart campaign.

wired: Campaign 3 is fast-paced, plot-heavy, and somewhat more on rails because it's intended to be the culmination of the plot points put into place in the previous two campaigns, which Matt has stated is a long-time dream of his to be able to do.

inspired: Matt is trying to pack as much possible plot into each day because he has no fucking idea what to do if Chetney dies in his sleep.

[midnightfox450]

Jaina bronzebeard is really good because murph literally just took his favorite archetypes (dwarf, stoic, knight, wrestler) and said "what if that but woman" and accidentally created a butch lesbian so incredible he just had to find a way to integrate her fucking ladies into the penultimate episode

[superineffable]

technically the nsbu party can do another campaign by having the nsbu movie have a sequel OR if the store doesn't close down, they find another movie (possibly in another genre) that they could enter again

[littlenimart]

Goromi doodle from June I unearthed sorting my procreate gallery P^] my beloved party girl

[suaimhneas-gairid]

I haven't CR-posted in a while but I've finally finished the first campaign and I'm watching the wrap-up ep and this shot of them all, 3.5 hours into discussing the whole campaign and the possibilities and their characters' feelings and the body language between all of them and how relaxed and comfortable and reminiscent they all are, it just gave me a swell of emotion.

Here are some friends who have lived a lifetime together. The big finale has happened, the story has officially ended, but we've been granted one last chance to relive it all before moving on.

idk i just think critical role is neat is all

[hrokkall]

Peace and love in farm arrays

My screenshot that inspired this; it didn't end up being very similar but I liked the idea of these three taking a break together :]

[blujayonthewing]

[marvelousbelladonna]

…and Imogen was born

[finncakes]

A Dance of Deception🎭✨️

based of J.C. Leyendecker's advertisment for Arrow (under the cut)

[utilitycaster]

I'm so curious where Braius's paladin abilities come from because he doesn't need a deity to be a paladin, but his likely subclasses are Oath of the Ancients or (less likely but not out of reasonable speculation) Oath of the Watchers and neither are Asmodeus vibes, even before we knew that Asmodeus had never spoken to him.

I have mixed feelings about the idea that the Platinum Dragon never abandoned him and remained the source of his powers, not because I think he should have but because it is kind of a dick move to leave Braius twisting in the wind like that after the incident at the Platinum House (though, admittedly, sort of funny). But I also wouldn't mind seeing it play out if that were the case. I feel a very interesting theme of this campaign has been the distinction between the will of the gods vs. the will of their followers, and how those have in some cases, well, diverged since the Divergence. It would be an interesting way to explore that if so. I'm also open to Braius's powers just being from his love of art! Ancients is very much about that as well, and while I'm on the record as not caring for a godless cleric, I do love a godless paladin.

[mariuslepual]

I could really write an essay about each member of the nein in this episode but really it comes down to just. I fucking love the mighty nein.

[musicinherhead]

I’m just imagining a grateful Keyleth, at the end of all this moon shit when the baddies have been brought to justice, approaching Laudna and Imogen with pretty much any reward but ultimately being like “You don’t have to choose it but… I can bring her all the way back.. you can grow old together.”

She would know she’s probably likely projecting, but offers them something no one can off her 😭

[edelgarfield]

i think bell's hells is the most realistic depiction of what would actually happen if you took a group of random people and told them the fate of the world was on their shoulders.

[evilroachindustrial]

Stuffing this behind a cut for extra protection

Chet may still be the smartest person in this party, but I am absolutely in the tank for Sam's new character being a Paladin of Asmodeus.

[ashleyjohnsonoftheday]

Day 445

[crispysnake]

anyways crown keepers feed my soul potent serotonin like no other I can't believe I forget how aabria gives the BEST rp opportunities and I am rolling around joyfully in a grassy field over them getting a main campaign episode MY BABIES THEY DESERVE IT ALL AND MORE