#sam fucking riegel

[baddealbones]

Fresh Cut Grass. Brilliant from start to finish. He knew that he was alive in the moment that they died and he knew, moreover, that their life was beautiful.

Smiley Day.

[bananathebookworm]

Having spent the better part of a decade watching Sam Riegel pull off some of the most incredible moves in this game, watching him pull off this Hail Mary and fully sacrifice his own character in order to save the party was nothing short of devastating. Beautiful, but devastating.

And also knowing how he is as a player, I don't believe any part of FCG would be 'willing' to return as per the relevant spells that could potentially bring him back.

But now I'm curious, is Sam going to pick his own character for the next one like he did with Tary, or is he going to have Liam choose the new one?

With Tary it was meant to blindside the group so it made sense Sam didn't have Liam choose for that instance, but this time they are all well aware that Sam will be bringing in a new character so I wonder if he'll have Liam choose again.

I'm very curious what'll happen, but I can only assume that regardless of who makes the choice they'll still seek to fill the healer role.

[pocketgalaxies]

"the name's peddy. peddy bear."

"*muffled laughter*"

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

I need to know how Aabria reacted in the crowd to seeing Sam become the monster I think we all want to be, or be with

[milquetoad]

matt ruling that the technical damage from the explosion was irrelevant due to the power and weight of fcg’s sacrifice is what really got me. even if sam rolled the max possible number on the dice, it wouldn’t have even brought otohan to below where she was before she took the health potion. mechanically speaking, she should have survived that blast by a LOT of hit points. but this was a player willingly killing their own character, beyond reviving and even potentially beyond resurrection, to give the rest of the party any advantage they could, and he rewarded that with the death of an antagonist that has haunted this campaign from the very beginning. unreal fucking plays by both matt and sam tonight.

[supergirlsjustfly]

Wanna make it better? (or worse, your call)

He lost the status after his fiancee named "Suzie Greene" broke up the engagement.

He lost his "Greene" card.

Braius being a refugee revoked of status after losing his job and forcibly relocated is such a weirdly grounded sad backstory.

[dangergggg]

A smol doodle- We love you Sammy <3

[starkju0]

We love you Sam ❤️

[acebender]

Sam in Cooldown: "I am considering modifying Keyleth's memory so she forgets about him entirely"

DO IT

[littlebosslady7]

What Liam said.

[baddealbones]

I don't believe a single thing Braius has said about himself since we met him. Not a bit of it.

Sam has so many things up his sleeve with this dude.

[pocketgalaxies]

Me and my friends are going are going on a mission that is important and could change a lot of stuff, and I feel like something bad is gonna happen. There's doom on the horizon. But I still think it's right that we're going. (for @overnighttosunflowers)

[deramin2]

Fate really does not work correctly around Critical Role.

So many things happened that weren't really supposed to that lined up events so that the last episode Sam played in before cancer surgery was the fight with Otohan and the most logical last move was FCG self-destructing.

FCG was a reflection of where Sam was & what he wanted to explore in 2021 when he was healthy & joking he liked exploring other people's damage because he had none of his own.

As someone who also had a serious illness, there's a huge wall between who I am now & who I was before.

Somehow things lined up such that getting near the end of Sam's last episode for a while, he had a chance to express everything FCG had learned and experienced through their journey about themselves and the gods while neatly ending their story in a really meaningful way.

It wasn't planned that way, but it really was probably the best possible scenario for the story overall.

I know I probably could not play my pre-illness characters again. They'd be different people because I'm a different person. I think a hard permanent demarcation is good.

Just another wildly improbable series of events that end up having a bizarrely fitting narrative structure in a real world that isn't supposed to have narrative structures. I've joked for years that Avandra has their backs, but she really did have a place for her little robit.

I'm immensely glad the outcome is we get to see Sam back at the table exploring things he was missing out on with FCG like being horny and charismatic and lying. Life is short, play a sinking hot evil Minotaur Tragedy Bard/Oath Breaker Paladin propositioning everyone.

[azeutreciathewicked]

Critical Role actor Sam Riegel shares about his cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. This is so devastating because it affects his talent and work - voice acting. But fortunately, he is in recovery because they caught it early and treated him. Please get vaccinated against HPV - people in our generation didn't have this option, but it's such an important way to prevent several horrible types of cancer.

[jimbodyson]

Sam is my nemesis because he fr just said in the most genuine sounding voice 'everyone's talking about the Bard's Lament, I cant promise that'll happen guys' and everything points to him trolling as usual but that seed of doubt is planted and now im shit scared 😭 CURSE YOU SAM RIEGEL AND CURSE MY TONE BLIND AUTISTIC BRAIN

[su-talks-about-things]

I haven't even seen it yet because I'm late but after what we've learned, knowing that Sam came back during a live show, with thousands of people cheering for him! Knowing this feels heartwarming and amazing because he got to return like the absolute king that he is. This man has made people laugh and cry for years, so coming back to such an audience after winning his battle against cancer feels like... I don't know guys, that is just what he deserved and I hope he felt the love and support and everything else.