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[everythingdice]

𝔉𝔢𝔶 ℑ𝔩𝔩𝔲𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰 | First iteration, circa 2021.

[yashley]

Then why are you here? What is it you want? I want to free you.

[tugstoffoles]

in my heart of hearts, I believe Foggy Nelson was rly into DnD when he was in middle and high school, he was also mainly a DM rather than an active player. when he meets Matt and just casually starts narrating things for him out of habit, Matt actually really enjoys it because Foggy is extremely descriptive and somehow always has the perfect adjectives.

[oddthesungod]

Reborn of earth and fire 🔥

[augentrust]

matthew mercer every time his players prepare to head into aeor:

chibi essek credit to Jenny Park from the pin available in the critical role shop!

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Actual footage of Tony trying to talk to Kelsey this episode:

Now what I personally need is for her to despise him for a while then for them to have some big heart to heart and them to become best friends OKAY I'm very invested in what's become of their dynamic and I'm all here for "Punished" Tony the wet cat that he is I yield the rest of my time thank you.

[shorthaltsjester]

re the first three tlovm s3 episode title teaser fr. vex getting [redacted] while standing in front of percy . i will undoubtedly have Thoughts about plot n adaption once the whole season is out but i will say people acting like vex potentially dying again is a betrayal of the arc is . i say this politely. ridiculous. vex’s most common habit aside from haggling and flirting in campaign 1 was being knocked unconscious. she required full ass resurrection spells on four separate occasions. we currently have no idea what the shape of any arc in season 3 will look like beyond broad strokes and teasing shots. if they end up wanting to incorporate the exandrian magic lore of it’s harder to come back each time you die, vex seems like the obvious opportunity to do so. please at the very least save the panic posting for when you actually have something to panic about .

[sunrisemill]

I’ll admit some of the gifts they gave each other rendered me speechless

The condoms were CRAZY 😭

[caeslxys]

Your tags...you're right and you should say it, honestly. Saying C3 deserved a few more episodes could sound like your average "I wish my show never ended" take, except...what was everything for, if BH don't get to exist in the aftermath? Their endgame choice, everything they've been working towards, was informed by them having been on the moon and met its people. Final episodes aside, if the Ruidus plot is The BH Thing, I really wish the first trip could've had them less in a rush to report back. I wish they had the opportunity to connect even more with Ruidians and, yeah, I wish they had fought the Weavemind. I'm also rambling, sorry! I just can't believe it's controversial or made to sound like hate to say we shouldn't be begging for Moon x BH crumbs in the Moon x BH campaign.

Prefacing this with reinforcing that I truly, deeply adore those final bells hells episodes and what they contain. They’re fantastic critical role episodes in general but more importantly to me they are fantastic bells hells episodes. In a vacuum, i’m extremely happy with what we got.

That said, yeah, c3’s ending on the grander scale of its narrative structure in totality was unbelievably (and, frankly, unnecessarily) rushed. Everything since episode 91 has been in a spiral towards a finish they simply could have chosen not to spiral into so quickly. And this is seen in several things: from how Delilah was “handled” with next to no actual processing or difficulty, to the nein’s inclusion not bearing any narrative weight beyond the vague feeling of having some “avengers assemble” moment i simply did not care for and think ultimately took from bells hell’s story rather than added to it (which, were it not all rushed, is something it could have been given to them and their inclusion in the way that vox machina’s inclusion did), to the hells not even actually being able to participate in what their own campaign was ultimately about beyond quick epilogue scenes and one political discussion that they didn’t even all need to participate in.

I think the decision to have c3 be “the end of an era” irt to critical role’s ten years deeply hurt both its structure and its narrative intent. I still remember them marketing this campaign as a good jumping in point for new critters, and yet the finale doesn’t even end with bells hells. It ends on vox machina. That, to me—and in addition to the vox machina and mighty nein solo episodes—showcases a clear shift in intent that happened way, way too late to feel at all fulfilling as an audience member looking in. I’m sure as players it rocked, which I point out because obviously the fun factor matters substantially as well, but that has no bearing on criticism of the narrative it produces.

All that said: it’s truly incredible to me how much of this would have been fixed very simply by just…having more episodes. You could say this of anything but I feel it’s extremely noticeable in this story—the one thing it needed to make the constant rushing pace of its forward plot land was a denouement that allowed the characters and story to breathe for more than one eight hour episode. Bells Hells needed to learn about the culture on Ruidus. They needed to spend more time with the volition—more time even with Liliana, I would argue. They should have had their story structured in such a way that they fought the weavemind and ludinus both (especially if matt knew ludinus would ultimately make it out). They should have actually had to delve into what the story had set them up to delve into.

I adore, to pieces, campaign 3 and bells hells. I think much of the ire thrown towards it is unwarranted at best and often misplaced. But I will likely also always be at least a little mad that their final act was so clearly rushed.

[terresdebrume]

So I did not realize how big Laura Bailey's dice bag of hoarding was until I got it at Christmas xD

It looks very empty now but I figure if I make people get me dice for every bday and Christmas I'll fill it up eventually xD

[eddsworldstuck]

*holds out my hand, these lil guys are there* have new sprite edits

and a better look at them by zooming in on them in my psd file

and these were the old ones btw from *checks notes* 2014...

also here's the duo as a bonus

[deckofcardau]

Sorry I joined so late, but I drew on @marshmallow-biscuit-blog's whiteboard from yesterday!!

[jokerx-art]

rough background practice but it's ews

[pocketgalaxies]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[aceing-it-spaceing-it]

I love Laura asking so sincerely if they can all line up one by one to see who can kill Chetney.

[rohanrider3]

Dear DnD gods, all I want for Winter's Crest is a Fjorester wedding one-shot DMed by Aabria Iyengar so that we can simultaneously get gorgeous vibes, endless society shenanigans, AND Matt Mercer finally able to devote himself full time to playing Essek. <3 Shadowgast shenanigans <3 @quiddie