The Critical Fool

Greetings! I am a friendly artist, writer and gerblin who is a fan of tabletop roleplaying and other what-have-yous. This blog will primarily be filled with Dimension 20, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, my video game interests (Rune Factory, holla!) and personal campaign art, goofs, reblogs and writings.

[stephank]

Thaisha has an awkward question for Sir Julien...

[quiddie]

I’m absolutely DYING. THIS IS PERFECTION. 🥹

[acebender]

MATT: "Bunch of elites and the bourgeoisie in a room talking about they got to bind together against the regulars outside. I'm so glad we live in this fictional world."

[dungeonclown]

Something that GMs should absolutely steal from last night’s episode of Critical Role that is REALLY GOOD GMing (paraphrased for no spoilers and then spoilers under the cut).

Talking to your players and understanding what they want out of their characters, and scenes they’d like their characters to be in + story elements they want to be part of is important. ESPECIALLY when the characters themselves would NOT want to be in those situations. If you communicate this, it’s so much more fun to yank their characters in a direction they are looking forward to and expecting (but not necessarily know when or how depending on their preferences - like with Occtis’ fate).

This just happened with Kattigan! His cold open and the book end with Primus was PITCH PERFECT, and it happened because he got deus ex demon kidnapped right at the onset.

If Kattigan had been at the theatre, it wouldn’t have contributed anything to his backstory or the developing story between the Halovars and the Falconers. His kattnapping giving us a beautiful chef’s kiss moment when Katt’s critical 1 comes back to haunt him straight from Yanessa’s failgirls. It gives us another character overhearing the insane plots of the sundered houses who isn’t also dealing with Termina or under the thumb of the Photarch, and lets poor Robbie have more to do and chew on during the scene (not that he’s not clearly having a blast during the city scenes, but it’s been an ongoing joke that Kattigan is in the background most of the time with an occasional comedy sniper moment).

It has awesome impact, the player(s) are totally on board with it, and it also served to balance the party in a potentially very dangerous situation. (We could have had some extra help in Obrimus but you know what it’s fine and made for a great story beat too lol. No one has died! Yet.)

All this to say, GMs check in with your players and plot WITH them, not against them! That way, if you surprise them, it will still enrich your game and your story and be a delight for your fellow storytellers.

[wizard-loving-wizard]

most emotionally devastating cold open yet. and also this

[chaosseeking]

this is about to be hala when shit goes down at the play

[inwytt]

I need to get brunch with her. She’s perfect 😩

[startedwellthatsentence]

That Zone of Truth is as bullshit as the black bolt that killed her.

[tahioxaaa]

Dragonized Gloink Qween

[dungeonclown]

occtis u be lookin like a snack (a succulent corpse meal)

[jmfenner91]

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

This project was such a huge honor to work on. I remember as a kid looking through the players manuals & doing little studies of the artwork in there, so this feels a bit full-circle. You can get a peek at higher-res versions of them on my insta!

[triaelf9]

GIVE! HIM! AN! ICE CREAM! PARTY!

[dungeonclown]

rewatching cr4 and able to put together the pieces SO much better now, its such a good series to revisit

A couple things

- bolaire rolled like dogshit in his two encounters w lady cormoray and it stinks so much like she Knows About Him at that point given her (current) ending and her pointed Q’s. Im also goin nuts bc brennan was saying SOMETHING about how she was reacting to the palazzo davinos and it definitely seemed like another insight CHECK was warranted but tal skipped over it to get bolaire out of there 😭 in character but as a viewer In hindsight im like WHAT WOULD HE HAVE LEARNEDDD

- also im wondering if the halovar nama minister was the one who was going to be “outfitted” with teor (assuming that procedure separates the soul from the body, which from bolaires suggestive comments to the twins it may well have been). idk if its a coincidence but the halovars REALLY want that lion man and that halovar lion man sticks out like a sore thumb

I finally understand so many more things now good lord

[halzune]

Good on ya!

CRITICAL ROLE 4 EP 25: Targeted

[lycantrophyspouse]

It's overshadowed by pretty much everything else going on this episode but

"Are Tyranny's Sisters here?"

"No, Wrath and Judgment are the dogs"

Is hilarious in and out of context

[canagadoodles]

My pride and joy! I am putting on a Kickstarter campaign for a deck of hand-illustrated playing cards, featuring my favorite little guy: the kobold. Shares and boosts are SO appreciated to help me bring this project to life.

[Kickstarter is LIVE NOW until June 2nd!]

The deck is standard poker sized, & fully custom front to back, with cavern-friendly pips and 55 cards (includes 2 jokers & an ID card).

You can also grab some special add-ons, including this goofy sticker sheet starring the jokers, aces & pips

And twelve 3D printable kobold models from my wondrous catalogue of little guys! (This is a digital reward).

That's all folks! Thank you for looking at these weird creatures!

[canagadoodles]

This reel flopped on Instagram and me and @captainwolfstar5 worked too hard on it for me to not cross-post it and make everyone watch this stupid video.

This is a campy video promoting my deck of kobold playing cards, starring silly little guys! Here’s a little teaser - I’ll be posting more about it soon. Check it out! The Kickstarter launches May 5th.

[revvethasmythh]

"you don't have a tongue, and you have hid everything from me" all right, go off, hal