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I have been working on this ever since this scene happened early on. The way Aabria described coming out of the wolf form was so sick i immediately knew i had to put pen to “paper”. I hope I did her the justice she deserves 🥺

Something I think about a lot is the hundreds of ttrpg horror stories, and how the despicable people who those stories are about are still allowed to consume and have opinions on actual plays. It’s why I take many bad faith opinions with a grain of salt because some people are really throwing boulders from a glass house.

#critical role #campaign 4 #dimension 20 #It’s why the whole I’m allowed to have any opinion doesn’t fly with me #unless I know u IRL at the end of the day ur opinion is an internet opinion so holds less weight

I think that if everyone loves and thinks every character is good from the first few episodes of an actual play with 13 PCs, then the players are doing something wrong. We’ve lost the art of a character arc because people want fully fleshed out, unflawed and matured characters whose only complexity comes from a tragic backstory

#critical role #campaign 4 #literally I could talk about this for hours #How the only acceptable complexity to a fanbase is trauma #and not deep and nuanced flaws #And this is not a dig at the players who understand this #more so at an audience who can only consume superficial media

“Do you want me to destroy you?”

OH EDDIE AND KATIE, YOU MAKE ME SICKKKKKK

#private nightmares #project ghostlight #aabria iyengar #luis carazo #Eddie and Katie

Azune looking in the mirror after some private Orc-face:

#critical role #campaign 4 #azune nayar #this is a joke btw #…in a way that it isn’t a joke but it’s also not deep enough to care enough #NOW IM NOT GOING TO GET TOO DEEP INTO IT AS ITS NOT THAT DEEP AND THIS IS FANTASY PRETEND WORLD #But essentially a (white idk probably Latino) human man swapped races to look like oppressed race #it’s just interesting to think about how problematic that would be irl #like someone does blackface and then just goes to bed in it #Well meaning of course too look like Thaz #but honestly it just shows how Azune’s head isn’t screwed on the straightest #Cos for me at first it was aw #then it was like wait this is not normal behaviour #Anyways I love the schemers and Azune #it’s just funny bc in essentially Azune did a full race swap #before anyone says that if it isn’t deep why did I saw something I’m bored okay #also occtis did this already too look like alogar in the overture so fantasy skin tone doesn’t count i don’t think

The first piece of D&D I ever watched was EXU calamity with no context for anything CR expect a good autocomplete challenge. But I loved it and it opened up a rabbit hole of actual play additction. But I recently rewatched with all of my exandria lore knowledge and it’s funny how many things I didn’t get:

1. I thought that Zerxus thought that the Lord of the Hells used to be Evandrin. Let me explain. Xerxis ask LoH ‘do you know what u were before this?’ I thought he was implying that his husband turned into this demon thing and that’s what Laerynn accidentally did.

2. I didn’t know Asmodeus was a God I thought it was just a really bad dude.

3. I thought the Matron was Patia’s mom. When the group found out that it was the Matron that taught Patia how do a spell preascention. Marisha said ‘I learnt it from you mom’, I thought this meant Patia’s mother was a Godess

4. anything with the primordials,

5. what the heck a vasselheim was and why LoH wanted to go there so bad,

6. who the heck LoH siblings were,

7. why we cared about Vespin so much,

8. what a vestige was,

9. what the word magister meant and many other words that came before.

Calamity was a banger before context and A MASTERPIECE with it.

#critical role #exu calamity #who would’ve thought #There are so many other words I didn’t get #AND THE SHATTERED TEETH BIT WAS SO GOOD WHEN I KNEW WHAT THAT WAS

Rewatching Burrow’s end to feel something again because med school exams are turning me into a zombie. And I saw this bit that made me grin because a memory deep in the back of my mind triggered. It’s as they say all GMs learn from one another.

#aabria iyengar #burrow’s end #dimension 20 #kollok #zac eubank #Kollok all the way down #But actually rewatching burrow’s end is actually the best #I need to see it twice to appreciate the beauty even more #It’s family it’s complex it’s story telling at its finest #Dropout I need season 2 for mental health reasons #Also in like five years maybe they’ll give us a kollok reunion ep #Bc it’s crazy and the plot is so complex but it’s just so funny #The hyper RPG simply have to help produce a D20 season #bc some of their effects were so cool and unique and no actual play has done it since #like wdym a player in a retro tv and a full human model #anyways I’m losing the point #sidebar #And Aabria in the back saying u have to ask

calcium-draws

❝intertwined, sewn together.❞

Brennan always talks about how Aabria is the biggest assist a GM can have. And I have NEVER seen it more clear than in this moment in ep 5 of C4. MVP behaviour. Picked up the cue immediately and effortlessly slotted in a reminder for Alex.

#critical role #campaign 4 #cr spoilers #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #and she didn’t even break a sweat #one of the greatest assist I’ve ever seen

Watching the adventuring party at its Ally and Brennan reveals that he is the seventh grandchild in his family.

The seventh will know to ring the bell.

Maxwell is Brennan’s insert in Cloudward Ho!

#dimension 20 #ally beardsley #brennan lee mulligan #adventuring academy #maxwell gotch #he said I’m the seventh grandchild and I was like I’ve heard these words before #The bell and maxwell are in fact the main characters #cloudward ho

Congrats to Mrs Roland and Mr Mulligan on the second child. Let’s see if it’s a theme that each child gets a season in the dome before they are born.

#izzy roland #brennan lee mulligan #wizard sunny #Izzy not pregnant is a star #Izzy in the dome while pregnant is earth shattering #I mean I think sunny got two #burrows end and NSBU

No because Thaisha and Hal are so wedding song and Orpheus and Eurydice coded. I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT ALL WEEK. Not in the whole turning around bit but in the first part of the musical. The way they fall in love. And I KNOWWWW they aren’t getting back together but their type of love is so special to me and I’ve never seen it in an actual play. Oh if one of them goes before they see each other it will destroy me:

‘Hal (Orpheus) was a poor boy,

But he had a gift to give.

He could make you see how the world could be:

In spite of the way that it is

And Thaisha (Eurydice) was a young girl,

But she'd seen how the world was.

When she fell, she fell in spite of herself,

In love with Hal (Orpheus)’

#critical role #aabria iyengar #campaign 4 #liam o'brien #thaisha lloy #hal fang #I might be sick if I think too hard about it #I wonder if they NEVER wanted to get married or if once upon a time they thought about it and then said nah #and the way bolaire talks about Hal’s art is the way people talk about Orpheus #I need to see Thaisha b4 Hal #and during Hal #and after #vice versa #also hadestown songs are always running around my head #god I love this campaign

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Guys are we all just pretending that Wealwell isn’t about the become evil in the last few episode or…

1. He has spoken about expanding the Gotch name multiple times and it’s been brushed off

2. He’s shown he is willing to kill his brother as a bit that I feel like is not actually a bit

3. Pappy is already onto him and Brennan probably for the lols will give into making Wealwell evil for Zac

4. He’s shown moments of extreme consciousness and I mean by this at random points he gets super serious and shows he’s really competent

5. He is surprisingly skilful in standing and that begs the question what else

6. He disappears or doesn’t speak for a long time and it’s ignored

And number 7 and arguably the most important he’s wearing fancy striped pants.

WAKE UP PEOPLE, WE’VE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE

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Ugh I guess I have to apologise to Weawell and all of the stans that came with him. Until Marya’s Nat 20 insight I didn’t really understand him but after I’ve come to the conclusion that he is just so…solid.

#cloudward ho #and so what if I was wrong #dimesnion 20 #SUE ME #in all honesty I really do love Weawell #I think it’s just that I don’t trust Brennan to let us be happy