#cr tag

[revvethasmythh]

the veth pregnancy reveal is so funny because it's done via internal narration in the middle of combat for the benefit of the audience, and the rest of the nein literally do not know. they do not know. the cast banters a little about it OUT of character. please remember that she still needs to tell her friends at some point about this

[utilitycaster]

Teor really is the bill finally coming due in the form of terrible dice. like it's not just that Cerrit survived Calamity or that Chetney is apparently unkillable. It's that his characters survived the famously lethal Candela Obscura AND Age of Umbra, AND Bertrand only died when he specifically set him up to do so in the first few episodes of Campaign 3 after improbably surviving the Searches for Grog and Bob. Truly an unhinged track record.

[faerieconsort]

Same person, can u believe it

[azatas]

excuse me liam.

[playerkingsley]

perfect energy going from today’s adventuring party to the cr campaign 4 premiere

[pawthorn]

Been bouncing this around in my brain for a while, but @luckthebard 's recent post about anti-sex movement in Progressive circles made something click for me.

In actual-play fandom spaces, the same people who yell "it's their table, let them have fun" if you point out structural, story issues, are often loudly anti-sex, anti-violence, or anti-conflict about the same stories.

And the irony is, it's way more appropriate to say, "it's their table" in response to anti-sex etc. criticism than it is to direct it at story criticism. Because shows like CR and D20 have made their style of humor and relationship with adult content extremely clear for the last decade or so. To wade into their space and demand that they change their table culture and brand is ridiculous.

But it makes sense that both the anti-adult content and the "it's their table" demands are coming from the same place. Because both come from a desire to police and control the behavior of others.

In my experience, people who criticize actual play storylines aren't trying to change them-- they're processing and commenting and discussing what works and doesn't work in a given story. The people wading into these conversations to say "it's their table" want to shut the critics up. They don't want to join the discussion, they don't want to block and move on with their lives. They want everyone to either share their opinions or be silent.

Likewise, the anti-adult content crowd doesn't want to Listen to Re-Slayer's take or DesiQuest or one of the countless other actual play shows that has a table-culture more to their liking. They want Critical Role and Dimension 20 to fit into their box of comfort.

So instead of curating their own experiences and taking responsibility for the things they consume, they get moralistic and try to force everything around them to fit with their beliefs, opinions, and taste.

Which is functionally authoritarianism in a progressive hat.

[everypigeondeserveslove]

Everytime I think about Bolaire in a romatic relationship the Law and Order SVU theme song starts playing

"In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the city of Dol-Makjar, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories."

[patopq]

ive almost come to the conclusion that TMA is the horror media to many in the same way that CR is the first introduction to DND to many. i dont know why the former happened but it might explain some part of the... fandom