It IS Thursday!

I've only managed 46 hours in about 2 months due to health getting worse, but as long as Brennan keeps C4 going for at least 3 more years, I should have enough time :)

3 pics (1) 500 hours (2) 454 hours pic to show how much has been stitched in 46 hours -the area above Marisha's head (3) the photo I'm following.

Heya, I'm a fairly new critter (about a year now, little less). Got pulled into it through the Mighty Nein show and have been watching the campaign in the past year (currently on c126). This is a silly thing to probably post and it's so extremely specific that nobody might ever need it, but:

Small bit of context: I like to write fanfiction. I've been working on something with Caleb as the primary pov character, and then I started to think about his handwriting and wondered if there was anything stated about it before I started making things up that were stated.

When I googled it I couldn't find anything concrete, just people assuming/headcanoning- and then I remembered that there is a print that comes with the collector's edition of The 2nd volume of Chronicles of Exandria - The Mighty Nein, that is Caleb's notes on the beacon. Written in his handwriting (+ a small Jester cameo. Thanks to her additions you can tell it's Caleb's notes, so thank you Jester!)

So I figured I'd simply post some close-ups here in case anyone else ever had the same question as I did without having spent entirely too much money on a book 🫡. I hope this is okay to post, I don't think there's anything really spoilery in here, but if it is please tell me so I can change/repost with appropriate tsg. I'm a bit of a reddit newbie in terms of posting anything.

I know many critters aren't super familiar with Hololive and possibly since the announcement looked them up and got extremely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of new information that turns up and the daunting task of seeing the hundreds of stream VODs every member has. With no good easy start point like a Campaign first episode, figured I'd give a run down on all the new members, what you might expect from them for this campaign vibes wise, as well good streams to check out if you want to start somewhere in watching them pre-series start. Obviously this is also just my personal expectations on what character they'll play, the reality as always for every campaign is we won't know until it starts.

Nerissa Ravencroft: Hololive's resident self described diva. She very much loves to act dramatically and has zero hesitation to make herself the butt of her own and other people's jokes, all in good humor. Very much a stereotypical theater kid, expect her to get very into character extremely quickly and be more then happy to suffer the consequences of her own actions, bad dice rolls or get into conflict with other PCs, if it's in character. Except her to play someone either haughty and confident, or slightly reserved and naive. For checking out the kinds of streams she hosts, I recommend starting with her recently finished Wind Waker Playthough.

Shiori Novella: Hololive's paramount gigantic nerd. Extremely smart and witty, very much enjoys poking at people's buttons and then immediately feeling bad about it, but never at all enough to stop. Expect her to get very into character and is very likely to be both the one to work out any mysteries and worries of the plot, but also enjoy the chance to introduce chaos, both in and out of character. Expect her to be playing someone smart and aloof. Good streams to check out for her would be her recent Resident Evil Requiem Streams or her Portal 2 Streams

Mori Calliope: Hololive's own personal Forever DM/Matt level workaholic. Has the most experience with TTRPGs of all the assembled players, though most of that is as a DM. Will likely be very happy to replace her usual experience with playing a few dozen characters at once to focus on just playing one. As a PC tends to play characters who would prefer the plot and horror of the week leave her alone to grill, so we'll see if that carries on for this campaign. Except her to play someone barely keeping track of whatever the hell is going on. Good streams to check out for her would be her Asura's Wrath playthrough or her Space Marines 2 playthrough or one of her oneshot TTRPG sessions, Episode 0 and Episode 1.

Gigi Murin: Hololive's own endless font of energy, optimism and extreme trolling. Very much enjoys inflicting Sam Riegel ad read levels of chaos, well also being more then happy to inflict terrible, soul deep trauma on herself and other players. Very much enjoys playing a 'I'm just a little guy' character, who will never the less focus on resolving the plot, saving the day and posing sadly in the rain. For her, a good start is her Outer Wilds playthrough

Hiya, as the title says, I’m going to the live show in London and as I’ve never been to anything like this before at the 02, I’m just looking for some advice or tips to calm my anxiety. What does the day look like? What time should we get there? When should we queue for merch? Is the queue for merch long?

Any tips would be appreciated, thank you!

Its not as good as any of the official art, but hey, it was something to do while i finish catching up on the first campaign.

Hello! [No Spoilers[

Just wondering if their is any merch for this specifically, I brought tickets for my partner for our 4 year anniversary and wanna make sure I can actually get him something if he wanted it

Also any advice, we are going to mcm and the show and will be cosplaying for both, i plan fo get there early around 12 as im super anxious so if anyone has done this before let me know I just want to make sure he has the best time possible :) <3

Hi all, I have two tickets for the london live show at the o2 (I ended up getting better view ones via work so am still attending).

I can see the tickets in my AXS account but I can’t hit sell or transfer yet. I’m really worried I’m going to end up with these 2 extra tickets unsold now as I’ve never not been able to sell/transfer this close to an event.

Does anyone know when this option will be available as I really want two fans to be able to have my tickets!

Hi fellow critters!

Unfortunately, a couple of friends who were supposed to join us for Critical Role Live in London on 26 October can no longer make it, so I'm looking to sell their two tickets at face value to fellow fans.

The tickets are in Block B3, Row J.

AXS currently has both resale and ticket transfers disabled, but from what I understand, these options should become available soonish (had contact with AXS support). I'd love to find interested buyers beforehand so we can arrange everything as soon as AXS allows it.

I'm not looking to make any profit — just hoping these tickets can go to fans who'd love to be there!

If you're interested, feel free to send me a DM. Happy to answer questions and coordinate the transfer through AXS once it's available.

Hope to help two critters get to the show! 💚

I dont know if Brennan is changing a spell for story purposes and playing RAW and telling us something coming up;

Banishment: You attempt to send one creature that you can see within range to another plane of existence. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be banished.

If the target is native to the plane of existence you’re on, you banish the target to a harmless demiplane. While there, the target is incapacitated. The target remains there until the spell ends, at which point the target reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.

But the character affected, which we are pretty sure is native of the material plane, is sent to the pit. And seemingly with no easy way back.

So does that character originate from the pit and we didnt know beforehand?

Was it just a scrambled form of German, or based on a different regional dialect? Was an older, antiquated form of German used? Did it differ between characters? This video I found said one of the ‘Zemnian-speaking’ German voice actors used a different dialect than the others, would anyone be able to tell me more? I’d love to hear your thoughts, thanks!

Hi all, sadly we can't make it to the liveshow anymore. We have three tickets in Section 106 row L seats 177-179. We paid 125 pounds each and are selling at face value. But also happy to discuss price :)

They'd be sold officially through AXS as soon as they open up resell, which should be soon.

DM me or reply here if you're interested!

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So, the Nerdy Best Friends live show tour will be headed to a city near me (yayyyyyyy), but as I only started watching for C4, I have no experience with the live shows. and thus have two main questions:

1. Price estimates for the VIP and Non-VIP tickets
2. How quickly should I expect the tour to sell out? Do I have time to wait a few days or should I be sitting in the queue, spamming refresh when the tickets drop?

Thanks!

Edit: I should've thought about the fact that you cant guesstimate on price without knowing location, I want to be going to Indianapolis show.

After what it feels like months of torturing us mentally and sometimes physically with the rollercoaster rides of episodes, we finally got to just sit back and enjoy an episode. Last time the seekers episode ended with Occtis in trouble kinda, so I was kinda stressed at the start, and was really relieved how it came to progress.

In a Variety episode of Brennan and Matt talking, Brennan mentions how running straight ahead with your arm stretched out is not really a punch, and a punch gets its "oomph" from the winding part. Mentions a movie where the rain drops and buckets filling shows the viewers what's at stake before the final battle of that movie begins. This episode feels exactly like that; a perfect example to that phrase.

The episode shows how much Gus is struggling with how to proceed with not 1 but 2 Sundered houses attacking him and his country (Halovar calling him tyrant, Tachonis stoning his soldier), knowing that could be a fight he could lose, The little bits of understanding the PCs come to in the episode. It all shows what is at stake here.

Brennan did a great job of putting ALL OF THAT in front of them before going, as Gus, come talk to me. Now the party, after seeing all of this, will have to make decisions that can either fortify or destroy this bucket full of raindrops that is certainly going to change the trajectory this campaign is going to go in.

I'm even more excited and scared for the things the PCs are gonna push forward.

PS: loved that Kat and Gus kissed. That whole scene was fucking great.

Okay, very sincere question, why do people have issues with the 4th death saving throw?

I’m not new to Critical Role (I was a big C1 and C2 fan because of all the free-time Covid gave me, then I dropped C3 after the Laudna resurrection because the constant references to C1 kinda broke me), but I am new to C4. I tried to start it on release but the overture episodes really put me off (too many characters introduced at once, the cold-opens felt weird and over-produced, exposition was a bit too heavy on everything Thjazi related, etc.). BUT, after seeing how emotional E36-37 made people and having seen enough of the early episodes to know I liked Tyranny and Wick more than any of the other cast, I decided to just kinda drop in and watch them with very little context. I liked them, but I also walked away saying “Wow, that 4th death save was bullshit”. But then, for catching up purposes, I went back and started watching through some more of the (post-overture) sessions, starting with the Soldier’s Table. Turns out, this 4th death save-type stuff has kinda always been in this campaign.

You wanna talk RAW-ruining bullshit? The last time Wick’s life was really on the line, back when he was getting executed in Castle Sloak, he was given the option to FULLY STABILIZE after ONE SAVING THROW! That, or toss out FREE INSPIRATIONS! Back in C2, that costed a 100GP Pearl and a third level spell slot! The periapt of wound closure, which Mollymauk had (LOL) and stabilized him upon knockout, costs an attunement slot! Those are really powerful magical effects that Sam got for just, going down to 0!

Yes, all of the press materials for this campaign have talked about how deadly it is, but if you give Brennan’s homebrew mechanics even a cursory glance, you’ll see that the main characters do have more than a little bit of plot armor! And considering everything about Wick’s character, isn’t he the most qualified to wear some plot armor at a time like this? His grandmother came back to life, didn’t she?

(I am aware it was a ruse, but still, that event “occurring” makes his own “resurrection” in a setting without revivify more impactful, or at the very least, a more fitting ability.)

There is some real-time calculus happening behind Brennan’s eyes in E37. You can literally see him processing what opportunities would be fair to offer to Wick. And, given his grandmother’s resurrection and Tyranny’s newfound purpose in The Pit, I see why his offered options were “heroic sacrifice to get Tyranny home or a complete bet on self-resurrection”. It makes the most sense for that moment! It follows everything Tiger-Mommy told Tyranny in the moments before the fight!

At the very least, it certainly makes more fuckin sense than giving out heroic inspirations to Teor across a courtyard while he was dying LOL.

TLDR: Death saves in hard combats were bullshit long before E37 (see: Casimir fight at Sloake), and the 4th death save wasn’t really a betrayal to the campaigns premise. It was just a substitute for the weird mechanics Brennan introduced earlier in the series, catered specifically to Wick and Tyranny’s arcs to create a better story—which should probably be the end goal, right?

Have we got like 3 episodes left and then a break till January? Saw something about some new show starting mid November.

Their last Christmas break started at like December 18th or something didn’t it? Feels like we just got back from sallowlands lol

I dont know if anyone still remembers AoU 1, but last year I photoshopped Taliesin as his pc in that one-shot, August. I just immediatly liked his design, such a creepy spider-boy in an amazingly gothic-victorian suit. Everyone else went into a sort of berserk/classic grimdark direction with their characters I feel like, but I think he really made something special for the Umbra-universe. (And judging by how monsterious the pcs of AoU 2 were I think they liked it too)

(some dumb shit happened to my account, so this is a repost, still my own art. I also made a video about the process, but I had no fkin idea what I was doing back than)

Just wanted to share it and ask, cause I havent been on reddit for this exact reason:

What are generally this communities thoughts on AoU campaign 2 in regards to 1?

Lots more is on my instagram which is @zoejcosplay for those interested

Hello everyone!

I really enjoy Campaign 4 and I think it is a very fertile ground for discussion on storytelling, politics, theories, etc…

For some time I’ve been thinking of making video from some of my notes and ideas, but because mainly of health issue, recording my voice is not possible (for now, hopefully).

Until I recover, how would you advice me to publish it?

An idea I had is to publish a short version of long essays here, with a link to a blog version with a more in-depth discussion. Would it be considered advertisement to you? 

I’m a bit new to the Critical Role community, so my best guess is to ask what people like or already do?

i'm heading to MCM london next week. i bought tickets for a photo op and autograph with taliesin jaffe.

i've been watching critical role since i was a teenager in 2019, so this means a LOT to me. i'm also terrified. i'm autistic so i'm very worried about behaving properly and not coming off as weird to one of my greatest inspirations. i'm rehearsing what i'll be saying to him during the autograph.

these might seem like silly questions, but i am very anxious! i'm happy with feedback from people who have seen other members of the critrole cast since they're in the same situation.

1. do their energy levels drop during the day? i want to make sure i'm not overexcited, or disappoint myself by expecting much in return. (i don't know what time of day they'll be happening yet)
2. during the photo op (on friday), do i mention that i have an autograph (saturday) as well? i can't imagine taliesin will remember me because i'm just one of tons of people in a queue. but would it be weird not to mention it?
3. how long do you usually get with autographs? i've done a bit of googling and it seems like 10-15 seconds.
4. would it be odd to ask for a handshake? i know some people ask for hugs but i'm very embarrassing when it comes to moving my body, so i feel like a handshake could be a more lowkey substitute (i will ofc prepare myself if he says no) but i don't know if it would be an awkward request.
5. is it possible to estimate how many people will be queueing? his autographs are sold out so i'm already prepared for a LOT. but it would be great to have a vague idea if possible.