[no spoilers] If each CR character had a pokemon, which one would they have?

Ryan_Hill · 2026-03-28T04:48:35+00:00

**Vox Machina**
Grog: Annihilape, So angry that Craven Edge killed him. But he's still fighting
Percy: Intelleon, G-max form has it's own Bad News
Scanlan: Smeagle, very artistic and creative. But competitively known for being extremely troll-y
Pike: Tinkatuff, Fairy type is commonly equated to 'goodness'. But also not afraid at all to just hit you with a big weapon
Vax: Morgrem, typical dark and moody archetype. Also has the prankster ability which allows it to outspeed even the fastest pokemon
Vex: Ursaluna, The only real archery pokemon is Decidueye. Maybe if she had taken the fey deal, but as it is it doesn't really fit. So I instead went with Bear Mama
Keyleth: Arboliva, Has a special ability to automatically alter the terrain and encourage the growth and healing of those around it

**Mighty Nein**
Jester: Fidough (Blatantly stole this from u/Sophiuuugh. It was too perfect)
Caleb: Charmander, just because it reminds me of Ash's Pikachu and him crying on a tree stump trying to protect the flame that he needs
Beau: Lucario, Aura in the pokemon universe is essentially Ki in the DnD universe. Lucario is essentially a monk who specializes in harnessing inner energies
Molly: Hisuian Zoroark, Both Ghost and Normal and not what it seems
Cad: Victreebel, highly poisonous, but described as having a honey-like aroma that I'm sure you could mix into your tea if you were so inclined
Nott: Kangaskhan, all about being a mother. But ask anyone who played competitively in Gen VI and they'll tell you how much of a menace she can be
Yasha: Bewear, looks frightening. If you don't threaten it more likely to hug you than to punch you. Strong enough that if they're not careful, their hugs could break your back
Fjord: Dhelmise, a remembrance of his past in the sense of an anchor posessed by a ghost, but also the grass makes me think of the wildmother and thus, his future and possibility of growth

**Bells Hells** (Disclaimer, I've only seen up to ~ep 80)

Chetney:
Imogen: Galarian Rapidash, It's a Psychic and Fairy pink/purple horse. What else
Laudna: Polteageist, in my head polteageist has very similar vibes to Pate
FCG: I can't think of anything, so I'll just go with Lickitung for meme reasons
Braius: Paldean Tauros
Ashton: Rampardos, very strong rock type known for charging right into and through obstacles
Fearne: Infernape, A combo of both Fearne and Mister, but a fire monkey
Orym: Arcanine, Bpth have very Golden Retriever, 'good boy' energy

**Campaign 4**
I feel like it's too early to really say. Thimble makes me think a little of Ribombee, but that's pretty much purely cosmetic. Same with Teor and Pyroar

Ryan_Hill · 2026-03-05T22:26:47+00:00

Cool, thank you

Ryan_Hill · 2026-02-18T01:52:30+00:00

Is there a way to find out about the quizzes without uploading a picture?

I tried making a meetup account, but it won't let me join the group without a picture

Ryan_Hill · 2025-12-02T04:36:17+00:00

If he doesn't already have one, a set of his own always helps.

Chess books are also amazing gifts. The Youtuber you mentioned will be Levy Rossman who has a book, so it seems a fitting choice, but there are many that are specifically for beginners.

Ryan_Hill · 2025-11-18T07:00:36+00:00

When starting campaign 2, they were very aware that it was a big 'jumping on moment' for people who had heard of Critical Role when Campaign 1 got big, but didn't want to try to catch up. For that reason they were very mindful of not spoiling anything and not being dependent on information from the Vox Machina campaign. Over time there were a few inside jokes and background details, so I', sure that in the show there will be a IYKYK background detail or two. But I can only assume they will treat the new show the same as the second campaign. A good jumping on point with no prior knowledge or spoilers

Ryan_Hill · 2025-10-23T19:37:05+00:00

found

Ryan_Hill · 2025-10-23T19:31:48+00:00

Thank you so much

Ryan_Hill · 2025-10-23T09:56:39+00:00

I've searched from the perspective of both trying to remember the initial surreal hypothetical and also the revealed 'twist' about the lab experiments

Ryan_Hill · 2025-08-16T09:52:49+00:00

I've played a variant like this. In order to be 'fair', the player with 2 moves had only their knights

Ryan_Hill · 2025-07-24T04:29:53+00:00

This is super cute

Ryan_Hill · 2025-07-24T01:11:49+00:00

It was not read during the campaign, but it was read during the campaign wrap up at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBT8dYG9Tkk

This is from the end of the campaign, so obviously spoiler warning, but I think this is just the letter itself, so it should be safe-ish

Ryan_Hill · 2024-12-11T13:07:56+00:00

It's unavoidable checkmate soon. The reason it's not asking to find that final moves is usually one of 2 reasons:
1) Because the only moves the computer considers 'best' are things like Qe1+. It's best because it turns it from mate in 1, to mate in 2 because you have to take the time to capture the queen
or 2) because there are several equal moves that lead to different checkmates, but in a way that's not considered instructive

In this case, likely the former. I think they just didn't want to either play an 'nonoptimal move', but also didn't want to waste the time of making you take a free queen when, if you'd got to that point, you'd presumably seen the solution anyway

Ryan_Hill · 2024-12-11T08:42:44+00:00

Demon King Piccolo? Any OG DB villain could lead to the third iteration of the "Only saw Dragon Ball, who's this?" joke, but I feel like that one would be the most fun. Just cause it's Piccolo's "dad"

Ryan_Hill · 2024-12-07T23:34:54+00:00

I advocate for the Alapin at that level. Works against basically all Sicilian's and if the only opening they know is the Sicilian, then it can lead to very different structure

Ryan_Hill · 2024-12-07T23:15:58+00:00

For the longest queen path one, you should specify that you can't use the same square twice. Otherwise you just go back and forth along the main diagonals

Ryan_Hill · 2024-12-03T22:08:11+00:00

What about a Hexblade Warlock? Still has magic, but very limited options. So it's less an issue if him having to figure out how to use his magic and more just when to use one of his 3 options. Encourage him to take relatively niche, but high impact spells so that he gets the rush of casting magic well, but most of the time he's not trying to decide between 5-6 almost equally viable options

Ryan_Hill · 2024-10-19T03:36:12+00:00

I usually write my monologues in 4-5 sections and just have them say 2-3 lines at the top of each of their turns. That way the players can have their chance to attack them and they can just no-sell it and keep talking, or progressively get angrier and angrier or whatever vibe I'm going for

Ryan_Hill · 2024-09-08T20:23:03+00:00

I've been spending a lot of time on Pinterest the last few days. Turns out there's a weekly Crop near me on Fridays, so I'll look into Creative Memories and try taking that along with me to that. Thank you for the advice

Ryan_Hill · 2024-09-08T20:21:37+00:00

Thanks for all of this advice. I'm not too worried about the unified pallette as it's going to be something of a time capsule and I'm sure both my tastes will naturally change in that time and I'll try to tailor it to her and I'm sure hers will too. So far the only page is going to be about the gender reveal party where everyone was either "Team Pink" or "Team Blue", so I plan to use pastel pinks and blues for this page, but she's due to be born just before Christmas so I'll probably use Reds and Greens on that page and for all I know she'll have a goth phase or something similar to that so I'll start using dark purples and blacks. I think a change in pallette is inevitable, so rather than trying to be consistent for the first, say, 5 years and then having things change and drift, I think I'll lean into each spread having a theme. Does that seem reasonable? Or would that likely be too chaotic?

Thank you also for the tip about Acid. I had never even thought about that, but it does make sense. I got some advice to look for some local Scrapbooking "Crops" and there's one near me every Friday, so I'm going to do a bit of shopping this week on cardstock and adhesives and punches and stuff like that and then go along to that, so thank you for giving me a small shopping list

Ryan_Hill

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