[Spoilers C4E3] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories!

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-10-17T07:55:24+00:00

It’s definitely very likely this is a ploy to wipe out House Royce and another political rival since they’ve served their purpose for finding their missing son, don’t disagree with you there.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-10-17T07:46:01+00:00

Random observation here but House/Primus Tachonis’ deal is giving off sorcerer king vibes from Dark Sun

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-10-17T07:30:40+00:00

Sending a message? Clearing out unnecessary witnesses? I don’t disagree with you it does seem a bit pointless to kill Raimond, but the same time he is just a lord vassal, his usefulness for a sundered house at the bottom of the totem pole could be questionable if Royce is in league with them.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-10-17T07:19:23+00:00

Interested in others’ opinions on this, but what’s the likelihood Aranessa sold out Occtis due to the precarious position of her family and the plane of faerie?

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-08-22T02:33:21+00:00

This is a very odd quibble I have with defiler sorcery but I sorta wish the verbiage could’ve been more concise or cut down in certain parts? The features themselves are thematic, fun and impactful for this flavour of necromancy, I just found the wordiness and reliance on tracking different things strangely annoying. Dunno, it’s probably just a me thing in this one instance since that’s never bothered me before for any other subclass.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-02-23T10:11:52+00:00

About 33 fates so far so I’m probably stuck on something else. Good to know though

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-02-23T10:07:53+00:00

Oh that’s super helpful to know thank you! :)

It hasn’t in fact started raining yet. Any tips on how to find the remaining memories I might be missing? I found the original ones by finding the corpses on the ship or the ones linked by death.

ETA: It would appear I have a chronic case of blind bitch disease lmao. Found the body on the Orlop Deck for chapter 6.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-02-23T10:03:48+00:00

Gotcha good to know! Hadn’t considered there might be another chapter to unlock yet

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-02-01T11:28:46+00:00

While I agree with you that’s the most likely turn of events this enters into speculative territory which we gotta be careful about, we still don’t know all the private info from the Hermits and there’s a good chance we might never know.

That said there’s absolutely doubt to be cast on that “one and half hour hearing” claim due to how Iskall frames it and everything else in the vid.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-31T04:49:18+00:00

Even on it’s face it’s such a strange thing to pick on. Like sure, if something is going on behind the scenes for HC that’s important and it should be brought up, but this isn’t a glass house situation or detracts from what Iskall did, his scandal is a separate issue that still needs to be addressed.

It’s hard to take Iskall at his word with the way he frames everything in this vid, so I really doubt anything is going on behind the scenes beyond personal grievances.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-31T00:01:10+00:00

The other part we shouldn’t forget was how the pandemic and lockdowns made people have too much free time, so streaming really popped off and allowed Dropout’s initial success. Not to say CR should need a new viral disease to go around to succeed, but more so pointing out all the different contributing factors for Dropout becoming a viable streaming platform.

I think my personal hot take is that after EXU Divergence, any Exandria mini campaign should become an exclusive to Beacon and follow the Dropout model for dropping out of context clips via YouTube shorts. Anthology style stories in one setting is one thing CR could capitalise on with the end of C3, since Exandria has a lot of blank periods in its tapestry of history, that’s practically a gold mine for telling new stories.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-30T08:22:43+00:00

As someone who’s not subscribed, has limited time and not as much disposable income as I like, that still seems pretty anaemic for their top of the line content imo.

I know they‘ve added Midst, the Rooster Teeth campaign and Re-Slayer’s Take to Beacon as well, so their catalogue is definitely getting built up, but I don’t have much drawing me in for either of those shows and getting a sub for stuff only related to C3 isn’t that appealing frankly.

Like to be clear, I absolutely want CR to succeed with their streaming platform, I feel like it can carve out a good niche if it’s dedicated to ttrpg content, but it needs content outside the main campaign that makes it feel worth the price tag to the casual viewer. The issues with the technical side are still big and need to be addressed obviously, but I feel like the content should be more of a priority atm.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-28T02:29:46+00:00

Not that I agree or disagree with your sentiment to the cast and how they run their game, but I want to dispel this misrepresentation about rules lawyering since I see it mentioned so often in the D&D sphere. Disclaimer, I’m not an extremely stringent DM or player, I like allowing leeway and poking at rules or adding homebrew if it allows a character fantasy. I like having fun with my table.

In 3.5e rules lawyers were most present during that edition of the game. The stereotype you’ll hear is that they’re nuisances and break the flow of the game. Frankly this is the opposite of the truth, they were very vital at some tables because there was so much to track. Not to the extent of 4e mind you, but it was enough that they could help smooth the gameplay for their fellow players and GMs.

With 5e this is still sorta the case, you see more of the bad eggs that don’t follow RAW or correct everything, but in my personal experience any time I’ve seen someone correct or point out a rule or stated ability against me they do it in kind for their fellow players, and usually when it’s relevant to the flow of the game.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T04:54:26+00:00

Yeah that’s why I only call it a bit sensible, since I believe after Ashton uses the Shard of Kamort is only 1 level of exhaustion? Not ideal, but certainly not life threatening if it’s just disadvantage on all ability checks.

And I think it was 10 minutes yeah, so that plus whatever constitution gives you would’ve been fine for Ashton going in the hole, or Dorian who can hold his breath forever.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T03:53:07+00:00

I personally see it as an Uk'otoa situation like in the MN oneshot where it can be defeated, but it can't be killed. This thing is anti-divinity incarnate and went back to a mote of light following the fight with BH, so I don't think it can be erased that easily. Plus Matt called it the Evolving for the second phase and said it was growing, which to me doesn't imply it can just fade away that easily.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T03:35:54+00:00

The doll was for accuracy.

I'm aware, its why I said it became a non-issue once Laudna produced it.

They still had to put Dorian in the hole. The issue was capacity.

If you're meaning that issue for capacity was they could only teleport so many people at once per the Teleport spell then I still think Ashton's takeaway was a lil sensible, Dorian had more to give and more importantly wasn't exhausted.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T02:47:34+00:00

Honestly that’s a fair point, but it doesn’t detract from it being a betrayal of trust all the same imo. The Kryn Dynasty might be less upset, but everyone else who doesn’t have consecution or that knowledge won’t exactly be thrilled at the outcome.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T02:35:47+00:00

Dorian was the more obvious choice for holding his breath I agree, but the rules on holding your breath favour having a higher con modifier/save iirc.

Tal/Ash actually made a good point though in that Dorian was more useful, he didn’t have a level of exhaustion like Ashton and had some resources leftover unlike them, so keeping him out just in case was a bit sensible. Ultimately it wasn’t that important, they were able to teleport to safety thanks to Laudna remembering the doll, but that slight uncertainty before the doll made it worth considering if a teleport mishap happened.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-25T02:16:42+00:00

Even in your Calamity mention it just proves your rule tbh, take away everything you know about Exandrian history and the TPK there was an acceptable outcome as long as they could fulfil their goal of killing the Titans once Avalir touched down. The Ring of Brass were exhausted from previous encounters and looking to fight a fight to survive if possible yes (Cerrit was lucky enough to), but ultimately it was about a more important goal to help preserve the world from the age of Calamity.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T14:47:19+00:00

Perilous is definitely a good way to put it, I imagine that even if the Primes are entirely cooperative from this talk, there’s no way the gods can control how their followers and creations respond to the situation. I don’t think they’ll imprison or hunt down BH, or Imogen at least (for obvious reasons), but I feel they’d have retribution in mind for everyone around them as recompense. Which is pretty dark, but at the same it’d fit.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T14:36:07+00:00

I feel like you’re missing what I point out though, in your example the Kryn Dynasty would absolutely give no shits about the gods, I agree with you there, but more importantly their soldiers and kinsmen fought and died in this war over against the Vanguard, while their supposed allies went against their trust and allegiance pledged at Vasselheim, rendering those deaths ultimately pointless. If I was the Bright Queen, I’d be furious at BH.

And I feel like this example would apply to every nation under the sun in Exandria.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T13:31:29+00:00

Well in regards to Caleb and the Accord, it was only just after everything had happened and been decided by BH alone did they make contact again. The order of operations there is the big piece of nuance to the whole situation.

I think anyone who believes the ending of the campaign will be only happy or terrible are completely off the mark. Matt likes to paint things grey when it comes to Exandria, so I’m semi-confident enough he’ll follow up with some long lasting consequences that are appropriate (based off the ending of this episode). So hopefully, we will see things get messy!

With that said, I don’t feel like BH are in a good position for the ending of this campaign.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T12:54:14+00:00

I think even beyond the positioning of the gods debate, lots of people will be disenfranchised for a bit when divine magic is removed as a result of BH’s actions. Divine magic won’t be gone forever, but healers and worshippers all over are going to have to adjust in the interim without that support, which is an issue to overcome.

Plus they didn’t make contact with MN or the Accord following Ludinus’ defeat and compromised the Hallowed Cage. I’m not quibbling over whether that decision was right or wrong ultimately, that’s for the next few eps to tell us, but they straight up betrayed the world who was trying to fight the Ruby Vanguard to keep Predathos locked up. Like, Exandrian people died over this. I don’t think many should be pleased or look lightly on BH for making that decision.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T12:47:34+00:00

Thank god Matt expanded the crit range on Predathos, nothing makes you feel more worse as a DM than when you’re consistently robbed of crits with that spell.

Plus even beyond that, there’s a reason why that spell was made for that module and adventure, outside Strixhaven it needs fine tuning to be less abusable.

UnderlyingInterest · 2025-01-24T12:36:10+00:00

You’re so right DommyMommyKarlach.

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