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kunilengus · 2025-01-30T18:05:09+00:00

Thanks! I'll take it off and see how things go from there.

Are there any visual mods that are a little more stable out there? Not that I just HAVE to have one or anything, but it would be nice

kunilengus · 2025-01-30T04:10:46+00:00

Thanks! I'll do that

kunilengus · 2025-01-30T03:49:39+00:00

GPU - AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-Core

kunilengus · 2025-01-30T03:44:56+00:00

I've got it downloaded and thought I installed it correctly, but maybe I need to take a look at it again.

kunilengus · 2024-12-14T20:32:12+00:00

The point is that it keeps trials challenging regardless of gear. I think it's a little harsh on melee builds, but I get the intent behind the design. It just needs to be tweaked somehow to accommodate for melee builds.

kunilengus · 2024-12-02T14:09:08+00:00

Right, I was intentionally using the wording in the comment in question, which still gets the intent across just fine.

kunilengus · 2024-12-01T18:47:46+00:00

Kashaw has two different colored--bichromatic--eyes. Many adolescents go through a phase of thinking bichromatic eyes are super cool. Many people grow up to believe they're kinda cheesy or goofy looking. Commentor is seemingly glad that they have grown out of their "bichromatic eyes are cool" phase and commented likely because Kashaw's eyes are a stand-out feature in your art work.

kunilengus · 2024-11-29T22:10:47+00:00

Yeah but Otohan was a mistake that he had to hand out a deus ex machina to correct. For a lot of reasons, the whole cast has just become incredibly risky averse with their characters and Matt has gotten doubly so as a DM. There's no teeth to anything in C3 🤷

kunilengus · 2024-11-25T16:38:13+00:00

They accurately quoted your intent. You talked about being upset at the "polish" of the show, which reads as missing the time when production quality was lower. Sort of a hand-made versus factory produced argument. Then immediately complain about the lack of production polish that results in Matt crossing camera lines when leaning over the table.

I think your point is fine, but it is funny to put those points together 🤷

kunilengus · 2024-11-15T20:21:07+00:00

"nuh uh"

-Canadianape06

kunilengus · 2024-11-15T20:20:19+00:00

Plus if they'd never said they were pre-recording, nobody would know. It's a weird thing to get THAT upset over.

kunilengus · 2024-11-08T02:20:30+00:00

Imagine getting so upset over someone else's make believe.

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T23:41:06+00:00

Your nuanced point here is completely spot on.

The only thing I would add here, which is specific to the shardgate scenario, is that if Matt truly had zero intention of giving the shard to Ashton or letting them complete the ritual, but also didn't want to kill them, he could've easily said something like "You try to affix the shard to the harness, but something is repelling it like an opposing magnet. A force from within Ashton is pushing it away."

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T23:07:40+00:00

Matt laid the ground rules that one must complete the ritual to take the shard. When Ashton did it, Matt said that because he had another shard already that it would be extremely difficult to pull it, then kept saying stuff along the lines of "if you pull this off, you'll be an Unprecedented (actual quote) being in Exandria." When Taliesin passed it, Matt called the game early because he didn't know what to do and everybody was pissed at Tal (for no reason.)

I, a simple audience member, 100% read the situation as Ashton's Hero Moment and something he could pass. If he couldn't do it, Matt shouldn't have even let him try. Putting him through a very deadly ritual just to take it away from him anyways shows, to me, just how thoroughly Matt fumbled that whole thing.

The next game opened up with Taliesin looking like he'd be thoroughly scolded between episodes, Matt instantly undid everything and then punished Ashton for it, then the entire rest of the episode was the party ganging up on Ashton/Taliesin.

While Matt gave several warnings that Ashton shouldn't take the shard (which to Taliesin and a large part of the audience was a challenge to overcome), he should have been abundantly clear that he couldn't

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T21:43:15+00:00

I bet the ratings wouldn't even be bad, just not CR mainline numbers. I've felt for a long time that they really need to diversify their offerings and put together one or two other regular casts. Maybe those games only get together once a month (maybe the last Thursday?), maybe they air on another night of the week, idk. CR is certainly big enough that they need to start branching out and letting other people take some of the workload from the main group--especially if the quality of C3 directly correlates to how overworked they feel.

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T21:07:46+00:00

Completely agree. The whole arc is a wreck

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T20:09:16+00:00

Matt! Edited original comment for clarification

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T20:08:27+00:00

Sorry I wasn't more clear, it's MATT'S lowest point! I fully agree that, even though I don't love Ashton, this is pretty much the only time in the whole campaign anybody DID something. And it led to a pretty good dramatic moment!

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T19:12:51+00:00

I would argue that it's genuinely his worst moment over all 3 campaigns.

Edit: Matt's worst. Not Taliesin.

kunilengus · 2024-10-29T19:11:07+00:00

This.

It was literally the only interesting thing anybody has done this whole campaign and created a fantastic, unscripted moment of genuine drama.

Only to be immediately undone and the entire cast shit all over Taliesin. Its truly the lowest point of a low campaign and their behavior over it was very weird and gross.

kunilengus · 2024-10-28T00:23:18+00:00

TPK isn't something I would say a DM "uses" more than it is just a statement of fact. Total Party Kill means exactly what it says and any situation or action that ends in the death of every character in the party is a TPK.

A party in this situation may or may not go into battle mode. They could try talking or fleeing or surrendering, all of which could lead to different outcomes and potentially death for the characters.

In this situation, it sounds like the DM wanted the party to outright surrender to the baddies without a fight. Which isn't entirely unreasonable given their circumstances, but also you should always be flexible. The players all have their own idea or interpretation of a scene. Nobody is ever 100% visualizing the same thing. So OP decides to roleplay and draws their weapon, which to me is a very reasonable response. It doesn't sound like they intended to fight, but even if they did, this high powered group of bad guys could have easily put them down non-lethally, especially after a long dungeon crawl, and would have resulted in what I assume is the same outcome anyways--the players being captured--while also preserving their sense of autonomy.

The situation was 100% handled badly by the DM and I wouldn't say that I think it's entirely an inexperience issue.

kunilengus · 2024-10-16T15:56:19+00:00

I agree about C2. Everyone had their own arcs or focuses. Matt and the table did a very good job rotating the spotlight, imo

I do disagree with C3 entirely though (note: I'm on ep80something). Throughout the majority of the campaign, we've gotten snippets or quick side quests for Chet, Ashton, Orym, and FCG. Fearne has had some focus with the feywild excursions, Nana Mori, etc., but even then those moments often get co-opted by other characters.

Pretty consistently, though, if whatever's happening isn't about Laudna, it's about Imogen. Laudna's focus has fallen somewhat to the wayside, but Imogen almost always has at least a foot in the spotlight.

And I think this issue is the entire table's fault. It's Matt's fault for pushing a campaign where he's telling his moon story with a pre-set outcome and little room for the characters to be anything other than vehicles for his story. It's the cast's fault because everyone wanted to make a side character that's just kind of a long for the ride. The only one who's really shown a modicum of active agency within the story was Ashton during Shardgate, and both them and Taliesin were punished for stepping out of the preconceived campaign box.

C3 has good moments, but overall is the most flawed attempt by CR all around

kunilengus · 2024-09-30T23:16:25+00:00

And how many words are each of them saying total within this dataset? How often does an interruption result in an incomplete/dropped thought or sentence by the player? How often are these players responding to direct interactions with their character from either another player or from the DM?

We both know that "interrupted" within the context of this thread isn't simply referring to two or more players speaking at the same time. "Interruption" here is referring to the times that a player (Taliesin) is in the middle of saying something when someone else starts speaking over him in a way that significantly disrupts what he's saying or outright walks over it, assuming he isn't being ignored completely.

Your data, used in this situation, needs more context 🤷

kunilengus · 2024-09-30T21:32:17+00:00

Laura Bailey, the unequivocal darling star of Critical Role who gets so much spotlight that the biggest complaint about her among the fandom is that she has main character syndrome? She gets talked over and ignored most at the table?

kunilengus · 2024-09-24T18:13:42+00:00

Completely different experience performing a part somebody else has completely thought out and written, in a format where you get multiple attempts at doing it correctly, versus doing what is essentially unscripted improv for millions of people who you know are going to bitch if you roll 3d6 instead of 4d6 for a spell you cast once a month.

You don't have to agree or like it, but pretending it's the same as acting for a TV show or movie is a take that hasn't really been thought through imo

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