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Has anyone been watching campaign four? i watched episode one - the one where the brother is hung- and then just ... could not keep going. it was so clear it was basically a pile of characters determined to be stupid. i was so furious at how everyone was just straight up ignoring and not listening to the emissary of radiance guy that i was like .... ahhh ... its going to take SO LONG for them to stop telling themselves their being smart about treating him like an enemy that i will just wait and see. then i saw a clip like 3 months ago and it was his character being like "yeah no duh youre struggling to figure this out. because i can just get in there. and no your giant snake isnt a good idea for stealth" and i was like wow her character's STILL dumb??!! oh goodness ... so ... please tell me they make characters gain competent function critical thinking and executive function skills at some point. and if they do, when? i will literally just skip up to that episode if needed. i do not care. its skip or completely dont watch this campaign. Even my DUMBEST character wouldnt be as bad at thinking as those characters were episode 1

Just noticed that on the schedule on the Critical Role website, the VOD of the Berlin show will release on YouTube at Noon PDT on Tuesday, August 18, and the Edinburgh VOD on Thursday, August 20. I'm sure CR will put this on socials Monday, but thought people might want an advance heads-up.

First of all I've never seen the show nor played.

I know this is a shot in the dark, maybe.

But there was a clip that kept going viral consistently seemingly every time it got posted.

It was the long hair guy (narrator?) talking rather seriously, personally to the group. I remember maybe a bug eye looking guy and some ladies. Possibly blue hair somewhere.

And he was talking rather poetically to someone and it maybe sounded like an insult but it became very personal and fitting and maybe brought someone to tears.

Trying to search myself there is tons of clips and I can't find anything.

I think the narrator was talking about the topic of asking for help? I am self aware to know this post has no specifics that can narrow it down. But it's been a sort of an ear worm and I can't get it out of my mind

this is almost completely about the schemers table fiasco with lady cormoray- does anybody else feel like bolaire was SUPPOSED to be super intelligent but just hasnt been as genre-savvy as he was supposed to be? the fact that one of the bigger cheeses of a sundered house, who weve seen do VERY scady shit, was treated as a minor inconvenience so hard brennan ended up sucking her into a box because otherwise hal and bolaire both would have died there feels like a crazy oversight. trying to trip a powerful spellcaster down the stairs as a way to get rid of them like theyre an 8 hp townie statblock is crazy, and so is trying to repeatedly lie to them or treat yourself like just necause your lore is cool youre a level 20 character threat

i know talisien loves to aurafarm with his characters, and i like bolaires lore a lot, but if feels like hes just so overconfident all of the time in a way that feels unearned mechanically because hes just the same level as everybody else. if he was mechanically as powerful as he acts, i wouldnt mind, but i constantly found myself getting annoyed at roleplay decisions because he didnt feel as clever or smart as he was supposed to be, being what he is. scary and like sicko freakmogging people, sure, but only because hes a creepy mask, not because he was there when a god died

is bolaire supposed to be too big for his britches on purpose as a character flaw? i feel like i only just started to like him at the end of the overture when he was FINALLY rightly afraid of a threat. it would be interesting ti me if talisien was on purpose roleplaying him this way even though he isnt at the height of his power and hes only just now facing that reality now that termina is here, and i hope thats the direction the character is going, but i genuinely dont relate at all to people who rate him so highly as a character since i kept getting annoyed by his lack of genre awareness and complete stubbornness whenever faced with a concept he didnt share, like being so FULLY against the play ritual for so long despite brennan constantly laying down how hard thjazi was gunning for it and how removed any of the sundered houses were from having anything to do with it

What does everyone think are the chances that Wick will be able to turn more of his family against Yanessa and the Creed? As we are getting closer to the next arc in campaign 4, my mind has been wondering more and more on how our new Schemers are going to go about things in Dol-Makjar, most notably Wick as the implication from Brennan was that Yanessa would be keeping him closer to her more than ever before. So we all know there is an almost certainty that Wick and Tyranny will have plenty of interactions with the other members of house Halovar.

Now I'm sure many of us, myself included, hope that most-if not all, of the remaining sundered houses burn to the ground and their endeavors become dust in the wind, but I am also of the opinion that maybe not every member needs to be deposed or killed. In the Halovar's case and giving how Sam has being playing Wick, even as he is becoming a more hardened individual, I can't see him as willing to kill the rest of his family with the exception of Yanessa unless there was no other option. In this next arc, I think more than anything we see from Wick aside from undermining the Candescent Creed will be him trying to pull his family away from this grandmother. But that also leaves the question, who would he be able to convert or more than likely turn into a neutral party?

Iris and Lioran are obviously the most likely candidates as both are only devout members of the creed and not privy to the inner workings of the Halovars. They seem to be good people, even if just several shades shy of being considered zealots, so at the very least I would hope that Wick would be able to save them in the incoming conflict. Filoneus, I could be see as another potential person to convert as there have already been multiple instances of Brennan throwing hints out that though he's clearly a momma's boy and drank the Kool-Aid for a bit too long, he can be reasoned with if given a strong impression. If Sam can work his golden boy magic on him, I could see Filoneus swearing fealty to him so long as Yanessa wasn't openly killed by them.

Godard and Zabani would clearly be the most difficult for different reasons. Given the nature of his birth and how little we've seen him interact with Wick, Godard is the biggest wildcard of the whole family. We see that he at least seems to have a somewhat positive relationship with his son and has a good amount of faith in Wick, but until we get more from him I can't say how it would play out with him. Zabani though, yeah she can be thrown off the top of the villa aurora for all I care. With how cruel, envious, and resentful she is, the only way I see her being pulled away is if Wick breaks her with a very passionate nat 20 speech about him adoring her when they were children and how she's turned into an utter monster. Other than that though, I'm pretty sure she's a solid number 2 on the executioner's block after Yanessa.