Critical Role Campaign 3 - Blog Posts

*side eyes Orym “Bait and Switch” of the Air Ashari*

I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

I'm not a huge Callowmoore shipper but-

I think that one of the best songs to encapsulate Callowmoore, at least from Ashton's POV is Senses by MICO. Like when I need some angst in my life, I imagine a modern!AU Callowmoore with Ashton singing this song with Fearne in the crowd.

Your welcome.

Currently 6:49am … I LIVED BITCHES! Also there were so many lines that altered my brain chemistry but let’s be so fr the ending line of “and every now and then your champion comes to visit…”

BITCH STOP.

A note for East Coast Critters

If you don't know I'm on the east coast, which means for me the episode airs at 10pm instead of seven. Combined with the fact that I'm insane and the episode is 8.5 hours, I'll be pulling an all-nighter with just enough time for a nap before my 8:30am lecture tomorrow. To my fellow critters in other time zones, stay true, stay caffeinated, more importantly stay hydrated!!!!!

As C3 ends tonight, I can’t stop thinking about Magister Hollow’s note to Patia in Calamity…

“All things end. Lives, stories, even ages.”

Watching Predathos be this little alien baby whose hungry while Matt is traumatizing everyone and all my mind could think of was:

If this doesn’t happen, check my Ao3 motherfuckers—

Imagine— The final scene of Campaign 3

After doing the character epilogues of what everyone does after, we flash forward to like a couple of months after the final battle. Everyone meets in Whitestone and goes to the Slayer’s Cake, with Pike’s help they make a massive batch of maple ginger cookies and go on a picnic. Ashton brings some drinks, Laudna brings some supplies for arts and crafts, Orym brings some muffins from Alma, Braius brings his painting supplies, and Dorian brings his mandolin. Fearne and Orym conjure a bed of flowers for them to sit on, Imogen makes the sky clear, and Pate scares off anyone that would interrupt. They go to Bertrand and Eshteross’s graves. The stones are decorated with small chicken bone dolls, the gambler’s rapier, Eshteross’s cane. Evelyn is there pruning the weeds. They put the last piece of FCG they have left, his wheel, in between the stones and start to recount their adventures while drinking and eating cookies, telling Bertrand and Eshteross all that they missed. A group of ravens flies out of the trees near by at the temple to the Matron, and BH’s know that their friends are there, listening intently. After telling them of Vassalheim and traveling to Ruidus to defeat Ludinus, Dorian pulls out his mandolin, and him and Imogen (plz Robbie and Laura) start to sing a full version of the Ballad of Bertrand Bell, which transitions into the Ballad of Bell’s Hells. As they sing Braius paints the group in this moment of calm, with no red moon in the sky, and smiles on all their faces.

And 30 years later, a new bard in Jrusar, is singing the famous Ballad of Bell’s Hells in front of a beautiful painting in the Spire by Fire.

STOP (but plz keep going)

Ship name idea for Braius and Nana Mori:

Moorrigan

5 CR campaigns/mini-series/one-shots I wanna see

EXU: DIVERGENCE -- Specifically I think it would really rad if the cast wasn't playing Exandrians experiencing the divergence, but if they played the GODS. Like I could so see Travis as the Storm Lord and Marisha as the Matron of Raven, maybe even if they brought Brennan back to play Asmodeus. I think it would be just a really sick parallel to the Ring of Brass sacrificing themselves at the end of Calamity, with the Gods deciding to willingly (or maybe not willingly) lock themselves beyond the Divine Gate.

EXU: ARCANUM -- Pre- pre- Calamity so we get the full experience of the Age of Arcanum. ONE CONDITION: Marisha must play the woman that later become the Matron, and the finale must be her ascension. I just feel like Marisha is so connected to the Matron through Keyleth and Vax, Laudna, and Patia, so anything involving the Matron being a PC has to be Marisha in my mind.

WHITESTONE MINI-SERIES -- You all remember those movies on Netflix about like a town in like 1897 then 1995 and so on? I want that! But with Whitestone. Taliesin DM-ing a Whitestone Mini-series where every episode or every few episodes it switches time would be so sick. Like ep 1 could be the Dawnfather fight, then ep 2 is De Rolos coming to town, then the whole Von Musel fiasco, then it comes back around with the second-to-last episode being the death of the De Rolos and the Rise of the Briarwoods, then the finale could be them all playing Percy and Vex's kids modern day.

RUIDIAN ONE-SHOT -- I need a Cobalt Soul-esque one shot where it's like the resistance on Ruidus against the Imperium and the Mind-Weavers. Pre- Bloody Bridge, of course. But just getting to see more Ruidus would be so sick!!!

CALAMITY AFTERMATH -- I want to see Travis play an older Kir Argupnin so fucking badly. Like maybe they are in Vassalheim or Wildemount. I once saw this theory (I actually think it was in a fan fiction, but whatever) where Elias and Avandrin have a strained relationship when Elias gets older because he connects with the Wildmother, and Elias is actually the Unknown Champion in the lake in the Blooming Grove. Also we could see the start of the Cobalt Soul, if that VERY POPULAR theory is true.

Feel free to add more !!!

soo excited about the ashton lore we're getting 👁️👁️ !!!! Titans!!! Sexy Tree??

Also love a good pondering about fate and destiny!!? Is this a thing one is able to escape? A thing that traps you? Sure being a hero is cool and all but being trapped in that role? Your path decided before you even existed?? Where does it lead? Are you able to break free? whaaa. yess feed meeee!!

' Don't you even dare '

Okay folks repeat after me: it’s okay to critic the things we love.

People criticizing critical role’s lack of diversity, especially in light of their campaign setting, have a valid point. You can acknowledge that and still enjoy campaign three.

RIP to all the fan artists who spent so long on their campaign 3 group artworks and then this happens

I wonder if the cast won’t name themselves like Bertrand’s Bells, but will name themselves something with Bell in it as a homage to him. I’m sure someone else will come up with something more clever, but The Bell Tolls, Bell Ringers, Hells Bells, something like that

Taliesin’s character is very gender, as always, but can we also appreciate that he really said, “Try to kill my character this campaign, Matt, I dare you.”

Today's prompt was Liar. I think it would have been neat if Braius had actually been cursed by the Arch Heart! More under the cut.

Matt and Abubakar talked about that possibility in the Cooldown of that episode. And Abubakar was really considering it because Braius had just destroyed the statue of the Arch Heart. The curse would have made him more vulnerable to a certain type of damage (I think force damage) and he would have had a disadvantage on all Charisma Checks, if I remember correctly. That would have been so funny with Braius.

Matt read the description of the curse and it said, there would be a magical glyph on the face of the cursed one (I decided it looks like the symbol of the arch heart) and the eye of the bearer would look like orange and purple swirls.

So I finally checked out EXU and Dariax is a whole mood, I love him.

That scene hit me really hard. Please ignore the inconstancies ... I am praying that Tumblr doesn't kill the quality too much.