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criticalrolenpctournament · 8 months

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FINAL POLL

Propaganda

Gilmore:

He's fabulous, he's powerful, he dueled the Cinder King and lived to tell the tale, he's fucking gorgeous, he had a really close relationship with Vox Machina that survived being rejected by Vax romantically, he held the barrier over Whitestone and smushed an assassin and over 30 years later he's still Glorious

Essek:

He's gay he's demi he's goth he's a war criminal he's got floaty magic he's got it all, folks

*picture has been changed for a second time. Stop complaining, please*

#critical role #critical role npc tournament #critical role npcs #shaun gilmore #essek thelyss

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thatoneacecryptid · 5 months

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I’m simple, if I see any member of the Clay Family in a tournament poll, I’m gonna vote for them

#they are my FAVORITES #Clay family supremacy #critical role npc tournament #critical role #critical role npcs #caduceus clay #the mighty nein

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numbfandom · 8 months

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Never let me forget about my favorite critical role c3 npcs (a list)

Captain Xandis!!!!!!!! ⚓️🌌⚡️

Milo Krook 💙

Zhudanna 🥺

Weva Vudol 🕷️

Pretty 🍳

Nana Morri 🍃

Pátê 🐀

Cyrus Wyvernwind 🪶

Vitro Isham 🎓

Imahara Joe 🔧

Ebenold Kai 🔭

That’s all I can think of right now, I’ll update this later!

#critical role #critical role npc #critical role npcs #critical role campaign 3

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unnerd · 2 years

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Places you should add to your little town/city in your fantasy world!!

Post offices. Wild, I know. But give me the unhinged kind. Pingeons and little postal dragons all over the place. You enter. The most disgusting smell fucking assaults your nostrils. You know what it is. Letter in hand, you go up to the counter. The postal worker is just a slightly bigger pigeon. You shed a tear.

PLAYGROUNDS!! Create the most dangerous kinds of playgrounds, the ones suburban moms would TRIP if they ever saw one. Monkey bars that are way too tall, swings that go full circle... The metal slide stays the same, it's already painful enough.

PARKS!! MAKE IT ALIVE!! Show people going on walks, reading beneath trees. C'mon most of them are already hundred years old (And are going to die after that CR 15 creature wrecks the town) anyways!! Show couples and picnics, show a family enjoying the sunday, give me someone picking flowers for their loved ones.

A bakery! Do you know how much these places are underrated? And do you know how much plot potential they have? Every good story starts with food poisoning or granny's recipe! Give me a place your players/readers are going to treat like home and, for once, it's not a tavern or a guild.

Government buildings! Give me a town hall that has a kilometric line in front of it. Give me a registry that is as old as this town. Give me police stations! Give me courtrooms! Make one of your players get arrested and now all of the party has to go through burocracy like a bunch of normal people!

(Who am I kidding? You don't need to make them get arrested. They are going to do that for you.)

Touristic attractions! Give me a full-on statue of the country's leader! Give me museums! Give me streets, ruins and whatnot that attract thousands of tourists everyday! Give me an annoying city guide that tries to get the party's attention everytime!

Magazine stands! Magazines don't exist? Newspaper stands! From the Queen's Journal to the most questionable new piece of Fox's Tailtracker, you have it all! Make your players doubt what's actually happening, sprinkle a little fake news... Or is it fake at all?

...Toy stores. OK HEAR ME OUT. Make magic toys; miniature skyships that actually fly, metal toy dragons that expel fire, little wands that make little light spells, wooden creatures that can move and make noises... Make children happy! And your players too because they will waste their money on these stuff.

Instrument store!! Make your bards happy with special instruments or just weird ones! Give me a battle in one of those that is just filled with funny noises and the worst battle soundtrack ever!!

Not exactly a place but... Cleaning carts!!! Show me people cleaning the streets, picking up the trash, cutting trees!! Make the town look clean!! Give me an old man that is really proud of his work!!!

(or ways to make your players feel even worse when the villain destroys the town later on :) )

#dnd #dnd ideas #d&d 5th edition #d&d memes #tabletop games #dungeonsanddragons #npc ideas #dnd homebrew #campaing ideas #gm guide #worldbuilding #worldbuilding prompts #critical role #5e #ttrpgs #homebrew

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chaosgenasi · 1 year

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I was wherever you go next.

#critical role #criticalroleedit #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #deanna leimert #aabria iyengar #basil.gif #cr3 #deanna #bells hells #i love her :( also love the ongoing theme of c3 being about like those who get left behind/'npcs'/etc.

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blorbologist · 1 year

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Alt episode title: ‘Scanlan finally gets a friend who really gets him!

Annnnd immediately loses him‘

im sure this wont feed into his issues at allllll

#tlovm #the legend of vox machina #tlovm s2 #tlovm spoilers #god damn #i love the choice personally absolutely exquisite use of a one-off NPC and its connection to another #critical role #scanlan shorthalt #also love that it was Pike being a lil hard on him that inspired the whole love ballad and all #fuck :c

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astrid-beck · 9 months

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Something insanity inducing about jester and veth trying to comfort caleb after the vergessen heist by telling him that the people he killed were bad people, they were evil, they obviously deserved it, we're the good guys, he had to do it, he had to do it for the greater good, the chosen few made the hard choice and do what few have the will to do—

#idk if this post scans correctly for people who don't have 2.89 lingering wounds (first appearance of minor npc astrid becke) memorized but #but i'm about to make a follow up hold on #critical role #cr2 #lena watches cr

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elahogn · 6 months

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Mama Calloway is a hot biker mom and we need to talk about her

#critical role #critical role art #critrole #critrole fanart #critical role npc #cr3 #fearne calloway #bell's hells #birdy calloway #dnd #dnd art #dnd character #faun #exandria #illustration #elahogn

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glumspell · 14 days

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My biggest hope for the Mighty Nein animated series is that they capture the tone correctly and don't use the same tone for TMN that they used for TLOVM.

I thought the tone in TLOVM was great for Vox Machina, it was littered with Scanlan style adult humor that suited the adult-style comedy/drama very well but I dont think that exact same tone would work well for the Mighty Nein.

Even though TMN had dirty humor, I think it's style of humor was different than TLOVM. Sex scene cut-aways and projectile vomiting, over the top gore and poop humor throwaway gags I don't think would hit the way for TMN as it does in TLOVM even though it exists in TMN.

I think that in the way that TLOVM is framed around Scanlan style humor, I think TMN is framed around Jester humor- which is still dirty, but sillier and a bit more naive and familiar that fits the mature tone of TMN much better than the throwaway humor of TLOVM.

And i'm sure TMN will be gore-y too but sometimes the gore in TLOVM was over the top in a way that detracted from some of the major villain deaths and made them less impactful when compared to some disposable npc whose skull gets exploded in a few scenes prior. What I mean is that I hope it's gore-y where it counts. Like Caleb crushing the guards while storming the sanitarium in rage and vengeance is not as impactful if everyone dies in a similar fashion all the time, if you know what I mean?

#critical role #tmn #tmna #the legends of vox machina #the mighty nein #the mighty nein animated #tlovm #sometimes i feel that too much gore makes characters seem disposable? if that makes sense? like you never get attached to npcs bc it feels #less like characters and more like meat waiting to be torn apart in gruesome ways. Archie had this problem in season 1 I feel.#his sacrifice didn't feel impactful at all. he felt like a throwaway and part of that i feel is because his death didnt feel unique #I think too much gore also starts to feel less realistic in a setting. it feels fine for TLOVM bc I think TLOVM plays with tropes in a way #that works for them and their characters but wont always work for the style of TMN

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ariadne-mouse · 4 days

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I know I made a comment about M9 animated series and that if there's new Essek content I'm not going to be normal about it, but if Essek actually shows up in C3 in the next bit here (if BH need to go to Aeor and M9 have found their way to the centralized allies camp with Keyleth, best tour guides would be Caleb or Essek, the chances are small but do exist) I am absolutely not going to be normal about that either. You're all in danger

#to be clear Matt could absolutely drive Caleb instead and that would likely be more fitting since BH have met him and may trust him #the former PCs are NPCs now & thus are all fair game for parts to play in extended scenes/roles as VM have been #but Essek as a homegrown Matt Mercer NPC could be like putting on a beloved pair of shoes you haven't worn for a while #I'm absolutely not counting on it or emotionally investing in it; I'm along for the ride as always & this idle speculation is just for fun #BUT. essekwatch 2024 #critical role #op #essek thelyss

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cranesofibycus · 2 years

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krook house conversations

+ bonus Marisha

#critical role #gifs by b #c3e22 #ashton greymoore #ashton #cast: marischa #cast: tal #cast: matt #npc: annie #char: ashton #ep: 3x22 #c: 3

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criticalrolenpctournament · 4 months

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ROUND 4, POLL 6

Which NPC is the best overall character?

#critical role #critical role npc tournament #critical role npcs #delilah briarwood #kiri #round 4 #round 4 polls #polls

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pocketgalaxies · 1 month

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crazy how in c2 they'll have three extensive convos checking in with each other while traveling like an hour in-game meanwhile in c3 they've been on the moon for days and still haven't discussed the following:

laudna fucking ate a guy

imogen's mom is a mythical legend amongst the enemy

orym vs. laudna's response to imogen giving into predathos

how did chetney suddenly learn to make hypnotizing toys

delilah briarwood

"some of us are expendable, we should get captured"

anything and everything they said during the trust exercise, including but not limited to:

laudna not being able to distinguish her thoughts from delilah's

imogen's disgust at delilah's inevitable presence

chetney's fear that his new family will leave him

orym's feelings about dorian

fcg relieving stress through murder

fearne's insecurities about their chances of success

ashton's guilt about the shard

and more!

#i'm not complaining i'm just complaining #the difference between the two campaigns is SO STARK and i don't understand why #that's a lie i do understand why. it's bc there's been a ticking time bomb in c3 for a full year's worth of episodes at this point #if not longer #so i get it. but also i'm gonna go crazy.#if they had a full 4hr ep of just debriefing and talking i'd be so much more engaged than another 4 hours of traveling through ruidus #ik there are a lot of ppl out there enjoying the moon lore and the npcs etc but i feel like personally my brain is in a tiny gloomy prison #and the only thing that can free me is SOMEBODY AT THIS DAMN TABLE ASKING 'ARE YOU OKAY?'#anyway! back to c2 :)#2h30m c2e59 #text #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #r: mighty nein #cr3 #cr negativity #r: bells hells

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sunflowervc · 10 months

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i forgot to post this in june but this is the third drawing in my cr as classical paintings for pride series.. which i didn’t say was a series until just now, BUT STILL

anyway, here’s Yussa as Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Casper David Friedrich

#critical role #critical role campaign 2 #mighty nein #critical role fanart #critical role fandom #yussa errenis #critical role yussa #critical role art #critical role npc #cr art #cr campaign two #digital drawing #digital artwork #digital painting #digital illustration #fanart

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demigoddessqueens · 1 month

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hugs

thinking of the tightest hugs possible, ones that start so slow and hesitant with arms slowly circling around before they get tight, burying their head in the crook of the neck to hide the betraying emotions behind eyes screwed shut, perhaps flirting with the idea of a kiss on the cheek, fingers digging into the shoulders and where they meet the back to hold on as if it feels like the last time, a forlorn grimace when one pulls away because it wasn’t enough time to savor the feel/touch of another, interlocking fingers when you pull away as if it’s still enough (it’s not)

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unnerd · 2 years

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Dumb NPC ideas to use when your players decide to explore that town you didn't prepare anything for

A scholar that is clearly lost, however you're not sure how he is someone important at all. It even looks like he's glad that he didn't manage to arrive at the event on time.

An old lady (of a race that has a long lifespan), that knows a little way to much about the party's adventure... She doesn't spends much time talking about it though, do you want to buy her pots?

A kid. Just a kid. Make them annoying.

A knight that is very proud about their job and duty, but they just want their shift to end so they can go home to their wife.

A merchant that has a cart in the middle of the fair, however everytime the party goes to another shop or stand he pops up from behind the counter. Turns out the town doesn't receive many merchants so he has to supply all of their needs. He's stressed.

A teen dragon that discovered how to transform into a human, problem is they definitely look 30 but they still are just a teenager, and a moody one.

A shop owner that fucking hates commerce. She's in it because of her family, so she tries to sell the goodies pratically for free and she really wants you to take all of her items. The catch? It's a feather shop. Not magic feathers, not pens, just normal feathers. Probably from a bird that died that morning.

A janitor from a library or big shop that is just too aware of everything. Like, they point out the players class or race without barely batting an eye. They comment on how they "had never seen a chaotic good one in real life". And indirectly disses the players choices they made 2 sessions ago? (Basically a character for the dm to rant a little while not completely breaking the 4th wall)

A woman in her mid-40s (or the equivalent) that is just really excited to meet the party? Her dream was to be an adventurer when she was little so she is definitely asking some weird questions.

A blacksmith that makes weapons purely for the aesthetic. He really doesn't care if it's functional or not, he's just doing cause it looks cool.

A bard that got kicked out of their band or caravan. At first you don't know why but after their 3rd performance of a one-person musical you get it. He wants to stick with the party though. Good luck.

A doggie!! It's cute!! And fluffy!! And it talks!! And it talks? A DOG THAT TALKS!!!!

The most ripped person the party has ever met, they have tons of skulls of big animals on their shoulder. They polish them. They hang them on a wall and start to take notes. They are an archeologist.

A magician that is really not magic at all, he's just so good at card tricks that the town thinks he's a sorcerer. He's freaking out.

A girl that is immune to all kinds of poison, however that is making a little bit hard for her to pursue her cooking career. Apparently poison ivy is not a good seasoning for most people.

An artist that is just really calm and friendly but everyone's afraid of them. The party has no idea why.

#dnd5e #dnd homebrew #dnd npc #dungeons and dragons #npc ideas #dungeon master #game master #rpg campaign #campaign #ttrpg #roleplay #psa you can change their genders!!!#session preparation #critical role

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