Thinking about how Critical Role has now run so long that when they went on the air Sam's son had just been born and now he's old enough to guest in one of Sam's ads.

EDIT: I made an error. His daughter is the younger sibling and was less than 1 when Critical Role started. His son was like 2. So a toddler not a newborn.

However, the general point stands. That kid was a baby and now he's a working actor with multiple roles in the time this show has been on the air.

I do NOT want Chet to die, but if he d100 dies in his sleep at Zephrah, it'd be so funny because that would make 2 out of 2 Travis PCs in this campaign whose burial is someone in Vox Machina's problem.

gotta let the twink elf dom sometimes, for his enrichment

uncropped: pillowfort | bsky

The danganronpa writers really created a character who was the complete antithesis to hope’s peak and some major characters in later games only to pretty much play him for laughs and then kill him off early.

silly little man. representing the very thing the evil organization stood against and actively tried to prove wrong. and yet was still invited to be a part of their school. only to die. silly taka.

caleb showing essek the star room 🤝 howl showing sophie the garden

I understand not wanting your party members to walk into a lake and drown themselves but also Laudna has the fuckin WORST bedside manner lol. Yes, your much-needed long rest was just interrupted in a creepy abandoned town where you know weird charm-shit happened and the LAST thing you need right now is for anyone to lose focus. But also "Can you not wait? You can wait 5 minutes." talking to someone who has waited months and doesn't know if their loved one is even ALIVE and has confessed to you how much he misses them and how much it hurts and they could be outside breathing alive right now—

And on the surface, it looks like Chet is enabling a bad decision when he says "You probably heard Dorian. He's probably outside." and yeahh, okay, maybe he is a little bit. But right after that he's about to protest with something about Orym and it's like yeah. ORYM said he heard something. When has there been a time when ORYM heard something, and it wasn't real? How many times has Orym heard something and it's saved our asses? Before Chet is being hit with his own need to check out the lake, he's giving Orym the benefit of the doubt. And while he is an enabler by nature, he's keeping his voice soft rather than his usual, over-the-top "let's fuck around and find out" energy that he brings to dangerous situations like this.

You can't have everyone in the group treating a dilemma with the same amount of sympathy and care. What makes the BH so fascinating to watch is the variation in responses and different ways they interact with each other. You need a balance of someone who will take the cold, unyielding stance against something that is so obviously a trap, and someone that is aware of the risks but willing to speak up for that person and humor them when they're so clearly struggling.

I have a lot of feelings about Laudna and Chetney's instinctual responses and I think both stances are fascinating and they've both shattered my heart to pieces

Percy: We need more help. Maybe I should call my friends. Vax: ... Your what? Percy: My friends. Grog: Are they saying “friends”? Scanlan: I think they're being sarcastic. Pike: No, no, no, this is delirium, they've cracked from being awake all night. Hey, Percy! All of your friends are in this room. Percy: I have other friends! You asked me to make new friends, I made new friends! It was a task. I complete tasks.

Trent Ikithon calling Caleb 'Bren" gives off the exact same vibes as a manipulative parent dead naming their trans child

The Observer Statue for The Tourists Guide to Tal'dorei with @artists-guild-of-exandria !! I have been OBSESSED with Niirdal Poc and The Observer since they were first brought up in EXU. I was so excited to get the opportunity to do my own rendition of her!!

Chetney never stops winning huh. Good at history checks because he's fucking old (his words not mine). Sniffing around wildly and actually getting back relevant info. He's got all the maps. He rolled a 17 on a survival check. At any minute he's ready to like. lick a tree. and i bet it would pay off.

i’m really liking what we’ve been seeing of chetney’s softer, emotional, more wizened sides lately. between his conversation with orym about will and the subsequent gift, gently trying to lead fearne to the realization that her nana was the one behind the postcards, catching onto dusk, even some of the way he’s talked about being a werewolf n his connection to the gorgynei. chetney is slowly revealing himself to be an Extremely emotionally intelligent dude but he’s usually moving at such breakneck comedic speed that it’s hard to tell

They literally just finished the animated opening and Ashton needs an art update.

I remembered that time I called Fjord a skilled mage (and provided textual support) and got a handful of people in my inbox mad that I was "trying to make Fjord good at everything" (?) but more bafflingly some were mad I called him a mage.

Liliana deadbeat mother of all time for real

liam o'brien loves to take feats that will probably get banned in the next campaign

The fact that they're stressing about looking like students is so fucking funny bc university students are hands down the weirdest looking people ever. People are in class in their pajamas, someone's wearing an unholy combination of athlesiure and business casual that tells you they haven't done laundry in weeks, a girl is walking across the street in full goth getup with the stompiest boots you've seen in ur life, at least one person is cosplaying something unidentifiable. There's a guy on a unicycle for some reason. Half the campus is sleep deprived nobody cares if ur a little metal dude or have purple or green hair or opalescent rock hair. If u look half dead you fit right in perfectly.