Critical Role
"Is it Thursday Yet?"
Community to discuss anything Critical Role related.
Drop by our welcome post and share any feedback/suggestions if you have any. The FAQ post is also a thing.
What is Critical Role?
Critical Role is a group of nerdy-ass voice actors who sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons.
Streams every Thursday at 7pm PT and then rebroadcasts the following Friday at 12am and 9am PT on Twitch.
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Current shows
- Critical Role Campaign 3: Main D&D 5e campaign, streamed every Thursday at 7pm PT, except last Thursday of each month
- Candela Obscura: Horror drama campaign using their own game system, live streamed every last Thursday of each month at 7pm PT
- 4-Sided Dive: Talkshow with a roundtable discussion of 4 guests, to talk about recent episodes and answer fan questions. Streams every first Tuesday of the month at 7pm PT
- Midst: Sci-fi fantasy radio drama, airs every Wednesday on Midst.co
- Re-Slayer's Take: podcast about a lesser-known band of heroes updates Mondays 5am PST
- Tales from the Stinky Dragon New episodes air Wednesdays every two weeks.
Basic Rules
- Follow server Code of Conduct
- Be kind to others
- No spoilers in titles
- For spoiler posts, mention the episode number in the title (e.g.
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- Comments should not spoil any episode after the tagged episode
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Links
- Critical Role's official website
- Critical Role on Twitch
- Critical Role on YouTube
- Critical Role Podcast C1E0 - C2E19
- Beacon
Resources
- Interactive Map of Exandria
- Interactive Timeline
- Episode Transcripts
- Encyclopedia Exandria
- Critical Role wiki (fandom)
- Critical Role Stats
- Official Daggerheart Toolset
- The Omen Archive
- Episode Discussion Index
- CR Funny Moments (TVtropes)
- CR ABridged Art Archive
- Other Live Play TTRPGs
- CR Bibliography
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What are people's thoughts on the Illuminated World's system? On one hand, I've been digging Candela Obscura, but on the other hand, I can't help but feel that the show is carried in large part by the amazing DMs and PCs and that the system itself is a bit too "loosey-goosey", for lack of a better term, for other people to pick up and play. A lot of game mechanics seem arbitrary and up to the DM to decide when they occur, instead of motivated by a set of rules. For example, whenever a PC takes a body it always seems like it comes out of nowhere. You touch a random object that you don't know has a speck of bleed, you take a body, you open a closet, you take a body, etc. I just feel like with a less than stellar DM, it'd become too arbitrary for most normal players.
EDIT: Also, yes this community isn't very active, but I wanted to say thanks for creating it in the first place! It will grow with time I am sure.
I ended up watching the Titansgrave series (GM: Wil Wheaton and Laura Bailey playing) not long ago and they used a system they said was modified from Kids on Bikes which also uses three 6-sided dice. The easy pro of a system around the standard cube dice is the accessibility to more people, but:
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it is also the most frequently used in magic tricks