Hi Everyone!

This thread is for any and all OOC chatter.

Okay!

We have a neat little group, but you've all been working with me individually.  Time to meet each other.  As of now, we have:

• Dame Tiegen Chanice, a human bard (aiming for the College of Lore), with a little touch of the Feywild in her history.
• Hannah Demsersk, a human paladin,
• HuMu Ninn, a kenku wizard (aiming for the Order of Scribes), and
• Shera Draxalia, a human warlock (aiming for the Pact of the Tome),

Obviously, I have a very bookish group on my hands.  :)  This gives us a lot of places to tie in the histories together, so it's not so much a random group of strangers meeting in a tavern somewhere...

We're at four players right now, which I think is a good starting number, so it's time to start working on histories.  I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to try an experiment of sorts.

I'm going to be setting up History threads for each of you.  I'll prompt you with questions about your character's history, and you can answer them (hopefully in a short story format).  I'm leaving them open, so that as you read through each other's you might see areas in which you might have previously interacted.  If you don't see one, or it doesn't happen organically, I do have a few tools I can use to help you all out.

For those are familiar: yes, this will resemble the heroic chronicle set out in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, starting on page 191.  I found that toolkit to be excellent help when it comes to creating deep characters that I can really crawl into their skin, but it is focused on the individual.  A few years back I backed a kickstarter project called backstory cards, which is useful for creating shared story elements between two or more characters, so I'm going for a blend of the two toolkits.

Our story will begin in Eastern Wynandir -- in Xhorhas, and specifically around the Vermaloc Wildwood.  It will branch out from there and travel will be involved, but if you were interested and if it helps spark your creative energies, go for it!
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:23, Wed 16 Mar 2022.

Oh and before we go too far, I feel I should tell you all: I'm only on episode 42 of campaign 1 on Critical Role.  Please use the <spoiler> tag if you happen to discuss the show or the podcast.

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I'm at the start of the Chroma Conclave storyline.

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On my sweet summer child. You are in for such a wonderful ride.

Oh, I know.  I'm consuming everything as fast as I can.  I downloaded all the podcast episodes, put them into an audiobook format and now I listen to it everywhere I go.  When I'm washing dishes, when I'm taking the kids to school, when I'm walking the dog...

I will catch up eventually, but it will take quite a while.  I just wanted to explain that before we got into it, so if there are differences between the way I describe something and the way Matt describes something, that's probably the result me not having gotten there in the story yet.

We have a few new players coming in, so bear with me while I get them up to speed.

While we're waiting, did any of you catch the Legend of Vox Machina animate series?  What did you think?

New person here....a big fan of critical role and the series was great. Branched into the briarwood arc of the game which has a spotlight on Percy.

Good mix of humour, action, etc.

...and only Sam reigel would figure out how to get a rock song in a medieval style game

Sometimes I think the best part of the liveplay show is the creative ways they justify what they're doing -- which got lost a little bit in the translation to animation.

The justification for Scanlon polymorphing into a Triceratops was just brilliant.  And I think the whole fight sequence between Scanlon and Duke Vedmire was just was better in the liveplay show.  Also disappointed we didn't get the see the K'varn storyline either.  I guess there was just not enough time/budget to play it all out, and I think they made the right call, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Theirs rumors of more seasons of it which will be good if it happens. The chroma conclave is hinted in the animation and big at the end  so theirs room to grow.

But what they packed into 12 episodes was pretty good

Hi everyone. Hope you all are doing well. My husband and I are still in campaign 1 of critical role too, but sounds like we are farther along than you, for now. Sorry I haven't posted in my history thread yet. Will be working on that between tonight and tomorrow so hopefully I can get something good up for you guys soon. Looking forward to reading what you all have as well. ^_^

Hello everyone, glad to be here. Still working on the char concept and ideas, that will come soon.

As for critical role, I had vaguely heard of them but I never listened to their podcasts. I'm a visual learner and hearing people talking of playing a game I love would put me to sleep.

I did watch The Legend of Vox Machina and loved every minute of it though.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:16, Thu 17 Mar 2022.

I loved the legend of Vox Machina too. Hope we get a season 2

it would be crazy not to

Anyone else sitting down to critical role tonight?

I generally watch it the day after so that I can watch at x2 speed, unless I have nothing going on that night. If I was just making posts tonight instead of working on a character backstory, I'd probably tune in for the live.