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A great Thursday is watching the new Critical Role episode while you force your friend to watch Cloudward Ho next to you

I have made solider, poet, king edits for each table so far and that got me thinking about the differences in what they wish they were vs. what they are.

I’m loving critical role campaign 4 so much and every single PC

I know this has been talked about before and I can’t remember who originally said it. In the last 24 hrs I’ve been thinking about how the true tragedy about Muni is not that he’s dead, it’s that from the second his name hit the paper he was always going to be dead. He was always going to be the prodigy who tragically died too young of a sudden aneurysm. Muni never had the chance to be anything else. Muni, even though he is someone Hugi loved very much he was always the backstory to Hugi and never in the actual story.

This is the same tragedy of Thjazi in Critical role 4, dying for a cause you believe in (especially in dnd) is heroic and the ultimate sacrifice. Yet that’s not who Thjazi is, he’s someone who was created so that he could die and set the campaign in motion. Brennan killed him twice, once when the campaign opened and once when the idea of the campaign was first made. The plan to save him was never going to work because there was never a plan to save him, he died from the curse of being an NPC.

I think one of the campaigns where this is highlighted the most is world beyond number WWW (major major spoilers here) both in grandma Ren and Suvis parents. First grandma Ren, her death was always going to happen both to have the three PC come together but also so Ame could become the Witch of Worlds Heart. You don’t get Ames coming of age if she’s alive. In her birth as a character her death certificate was signed. And then for Suvis parents, they were never going to save their daughter and the world she will one day inherit they were always going off to their deaths. There were no rolls, no creative problem solving, no perfect game place that could save them because there were no odds. The deck wasn’t stacked against them because there was no deck. There has to be a villain so Suvis parents have to die.

and then lastly my tragic candy land, ACOC and rav war. As Brennan once said he killed Pamelia Rocks twice, once when he wrote that she died, and once when he cast the spell that killed her. For Lou was playing a king and a king doesn’t become king when his parents are alive. You need your character to be invested in a world and for that to happen you need them to have love and loss. Something and someone worth fighting for.

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)

I love the seekers table (I miss the soldiers table)