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  1. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Sure, but I’m not sure it’s the best tone to set for a long-form D&D actual play… again, though, he didn’t actually kill the character so this is all moot anyway.
  2. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    It did escalate very quickly, which I can understand from a characterization standpoint - it was certainly an effective way to communicate how powerful, dangerous, arrogant, and callous that villain is. But, the idea that Brennan has might have actually have killed a PC after it was him who put...
  3. Charlaquin

    D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro

    I don’t know which picture you’re referring to, but it’s almost certainly trying to appeal to LGBTQIA+ folks and allies. There are a lot of us, we’re a market worth appealing to. This tends to be a generational thing. In my experience it’s gen X and some older millennial LGBTQ folks who the...
  4. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    As any setting does to at least a certain extent. I liked how Brennan described it in an interview I saw on YouTube (heavily paraphrasing here): he’s spent a lot of years running D&D in a lot of settings that are pretty far removed from standard high fantasy. So being asked to run a game in an...
  5. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Yeah, I can see the parallels, for sure!
  6. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    They haven’t explained the details yet. The first four episodes have the whole cast present and switching around who’s sitting at the table vs who’s hiding off-camera as the spotlight shifts between different subgroups. We’re just starting to get an idea of who will comprise the three main...
  7. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    I can see the parallel between the Shapers’ War and the Last War. But, it’s definitely an influence rather than a direct point of reference. Personally, it looks to me more like a deconstructed Middle Earth than it does a palette swapped Eberron.
  8. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    I definitely think he’s an aasimar divine soul sorcerer. That first the backstory and the stats, including his 20 HP at level 3 with 14 Con. That’s exactly right for a sorcerer if they’re using the standard max hit die at first level, half rounded up at each level after that. If he was a cleric...
  9. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Nice! I really enjoyed the first one, so I might consider it.
  10. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    They are, yeah. I don’t have Beacon, but I saw a YouTube video talking about the cooldown.
  11. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Apparently in the Cooldown for the episode, Brennan asked who everyone thought came closest to dying that episode, and everyone thought Travis’ character, but he said it was Marisha’s. Like, when he said “if you keep talking to me, I’ll kill you where you stand,” he meant it, she would have been...
  12. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    I was just saying lots of political maneuvering and espionage among the Schemers’ table
  13. Charlaquin

    D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro

    Is this like, an ill-conceived reference to some movie monologue or something?
  14. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    Haha I think the only rules are “you win or you die.” It’s not a literal game, just the way the characters euphemistically refer to the political machinations part and parcel to life among the nobility within the capital of the kingdom.
  15. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    King’s Landing. The capital city in Game of Thrones, wherein the eponymous political game is played at its highest-stakes incarnation.
  16. Charlaquin

    Circle Casting Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun

    Is it Opposite Day or something…?
  17. Charlaquin

    Critical Role Reveals Soldiers' Table and Motivations

    I suppose in retrospect it makes some sense, since Azune has very strong ties in Dol-Makjar (or however it’s spelled), including his high rank within the local police force. We didn’t necessarily know the soldiers would be leaving the city, so it would have been hard to predict, but now that we...
  18. Charlaquin

    Dungeons & Dragons Reveals Two New Spells That Will Appear in Forgotten Realms Books

    🤷‍♀️ honestly, I don’t think it makes much difference in the vast majority of cases. There are rarely enough airborne enemies for it to matter.
  19. Charlaquin

    Dungeons & Dragons Reveals Two New Spells That Will Appear in Forgotten Realms Books

    Err… I guess it’s half the height, if you center the sphere on a point 20 feet in the air. But then significantly less of the sphere’s area will be touching the ground, which is where most of your targets are likely to be. In my experience spheres are usually centered on a point on the ground...
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