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Haha, no. I can see why you might get that impression given Liam’s proclivity for playing tortured, emotional characters, but that’s just his taste as a performer. Taliesin is a goth, as in a member of the goth subculture. The original goth subculture, in the 80s and early 90s, and his fashion...

I mean, a home game isn’t a TV show, but Critical Role is. And again, this isn’t a new thing, Matt has had a team the whole time, it has only grown since campaign 1. And Brennan has also had a team on Dimension 20, so he’s no stranger to working this way.

It’s in Explorer’s Guide to Wildmount, isn’t it?

Sorry, I didn’t mean others have had homebrew characters in every campaign, just that others have had homebrew elements to their characters. Well, there’s no way Thimble isn’t homebrewed since she’s Tiny sized. Tyranny is explicitly a demon, not a tiefling. Cattigan has some sort of weird...

This is another good point! In fact, after campaign 1, the idea that these games have been DMed by a single person has always been an illusion. Brennan specifically pointed it out in an interview prior to this campaign being released, he said something along the lines of “what you see as me...

No worries! It’s not like there’s a rule against reiterating things that have already been mentioned. A lot of threads would be a lot shorter if there was!

I wouldn’t say Taliesin’s characters have required mountains of homework. Percy probably did, but as you observed, he started playing Percy as an off-the-rack character for a different system. The blood hunter and the gravity barbarian were both things Matt had written separately, and Taliesin...

Been mentioned a couple times now in the thread, but yeah, bears repeating. The concept is very specifically tied to D&D.

I definitely wouldn’t characterize Taliesin as a spotlight hog. He has played a homebrew character in all of the campaigns, but he’s far from the only one to do so, and I’m pretty sure every PC in this campaign has homebrew elements. What Taliesin is, is goth. And I know a lot of DMs have a...

I’m glad the original Lake Geneva group didn’t share your disdain for characters being “special,” or we’d never have gotten the cleric, the thief, or the ranger. Homebrewing new options to allow the players to realize their unique character concepts is a tradition as old as the hobby itself.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure about him prior to episode 4, but that one won me over.

I don’t see any reason it can’t work in D&D. He said in the cooldown that he got the idea from Granted, you need to do some homebrewing to handle how that works mechanically. But, I don’t see any problem with that. Homebrew is the beating heart of the hobby.

Haha I adore Taliesin’s character

Yeah, Matt’s character so far has been such a red flag to me… he’s like a walking example of how not to make a character for a collaborative game. I’m hoping it goes somewhere worthwhile. Luis’ character… I quite like him, and I’m not really sure why? He’s exactly the sort of generic hero dude...

No, in terms of initial sales. Initial sales is what this earnings report concerns, and what I meant has gotten better with each new edition.

I guess, but like… isn’t the lack of content in modern streaming series generally considered a negative? I dunno, maybe I’m an old woman yelling at clouds, but I liked it when shows used to go for dozens of seasons that were scores of episodes long. I get that. And I do empathize with those of...

Ok, that explains so much! Thank you for that insight.

Eh, nobody is bothered by, like, House of the Dragon being a railroad. At the end of the day, Critical Role is a show. If it’s entertaining to watch, I’m not worried about how much agency the actors have. I remember when it was a hot button discussion topic to speculate on if Critical Role is...

That can happen when you have multiple players wanting to be the broody, stoic badass with a secret heart of gold. I do hope that if they are at the same table, they don’t make a habit of getting into Big Damn Hero contests.

Oh, it absolutely was set up to produce a specific story outcome. Some may find that distasteful - I certainly would, in the context of a home game. In a show that’s effectively a semi-improvised audio drama, I’m alright with it. Especially because it is still part of the overture. But, yeah, I...