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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8435191" data-attributes="member: 2629">Episode 1 of Campaign 2 was the most watched episode of the campaign, IIRC.  Of course they shilled at the start of the episode.  Those critical of that are not really being realistic - this is a 4 hour entertainment piece with two 'commercial breaks'.  As for the pun/joke elements of these PCs being a flaw - Every single campaign 2 character was a cliche.  It took 20+ episodes to get the real depth of many of these PCs.  If you think Sam, Liam, Taliesin, etc... do not have twists coming .... oh, boy.  I doubt any of these PCs will be one note - and I think Matt is going to rip into the lore established in Exandria Unlimited for the two/three crossover PCs.  For the characters:1.) I think Sam is playing an Autognome with a new Domain, likely the CR homebrew one.  I think the discussion of the Soul last night was a bit frustrating for him as he wants that to be a struggle for this PC - is it souled or not?  Everyone just saying, "Of course you have a soul..." 2.) Teliesin gets a chance to crunch, but I think there is going to be more to the PC.  Where did the hole in his head originate, for example?  3.) Bertram Bell might be Travis' full time PC, or he may be a stopgap.  I could see it either way.  It is interesting that he is 5th level.  However, I think that even if he is not intended to be the full time PC for Travis, he could end up love playing him and preserve him for the forseeable future.  Most likely, I think they find his true PC somewhere during one of their first missions and he has a mysterious amnesiac past issue.4.) I think Laura is just a Telepathic Aberrant Mind Sorcerer with a few mechanics tossed on the top for her Detect Thoughts to give it some more intrigue.  The desire to do research is likely tied to the origin of her powers.  Imogen as a name is interesting - it is the name of an artist that has provided a lot of cool Critical Role art.5.) Marisha knocked it out of the park for the first time.  She never seemed comfortable as Keyleth, and she was a bit too goofy for what she tried to do with Beau - but the goofy works perfectly for Laudna.  I think she'll have an insane amount of fun with her PC.  The origin story should be interesting - especially given the Whitestone connection.  6.) Ashley playing Fearne is fine.  However, I'd have loved to see her play a College of Whispers bard.  She is having a blast with Fearne, so that is all and good.  However, she has hinted that she'd like to play something a bit wicked, and Fearne is in an 'innocent' way, but I am disappointed that she didn't go more directly wicked....7.) ...and disappointed in Liam's choice as well.  I think he has big ties to prior storylines in mind that were not explored in EXU, but I think he could have done that with a character with intrigue.  We'll see.  Maybe there is something under the fascade, but I am least intrigued by Orym.  All of this is subject to the usual caveate that we don't know %$#@ about these characters yet, really.</blockquote>

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