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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9785036" data-attributes="member: 6779196">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 secretly scripted. It definitely isn’t, but personally I wouldn’t really care if it was.I do think what we’re probably seeing is Brennan’s experience as an improvisational comedian. Improv comedy involves working from unexpected prompts to find your way to material that, while not scripted or rehearsed, is at least within your familiar wheelhouse. I suspect he has some story beats in mind, and is using the players’ and dice’s inputs as his improv prompts from which to find a way to those beats.Spoilers for the very end of the episode, so beware anyone who’s only partway through:[ISPOILER]I honestly don’t think Brennan anticipated Octis being resurrected at the end. The way he said “we won’t be seeing Octis again” when his soul unraveled felt very final in the moment, and he set the DC to remove the stone of nightsong high enough it would have required rolling within two points of the maximum on all three dice. It was only because of the natural 20 on the Portent roll that it worked out.[/ISPOILER]I am really interested to see this week’s cooldown. I’m definitely going to at least be starting the 7-day free trial of Beacon to see if that discussion sheds any more light on if there was a plan going into this episode. Would have done so last night, but it was already past midnight in my time zone by the time the episode was over. So, tonight it shall be.</blockquote>

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