Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
It helps that it's all homebrew.
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granted there's still the issue of me going to bed early heh
My Gloomhaven group is the worst about this. We do one scenario and it’s 1030 and I’m like, ok guys I’m off. And they always want to do one more.
And I’m the only one without kids!
Last night we made the mistake of starting a combat for which most of the players are still new to the system at 8:20...
But also I got the chance to go full Karen on some fools, and it was pretty fun. I'm not sure how the other players felt about it, I hope I didn't steam roll too much, but Karen's have no room for anyone besides themselves and the manager.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
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Critical Role Season 2 spoilers (From probably a year ago):
I was screaming at the party to take the Beacon back to the Bright Queen from the moment they got it. Liam giving it back was so fucking satisfying for me.
Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
It helps that it's all homebrew.
That's the thing though, Matt has arcs and stories planned out literally MONTHS in advance. His season 1 vecna plotline was written all the way back in episode ~23 and didn't come to fruition until 50 weeks later - but Marisha almost blew the lid on it in I wanna say episode 30? She was bout to do something reckless that would have resulted in either a character deletion or a very panicked DM having to describe something meant for the following year right then and there, and potentially stopping a scheme before it started
I'm quite sure that they've diverted big bads 2 or 3 times in the second campaign, which is why most of it has been so "Freeform"
At this point I'm not sure if we can call it homebrew, given that it has two published campaign settings and the most recent one was published by WOTC
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apparently using an iphone for like ten years hasn't prepared me for understanding how to use a mac
sometimes it's too simple?
trying to install firefox it pops up a window with a firefox icon and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it that looks like the app store logo
so i try dragging the firefox icon to the app store logo and that does nothing
turns out in the window that popped up i was supposed to drag the firefox logo to the folder in the window
apparently using an iphone for like ten years hasn't prepared me for understanding how to use a mac
sometimes it's too simple?
trying to install firefox it pops up a window with a firefox icon and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it that looks like the app store logo
so i try dragging the firefox icon to the app store logo and that does nothing
turns out in the window that popped up i was supposed to drag the firefox logo to the folder in the window
why didn't you just say that?
apple trying to be too cute
I honestly think Windows is more intuitive than Mac at this point, having to support users who've never used windows before and those who've never used a mac before, I have a lot more extensive support calls to the ones that need help Macing
Is there a non light dependent unit of time
Like absolute time
Vibrating stuff tends to vary with heat, so does radiation decay. Depends what conditions you can get accurately
Light varies with medium but we can say vacuum and except for the problem of gravity (which we can ignore locally) we are all set.
Quartz is the classic cheap, accurate oscillator material for electronics boards, you can get it to vibrate with small variance by running a current through it, good enough for most tech.
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Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
apparently using an iphone for like ten years hasn't prepared me for understanding how to use a mac
sometimes it's too simple?
trying to install firefox it pops up a window with a firefox icon and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it that looks like the app store logo
so i try dragging the firefox icon to the app store logo and that does nothing
turns out in the window that popped up i was supposed to drag the firefox logo to the folder in the window
why didn't you just say that?
apple trying to be too cute
I honestly think Windows is more intuitive than Mac at this point, having to support users who've never used windows before and those who've never used a mac before, I have a lot more extensive support calls to the ones that need help Macing
i have literally needed to google every single thing i've wanted to do since turning on the macbook
i'm sure it'll be fine once i know the system but damn. for a company that puts so much effort into presentation this is inscrutable
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Delivery
also there doesn't seem to be any indication whether ableton is in the process of installing or its doing nothing at all, which is frustrating
Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
the players were so tense when she said what she was doing (at 4:50) that Marisha Ray fell off her chair
Remember: If a player ever says to a DM "you're no matt mercer", the correct retort is "You're no Laura Bailey"
hm this has singlehandedly convinced me to try to listen to CR
There are so many moments like this. This one in particular stands out because of the sheer player brilliance at work, but CR really delivers the memorable moments.
It also suffers the same thing any D&D stream suffers: Combat can get bogged down and sometimes the players' indecision causes a 40 minute discussion that is super tedious. I rarely watch them live so I tend to 'fast forward' this sometimes.
Is there a non light dependent unit of time
Like absolute time
Vibrating stuff tends to vary with heat, so does radiation decay. Depends what conditions you can get accurately
Light varies with medium but we can say vacuum and except for the problem of gravity (which we can ignore locally) we are all set.
Quartz is the classic cheap, accurate oscillator material for electronics boards, you can get it to vibrate with small variance by running a current through it, good enough for most tech.
the speed of light is not the speed of photons through any medium and is not affected by gravity
Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
the players were so tense when she said what she was doing (at 4:50) that Marisha Ray fell off her chair
Remember: If a player ever says to a DM "you're no matt mercer", the correct retort is "You're no Laura Bailey"
hm this has singlehandedly convinced me to try to listen to CR
I say start with campaign 2. It is much more refined and the characters are built from level 1 on. I am listening to campaign 1 now, its good but 2 pulls me in like no other.
sometimes Matt Mercer just decides to break his players
a thing he absolutely does is create literally dozens of characters with voices, personalities, everything ready to go - and just plugs them in when his players decide to go into a random building or whatever, which is a thing you can do when DMing is your job
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Does Critical Role have planned arcs that the players are in on? I don't watch enough behind the scenes stuff to tell.
Depends who you talk to, but I don't think so.
The players have a lot of agency in how their characters develop, but the story is very much Matt Mercer.
The players routinely COMPLETELY derail matt's carefully prepared plotlines
(spoiled just in case you watch crit role and havent caught up)
- Laura using Modify Memory to trick a godlike fey into thinking that they'd already agreed on a fey deal to break an unbreakable curse, so the fey broke the curse (matt rolled a 1 and a 2 for the grandmother hag's saves)
- Travis throwing his hex weapon into lava to break his pact
- Caduceus sinking an enemy vessel with Control Water
- The party NOT SIDING WITH THE EMPIRE OF HUMANS IN THE WAR and going off to Xhorhas to forge a peace!
- Liam giving The Beacon to the Bright Queen
Matt's players have the balls to derail campaigns that I both love and fear my players having
It helps that it's all homebrew.
That's the thing though, Matt has arcs and stories planned out literally MONTHS in advance. His season 1 vecna plotline was written all the way back in episode ~23 and didn't come to fruition until 50 weeks later - but Marisha almost blew the lid on it in I wanna say episode 30? She was bout to do something reckless that would have resulted in either a character deletion or a very panicked DM having to describe something meant for the following year right then and there, and potentially stopping a scheme before it started
I'm quite sure that they've diverted big bads 2 or 3 times in the second campaign, which is why most of it has been so "Freeform"
At this point I'm not sure if we can call it homebrew, given that it has two published campaign settings and the most recent one was published by WOTC
Yeah. Plans change. All evidence points towards Matt knowing what his players are doing is more important than what he planned for them.
Him publishing his homebrew is just smart business.
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BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
apparently using an iphone for like ten years hasn't prepared me for understanding how to use a mac
sometimes it's too simple?
trying to install firefox it pops up a window with a firefox icon and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it that looks like the app store logo
so i try dragging the firefox icon to the app store logo and that does nothing
turns out in the window that popped up i was supposed to drag the firefox logo to the folder in the window
why didn't you just say that?
apple trying to be too cute
I honestly think Windows is more intuitive than Mac at this point, having to support users who've never used windows before and those who've never used a mac before, I have a lot more extensive support calls to the ones that need help Macing
As a not at all impartial observer, I've found the issue is often that Windows doesn't really provide much help, but also doesn't usually say no, Apple tried to help with everything, but also everything has to be done in very specific ways, which makes it harder.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
The SI unit for time isn't based on light, 1 second is the time it takes for 9,192,631,770 unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transitios of a caesium-133 atom.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
it's "stuff" - it's expressed in hertz so we say vibrations but it's not vibrations it's some... quantum bullshit - that the caesium-133 atom does that defines the second
but it could be lots of other things, point is, yes, there are stuff that happens that can be measured that have nothing to do with the speed of light
(relativity just means it only applies in the local frame of reference, the speed you move the atom doesn't matter - we're not considering anything else, just measuring local time, so it doesn't have a speed)
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The SI unit for time isn't based on light, 1 second is the time it takes for 9,192,631,770 unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transitios of a caesium-133 atom.
This wasn't discovered until John Moschitta learned to count.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
sometimes Matt Mercer just decides to break his players
a thing he absolutely does is create literally dozens of characters with voices, personalities, everything ready to go - and just plugs them in when his players decide to go into a random building or whatever, which is a thing you can do when DMing is your job
Why does this look like it was filmed in the early to mid 90s
Like I don't mean that as an insult or anything, I'm just having flashbacks over here
sometimes Matt Mercer just decides to break his players
a thing he absolutely does is create literally dozens of characters with voices, personalities, everything ready to go - and just plugs them in when his players decide to go into a random building or whatever, which is a thing you can do when DMing is your job
Why does this look like it was filmed in the early to mid 90s
Like I don't mean that as an insult or anything, I'm just having flashbacks over here
you've got a point there it really does
I wonder if that's intentional editing or it just came out like that
(it's the editing of this youtoober, critical role itself looks like this:
Posts
It helps that it's all homebrew.
Last night we made the mistake of starting a combat for which most of the players are still new to the system at 8:20...
But also I got the chance to go full Karen on some fools, and it was pretty fun. I'm not sure how the other players felt about it, I hope I didn't steam roll too much, but Karen's have no room for anyone besides themselves and the manager.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
I had a windows 3.1 machine in my room growing up
paintbrush 4 lyfe
could probably measure seconds since the big bang?
No, speed of light is fundamental to all length or time measurements.
yes, the second
Caesium-133 does 9192631770... er... things per second, that's the definition of a second
there isn't any light dependent unit of time
but more interestingly there is no measurement of distance that is independent of time
i interviewed for a job in the computer department at Circuit City
they tried to get me to sell CDs instead
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That's the thing though, Matt has arcs and stories planned out literally MONTHS in advance. His season 1 vecna plotline was written all the way back in episode ~23 and didn't come to fruition until 50 weeks later - but Marisha almost blew the lid on it in I wanna say episode 30? She was bout to do something reckless that would have resulted in either a character deletion or a very panicked DM having to describe something meant for the following year right then and there, and potentially stopping a scheme before it started
I'm quite sure that they've diverted big bads 2 or 3 times in the second campaign, which is why most of it has been so "Freeform"
At this point I'm not sure if we can call it homebrew, given that it has two published campaign settings and the most recent one was published by WOTC
sometimes it's too simple?
trying to install firefox it pops up a window with a firefox icon and an arrow pointing to a folder with an A on it that looks like the app store logo
so i try dragging the firefox icon to the app store logo and that does nothing
turns out in the window that popped up i was supposed to drag the firefox logo to the folder in the window
why didn't you just say that?
apple trying to be too cute
I honestly think Windows is more intuitive than Mac at this point, having to support users who've never used windows before and those who've never used a mac before, I have a lot more extensive support calls to the ones that need help Macing
Vibrating stuff tends to vary with heat, so does radiation decay. Depends what conditions you can get accurately
Light varies with medium but we can say vacuum and except for the problem of gravity (which we can ignore locally) we are all set.
Quartz is the classic cheap, accurate oscillator material for electronics boards, you can get it to vibrate with small variance by running a current through it, good enough for most tech.
hm this has singlehandedly convinced me to try to listen to CR
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
i have literally needed to google every single thing i've wanted to do since turning on the macbook
i'm sure it'll be fine once i know the system but damn. for a company that puts so much effort into presentation this is inscrutable
have i made a huge mistake
I don't think the fuzz meant universal by absolute
There are so many moments like this. This one in particular stands out because of the sheer player brilliance at work, but CR really delivers the memorable moments.
It also suffers the same thing any D&D stream suffers: Combat can get bogged down and sometimes the players' indecision causes a 40 minute discussion that is super tedious. I rarely watch them live so I tend to 'fast forward' this sometimes.
the speed of light is not the speed of photons through any medium and is not affected by gravity
c is constant
I say start with campaign 2. It is much more refined and the characters are built from level 1 on. I am listening to campaign 1 now, its good but 2 pulls me in like no other.
Move the crystal .9999c and it's not absolute.
That's relativity for you.
Edit - granted in the current frame of reference it should be consistent but 'time' kinda loses meaning at that point.
Since you bought it at Costco like an intellectual you can do what I did when I bought a MacBook Pro earlier this year and just take it back.
https://youtu.be/pNYIih2C8aI
sometimes Matt Mercer just decides to break his players
a thing he absolutely does is create literally dozens of characters with voices, personalities, everything ready to go - and just plugs them in when his players decide to go into a random building or whatever, which is a thing you can do when DMing is your job
Yeah. Plans change. All evidence points towards Matt knowing what his players are doing is more important than what he planned for them.
Him publishing his homebrew is just smart business.
As a not at all impartial observer, I've found the issue is often that Windows doesn't really provide much help, but also doesn't usually say no, Apple tried to help with everything, but also everything has to be done in very specific ways, which makes it harder.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Time itself is a measure of distance.
but it could be lots of other things, point is, yes, there are stuff that happens that can be measured that have nothing to do with the speed of light
(relativity just means it only applies in the local frame of reference, the speed you move the atom doesn't matter - we're not considering anything else, just measuring local time, so it doesn't have a speed)
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Other way around.
Livejournal Jannisaries
for that matter, what... really was livejournal?
This wasn't discovered until John Moschitta learned to count.
iirc, of all things, Russia owns it now
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Idk it rhymes
Why does this look like it was filmed in the early to mid 90s
Like I don't mean that as an insult or anything, I'm just having flashbacks over here
you've got a point there it really does
I wonder if that's intentional editing or it just came out like that
(it's the editing of this youtoober, critical role itself looks like this:
https://youtu.be/REyVoebe06E
(that episode)
edit: as in, the show is mostly both sides of the table + dm on fixed camera, that video with its frenetic editing has a real 90s tv vibe, yeah)