Tag: cr2

Hey you keep posting about cr2 and I kinda don’t know what it is. I’ve been getting to dungeons and dragons recently and I think it’s a group that plays it? At least I assumed, but I can’t seem to find where I can watch or listen to them. If you could tell me what it is or how to watch it that’d be amazing, thanks!

Hey, thank you so much for asking!

Rightio. I’ve made this public just in case anyone else is wondering this.

Cr2 is my tag for the second campaign of Critical Role. Critical Role is a webseries hosted by Geek and Sundry on Twitch (also available on Youtube) where a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors get together to play Dungeons and Dragons. 

These voice actors are all medium to pretty famous: you’ve got the dude who plays Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist (Travis Willingham), the dude who voices McCree in Overwatch (Matthew Mercer), the dude who plays Gaara in Naruto (Liam O’Brien) and the lady who’s probably most famous of the bunch, Ashley Johnson 

They also know a lot about D&D, in particular Matthew Mercer, who’s very good friends with Matthew Colville, and who has written bonus material for actual D&D (including a whole new class he was commissioned to create by Vin Diesel – yes, really)

The first campaign – the story of Vox Machina, was a tale about a group of adventurers that went on for just over 100 3-4hr long episodes (!)

People like me who want to catch up on it now typically do a combination of reading the awesome episode summaries on the fandom wiki, the transcripts available on tumblr, and watching episodes you think sound really good on Geek and Sundry’s Youtube Campaign 1 playlist.

(It’s worth knowing: Vox Machina as a group played for 2 years at home for fun before it was streamed, so they start off at level 9. You’ve got: Vax and Vex (half-elf rogue and ranger respectively – twins), Keyleth (elven druid), Grog (barbarian goliath), Scanlan (gnome bard), Pike (gnome cleric), Percy (human gunslinger – carried over from Pathfinder) and Tiberius (dragonborn sorcerer.) Their tale was set in Exandria, it is amazing and now finished.)

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Which leads me to Campaign 2! Campaign 2 started six weeks ago and is much, much easier to catch up on. The gang have started at level two, so we get to see them make friends and reveal their backstory etc. It’s also exciting since, if you missed the first year of Vox Machina, it was nearly impossible to catch up on. Personally I’m pretty thrilled to finally be able to get on board.

Campaign 2 centres around a motley crew of people who I’m pretty sure are gonna overthrow the empire. They are Jester (a tiefling cleric), Mollymauk (tiefling bloodhunter), Caleb (human wizard), Fjord (half-orc warlock), Nott (goblin rogue), Beauregard (human monk) and Yasha (Aasimar Barbarian). 

Fun bonus is that the series has lots of queer representation! Including canon bisexual and non-binary characters, which makes me happy. 

New episodes come out Thursdays at around 7pm Pacific Standard Time. They range between 3 and 4hrs long, so I normally watch ‘em while doing chores/admin. 

You can watch them live for free, and if you subscribe to Geek and Sundry’s channel on Twitch (about $7 a month) you can watch episodes as soon as they’re out. (You also get a free twitch channel subscription if you have Amazon prime.)

If you’d rather not spend the money – totally legit – then episodes are posted for free on Geek and Sundry’s youtube channel on Mondays, they appear in the Critical Role Campaign 2 playlist. 

Technically Critical Role is also a podcast, with episodes being released a week after they stream. However, 3-4hrs is a very long podcast and at least for the first campaign, the sound quality wasn’t awesome. It’s pretty hard to listen to, so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it. 

It’s also worth knowing that on Tuesdays there’s Talks Machina – in which members of the show respond to fan questions, discuss the most recent episodes, air theories, hug each other, and talk about kissing people. It’s very fun, and is available on Geek and Sundry’s Twitch Channel. 

So to conclude!

  • Critical Role is a webseries in which a bunch of voice actors play D&D
  • You can watch it on Geek and Sundry’s Twitch channel, or on Geek and Sundry’s Youtube channel, where there’s a convenient playlist
  • New episodes for subscribers come out on Twitch on Thursdays at 7pm PST
  • If you don’t subscribe you can get new episodes on Mondays on Youtube
  • There’s also a talk show based around Critical Role which comes out Tuesdays called Talks Machina
  • There are two campaigns: Vox Machina, which just finished, and ran over two years to about 110 episodes; the second is only six episodes long right now and easy to catch up on
  • It’s great and you should watch it!
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princessamericachavez:

Okay but I love virtually every dynamic we’ve gotten so far with the group and I wanna make a list because they are each precious and particular? 

Like, starting with those seating side-to-side we’ve got:

Fjord and Beau: Jock brotp, lot’s of fist bumps, common sense, the planners.

Beau and Caleb: Jock and Nerd friendship where neither is particularly good at social skills but they somehow work well togehter

Nott and Jester: dynamic detective duo, girl friendship powers, supportive sisters.

Jester and Molly: disaster tieflings, love each other’s shenanigans, looking after each other

And the corners of course:

Fjord and Caleb: Tired Dads, Huge Nerds, Fanboying at each other

Nott and Molly: A little girl and her cool uncle that encourages the craziest shenanigans to keep her happy

But then you can mix them around across tables and you get awesome stuff like: 

Caleb and Nott: a proud wizard dad and his loving goblin daughter

Jester and Fjord: ambiguously romantic friendship, trust and look after each other, lots of support

Molly and Beau: frenemies, probably futures bffs, always end up doing stuff together somehow

Jester and Beau: Cool Big Sister and Funny Little Sister dynamic

Fjord and Nott: very tired adoptive dad trying to keep his new brave daughter save, and said daughter that just thinks he’s super cool

Molly and Caleb: very confused polar opposites that somehow get along

Beau and Nott: the actual badass fighters of the group, having each other’s backs

Fjord and Molly: suspicious and reluctant friendship, but also blade bros

Jester and Caleb: The Happy One and the Sad One dynamic, lots of shenanigans, poke fun of each other

And then of course there’s bonus Yasha:

Yasha and Molly: circus bros, look after each other, hype each other’s skills

Yasha and Jester: protective tol and mischievous smol, big barbarian thiks the small cleric is adorable and loves her jokes

Yasha and Nott: scared little girl and softy big girl bond over flowers and nice things, could probably kill for each other

Yasha and Fjord: fun banter and rivalry, the level headed ones, looking after the others

Yasha and Beau: so much flirting, badass tank girlfriends

Yasha and Caleb: probably the only two that can sit quietly for over 5 minutes and therefore enjoy each other’s company, bad at socializing

I just think every combination of this is wonderful and so cool and rich and it’s really something the way this group has managed to nurture every relationship they have instead of falling into smaller cliques (which kinda tended to past in the first campaign first with their original pairings and then with the romantic ones? which was fun too!). 

I don’t know, I just really enjoy this open and multifaceted dynamic they’ve got going this time around.