tofixtheshadows:

Little Critical Role things I love:

  • When one person does a cool sound effect or accent and the rest of the group picks it up like a flock of voice acting parrots
  • When someone, unintentionally or not, references a lyric and everyone else starts singing for a few seconds
  • “Okay okay okay”
  • Sam’s dedication to his tankard bottom/shirt gags
  • Everyone constantly roasting each other because they’re family
  • All the niche VO industry inside jokes jokes that crack them up (see: Liam’s Quest)
  • “Don’t fuck me Gil”
  • When they succeed in breaking Matt
  • The interactions that come from the seating arrangements, like Liam and Laura’s cuddling last campaign and Marisha and Travis’ jock bro friendship this time around
  • When someone says an accidental innuendo and the group will not let it go for a good five minutes
  • Whenever Matt introduces a cool NPC and the cast turns into this gif: 

A New Critter’s Guide to the Extras

lorettafryingpan:

So with the start of the new campaign, there are a whole lot of new Critters in the community! This is super exciting, and I’m so glad you’re all here! Now, some of you are interested in watching the old campaign, and catching up at your own pace. Some of you aren’t, and that’s totally fine! But all of you have probably noticed the extra episodes. Things like “Battle Royale” and “Liam’s Quest”, stuff like that.

Even if you’re not interested in watching all 115 episodes of the first campaign, many of these are worth watching because they’re a lot of fun, have some great characters, and don’t require any knowledge of the first campaign. But if you are playing catch-up, there are also a few that require knowledge of the setting and characters, or contain some pretty big spoilers. (NOTE: there are no spoilers in this write-up, only episode citations)

So here’s a list of all the extra episodes, and a sorting of their relative accessibility, below the cut!

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Hey critical role people – anyone willing and able to stomach some pretty heavy/pretty dark torture hurt/comfort fic, would anyone mind throwing some ideas around with me so I can finish writing this story? It’s Vax-centric and I’ve only seen up to the end of the Whitestone/Briarwoods arc so need to avoid spoilers. Please, thank you, with hope and a prayer?

I’m not sure anything will ever bring me as much joy as the wholehearted belief that Travis has in the golden snitch. Like he’s not superstitious, except when it comes to Taliesin. Except when it comes to that fucking die. At which point all bets are off