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pocketgalaxies · 1 year

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iconic of marisha to design a dungeon puzzle but instead of waiting for the bears to activate it she just had her impatient npc go "i'm literally the one who designed it, look" and wave her hand in the right spot to activate it. and then gave them a piece of paper with the code to the puzzle but the code was written by a grumpy head of security who gave up halfway through and went "i'm not a fucking riddle writer" before plainly explaining exactly what the task is. presumably because he couldn't think of a word that rhymes with orange

#i love this dkfjskdjfs #3h6m OSx18 #text #critical role #cr extras #honey heist #cr lb #marisha ray #tova cr #buford t. justice #marisha ray supremacy

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criticalpolls · 1 year

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Couldn't fit everyone but for the Other option we have: Lillith Daturai (Kit Buss), Garthok (Jason Charles Miller), and Shale (Chris Perkins).

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ghor-dranas · 1 year

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Don't be suspicious: Group Stealth Checks in Critical Role - Vox Machina edition!

Hello and welcome to the first of a four part series looking at group stealth checks in all three campaigns of Critical Role! This first post is looking at Vox Machina, the second will be the Mighty Nein, the third Bells Hells and the fourth will be a comparison between the three. I've split it in this fashion for easier consumption because there's a LOT of data here. All of them will be tagged under both #cr-stats and #don't-be-suspicious for your perusal.

Disclaimers first!

Most of the data on this post was compiled by @critrolestats, who I'm eternally grateful for, but some of it was done by myself, and all charts and graphs were made by myself. As such, everything is subject to human error.

Now, what is a group stealth check, and why am I looking at them specifically?

A group stealth check, for sake of this project, is any time 4 or more members of an adventuring party roll a stealth check at the same time. I chose 4 as the start point fairly arbitrarily, mainly to limit my data set. As for why I'm looking at it, I just think it'd be fun to see which party is statistically the sneakiest.

Let's begin under the cut!

Vox Machina made 88 group stealth checks over the main campaign and all of their specials. Their overall average is 24.48014

But before we get deeper into the nitty gritty, I first must acknowledge a certain spell that wildly skews averages. Pass Without Trace is a wonderful spell that adds a +10 to everyone's rolls, and so because it is so powerful, I'd charted every time the used it, and take it into consideration in each table.

So, first of all, let's look at each individual member of Vox Machina's averages.

Unsurprisingly, Vax is head and shoulders above everyone else, and Pike is dead last. A quick reminder that this is not their total for all stealth checks ever, but for every time they participated in a group stealth check.

As I mentioned Pass Without Trace, let's look at it specifically.

So, as we can see here, Vox Machina cast Pass Without Trace for well over half of their group stealth checks. About 64.77% in fact. In which case, why don't we compare how well they do with the spell up versus without.

Almost exactly 10 points better, nice!

Now, I mentioned that these checks start at 4 participants and go up, but how many people exactly are in these checks? How often is it just four people? I'm so glad you asked, have another chart!

Interestingly, despite being a group of 7, the highest frequency is groups of 6! This could be due to a combination of Vax scouting ahead instead of participating, and Pike's frequent absences.

If you're looking at this and wondering "how the fuck did they have 9 participants in some of these checks?" then this is the part where I inform you that they had guests partake in these checks!

Vox Machina had a total of 23 group stealth checks performed with at least one guest present, and 12 with 2 guests at once. Which guests? Let's see!

15 separate guests! Yes, we are including Scanlan 2 as a guest and not lumping him under Scanlan, simply for weird technical reasons. I am not going to do that math, but if you want to you can take Scanlan's average from above, and Scanlan 2's average from below and work it out from there.

Speaking of guest's averages!

Our sneakiest guest is Kerrek, with 26.5, and our least sneaky is Lyra with 11. But wait, this doesn't factor in Pass Without Trace! Lyra didn't have Pass Without Trace for her single check, and Kerrek did for both! Hell, Tova had it for both of hers, which means her ACTUAL average is 5. That'd be due to the disadvantage caused by her armour. As you can see, there are a lot of contributing factors here that I can't possibly account for, so this is what we've got.

One quick note to end on is that most of these numbers are rounded to two decimal places, simply because the full numbers looked really messy.

These stats are pretty interesting, but they don't really say a lot on their own, there's no point of comparison here for the other groups! Well, in that case please stay tuned for the next three posts in the series, where I'll be looking at everyone else. Once again, you can check those posts out under the #don't-be-suspicious tag on my blog.

#don't be suspicious #critical role #cr stats #critical role stats #vox machina #if theres nothing else under the tag when you look thats simply bc i havent posted the others yet #they will be there #also i put way too much work into making these pretty colours

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keyleth-clay · 2 years

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I was planning on doing this on this coming Saturday, but then I realized that there’s a non-zero chance of getting at least one of these this week, so I figured I’d better do it sooner rather than later.

Also, in case it isn’t clear by now, I’m doing these 30% because it’s fun and I want to, and 70% because if/when they do happen, I can have this in writing and therefore have bragging rights.

KC’s Top 5 CR Player Character Classes Wishlist

(Note that this says “classes” and not “subclasses”. The options on the list should make it clear why, but also I Don’t Actually Know DnD That Well, and don’t have particularly strong opinions re: subclasses.)

Number 1. Literally Any Artificer. There’s been exactly 1 player character artificer in all of Critical Role, and that was Taryon way back in campaign 1. We only got him for 15 episodes, he rarely actually gets included as a member of Vox Machina (even though he absolutely is, dammit), and back then artificers were still Unearthed Arcana. I was SO sure that we’d be getting one in EXU: Calamity, but things didn’t work out that way. Also I just think they’re cool.

Number 2. Literally Any Ranger. Fun Fact: There have only been two player character rangers in all of Critical Role. Vex’ahlia in campaign 1, and Sam Riegel in Liam’s Quest parts 1 & 2. I know Rangers in 5e are Not Great, but there’s some really cool stuff depending on subclass choice. Swarmkeeper, Horizon Walker, Fey Wanderer – there’s so many really cool & creative options. It mostly just boggles my mind that there have been so few of them, across main campaigns and mini-series and one-shots, despite being a core 5e class.

Number 3. Monk (but not Way of the Four Elements). In a very similar vein, there have only been a handful of player character monks. Beau, Farriwen, and Fy’ra Rai are the only monk PCs in Exandria canon, two of which are genasi Way of the Four Elements monks and the other of whom is a homebrew subclass. The only others are Marisha in Liam’s Quest (no subclass given), The Headmistress in CelebriD&D and D&Deisel (no subclass given), and Mezzek in the goblins Pathfinder one-shot from way back when.

There are so many other cool monk subclasses to explore, and while I know that we just had a monk as a main campaign character, that hasn’t stopped them from having a barbarian and a rogue and at least one cleric in every main campaign party. Also Liam would rock Way of the Long Death or Way of Mercy, and you know it.

Number 4. Any Blood Hunter that isn’t Order of the Lycan. Have you figured out the theme of this top 5 yet? :p

But seriously. There have been six player character blood hunters so far, and five of them have been Order of the Lycan (Tova, Chetney, Portia, Benicio, Lawrence). Thank all the gods for Mollymauk Tealeaf for at least attempting to be an Order of the Ghostslayer. I certainly don’t begrudge Travis his manic pixie werewolf dreams, but some variety would be nice, y’know? I’d particularly like to see somebody play an Order of the Mutant, but I’d be fine with any of the other three subclasses.

Number 5. Lingering Soul. Very shortly after I started watching Critical Role, I found out about the plethora of homebrew stuff that Matt has up on DMs Guild. Of course, I purchased and read through all of it, and of course I immediately loved the Lingering Soul class/post-death option that he created. I know it’s a really tricky thing to try to work into a campaign, and it’s something that he’s barely talked about (pretty much everything else of his on DMG has been used by either a player character or an NPC). Right after Molly died in C2, Taliesin was asked on Talks Machina if he would bring him back as a Lingering Soul, but he chose not to. I just… really fucking wanna see someone play this it’s so fucking cool.

DIShonourable mention goes to yet another fucking fighter or rogue. Across campaigns, mini-series, and one-shots, there have been 23 rogue player characters and 19 fighters. I have no problem with either of them, but holy shit pick something else.

#kc speaks #Critical Role #CR Cast #kc's top five

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mara-phelion · 2 years

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no because the guest battle royale felt so cozy to me

the way i saw myself in sam while he was dm-ing was crazy because there were so many specific moments that i have Definitely Done Before

not rolling stats for important npc's

making your players op and vaguely regretting it at some point

literally forgetting the different abilities and simple yet specific things your players can do

and also not taking the time to look them up

being very physically and verbally vocal about What The Genuine Shit Did My Players Do

most rules lawyers would be shaking in their boots but seeing all that go down made me feel genuinely validated about my dm experience

was such a fun oneshot and the vibe felt like a very nice and comfy sweater :D

#critical role #critical role spoilers #guest battle royale #the plunder games #sam riegel #gary garrington #kashaw vesh #cr sprigg #cr nila #fy'ra rai #cr tova #loved this and honestly might replace the darrington brigade as my favorite cr oneshot #the blunder games #mara phelion: some thoughts head not that empty

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incandescent-liveblogs · 2 years

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🥺Oh🥺no🥺my🥺eyebrows!🥺

#critical role #the blunder games #cr tova

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swordshapedleaves · 2 years

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Tova's official art from campaign one:

Tova's official art for the new one shot:

Transmasc werebear? Older trans rep? ND Stevenson living their truth on stream while wreaking havoc as a friggin WEREBEAR and I get to watch??!? I'm so hyped for Thursday!

#transmasc werebear!#critical role #cr spoilers #tova the werebear #trans stuff

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sparring-spirals · 2 years

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Love Tova going "I love your style, won't attack you if you don't attack me." *immediately smacks Sprigg with a battleaxe instead* *everyone immediately goes "noooooo!!!!!!!"*

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr guest battle royale #cr liveblogging #spar speaks #tova #truly the least bloodthirsty battle royale we've seen #sprigg

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oryms-braincell · 2 years

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Sprigg: *starts singing improv*

Fy'ra: ... I'm reconsidering my decision.

Tova: Now you know why I went for him first.

#critical role #cr spoilers #tova #fy'ra rai #sprigg

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setsailforthestars · 2 years

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Tova being both scared and horny for Fy’ra Rai is so relatable

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr liveblog #tova #fy’ra rai #cr battle royale

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lumuraa · 2 years

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Who needs rules when you are actively fighting against capitalism.

#amazing that tova *just* beat the dc #suck it capitalism #critical role #cr spoilers #tova #but honestly they're having fun so rules schmules

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pocketgalaxies · 1 year

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tova: these are needy people, and the high bear nation takes care of all of us, alright? i will get plenty of honey out of this

trinket: alright, beary sanders.

marisha: *breaks*

#2h54m OSx18 #text #critical role #cr extras #honey heist #cr lb #tova cr #trinket cr #marisha ray

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ecoamerica · 15 days

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