State of the Role: Campaign 3 Announcement | Fall 2021
Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willigham are back with our Fall 2021 State of the Role, featuring our Campaign 3 announcement!
Critical Role Campaign 3 airs on Thursdays at 7pm Pacific beginning October 21st at twitch.tv/criticalrole and youtube.com/criticalrole, with rebroadcasts at 12am Pacific and 9am Pacific on Twitch. VOD is available immediately for Twitch channel subscribers and will be available at youtube.com/criticalrole at 12pm Pacific the following Monday. Audio from Critical Role will be available the following Thursday on the Critical Role podcast network (Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more).
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I can’t wait to see how Taliesin’s new character breaks the game
@Ayselx Yeah, that’s true. Not sure how to play that lol, a Warlock who’s patron is…. Their own self?
I can’t wait to see how the game breaks Taliesin’s new character.
Or becomes the game
@Zcience Right before tearing them out and stomping all over them. ;D
Who wants to start a book on how long it’ll take to get Matt’s first WTF Taliesin?? look?
I give it, a generous… show 8.
This is just a theory BUT: History has shown us that Taliesin is Matt’s guinea pig for testing new homebrew classes, so it’s perfectly natural for him to “have questions”. 😉
YOOOO dope.
That’s funny. It’s only logical to use your most experienced player for testing. You’re not gonna use the guy who plays a Rogue for 150 episodes and still ask :”Is it a Sneak attack?” 🤣 Love you Sam!
@Sea Bass in sam’s defense the conditions for sneak attack are nebulous and he’s a spellboi
I believe Taliesin said somewhere that he played a lot of classes so he wanted something new. I guess he played a lot of ttrpg before.
I’m honestly amazed Liam isn’t the guinea pig for new stuff, given that he’s got the most TTRPG experience!
The potential “new storytellers” probably just refers to more one shots and stuff like EXU but I definitely imagined our new adventurers doing plane-shifting shenanigans and each otherworldly plane having a different DM to reflect the madness of that dimension.
God I hope this isn’t a planeswalking campaign… ive been writing one of my own for *years* and it’s almost done and I swear to God if critical role makes one and then everyone I show this to is just like “oh you’re ripping off critrole” im gonna implode.
Guest stars would be interesting, and were a staple of the other two campaigns. Still, I hope most of the episodes are just the 7 players we love plus Matt; guests are great spices but they aren’t the dish we come to see.
EXU was a good example of when too much changes; the fandom (myself included) dropped off despite both existing players we loved, a solid DM with a different style, a couple of good additions, and… Opal’s player who I think is nice in real life and tried REALLY hard but seemed a bit too new to role-playing to synch up with the group. Apparently Opal had a good arc but the character was too annoying for me to get behind and I just stopped watching, as did many.
Experimentation is good and I look forward to what Matt, the regular crew and some very special guest stars bring to the world; it will be AMAZING.
@Dakota Anderson Honestly, that would be interesting to see Liam run an entire campaign BUT Critical Role with Matt Mercer was DM is just too big of a brand for that. Who knows, maybe if this continues for many years to come, Liam will DM in that manner to shake things up.
Well I watched EXU and Aabria was an amazing Dm in her own right!! So I say bring them all on its gonna make this even more interesting and FUN!!
Yeah or épisodes including group crossovers!
I understand why, but the pre and mid-show art reels were some of my favorite parts. Sad to see them go.
@Mr Philosophical Aren’t most of the drawings usually featuring previous events in the campaign? So they shouldn’t have spoilers for the current episode they’re airing on.
@animesoul167 Yes, that’s another good point. It may have been poor writing on my part, but my comment was for the most part sarcastic (i.e. there is no actual reason not to have the fan reel as they have done previously)
Besides the ads!
@Darth Axolotl Yes, they could do, and here’s hoping. If I had to make a bet though, my money would be on ads. I’ve been wrong plenty of times about plenty of things though, so we’ll wait and see
@animesoul167 The only thing I can think people mean, is art from either of the previous campaigns. If someone started on C3 or even C2 and saw some spoiler art from C1, or C2. Since some people may be watching without finishing them yet. I know a lot of people watching C2 hadn’t seen C1 or hadn’t finished watching it all.
“Taliesin has a lot of questions”
It’s time to complete the Mercer Class trifecta: Gunslinger, Blood Hunter, Lingering Soul
Nah taliesen just starts off the campaign by dying in the intro, and has to play the rest of the campaign as a ghost.
Please tell me Taliesin has planned to purposely die after like an episode in and then come back as a ghost. That would be hilarious
It will be beautiful !
Lol Matt has so many more sub/classes than 3
@Leeroy Jenkins I mean his character is dead then, like he can have an off screen death before the campaign but the character is still dead
“Collective asses?” Is that a new monster Matts going to introduce?
Somnasses
@ScarField I wouldn’t know about an angry mom, maybe an ex lol
Sounds like something out of a Cronenberg movie. I love it!
at least its not Chiselnips!!! lol!!
Brings new meaning to “gaping maw”. Lets just hope that isnt a “toothy maw” as well.
“Matt can have more prep time at the end of each month”
Yeah no as a DM I *felt* that
@v H Wow. I love that mindset. First of all, who gives a fuck? If all he’s doing is 9 hours a week and then a 3 hour game and he’s made something this successful, who gives a fuck if he takes a break? And even if it turned out like shit, who gives a fuck? He doesn’t OWE people more content just because he has a moment to breathe. I am so sick of that mindset from some fans, that the creators now OWE them because they’ve emotionally invested in something.
For real though. Taking out one session every month makes such a difference. It’s like a little gasp of air between drowning in missing connective tissue and lore holes haha
@Hexen Wulf its honestly disgusting how entitled a lot of these people are. They’re going to be the reason CR quits, and rightfully so.
@Hexen Wulf I can’t do a weekly game my games are nowhere near as detailed as Matt’s…
@v H Thank you for so succinctly describing why Critters are to tabletop roleplaying what Twilight fans are to Urban Fantasy.
I can’t believe i’ll get to watch a campaign from the beginning in real time after two years of catching up
SAME
Same!!
It’s amazing dude! I played catch up during campaign 1 and started on 2. It’s a wild ride, excited for you!!
As someone who caught up mid-season 2, heed my words….you won’t like it. Having to wait really sucks. And digging into community theorycrafting kind of takes some fun out of the future episodes.
the second campaign was lackluster for me. the first one was so fleshed out and felt real.
I feel like it’s inevitable that at some point Travis is going to play a dragonborn.
Probably after Fizban’s updates. I’m sure when that comes out Matt will have to adjust his versions.
Beware beware the deagonborn comes
Nah… three kobolds in a trenchcoat. With the ‘head’ kobold being a wizard.
Is there a class in that? One kobold on its own is as good as a piece of luggage.. but a mutli-character?
Honestly, the BEST thing about that is that they are all sitting together.
I was thinking the same thing😩
True that!
@FoulestGlint19
Who? Conveniently don’t remember that. Sounds like a dick, though.
@FoulestGlint19 we don’t talk about them
@FoulestGlint19 i don’t miss him he was too much. A powergamer.