I did literally the exact same thing and I did really love not having to decide on a podcast for so long. I tapped out of campaign 2 after like 30 episodes, and I tried campaign 3 for a bit but it was legit awful I thought. Unfortunately it’s another example of a thing that got so big that it lost what made it work to begin with
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I dodged getting into Critical Role by getting into Friends at The Table instead. Counter/weight was a hell of a time.
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That’s actually kind of funny that you both stopped around then. ~30 is when each of the 3 campaigns really pick up. It’s easy to get there with the first one you watch because it’s still novel. I started and finished campaign 2, then dropped C1 around the Brairwood stuff because C3 started, which I dropped around episode 60 when it wasn’t quite clicking. For most people, the first campaign they watched is their favourite. Same rules as Final Fantasy!
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For me, one of the main hurdles for getting into another of these long campaigns after having finished one already, is that you don’t have all the emotional attachment to the new characters. The players need to acquaint themselves with their new roles as well, which leads to an initially much shallower feeling experience that has quite the on ramp to get to a comparable level of what the previous thing was.
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Friends at the Table is all the actual play podcast I could ever want
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Agreed, it’s why it takes a solid 30 episodes each time. By then, they’ve figure out their characters and a plot has formed. 30ish was the Briarwood arc in C1 and in C2 it was a major moment that I can’t talk about without spoiling.
Dimension 20 is a good one for shorter campaigns but I prefer the history built over something longer. It’s a very singular kind of storytelling you can’t get elsewhere, but geeze, 4+ hours a week is a lot and I dont have room for more than one podcast at a time.
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I saw this and thought of @treefroggy
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This is what I revert to when my partner is out of town visiting family
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Thanks yeah that’s me
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blue prince looks pretty cool
edit: finished the trailer and it just isn’t hitting ;)
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Marc Ecko’s Getting Up rules.
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