Every Way Critical Role Made Me Better At Baldur’s Gate 3

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I got significantly better because of, despite knowing how to play the game since launch. The award-winning turn-based RPG by Larian Studios uses the rules of ’ fifth edition (popularly referred to as 5e) and so do most of the campaigns on the tabletop roleplaying show – the group has been moving away from 5e, as demonstrated by the creation of the and TTRPG systems for . I knew of and even had a chance to interview them before the release of.

However, I was not involved in their campaigns and was not a critter (the term is used to describe fans of ). However, playing through at launch left me wanting to roll dice night and day. Most of the game’s systems are determined by dice rolls, even if not actively. Some of the major outcomes in the story are decided by the player’s active roll and that feeling of landing a successful natural 20 or a world-ending nat 1 always left me wanting more. That’s when I decided to visit my interviewees’ popular TTRPG channel.

Brennan Lee Mulligan talks inspirations for Critical Role: Downfall, how its story is the antithesis to Calamity, and his dream final Calamity arc.

Feeling the urge to continue witnessing great stories unfold, determined by the randomness of dice like in, I jumped into ’s channel on YouTube and started campaign 3, Bells Hells. The story was well underway and I had dozens of four-hour episodes to catch up with, but I was immediately grasped by their storytelling abilities – and further immersed by the actor-players’ talents to play their roles. It was a matter of a single Bells Hells episode to get me enthralled and consider myself a critter. When not working and playing, I’d just watch.

It did not take me long to catch up with the story of Bells Hells and then start watching them weekly. Not satisfied with having to wait, I retroactively started the second campaign, The Mighty Nein, and several other spin-offs, like Candela Obscura and the most recent Menagerie stories. While becoming a critter is a topic of