I Can't Stop Thinking About The Ravening War (SPOILERS) 

He must’ve remembered that joke about Gilear

He sounded legit furious

Literally it's "A gingerbread man sits inside of a gingerbread house. Is the house made of flesh, or it the man made of house? He screams for he does not know." but they DON'T know until they encounter the DPZ, they haven't even concieved of it.

right! the eldritch horrorterrors running reality probably think its so weird that we're made of carbon and so is all our stuff

YEAH like when he was flirting with het I was like. Isn't she his aunt???? And NOBODY addressed it

@@AshAtropos It was even the thing he was being blackmailed with, the fact that he was in this relationship, that if anyone found out he would be condemed by everyone. But it did weirdly seem to fall in the background a little.

And Karna died a virgin because Deli friendzoned her because of her.

Absolutely! Never thought if it this way but that makes complete sense

When doing a prequel in a medium literally left to the dice, you really can't have the important characters hang around too long. It's like how in Calamity, Brennan tried to get Purvan away from the cast as fast as possible

@@Sootielove tbh the person who made that comment was incredibly anti matt, to the point where d20 changing their profile picture to brennan in drag got a "the evil has been defeated" comment lol

​@siobhannicolson5566 That's such a weird thing to be. Brennan and Matt are friends and aren't in competition with each other.

it's okay, it took me as much time as brennan did to get the disposal joke

God damnit I just got it too

As a D20 fan , yes , Rw may be a prequel for all intents and purposes, but it lacks context without CoC first as it's a love letter to CoC first and Prequel second.

What's acofc?

@@TheDanishGuyReviews it stands for A Crown of Candy

@@herebyaccident5174 Oh, you included the F in Of? Okay, I've never seen it like that before.

@@TheDanishGuyReviews lol yeah my dyslexic ass thought that looked right. Lol

Matt was like, “There can only be one!”

Thanks! I had a section where I talked about each of them when i was first writing this video, but it was already way longer than i wanted haha

@@castlecaster i just enjoy seeing people discuss my fav actual play shows, it’s rare to get this level of in-depth conversation about them

Also I think he only became King Amethar when he was Lou, its like in a show where a flashback depicts a known character but younger so they are played by someone else

It's true that Matt is at his best in giant epics. But it's funny, because I came away with the opposite opinion. I felt that it was slow at first, and the time jumps a bit disjointed, but the last three episodes really made for a cohesive adventure which justified the conclusion.

​@jamespryor5967 is it weird that I think both of you are right at the same time?

@@Call-Me-I it's because so many people's exposure to this is only Critical Role and so they think that's as best as it can be, when in my opinion is rather mediocre. Nearly everything CR has done, someone else can do as good or better, but people have put that crew up on a pedestal and have a hard time realising they're really not all they cracked up to be.

Matt is a great dm, but it doesn't surprise me that he struggled at ton with pacing and keeping plot threads in the air. bringing colin's dad back as secretly alive felt particularly out of left field, as opposed to interacting with the cheddars. karna and raphaniel's backstory were revealed in death because they were never got to in the campaign, and deli and amangeaux's relationships to npcs (including her child!!) never felt meaningfully real in the world. There was just already a lot floating around in terms of plot _before_ the mushroom kingdom plot, which felt out of place in the low-magic Calorum setting and completely took over the last half of the campaign. the time jumps were conceptually cool but rushed the players, like you said. There were just a lot of things that made me feel that Calorum was not the right setting for this collab. ACOC worked so wonderfully because Brennan works incredibly meticulously and at a breakneck pace, and the highly political setting is something I've only seen him manage that well. Matt is suited to epic fantasies that have a lot of course correction time, while Brennan's improv training allowed him to perfect efficient and precise campaigns. Mini campaigns are not Matt's wheelhouse in the slightest, and to then set him up against two of Brennan's sharpest and most complex campaigns (EXU:C and ACOC) just felt a bit out of place. It felt like the idea was that because Matt was the "serious" dm of the two he should do a Calorum setting, but he probably would have had a better time doing an LA version of the Unsleeping City, hanging out in Spyre, etc. Overall, there was a sense of rushing and incompleteness all over the place that makes me wonder what the bts looked like. small stuff like messing up Citrina's accent all the way up to the weird hard left into mushroom-land made this campaign feel like a shadow of what it could have been. Because Matt is talented! And the PCs this campaign were some of my favorites in a while! It just needed a tighter grip and a smaller story from the start.

@@Call-Me-I this is an excellent way of articulating it! I don't doubt the cr cast has a ton of fun playing, but a lot of people have fun watching through a parasocial level of watching them have fun playing, rather than the story itself. d20's constantly shifting side cast proves in itself that it relies a good deal less on that