I Ranked Every Critical Role Player Character 

After Marisha put up with so much undeserved shit for Keyleth during campaign 1, and absolutely knocking it out of the park with Beau in campaign 2, I’m SO HAPPY that Marisha gets to play a character that both she and the audience love and can have fun with in Laudna

Personally, I would have put Fjord higher. I think Fjord becomes such a key supporting character throughout Campaign 2, supporting Beau as a friend, being mentored and eventually growing into his own path under Caduceus, and ultimately being the most dependable one in the group. He became the person who would never back down and support his friends no matter what, and I just found him so charismatic and endearing

I would absolutely put Scanlan in S Tier. No one, and I mean NO ONE, going into this campaign could have predicted the Bard being the most hilarious, interesting, complex, and simultaneously badass character out of all of them. Out of all the characters in all the campaigns, no one has even come close to leaving more of a mark on the players and the audience than Scanlan Shorthalt has. This may be an exaggeration, but I think Sam created one of the greatest characters in all of fiction with Scanlan.

Orim is meant to be a background character. Liam has said he feels like he had enough spotlight in season 1 and 2.

Ashton is what you get when you attempt to persevere and force your way through life while in constant pain. If you have never been a sufferer of chronic, debilitating pain, it is absolutely soul-draining. It can be hard to even hold on to the core of yourself at times. Taliesin's role-playing makes for a revelatory experience when you finally understand how much pain Ashton is in, all the time. Given that reveal, kind of interested to see if that would change your tier choice in any way for them.

Gotta do this with Dimension 20 now

Really interesting how Ashton and Beau ended up on such opposite sides of the list! To me they felt really similar in terms of both initially coming off as abrasive and aggressive then becoming more endearing through their loyalty to protect their friends and revelations of their complexity

I would say Caleb is my overall favorite character from Critical Role. His character growth throughout the campaign is insane imo.

All of Taliesin's characters are atleast A Tier for me, but I guess it's because I grew up with Ashton's and Molly's. And Caleb Widowgast is easily my top S Tier of them all.

To me, if there could only be one "S" tier it would have to be Jester. Her consistency with her theme overall was amazing and she made watching the show a joy. You talk about Caduceus being the heart, but to me it was Jester. I'm a huge Ashley fan so all of hers have a special place in my heart, but Pike's and Yasha's limited screen time reduced their affect on the game. My favorite moment, that thing that made me ball out crying was when Pike in the bar after Grog passed out and she revealed that she still keeps calling out to Scanlan. I'm not a fan of Liam's characters although he portrays them well, and I learned to love what a wizard character can add with some extra RP when spellcasting, they all seem to have a chip on their shoulder, and I find more love for Tiberius then I do for Orym. Despite his personal flaws I saw more potential in that character. Love Talisan, his vibe, but he doesn't step up enough outside his Percy arc which was "A" tier all the way. Sam has been consistent and unique, love him and Travis. You may not love Chetney, but I do :) That being said, Marisha was not my favorite. I know she was playing Naive and she was experienced for Keyleth, but it seemed to me more like she was going thru the motions while trying to learn the game. You love Beau, I love the relationship arc, but I didn't find her as appealing overall. Now, Laudna! That is one of the most creative things I've ever seen. I LOVE Laudna! Talk about a personality, I could imagine the scene from Alita where she would be willing to literally give someone her heart being a reality in this season. I think that's where we differ, you put more stock in a solid backstory and plotline where I want to be entertained. For my rankings I'm doing something a little different. I'm basically doing this as a way to denote my rankings by my favorite and least favorite of that season. I put one "S" tier and "D" tier for each Season I put two "A" tier and "C" tier for each Season This has worked remarkably well to explain my moves. S - Jester Lavoure, Laudna, Scanlan Shorthalt A - Percival de Rolo, Fearne Calloway, Imogen Temult, Caduceus Clay, Vax'ildan, Caleb Widogast B - Knot / Veth Brenatto, Vex'ahlia, Dorian Storm, Grog Strongjaw, Beauregard Lionett, Chetney Pock O'Pea, Keyleth, Fresh Cut Grass, C - Pike Trickfoot, Ashton Greymoore, Fjord, Taryon Darrington, Kingsley Tealeaf, Orym D - Mollynauk Tealeaf, Tiberius Stormwind, Bertrand Bell

I'd probably switch your places for Beau/Laudna and Caleb/Vax, but overall this is a really solid list. I really appreciate the Caduceus love, my favorite as well

There's really someone for everyone with these characters. Couple that with the fact that the players are literally trained actors who can fully commit to their roles, it makes sense that everyone's tier list will look wildly different. Thanks for sharing yours! :D I'm not gonna leave my own controversial hot takes here, because honestly, who cares.

I personally think Fearne and Chetney are actually the most representative characters of their actors 😂

Another Caduceus truther! I knew this channel was a good subscription.

If I had to chose, Nott is my favourite out of all of them! Shes just great, and her story was really well done! I love Nott the brave :))❤

I really agree with the Molly sentiment. I think essentially these characters with amazing stories dedicating so much of their time and energy to someone they knew for a few weeks. Enough to get tattoos of him or at least the eyes.

I have to say, maybe it’s because I haven’t watched enough of campaign 2, so I’m not as connected to Beau, but Laudna is my favourite Marisha character. I love Beau and Kiki, and I think all of Marisha’s characters are great and interesting.. but there’s something special about Laudna. Maybe it’s the “side character” feeling you described. She feels less involved which oddly makes her feel more involved (I don’t know if that makes sense) Also, I’m still waiting for the other FCG shoe to drop, but I definitely agree in the meanwhile about them.

In my opinion Caleb is the best character in Critical Role history for sure.

I wasn't expecting the "🎶Making their way🎶". You cracked me up with that 😂

"i love marisha characters" TASTE!

I think you are looking for characters to "make things happen," and I'm more interested in how who they are affects their relationships. Orym has his fair share of personal tragedy, but where he really does his work is in how his combat/emotional support shines a spotlight on the other characters. And I am in love with that.

Ooh, you should do a tier list of Lili Furfaro's character songs! They're all amazing.

“I don’t really like edgy sad boy’s” Looks at 2 out of his top 5 are edgy sad boys.

This is actually pretty close to my list. Great takes and you did a good job explaining your reasoning

Part of my love for Ashton is that he has chronic pain. Often times people with chronic illnesses are portrayed in media as inspirational and that's not always helpful. It's nice to see the struggle portrayed. And I love your comment about traumatic backstories being part and parcel for D&D. 😂 It seems like people become adventurers rather than go to therapy.

I think the reason orym seems like a better "every man" character than imogen is because orym's reason for going on the adventure is somewhat revenge coated which makes him seem more proactive in choosing this adventure, wheras imogen was literally born into being almost the main character in most of campgain 3 so far. Plus, to me it feels like her character has to be mostly plot driven with her core character taking a sidebar, the part i enjoyed the most about her character being her personal struggles constantly being bombarded by other peoples thoughts crippling her kind of got waved away as stakes got higher. Orym still manages to not feel like a narrative tool, or be out of place like the others because he already had stakes in the story, and was kind of the only character (lorewise) somewhat prepared for just how serious the plot would get. My personal favorate character of campaign 3 though is Ashton because of the realistic portrayal of chronic pain and their connections and mysteries tied to the world. In a less straight forward plot focused campaign I can see the various bells hells being perceived alot better if they only had the chance to let their character strengths shine.

Im so glad your brought up SGM his videos are amazing

Based Caduceus choice

Caduceus around the M9: Lawful Neutral. Caduceus around his siblings: Chaotic Evil.

its so interesting to me why people love the characters they do, like looking at how they service the plot or story rather then how you relate to them, how they make you feel, how strong their personal archs are if they make you laugh. I feel as though characters falling into the background is maybe a genre limitation of ttrpg liveplay. You want to give each character, player and their story time to shine and that means players need to take a backseat and support their friends story rather than stealing the spotlight. Thats why i love Caduecus even as a supporting character he still shines so well. I am also glad Molly died cause Dueces is my all time fav but I was heartbroken at the time cause I loved Molly too, a grating flamboyant queer moral asshole. how i see myself. and the fact he dies and still propels the other characters stories and the rest of the campaign is in my eyes BECAUSE of how good a character Molly was. Not just a lucky development from it.

Something I love about the Critter community is how varied opinions and love of characters can be. I don't think I agreed on a single tier other than the 2 D tier choices. But I love how much thought was put into this and all the little in jokes throughout the video. I love content like this :-)

I still think it’s hilarious when ferne tried to steal pike’s holy symbol.

I think Percy might be why I’m so hard on most characters when they become the focus of an arc… because I enjoyed Percy and the first major Whitestone arc so well that it’s hard to measure up to that. It also doesn’t help that The Briarwood’s arc is when I first started watching the show.

This is my list, I'm around 10 eps away from finishing campaign 1, 10 eps into campaign 2 and caught up in campaign 3... (I know I'm watching it in a weird order) S- Grog, Chetney, Fearne, Laudna, Scanlan, Jester, Cad, A- FCG, Nott, Percy, Vax, Pike, Fjord, B- Ashton, Imogen, Keyleth, Beau, Taryon, Caleb, Orym, Vex, Yasha, Molly, C- Dorian, Bertrand, D- Tib I've seen a lot of clips from campaign 2, so I think Fjord, Caleb, Nott, Beau and Yasha will go up but idk (Cad hasn't been introduced yet where I'm at but from the clips I've seen, he deserves to be up there)

I would love to see this idea done with dimension 20!

I love this video and I love your opinions, though I feel some of your opinions on the Campaign 3 characters feels as if not enough info was known before placing them. Just my opinion though. Love this video though!

I appreciate the extra context you're giving and how much thought you put into these. It's cool to see other people's opinions of the characters. I'd like to mention, and only because I'm not seeing it elsewhere, but I don't think your info about Marisha when talking about Keyleth was correct. Yes she is the youngest at the table, but Marisha did have a fair amount more roleplaying experience than the other players (excluding Taliesin). She was brought in to the first home game as an assistant to Matt to help the others learn how to play. A lot of people mistake Keyleth's wide-eyed naivete for what Marisha was thinking/feeling, but it really wasn't that way. If anything, I think Marisha may have struggled with the sheer volume of Druid spells, but as someone who's 4th major campaign character is a druid, I can vouch that it would throw a wrench into any player's roleplay.

Yep. The Clerics of C2 were the "glue"

What are your thoughts on Chetney and FCG after meeting Dianna and Frida? Cad was one of my favorites as one of the ensemble characters, how he was played, how he acted, how his class worked, What about guest characters through the campaigns! It just occurred to me that Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia if they portaled into our world would just be Dan and Lia

Jester not beign S tier is blasphemy for sure, specially since Beau is.

Percy is just posh gun guy, as Luboffin’s husband said in LoVM reaction 😂

How fun! Hells yes! 😆🙏

Youuu.... little shit waving around my babies from S to D giving me heart palpitations! Great video as always!

1. Scanlan (the reason my first ever 5e PC was a Lorebard) 2. Grog ( A deep character in simplicity) 3. Jester ( Brought that trickery). I prefer those Characters that make me Laugh with Less "I have to prove myself trope." Liam is the Best at Drama and those heart string pulls and Caleb was epic, but I sank hours into C1 and C2 due to the fun and mystery of those characters. Also no mention of Darrington Brigade one shot? that was the Campaign 3 I wanted!! again fun characters.

personally i think Molly suffers from the death even more. It would have been fun to see what would have happened if Molly was around the whole time, an Lucian not being able to get his body back. And then that pushing Cad possibly into C3

For me the S Characters would be Jester, Scanlan, Fearne and Laudna. Fjord would be close on top of A

Ashton was fun for me because initially I really liked him, but we haven't really gotten into the bone of Ashton yet and Chetney took my number one spot for the Bells Hells for sure. Fearne is a strong contender, for some reason the more chaotic the character the more fun they are to watch. Also Ashley is playing Fearne as if she was an old school Kender Oh you placed Nott and Veth the same I guess. I liked Nott way more than Veth.

Who wrote the chapters on this video? They got half or more of the spellings wrong? And flattout just called FCG: Warforged

I agree with most of this. And it does goes to show, with reflection, Second Campaign just overall has the best characters, although the pacing of the first campaign was best. For me what is interesting is that I would have Caleb and Jester as my top 2, then Cad and Beau. But Fjord is high up there for me too even after the arc. I agree about molly I never really got into them either. Yasha was a product of unfortunately Ashley being out most of the campaign and Veth/Nott I really like a lot, I definitely preferred Nott over Veth... but I agree that they kinda of go dull after their arc. I guess for me characters mean everything and I have to say I would stick with Campaign 2 forever. I was so... sad? when it ended.

Critter since the beginning here, Dungeon Master since the 90s. Fantastic storytelling, wonderful amazing arcs throughout.. if we're talking about power tiers I see them in 4 varying groups. Which characters can affect the following with their abilities, character progression, obtained gear and class. Tavern tier, Kingdom, World, and God tiers respectfully Top 5 most powerful S Tier Characters in Critical Role 5. The Champion of the Raven Queen: Vax 4. Voice of the Tempest: Lady Keyleth 3. Professor Caleb "Mud Wizard" Widogast 2. soon to be the High Sorceress of Red (future prediction, Laura's going full throttle Elphaba from Wicked) Imogen Temult and the most powerful of them all.. 1. Doors

Definitely ALOT different than my list for sure. I only have one character in A tier and 4 in S and then alot of C tier and then 4 in D tier. My D tier being Keyleth, Orym, Mollymauk and Travis's Gnome dude who I can't even remember the name of. S's being Vex, Scanlan, Grog and Jester.

Cad is also my fav character

Where would you rank arkhan?

Do any of you know if bards in D&D 5e are stronger than bards in PF 1e?

Thank god someone mentions Ashton

I would have put Scanlan in S tier. He is my absolute favorite. Sam and Scanlan made C1 so much fun to watch. Hands down (besides Grog) was the most hilarious. I could go on all day. Just my opinion.

I feel like Ashton should've been a little higher on the list, I understand not connecting with his punk esthetic but to me, Ashton is one of those guys that will tell you what you need to hear, they might not be nice about it, but they say it bluntly and straightforward, add in the fact Ashton is in constant, chronic pain, and issues and mystery of his past (many of which are even mysterys to the Greymoore kid themself) and we have a character that alongside Orym the everyman and Laudna, someone who I feel could surpass Jester in character, and you have me waiting with baited breath for their return.

(spoilers for c2 just in case) for me, i put beau on the top of S tier. I really love how her arc goes over almost all of the campaign, as well as how detailed she feels. To me Beau is Such a good character to analyze because of her growth with being in the Cobalt Soul, as well as learning “people skills.” One thing in particular though, is during episodes 92 and 93. the way marisha acted her closing up while returning to kahmordah was beyond amazing. up until e92, she grew close to tm9 and became stronger within her fighting, as well as her interpersonal skills. But on the way to her hometown, she almost shuts down. she does that interact much in the party and starts to separate from them (physically and mentally). and i think one specific part that stuck out to me is when jester is talking about Babenon in e92 and you just see beau completely out of it, like shes drowning in her thoughts. and after she visited her father, she was ready to lose her family AGAIN so Nott’s curse could be broken. idk marisha did Such a good job giving beau character, and i really could go on but. that moment was one of my favorite character moments in all 3 campaigns (apologies if some of this doesn’t make sense, i have so many thoughts about beau and tried to summarize most of them-)

do exandria Unlimited Characters not count as critical roll Character

13:34 Percy is S tier even if it were only because his narrative called into existence Victor the ultimate vendor NPC

all of them are fucking awesome

Tarion honestly felt like an NPC oddly enough

Crazy, I hated Beau and Cad but I love Nott, Jester and Ford.

Travis isn't pretending on those rolls. I don't know what he has to roll to die in the night, but it's a real bit he's doing. Don't remember 9fbhe aaid it in game or 4 sided dive

Ashton is one of my favorite characters . But its cause i kinda get the schtick i suppose cuase i come from a metal and punk background and get the culture. And same with Molly my parents where carnies lol But Mollys Death was the Most nessecary story catalyst of all time.

wish you included calamity characters but I understand why you didnt.

I....**have** to agree to disagree with some of your takes. Not necessarily the ranking, but like- "Laura plays Imogen like the everyman" is ..I think that's just not true? I do have to say, respect for the Beau respect- I also like her more than Laudna even if Laudna is a really great character as well (just a testament to how good a rper Marisha is)

A couple caveats: The fact that Ashley didn't get to play often drops Pike and Yasha from where they would otherwise be. And Scanlan and Grog would be higher if this were the animated version. I've also included the ExU characters. D: Tiberius C: Scanlan, Molly B: Nott, Grog, Pike, Vax, Yasha, Terry, Fjord, Kingsley, Vex, Bertrand A: Percy, Keyleth, Beau, Orym, Opal Caduceus, Imogen, Dorian S: Laudna, Chetney, Fearne, Caleb, Jester, Ashton, FCG, Dariax Campaign 3 is my favorite, and a large part are the characters. I think Chetney and Laudna in particular are the best characters they've done.

Since I know you're all dying to know, mine would be: S: Jester, Grog A: Scanlan, Chetney, Keyleth, Fearne, Caleb, B: Laudna, Vex, Knott/Veth, Percy, Caduceus, Fjord, Vax, Imogen, FCG C: Orym, Pike, Ashton, Molly, Taryon, Bertran, Beau, D: Yasha

Mostly agree I'd probably slide chetny and fcg up... The big exception for me is beau she ends up hitting me in the same reason Ashton hits me wrong

IMO Imogen is for sure a C tier character. You can tell there is a lot of potential with the psionics and these anime city wide destruction fade to white moments. Which I think goes counter to being the "Everyday" character in the way that Aurum is, and your right it lands much differently for Aurum. Because Aurum is just a dude with a job and a blade, no crazy powers or world shattering traits. I think the main issue with Imogen is that she is following Vex > Jester who were such stand out spotlight characters, that now playing a more subdued character that plays off the cast more. Just makes her look like she has no real control of her situation and relies on the characters around her to give her character, rather than having character herself.

Doesn’t want to give any spoilers. Reveals Molly’s death without a second thought. 🤦‍♂️

Scanlan deserved S tier. You clearly overlooked combat contributions in your list, which in Critical Role are a major part of the story because the players tend to strategize in-character. This has led to a lot of dicey situations, but it's also led to moments like Scanlan taking a whole dungeon by himself and tricking the party AND DM into bamboozling the final boss of the campaign while he was ALREADY trying to conserve his 9th level slot to save Vax. His character gets questionable at times, but never in ways that aren't justified by how his party often treated him, and it never put him off his game in a fight.

Campaign 2 lost me over a few things and Mollymawk's random deification was one of them 😅

So… wait… you were ranking them off how good of player characters they were, which I would generally assume would be off of how well roleplayed they were… but even though you liked Keyleth even though she wasn’t roleplayed that well in the first campaign, but even though Ashton was intentionally made to be unlikeable, he ranks low because you don’t like him, but Keyleth ranks high?

So, I feel like this might be the video to get a through of my own views of some of these characters out, so I'm gonna. (Haven't watched the Vox Machina campaign, so no comment on those, as I don't really know anything about them to comment) Molly/Ashton: Honestly, I feel both of these characters suffer in quality if you watch both campaigns. Mainly because, they seem to be basically the same person, just with or without anger issues. Anger issues stemming from a good reason, I might add. But honestly, most of Ashton's actions and behaviour is what I would expect from Molly, if they'd had anger issues. And if Ashton is ever rid of the reason for his lack of anger management, I honestly suspect he is gonna turn out like Molly. Laudna and Imogen as characters also suffer due to similar reasons, although with a few differences as to why. Imogen: The way Matt sometimes include the story of the PC's in the story of the overall game is awesome. In this case, he has overdone it with Imogen and underdone it with everyone else. When it comes to how important Ruidus is to the story, and how tightly Imogen is tied to Ruidus, she has basically become the main character. To the point that Sam has actually made that joke on camera! It also seems that Matt needs to find excuses to tie the others just a little bit into the moon just somehow, for some reason. Imogen as a character, and how she is played by Laura, would be a much more enjoyable character to watch, if she hadn't been treated as the main character for such a big part of the story. Laudna: Laudna is one of the most enjoyable characters of campaign 3. But the way she was resurrected, kinda makes the stakes of the story seem benign and arbitrary, and a bit too comic-book-esque. The trip they went through to get her back felt cheap, and it feels like it has cheapened her as a character and the story as a whole.

I’ve personally never understood the massive love for Caduceus, but thinking about him compared to Iroh is interesting. That makes more sense.

I’d argue that Marisha was the strongest role player in campaign 1. People refused to believe that Marisha and Keyleth were two different people, and they very much were

you are 100% correct that Mollymock's death was one of the best things to happen for the campaign and the Mighty Nein, but not for the reason you said... everybody who has finished C2 knows what i mean... Neo Somnovem the Nonagon 10,000%

Honestly, I don't think Mollymauk gets enough credit for being a not only a party member, but also the BBEG, (and yes, that's tongue in cheek, but if you think about it...) Oh, and also when you can't think of a part timer with more game time than Robbie, I would point out that Orion Acaba was technically downgraded to guest star, so technically Robbie would have to clock 20 some odd episodes to pass Tiberius

Bertrand was much more deserving of C, if low C. Just not rubbing shoulders with Tibs. And to those who say Scanlan deserves S tier... agree.

Bertrand wasn't just C3 though. He's from the Search for Bob/Grog one shots to explore what happened to Grog when he pulled a card from the Deck of Many Things and got warped away during the finale. It was kind of like omg you dick, we're not expanding this campaign to explore how you get back so hand wavy how that happened. Then they added exploring that as a stretch goal reward and Travis needed a character to play until they got to Grog. He is annoying though, but I think that's on purpose because he's a glass canon that was probably going to die in the one shots. They explained they brought him into C3 because he was supposed to die anyway, and Travis wanted a delayed entry for Chetney. Essentially Bertrand by accident got more affection than he was supposed to because he lived longer. The original elf was also Chutney Chocolatecane. Ashton I don't dislike, but I understand your reasoning. But in a recent 4 sided dive Taliesin talks about how Ashton is troubled by chronic pain and people carry that and respond to their world with that in different ways. He has pain himself, but obviously Ashton is different. Notably he talked about friends he knew that had constant migraines and that was why they were always cranky, but before that he just thought they were assholes. It seems like he's trying to embody what that must have been like to have such severe pain that kindness is difficult to hold onto. Hearing that I felt more understanding of Ashton as well.

But ashtons a punck Rock .... get it xD

No way in hell Beau made S tier and Caleb didn't. Jesus this is scuffed

Much better then the D20 vid imo reasoning wise. Caleb, and Jester would of hit S and Ferne is high B

Agree 100% about Molly. I literally jumped out of my seat and cheered when he died in that episode. I was so happy and relieved to be rid of him.

Never felt so justified until now hearing someone else call Molly "annoying" (i just tend not to be a big fan of Tal's characters in general). Love the way you explain your opinions btw, even if i don't agree with some of them.

S. Jester, Caduceus, Laudna, Scanlan, Grog, Vax A. Chetney, Percy, Vex, Bertrand, FCG, Fearne, Taryon, Fjord, Nott, Caleb, Molly B. Keyleth, ashton, imogen, beau, orym, pike, dorian, yasha C. D. Didn’t forget anyone! Nice! 😏

Re: You feeling like Orym working better than Imogen as an “Everyman” character: I think this also has to do with the class fantasy of fighter vs sorcerers. Fighters are warriors who hone their skills to become exceptional, but sorcerers are innately magical people who ARE exceptional. With rigorous training and discipline, I might be able to do what Orym does, but I can never be like Imogen.

Really enjoyed the video :) And I agreed with a surprising amount of the list. Your explanation about Chetney I fully agree with - I've never really understood why he stayed with the party. Also I'm always happy to see Beau get some love! Her and Cad are also my S tier. And I'd probably add Laudna and Fearne to S tier as well. The only characters I would put in dramatically different spots are Scanlan and Vax, and I'd probably nudge Taryon, Nott, Vex and Imogen up a bit as well. But I think you justified your decisions really well! I stand behind you on Molly btw - could not stand him. I feel like Ashton is a bit of a redo of Molly which is why I'm also having issues with them.

Great list! I would move a few characters up or down a tier, but agree with the vast majority of your list. Also, I completely agree with the Molly take! I think I liked him a bit more than you (I always saw him like if Jack Sparrow was a carny lol). However, his death completely changed campaign 2 imo. The intensity increased 10 fold. It made the story way more compelling. It really brought the rest of the group together. It was a big reason I think the 2nd campaign is my favorite. I'm struggling to connect with campaign 3 as much but it's still good. Now that I think about it. Campaign 3 saw the group coming together over a death as well with Bertrand. However, that one seemed more forced and the team feeling like they had to use his name for their party. Still don't really care for Hells Bells as a name. Just felt rushed. We spent a lot more time with Molly than Bertrand so that may have something to do with it.

Laudna is one of my least liked characters and would have been D tier for me.That’s the only major change I’d make from this list. There are a few I’d move up or down a level, but this is pretty close to my thoughts. I’m also indifferent to a Cadusus so he would be B tier for me.

Fjord not being S tier to me would only be because why Knott is a D tier also for me because Fjord SHOULD have been an even more clear cut leader than he was, but Knott/Veth/Sam spent the entire campaign always joking at his expense. I get it got laughs in the room but it felt like a lot of the growth that should’ve been had got cut down any time Fjord did anything and by the millionth “but Fjord is weak” statement Travis, who naturally is fine being a butt of the joke, just absorbed it. I liked Scanlan, I appreciate the ideas of FCG and the mini story of Taryon as a person was fun, but Knott just felt so in the way and scene-steal and the lack of maturity/growth even after the character change grated me.

The way you grade these seems very strange to me. It seems like you are grading on the basis of who makes the most impact or has the most relevance in/on the story. But I think that's not really on the characters and players, but rather on the GM. I think they should really be ranked on how well they are roleplayed and their characters are fleshed out. For example, Orym is constantly moving himself in front of others and being a compassionate guardian. He's an observant protector, and Liam plays him like that consistently.

Wow, I finally feel validated in my general dislike of Mollymauk. Dislike may be a strong word to use, but in general he just didn't do it for me, and seeing just how much other people seemed to *love* him always just left me kinda puzzled.

I wouldn't ever consider Percy a goth and I'd have ranked Jester as a C, it would be a D if it wasn't for her stunt with the cupcake.

S Tier: Caleb, Jester, Caduceus, Beauregard, Fearne, Scanlan and Chetney. Best characters for it's player.

In a video that is subjective, I must say you have some spicy takes. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the spice but hot dang that spice. I do feel that none of your rankings are ever unreasonable even when I disagree. I feel like the Molly fans might come after you though XD I do agree with your top choice of Cad. He's my favorite of all of them! I think what I love about Beau is that before Cad came on the scene she was my fave character in C2 even though nothing about her backstory, or characterization was compelling to me personally. Just the way Marisha played her was always so great! Come to think of it Marisha's characters have been my favorite character for each campaign if we ignore Cad.

Well, you spelled 5 of the character's names incorrectly in the progress bar, so your order of them doesn't surprise me either.

Scanlan belongs in S. I can’t argue why because of spoilers but he belongs in S. Putting him even in A is a crime