Talks Machina Special 5: Fireside Chat Q&A

is the fifth special Talks Machina episode of Critical Role.

Synopsis
This episode was for questions about the first campaign that weren't answered in the Talks Machina Special 3: Critical Role Campaign 1 Wrap-up episode, with a little discussion of the upcoming campaign.

Intro and Outro

 * Introduction
 * Thanks to Le Chiffre
 * Outro

General Questions about Player characters
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 * Sam remarks that there were a lot of fights where Grog was immediately incapacitated, either by being bamfed, frozen solid, instakilled, turned into a dummy, or turned against the party. He thinks it's half the fights, but Matt strongly disagrees that it was that many. If they're fighting an intelligent creature, they're going to see Grog as the biggest threat and try to get him out of there. Like with K'varn, he was grappled by the beings in cages.

Pre-stream adventures

 * Matt mentions that they had only 17 sessions in the pre-stream adventures.

Campaign 2 promotional poster unveiled

 * Brian shows a teaser photo of the cast in their costumes for the first Campaign 2 title sequence, which look like they're from the late 1970s. They linger on Matt's large retro glasses.
 * Matt has some middle school photos like that "the world will never see." Laura thinks they looked like they were in a cult.
 * They shot it at a house in the Valley. Marisha thought for the people who saw them on the shoot, "they're going to think this is the weirdest porn."


 * Closing discussion about expectations for Campaign 2.

Quotations
Sam: Matt doesn't want to reveal anything that might come into play in the next campaign. Matt: There are some great DM's Guild things I am working on in the future around that so I don't want to spoil anything. Brian: Yeah. How do you think I got this job?
 * Liam: Does Sylas Briarwood even take a shit?
 * Matt: Let me tell you, making allies with demons always turns out well.
 * Matt: I'm not trying to be like, "the world sucks out there so come to our place where everything's great!" I'm like, the world there sucks. Come to this world where some things do suck but people are standing up and making a difference. People are trying to actively make the sacrifices that are necessary and stand up and be heroes in the face of injustice and probable loss because somebody needs to... The good stories come from people that are frustrated with the world and want to make a difference and the only way they can is with a pen and pencil.