Hello, critters! I hope you're having nice holidays, and for those who celebrate it, merry Christmas!
It's been a while since the last time I posted here, so I thought "why not tell you about how I discovered Critical Role?". It's not a very fascinating story, but it's kind of funny in retrospect:
It happened (if I recall correctly) around 2018. Back then I wasn't interested in TTRPG yet, but a friend of mine was already trying to share ideas about learning how to play among the members of our friend group... perhaps too intensely. Eventually I tried the game and loved it, but at first such insistence made me develop some rejection towards the game. In any case, during that time I accidentally came across the video of the Mighty Nein's animated intro, and I was absolutely amazed. I didn't know who those guys were, or what Critical Role was, but I was completely impressed, so I shared it with my friends, thinking that maybe it was an animated series. When I discovered that it was limited to just the intro and that the rest were people talking, I was disappointed, and even after becoming a dnd player, it took me a while to start watching Critical Role (I started C2 in the pandemic and caught up when the Mighty Nein were just visiting Eiselcross for the first time). So it is hilarious (at least to me) that something so fascinating and important to me now was once an inexistant animated series... That now will get its own animated series!
I don't know, it's just a silly story, but I wanted to share it anyway. What about y'all?
PS. When I watched the intro for the first time I didn't know about the characters, including Yasha, so until I did some research the aasimar barbarian in my head was sort of agender. Something in the design was like "Man? Woman? Nah, goth." Sometimes I wonder how it would be if Yasha had a sibling somewhere looking almost like her but actually fitting that first confused impression my younger self had XD