Exandria Unlimited - Critical Role miniseries - 8 episodes starting June 24th (Twitch) or 28th (YouTube) - All episodes out!

[MDY]

Campaign wrap-up discussion.. 

 

[MDY]

 

[Captain Kelsten]

Aimee is a treasure. Still not enjoying Aabria. 

[MDY]

Double episode special..

Fleeing from Marquet to Tal’Dorei with his brother, Dorian Storm returns to his friends, The Crown Keepers, and attempts to lay low in the seedy casino town of Kymal, which naturally leads to the crew attempting a casino heist…

 

 

 

 

 

[Vespa Alex]

Yay, more Robbie and Aimee. 
Who’s the new face!

[MDY]

16 hours ago, Vespa Alex said:

Yay, more Robbie and Aimee. 
Who’s the new face!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Lindbeck

[MDY]

New mini series... 

New GM.. 

New (and old) players.. 

 

Exandria Unlimited: Calamity looks to take us back to the ancient past, to the apocalyptic war between gods, science and magic that tore the land asunder.. 

 

 

[sammy]

I haven’t watched the Exandria shows but will definitely be watching for Brennan Lee Mulligan, he’s a superb DM and played a great guest character in the NADDPOD podcast.  Speaking of which, if you haven’t checked out NADDPOD I’d recommend giving it a listen, quoting myself from the podcasts thread:

 

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I have been absolutely loving Not Another DnD Podcast (NADDPOD) over the past couple of months.  It’s a dnd show like Critical Role but it’s audio only and edited so that each episode runs between 90 mins and 2 hours.  It feels more considerate of my time than CR and feels more intimate due to a smaller group (DM and three players with occasional guests), and although it takes itself less seriously it has had me in tears as well as laughing my arse off in places. Highly recommended for a fun, geeky listen.  Give it a couple of episodes as it takes a while for the gang to find their groove.  

 

[MDY]

Calamity.. Ep 1 - 'Excelsior' 

 

 

The flying city of Avalir begins its triumphant return to the continent of Domunas while the Ring of Brass, a group of eminent city dignitaries, begin to uncover hints of something rotten within their gilded home...

 

[MDY]

Calamity.. Ep2 - Bitterness and Dread.

 

The Ring of Brass deepen their investigation into Vespin's inconceivable ritual while juggling their own profound desires and lofty ambitions...

 

 

Brennan is indeed excellent, he's perfect choice for this and it has been rather special so far.. I love how well he illustrates the advanced tech/magic setting for us and the characters are a delightful mix of sincere to highly arrogant, befitting their status in this decadent civilisation. Despite the fact we know a good deal about what will happen from Matt's lore, this has still managed to surprise (and delight) and we're only halfway through..

 

 

 

 

[Vespa Alex]

I’ve fallen behind a fair amount. I only watched one of Aabria’s second run, have 5 to go on the main campaign, and not touched these yet. 

[MDY]

 

As you might imagine, being set at the time of the Calamity (800+ years before Vox Machina) means this is likely going to be pretty standalone - though there's some benefit to knowing a bit of the world lore from MM..
But there's no spoilers for anything else..

The non-regular members of the cast are all fantastic so far - there's good chemistry among the whole group  and the storytelling from Brennan is indeed superb.

 

Episode 3 - Blood and Shadow

 

Confronted with how deep Avalir's corruption runs, the Ring of Brass must face hard truths about themselves as impossible choices are made and lines are both drawn and sundered...

[Vespa Alex]

Just watched the first one, and Brennan really is great. I love the setting too. 

[MDY]

Wow.. the final episode is intense, exhausting and pretty damn incredible.. Prepare yourself..

 

Episode 4 - Fire and Ruin

 

 

 

With time running out and an ancient terror unleashed, the Ring of Brass make their last stand for Avalir, for Exandria, and for their souls as calamity draws near...

[MDY]

Wow.. what a finale. This was totally in a different league than the previous EXU - Brennan weaves a fantastic tale from start to finish and all the cast are on top form. 

For emotional impact and just great, dramatic storytelling, I honestly think it's up there with CR's best.. 

 

 

In addition to the Calamity Wrap-up we should see next week, there was also a Twitter Space discussion between the whole cast..

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpJkZNoneyGj?s=20

 

[Vespa Alex]

On 25/06/2022 at 13:23, MDY said:

Wow.. what a finale. This was totally in a different league than the previous EXU - Brennan weaves a fantastic tale from start to finish and all the cast are on top form. 

For emotional impact and just great, dramatic storytelling, I honestly think it's up there with CR's best.. 

 

Only just finished it, & that was an absolute master class in story telling from everyone but especially Brennan. With a fixed run, there had to be a plot to follow, and to then weave that round the unpredictable nature of D&D was quite a challenge. I might find it hard to go back to C3 now.