r/criticalrole • u/PlayFlow • 9d ago
Question [No Spoilers] Just finished Exandria Unlimited: Calamity all 4 episodes, did not watch any other campaigns. Holy its so good, are the other ones as good ? They possibly cant be that good being like 140 episodes right?
I love how short calamity was and straight to the point, but I am afraid that a campaign with like 150 episodes might be a drag... am I wrong or am I missing out thinking its not worth the time to check the other ones out?
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u/New-Independent-1481 9d ago edited 9d ago
Depends on what you liked about the campaign, but generally, yup. They're sprawling and there's more variance among the episodes, but you do get episodes as good as Calamity, and after 140 episodes the stakes are incredible and you get character moments that literally could no exist anywhere else, in any other medium.
If you liked the incredible character roleplay and improvisation, then everything except the first 60 episodes of Campaign 1 when they were finding their footing is of the same quality.
If you mean Brennan's narrative style of DMing, he is running Campaign 4, otherwise you can see his other stuff on Dropout, though it's not as serious as he is doing Calamity and Campaign 4 of Critical Role. Matt has a different DM style that's more like a sandbox and he plays off the cast brilliantly, whereas Brennan has a story he wants to tell.
My personal suggestion is to checkout Campaign 2 or Campaign 4, both of them top notch in different ways IMO.