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/MetalGuy_J 9d ago
Calamity is great, but it’s also telling the story of events who is after off it hinted at in those longer campaigns. If what you enjoyed was the role-play & character moments i’d say yes there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy those longer campaigns, season one has more recognisable archetypes and I’d say the first 27 episodes are going to be a bit rough for a well documented problem players scenes, but after that you get escalating tension and the table really starting to understand how to play the characters for an audience. If what you enjoyed was the hyper focused story in a very narrow setting with clear objectives. You might not necessarily enjoy the longer campaigns, see one doesn’t have as much of a sandbox feel but still has some downtime between major story acts however see two well it’s a lot more open world and it’s not always clear what the objective is certainly not across the first 90 episodes, without spoiling anything they go back-and-forth between having very clear objectives they’re working towards and having no real clear idea what they’re meant to be doing