Critical Role Campaign 1
Themes:
- Abandonment: Characters explore negative feelings of having been left by or separated from loved ones. Sometimes they are reunited and confront the person about their resentment.
- Adult humor: Jokes are often raunchy or deal with bodily functions. There is a lot of swearing.
- Alcohol: Characters frequently drink, and many scenes take place in bars. Sometimes alcoholism is depicted or discussed.
- Blood and gore: Frequent scenes of injury or combat, often to the death.
- Class divide: The story highlights the way opportunities for people change based on their money and connections.
- Complicated family relationships: Many characters have complicated relationships with their families, including abuse and neglect.
- Death, dying, and grief: Character backstories deal with death, and characters lose people close to them during the story. Characters often discuss their grief and how they're processing it.
- Exotic pet: A character has a dangerous exotic pet with some intelligence.
- Food: Frequent scenes set at restaurants or during mealtimes. Often players snack at the table.
- Guns: In campaign 1, Percy is the primary user of guns in the world and his arcs deal with the invention and usage of guns.
- Horror monsters: Many different kinds of horror creatures appear. Including corrupted creatures, creatures that mutate, ghosts, giant insects, carnivorous plants, things that aren't animals, undead, vampires, and more.
- Law Enforcement: All cities have been shown to have armed guards with law enforcement powers.
- Mental magic: Characters can shape the thoughts of others and control their behavior.
- Misogyny: Repeated jokes that use sexism to highlight that they are harmful and incorrect ideologies.
- Near death experience: Characters experience close calls with death. Their experiences and visions are described.
- Self-sacrifice: Characters frequently put themselves in serious danger to protect other characters.
- Survivor's guilt: Characters express negative feelings about making it through traumatic experiences when other people they cared about did not.
- Trauma: Characters frequently explore the trauma they've endured, how it's affected them in the past, and how it's affecting them currently.
- Violent coup: A character's backstory involves being present for a violent coup and losing people in the attack.
Episodes:
Warnings for this campaign have not been posted yet.