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.