arkhamarchitecture:

Are all the people saying Matt shouldn’t have killed Molly new to D&D shows? Like, actual D&D shows, not TAZ. TAZ is fine but it’s not D&D. I’m genuinely asking because I feel like it’s mostly the people who are new to the show and didn’t watch Campaign 1.

If you watched Campaign 1, you already know that sometimes things happen and there’s nothing you can do about it. 

And you can’t say “Well they can kill people but not the queer characters!” because there’s too many queer characters. Molly was pretty far from the only queer character on the show. Going solely off the 5 person party with Keg, there were more queer characters in the group than there were straight characters and we don’t even know Caleb or Nott’s sexualities so that’s just me assuming they’re straight.

I loved Molly. I will continue to love Molly if he gets rezzed. If he doesn’t, I’ll love whoever Taliesin’s next character is. 

But damn ya’ll. This is what you sign up for in a real D&D show. The great part of a D&D show like Critical Role is that you know for a FACT that there’s no director behind the scenes dictating who gets hurt or when or if they do at all. It’s all down to dice, planning, and personal decisions by the players. But the buy in for that – the price you pay to know that nobody is ever out to get anybody on the party, no matter how queer they are – the buy in is that sometimes shit just happens. It’s nobody’s fault. That’s D&D. Sometimes you roll some bad dice.

If Molly dying now, 25 episodes into this new campaign, is enough to cause you to stop watching then that’s okay. I understand your grief and hurt, I’m glad the show could touch you so deeply that you don’t think you can recover from it and keep watching. I’m also glad it happened now. Because this can and will happen again in the future. And it’s going to hurt a whole lot more when we’re 100 episodes in. 

If it hurts you this much now, so much so that you think you can’t take it, go ahead and back out. It’s okay! Nobody’s blaming you. Not every show is for every person. Don’t force yourself to stick around and end up getting hurt again later. If you’re on the fence, give it a good hard think. Because everyone who watched Campaign 1 all the way through can sympathize that losing a character you loved and identified with hurts. But boy it hurts a lot worse when it’s 115 episodes, not 25.