Tag: cr spoilers

grayzerkreinir:

Travis, 10 months ago: *choosing the sailor background because it adds a nice flair and goes really well with this new character he wants to create, expecting to be landlocked for the majority of this new campaign*

Travis, now: *elected captain of a stolen ship that has to order and interact with other, experienced, sailors and crew with everyone looking up to him expectantly even though he doesn’t really know anything about sailing because why the fuck would you its dnd but of course here he is in this new pirate au arc*

faierieprince:

personally, i really love how morally grey the mighty nein are. it’s refreshing compared to how good vox machina tried to be, and for the most part were. it creates really deep characters who develop and change over time, rather than being static. like seeing caleb have his own feelings about right and wrong but trying to fit that into his normal strategy of “i’m in the right, i had to do it, it’s not my fault” and struggling so much with himself along the way. seeing beau shift to being more trusting and dropping her walls, which leads her to confront the morals of what they’re doing in a bigger sense. seeing nott, who started out all stealing and murder, move towards “you guys are really screwed up, i don’t know that i want to be a part of this.” fjord, shifting almost in an opposite direction – starting out much more good and cautious and now moving into a ruthless calculating confidence when he needs to and not caring about the morals involved. jester covering things in jokes and lollipops but really being concerned about accidentally killing someone and feeling real guilt. caduceus realizing that he is not travelling with Good people and having to come to terms with knowing that many of his actions since he left home were fundamentally Not Good. 

i just think it makes for really interesting characters. not that this didn’t happen with vox machina, but we didn’t see this development as fully as we are with the mighty nein. these characters are much more raw and conflicted. we don’t have a guiding character, like keyleth. we have a bunch of people who do something and then have to come to terms with their actions and the consequences together. it’s really kind of beautiful and emotional. i just really love these characters and their moral issues.