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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
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Todd Kenreck sat down with Matthew Mercer, Chris Perkins, Makenzie De Armas and James Haeck about the new book.
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep
Can You Change Fate?
An epic Critical Role campaign for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.
The greed of mortals has awakened a powerful entity long thought destroyed. For eons, this mighty champion of the gods has been imprisoned in the darkest depths of Exandria. His name has been forgotten, as have his heroic deeds. Languishing in despair, he calls out for new heroes to save him.
Inspired by the campaigns of the hit series Critical Role, this adventure begins in the Wastes of Xhorhas and leads to the glimmering oasis-city of Ank’Harel on the continent of Marquet, and from there into a sunken realm of gloom, corruption, and sorrow known as the Netherdeep. Above it all, the red moon of Ruidus watches, twisting the fates of those who have the power to shape the course of history.
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep contains seven chapters of thrilling adventure, new creatures and magic items, and a poster map of Ank’Harel.
First major adventure module within Critical Role’s world of Exandria, taking players from levels 3-12.
Multi-continental story that spans the scarred Wastes of Xhorhas, introduces the continent of Marquet, and eventually plunges players into the Netherdeep-a terrifying cross between the Far Realm and the deep ocean.
Bursting with lore and all new art depicting Exandria.
Includes new magic items and creatures and introduces new rival NPCs.
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For folks that haven't picked it up, The Explorer's Guide To Wildemount has excellent starter adventures that you can get started with now and be ready to rock and roll with Call of The Netherdeep in March. :) Very Excited!!!
Main reason I'm excited for this campaign, ran one of those for a group of friends had a blast with it. Heard the same people were working on a full campaign and got super excited
I've been a player in one of them and a dungeon master for two. In my experience, they're excellent in their plot hooks but the encounters themselves need some serious alteration to be balanced for groups of first/second level. It's very easy for party members and any NPCs around them to be killed by a semi-random encounter. Overall they can be very fun but you have to put in some legwork to adjust them.
See I see that as a good thing though. So many encounters were "difficult" but my players just walk through it and the reverse easy encounters are punishing.
I just tell my players to have a backup plan if things go south. Lol
I am about to run two campaigns in the Wildemount setting by next month, its been fun world building in a new setting!
@@coopermckinlay4023 lol, yeah learned that the hard way. First combat, first attack was a crit on the party tank by one of those ice frogs...party tank was a halfling fighter. Downed and swallowed him. Top of next round critted on the stomach acid damage and finished him off...dead dead. Yeah, balancing is a good idea.
I like how this concept of the rival adventuring team mirrors the end of CR campaign 2.
Like seeing Matt in these type of posts, Crolitical role has brought my kids an l together on Thursday nights ... and given alot of business , pizzerias, Thai and Chinese and sushi restaurants a big boost in take out.
I've been talking about this "2nd adventurer group" idea for years. So glad that I'm not the only one, and now it's in an official D&D book.
Eberron, all the way back in 3.5, had rival explorers, as well.
@@elementzero3379 it's an old story / game tool. I was using it back in 2E (my buddies still grumble about The Red Rangers when we get together, LOL!). I don't remember where I first read about it, but it was probably in Dragon Magazine, if I had to guess.
@Mike B. It sounds like those Red Rangers left a mark. 😄 I love it.
I've used it in DnD once or twice over the years and a few times in Numenera. I don't think any of mine made as fun an impression as the Red Rangers.
I always loved the idea, too. But it obviously has a big challenge attached: If your players ever decide that it would be time to get rid of that other adventure group, the lives of one party might quickly come to an end. And you usually don't want a TPK, so there goes your rivals.
@EinWenigRebellion Twice, my players have killed the rival party, and both times for good reason, since the rivals were affiliated with the "bad guys." Those were both Eberron games.
In Numenera, no rivalries have escalated to that point. They've remained rival explorers. They might have been annoying, but they were not quite so clearly villains to be fought.
Chris Perkins once said- “as a creative” translation, “as one of the grey beards and masters of the d&d world”
I am loving the rival element in this. And, underwater? Sold! I will be getting this one, for sure!
absolutely and honestly I really really think that blue half orc is Fjorjesters child it would be an excellent plotpoint for critters
I think k it's an awesome idea for dnd and a dm who's up for it but the other part of me immediately though of 9 year old me with Pokémon blue and I'm totally OK with this
@@leonoson the official D&D instagram account posted a description of the character a few days ago if you wanna check it!
@@highoncoffee5 uh thanks for the spot! it's unfortunate that there's not much about her personal history I guess we'll just need to buy the module. Because I mean it says water genasi, but also jester just was a "tiefling" until we discovered that she was resistant to cold thus with water genasi father. OH well but thanks for the spot again :P
I always, ALWAYS use a team of rivals in my campaigns. It’s such a fun idea. For me personally, I implement NPCs who are named after characters from former campaigns. My rule is that there should be one fewer member of the rival group, who should be one level higher than the player characters.
Ohhh this is quite q good idea
Underrated comment, have an upvote, great tip!
Indeed! I think it's funny how this is being treated as a new and novel idea. It's been around for ...probably as long as there have been gamers playing, LOL!
Back in my 2E days, the PC's would hear tales of the latest conquests of their rivals (The Red Rangers) and grumble in jealousy, but never seemed to run into them. They did eventually meet up though, and it turned into a mutual admiration between the two groups.
I miss seeing Chris Perkins all the time on youtube; running games, lore you should know, etc. It almost feels like a friendship that drifted apart that I don't know how to fix. Even though I actually never knew him.
Dude, same. I legit cried when he left the Pax stuff.
I am new to D&D and found my interest towards it trough Critical Role cast. I have now started playing my very first campaign and it has become one of my favorite events in the week. It is truly a shame how many people miss these great moments and opportunities of D&D, although I am glad that it has began to regain popularity over the years trough its persistent fanbase and content creators. Thank you for showing me the way.
For our kind, the weekly D&D session is always the highlight of the week.
My group has an only passing familiarity with Exandria, but they love lovecraft. So, I am hoping to sell them on the things demi-humans were not meant to know.
4:25 - Making my way 🎶
I've had so much fun, on either side of the DM screen, with encounters with rival adventuring parties. Some became drinking buddies, others became recurring villains. So pleased to hear more people are going to have fun with the idea!
this whole rival idea thing reminds me of campaign 2 when it was lucian's group vs the might nein and they were racing to get to their goals first and everything like that, i for one loved seeing that, eiselcross was so fun to watch man and i'm glad others can do this rival type thing too now, good job and thank you to everyone who worked on this book and once again, thank u matt and laura and travis and sam and marisha and liam and ashley and of course, taliesin for critical role.
Tenner says the entity hidden that is making this 'call' is either Uko'Toa or one of his 2 other brethren
Highly unlikely, since Perkins says, that the entity is "not an outright a villain and not an outright hero".
Well pulling this from the page on the Dungeons & Dragons website I found the video on, "For eons, this mighty champion of the gods has been imprisoned in the darkest depths of Exandria. His name has been forgotten, as have his heroic deeds", I'm gonna say he is probably good or was at least in the past. Being left in prison and forgotten by those you serve tends to make people bitter. Then again the term "heroic" is misleading because people associate it with good, when in reality a champion of some evil god is a hero and doing heroic things for his people and his faith.
A blue Half-Orc. That's a baker. For the Unbroken Tusk Tavern.
Watch them not be related to Fjord or Jester at all, just to psyche us out.
@@dalepalmitier7114 Something was posted a few days ago that gave a bit of detail about this character and it listed her as Genasi/Half-Orc, and while Jester was half Genasi herself she’s still technically a Tiefling, so I don’t think this character is meant to be related
it's both of their 1/2 sibling The gentleman's 2nd child with Fjords Mother
Always interesting hearing the thoughs from the creators. Very well produced video!
Yes! Todd interviews on the official D&D channel? I love it!
I think he’s working in the digital D&D gaming realms.
I think the most amazing thing about all of this is. This all started because Matt Mercer DMed a game for Liam O'Brien as a birthday present many many years ago..
LoL
My first campaign years ago had a rival group that was on the same journey as us. Slowly story elements unraveled who they were.
Can’t wait to add to my forever expanding critical role collection 👌🏼
I really love what they have put out. While I love CR, I'm a huge fan of their books outside my fandom. I'll never run a campaign in that setting, as I like my own and Turil more.But it is also has very neutral setting that their stuff can be placed in almost anywhere with almost no work on the DM's part. One thing I absolutely love about the books, but never hear anyone mention, is the gazatter sections. Between EGtW and TR, I now have what feels like hundreds of unique towns and villages with equally unique hooks. There is so much material in the CR books for inspiration it's not even funny. I need a town in next week's game, I can just flip through a couple books and have something to go pretty damn easily. I need some adventure hook for that towns theme, there's probably a pretty good one there. And everything is so easily interchangeable between settings and worlds... They will work perfectly regardless of what you are running.
Is...is that a blue half-orc?! Surely, they *jest*
I suspect it's supposed to be a drow-orc.
@@elementzero3379 She's a water genasi actually
@West8777 That was my second guess, given the underwater theme.
I don't like the banana ears, in that case. They're a lot, even on an elf. I hate that artists put them on everyone these days. That's just my taste, though, and doesn't take away from the great art that so many artists produce.
@@bessieburnet9816 Wow, you thought that was a rant? Chill bruh lol. I think you need to step away from the comments section
My Triton finally has a home *cries deeply*
It's a Tritan homecoming! 🤓😁😀
Rival adventure groups was really cool in The "C" Team. It'll be neat to see it with another worldbuilder at the helm.
This adventure stuff is great and all, but IS THAT JESTER AND FJORD'S DAUGHTER!!???
God I hope it isn’t. That would feel too fan-fictiony.
@@doctorstaples4947 b-but how?
I guess you're too fan-ficy, I mean, YOU, being the kid of your mum and dad?
Pssssh, fan-fic alert!
Doesn't seem to be the case. The timeline doesn't add up but they are a Water Genasi with orcish heritage - the new theory is that they're another of the Gentleman's kids so they could be Jester's half sister?
Her official name that was announced on Twitter is Ayo Jabe, so it’s highly unlikely. She’s also, despite appearances, a Water Genasi ranger, according to her stat block
As a DM i can't imagine how it must feel for matt to have his world become ''dnd cannon'' if only minorly lol.
It occurs to me just how awesome it is that because of one youtube show this has all exploded and we can all share in Matt's storytelling genius.
Was it just me, or does the last NPC of the antagonist party look like Shaggy?
my DM set up a campaign using Call of the Netherdeep and setting up small side bits that he could to keep us on our toes and I remember an encounter with the Rivals which ended with one of our players whos back story had them struggling with a demon inside them, the demon took over, killed one of Ayo's party members in such a way that revivify wouldn't work and we caused a split in the party, it was so interesting to see, because Maggie left after becoming hostile to us, Ayo joined a faction we were against as a mercenary and the last 2 surviving members understood their friends death was out of our hands, they grew to not trust our PC dragonborn, but they knew it was something that couldn't be helped and we kept a strong friendship.
despite everything, even Ayo turning against us and trying to unleash the evils of the netherdeep with the group she joined with, we still spared her and rescued her when she needed it, she was a pain in our asses and a pretty weak leader, but she was our friend. she just needed to be put back on the right track and reminded that she is a hero after all and sometimes heroes don't need the glory of beating us to the finish line, they need the glory of doing the right thing and helping those she can. it was such a great campaign to play and having a DM who can incorporate risk and twists in such a way that keeps you on your toes will always make for great memories.
God I would love to go back to the late 1970s and show this to Gary Gygax and share with him how D&D has survived and evolved.
Not sure he'd appreciate every development, tbh. Too many non-humans, for one.
'jellyfish that can petrify you.' Interesting
Finally some real information about this book!
4:25 Sings "Making our Way!"
It’s like the end of Men in Tights: “CALL THE NETHERDEEP!”
Next guy
“call the nether deep!”
Then a loud woman
“CALL THE NETHER DEEP!”
My party met the rivals, they were posed as rivals, then we became really great friends(even involving one of our party members romancing one of the "rivals")
Converting this from Roll20 to Foundry VTT ASAP on the 5th. Can't wait!
Yup
Finally! Some underwater adventuring. My obsession with making water-breathing/swimming characters will pay off. Huzzah!
I cant help but see 5 self portraits of Matthew mercer on ther cover. Regardless of the race they were drawn in his likeness for sure
To people asking if the blue half-orc is Fjord and Jester’s daughter, it isn’t. They released her stat block on Twitter, her name is Ayo Jabe and she’s a water genasi, not a half-orc
I don't think it is either, but Jester is half water genasi. So it's within the realm of possibility.
Aw yeah, a follow up to Matt's other works that I loved: Summon of the Underlow, Draw of the Deeperdown, and Lure of Superdoublehell.
Matt-I'm finishing up Firemoon World. 17 major campaigns with 100s more on the way. 2 continents and no way to get to the other. The world is oval and the winds don't allow you to get to the other continent. You can't teleport there as no one has ever been to the other. 2 strangely different worlds in one world.
I love the idea of an unexplored areas and adventurers traveling there to explore and claim the land or something like that!
There's so much to find out!
Love Matt and Chris of course! The idea of a rival adventurer-group is nice, it was interestingly done in the 3.5 Edition Adventure Path "The Shakled City" - for which Perkins wrote some adventures - for example.
The rival party is an awesome concept that I don't think has been done before. Ticking clock enemies, but not that.
If I can have nothing else in this life, my wish would be that the Critical Role crew have success, peace, and happiness all of their days.
Chris Perkins!!!!! Man I miss him. Does anyone have any insight into why he’s taken a step away from the public eye? Would love to see him DMing again!!!!
maybe it's a self-beheading to "make room" for "diverse" types? not to be too cynical. or maybe wizards is becoming more corporate and he has mixed feelings about it? shrug - love the guy, hope to see him do more things
@@KalonOrdona2 Chris has spoken about not wanting to be in the spotlight to the extent he was in the past due to the stress and anxiety it caused him.
@@bradgantt1818 I could see that
Amazing stuff, cant wait to play!
I am waiting patiently (mostly) for my copy to come in next month
Ah, the Team Rocket, perfect! But nothing new :3 I prefer the part of subacuatic adventure :D
Making our way
Rival adventuring party is something I've played with and one of two things happens depending on alignment (my players tend to lean NG and CG).
If the rival party is good-aligned, they put the greater good higher than personal fame and team up, or divide and conquer (you guys go that way, we'll go this way, and when we meet up we'll compare notes).
If the rival party is evil, they either get exposed as such to the public or just turbo-murdered.
I think the key would be to make them goodly but annoying. My players won't kill good characters, but they can be annoyed by them just as easily as anyone else. Also I can see good characters just getting so frustrated with one another that they resort to blows but only non-lethal damage. Beat them up, tie them up, but leave their gear so they can survive and because we're not thieves.
...Except maybe their pants. I mean, they don't need their pants to stay alive. They should definitely have to go into town without pants.
Best story I have about rival adventuring parties is one where two of my DMs participated in: one was the "good" party, one was the "evil" party. By the time the two parties clashed, the "good" party had metagamed to the point where they were killing off entire villages to gain an advantage. Meanwhile, the most "evil" the "evil" party did was sacrifice an endless supply of live chickens to help them cross a bridge over a bottomless pit while blinded.
I built a rival adventuring party for my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign that my players are just starting to engage with so I'm happy that's a valid enough idea to go to print. It'll be interesting if the players pick up on their alignment. A chaotic neutral ranger, lawful good fighter, lawful neutral that turns into chaotic evil barbarian under certain conditions, and their leader who is lawful evil.
1:16
I thought my earphones got unplugged.
Looking good, Todd.
I bet that place shown at 0:24 is Bazzoxan!
I guess Critical Role is doing what Forgotten Realms did years ago...Except instead of fantasy books...it's voice actors in a role play game as the catalases?
This. Instead of home notes (Ed Greenwood - the Forgotten Realms) and novels we have lore and setting created by the cast of Critical Role.
Oh man, I can’t wait to run this campaign!
Very nice art, looking forward to the book.
I always thought the human male on the cover was gonna be an evil Caleb Widogast. Guess I might be right depending on how you play the campaign.
5:07 Good lord these creatures/designs are horrific. I love them.
Very much want to play this.
This looks awesome!
Thanks.
I am not a consumer of prepublished adventures but I am excited for everyone who is! This looks like a lot of fun.l
I subscribed for Todd
i have almost the same bass rig got the dark glass with the ampeg svt 8x10 lmao
Is Matt about to rock a drum solo after this interview?
I'm so dang excited for this!!
The rivals are a neat idea!
My players would slaughter them after the first meeting though.
So give them something that keeps them alive.
That's how they become a recurring rival team to your players.
That bass amp behind Matt is his, right?
What race is the blue lady with the orc like fangs? Or is this unique to this setting?
From the twitter - water genasi, just half-orc instead of human origin.
So we're going to see Jester and Fjord's daughter and an older Luc Brenatto? This shall be interesting...
If you're talking about the Shaggy-looking guy, that's a human, Luc is a halfling.
@@OccidentalAvian Oh, right, I forgot about that, yes yes. That Drow-lookin' fellow though...
The party leader, Ayo Jabe is a Water Genasi Ranger with orcish heritage.
The rival adventurers are potentially a big issue for the DM to handle - specifically because the players might simply get the idea to attack them. I hope this adventure is not a linear plot thread like most 5e pre-published adventures have been
What is the in-game year for Call of the Netherdeep? Is it set around the time of the Dwendalian and Kryn War, 835 PD?
Matthew Mercer 😍😍😍😍
I'm just excited to know what shaggy part in this adventure
Oh GOD
this is definetly a campaign about uko'toa
Highly unlikely, since Perkins says, that the entity is "not an outright a villain and not an outright hero".
Please give us adventures in other settings after this. Spelljammer. A full adventure in Eberron or Greyhawk
Keep these coming
Are the full interviews available anywhere?
Oooooo. Did you see the infected Abboleth
the talk about the npcs reminds me of volo, a lot
Question guys:
What race is the Blue female with tusks?
I assume Half-orc, but blue?
Posted on twitter - water genasi, just from orcish background instead of human.
@@ffwydriad forgot that genasis exist for a second there 😆
thanks thanks
Part of me thinks this rival group are characters the cast made so you feel like you're playing opposite of them. That probably isn't the case but it's an amusing thought for me to figure out who in the module is playing who.
@Dungeons & Dragons I am so jealous, when seeing the alternative covers of the core-rulebook! Any hope that they will be for sale again? Looking for them hardly and got no luck in europe (germany)
Anyway awesome work with CR and CofN ;)
'Netherdeep' was coined by Kenzer & Company because WotC wouldn't let them use 'Underdark'?
"You can't use our term, but we're going to use yours in 20 years."
Is that Fjord and Jesters Daughter?
Based on her name (Ayo Jabe) and the fact that she is a Water Genasi, its unlikely.
@@David_Blake91 jester is half water Genasi
Yo this sounds so sliiiiick! I can't wait for it drop.
Call of the NerdDeep.
Let's face it, at least 1/4 of us are going to want try to flirt and charm with the orc-genasi.
So, would this book be best to learn how to run a rival party? Or would another book fulfill this interest?
Cool
New to D&D so I need this book to start? And become a DM and catch up to the game content?
1:15 what's up with the audio here?
Chris has less screen time here that he did on CR. But not by much.
So the Tomb Takers, without a borderline demigod O hope
Is this snake monster in the water Uka'toah?
Is the big orc in the center one Ariks Eshteross?
Probably not. Estheross is waaay older than that guy.
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!
Netherdeep deeze nuts!
im gonna be real and tell you im not ok with a person calling Vecna Vesna
I find it interesting but I hope the campaign doesnt *need* the rival party cause with a couple minmaxxers on my players I feel like they are getting killed quickly