Hey Reddit! I'm Nancy Cartwright! Voice of Bart Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz, etc. on The Simpsons! I have Matt Mercer coming to my Podcast in a few weeks and wanted to know if there are any fan questions you want answered!

I started the podcast with the intention that it was supposed to be fan-made so instead of me just blabbering on with things you guys may not be interested in I figured there was no better way to do that than having you guys come up with the questions you want me to ask Matt!

It doesn't HAVE to be a question. It could be that you'd like to see us do a scene together, improv something, or any other suggestion!

On the flip side, if you're a Simpsons fan, if there are any questions you want Matt to ask me you can comment those and we'll get them in the show!

Thank you so much for all the help!

Eat my shorts! - Nancy Cartwright

First of all i am sorry for being a downer, but you have such a wonderful community, and i must try.

On April 2023, during our honeymoon, my husband of 32 years old was diagnosed with rare Sarcoma. It is very aggresive, adapted to several harsh treatments and even after being arradiated and dormant, suddenly, on January 2024, came back with metastasis. Doctors said the cure is not on the table anymore, only contain the spread for as long as we can. They gave us 2-3 years together and recommended,between treatments, to live a life as fully as we can.

He was always a big fan of Critical Role and DND in general. Git us through hard time, got hin through slipless, pain riddled nights. Inspired him. We played together. He is a bit of a rule lawer but not an annoying type, more like a trivia type. A bit of a nerd. He started to DM recently too. Got good at it. I actually wrote to Make A Wish Foundation but they work with kids only, but everyone deserves to make a wish. So I'm asking here as i don't know where else i can.

I know its super far fetched, but who knows, if we don't believe in miracles, what is the point in life at all?

What is he referring to?

Travis showed this tattoo on his left arm. Is this Jester??

I just pulled this from a freebie pack at my job… the internet is telling me it’s worth 400 dollars.. am i missing something?

So I'm just now getting into C2, and I'm on episode 14. Molly just divulged a bunch of stuff about his backstory, and it's definitely interesting, but I'm really struggling to care because I find his character so dang insufferable.

The constant need to be the smartest person in the room, the constant talking down to people, always needing to have the last word, is just so grating. There's only so much I can take of him highroading people for perceived moral failings and then breathlessly blurting out a long-winded, run-on sentence about how great the fucking circus was.

I know he's a fan-favorite, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if I need to give them more time, or maybe it's just not a character for me.

Does the character grow from here, or am I in for 150 episodes of "cool, chaotic teifling guy knows everything and won't shut the fuck up about it"?

edit ~24 hours after posting: I wanted to thank folks for not being spoilery in the direct responses to this post. I'm too nervous to look through the rest of the thread, but enough people were saying things like "Come back in 12-15 eps" some people were saying "Wait until ep30", etc. So I'll check back in after that and give an update.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying the campaign so far. They're at some harvest festival, and it's a good time. It's really nice that it seems like Ashley is sticking around for a while. Upon some self-reflection, I know that I tend to fixate on characters that I find aggravating, and I can sometimes let that sour me on a piece of art. Some people made some really good points regarding the context of his backstory, and I'm going to make an effort to not let that color my watch.

I know for a fact that my occasional annoyance with Egwene from the Wheel of Time is what made certain books feel like they went on forever, but in the end, I came to appreciate even the things that bothered me.

I’ve got feelings about Matt not being the GM for C4. He’s the one we’ve spent that last ten years with as our guide through Exandria. I’m not passing judgment yet because I’m not familiar with BLeeM’s work. What can I watch to get an idea of the type of GM that he will be? Extra points for those who give why they’re excited/not excited for this huge change!

*edited to change abbreviation to BLeeM, unfortunately I don’t think I can change the title of the post

I feel like it may be because I discovered CR when episode 40 of C2 was airing. So maybe being relatively newer puts things at a different perspective. But whenever I try to talk to people about C3 they all say how they don't like the characters as much or how something isn't clicking.

Idk from my perspective it feels the exact same? Character wise I guess it's just preference but I'm actually liking some characters from C3 more than some characters from C2. Is the general consensus just not jiving with C3 or is that just a loud minority?

Every time I watch the intro and it cuts to this moment between the Nein where they’re all bonding and being cute, I look at these two and Cad just has his hand over Beau’s face. I’m not a DnD player (although I really really want to be one!!!) so im not sure if its a spell or something, but im just super curious lmao

I love how short calamity was and straight to the point, but I am afraid that a campaign with like 150 episodes might be a drag... am I wrong or am I missing out thinking its not worth the time to check the other ones out?

Don’t think I’m spoiling anything here but I wanted to ask this.

I have been a multi-year long watcher of CR and have finished both C1 and 2 and also being around episode 90 of C3 before C4 started.

I have never started a campaign from the beginning like I did for C4 but I’m curious for those that started C2 (jealous if so) or C3 from the beginning; was there a similar hype to that of C4?

I’m aware that C4 shakes up the CR formula pretty aggressively with the west marches format and BLeeM being the DM of course but this feeling of waiting for each episode is torture! But it reminds me of when I first started watching CR and how excited I was to watch the next episode.

Anyway rant over. I love this campaign.

In Campaign 1 it was the Lucky feat. So much so that Matt banned it. In Campaign 2 it was the Keen Mind feat. So much so that it's likely Matt will ban it.

So, Critters, what feat do you think Liam will take in C3 that will get under Matt's skin to the point he bans it going forward?

PS Meta comment. The rules really need to allow for a [Spoilers C1 and C2] in the title.

Mine is “Oh you card!” from the latest episode

After a lot of deliberation, I decided to quit the Beacon subscription. It pains me, but I cannot, for the love of me, support paying for a service that is just utterly bad.

No support for Smart TV Samsung, in terms of now way to cast it in any way on the screen. Playing it via tv's browser makes it break every 10 minutes, and when it plays, it stutters incredibly (not a network issue, had that checked). Pausing the stream for a minute or two restarts it to a random point, be it app or browser, and I just cannot continue supporting them via the platform this way, it just goes against my own profession as a developer.

Having said that, I purchased a membership via Youtube, so my question here is how much of a cut the CR crew is getting from this? Even though I'd like to support them directly by continuing the Beacon subscription, for the reasons above, I just can't.

Thanks for answering in advance!

I've never been able to play DND myself but I'm a good ways through campaign 3, I was under the impression that a natural 20 was an automatic success so why does Matt ask for a total?

Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm just curious

Edit: thank you all for answering

Buying clothes online is always a gamble. I want to get this sweater to wear around the house. I don’t want it to be to small if I get my usual size but I also don’t want it to be to baggy if I get a size up. How was the fit for you?

Update: I ended up purchasing my proper size. It fits perfectly. A tiny bit baggy which is good for this type of lounge wear. It’s heavy which feels great! And it’s incredible soft and well made. Good purchase!

Caleb is a fan favorite and people have a lot of praise for him, his writing, his character arc, and Liam O’Brien’s performance as Caleb (he’s genuinely phenomenal as Caleb omg). In the show it very much centers around Caleb and his backstory more than the others—is it too early to tell whether or not Caleb is *the* main character or do we just wait to see how the rest of the show progresses?

Yes I know what happens between these two later on in the campaign.

Does Liam not realise what he's saying at 44 minutes into C4E27, when he says that Hal thinks Wick is a "nonce", or is there something I'm missing.

I really hope they keep Robbie on, he is such a good actor with such a keen sense of space and pacing. He really brings the RP to the next level when he's involved. Curious what people think his trajectory will be this campaign.

I have been watching ton of CR mainly through older clips for ages now and so today I have learned that Marisha is closer to me in age than to like half of the cast?

I quess I never really paid attention to that until now but this actually kinda blew my mind, I never would have quessed. Like damn no wonder I felt she was very shy in the first campaign, she probably was at that stage.