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[deepestbluesky]

reading reactions to Critical Role Downfall on tumblr is giving me so much fucking psychic damage, i need to take a long rest

first of all the number of people referring to aeor and also the prime deities as two singular collective entities... WILD!!! we just watched hours of their absolutely being differences and changing opinions and conflict within both groups! second of all the number of people who think there's a Right Answer to the situation in aeor baffles me.

but like, i kind of... put this on matt if i'm honest... not the reactions i'm seeing specifically but that i've been kind of uncomfortable this whole campaign with how deeply it's diving into questions of morality of religion and belief when i don't actually think that's, in some ways, a story CR is well-suited to explore and when the world it's taking place in is so informed by a very specific worldview.

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idk dude. downfall is cool as hell as a story and yet. it's very hard for something to be a singular story and also a philosophical experiement/debate about morality and also also about a concept that is unavoidably colored by everyone's personal feelings about religion, a famously divisive topic.

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[deepestbluesky]

AND ANOTHER THING!!!! (many other things. i'm gonna be Thinking About This.)

to expand a little on 'people thinking there's a Right Answer'—i feel like i saw a lot of people being like, well clearly [x] option wasn't going to work, so why did the gods wait so long to pick something? and i just want everyone saying that to prove to me that they've never tried to explain why the trolley problem is bad because you can take a third option. i actually think it's very reasonable and sympathetic and well in line with the way that many people play dnd to try and find an alternate, better secret third thing solution to horrible moral dilemmas! the problem is just that here, the GM isn't going to let you