I’m watching Campaign 4 as it comes out. (I don’t have a Beacon subscription, so I’m catching it live on Thursdays. Except it goes later than my bedtime, so I save half of each episode until the following Monday when it releases on YouTube.)
But aside from that, I’ve watched all of the first campaign (Vox Machina) and I’m nearly done with the second campaign (Mighty Nein). I’m planning to take a little break from binging old Critical Role content and just keep up with Campaign 4. But at some point I do intend to come back to binging old Critical role content.
I have yet to start Campaign 3 (Bells Hells). And I’m faced with a choice. I could grind through 122 episodes of the actual campaign. But they also have the abridged version that I could watch instead. It’d save a lot of time.
But I don’t necessarily know how much of value I’d miss by just watching the abridged version.
So what would folks in this community do in my position? Abridged or the full campaign? I know which way I’m leaning currently, but I’m interested to hear people’s opinions as well.
The abridged edits primarily remove the time spent looking up abilities, dice rolls, and keeps a bit more focus on the story, so lore, character arcs, that sort of thing, often remain unedited. I must confess I’ve only watched a few, but I thought it was ideal for someone with a good memory to grind through episodes.
