Tabletop Escapades - Episode 85 "Season Finale"

Yeah, I tend to agree - but this time they were in a pretty crazy situation. They were pretty much on a fiery hell continent with no obvious way home, so the only way to give them a chance to cooldown was to anti-WOW Cataclysm the whole place (which does rather ask more questions than it answers!)

Samuel Cardwell

The Tabletop season finale was really good. That ending stretch with Pomper, the mother. and the others were beautifully done by Ben. I'll argue to the day I die that Tabletop Escapades is the finest material in the EZA catalog and every EZA fan should watch it. That said, I felt the ending was very much... unresolved. It actually felt a lot like the Xenoblade Chronicles X ending which ends on a cliffhanger rather than actually resolving anything in a satisfying manner. The one-shots are significantly better in that regard because Ben actually makes an effort to bring the adventure to a satisfying conclusion. After 84 hours of content, there's literally 0 answers given which is kind of a bummer. I find this to be an ongoing problem with TTE in that Ben and the cast will go through an arc, like in Bul'vach, the guys will beat a boss and before the episode is over, they have rushed along to the next adventure without any kind of satisfying cooldown to relish in the victory. It didn't make sense to bring this up until the full story was out, but now that it's here, I feel like this is a legitimate criticism. I hope at the start of the next season, there's a bit of cooldown period for an episode or two that allows us, and the group to settle in, instead of being rushed along into the next conflict. Everybody needs a little time to breathe.

Pixel Perfect Polygons

I'm not an artist, but I do have a fan art request. I'm picturing a Fame soaked in blood with a naked dwarf baby on her back and she's saying something about 'Let's go spread love and peace.'

Dustin McNab

You make some good points, but I'm glad they're continuing. I'm new to D&D, so I've never see high level play and would like to see where it goes. I'm playing a campaign with my first group, I've read about high level abilities and they sound fun. They may not be balanced, but I love TTE for the crazy stuff they get into and the crazier ways they react to it.

Dustin McNab

Feel kinda weird about this episode since I thought it'd wrap up this entire story, and instead everything feels like a midway point now, like when a JRPG suddenly has a major plot twist and you get the screen that says "Insert Disc 2". Thought the point was to wrap all this up, so you could start anew in a new setting with new characters for new fans to get into without all this baggage. Like a couple of epilogue episodes of them getting jolly with their gains from the campaign is fine, but introducing a new big bad just worries me this is going to go on entirely too long. Also, since they're already high level, honestly just anytime really, giving your players three level ups at once without some huge timejump in the middle to justify it is absolutely insane. Each level up past ten is already very powerful gains, so three at once is a massive boost to their abilities. I'd say "oh whatever, that's fun" if the campaign with these characters was ending here, but if it's still going, you're quickly approaching that point where your party is brokenly powerful, strong enough to challenge gods and become gods themselves. Sure, this party doesn't always use their power to the height of it's potential, but it should still be a concern going forward. I've gotten used to this group's offtopic chatter and singing, but it is a bummer that it took away from this arc ending episode feeling as grand as one would expect it to.

MBUN

Just to be clear, do we only have till next week to submit our fanart to you guys for the fanart episode?

havik

The side chatter this episode was super distracting, especially for being the finale. It's one thing when Ben needs a bit of time to look something up or figure something out, but this was pretty bad. Looking forward to next season though!

Minamik

If there is one thing from the first season that I would love to see expanded in the second, it would be the jolliest of city vibes. I could watch a whole season of the group exploring a city and uncovering its dark secrets.

realwar44

Great ending! Please tell what happened to Kuou and other plot strands that were missed by the characters.

Season finale? I'm soooo far behind. :( I need to catch up...

Dale Son

Great ending to a great arc! Super excited for the next season and perhaps new characters.

Olf Himself

As much as I hate to criticize you, it was really hard to watch with so many side talks and singing. If it was a filler episode that would be OK, but for season finale I would like to focus on the story.

Alexander Zyryanov