#i didnt look too hard into the handful of folks i saw regurgitating that take

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The take that Ashton should be punished/"nerfed" by losing his dunamantic abilities and having the hypothetical elemental themed ones replace it is? So wild to me tbh.

Like. If we're being honest, the titan abilities could literally be ANYTHING. So instead of introducing an entire new set of abilities for a functionally new subclass while getting rid of the ones we've been seeing all campaign? If the rewards would really make a single character THAT unbalanced? It would probably be 100 times easier to just nerf/adjust whatever hypothetical abilities they were supposed to be adding in the first place to make it more "fair".

Because they already have the Ka'mort shard and the only mechanics "benefit" it's given thus far is the fact that it changed Ashton's pre-campaign race from half-elf to earth genasi. Which is arguably not even a benefit because he didn't keep the features/traits of a half-elf. Then the only known narrative benefit has been the fact that they seem to have an unnaturally heightened connection to nature/eidolons. Which has only ever been for ultimately inconsequential narrative implications or adding a little spice to explain/"justify" the effect of certain dice rolls.

So we have no real established expectations for what the "awakened titan" abilities will be. It'll be sad to have them watered down but would make way more sense than just scrapping an entire homebrew subclass's mechanics?

#critical role spoilers #cr discourse #critical role discourse #i didnt look too hard into the handful of folks i saw regurgitating that take #but i absolutely wouldnt be surprised to find theyre the same chunk of audience that has a vengeance against the idea of dunamancy #or that they're upset the shard didnt just kill ash completely #i will say id love for this to have lasting negative effects. just that the total loss of that aspect of the character seems like a boring #solution. on the other hand having their titan and dunamancy shit at WAR seems very fun and potentially destructive/dangerous #maybe lean MORE into the fact that the subclass was based around the fact that tal found wild magic barbarians 'not chaotic enough' #(which again would likely be about ADJUSTING instead of throwing everything in the garbage)