This thread enticed me to watch an episode. I've never D&D'ed before, I've never watched others D&D before for any bulk length of time. But I love RPG's and I have to say I am (was) completely captivated. Matt's world building ability is fantastic.
I'm now on episode 25 (right at the start of the confrontation between
and the party)
Orion is such a poor sport and a blatant cheater. He constantly rolls several times while Matt is giving exposition, clearly trying to make insight/arcana/etc. checks. If its high enough, he'll stop everything and say "Hey! I rolled a 25 on arcana, whats going on". If not, he doesn't say anything for about 10 seconds and then asks Matt to make an arcana check and rolls again.
Then he huffs and puffs whenever the team doesn't do exactly what he wants, and then goes off and does it without any exposition to the team. Makes for poor immersion for viewers. The show was fantastic until right before/during the
fight in the
. While the fight was captivating, Orion's playing performance has steadily gone down. In one episode, he used Obelisk of Stone and a Fireball on
rats... And then complained when the team didn't allow him to take an 8 hour rest. In this episode that i'm watching, Keyleth said to him away from the mic "I don't metagame, unlike others here". While I mostly enjoy Tiberius, I can't separate Orion and Tiberius, slightly because it seems like he himself can't either.
He is the absolute worst, and I don't know how they have been playing with him for 3 years. Friendship goes a long way it seems. I would have had boulders fall on his character 8 episodes ago. But knowing Orion, he would cheat on his dice-roll and convince the boulder to kill itself.
Is the show worth pushing on? Because I don't know if i can take anymore of Tiberius interrupting Matt randomly to cast 6th level fly on everyone when they all have horses and are simply going to the store.