Stephanie Salsgiver yes god

Jackets with all the chromatic colors over them

They took so long to get around to conquering the world specifically because they were deciding on the design and then having them made online.

they got all giddy and were giggling while one said it was stupid and the others agreed but then concluded it worked. They got friendship bracelets and everything. Their hideout has walkie-talkies and pillow forts galore

Well, Sending Stones plundered from their enemies and pillow forts made of said enemies, but basically

NarfSideOfLife to be honest I would have done it

Not exactly MINI, as they are frikkin HUGE, but ok. I'll let that one slide because it's technically true.

Four dragon Not-So-Minis.

Four dragon Maxis

They are mini compared to the true size.

I honestly hated that statement. I felt that came from Liam because his character was always a dick to grog and Scanlan along with his weird attitude towards the ladies, then people started turning on him in character and made him no longer the most important character for three sessions. It just seems like he was being pouty

@@wintersal7274 I actually just finished the vox machina campaign, I think he's just trying to set up a bit of a character arc.

@@jean-marctrebuchon4206 He talks about his feelings for Keylith, in which he confessed in one of the previous episodes, but she did not reciprocate. Vax also loves his sister very much and knows how much she cherishes her bear, so it is not surprising that he makes every effort to ensure that nothing bad happens to him. You, sir, are talking bs right now.

@@jean-marctrebuchon4206 Being friendly does not mean attraction. He was referring to Vax and Keyleth.

@@Anddrew914 Setting up an arc for himself and maybe even Vox Machina. What exactly is Vox Machina's purpose, what is Vax's purpose? Are they just running from random errand to random errand or are they working towards something greater?

The duality of man lol

Never come between a goliath and his evil skull

Vex is not Laura but Trinket 100% is Laura’s bear

He slept in the garage. I bet you

Grog, not travis

"Imagine" aka "I have a shit scying potion and know that Matt, like every DM, is an evil bastard"

"I got a sweet deal on a bulk order of massive dragon minis, I guess Vox Machina is gonna die now."

Matt: *evil chuckle* bawahah..mmm..yes these are some nasty beasts *slides them into his own bag of holding while Tom the cat evil laughter mememing*

And the guy that works the counter and sees him, “Oh, they’re fucked.”

I believe that the dragon minis were Critmas gifts from fans... the fans brought this upon the party

Imagine this live at the time though, i bet everybody really did think it was the last episode

@@Trevbot789 Bruh Ive watched through this before and thought Vorugal was gonna smoke em lol

Simon Lorenzo nope not even close

thats it thats the best comment

And that's just the first campaign

It is a DM's job to have multiple plans in place. You can't take everything into account, but you can think of alot

Yeep.. and sometimes you gotta roll with it lol

SPOILERS KIND OF (About the skull) We were THIS close to an alternate reality in which a hijacked Grog body with a Githyanki pirate in it being chased by Githzerai was roaming around and Vox Machina would have to get his body back and release Grog's trapped spirit in the skull back into his body. THIS CLOSE! And also Dragons... Because I don't think it would have fixed the Dragons, just been extra bad. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gL2Bgr2im7vcZ58.html 17:56

@@mayaenglish5424 Thank you for labeling your spoilers. Sincerely, someone going through the campaign for the first time.

@@caffeinedelusions No problem, anyone who says that spoilers have an expiration date, particularly with something as epic in scale as Critical Role, is just being lazy and rude. I was pretty zealous about avoiding spoilers while catching up but I caught a big one about C2 and it was _The Worst!_ 🙄 So I totally get it. 😊

I found Keyleth incredibly annoying and whiny this episode.

@@tristinyaeger9222 She always is....

Pretty much explains why Grog didn't want her there. Also describes Marishas playstyle with Keyleth. After awhile it just comes off as contrarian rather than actually having a good thought and standing behind it

@@Yamato12345666 stop with the Marisha bullying. Yall don't like Keyleth cause she's the group's conscience. The way you guys treated Marisha was shameful. She sure showed all of you though. Just disgusting.

@@tiph3802 Dude that is so not why, Marisha is fine. But Keyleth is frequently annoying. Not because she's the groups conscience but because she is whiny, wastes high level spells frequently, and has multiple times almost gotten a lot of people killed. Like whatever, it's not that big a deal but out of the whole cast I am most frequently annoyed by Keyleth, followed by vax and vex. Obviously no one should send death threats and shit on Marisha all the time. But it is totally fair to complain about a character I find annoying.

The Chroma Conclave attack happens like two days after Gilmore gives them the heroes feast. Remember they went on a "pub crawl" one night, found Gilmore, and had the feast. The next morning, they went to Krieg's old home. After all that craziness at Krieg's place they went home and slept for the night. THEN, the Chroma Conclave attacked. So two days (a day in a half at the least) after the feast, and the Heroes feast only last for like... 24 hours i think.

Nope, the worms and the dragons happened on the same day. Pub crawl - heroes' feast - Dranzel tells them about the house - sleep - they investigate the house in the morning/around noon - come back home to have seeker Asum tell them about the invitation to Uriel's speech - dragons attack. Same day. e: I stand corrected, I was wrong

After going back and watching the video, I see that you are indeed correct.

Neffarious Panda i think heroe's feast is until a long rest not 24 hours

whoa...

Shits, this is fan, say hello. *HELLO* Fan, these are the shits, say hello *HELLO OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP AAAAAGGHH!!!*

fantastic comment

@@blakeash7409 thank you

The Shits hit the fan, but only on an attack roll of 20 or higher

Lmao!

I've been waiting for 5 minutes!! She's so damn cute 🤣🥰

Corey5268 The sheer amount of emotional gut punches the players and audience suffer through this episode staggers me. In particular, I began crying when Keyleth found the remains of the Fire Ashari. I had to pause it and compose myself. I don’t know how any of them lived this moment and didn’t need the same.

Straight up ugly crying. God. Pretty much the whole episode is just fucking heart-wrenching. ;__;

It's allergies!

Time stamp?

@@JA-jk9uf it's @1:31:20. Bit late, but in case anyone else wants it

Shifting2Wolf underrated

Shifting2Wolf it’s even worse when you know your DM is a dice hoard!

You can always just roll one die 14 times

The moment every goldfish goes splat

"What a shame, I seem to have soiled myself."

Wait, really? Liam is voicing that dragon?

@@Aredel yup!

Grog: Venerial?

Just for that I want Liam to voice Larkin too

@@phoenixdzk YES

The way he ate that with such intensity killed me!

I love him so much!

I love how Grog is basically attacking Percy and Tal is just cheering him on.

that got me good lol

I thought well shit this may be the last episode after all

I thought this was a joke, and then it actually happened

That was great timing

Technical glitch that for a moment I thought was a bit Sam was doing.

LMAO!!!!

Aren't we all

I have an IBD shit 6 times watching this!!!! Thank God I didn't see it live might had a heart attack!

Looking forward to that moment of dread excitement in any of my campaigns. Currently trying to pick fights with t-rexes while the rest of the party drags me away. Bummer.

Me too friend, me too. I'm still proud that my last canpaing included 4 out of the 5 chromatics throughout and that, in a series of gauntlets leading to the final boss, at one point there were TWO dragons at the same time

The Chroma Conclave arc is my favorite for this reason! A whole slew of dragons?! With lair fights? Heck yeah buddy!

Me too. I'm always like YESSS THAT THE REAL DEAL

"This has been the worst devil deal in the history of devil deals, maybe ever." - Percival von Aristocratface de Rolo the Third

@@danksterdan1682 that is the most hilarious version of his name I've read

Dankster Dan of whitestone

Percy never acted like a aristocrat before and it dosnt make any sense for him to suddenly act like one as he was the third born, was never raised to be ruler, or diplomat, or any real part of the ruling class, and had no interest in it either, and was busy with his study... but somehow he suddenly knows all about it... now that it suits tal he changes his personality so he can act self important, completely ignoring what would makes sense. And percy wouldnt recognise a bad deal if it came in smoke form and smack him in the face with a gun...

@@Darksnakemrniceguy Right, Percy /wouldn't/ recognise a bad deal. Which is WHY it's such a big deal that he rejected THIS one. And that's what Taliesin said.

Scanlan makes everything better.

"How to play a bard 101"

How to play a Gnome 101

Let's be honest, guys... "How to be Sam Riegel 101"

Scanlan makes you feel good. Scanlan makes you feel real good.

did you not listen to the backstories in the early episodes?

@@dull_demon4717 I did only during the first two, then I started to skip it, with the exception of "prequel recap" during the break, two episodes ago.

@@psychodrummer1567 100% same, though I picked up on the favored enemy thing a few episodes back.

Moments like this are the reason why the twins have become my favorite characters in the group.

I'm still curious as to why her other Favored Enemy is Demons.

the emotion they both put into that and the delivery actually brought tears to my eyes

1:31:13 - in case anyone wants to get their heart torn to shreds a second time!

“If I am gone for 5 minutes come find me. Because I will need you.” Their acting is incredible is absolutely part of what makes CR such a joy to watch

nice. well put. thanks for pointing that out I will look for that as I'm watching it again. :)

Actually she was right in how to use it to an extent, for the spell to work you call upon a God, Primordial, Demon prince, or other cosmic power. And the payment can also be aid to a temple so the fact that Pike brought up her building the temple makes sense. So she didn’t really misuse it in any sense.

Where was that for Keyleths 6th level moving cloud/gas spell last episode lol

I'm voting for Matt Mercer as "Dungeon Grand Master"!

@@kentlewis2715 he can only do so much when someone completely and entirely misunderstands and misuses a spell because they didn't read it properly. In Pike's case it still generally followed the rules of the actual spell, whereas Keyleth fucked up and completely went against her intentions because what she wanted just wasn't the spells ability. He digressed in the end since it has a 1 minute cast time anyway and let her disable it by will, but it's not the DMs fault if people misread their spells.

But also, what if Travis had succeeded in shattering the thing and Evil Skull Guy proofed the dragons out of existence? Would we have started the good vs. evil gods arc 50 eps. early?? SO MANY QUESTIONS

Carolyn Walters Matt probably had an arc planned in the event where Grog wished for the dragon attack to not happen.

Yeah that was awesome! It's to bad Laura had to uber meta game.

@@dmlyons1130 She does it constantly. Some players are just like that. It happens.

@@ShapCast Given that the creature granting the wish was probably evil, I suspect it would have found a creative interpretation to Grog's wish so the dragons might have simply attacked a different city instead of Emon and then allied itself with them.

Oh, Scanlan is DEFINETLY not surviving this, I better not be there next week

I mean, Raishan did kill Scanlan in episode 83 and Sam wasn't present for that so...

@@Jokemeb Please delete this comment. FIRST time viewer over here.... I hope you're just trollin' and not spoiling things for the fan community.

@@Jokemeb dude, go f*ck yourself. There's people watching this series for the first time.

@@Jokemeb really man, if you're not gonna delete yhe comment, at least put a spoiler warning

Especially considering that she's in NYC and so it's even later for her than it is for them! But sleep is secondary to epic plots :)

Yeah, Ashley seems to *really* be into this campaign - she even wanted to continue playing in an earlier episode when it was 4 AM in New York and she about to get picked up to act in Blind Spot in about 2,5 hours !

I mean to be fair, prior to this dragon attack they had a party of seven level 12 characters, and they had to fight a SINGLE GUY in that jail cell of the thieves guild. It was 7 vs 1, and they are level 12. Normally characters level 12 are fighting celestial level threats, not a single mortal fighter.

@@trapical as a DM, i'd say matt understands the value of an easy fight. Letting your characters feel like badasses taking out the trash every once in a while is a good thing.

@@trapical not to mention they have a ton of resources at their back and did work hard not to have to fight the entire guild to get to him they are smart players and dont run headlong into things they cant handle which is shown well this episode one ancient dragon fine 4 and its time to go even tho like with the beholder it seems like they do they tried to get so much info and assistance to face it even tho it turned on them they accomplished their goal and ran

@@trapical Specifically in regards to that fight, I think the ease had MUCH more to do with the previous very high social rolls in addition to a hefty bribe. I suspect that one wrong move would have meant fighting the entire guild, rather than one dude.

@@trapical Except that the fight prior to this was vs. the Purple + Frost worm which was a good healthy challenge for their ilk.

He is such a chill and filtratious character but people forget that he is the moral compass of the two siblings. If Pike and Kiki didn't exist to nag them to stop being murderhobos, Vax would probably take up the role of nagger

"without hesitation" well not really, he asked if there were still people in the distance heading to the keep as he wasn't going to open the gates if there were too many people coming.

@@0saintclark0 except he specifically says he wants to wait for the stragglers to come in, so he's hoping to help as many as possible.

That’s a common theme in the other campaigns as well. Liam is a legend at role play

Much to its own horror.

I remember him saying in Talks once that it's not fun for anyone to have pet death be a worry in the game, specifically referencing Laura. I wonder if that was a realization he had here and considered the possibility of Trinket being killed until now, or if he's always let Trinket slip by. Either way, I do appreciate what he said. Personally I'm not that attached to in-game pets, but I have players at my table whose fun would be completely ruined if anything happened to them, so it's good to hear him take different players' needs into consideration.

The fact my dog is in remission from a cancer that will shorten his life when it returns makes me hyper sensitive to pet loss. I'd be *devastated* if anything happened to an imaginary pet bonded to my character just because it would make me think of what's to come.

@@Zombiewithabowtie this comment should get more love, made me laugh out loud

@@mburton9253 my DM allowed me to buy a Mastiff in one of our earlier games and he suggested I named it after my own dog. I didn't, because I wouldn't have dealt with it very well if it ever died... Hope your dog is doing better ♡

That would've been... unbeatable.

I pictured south park's woodland creatures all, uh, having their way with the dragon.

A RaptureRaven - fuzzy woodland creatures to serve as breath weapon fodder...

The last words of the dragon. "AHHHHHHHH THEY'RE RAPING MEEEEEE!!!"

Truly, there is not a more chilling sight than an ancient dragon getting violated in every sense of the word by the Little Woodland Critters.

One of the few “it’s what my character would do” moments, that is amazing

hahahahaha same.

Cute, isn't it?

And now the EXU shows expanding the world even more.

They have an amazing job. Iam looking forward to the next season of vox macnina and the M9 and the movie deals they have in works. I would love to meet this group of people.

I didn't know C3 was a Language 😂

I know right, basically how next episode is going to start.

+Liesmith lmfao

+Liesmith They are all dead, vox

when was this said???

+Kiero Vance™ (Kyrobolt) never, we are just contemplating how it will go in later episodes.

Gunslingers add their profecincy bonus to intitiave, also if Percy has alert feat he probably has either a +9 or +14 to intitiave

kristof valtori he currently has a +8 to initiative. I caught him saying “natural 20” and then proceeding to say 28. This coup could’ve changed though. I don’t know what his proficiency is right now without googling the chart.

Yeah, I remember him saying it dropped from +10 to +8 a few episodes ago when he gave a magic item that adds +2 to... Vex, I think.

@@tiril6681 I think this was around the time that the adding of proficiency to initiative was introduced. During the Briarwood arc he rolled several natural twenties on initiative which brought it to 28. Towards the end he switched out the head band of initiative (+2) and, a few episodes later, rolled a low enough on initiative to get an 8 (2+6 most likely). At this point dex + proficiency gives him a +10 (6+4) bonus to initiative.

I scrolled through the comments for this 💪

That's right. I especially like Grogs approach to bypass lengthy discussions and make something interesting happen. Every DnD party needs to take action more. God knows I have been discussing plans to death before any action was taken, so Grog making things happen is a delight to see.

Yeah, I feel like such an situation could‘ve easily gotten personal. I know how it got personal in my campaign of DnD First Timers, can‘t imagine how that skull situation would mess us up lol Love the show!

lol yeah the sheer excitement on both Travis and Taliesin's face when Grog shuts the door was very fun to see

This is in character conflict done perfectly

"I bumrush Vex"

Agreed, Travis and Sam.

Sam and Talisan are both really good about it too. All three of them have, from a meta perspective, screwed themselves over because it's what the character would have done.

CrownRock1 Yeah man especially Travis because he needs to play to his character's intelligence which, I imagine, can be frustrating as all hell sometimes.

It always makes me happy when I see Sam taking a turn and when somebody tells him to do something he says "I don't know that" because Scanlan doesn't.

that was the dice gods speaking!

+Wet Willy ...or a convenient plot device.

+cade110794 ... a _wheaton ex machina_ so to speak

+Wet Willy One thing you learn after hours and hours of dice rolling for a tabletop game, the one truth about the dice that the sooner every players comes to accept, the better off everyone will be. The dice knows. The dice ALWAYS knows.

I wouldn't say wrong decision. I support Grog. Hail our new Githyanki Overlord

Vax ten minutes later: I'm going with Grog right quick, ttyl

@@11cmgrah Downstairs, more or less within earshot. Told her to go down in five minutes.

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cake walk in comparison.

Ancient green is nearly twice the challenge rating of a Beholder. And also the advantage on saving throws from Percy's WIP homebrew class made a huge difference on how that fight played out.

Possibly, or he has been charmed somehow like Gollum and the ring, although I am only watching this for the first time. Either he genuinely thinks it is their ticket of safety or its got a hold of him. I am looking forward to find out.

Wookie_oo7 Yeah, I'm sure that part of his intentions are from outside influences, but still, I can see Grog's character going along with it regardless. Good luck with catching up on the episodes! I'm doing the same. :)

RPG Tour Guide Cheers mate, although I am not a big fan of drama for the sake of drama so I am worried that if Vax doesnt sort his crap out I may loose interest in the show.

I think Matt summed it up pretty well when he said "[Grog] is coming from a place that a simple mind is looking for a simple solution to a complex problem." And Travis' "on fire/burned" reaction was pretty funny as well. :)

I loved it, it seems to me like they're playing a chess match but grog is being influenced, as he isn't smart enough to play alone.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they born on the same day?

@@Cassian2506 Coreect

@@Cassian2506 Same day, different years, but yes, they share a birthday.

Bumpity bump

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Talesin is mr nat 20, when it comes to clutch moments

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This should be at The top

He's absolutely right. Grog is being the biggest fucktard of the group right now, BAR NONE.

@@michaelfingers7726 I know you probably meant that in a good way but maybe you didn't and so, I would like to say that he's doing that because he knows (and 'cause he is, Grog) that that's what Grog would after hearing the temptations of the skull and seeing the dragons that destroyed the whole freaking city. He isn't thinking this through and he is being a big 'ol complication to the group's planning but in the *best* way. They do this show 'cause of the dramatic moments and roleplay the characters pretty heavily and this, this is pretty awesome. So I'm sure none of them are annoyed or anything like that, like for instance, look at Taliesin, he is enjoying this and he's giddy with excitement the second Grog takes the offense.

Send Travis the Aloe.

This is travis's general approach to dnd and it's incredibly tiresome. That said, i love that he's called out for it and when he serves as some kind of third-rate minor internal side villain that the rest of the party can smack down

@@xxliew is it travis or grog?

That puts it all pretty succinctly

Yeah, makes me wish Pike had something.

Hard to have something for Pike when she has been relatively hit-and-miss from her work schedule. Im glad Ashley is having success outside of Crit Role, but one side effect is that it makes it difficult to craft a specific Arc for her character.

Pike, I would say, is serving as a kind of -- Patron Saint of Serenrae. She maybe has a slightly less personal stake than the others, but her heart needs more than anyone. She wants to save anyone she can, heal everyone she can. That matters

@@CERap22 Yep, i would say Pike isnt getting a personal arc, but has taken some important moments. Back in the underdark she failed Sharenrae with her decisions and nearly broke her medallion. But latter, not only she has achive forgivness, but increase in her relation with her goddess, and achive some badass moments thanks to that, like her connection and jumping in the fight in Whitestone, and retourning peoples faith in the temple while everyone is despair due to the dragons atack.

gaaaAAAQHHHHHHH ANTICIPATIOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN these comments are killing me!

I've been looking for Laura's line here, absolutely amazing, along with the twins look at each other when Matt was giving Allura's speech about the ruin Thordak brought... Both are gut-wrenching moments...

@@andytaylor2429 if I’m not mistaken one of the cities Mentioned is the city their mother was from which mean that’s the dragon that killed their mother ( 2:38:34 )and during the scrying thing when vax and vex where sitting next to each other waiting they had a little moment where essentially vax wants revenge no matter what ( 2:51:06 )....... this is my first time through and I know this is years old but it got me right in the heart 😔 💔

@@rangerraber2416 I saw Laura cover her mouth, but I didn't know the name of the city, so I didn't understand the connection.

SPOILERS. JESUS. KZfaq SHOWS THE TOP COMMENT

That made me cry. A lot.

Liam is a wordsmith.

When Liam took Laura's hand as she was "crying" that's what made me cry. When I've had panic attacks just having someone there to hold my hand and keep it away from my face makes all the difference.

You've got over 1500 hours of content left, good luck.

Dope. *munch*

I see all these people posting 2, 3 years ago like "I'm trying to catch up, wish me luck guys!" and I'm like "yayyy...."

Ah heck yea! Cookies! 🍪

​@@Cassian2506 yeah lol there's SO MUCH left.

There have been moments where I genuinely wondered how they could still be Matt's friends.

Yeah, I had most of these moments as DMs when players took stuff happening to their characters as a personal attack and I admit, it happened to me a few times as a player. You just get so invested in them, that it hurts, so the same thing that makes you a good player in terms of RPing (in my opinion at least, actually caring for your char is a large part of it) makes it difficult to be aware that you ARE NOT the character and no one has it out for you, if they have it out for your character... Well, unless they are a bunch of dicks.

@Gi Gi Things are way more flexible and light-hearted now.

​ Much of the cast certainly cares about their characters quite a lot. After watching C2 there were many moments when the cast was genuinely upset about things that happened to their characters. Laura has as Vex and Sam when it came to Kaylee. Laura clearly cares about Trinket. I think it certainly affects them to some degree and they can be mad at each other about what happens between their characters, but they keep themselves in check. They're too close as friends to make it personal. They can handle so much friction in the game cause they trust each other not to make it personal and have to hold themselves to that.

Right? As someone who is a very intense role player and typically embodies my characters, when tension rises, i can get intense as well. Which is why i always break character after i'm done talking to let my friends know that *I'm* not mad, X is, and just do a silly little dance or grin and thumbs up. And then afterwards, at the end of the session, i do a check in with said friend to let them know it was all an act and to make sure we're still good. Because, unfortunately... i HAVE split from a group where we couldn't seperate players from characters, and when tensions got high, we - the players - took it personally and started fighting. It was a huge blow up, and some friendships didn't make it out of it, even though it truly wasn't personal.

So pleased he did, that skull was a very very very bad thing

Two player's turns and a level 4 spell slot wasted on this boat anchor of a bear.

The Beast Master subclass for Ranger needed an upgrade so badly, in 5e. It was so very nerfed, originally, to the point of being useless for an Archtype. It's why Laura started dipping into rogue. The updated beast master isn't so horrible anymore.

I can't stand trinket, she insists on taking him everywhere making things harder, and never attacks with it. Its just a waste of time.

That damn bear has been so useless and a hiderance to the party...really starting to dislike Laura's character because of it.

@@WolvesHart79 it’s because they were playing pathfinder originally and in that animal companions are so much stronger, when they started streaming they switched to DND and the animal companions are so much weaker. So it’s hard for her, because he was a bit of a machine and now he is a bit useless.

He does a great job of portraying an apocalyptic event. Everything they’ve done up u til now only involved small pockets of the world or organizations. A quest here a quest there... but this is where they have to handle world-threatening entities on a scope that anyone other than a true legendary hero would crumble under the weight of. Fucking epic. Matt should write for the elder scrolls series.

I have no idea if this is incidental or not, maybe he's used these before, but I also like that we got an actual landscape battlemap and a mini set of the keep rather than his old drawings. It's a small thing but it helped enhance the scenario, too.

I get some serious "first 10 minutes of Skyrim" vibes for sure

​@@paulchavez3039yes this in fact anybody else should write for Bethesda their game play is top notch their story telling bottom rung.

Mercer’s the reason I got into Critical Role. My brother got me to multi with him on Baldur’s Gate 3, so I checked out a few of the celebrity D&D sessions he DM’d, and the man is phenomenal at what he does. “This is wild” is exactly what I thought when I saw him do his thing. Thanks to Mercer and BG3, I went out and got a Player’s Handbook and read everything but the spells (I read what pertained to my class and character). Now I’m a Critical Role fan, I’m playing my first bit of D&D-anything and I’m looking forward to tabletopping someday when I have the time.

lucas maglio I think people are complaining more that he shouldn't have to do it as Trinket can sometimes get in the way in combat. Though Grog saving Trinket sounds in character anyways.

I don't know how far you are, but as much as I think Vox Machina are kind of murder hobo-y, I have to disagree with you. Grog is obviously a violent individual, but he still truly loves the group and everyone in it. That being said, he's reckless and brash. Violence isn't just "fun" to him, I think (though it's loads of that), but a way of life. "Getting fucked up" isn't this horrible thing that happens to people, it's as common as getting groceries. I think it's more of a different mindset that's alien to us than him not caring for his allies and family.

i think you're right in this point of the story.. present grog would have save trinket. but it doesn't matter because he would do it again not for grog but for laura

lucas maglio yeah man...I couldn't have sat there & pretended my wife wasn't crying for long. I'm still human....

Grog couldn't really reach the dragon with his melee so I think trying to save the bear wasn't totally out of character. Also I think it was very sweet of Travis. Also ale. Sorry, couldn't stop myself.

She is roleplaying expertly how a favoured enemy should be roleplayed. Rangers, man.

@@xavierestelles9327 Right? ...y'know, vengeance seems to tie a lot of Vox Machina together. 1. It's the core of Percy's story arc (his last words to Ripley still make me weep). 2. It's what makes Kill Box such a *sick* episode. 3. Vex and Vax have *this.* 4. Scanlan can be hella petty and the results are both hilarious and, later on in the story, heartbreaking. 5. Her death at the hands of a devil/demon made *Pike Trickfoot* angry enough leave the group to train into the powerhouse she now is. 6. The hunger for vengeance is even enough to make the emotional yet borderline-pacifistic Keyleth throw caution to the window and go "Babe, you and me. Let's throw hands with an ANCIENT DRAGON."

Thank you for explaining this. Understanding the full gravity requires a lot of details from pre stream games

2:38:29

@@edgardelibojr.4450 ty

Hope they track this dragon age to its origins and dispatch an inquisition.

@@EnDSchultz1 Well played sir and or ma''am. Well played indeed

Mastadon hah! I had forgotten about this. Glad you enjoyed the wise crack, and thanks for the memory.

@@EnDSchultz1 2 instead of "to" and it would have been 11/10

And damn, does she metagame.

+Nicholas Fuchs What? Why is that metagaming!?

What a wise 22 wisdom druid

MC Hero Syndrome in a nutshell. (major tragedy happens) MC: This is all my fault. Someone important: You were on the other side of the planet! this is not your fault! MC: if i had been here, i could've stopped this. Lather and repeat argument in different ways.

I mean, at around 1:16:00 Thordak does say that „your pitiful guardians brought this upon you“ it’s not that unreasonable for them to place blame on themselves, given the facts that the leader of the dragons blamed them

@@creidy2018 True. Except Thordak wasn't talking about Vox Machina. He was talking about Allura and her team, back when Thordak was sealed away the first time.

@@r.s.2890 yeah, but at the time they didn’t know anything about that, so I honestly can’t fault them for drawing the conclusion that he was alluding to them and a situation they just had involving dragons, instead of an Event they had never heard of before

@@r.s.2890 their continued guilt afterwards is a little much after hearing the story definitely lol, but I understand a little guilt

When's that?

@@horatiussonofrome812 when Trinket was frozen i think hahahaha

I saw that too and I was dying 😂 bless him honestly. Laura was so upset though!!

grog is not travis just cause travis plays grog

@@dull_demon4717 sure, but there's no reason for grog to care that much about saving trinket, especially in light of whats happening. it's an ooc decision that is obviously happening bc travis knows laura is upset. it's very sweet and kind and i love that he does that!

Are you kidding me? "Appreciate that she shows up when she can?" She misses more than 50% of episodes and is almost never there in person. She should just leave the show that she obviously doesn't care about instead of making it awkward for everyone by having Matt try to play a phantom PC. And at this point it'd been, what, 3 years since they started playing pathfinder/D&D and she *still* only barely knows how to play the game. Plus she rarely contributes anything useful; she just casts heals and does arcana checks. She's easily the most useless member of the party, and that's saying something with Keyleth making things worse every time she casts something.

Are you kidding me? "Appreciate that she shows up when she can?" She misses more than 50% of episodes and is almost never there in person. She should just leave the show that she obviously doesn't care about instead of making it awkward for everyone by having Matt try to play a phantom PC. And at this point it'd been, what, 3 years since they started playing pathfinder/D&D and she *still* only barely knows how to play the game. Plus she rarely contributes anything useful; she just casts heals and does arcana checks. She's easily the most useless member of the party, and that's saying something with Keyleth making things worse every time she casts something.

Frustrating as it may be, friends do what they can for each other. That's why they do what they can to make this enjoyable for everyone.

@@frother Oh look, it's another one of these. You should go watch another show where you don't hate everyone in it, if such a thing exists.

Roflmao, you do realize she was working full-time in NYC, right? We're talking about her career. A lot of the players sometimes miss episodes or come in partway through because of work... because they're grown-ass adults with intensive careers that require a lot of time and travel. They are all friends and were playing /long/ before they became Critical Role. While it's a game they are very passionate about and put a lot of time into, it's still a game and a hobby. At best, a secondary job (especially with what CR has become.) If she really didn't give a shit, she wouldn't even bother playing. There is a 3-hour time difference, so Ashley was starting late into the evening, around 10pm for her, and they would easily go until 2-3am EST. An earlier episode indicated quite clearly that the next day, she has a 5am pick-up for her job. Meaning she is becoming severely sleep-deprived for a job that actually, you know, PAYS her and gives her a friggin roof over her head and food, in order to play with her friends and contribute as best as she can... literally thousands of miles away. And if you /actually/ think casting heals is worthless, you obviously have no indication of how important and game-changing a healer often is, especially with the hard fights they are frequently going in. Even if she is /just/ casting healing spells, she is very clearly helping. That's the whole point of a support character. You support the team... via heals, buffs, and debuffs of enemies. Just last night, I played a session in one of my D&D campaigns where two of us, the druids, ended up dealing very little damage and spent nearly the whole time healing because the players were soaking up /that/ much damage. We were level 9-10 fighting a CR 25 fucking Archmage who was using shit like Time-Stop, psychic scream, and other crazy shit, like a sword that literally sucked the youth and life out of players. If it wasn't for our double-mass cure wounds and use of other healing spells, we would have almost certainly suffered a TPK (a few of us already nearly died and had one more failed saving throw before death). Our DM pretty much confirmed it by telling us the next spell the ridiculously overpowered boss was going to use, which would have fucked us all. I became the primary healer for the group after the death of the last, but I wasn't enough. We required a whole-ass other player "stuck on healing duty." It may not be exactly exciting and we aren't damaging the bad guys, but we're keeping the team afloat and alive to fight another day. That's what Pike does. Let's also not forget that if not for her, they could have easily failed Percy's shit; a cleric was absolutely 100% the fucking game-changer and saved the team's asses. Seriously, people criticizing a group of friends playing a game who bothered to go online... >_>

If you haven't watched season 2 of the legend of vox machina, it was really hard there too. Lol

the blessing of being trained actors.

It’s called ‘loving the game but remembering it’s a game’. Some people just can’t do that or see that, unfortunately.

It's amazing! Sometimes I actually think they're mad or sad! Specially Vax!

I enjoy the animated show to a certain point, there is massive ammounts that just aren't even touched upon which I think is really disapointing but I do enjoy seeing the characters being played out visually like that.

@@CryptoKrill I just finished episode 80 and am so glad I continued watching! I'm loving it!

@@CryptoKrill I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the series it's revealed that it's tarrien's interpretation of events. In the concept art for the characters everyone has the in-game version of their designs and what we got in the show.

I’m with you! Never heard of CR until Amazon showed me a trailer of TLOVM and I fell in love. Now I tell everyone about them, such a geeky girl, even at 53 😂

I'm in the same wagon. Occasionally heard of Critical role, never bothered to watch. And fell in love immediately.

He's just a good actor.

He shares some features and qualities with Martin Freeman, I think. He at least reminds me of him a lot.

The worrior class. "I cast self-doubt, giving me advantage on insight checks against myself."

This is one of the most accurate statements I have ever read.

Your comment had me in tears lmao

As you walk into the keep, a giant 30 foot tall chicken appears, showing his T O O T H Y M A W.

Well, I know what I’m running for my players next.

a bloody Chicken of Death xD

@@TheKyleMark A bit late to the party perhaps, but you may want to google BOK! Attack of the Giant Chicken. Farmer Hershel attempts to magically enlarge his prize chicken, Hershel Junior, to win a contest of some sort. Hilarity ensues as it grows to the size of a T-Rex, with the corresponding stat block. "...To make things worse, Hershel Junior thinks everyone looks like an insect-and chickens eat insects!"

Sam is the superglue that holds vox machina together

I think this would have happened even if Sam was present. Sam may have just diffused the situation more quickly by teleporting away with the skull. I don't think Sam necessarily holds the team together. Just makes the team more interesting.

It always makes me sad when they can't all be together. This episode would have been super sad regardless but it's was sorely missing his comic relief.

I don't miss him, the dick and fart joke are getting old and are super childish.

Darren Kalkwarf that’s the best part

omg I love this

She does have that feel about her.

Matt has said that Allura was the character that has the most of him in, so even if its not former npcs its probably the one character that a DM of matts caliber put the most effort into

I'm a PC in a homebrew world right now and the DM literally had two old players who's PCs became bar owners and in our session zero, their perception was so high compared to level 3's sleight of hands that they literally intimidated the crap out of a pickpocketing player XD

And then finding out that it's the same dragon... 😭

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@@eddvultures40 I was gonna like it, but then I saw your reply and now I feel compelled to dislike

I straight up snort-laughed at that. I love Matt Mercer.

I want this on a tshirt.

was waiting for a comment that mentions the camera freeze!!

WannaComment2 I wonder if Watson could be a good dungeon master. Probably not even on the same league as Matt, but maybe good enough to make a fun game for human players?

Break, or fix?

Dont Misunderstand this is the same question I asked when bringing my dog to the vet for the first time

You can certainly try.

Roll for Machine Learning

I assume you know about it now, but there is an overhaul available in the UA (Unearthed Arcana). Basically, UA is a testing stage for ideas that may or may not become official. I run the UA beastmaster in my campaign and it is great.

@@shadowscall7758 it is so sad when dms just assume "all UA is stupid op" and won't even try to address the ranger, especially beast master. Ruins a major fantasy for tons of people.

Alex Jobe I mean, I use revised ranger for my games, and to be fair, Primeval awareness is incredibly overpowered. “Yes, I’d like to know the approximate position and race of all humanoids within five miles. No, I don’t have a limit on how often I can do this”

@@MissFeatherstone That is literally the only thing they have though. With the exception of some spells with decent rolls, they perform at least 4 levels below their comrades at all times after a certain point. Plus, Wizards have similar info gathering spells. It is one thing to be able to gain info, it is another to have the means to act on it. Even a lvl 20 Ranger would typically have trouble dealing with threats a lvl 15 ranged class could easily deal with.

It really just comes down to trying to homebrew with your DM. Like, maybe you can micromanage your beast. Spend a bonus action to command it and say something to micromanage it. The class features UA definitely was more of a focus on trying to improve Ranger, but it does feel like there are still some things that could be changed. I recently made a subclass for Ranger based upon the whole rune mechanic from Rune Knight, and to me at least, it makes Ranger a much more valuable unit. Giving Ranger utility outside of combat, but also still being able to hold their own as a supportive unit who can still deal damage.

Its freaking Brilliant

I loved it. Am only a little dissapointed in small metagaming knoweledge from the cast (except Percy and Grog). Things like only asking Grog if he is himself while percy charged at her first, Keylith desperatly going after Grog & Pike wanting to see craven edge while there is no good reason for it. But still love them and I don't expect all of them to be perfect.

If Sam was there it would have ended a lot different

@@BrotherHood-xh9sg I don't really see the meta-gaming. Percy did tell them to keep an eye on Grog when Craven Edge was introduced. Grog said he had "darkness around him" AND he's been talking to his sword. Vax called him on it. Percy charged her to push her out of the way of Grog, so it's a bit different of a reaction. Grog's weird behavior started after he got the sword. They just watched Percy be possessed. OBVIOUSLY they'd want to see his sword. Ashley had also said she wanted Pike to get a look at it several times before this, too

@@alexhuettl1716 I suppose so and I heard those things too. But in my opinion, this felt more like they have a small clue of something and they filled the puzzle with out of game knowledge. I mean I get that it is hard to have 100% no meta knowledge, but my personal instinct as a DM and a Player that despises meta gaming was signaling alarm bells. But unlike you I am unable to state facts that they acted in that manner.

She keeps track of her spells well but cannot remember core mechanics including the details of some of her spells. Each of them have room to improve in different areas

Throwback to tiberius using a thousand sorcerer's points and multiple 6th level spells every encounter

Well, it wasn't entirely correct as Matt used mass cure wounds at lvl6 last session when she wasn't there so she wouldn't have been able to cast planar ally, but whatever, it's rough to account for stuff when she isn't there - he should've noted it for her exactly what was used and what was left. Same with the exact HP.

@@yiklongtay6029 that makes sense seeing as she is in like 20% of the sessions lmao

He always crits on it too

Hes so good at it he can go unconscious as a bonus action

And in today's episode of Useless Bear Being Useless

@@polkadotalien1 Vex took an extra feat so I'm pretty sure he can do it as a reaction too.

oof

Jed Barber I was begging for that to happen the entire time

Yeah, but it's Percy's now, so it's a secondary (hell, tertiary even) weapon in a mainly ranged player's hand. Grog traded it to him for Craven Edge, since it's a one-handed sword. More than that, Vex has an arrow of dragon slaying, but it's only one and it's single use. Could be a nice trump card (especially if she remembers how her Conjure Barrage uses whatever ammunition she used for the cone effect), but wont save than against 4 ancient dragons.

@@HenriqueErzinger Tertiary? Nah; rocks he picks up from the floor comes before melee combat.

Prediction from reading this comment before watching episode - they won't even remember they have it.

@@scottshaw8864 bump lol