hmmm-hmmm-hmmm

I literally just made this bookmark for myself 😂😂

@@arne1781 Ford's motto is "Built Tough", referring to their trucks.

The guy I responded to deleted it and now here I am looking like a fool.

@@jimbojazz6879 Not a fool, because I had no idea what the joke was there. So thank's :D

@@jimbojazz6879 mood

Aw man... I lose it every time I watch it now XDD Just the fact that it completely defocuses Matt is hilarious XDD

In memory of Grog holding his “Hold Person” thumbs up for like five minutes in C1

@Joe S That was impressive. Everyone stopped paying attention to Travis after the first minute thirty, but he just kept it going as long as he could stand it.

But then he scream “take them out” as foreshadowing of the experiments done on him

Yeah, Liam is absolutely my favorite. I keep looking at him and his moments of being frozen. Probably from trauma. His character is a lot more intriguing to me.

@@flopilop4596came here to make a similar comment. 😢😢

You got the perfect warlock..

@@rajthemirage Sam's mayo fursona ad seemed like a reaction to his DnD Beyond jingle (C2E7). He may have realized "I need to lower the bar on my ad reads (again) or sponsors will start expecting me to do stuff like this every week" and thought up something unmarketable. Considering the eventual commercial success and immediate recognition of the cast, Sam may have felt uncomfortable with the precedent this ad set: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d5pyqK9pnZzGenU.html Also #OpenDnd

@@voicechatty6310 makes sense yeah... I think I'd make me feel uncomfortable too. Smart of him

Sam is the f*cking best

Me who always skips the intro and breaks: I'm sorry, DA FAQ!?

wait when did they pretend to have syphilis?

@@danny_decheeto8300 When they got robbed on their way to Zadash

Rex Mastersins Has that happened yet?

@@danny_decheeto8300 It happens in this episode at 2:04:33

Rex Mastersins kk

Am i bad person for laughing at this? Lol.

Travis and Laura rolled a Natural 20 on their Conception checks

@@deffdefying4803 You may joke about that, but my wife made a card that said "confirmed critical" when she discovered she was pregnant with our son.

Fails the roll

gets a Natural 1

It's such a nice breath of fresh air to come from Percy who was a dick most of the time to Molly who is nice to everyone and protecting Caleb

It’s almost like he is of a chaotic nature….

Molly is amazing

yeah love him I hope nothing bad ever happens to him

@@rockassassin64 lmao

Matt definitely knows how to cat.

galmorzu frampkin rolled a NAT 20 for Caleb’s bs

Where is the timestamp?

@@kenzacario5196 all of it

@@kenzacario5196 51:48

Brendan Wenger helps make the world feel more alive tbh. It’s really convincing to see him act out all of the smaller NPC’s

THAT SHOPKEEPER IS MY FAVORITE NPC NOW

Dumat Sol deserves it

He sounds like a more excitable Eeyore. It's amazing.

Pumat swole is da man

Same, I just did three Identify's today and completely forgot I needed a pearl

Honestly his dedication make the wizard so much more interesting and make me want to be more strict about it in my game because it give an othet level of immersion

For many things an arcane focus can take the place of any material component without a gold value

I just started with the second campaign after watching Exandria Unlimited: Calamity (I followed Brennan from Dimension 20), and I can tell right away Liam and Taliesin are old school D&D players. Like 2nd Ed/AD&D old school (where I started because my first DM’s dad taught him to play with AD&D, and my second DM mixed elements of AD&D with 3rd Edition). I especially remember my second DM telling us to either describe our spells/skills or give them a new name that our character would use for them. And he was real crunchy with the material components and how much of what coin we had. I’m not sorry that campaign ended the way it did, but I am sorry it ended when it did. I had good reasons for killing the rest of my party*. *I was a Chaotic Nuetral Drow rogue who used my position as lead scout to escape the Underdark. A group of traveling adventurers came upon me and instead of befriending me, they captured me and used me to scam small farming towns. They’d release me, I’d kill a cow, scare some poor farmer half to death, and then the rest of the party would show as “drow hunters”. We stage a fight, extort the farmers and townsfolk for what they’ve got, and move on. It’s not how I and our DM thought it would go, but it was funny so we went with it. We’d just really “stumbled” upon the main quest our DM had for us, when OOC (out-of-character) bullshit started seeping into our game. Our cleric was dating our ranger and they started having relationship problems, and it got to the point where one would bring up real world shit in the game. Like if we want the cleric the heal anybody the ranger needed to apologize for some high school bullshit drama. Then my twin brother, our tank, a half-orc barbarian, came up with a solution and our next session I put it into action. When it came time to make camp for the night, I convinced everyone that I could take watch because I’m a Drow, I can see in the dark, and I only need 4 hours meditation as opposed to 8 hours sleep. I asked the DM if everyone was asleep, rolled a natty 19, and said what my brother told me to say, “I’ve had enough of this being captive bullshit. If they’re all dead asleep, coup de grâces all around. Then I want to take the barbarian’s bag of holding and loot the bodies for everything g valuable, including teeth and hair.” Our DM thought it was hilarious, and he was sick of the bullshit, so he just allowed it. The barbarian obviously thought it was funny, the ranger and cleric were pissed as hell, and our mage got confused and asked, “Why the teeth and hair?” To sell to goblins. They can use the hair to make ropes and teeth for bullets in their slingshots.

Unfortunately it was immediately followed by him being the worst kind of drama just to identify items. It was like Tibs was back and shopping again.

I was so confused because of this "siebzehn" xD

I’M SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE CAUGHT THAT IT WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY

Really I could have sworn he said Sieben, but also my German is bad so i could be wrong.

@@green_witch6545 can confirm he said siebzehn

He was also being sarcastic.

You will take "Lore Damage" by the time you realize why in future episodes.

@@RealityBoy101 dare i ask? Edit: i just..... yeah, i realized what that meant... yeah.... really sad

And before that, Sam's panic face as they question Caleb about whether he has kids.

Unrelated but what caused everyone to lose it at 1:13:43 ?

@@johnpaulcross424 The joke on Fjord's name. "Fjord Tuff" or "Ford Tough" as in the truck. Sam made a truck pun.

And then later in the episode he gives life advice to the people that were trying to rob them. I think he just loves making the world a better place, one person at a time, and in the most chaotic good way possible

@@magiv4205 He is the uncle Iroh of the group.

I think he could play a true chaotic evil character and still do nice little things. I don't think he's capable of making a character that I don't like.

*was

I heckin love the lad

Much like prisoners doing sit-ups and push-ups all day, she didn't have much else to do.

Like every five year old lol

Good hetaera have to keep in shape. I expect there's exercise routines.

Whats the timestamp

1:49:19

does anyone know how she got hurt?

@@Alirosa937 when she twisted around to sneeze she did it so hard that she basically strained the muscle/cartilage around her rib area lmfao

So much Dnd in one sentence

I was scrolling through the comments and literally read this as she said it

Matt Davenport I imagine that banker guy from South Park”and it’s gone”

Congrats!!

If you ever need an extra player let me know! I have a couple characters workshoped and mainly being a DM it’s hard to find opportunities to play a PC.

Aww what a nice story

That's glorious to hear Mike! I have been hooked for 3 years now and enjoy both experiencing others worlds and running them. Long may our joys and woe's continue :D All the best, Dan

Oh, no! Why give it up? I'm 57, and though our real life means our face-to-face group doesn't meet often at all any longer, I find time to play on Roll20. It's a great hobby. Did you get your kids (if you have any) gaming? My spouse and I did.

Could you explain it?

@@daught967 Like the truck brand Ford, they always say their trucks are built "Ford Tough". So if Fjord's surname was Tough, he'd be Fjord Tough

@@TrueRandomPlayer Ooh, I get it! Thank you so much!

​@@TrueRandomPlayer ohhhh i understand now thanks

Sam can cast tasha's hideous laughter in real life

GENIUS POWER MOVE

Best advice to any dm that this happens to, just turn on google doc voice write or whatever it’s called. It’s some setting that turns audio into words on paper

@@annaemmons3490 actually huge, thank you so much

Feel like Liam is kinda abusing the feat to get out of note taking

@@lnt305 oh yeah, but that's what it's there for. He has the feat so why not use it

glaives are cursed. better to get rid of them :(

@@shadycactus6146 How are they "cursed"? Am I missing something?

spoilers friend

@@shadycactus6146 Fair enough.

This is what Ashley gets for not skyping in more...

Hah! Nice.

Me too! And they're all distinct and consistent. It's crazy! So many NPCs and almost all of them are completely distinct accents and personalities 😮

He said at one point that he has a couple little notes describing how the character sounds, like "high-pitched, nasal Irish" or something similar written next to the character's name.

I was half expecting nott to say "I go around and take a silver out of the pocket of everyone who bought us a drink"

As a german speaker I appreciate it a lot ☺️

​@@rj4721 Jap, mal abgesehn davon das sachen einfach lustiger werden weil man den zweiten sinn dahinter versteht wie wenn Liam flucht xD Es ist wirklich erfrischend :D

MasumiSeike nein

@@benjaminklein8379 Doch ;P

@@MasumiSeike Ja.

This is my first watch but that moment already left me feeling kinda off, glad to know it’ll pay off later

Same. Looking forward to more like this. Liam is always fantstic.

Yeah esp considering he just disintegrated a person right after having ptsd from killing someone, rolling shit for so long when using fire and then literally killing two people one after the other with a lucky streak, or unlucky in his case i g

I really don't think it has anything to do with his backstory, he was just shot 3 times. Albeit he took them out but I'd be willing to bet he was just shouting about the arrows and not his backstory. At least Id be thinking about the last thing that happened to me before I died upon waking up again

​@@jackgill1550He said once on Talks Machina I believe that it was related to his backstory

Double .Hafer it took THIS COMMENT for me to realise that line is about the crystals. Everybody laughed!!!! What brilliant role playing from Liam

@@Sophia-rk6ck what crystals

@@jacobburke5523 Spoiler for episode 60-ish of campaign 2: Trent ikithon inserted crystals into calebs arms when he was at the solstrice academy (how i forget) to supposedly enhance his power as an experiment. thats why his original design had bandages on his forearms, there are scars underneath. "TAKE THEM OUT!" most likely refers to a flashback of when it was happening

@@Sophia-rk6ck oh, thank you.

Double .Hafer I was about to comment on this, the length to which this man held the bit was insane

No time stamp?

@@trollface1334 50:33

@@danielbosshard7768 Thank you so much seriously 10/10 I love the critter community

Troll Face "WE... ARE THE BEST“

Yeah unexpected tears :O

Question that's a potential spoiler fi C2 (I don't know if I was spoiled for this plot point during C1 or if this is common knowledge so don't read on if you don't want to risk it): Do the gang know who The Traveler is, or is it just Laura? Or does she even know them by the other name/persona(s) we've met in C1 at this stage?

@@RuailleBuaille the gang doesn't know. And even laura herself doesn't really know, other than that he's powerfull and that she thinks he's a god.

@@kevinpappers4494 You have excellent timing! I just yesterday watched the episode where the gang got the big reveal, and in the subsequent Talks episode Laura said she had come to Matt initially with the idea that The Traveler be you-know-who, but by the end things had been so mysterious that even she didn't know if that's who they'd turn out to be. Watching everyone else start to realise who it was one by one was so good :D

I agree.. the freaking bandits fucked with the wrong party!!!

stories babeyyyyy!!!

sam had to one up himself from VM.... but liam needed to tag along. lol

Says the one with 20 INT

You look like a neurd

@@stamatisvolanis8482 boooooooooooooo *applauds*

Sibling love 🤣

Stamatis Volanis *neurdt lol

Proud carnival mom

@@handfulmousefly YES.

@@Dragonessa007 It's just a saying

@@Dragonessa007 proud carnival parent

That explains the mama bear tees

Yep I have seen my party stop the game for much less.. That looked painful. At best, I have bitten my tongue when I had an uncontrollable sneeze XD

Nah, I would too. To be fair, he likely had a funny idea for both outcomes and decided to make it actually random for even more fun!

Pretty standard DMing. Odd, the guy on the right, even, the guy on the left. Or high/low.

*Boulder Parchment Shears

Don't blame him

*Laughs in tiefling* one of my players tried to throw a bag of unstable potions out the winow of a ship. I had to roll 10 d20 for hits and ALOT of damage it blow the character and the ship up. Sinking and causing more chaos then was already happening. They survived because of a polymorph potion and a nat 20.

Well like, Caleb has magic lights on command with his cantrip It's one of the few disadvantages of being a human in DnD might as well keep it to have some effect before they even hit level 4

I saw what you did there, magnificent haha

but really, after the previous campaign, I think he wanted to tone down the rate they received magic items to make creating challenging encounters a lil easier...purely conjecture though, as I havent heard him say so

Caleb also belongs to the school of transmutation wich allows him to make the transmuters stone. It can give caleb darkvision.

@@haywoodjablome4271 - Keep in mind episode one of campaign one they were level 8 or 9. That is the point where a lot of DMs start opening the better magic shops

Can't wait to see the lolipop animated whenever they do the TV show.

I would be both humored and horrified

Goblins are full adult at age 8 in DnD lore, but *spoiler* so what she saying is that her age are between 16 and 22 by human and *spoiler* standarts. Pretty huge range,but makes perfect sense in her situation.

Marisha: *quietly dying in the background*

i honestly am afraid he has affection to a pretend cat

@@lukelblitz3627 to be fair in a talks episode he said that frumpkin is inspired by his cat from when he was little.

And few Americans actually speak German sadly. It is a great language of thinkers and warriors.

@@PalleRasmussen also Nazis (sorry, not sorry)

@@SamPlaysArma and American is the language of slavers and slave owners. So?

To be fair, three of them were also half dead also.

Yeah, that's also one of the things I love about the Critical Role cast specifically. They all cover for each other so well in any situation that needs it. I mean, obviously they've all done some form of improv, and they're all professional actors, but still, they're all able to think incredibly quickly on their feet and just bullshit their way out of any situation.

@@HyenaFox I agree! I think the combo of their acting skills, longtime friendship, and passion for the game makes CR truly special! I also think it opens a lot of intriguing (and entertaining) possibilities just knowing that there's more than one way through encounters, and fighting might not always be the best choice. certainly makes some of the non-combat skills & stats that much more valuable to the party...

Wait, is this episode the intro of the bandits? Omgg yasss I'm in for a treat, again!!

50:55

Thank you for the transcript.

Two *

@@MammothMorals You're correcting a year old comment? You're the one that looks dumb.

Didn't he say siebzehn was seven in an earlier episode? I assume he doesn't really know much German IRL, so that would be an excusable mistake. But yeah, it does sound good and he makes it believable!

@@CocoAsticot He took German in high school, so small mistakes are to be expected. His pronunciation however is AMAZING, all things considered.

I just started watching CR with this campaign and thought Liam WAS German.

“Volfs” pronunciation would be funnier, no?

@@CocoAsticot The mistake was cleared like 10 seconds sfter. Nott corrected him. Pronounced it wrong, but got the right word

Jason Greenwood I would love to see them on halloween or something. They dress up as Vox Machina, Travis as Grog, Laura as Vex and baby as like, Scanlan or Pike. They can do Mihty Nein by having Travis be Fjord, Laura be Jester and baby be Nott

Or maybe put the litte one in a Trinket outfit

Baby Trinket would be adorable!!

If his teddy bear gets ripped: "Fix him!"

"I would like to bathe!"

"...the best lay everrrr!"

A few years ago, I would have ran far the other direction if i heard something like this, but now, I don't even flinch

@@thomassmart4088 it sounds better in the original infernal

He's my new favorite

Matt's Pumat Sol... 😊👌 c'est le magnifique! I hope he becomes the new regular shopkeep!

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@3:19:10

Pumat Sol is amazing like Gilmore and Victor rolled into 1 or 4 beautiful vendors

and during the stream itself!

You two have got to be joking?!

@@davidbeppler3032 nope Laura and Travis weren't there for the episode with the Fjord/Jester/Yasha/Iron Shepherds cliffhanger and the others explained that it was because she'd gone into labour. And then right as they went into the break Liam got a message and started to say something about them. As far as we can tell, that was presumably when Ronin was born

😮... Nooo.... Not "Ronin"! Really?!😕

@@KickyFut its their fuckin baby are u really complaining about the name

EXTREME SYPHILIS.

A D V A N C E D S Y P H I L I S

M E G A S Y H I L I S

*M A X I M U M O V E R S Y P H I L I S*

**S U P R E M E S Y P H I L I S**

Well, in this case they would have been lucky facing the mighty nein. :'D You dont want to get messed up by these two.

10/10 reference!

This reference extended my life by five years, so thank you

YESSS!

"I can't be having with this."

i'm only halfway through and the mere idea that there could be something even funnier than the syphilis bit is mind boggling

Fjord *tough*

I did not know I needed 4 identical Firbolg tonight.

They're married. He's fulfilling his Husbandly duties by trolling her in this way. It's in the fine print under the wedding vows.

@@mattesonmorgan2177 Having 3 Simulacrums would easily make that Furbolg powerful enough to destroy the city.

I mean, before they were Vox Machina, they were The Shits

Matt caring for Marisha was real sweet, but remember they are married IRL😃

That makes it better.

I mean ... his wife. I would very much hope he cares about his wife.

Takes a long time to drop the vex and vax habits i guess

@@lillymountainfarm why did you reply with this to an unrelated comment rather than making it an independent comment?

@@quietlodestar I didn’t realize I commented on someone else’s comment when I was trying to comment an independent comment... I apologize

@@lillymountainfarm you don't need to be sorry, i am in no way upset, i was just a bit confused.

They’re just reliving past lives

(Spoilers) If you're from the future, y'all know how frickin sad this statement is 😭

Me knowing Caleb’s backstory: *ääääghh*

@@froggdoggs8551 right???!?!!!?!!! 😫Rewatching these early episodes there is soooo much foreshadowing

@@nitidiuscula and even some fjoreshadowing

And Marisha

it made me want to be his wife and im a dude LOL

💕

so pure

Poor Marisha 🥺 cracked ribs are horrible

Not Jester?

@@ethanwilliamson902 she comes second or very close equal.

@@xxmidnight12xx18 She was pissed she had to save that baby tho

@@leovincent7417 also true, chaotic neutral perhaps

I'd argue Molly is lawful, because it doesn't necessarily mean following the law of a country, but can also refer to your own code

DuplaD And whips out the pre-prepared letter-prop!!!

but wasnt it 3 parcels that she stole, when did it become 4 letters?

@@Pagan_Jak 1 parcel doesnt mean 1 letter, if 2 letters are to the same adress it is still the same parcel.

@@DuplaD ooohhhh ok that makes more sense

Narkingson The Great oh gods why

He might not be able to aFjord Jester's mom. ... I'll see myself out.

😂

Starcraftgamer97 that was glorious...😂😂

I'd like to Fjord Escape from this train of thought.

What's the timestamp?

Why was she in so much pain?

@@Thinkingmakesitso. She turned and sneezed at the same time, I believe

@@Thinkingmakesitso. She had an injury to her ribs, I believe, so talking, laughing, sneezing, moving, etc. would all hurt a lot.

@@Thinkingmakesitso. She sneezed so hard she popped a rib out of socket. They apparently had to go to the hospital afterwards.

Bump

Boost

Boost

Bump

Thank you for the baby timestamp I didnt know what it was about and u made my day ty!

That is why Liam is most commonly one of my favorites. He knows just how serious to be, and he knows when it's right to break tension. I honestly don't mind Marisha and Beau, they can be fun and interesting in their own right, but she could seriously use a few lessons from how Liam played/plays Vax/Caleb.

Marisha has vastly improved since Keyleth... I think a monk is a much less complicated class, which lets her focus more on the tiny details of her character. Liam, being someone who has many years of D&D experience doesn't usually get bogged down by his character, so he can focus on his role-playing more. He does seem to go too dark with his characters, tho. Can be a lil depressing...😓

@@KickyFut Marisha actually has more DnD experience than Liam.

Wait... How? Even if they both started at the same time, Liam DM's the one-shots as well as plays DM with his kids.

@@KickyFut What was the matter when she was Keyleth? (I haven't seen Campaign 1 yet and am working through campaign 2). Also, I really like a bit of darkness in the characters.

*sips tea* that's unfortunate

@@Panda_Steph Haha, oh believe me, I know.

@@krispinkeyes6542 honestly same tho. This is my first time watching through campaign 2 and despite knowing Molly's outcome and being like "No do not get attached" .... he's just such a good character that you can't help it.

Haha. Me too. *starts crying*

@@Panda_Steph Oh, well I didn't know. Guess I should enjoy him while I still can :')

The first sentence Matt spoke in this campaign contained an exact date (followed by a page of geopolitical/geographical exposition.). He can't be beat, this is his game. Uh, literally...

Me too. The fact that she was joking and smiling through it all made it even sadder. I'm not caught up yet so I don't have more context, but whether she puts on the funny facade to deal with the loneliness or whether her childhood has actually left her a stunted person in such denial that she'll probably stay a child forever, both options are equally heartbreaking.

Jester protection squad

#JesterProtectionSquad.

It really makes you love the traveler, he saw a lonely little girl and decided to teach her and play with her just to be her friend #travelerislove #travelerislife

same. at this point I guess the party didn't have a close enough bond for anyone to really push back on this, but I hope in later episodes they might. here Jester sounded a lot like a kid who doesn't realize that their messed up home life isn't "normal," like situations of neglect or abuse. breaks my heart to think how that whole situation impacted her, being stuck in her room, alone, and always told she had to stay hidden. yes she has the cheery, joking way about her and wants to bring joy to others... but maybe she's also hurting underneath all that? watching this episode made me wonder even more about the Traveler. did this entity choose Jester as a convert/devotee/"friend"/etc because she was lonely, or seemed vulnerable? how will she react if the Traveler isn't all she hoped?

Please call an ambulance...BUT NOT FOR ME

@@honeysuckel1351 First thing that came to mind.

Ah! How does that even work

AH! HOW THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN WORK!?

Reverse uno

…huh?

@@mb2001 what were you confused by?

​@@elusivegamergirlprobably the soda thru nose.

A hint that she can be terrifyingly competent and conniving when she really wants to.

I noticed that Laura started haggling a bit in this episode-- she can't help it! :) lol

Timestamp is 53:16, if anyone was wondering

Is that Shinae on your profile picture

Maja Kaziów Yes.

Well, there was the door. And those horses.

Especially after Taliesin gave away the Snitch.

That just sounds like normal D&D

NoscoSays rip the snitch

@@NoscoSays what’s the snitch

i didn't get the joke :(

@@kalmanmahlich9959 Ford Car's slogan is "Built Ford Tough" and Travis's Character's name sounds like Ford

The "fun" of rewatching

The Sophisticated Orange you could say they were healing words

i’m crying it’s so pure they’re so adorable

so. cute. brain cannot function. time to *melt.*

No shit. Teared up a little.

I didn’t catch it before, but his face when he says it too much

My wife plays the same way with her characters. Last night we had an impromtu session of our campaign.. Sadly it was at the same time as CR. But my character was trying to save hers when I was about to die she caved and went with the man who was after her. My character was defeated. We had just admitted we loved each other. I was nearly in tears. But my wife usually has her characters sacrifice her happiness for the cause. Not quite the same as jester but close.

Honestly made me tear up

IF I wAS in this cAmpAign I would get up And hug her not my character. Me

Argentumlobo Wolf Are you caught up yet?

Argentumlobo Wolf Did you catch up?

Please mate we need to know, are you caught up yet?

Lol i just now got notification about how i actually had replies to this. I was at one point caught up, but stopped watching not long into the second campaign. It just didn't hold me like the first campaign did. I might try again in the future

Yes and sometimes it's Thursday two times a day

Well have I got news for you lol

Fun fact, I believe they've started something for the Mighty Nein actually

I can imagine that if he doesn’t voice act it they’ll get the buffalo guy from Zootopia in it 😂

Me too

He is an incredible actor, but he has also said that he's pretty socially awkward irl. I think it's just hard for us to tell bc we see him around close friends all the time. It helps that he's such a goofball and a sweetheart.

If you watch the between the sheets, most of them are socially awkward. Ashley was the worst prior to meeting Bryan

what part of this episode tipped you off?

@@remlewis1111 Presumably the bit with the firbolgs

Hotel: Trivago

Crops:Watered

Gnoll: Regular

Comments: Highly enjoyed.

@@u.s.s.chucklefucker1657 Pickles: Consumed

Ricardo Rodriguez at least until the Dm cleverly gives them a month of downtime every now and then

Ricardo Rodriguez It's more of the "my character has all this information that only the DM has" feat

It’s the my character has a higher int score that me feat

I should look into this XD

It's the "I don't want to take notes" feat.