And there was also a low piano note that followed along with the deflate, lol

And Ashley's face going "Poor baby!"

4:06

This moment was the conception of Fjord.

lol Matt just had to ruin the moment of excitement for him

It pretty much explains Grog in a nutshell

Still my favorite character in CR, and it all started with that line

Travis is a fucking TREASURE

I need that line on a tshirt. It's an absolute favorite lol

Yeah you gotta be smart to play a dumb character. It's much funnier when you're in on the joke, Haha.

@@owenwabie3401 it's like parodies. It's hard to do well because you actually have to be cleverer than everyone else to make it work

Its not that Travis got tired of playing the "dumb guy". Everyone changed it up for campaign 2. But Grog was the first time Travis ever played dnd and, because he didn't know anything about the game, wanted to play something that required no thought to play.

@@kaeleastlord That’s kinda funny and awesome.

I remember him talking about how challenging it was when he switched to Fjord because "with Grog I could kind of just go full applesauce brain," which is a term I love and continue to use to this day.

Yeah the writers are amazing

2:25

@@T0NI_ writers?

@@johnrodgers8457 an inside joke. Some people were speculating that the show is scripted but they’re just that good 😅

@@anmbaring oh, heard that. I never had the time to watch past season one so I'm not current on the critterverse anymore.

That just played when i read your comment

12:26 for those curious.

When you’re literally dumber than a FUCKING BIRD😂🤣

Fun idea, as an eagle he could have technically learned how to read 😂

@@dude1nsanity He'd only be able to read while in eagle form. He'd forget what he learned when he changed back.

Just like when he had that option of Fox's Cunning and Pike stayed up all night to teach him letters and he forgot it all when the potion wore off

And also ale.

The fact that he kept tabs on literally everything for years!!! He kept perfect track of everything to the point where he says how long stuff had been in the bag when he gets it all out after defeating the Frigid Doom

The most lethal inventory keeper there ever was.

travis, having a stroke: "the clous where neher klite ash flaghy"

Timestamp please

@@pixelmace1423 15:49

Time stamp

@@user-te4wj7xr8t 1:23 ish

She can see it coming :D

"Vex will be so proud of me."

I would have loved to listen in on that car ride home lmao

Right??

The man played sonic boom Knuckles, he knows how to play a hilarious dumb character

I play a negative intelligence Goliath barbarian that’s actually a circus performer that believes he’s a halfling. Believe me when I say there’s nothing funner than playing a lovable moron. It doesn’t matter if you fail your intelligence rolls, fail your wisdom saves, or even fail a strength or attack role. Every outcome is a chance to roleplay something fun. And the party loves it when suddenly the 8ft tall pile of muscles gets all the best investigation roles and becomes Sherlock Holmes. Or rolls high animal handling and makes a wyrmling his beloved pet while the wizard fails

Six. It's six. Which is, um... more than 5, I think?

When he asked for a number between 1 and 10, I expected the answer to be something along the lines of 12 or some other random number above 10. :p

It's because every time Grog learns a new number, his brain has to delete other numbers to make room for it.

There was an awnser!?

@@danielcunningham4339 yeah nothing happened

The world would break if Grog got a Headband of Intellect A real Professor Hulk moment

For real, Vox Machina should look for that item exclusively for Grog's retirement lol he's already shown an interest in learning. Imagine professional writer Grog, helping Scanlan chronicle VM's adventures!

Taliesin with his normal hair colour.

Honestly the way he played an idiot was, might I say, genius?

Whenever he talks to his herd he speaks more intensely and properly. Someone made a theory that whenever he talks to them he’s talking in Goliath, so he can speak much clearer and knows what to say

@@dragonfire4869 I personally like that... it reminds me of a similar headcanon with the Heavy Weapons Guy from TF2- English isn't his first language so he speaks it pretty broken, but the idea is that he's very eloquent and well-versed in Russian and even has a PhD in Russian literature. It's a pretty wholesome concept.

Νah you floozy, he's pledged to Liam not to use it because he thinks it's broken. Get off his back.

Halfling luck isn’t something a character does it’s an innate property

@@tennesseeponderer3146 Yeah but the players choose whether or not to use it.

Scanlan isn't a halfling so he couldn't use it anyways.

@@Robbie_Riot No, but Sam's new character is.

Percy really does understand Grog the best.

My favorite part is everyone else frantically raising their hands in response while Percy just has a quiet mental breakdown in the bottom center

It's so interesting to play a low int character. I have a Goliath cleric with 18 wisdom and I think like 7 intelligence. I just play it as not to smart but goeswith his gut on just about anything. I.e. getting piss drunk before trying to convince a powerful person to help the group. She said she didn't trust us, so I said well fuck, casted zone of truth, well no reason not to trust us now!

Oh forgot to say, we were completely surrounded by guards with spears in our backs not wanting us to move

@@WonTonSamurai Low intelligence Barbarians can be so much fun. All the player needs to do is remove the filter, let whatever flow out whenever and just not think ahead.

Campaign 2: Nott: “Think about it-“ Fjord: “I’m the only one thinking about it!”

Every time I watch clips of Travis being an absolute goofus maloofus, the thought occurs to me, "This man is literally the CEO of this entire operation."

That's one of the things that makes Critical Role so good. Its always fine to just make a self-insert character to roleplay yourself into the character, but a lot of the best organic stories come from trying to roleplay as someone else. If all the cast did was just the voices, it wouldn't have nearly as much impact and lasting power but just a gimmick that would have gotten old years ago. You can argue that the cast members still tend to typecast the personalities of the characters they play, but the characters still make sense and it is the little in-character moments that turn these campaigns from being standard gaming fare to a big story world that I would not be surprised at all is written down in novel form at some point.

technicallyyy he has met grog lol

@@olga1231 But not as a God

lol actually we do. was covered in... a talks episode if i remember right. been a bit. maybe end of campaign wrap.

Yeah in the campaign wrap up talks Machina they said nothing actually happened, the nymph just made some moves to make Grog uncomfortable but nothing more

lol so true, but it's a testament to how far they've come in production quality. Less audio issues, bigger set, more storage for miniatures, more office space. Marisha's backstage tour was super enlightening.

Oh my god yeah. I went to try and listen to the first campaign as I slept. Did not work out lol

Grog had a millisecond of clarity followed by his usual stupidity.

I would want the "Muscle Wizard" shirt for my next DnD games as a stupid barb.

I adore this.

@@josefzalusky7307 she plays it with this kind of childlike naivety, where she takes almost everything at face value. She's also tamed a bear who travels with us that I've made leather armour for

@@benjamindunne8132 So Vex'ahlia with Grog's intelligence.

He's gleefully waiting for the DM to describe in new and interesting ways how he doesn't learn anything from his intelligence checks.

Also Ale.

um HOW

She was a illiterate daughter of a groundskeeper at a Magical academy and learned spells through observation. I had to roll % everytime I cast to see how effective it was, but my dm was great about it and let me have some success. It was a blast and everybody at game was enjoying seeing me fail and trying to go with it.

@@user-py3kp9yl8l A recipe for disaster with every roll. I love it.

@@user-py3kp9yl8l Wild Sorcerer in disguise

Aw thanks so much!