FYI, Taliesin (Percy) and Matt (DM) were more than ready to sacrifice Percy. Had Vox Machina failed to bring him back, he was absolutely gonna turn into a villain. The idea was that after Percy had crossed out every name on The List (the gun), Orthax would've kept adding names until it had consumed all of Percy and basically "incarnated", as you can see when he inscribes Vex and Grog on the barrels. In fact, Taliesin and Matt came up with this separately, and only discussed it after the campaign was over.

The timing of 'Dragons seem like small potatoes' comment from Boom, had me dying with laughter 😂

The pipeline usually goes, DM makes a setting, so players make backstories in that setting and the dm makes a plot that ties into all the backstories that the players will immediately ignore to build a boat or some shit. At least that’s what my players did.

During this campaign Ashley was working on a TV show and living in New York, so Pike’s astral projection was the explanation for her Skyping in

"Dragons seems like small potatoes." SIR! You could not have timed that any better!

In the show, Matt had plans to bring Orthax back when Percy touched the gun, but Scanlan shut all that down when he grabbed the gun and threw it into the acid pit.

Fun fact about Keylith nearly dying, in the actual campaign it was Vex who got hit with a beam and she survived on 1 HP! If she was killed by that beam, she would’ve turned into a zombie

With Critical Role, especially Campaign 1, backstories were kind of a hodgepodge. You had Laura (Vex) who gave a full multi-page story (including 4 pages just about how she got Trinket), then you had Travis (Grog) who barely even thought of his last name and came up with it at the table, and everything in between. But, for Percy, as other comments have said, Taliesin only told Matt the bare bones of being a noble whose family was murdered by the Briarwoods, and becoming the inventor of the gun. Then he let Matt fill in the rest.

Cant wait for season 2 >:)

"We're going into the finale & I feel like it's only begining!" you're only in the 1st quarter of the campaign, so look forward to more to come.

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The demon possessing Percy was 100% DM's decision.

"Dragons seemed like small potatoes when we started."

Season 1 is incredible, and I am glad you all enjoyed it.

I would suggest you to watch comparison compilations. It's really interesting to see how they changed things from compain to tv series.

I've always loved how Taliesin (Percy) has described his character. I believe either post campaign or in the middle of it duting an interview, he mentioned how people perceived Percy as Doctor Doom when in fact, according to himself, Percy was more Reed Richards which was more terrifying. I've always loved that analogy

You know even outside of the game, the irl player of Percy, Talison, has gone on record to say that the one thing that he still hasn't forgiven Scanlan's player, Sam, for is destroying his gun. Both he and his character admit that in the end it was the right thing to do, but he still hasn't forgiven him b/c he really wanted that gun. That is, at least as far as I can remember from when the creators did their watch-through commentary on twitch while these were coming out.

Also to clarify percy's back story Talisn(percy's player) came up with the idea that his family died and he escaped he woke up one day with an idea to make the pepperbox and that is that, the dream portion and the demon was Matthew Mercer's idea to sorta spice up the game and give a cool reason why Percy wants revenge so badly

Great reaction! So Vox Machina Origins is a series of comics they did with Dark Horse. The comics take place before the campaign timeline and before the animated show. It shows how the characters met each other and less of their backstories per se. Kith & Kin is a book centered around Vax and Vex and their backstory before they met the rest of Vox Machina. The comics are great and so are the books. 10/10 recommend. Hope that helps!