At dawn, we plan.

It's interesting how pop/nerd culture influenced critical role,( the cast, characters and story) and nowcritical role is in tern influencing pop/nerd culture. The great thing about critical role is that at it's heart it's just a group of fans and friends having a good time together telling good stories. And that is what it still is just expanded beyond anyone's expectations.

Truth.

Yea, no, Kevin... That... that's beautifully put brother.

Bidet, Critters! 😀

Even more fun fact: Marisha has also said that the inspiration was unconscious. She was a huge Avatar fan, but she didn't deliberately base Keyleth off Aang. While building Keyleth, she couldn't decide which cleric domain to chose(air, earth, fire, water, etc). So she came up with the idea of traveling to each branch and learning spells from each domain as she progressed and leveled up. It was only when it was pointed out to her later that this was basically Aang's story did she realize what she had subconsciously done.

@@michaelkemmet834 they aren’t cleric domains, just various natural elements. All druids can manipulate all elements but she wanted four distinct societies based off of them.

@@PrinceIMC Remember that Keyleth was created during the Pathfinder days. "Nature Bond (Ex): At 1st level, a druid forms a bond with nature. This bond can take one of two forms. The first is a close tie to the natural world, granting the druid one of the following cleric domains: Air, Animal, Earth, Fire, Plant, Water, or Weather." And here's the quote from Marisha from the Wizard World Portland CR Panel back in 2016: "I had tried the druid in 4th edition and I hated it and I thought druids were useless. And then we did this game and I was like all right, yeah, I guess I'll give druids a shot one more time. This was Pathfinder and you could pick a domain kind of like clerics could, and I couldn't decide between any of the elements, so I was like, well, I'll just start with air and I'll just make it my thing to go get all of them. And that's how she was born, not really out of character development, mainly out of selfish min/maxer shit. (laughter) I'm a huge Avatar: The Last Airbender fan. I didn't mean to make her based off of The Last Airbender. It subconsciously seeped in and happened that way."

@@michaelkemmet834 oh sorry, I have never looked into the Pathfinder druid. I assumed it was like the 3E druid.

@@PrinceIMC I believe Pathfinder druids can cast spells of all types like you said, but they get bonuses(extra spell slots and # of daily memorized spells) for the domain type they chose. Marisha was trying to stretch the rules because she couldn't choose which domain she wanted. In the end, I don't think it mattered because the switch to 5e made the point moot.

Not to mention that in the campaign her holy symbol fractured while they were in the underdark because she went a little murder hobo-y.... ^_^ killing a dark dwarf after he had surrendered. So it is actually a canon thing repurposed.

@@TheBloodypimp I just rewatched that episode, and I think it was actually when she brutally executed an unconscious dark dwarf with her mace.

@@jamesrogers1391 surrender unconscious.... potato potato... Hahaha honestly yeah. That sounds more accurate. It's been a while since i rewatched c1.

I’m game Pike was helping rebuild a temple but in the series here I don’t think anyone would be one with putting rebuilding a temple over facing the Briarwoods. Her internal struggle is so captivating to see.

Another fun fact, the actor who voices the Everlight also played a character on Blindspot, who was the boss of Ashley's character for a while.

In fact.... vax passed the charm saving throw.... he was faking it and that's why silas bit him in the first place. ^_^

@@TheBloodypimp Not quite, the initial one was definitely a fail, as seen in his eyes.

@@Narokh sigh.... dude... they made a lot of changes from the campaign. Maybe. . . They set it to have taken control momentarily. But in the campaign he passed his check and he tried to deceive them.... and they went on to tell him he does not posses a "silver tongue" which is then paid off in the anders' depiction. Also he has advantage on charm saving throws.... (halfelf) so maybe they wanted to say he would have failed if he hadn't had advantage who knows....

@@TheBloodypimp So is this vid about the stream or the show?

@@user-ng4xe5rf8n i mentioned a fun fact that happened in the campaign. U can take it at face value or bitch.... your choice really. ^_^

Caught in a neck romance nom nom nomnomnom

They are what my friends call the "If Evil, Why Sexy?" trope.

More precisely: A Necromancer married to a Neck Romancer. Silas is the muscle, and centering influence, but Dalilha is the brains of the operation.

If you're not following Matt and Marisha's Twitters, it's worth it just for their thirsty and thirst-endorsing content lately, haha

Ah awesome thank you for that comparison, that makes sense

@@FandomZone It's how I explain focuses to new players at my table. ^_^ I figured it would probably resonate with the both of you 💙💙💙

You picked my fave avenger so that worked well 😊

@@FandomZone If you are interested in specific mechanics, almost every spell requires spell material to operate. For example, Scanlan's Hand needs you to hold an eggshell and a snakeskin glove. A magic focus lets you escape awkwardly lugging around 20 odd items in your pockets and cast without materials. From a mechanics standpoint, All Pike had to do is go to Walmart for another divine focus. From a story writing perspective, go on a spiritual journey :p

In the pre-stream, Uriel was under the influence of something else, which Vox Machina, then known as The S.H.I.T.s, defeated the force that was controlling him. When Sylas says that Uriel was easy to influence, it's because Uriel is easy to influence. The problem because well known, so Uriel eventually announces that he'll be stepping down as the ruler and turning the kingdom into a republic. . . . and then the dragons attack . . .

Vampires’ charm effects actually have a bonus effect that lets them make bite attacks without breaking the charm, since it makes the target willing to be bitten.

They were also Mustang and Lust in the dub of FMAB respectively

@@ticozayas6430 They met as extras on one show or another, had to sit at a cafe, pantomiming talking for hours, and between takes Laura explained that she voiced Bulma Briefs on the dub of Dragon Ball. She was Travis' in to the voice acting community, which back then was pretty niche.

@@leonielson7138 yep and she ignored him for a while b4 she actually brought him into it

Right? Grog and Pike are just so pure, and Kiki and Percy are like lost siblings

@@nuru666 Keyleth, Vex'ahlia, and Pike, were all crushing on Percy at different times in campaign one

If I could like this more than once I would.

@@leonielson7138 everyone crushes on the moody rich boi.. I may or may not be excluding myself from "everyone" 🤭

Started watching Campaign 3 and just seeing Travis play Bertrand is hilarious. Need to go and watch him play Grog in C1 eventually after this series. Chaos!

@@FandomZone "Excuse me, I have an intelligence of 6: I know what I'm doing." Proceeds to fail a social encounter.

In one of their watch parties for the animated series Travis goes into Grog's intelligence of 6 - he can't read and loves shiny things. Great example of how a low Stat can make a character super fun.

@@leahwende2241 Travis does it better than anyone else in the group, though. Marisha tries to play at Keyleth being a lightweight with alcohol and socially awkward, but I think those are actually projections as her stats don't reflect that the way Grog's do.

Complete fluke but thats so cool!

I believe that's the D&D rule as well. They drain a victim and bury them, which rise as vampire spawn: basically mindless, feral creatures bound to the one that drained them. If the vampire feeds the spawn their (the vampire's) blood, the spawn gains free will and becomes a full vampire in their own right.

Well yes it cracked at that point in their hand but that was more of a thematic thing, pike didn't really lose powers. They changed it here because Ashley had to leave IRL for NY to shoot Blindspot. I like this change as Matt had to shoot from the hip before to explain why pike didn't join

@@xenonuke1194 welll...... tehnically..... all i'll say is keep an eye on future episodes cause u'll have a surprise or a fond remembrance depending how deep into the lore and how much of the campaign u saw. ^_^

@@xenonuke1194 And also why she couldn't just wreck those wraiths by channeling holy power like she could if she were in top shape.

@@flaminyawn because they needed a reason for her to leave in the show. In game it was just a warning from Matt since she was acting against her God's tenants, she didn't lose any power.

We are having a blast learning through watching and through people enjoying watching us and informing us of little tidbits of knowledge. It’s been really eye opening and has helped us understand some of the key character traits. So Pile went to the plane of gods when she was meditating?

@@FandomZone You could say that. When she meditates, she's trying to communicate with the Everlight. From what I remember, she goes to a sort of plane that lies between the mortal plane and the one of the gods. And this since the gods themselves can't actually physically come to the mortal plane at all due to previous conflict in the history of Exandria. There's actually a video that explains the history of the world that you can check out - "Exandria: An Intimate History". :)

Hell yeah! Sinister will always be a personal fave. A great Silvestri creation

@@FandomZone it definitely feels like a toy my dad would’ve gotten me. Damn nerd. Hahaha

Pike and Grog have been friends before the rest of the group formed. There was a past mutual saving that bonded their friendship. The animation may touch on it later, so I don't want to spoil too much.

It was really good. Very character driven despite the wraith action midway through. Love learning the small bits of the characters and can see how D&D elements would translate to the animation.

@@FandomZone honestly it's amazing how they've managed to fit content from multiple 4 hour gameplay episodes into intense and distilled 20 odd minute episodes. It's a credit to the writers!

If I remember well, during the show that was a Sunbeam spell cast and it served the purpose perfectly 😁

@@Mattdovah oh yeah that’s right! It’s been so long I can’t remember. I know there’s moonbeam, I always forget there’s sunbeam!

@@Mattdovah In this case it was the Daylight spell I believe we should be getting Sunbeam a bit later.

Thank you so much! We just put up episode 5, 6 will be coming at some point this week once we can sit down to watch and edit it

We have so many in our cart but shipping is a killer! Love Teeturtle

We are a loving bunch of people 😊. As we say, don't forget to love each other!

It’s a nice family

We watch it on Amazon prime

Thank you.

Pretty close! In D&D 5th edition, a vampire must kill you with its bite and bury you, and you’ll be brought back as a vampire spawn the next night. You have no free will and are it’s mindless soldier until it dies, at which point you become free-willed once again.