In older versions I think you go into shock and fall unconscious if you take that much damage at once

@@HBCrigs they have that in 5e they call it system shock it’s an optional rule in the DMG

@@HBCrigs There's also an optional rule in Pathfinder called Massive Damage: if you do more than 50 damage that is also more than half max HP, they have to make a DC 15 Fort save or just die.

"You can't just do over 200 damage to the final boss in a single turn!" *proceeds to do over 200 damage to the final boss in a single turn*

I have a better one than that. Godling: Nooooo, you can’t do over 200 damage to me in a single turn! I’m a final boss! Percy: I’m afraid I have *Bad News* for you…

2e Shadowrun?

@@RoxyGotMoxy. i need to start playing shadow run

Twinlinked hurricane bolters and a storm lord for extra measure

@@grayfulbester Dude. DUDE. For raw badassery and cyberpunk insanity, there is NOTHING better than Shadowrun 2E.

Just your every day, bog standard Astra Militarum shooting phase

Timestamp?

@@suitguy969 2:33 for Matt telling them they're on deck. Taliesin pauses for a moment before replying at 2:36.

True love

I just love that Travis is the biggest shipper for the couple out there

This reminds me of the fact that my Tiefling charcater in my own campaign is about to marry and have a family with another player's PC, and that player is in a relationship with someone who doesn't even play d&d with us XD

@@tychogoedhart286 this just sounds like you're weirdly proud of "wooing" someone else's girlfriend without him knowing but in reality you're just playing a game and she goes home and blows her boyfriend anyway

@@killiantank9674 oh he knows, she's my best friend, and he's mentioned he kinda wants an irl threesome, he just has too much college stuff and work stuff for it atm

+6 from his dex....and half of the total on the creatures next turn.......insert flex tape meme here

challenge733 well that’s a lot of damage! you’re welcome

@@challenge733 I don't think there's enough flex tape for what Percy did in that fight.

@@boonraksaboonparn4988 No you're welcome ;)

I do kinda disagree with Matt’s method of Crits. In my party we roll the damage die twice on crit, doubling the potential damage, rather than the actual damage. My DM is considering taking a medium between the two, roll your damage die once, and then add the maximum that dice can do in addition. So if your damage die is a d10, you get 10 damage + whatever you rolled

3:20 you can see his brain snapping

He made hundreds of attacks throughout the campaign, adding his Dex modifier to damage he probably should have dealt like 1500+ more points than he already did, which is about a whole extra Vecna worth of hitpoints

@@alexv3357 i love your unit of measurement, makes my top ten favorite messurements

@@psyberian well, level 20 characters are basiclly semi gods/demi gods. that means they are going to be fekin strong.

It only makes the No Mercy Percy meme better to know that he was, in fact, nerfing himself the whole time.

I had this same thought. Glad I'm not the only one. :)

oh

John Wick reference! Nice!

And nobody's hurting his dog...uh...bear...Trinket? Vex and Vax would remove you from reality first.

He is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will.

Didn't really get that reference. Did he lose a hand or something?

Earlier in the show, Percy got his arm torn off by bugbears who came out of nowhere. Its a reference to a joke that was said at the end of the first campaign

As someone with a paralyzed left arm, I would happily wear the shit out of that shirt!!! EDIT: Can i just add that, on a rewatch, i LOVE that Taliesin replied to that line by essentially kissing the middle finger of the tiny arm and using it to flip Liam off?? xD

LOL that was what Vax was saying from the other side while watching it.

still not the most though grog did 280 in one round and thats with half the attacks percy used only 3. HAIL THE BARBARIAN!

@@madmanwithaplan1826 what episode was that?

Wouldve been enough to kill keyleth during the battle royale I believe

@@jaredmorissette3208 the one shot battle Royale without vax in it. It's around the 1 hour mark maybe 1 hour 3 minutes.

Pressthebigredbutton Me,a level 2 Barbarian:I want to be like that one day.

Correction: AND

Those bitches come back like they're Son Goku you gotta be ready.

Orthax: I taught that fleshsack well.

​@@2049571 I RAISED THAT BOY

@@maddoxio Same energy on that comment

No he's not. He forgot he had to add it because there was a hiatus in between the end of the campaign and this one shot.

Canon

Just Vesper

@@nadavga maybe Vesper ate her twin in the womb.

5 shots, 5 kids. No one man should have this much power.

THIS. It's now my headcanon.

It is canon! It’s canon!

It's like the necklace, just sitting there with the VIP view

and making comments to the Raven Queen about how percy fucked up that god...

Someone animate this!

Some DMs will rule that a target taking more than half their full HP in damage in a single attack means they have to roll a Fortitude save to avoid dying of shock.

A stubbed toe would've killed that thing at that point lmao

​@@JesusKid1000fortitude is Pathfinder, and the massive damage usually is just a stun

Mb, got turned about on what system it was.@@theoledicktwist6247

At that point, anything with self preservation would say fuck this and leave

Percy: "I learned this in a little place called... 'Nam"

YES HELLSING ABRIGED

Appropriate, given Taliesin was actually the voice director for Hellsing’s dub.

I see you're a man of culture as well.

mic drop facts

That quote gives off, “I don’t think that cigarette…CHK-CHK, could handle me,” vibes.

"I am, they won't suffer for long."

"I am. It's called a coup de grâce"

"This is me showing mercy. I'm killing them, that way they won't see what I'm about to do to their boss"

MATT: This one's gonna move up towards Percival. TALIESIN: Yep. MATT: Going after the weakest links in this element here. (audience groaning) ( edit ) here's the moment aswell. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ns9lo6h52J2ahHk.html

Immediately followed by Matt rolling double threes to hit

BarryTheBareBearBarbarian WhoWasRaisedbyBears _Dude, the thought of that actually makes him horrifying_

@@RikuVA And Bad News was the go-to weapon of his. With 22 DEX...

I caught that, too. There might have been a little bit of pee coming out of me.

I actually think he just forgot for the one shot. I remember him rolling 30 damage w/ no hex addition, which would be max. 2d12 plus 6. Against a horse. A very dead horse.

...oh my god

Well, he is over 4000 years old.

@@xiahoupaul19 wasn't the event his 487th?

Get out of here Deadpool

@@snormax7691 must have been born on a leap year

@@dittmar104 Hell he's so old he probably doesn't remember his actual age, he just pulls out a random number every few decades just to keep things fresh.

Percy and the Bad News,

There's a joke here about Percy's big stick, and a certain half-elf I'm not gonna tell it, y'all can work it out

And so coy about it too...

Dead men tell no tale, but then again, maybe that's why they are called ghost stories

The only thing they fear... is you.. and your fucking 249 damage in a single round. Percy could become the Doom Slayer

"Gather 'round the fire, goblings, as I tell you the tale of... the Terrible Tinkerer of Tal'Dorei!!"

I think he's earned the Snitch back after that performance.

@@mattbriddell9246 too bad it was stolen from Mercer

@@qrowacheron230 That's awful. D:

@@qrowacheron230 Wait, for real?

@@raonair yeah, they talked about it a few times on talks machina. Right out of his car I think. That snitch is out in the wild somewhere

Yeah me too Because despite Percy/Taliesen almost single-handedly finished that fight, he was still humble enough to know his friends also wanted a piece of the action That’s DnD spirit at its finest Being a badass while also letting your friends be badasses

Sharpe: Fires three times a minute in any weather. Percy: that’s cute.

He did a action surge so wouldnt that be 12 sec. Still impressive tho.

@@tripatomz3441 I don't think so, because action surge allows the extra action but there's nothing saying it makes you take a second turn, it's more the fighter mustering up the strength to get those attacks in during that small time frame.

Trip Atomz -Action surge is basically fighter bullet time, you push your body to the limit of speed. At level 20, Percy is basically an inhuman blur of movement, hands flying faster than the winds of Pandemonium. That puny godling never stood a chance.

It's even more primitive than a lever or bolt-action weapon. Bad News seems to be a wheellock breech-loading rifle, technology from the Musketeer Era (1600s). They take a lot of effort to load, and require such precision machining that historically they tended to be made by watchmakers (which shows just how good a craftsman and designer Percy is). There is at least one real-life gun of this type that I know of, BTW. Look up a video called "Beautiful 1625 Breechloading Wheellock" and it'll take you to a Rock Island Auction House video showcasing it. It's a real-life period weapon, and it's eerily similar to descriptions I've read of Bad News.

Who would win, a literal 30 ft demi God or one gothy boi

I misread that as Silence not Science and it still fits Percy so well.

What if, you wanted to DM a long encounter, but your fighter said; Natural 20

If I was any good at art I'd be drawing Percy shouting "SCIENCE, WRETCH!" right now.

And this is why machine guns in d&d would make anyone strong

It was put in the bag of colding. So it's going to be perfectly preserved maybe for cloning?

Mark D'Asaro We all know Vex would enjoy it

@@markdasaro9045 2 Percy's wpuld either go really well, or REALLY awful

but it can definetly fix it

Percy went full hospital gown, nothing under on this one.

The butt flap of HIS SOUL was down!

Pretty sure the flap was up, and he went in dry.

Butt flap was torn off and forcibly rammed down the Godling's throat.

How is that news? Percy’s nickname is “No Mercy Percy”

Yyeess, especially with Billy the kid being an Archer servant, makes me want to see Percy as an Archer servant.

@@outsider903 My thoughts exactly

We have William Tell with a sniper rifle now, this checks out

Simo Haya Demi-Servant with Percy as the main personality when DW

he would put Bill the Kid, Francis Drake, and pretty much most of the other archers to shame

Percival the Unmerciful

Percy channels his inner Starlord there.

He couldn't have, he only had 1 hand at the time

@@starviper1813 He's Percy, he'd find away to flip a second bird

@@deffdefying4803 "Dear gods, who WAS that one-and-a-half armed man?!"

​@@starviper1813 no, Keyleth cast regenerate on it

You KNOW Percy had some fun when they got home after that.

Thanks you for pointing that out 😂

you can also see Marisha getting turned on by it xD

As straight as I am I'll admit... I pitched a tent.

Let's be real, this made us all feel things.

He basically fired full auto, while reloading in the middle of it

Pause.... isn't Bad News a bolt-action, magazine-fed rifle?

@@Megidramon Bad News is a breech loading wheellock rifle. Single shot before being reloaded.

That's more damage than a regiment of guardsmen

This comment is criminally underrated and you desperately need more than just 19 likes on it.

One last time? Haven't you heard? vox is coming back at least one more time...to meet their ultimate challenge. The mighty nein.

@@hinro yes...well...I didnt foresee the Kickstarter...Hindsight Is Natural 20/20

Well that is what you get for not being psychic.

hinro Not to mention, they’re going on a Search for Bob!!

Plus a reunion at Dallen's Closet.

Tpk no chance especially if Taliesin Jaffe is Rolling.

Percy having a conversation with his wife Vex'alia: Percy: But dear, I want to be E V I L Vex: Not now dear, we have brunch with Pike at noon.

@@thepopulargirl1784 is it bad that I actually heard their voices while reading that?

@@SgtSplatter782 nope i heard them too

@@SgtSplatter782 we all did

Nah. Given the fact that Percy was using Bad News, he was more like Nano-Boosted Reaper using Death Blossom, then immediately Wraithing away.

@@ForeverDegenerate Considering McCree was sitting at the head of the table anyway... :-)

nah, that’s the Flash in IJ2 doing disgusting damage

248 likes on that comment can we get one more so it matches the damage Percy did in that round?

Creator Sama There ya go

The good thing about this one? Outside of the fandom it just looks like some pretty merciless snark.

Congrats on episode 8 of The Legend of Vox Machina.

Nah man, he did a lot of the work, but Grog's two finishing blows, while almost as impressive, were equally as satisfying!

@@ventusleone i see what you did there

Literally Percy’s turn and Grog’s turn was enough to kill it I think

@@pop-tartdepression393 Also Vex dealed a ton of damage in one turn with a fucking bow. The most dangerous couple on Exandria indeed :P

@@ventusleone but grog always does a lot of damage in a single turn while Percy can but usually not as much as vax or grog

I love this.

I want percy to be like constantly working on it in the background of the show up to this point of having this big ass rifle that he's lugging through Pandemonium and some experimental supercharged cartriges that he uses for this attack

then he hears about hemoraging shot..... and he falls in love travis for gunslinger c3

Gonna be brutally honest here. And i mean it to. Gunslinger as a subclass is kinda Garbage. Having played one myself, you are effectively halving your damage by utilizing these weapons, and that chance of failure upon a 1-3 is a mother fucker. The only reason in Pathfinder that it is so good, is that it is one of the only ways to get your dex mod to damage with ranged weapons, and those weapons attack touch Ac, so they essentially remove the enemies armor, shield, and natural armor, from benefitting their AC. That last one being something 5e gunslinger doesn't do. It is a testimony to what a Fighter can do when it's player can score crit after crit after crit. If percy weren't a gunslinger, and was, say, an Arcane Archer or Samurai instead, i think he'd be doing way more damage then he's ever done, even with Bad News, or the Animus, considering Kabals Ruin can just as easily be used with those, and they also benefit greatly from Crits.

@@Crouza Hell with Tal's rolls he could run straight Champion, imagine what Percy would be capable of landing crits on an 18 with Tal's luck?

I feel like he was actually nerfed here because of Taliesin's rolls. He's just so fantastic at that, Matt decided to make a subclass in 5e to keep him from becoming a one man army.

Enemies: *nANI?*

@@DatNguyen-jz9ur The full title would be as follows: "Unmerciful" Lord Percival Frederickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo the Third, Sophist of Native Ingenuity, Member of the Chamber of Whitestone. Try to fit that on a business card.

Don’t forget god killer, and proably a few others that I have forgotten.

@@JirkaKunst Don't forget Hero of Eman, Conqueror of the Conclave

@@JirkaKunst Yeah. Forget business card, this man needs cardboard to fit that

Level 20 fighters with the right feats can deal some insane damage. Hell I ran a campaign with a 10 bard/10 fighter(arcane archer) mix armed with a hand crossbow who was just insane. He could do Grog levels of damage from the back field.

A fighter with either -5 +10 dmg feat can get 80-100 damage from that alone, 8x to 10x their dice (that can crit) and 8 to 10 times their damage modifier/magic bonuses (5+)

As a person with a paralyzed left arm i wholly agree!

If you haven't seen it, there's a gun in Destiny 2 called "No Time to Explain" that does just that, opening portals to alternate timeline versions of the weapon to triple the damage.

Nah. He shot Enuma Elish

HAD!

HE KILLED HIM! OH MY GAWD HE KILLED HIM!

too bad Liam wasted his turn summoning a useless Raven and died lmao

Talesin isnt playing a cleric in this

@@cheeseyconnor8268 he does in campaign 2 and this was played during campaign 2 where he has played a healer for the last 7 months. Going back to the opposite kind of character makes you want to exploit it as much. I thought everyone was getting the joke..

@@jorgenaranjo8029 you said hes playing a cleric and did 250 damage which he isnt hes playing a lvl 20 fighter that he played for 4 years

@@cheeseyconnor8268 my god... You cant be this dumb... Maybe get a 7 year old to explain to you the difference between the current campaign where he has played a healer for the last 7 months and a one shot..

Hearing him say the name of it to met at a con was beautiful, and Im just going off the animated show.

Stop, I can only get so aroused.

he would be dead anyway, sadly Taliesin did not have the grasp of a blood hunter yet, he rolled like shit but melee was not his thing at all

freakindamnshiki yeah, bloodhunter is a tricky class. I like the idea of it though.

Well he _kinda_ suicided with his blood maledict.. lmao No shade though. Bloodhunter is super weird to play.

then the blood maledict would've killed him that much faster

If I recall, that class ended up being changed after Molly's death, so clearly Matt saw stuff that he thought should be improved.

Travis could help too. He doesn't roll them as often as Talesin but if it's a clutch situation, Travis delivers

Pierceyfull Fuckitstein Von Muscle Closeallski the Roller III.

@@bcn1gh7h4wk This is a woefully underappreciated comment.