The fact that the animated series made it so they don't even succeed in opening the door makes it so, so much funnier

"Its not a door, its a thing of evil" broke me

This is all brilliant, but I absolutely loved Percy in this scene. "I'm going to find a window." "I fell out of the window."

I love that they sort of build up like Percy is gonna find a window, get inside, open the door all smug while the other two fuck around. And then he falls out the window and we realize, "Oh, he's just as stupid as the rest of them."

Reminder that, this door traumatized Vox Machina so much that when they opened a door without issue in Grog's Bunions and Flagons, they were flabbergasted that a door could just open, not be locked or trapped.

A few episodes ago he picked a lock with a toothpick. Sometimes the dice gods just say no.

One of the funnier parts is later in the episode, Vax easily lock picks a jail cell door and frustratingly says "See!? I'm telling you that back door was cursed!"

"Who are all these people?" "Picked them up along the way...Why do you smell like piss?" "Picked it up along the way."

"we took damage from an inanimate object" Taliesin giving matt the idea for C3's 1st combat encounter.

"Their is no lock" "But I rolled a natural 20 does that help" BEST LINE EVER

The "I fell out off the window" has me rolling in laughter.

The fact that Matt said, "how do you want to do this," just completes how hilariously difficult this whole thing was.

One thing that I've loved about the show is that you KNOW when they roll a Nat 1 on any check. "The door is cursed." NO IT'S YOUR DICE!

What this scene really establishes is that show Scanlan can summon more than just his big purple hand. He can summon a foot as well. If that means he can summon any large purple body part of his...

I also love how just a scene or two later, vax picks a cell lock in seconds without problems, and is all "see! It's not me, it's just that damn door was evil" and nobody pays attention to him. I was dying. This show is too good.

Tallisen's delivery on "I fell out of the window."

"It's not a door...it's a thing of evil." That line got me good, especially from the usually serious Vax.

Bless Taliesin Jaffe for going the extra mile and doing 11 takes to get his delivery of "...I fell out of the window." PERFECT.

"Took three spells open this door " my favorite quote of the campaign

Lol they could easily destroy monsters and overcome dangers within seconds but it took almost 8 full mins with three people, three spells, and some gnome blood to open a single wooden door 🤣

The sheer frustration of the original is very funny but I'm also glad we got that "I'm going to find a window." / "I fell out of the window."

7:22 I was so excited to see the three bros vs the door, and I was so not disappointed by what I got. I fucking lost my shit and actually had to pause the episode for a moment just because I was so not ready for Percy. I was ready for the other two to fail and have Percy just crawl through a window and open the door and be all "yeah, I'm awesome." I was not ready for Percy to just fucking free fall out of the sky and say "I fell out of the window" with that look and tone of "I am so done with this bullshit" This show is doing such an incredible job of embodying the natural unscripted flow of Critical Role by sending a chill down my spine one second, then making me laugh so hard I can't breathe, just to tear my heart out again. Such a great show. I can't wait for next week's episodes!

Okay but the thing that no one is mentioning is that they voluntarily go through stupid and unsuccessful ideas before they finally do what they were going to do in the first place. Like Percy said, is it overkill if it’s what you needed from the start?

We're six episodes in and they've had issues with three doors so far. That's an average of 1 door problem every other episode

I'm still a little sad we missed out on my fav dialogue between vax and scanlan ("I get the sharp side?!?" "I can't get the handle through the crack in the door" "Your stupid idea cut my hand!""Builds character.") but that's fair it would have taken away from the action so it fits better this way and they can't include everything bc of time constraints per ep.. im glad they included it at all really one of the best moments of the campaign

I had a player who wrote up his character as an outcast orc who had never seen a door before, and the very first one he encountered teleported him across the country, into a perilous situation. So for the rest of the 8 months of the campaign his character approached every single door with suspicion.

"It's not overkill if you use what it took." Wise words from Percy

Percy: I’m going to find a window. Later Percy: I fell out of the window.

I once had a player get really disheartened that they struggled to open a door. They were new to the game and still figuring out that sometimes there's nothing wrong with their character rolling poorly. I ended up showing them the original clip to show them that even high level characters sometimes struggle with doors

I love how we've got 2 seemingly brooding serious male characters who are still silly and funny.

So wait. Vox Machina’s greatest enemy was doors. The Mighty Nein’s greatest enemy was The Chair. What will Campaign 3’s greatest enemy be?

The thing I love most about this in the show, is that in an earlier episode, Vax easily lockpicked some big fancy lock with Grog's toothpic, yet in this episode he can't even pick the lock of some simple door. It showcases how sometimes DnD's dice rolling just doesn't make sense, and I love it

"Three spells! And I injured myself!" Is still something I say when I am in a situation with friends trying to do TOO much for a simple solution.

That guard opening the door was the DM just saying screw it

this reminds me of the time my party got its ass kicked by a pregnant fish with an arrow in its back. keep in mind we have defeated giant monsters who can fire huge lazar beams of of pure lightning by this point, but the fish escaped on 1 hp, bitch slapped our dragon, and caused emotional damage to our fighter. It was a Normal fish

Ahh the Whitestone door. This is why I funded TLoVM. I wanted nothing more than to see this sequence properly animated. And while the animation is great we lost the unseen servant, sword lever, and bigby’s hand along the way. Pour one out for the true Whitestone door sequence

"How do you want to do this?" ... for a door ... this triumph over their nemesis surely was their most glorious victory xD

Considering all of the animated objects and mimics Matt has running around in campaign 3. I'm gonna be highly highly disappointed if the BBEG is it is not a gigantic door!

The only thing that could make this campaign even more funny is if the BBEG was behind a door they kept failing to open.

Welcome to DnD, where you can slay dragons using dining tools and take crit damage from doors

Did they ever just get to a point like this "You encounter a locked door" "I blow up the door" "You can't blow up the door" "He blows up the door" "You can't just-" "We blow up the door Matt!"

"It's an old, old type of lock. Hold on." "There's no lock." "But I rolled a Natural 20." "Well, you weren't wrong about it being an "old type" of lock: how long have people been barricading their doors with a heavy wood plank before the first pickable lock was invented anyway?" Fast thinking there Matt

Literally the first half hour of the first campaign I ran was taken up with my party trying to break open a series of unlocked, motion-activated sliding doors.. Doors are truly a universal enemy

The fact that both door opening shenanigans had Percy, Vax, and Scanlan involved is just hilarious to me lol

"I shall go down in history as 'The Man Who Opened The Door!' " -Leonardo da Vinci, Ever After

What I find interested in this, especially reading through the top comments and finding no mention of this there either, so absolutely no one thinks of this: that if someone barred the door from the inside, then there must be another door where they left the building. So if they were to just go around the building, they would find another door, with probably a pickable lock, that Vax could easily pick. But they're like: NOPE, there is just this door and broken windows. How does the priest leave the building after closing up?

It's so funny that they are effected by wooden doors and I love Vaxs reaction "Its not a door its a thing of evil!!"

I have to say, Taliesin is one hell of a VA. My favourite character in the animated show for sure

Is it weird that this was in my top 5 things I wanted to see in this season?

Thank you for this! The animated series did justice to this scene-- while I missed the extended version (all their attempts, in vain), I understand the show can't show every single moment we've loved. I'm so happy Scanlan got his Beret though.

point of order: They didn't open it. They exploited a physical security protocol breach that did.

The glasses on Percy's OG art already have the lens flare, and I'm laughing so much.

I just started curse of Straud and the most time consuming enemy we’ve come across has been doors. They are the ultimate enemy.

when I was playing dnd I spend like 40 minutes on a door, only to learn later that IT WASN’T EVEN LOCKED this was hilarious

This became one of the best running gags of the campaign. Hilarious

I had forgotten that the show was based on a D&D campaign at the start of that episode until they not only failed to unlock a door but also Percy fell out of a window. It happens at least once every campaign to all of us.

I also like how the piss bucket moment now seems like a callback - call-forward?? - to campaign 3. Not the only one, either.

So this is basically how the show has been written? A DND campaign translated into an animation? Epic

So the Critical Role parties have had major issues with Doors, Tables, and Chairs. Does this make the ultimate boss of Critical Role.....IKEA?

Critical Roll's arch enemy: DOORS.

Turns out it was a pull door not a push door.... 🤣😅

Vecna's big mistake was not putting enough doors in hos tower

its amazing that after all these years.... they still dont know how to open doors

1:28 Liam should be like, "Wait...I PLAYED NIGHTCRAWLER!"

i just love how in the animation they’re literally and figuratively just taking the piss LMAO. truly encapsulates vox machina vs. doors

I fucking LOVE that they put the "Vox Machina bested by doors" meme in there.

I love these! I'm loving revisiting C1, thanks AQ! ❤️

Is this THE arsequeef?! 🤯 Awesome, glad to see you here on youtube. 😂

Love how Scanlan goes “this is what he does!” before Vax fails miserably

Doors. Every party's worst nightmare

That proclamation "I fell out of the window" got me so hard I almost peed myself.

"Wait, Percy...how much gunpowder do you have? I have an idea that just might work."

"It's not a door, it's a thing of evil" I love that line so much lmao

I love this type of videos man, keep them comming great job

I'm crying. They need more seasons.

as a primarily dex based player, I feel this on an emotional level

Just from the context of the scene, and when they encountered a cell door later they were like, "LOOK, see, that door was just cursed," I knew that something exactly like this had happened

watched the series without having seen the actual campaign, saw the scene and immediately came looking for this. hilarious

Thumbnail is too perfect!! I need to see this from the start

Thanks AQ! You know these connections to the campaign so well! Your recall and talent with video creation is truly a gift to us all. I suspect these correlation videos are bound to draw new batches of Critters into the fold, mainly from the LOVM series' new fans. And, as an OG Critter, I marvel anew at the improvisational genius of the CR cast. It's really no mystery why we're all fans!

Thank you, blessed uploader!

Whoever makes doors and locks in Whitehall is EXTREMELY underrated.

It makes me incredibly happy to see that the most replayed part of this video was "I fell out of the window."

This is so great!

The boing sound as Scanlan's foot disappears. 😂 And I wonder what Orthax was thinking of Percy at that moment lol

"Shall we try the One and a Half Elf push?"

I know this is an older video, but a couple weeks back I was running a game and two of the players had magic keys to unlock the doors in the dungeon sealed with magic. Some silver some gold. Our Dragonborn Fighter and our Human Paladin kept trying to break down a magically sealed door by running into it over and over. The Paladin at one point rolled a Nat 1 and tripped and the Dragonborn with a 15 kept going trampling the Paladin before bouncing off the door and landing on top of the paladin who had a Dragonborn foot print on his face. Later the Dragonborn rolled a Nat 1 and missed the door and hit the wall with so much force they left a silhouette of themselves in the wall. Finally the Half Elf Warlock unlocked the door. The two didn't notice she had and charged again running through the unlocked door and tackling the prisoner they were supposed save on the other side knocking them unconscious.

ArseQueef , my hero ! i wanted exactly that !! Thank you !

Thanks, ArseQueef! These are great!

Never a binwin around when you need one.

This just makes me wanna start a game with players locked behind a door like this lol

I love the show guys keep up the awesome work.

Welcome to D&D!! Where your whole session is just trying to open a fucking door😂.

Rolls a nat 20 to pick an unpickable door. *_Lock suddenly materializes out of thin fucking air_*

I love hearing Scanlan say "fucking doors."

These clips do such a great job of showcasing how much Neal Acree's score adds to the whole feeling.

I am green AF to the D&D scene, but this was the moment I realized "Wait, they're writing this from an actual campaign! LMAO"

I was watching for the first time and not knowing much of anything about critical role before watching the series. When this scene happened, I just asked my friend "How many times did they have to roll against this fucking door?" And they said "Too many." I was not disappointed seeing the actual thing take place.

The legendary ArseQueef!

Oh I know this so well.. My (young) rogue/ranger: "Okay, a lock. Let's try this." 1. "damit, it won't open..." Mage: "I have no idea how this works, gimme the lockpicks..." 20 DM: "Lock open" This happened twice xD Also if they did not injure themselves, phew.