As a someone who bingewatches a lot, you guys can not even imagine how great it is to discover Critical Role in 2019 EDIT: DAMN TIME FLIES, Those who started in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 AND NOW 2025 lucky you
It's been my primary form of entertainment and salve for my sanity these past 3 month. I both look forward to and dread catching up to the current episode.
no bolder statement can be said, no truer statement can be unheard. But there will come a time where you catch up; and then, you start watching re-runs.
Vox is campaign 1 which I also watched first. Soooo many hours of greatness and so happy I watched it 1st. When I started that one I never thought I would catch up to current. Then I finished it and started this one and have renewed hope to get to current with the Nein lol
Seeing people marathoning this in the comment section during quarantine is like when you accidentally bump into an equally exhausted mate in the kitchen at 4am and you both just give each other that nod of acknowledgement and solidarity and then go about your day feeling slightly less alone
People say that we should get Wil Wheaton to help 826LA. I say we get Jerry, from Acquisitions Incorporated. Because he rolls ones more than Wheaton. Wheaton just rolls poorly, not always ones.
I did not realize how much I truly liked and appreciated Jester as a character until Laura was absent last week. It was not the same without her, so I'm so happy she's back. Also Talisen's hair is gorgeous.
Oh, I agree about Ashley as well. It's always great to have her precious face back. But I think because, lately anyway, she's been gone more often than not that I'm used to the crew without Yasha around. Jester is a different matter. It felt entirely weird and incomplete without her and I missed her childish humor lol. I'm glad Ashley has the time to stick around much longer now so she can finally make Yasha become a real part of the Mighty Nein family.
Laura has been a revelation so far this campaign. Vex was by no means a bad character, but Jester has a shot at challenging Scanlan and Grog for character awesomeness if she keeps it up.
We are Critters... Resistance is mostly futile...😶 Jester... Um... To deflect I'll just say Scanlan and Grog were -geniuses- played geniusly!! Either character is a very high bar that... she prolly shouldn't compare herself to.😅
I think my favorite thing is when Caleb looks through Frumpkin and grabs onto the nearest party member as an act of ultimate trust, and every party member making it their priority to keep Caleb safe whilst doing this
I love watching Laura overtly flirt with Travis through Jester while he eggs her on, simultaneously playing Fjord as completely unaware/disinterested. This is golden entertainment.
There is a hidden side to this, Travis has insisted on multiple occasions on talks machina and at cons that he has zero interest in getting into any romantic entanglement in game, he didn’t as grog and he said at the end of campaign 1 in the wrap up he enjoyed watching it but he was as turning up to hit things and have fun and did not want to be drawn into anything like Vax and keyleth or Percy and vex in the future. Laura I believe took that as a challenge :).
I think that if the cube had gotten Beau they would have all groaned a little bit. But once they thought the cube was going to get the cat, the whole table was up yelling. Perfect. Absolute perfection.
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART” If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This TH-cam channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
NG DeXt to ship someone means you anticipate that they and the person you ship them with are going to become a couple. So Laura tried to say fjord and jester should be a couple. Caleb says the ship sank, as in fjord shut down the possibility of a relationship
Shipping is when a fandom cant just be happy with the narrative and they have to impose a romantic subplot into everything. Much like Hollywood in general.
@@cactusjackNV Ok, well Laura is also a professional role player and damn good at it, so in your analogy she would be a major league pitcher with a shed full of balls.
binge watcher here, he did bathe with the doorknob (the first one) but didn't put his head under. Nott did not bathe however. I'm not sure with Yasha however
@@Cronustimelord Each to their own but I highly recommend DMs check out the return of the lazy dungeon masters guide. When you have players like these folks, then it's worth putting that amount of effort and planning in. But I find most players have fun regardless of how hard you work. I've saved myself a lot of time and energy (and resentment for player apathy) by planning less. But when you do find the committed group ready to do some storybuilding, then the reward is worth it. Love and respect!
@@toastedt140 Return of the Lazy DM is one of the best 5th edition resource books I have ever come across. It helped me go from overpreparing and spending too long on unnecessary and complicated prep work to loosening up, being more flexible and better at improvising, and reducing my prep time by hours in some cases. Having DM'ed for a couple of groups of siblings and friends, I can attest that the average player will be happy with an extremely simple and straightforward campaign plot where they get to unwind with their friends, kick some ass, and have a good time.
To be fair, it's one of the best parts of being a wizard. My equivalent is overacting the verbal component, because nothing quite compares to putting on your Gandalf voice and loudly saying "CAST: FIREBALL"
When the DM needs to give the party a hint: "Roll an intelligence check (because maybe your character is smarter than you)" No shade though, that puzzle was HARD
Andrew Woods Day 65 inside for me (Watching from China)! Critical Role has saved my sanity, made it through Campaign one a bit ago, and desperately missing my D&D group.
@Sabrina Waterfield I would have to agree. It’s easier to show stuff like maps and dungeons but my players are kinda new so that has been posing some problems.
2:53:52 Liam: Who is it getting? Mat: *Laughs evily* Liam: MY CAT?! YOU SON OF A FUCKER!!! Liam: *Fake leaps across the table to get Frumpkin* No one messes with the cat.
That fake leap fucking killed me. I was thinking "this totally feels like a moment where you'd leap across the table to strangle someone" like 1/10th of a second before Liam did it
The party: *drawn out conversation about taking the bowls out of the room to cast* Matthew Mercer: *the face of a DM watching the party waste their time*
To be fair, since they hadn't yet realized they needed to heat them up to see the highlighted sections, casting any spell in the main chamber would likely have spawned another cube, so going away and doing more testing was a pretty wise precaution.
@@Hawk_of_Battle I would have loved to see them spawn more cubes though. Their engagements are always so easy. 7vs1 in many cases and only very few encounters each day. Like the rats in the sewers wow 7 weak-as-hell rats vs 6 of them. Like thats gonna do anything. Or 1 Rug vs 6 of them + Ulog. Or 1 cube vs 7 of them. At least have multiple encounters with those cubes to get at least a little bit of sense of danger in there. The encounters all seem like difficulty level "walk in the park"...
2023 gang 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading
*Molly:* "I've got an idea! I think I know how it works now." *Drunk-Nott:* "I don't know how it works and I'm not paying any attention. I'm very drunk." I think Sam might be a deity in human form.
Me: I wonder if Nott will remember he has an invisible mage hand that can disarm traps and pick locks from a safe distance this episode. Nott an hour in: Oh god theres lots of traps, IM DYING DOWN HERE!!
@@JohnVanderbeck Paul's right. I don't know if Nott still has the RoWW, but the ring Caleb dismantled was a pearl ring from jester in order to get a pearl for his identify spell.
For a non native english speaker, the subtitles really helps and adds on the depth of understanding what is going on. Keep it up the good work, really apreciated those who help translate the audio..
vinicios brandao The captions are currently automatic and sometimes give wrong information. CR Transcripts, a group of fans, make better captions in a couple of weeks. Check out their website.
Kris Barski afding to that. If you speak english ,(writen) and you are decnt at translating, they ae making versions on another languagues. They never say no to help.
as a cleric it makes my heart warm to in-universe make everyone else sit around doing jack diddly for 10 minutes waiting on me because we need to read something and no one else can cast comprehend languages and I'm spell slot stingy
@@Lindvvyrm that sounds harsh. Surely you should be able to do it during a short rest, even if your DM might not want to slow the pace down at other times. For me there's a reason spells have the ritual tag- so you can cast them between battles without burning slots.
@@archie4president330 so I recently had a discussion with him, he said that he said it was for only when my spell slots were spent. I asked if i could try to just take the ritual 10 mins for detect magic during the game and he said I could. We were on our way into a dungeon and I started ritual casting detect magic twice before we went in to check for magical traps, both times he had us encounter some small scouting party of enemies who aimed for me first because I was meditating. I have been getting quite frustrated tbh.
It's funny how Liam went for weeks barely able to hit anything before suddenly landing 3 consecutive attacks while blinded. It's like the dice know Caleb needs to get serious when Nott is in danger (as with the Manticore fight when he took out the priest).
I like that Beau does the same thing on her first turn. All four of her hits landed. Beau and Caleb can factually fight better blinded than able to see lmao. Oh wait they could see lmao nvm
1:00:46 TRUTH, cats somehow not having darkvision in the PHB is rly bullshit. We always houseruled them having at least 30 ft of darkvision, partly so there's an actual incentive for druids to wild shape into a cat at night to scout something in a city, it just makes a lot of sense.
Yet another case of the unfortunate oversimplication of 5e. As a 3.5e lover, this is a perfect situation for low light vision. Cats can't truly see in pitch blackness, but they can see in super low light *SO* much better than people.
I feel like I would homebrew cats DO have night vision but DON'T have perception advantage under light. (More accurate since cats actually don't see that sharply at certain distances under light.)
Thank you to: Flando Maltrizian! (Repost of timestamps) 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading
when Caleb offer Jester a healing potion she refused, when Nott offered a healing potion she was ignored, but Jester drank two of Fjords healing potions
Ashley was so much impressed with Travis' portrayal as Grog the Barbarian, that she said "I want to be a Barbarian" on air during the first campaign, and she is now a Barbarian.
I love how she portrays it more seething anger than extroverted pure frenzy as grog was. It's a calm "i would like to rage" and i head canon it as "there's a change in her expression...you notice as Yashas jaw clenches, youve seen this before, a flare of hot air steaming from her nostrils as her brow furrows, her eyes narrow and focused solely on her target as Yashas blood begins to boil"
@@jbirkins (Edit, correcting previous statement now that I’ve seen the start again) DNDBeyond pledged to donate $100 to 826LA for every Nat1 up to 100 grand, while one of the viewers pledged to match that up to 40k
I love how while they’re discussing what Evocation magic does, everyone’s like “oh yeah it does fire and lightning and elemental stuff” and all very cool with it while Liam is on the side, mumbling as Caleb “it’s killing” and things along that line.
Oof for Caleb but Evocation spells actually include all the healing spells as well. Cure Wounds, Healing Word, Heal, and their mass version are all Evocation.
@@XS_OverlordDepends on how your world interprets healing magic. In base 5e, your evoking the positive energy of the upper planes, which restores and heals. It doesn't have anything to do with death. However, if you want a world where healing magic is actually reversing the injury, turning back the clock on entropy so to speak, that could be considered necromancy in a way
Binging critical role right now has helped my mental health so much. I'm actually truly smiling and laughing for the first time in a long dark while and man does it feel good. Thank you. I don't feel so alone.
I’m late, but I seriously hope you’re feeling better 💙 I just started watching critical role probably a month or so ago, and though I’m not having a tough time generally, it’s helped me smile on the bad & exhausting days. Here’s to more smiles and laughs my friend!
Matt Mercer’s witcher knowledge is so good, i love it. Playing the Silver sword theme when they fight monsters, and steel when they fight humans. it’s the best thing
I think you're forgetting that it's still a game, and mechanics are a thing for a reason. There are many contradictory things in every edition of DnD (and pathfinder) that don't make sense, but are the way they are for the sake of how it plays out mechanically.
@@5oundOfVictory some other examples include: padded armor giving disadvantage on stealth even though it would be better than leather, spears not being finesse even though you need more dexterity than strength to use one properly, half plate giving disadvantage despite its description suggesting that the plates wouldn't collide or scrape against each other, some spells that should probably be concentration not being so, and the existence of ring mail, it is objectively worse than any other armor type in the game, the name would more accurately describe chainmail, and what the rules describe it as makes no sense in addition to being the only armor neither based on history nor a typical fantasy trope (Edit: and that's just the player's handbook)
@@phenjaws569 Why would leather armor be chosen as an option if padded armor didn't give disadvantage on stealth? Giving a reach weapon finesse would make the stat even more OP than it already is, and completely rule out the use of rapiers, shortswords, scimitars, etc. Also, you now have a 10ft reach d10 damage die with sneak attack. I do agree that 5e is a bit heavy on disadvantage and advantage instead of just flat bonuses (like -2 or whatever) which would be a bit more forgiving, and make more sense. Spellcasters also got huge buffs in 5e compared to previous editions, and some spells requiring concentration that don't could really waste a lot of potential in caster classes. But the ringmail thing, I 100% agree with you, same with half plate (though I'd impose a -3 to stealth, rather than disadvantage, because the idea is that a metal plate banging against something exterior (like a rock or table) is gonna make more noise than leather bumping into the same thing.
@@5oundOfVictory I wasn't saying that these things didn't make sense aside from ring mail, I was listing examples of rules that are there to balance the game but aren't as realistic as some others, I completely understand why everything but ring mail is the way that it is, although making it so that leather armor has a 12 AC and studded leather has 13 would make padded armor more of an option, but I understand why they didn't do that, because if they had it like that, someone who rolled a high dexterity score would have equal or greater protection compared to chainmail (assuming they rolled 16 or 18 on dex and/or played an elf, raising the score to an 18 or 20) which would make the game at least a little less balanced, so I understand the mechanical reasons that these things are the way they are in Dungeons and Dragons, I was listing examples of other rules that aren't very realistic but make the game more fun (although given that padded armor is objectively worse than leather armor [which, again most classes start with] makes its presence a little superfluous as literally every other set of armor is better including what you start with)
I guess maybe the argument is that a familiar is technically a minor spirit and not the actual animal it takes the form of. Still bullshit though imho.
Question, regarding gqs, can you score a crit on them? I remember not being able to in previous editions for a very good reason (no discernible anatomy) but I can't seem to find confirmation of that in regards to 5e.
Lol, honestly, that would've been me. "Got a perfectly good rod-like-stick on my back, but imma look for somethin' else because i don't want to lose my stick'.
@@localcryptid42Obviously, but the point of the comment was that it's amusing to imply to your spouse that "you don't need to look into romantic context".
@localcryptid42 Oh, one of _those_ people. You're making the subtle implication that there's misogyny afoot (don't deny it, the whole argument on what is a more appropriate labeling borders on the debate of misogyny) because somebody referred to a woman as a man's wife -- which isn't inaccurate and should be considered an honor just as it would be for him to be a husband, but I doubt you go around correcting people, more specifically women, when she refers to a man as a husband rather than by birth name. And, yeah, I see men being called as "(proper noun here)'s husband" all the time. There's nothing wrong with saying "Travis's wife" nor "Laura's husband."
*Timestamps from Flando Maltrizian.* 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART” If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This TH-cam channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
Yeah, the song was cute and it made me smile, but Travis's screaming almost made me spit my drink. I've re-watched it several times. It was gold. Such rage! ❤
To that regard, I have just started watching (from the beginning of Mighty Nein) and I find joy how they meet the most iconic monsters of DnD. As of now, they fought Gnolls, Manticore (but I'd consider that iconic elsewhere, not that much in DnD), Imps, Phase Spider and Gelatinous Cube.
He does DM. Not sure if you watched campaign 1 but he runs a one shot at times when people are busy with other things and they don’t have most of the group.
The shaft description scene brings up such great memories "The shaft curves to the right..." *Laura starts giggling uncontrollably* "Not from her perspective"
Reposting cuz it's too far down credits: Flando Maltrizian 2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE) 10:45 Episode Starts 14:45 Row your boat 15:25 Laura is back 16:45 Oskar and Guinevere 19:15 Fancy oarwork 20:40 Water walking 24:20 Battle 1 56:40 Beau Going down 58:50 Sam works the shaft 1:11:05 Nott apologizes 1:14:15 Puzzle 1 1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration 1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb 1:42:05 Battle 2 1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions 1:59:15 Break Starts 2:11:50 Art Montage 2:17:15 Break Ends 2:25:10 Rude detect magic 2:28:05 Dice measuring contest 2:38:55 Battle 3 2:44:20 Slappin the jello 2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks 2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin 2:57:30 Succumb to the cube 3:01:20 HDYWTDT 3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat 3:19:35 Yasha knows all 3:31:40 Caleb’s book face 3:33:05 Journal Reading
Gotta love just watching Matt while the party is figuring things out. Hes got a poker face and a slight cocked eyebrow permanently plastered on his face, haha
@@dndgeekboy honestly, only ever noticed when I was WATCHING the stream, as opposed to just listening to it. (also it throws off the even-ness of the top and bottom half of the screen, where they used to go male, female male; male, female, male.)
Matt moves the cube to consume Frumpkin. The whole table erupts in protest. Ashley laughs. Matt admits to just wanting to mess with them and moves the cube past. :) Love these guys :D
C'est bon ca! Mais, en anglias on dit "fool's fire" pour le translation de "ignis fatuus" , Mais en anglias "a jester is a 'fool', but a fool isn't always a jester". Mais pout le temps c'est probablemet le definition de 'fool=jester' car in synonym initialment etait "jack o' lantern", Mais aujourd'hui ce best pas le definition de jack o lantern; ces les citrouille lantern Pour fool vs jester C'est comme in carré et un rectangle, un est les deux en même temps, Mais in rectangle ce nest pas un carré (nessisairment). Bonne chances avec Les sous-titre, mon gars
Darius Dahmen What they said is actually very smart! The top comment states will-o-wisp is feu follet in French, which comes from the Latin “ignis fatuus” which when put to French is “feu bouffon” which in English is “jester fire”. The French person replying is saying that ignis fatuus in English is “fools fire” and that jester and fool are used interchangeably, so much so that they became synonymous. So back then they used to call jack-o’-lanterns “ignis fatuus” and initially fool/jester was kinda like synonymous with jack o lanterns. But today the best definition of jack o lantern in French is different, just like it’s not “feu bouffon” and it’s now “feu follet”. For fool vs jester, it’s like a square and a rectangle. Basically they’re used mostly interchangeably and nobody is like really going to care if you say square versus rectangle. It’s not a big deal. But a square isn’t a rectangle still. It’s for clarification so things don’t get so lost in translation. And then they say thanks for the subtitles. My translation guarantee you isn’t perfect but I did study French for a bit. Hope it helps. There’s definitely a lot of layers information wise.
@@shortkyuu7390 Joining you in reanimating this comment for no reason: the person that commented is definitely not french (And I say that as a french person) lots of flaws (such as some of the genders of the words) some weird commas out of nowhere and also overall writing And there I am still trying to piece together why that person went through all of that trouble to write that comment in french. And I don't have an answer. And I'm disappointed.
Even though he isnt the most experienced player in the world, Sam Riegel, is probably one of the best and most entertaining players in the world. I just love that man.
He manages to fool us all asking all the time "SURVIVAL?? wE hAvE nEvEr UsEd ThAt!" But let's not forget that he has managed to play even Matt Mercer and subvert his expectations, on multiple ocasions, in Campaign 1.
@@awesomeman8385 That ship had sailed by this time, before they did though Sam was pivotal as a baby shield, but they had already announced it about ten episodes prior
As a someone who bingewatches a lot, you guys can not even imagine how great it is to discover Critical Role in 2019
EDIT: DAMN TIME FLIES, Those who started in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 AND NOW 2025 lucky you
With ya there!
Just discovered it this week! So much to catch up on!
It's also an absolute hell and I haven't had a life in months, but I'm right there with ya, bud.
It's been my primary form of entertainment and salve for my sanity these past 3 month. I both look forward to and dread catching up to the current episode.
It's good and bad because yes I get to binge watch, but I watch to watch it live so bad. Also spoilers are inevitable unfortunately
Beau: I'm always a fan of going down.
Yasha: *nods in approval*
[seconds later]
Beau: I'll take up the rears.
Yasha: I'm always a fan of rears.
Biggest lesbian energy
I think that was less Yasha responding and more Ashley mocking Marisha
Have you watched further yet? Lmao. Sadly, this comment of yours, has not aged like wine.
BEAU IS A TOP!
@@Silverwind87 Yaaaas, this is the Spoiler Content i needed
Yasha: * Does anything *
The Mighty Nein: *Happiness Noise*
Me: *Happiness Noise*
Ashley: exists
rest of the crew: *Happiness Noise*
Ashley is just sweet
@@KumaoftheForest beacuse jester wasnt there for one session. Yasha wasnt there for many
@@KumaoftheForest beacuse its exhausting for a dm to play a player character
when you're 2 years late, everyday is thursday
Every 4 hours is thursday
@@fishiefish6179 same same same 😂
no bolder statement can be said, no truer statement can be unheard.
But there will come a time where you catch up; and then, you start watching re-runs.
Sometimes more than one Thursday in a single day.
I'm starting to realize that the cat is the Kenny of this Campaign
I love how laura flirts shamelessly with Travis in the form of her D&D character lmao. Husband and Wife-ery at it's finest, folks.
They're so damn cute
@@handfulmousefly The banana on your channel is great.
Its also really interesting how there was about zero flirting between Grog and Vex. I appreciate how they can choose to do it or not do it.
in a talks machine episode Laura said she decided that her character was gonna pursue ford bc Travis mentioned he never wanted a dnd relationship
@@insanenessity except when Vex showed her boobs to inspire Grog.
"last time we left off"
I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS NON STOP FOR THE PAST SIX DAYS MATT!!!!
Lmao I feel this. Physically. Because I haven't truly slept in the last 3 months because of this damn show lmao.
I have been going hard the last two weeks
Accurate
@James Tune what
Vox is campaign 1 which I also watched first. Soooo many hours of greatness and so happy I watched it 1st. When I started that one I never thought I would catch up to current. Then I finished it and started this one and have renewed hope to get to current with the Nein lol
"I don't want to impose... But I'm bleeding profusely" Best line :D
I love that i haven't gotten to this part yet but i can already tell who is going to say this 😂😂😂
Travis is such a proud papa whenever Ashley says she's going to rage
SO NICE having Ash back so we get to see those interactions. xD
Seeing people marathoning this in the comment section during quarantine is like when you accidentally bump into an equally exhausted mate in the kitchen at 4am and you both just give each other that nod of acknowledgement and solidarity and then go about your day feeling slightly less alone
Yeah it's brilliant for language learners, there is such a strong translation community
Heeeeeey *nods in solidarity* xD #2020watchparty #criticalrole2020
I’ve never felt more understood
I agree completely
My people...
Matt has been DMing for so long he has a perpetually raised eyebrow
People say that we should get Wil Wheaton to help 826LA.
I say we get Jerry, from Acquisitions Incorporated. Because he rolls ones more than Wheaton. Wheaton just rolls poorly, not always ones.
And one hell of a poker face.
It's very charming
Raised eye brows effects 50% of DM Americans 🇺🇸😆
ALLBLAZING 1 everything about Matt is charming. E v e r y t h i n g
Beau: “I’m always a fan of going down”
Yasha: *nods in approval*
ChuckNormis218 and 57:27,
Beau: “i’ll take up the rears”
Yasha: “i’m always a fan of rears”
*they know what they are doing to us*
i ship it
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment
Are we ignoring Matt's approval? :kappa:
I like to call it a lesbromance.
Sam: How does Ashley have more dice than Laura?
Laura: *pulls out a duffel bag's worth of dice* You dare question my power, mortal?
FEAR THE POWER OF DICE!!!!!
2:28:10 Its not just a dice bag, its a way of life 🤩
I did not realize how much I truly liked and appreciated Jester as a character until Laura was absent last week. It was not the same without her, so I'm so happy she's back. Also Talisen's hair is gorgeous.
Oh, I agree about Ashley as well. It's always great to have her precious face back. But I think because, lately anyway, she's been gone more often than not that I'm used to the crew without Yasha around. Jester is a different matter. It felt entirely weird and incomplete without her and I missed her childish humor lol. I'm glad Ashley has the time to stick around much longer now so she can finally make Yasha become a real part of the Mighty Nein family.
Laura has been a revelation so far this campaign. Vex was by no means a bad character, but Jester has a shot at challenging Scanlan and Grog for character awesomeness if she keeps it up.
Talisien's hair is always gorgeous. It's where his power comes from.
ajs1031 Are there clones of you or something? "We/we're".
We are Critters... Resistance is mostly futile...😶
Jester... Um... To deflect I'll just say Scanlan and Grog were -geniuses- played geniusly!! Either character is a very high bar that... she prolly shouldn't compare herself to.😅
1:02:50 - You know what they say: "If you don't find the trap with your Skill Points, you'll eventually find it with your Hit Points."
A hallway full of traps? Better use my face to disarm every one of them!
@@datdumazn3775 I read that in Sam's voice, and that was so much better.
The dwarvern method of trap disarming.
@@WhileyCoyote Also the Dragon Age method of trap disarming.
@@johnkirsch5479 Lmao yes
"-Oh Oskar...
-Fjord.
-Thank you for saving me..~
-It's Fjord."
I died!
When was this?
@@owlabouteverything2066 Right after Fjord gave the unconscious (and dying) Jester a healing potion after the Gelatinous Cube died.
Owlabout Everything 3:02:43
I think my favorite thing is when Caleb looks through Frumpkin and grabs onto the nearest party member as an act of ultimate trust, and every party member making it their priority to keep Caleb safe whilst doing this
Yes!!! It’s absolutely the best
Must protect the cinnamon roll
It’s quite adorable 😂 at first he used to ask but now he just holds on to whoever is nearest and they just accept their duty as his protector
And he said he doesn’t trust them, but after Mollys backstory reveal last episode he trusts him enough to hold onto him blinded
“I feel guilty for having needs!” What a mood, Nott.
Nott drinks because you cry.
Fucking saaaaaaaaaaaaame
I've never resonated so much with something
Just mum stuff
Not only is it a mood, it's also lit AF fam and poggers AF. My dick is out for Harambe.
I love watching Laura overtly flirt with Travis through Jester while he eggs her on, simultaneously playing Fjord as completely unaware/disinterested. This is golden entertainment.
They're so cute in game and irl, love it xD
My wife flirts with me when we play too, it's super cute.
@@scottvarley3823 pain
That novel really entranced her.
There is a hidden side to this, Travis has insisted on multiple occasions on talks machina and at cons that he has zero interest in getting into any romantic entanglement in game, he didn’t as grog and he said at the end of campaign 1 in the wrap up he enjoyed watching it but he was as turning up to hit things and have fun and did not want to be drawn into anything like Vax and keyleth or Percy and vex in the future.
Laura I believe took that as a challenge :).
Caleb: "Who's it getting!? whose it getting!?"
*a moment of recognition*
"MY CAT!!!"😲
Grim Reefer 😆
I think that if the cube had gotten Beau they would have all groaned a little bit. But once they thought the cube was going to get the cat, the whole table was up yelling. Perfect. Absolute perfection.
The whole top table lost it when Matt went for the cat XD
sauce?
@@adamka-1 2:53:45
3:39:01 "I don't want to wait a week I want to do it now!" - Ashley. I agree... clicks next video.
*six years late core*
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART”
If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This TH-cam channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
Man you watched the video fast!
You're doing gods work man
44:11 - Jester power rowing
Alex Sarafilovic came to say this same thing
can we get G&S to just pin these?
Did no one else recognise the genius of Liam at 17:04?
'It is sad when ships sink'
Just after Laura tries to ship Jester and Fjord.
It's especially great to see Laura's face when she realizes it only a few seconds after she replies to Caleb
Dont get what liam said. Completely went over my head! Can you explain.
NG DeXt to ship someone means you anticipate that they and the person you ship them with are going to become a couple. So Laura tried to say fjord and jester should be a couple. Caleb says the ship sank, as in fjord shut down the possibility of a relationship
Shipping is when a fandom cant just be happy with the narrative and they have to impose a romantic subplot into everything. Much like Hollywood in general.
I also like how matt was the only one who got it at first
Yasha - has the light cantrip
Also Yasha - pulls out torch
Is a Barbarian
Has Cantrips
Its hard to reconcile the two
Torch is more aesthetic
Also I wonder if her cantrip needs some light to begin with? Collecting it rather than producing it?
@@handfulmousefly when you have magic but dungeon crawling aesthetics exists
Me- plays as khajiit, has night vision power.
Also me- uses torches
Laura aggressively slamming her dice bag on the table when Sam questioned her Dice Dominance was great
There is only one Dice Queen at that table. lol
@@cactusjackNV Ok, well Laura is also a professional role player and damn good at it, so in your analogy she would be a major league pitcher with a shed full of balls.
Timestamp is 2:27:57
She has major control issues and needs to get tf over herself
@@GottaLookInwardToSeeOutward What does the dice bag have to do with control issues? It was just a fucking joke
Caleb had TWO baths!! One where Nott stole the doorknob and one where they all saw yasha.
Oh yeah! Totally forgot that XD
He just dipped his feet in didnt he
He didnt bath at the first spa
@@DarLynn909 i don't usually bath either
binge watcher here, he did bathe with the doorknob (the first one) but didn't put his head under. Nott did not bathe however. I'm not sure with Yasha however
matt mercer: says something that sounds like foreshadowing.
players: "write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!"
Me as a DM "write that down WRITE THAT DOWN"
@@Cronustimelord Each to their own but I highly recommend DMs check out the return of the lazy dungeon masters guide. When you have players like these folks, then it's worth putting that amount of effort and planning in. But I find most players have fun regardless of how hard you work. I've saved myself a lot of time and energy (and resentment for player apathy) by planning less. But when you do find the committed group ready to do some storybuilding, then the reward is worth it. Love and respect!
@@toastedt140 Return of the Lazy DM is one of the best 5th edition resource books I have ever come across. It helped me go from overpreparing and spending too long on unnecessary and complicated prep work to loosening up, being more flexible and better at improvising, and reducing my prep time by hours in some cases. Having DM'ed for a couple of groups of siblings and friends, I can attest that the average player will be happy with an extremely simple and straightforward campaign plot where they get to unwind with their friends, kick some ass, and have a good time.
Players are endless wells of story hooks. XD
I love Liam and Sam's dedication to actually performing somatic portions of their spells
To be fair, it's one of the best parts of being a wizard. My equivalent is overacting the verbal component, because nothing quite compares to putting on your Gandalf voice and loudly saying "CAST: FIREBALL"
*Material
@@AGrumpyPanda So that's it you just say cast fireball? What are you a Pokemon trainer?!
Material too but they do a lotta somatic stuff too.
@@ChitenBugMan they do it all
When the DM needs to give the party a hint:
"Roll an intelligence check (because maybe your character is smarter than you)"
No shade though, that puzzle was HARD
Matt: the shaft is about 5 feet-
Marisha: *wheeze*
Frogg doggs I love Marisha’s laugh so much?
It's like a gerbal with a banana 🤣
Surprised it wasnt Laura
@@Clownbunnycosplay its squeaky and i love it
HAHA!!!! One thousandth like 😁
Sam: “I feel conflicted trying to hurt a cube.”
But not a baby manticore?????????
You must have missed the 1st campaign as scanlan consistently referred to his dick as the cube.
I was going to say the same thing. You beat me to it! Huzzah!
A cube is a lot cuter.
Well Scanlans dick wasn't in the shape of a baby manticore...
@@Squall576582 That we know of
Matt: “I need you all to roll initiative.”
Party: *SCREAMS*
Love it xD
because of this i cant imagine a campaign WITHOUT it
Those words are the most feared words in a D&D Campaign.
That’s it, that’s the entire campaign
So dumb
Enemies show up:
Travis: I would like to mage
Underated comment.
COVID-19 Isolation watch party. Made it through 14 episodes in about 10 days. Anybody else here during quarantine?
Andrew Woods Day 65 inside for me (Watching from China)! Critical Role has saved my sanity, made it through Campaign one a bit ago, and desperately missing my D&D group.
@Sabrina Waterfield I would have to agree. It’s easier to show stuff like maps and dungeons but my players are kinda new so that has been posing some problems.
@The Mine Thanks! (sarcasm was appreciated) Hope you are staying safe and healthy during this time!
Andrew Woods yes but I am an essential employee so I’m moving a lil slower
Azo same. Hope you stay safe
I love it when Sam questions the amount of dice Laura has and she just slams this massive dice bag. I died XD
When was this?
Don't question the Queen of Dice Jail. ♥️
The goblin questions the dice goblin
A little after 2:28:00 minute
"Life needs things to live" -Percival De Rolo
"It is sad when ships sink" -Caleb Widogast
“I’m always a fan of going down” -Beauregard Lionett
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton "I never got to use engulf on you :(" - Matt Mercer
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton i mean ;)
@@MrSluttyMcSluttyton Well Matt surely is having a LOVELY time
Critical Role is getting dangerously close to fate lmao
2:53:52
Liam: Who is it getting?
Mat: *Laughs evily*
Liam: MY CAT?! YOU SON OF A FUCKER!!!
Liam: *Fake leaps across the table to get Frumpkin*
No one messes with the cat.
I can relate. I've a Frumpkin, but not a Frumpkin. She's a Noodle. Orange though....I'ma go watch more Chaos.
That fake leap fucking killed me. I was thinking "this totally feels like a moment where you'd leap across the table to strangle someone" like 1/10th of a second before Liam did it
The party: *drawn out conversation about taking the bowls out of the room to cast*
Matthew Mercer: *the face of a DM watching the party waste their time*
To be fair, since they hadn't yet realized they needed to heat them up to see the highlighted sections, casting any spell in the main chamber would likely have spawned another cube, so going away and doing more testing was a pretty wise precaution.
@@Hawk_of_Battle I would have loved to see them spawn more cubes though. Their engagements are always so easy. 7vs1 in many cases and only very few encounters each day. Like the rats in the sewers wow 7 weak-as-hell rats vs 6 of them. Like thats gonna do anything. Or 1 Rug vs 6 of them + Ulog. Or 1 cube vs 7 of them. At least have multiple encounters with those cubes to get at least a little bit of sense of danger in there. The encounters all seem like difficulty level "walk in the park"...
I have a feeling Liam really wants the Metagaming Pigeon to be an in-game thing, and i wholeheartedly approve
He wants to surprise people with every spell and item they get so I doubt it
James Cross Matt did literally ask for it to be a thing.
Isn’t Sam’s company now named Metapigeon or something?
"what will the washington football team do when they face the cowboys?"
" *LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE* "
*LIAR*
I had to replay that bc i could not stop laughing🤣🤣🤩
I legit forgot Sam was originally from Washington D.C. till that moment
As someone who lives 30 minutes away from DC but has half my family in Texas, that moment was great and just reminded me of thanksgiving dinner
2023 gang
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Thank you kindly!
Thanks!
Thanks
Many thanks traveller
Thank you so much for this!
D&DBeyond: $100 for every Nat1 rolled.
CritRoll Crew: Look everyone Will Wheaton is joining us as a special guest.
D&DBeyond: Oh Crap!
That is hilarious and I do not understand how no one has replied to this comment yet
Wil wheaton is an unfunny asshole
That would be so funny
@@RushGamma regardless he still rolls more nat 1s than my whole party combined
Thus should've happened
*Molly:* "I've got an idea! I think I know how it works now."
*Drunk-Nott:* "I don't know how it works and I'm not paying any attention. I'm very drunk."
I think Sam might be a deity in human form.
Trickster god Sam Riegel
Very late response
But it would explain his god tier sponsor messages.
According to Nott in episode 74 he is 😁
Don't disrespect our Lord and savior talesin jaffe please.
He Who Is Drunk And Admits It Avoiding Gruesome Domestic Incidents. Truly a God among men.
"LOOOOOSEEE" And in that one moment Travis was no more, there was only Grog.
In the grim darkness of the recent past, there is only grog
The bartender said there was no beer: there was only Grog. (I’m sorry)
@@hehehaha-jk8ej Don't humor yourself, no your not.
Kida funny tho ngl
There is no Daina, only Grog.
Me: I wonder if Nott will remember he has an invisible mage hand that can disarm traps and pick locks from a safe distance this episode.
Nott an hour in: Oh god theres lots of traps, IM DYING DOWN HERE!!
she*
She also apparently doesn't remember she gave that ring of water walking to Caleb ages ago (and Caleb proceeded to dismantle it for the gemstone)
That was a random ring from jester originally, I think
@@JohnVanderbeck Paul's right. I don't know if Nott still has the RoWW, but the ring Caleb dismantled was a pearl ring from jester in order to get a pearl for his identify spell.
@@JohnVanderbeck People generally don't remember things that didn't happen.
For a non native english speaker, the subtitles really helps and adds on the depth of understanding what is going on. Keep it up the good work, really apreciated those who help translate the audio..
vinicios brandao The captions are currently automatic and sometimes give wrong information.
CR Transcripts, a group of fans, make better captions in a couple of weeks.
Check out their website.
Kris Barski afding to that. If you speak english ,(writen) and you are decnt at translating, they ae making versions on another languagues. They never say no to help.
For a native English speaker, it helps understand what they are saying as well.
Ikr? I cant follow without them because everythings just too quick
Es verdad, es util para enfocarse.
I like how Liam makes really good use of the ritual magic ability to cast spell without using slots.
as a cleric it makes my heart warm to in-universe make everyone else sit around doing jack diddly for 10 minutes waiting on me because we need to read something and no one else can cast comprehend languages and I'm spell slot stingy
While Beau jumps around him angrily because it takes so long :D
To be fair, this is also a cool thing for Matt because my DM wont let me ritual cast anything unless our party is waking up or going to bed.
@@Lindvvyrm that sounds harsh. Surely you should be able to do it during a short rest, even if your DM might not want to slow the pace down at other times. For me there's a reason spells have the ritual tag- so you can cast them between battles without burning slots.
@@archie4president330 so I recently had a discussion with him, he said that he said it was for only when my spell slots were spent. I asked if i could try to just take the ritual 10 mins for detect magic during the game and he said I could. We were on our way into a dungeon and I started ritual casting detect magic twice before we went in to check for magical traps, both times he had us encounter some small scouting party of enemies who aimed for me first because I was meditating. I have been getting quite frustrated tbh.
It's funny how Liam went for weeks barely able to hit anything before suddenly landing 3 consecutive attacks while blinded.
It's like the dice know Caleb needs to get serious when Nott is in danger (as with the Manticore fight when he took out the priest).
I like that Beau does the same thing on her first turn. All four of her hits landed. Beau and Caleb can factually fight better blinded than able to see lmao.
Oh wait they could see lmao nvm
And there is that time he disintegrated that Leader of the Thieves on their travel to Zardash while all of them were in danger
@@faulerpanda7376 And then was immediately shot to death.
@@megashark1013 the true wizard way
no spoilers but another example of the dice knowing when stuff is getting real is episode 129
1:00:46 TRUTH, cats somehow not having darkvision in the PHB is rly bullshit. We always houseruled them having at least 30 ft of darkvision, partly so there's an actual incentive for druids to wild shape into a cat at night to scout something in a city, it just makes a lot of sense.
It's one of those made for balance mechanical issues where no common sense has been applied
Especially cause Tabaxi get night vision cause of their cat eyes
Yet another case of the unfortunate oversimplication of 5e. As a 3.5e lover, this is a perfect situation for low light vision. Cats can't truly see in pitch blackness, but they can see in super low light *SO* much better than people.
I feel like I would homebrew cats DO have night vision but DON'T have perception advantage under light. (More accurate since cats actually don't see that sharply at certain distances under light.)
Yep, my rules are cat's have dark vision, and Dragonborn as well.
Thank you to: Flando Maltrizian! (Repost of timestamps)
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
44:52 EAT SH*T ROCK FACE!!!
+
The travelers blessings upon you dear child
Grimey Danny -
Don't forget Nott's clutch feather fall at 2:19:40
when Caleb offer Jester a healing potion she refused, when Nott offered a healing potion she was ignored, but Jester drank two of Fjords healing potions
Sadly it's because the romantic feelings for fjord hit early, and hit hard. Tusk love did not help in any regard.
The innuendo in this would make Laura laugh out loud.
Does anyone else think Travis’s concern for his sick pregnant wife leaked over into Fjord and Jester’s interactions? Lol.
My milkshake brings all the fjords to the yard
this little detail 🥺🥺
she can't resist Fjord.
I feel like “It is sad when ships sink” was one of Liam’s Common Duolingo sentence practices
Es ist traurig wenn schiffe sinken.
Travis's vicarious excitement of Ashley playing a barbarian is gold
Travis as a player is a god of hyping up everyone
Ashley was so much impressed with Travis' portrayal as Grog the Barbarian, that she said "I want to be a Barbarian" on air during the first campaign, and she is now a Barbarian.
I love how she portrays it more seething anger than extroverted pure frenzy as grog was. It's a calm "i would like to rage" and i head canon it as "there's a change in her expression...you notice as Yashas jaw clenches, youve seen this before, a flare of hot air steaming from her nostrils as her brow furrows, her eyes narrow and focused solely on her target as Yashas blood begins to boil"
Level 4 Warlock, Level 16 Hypeman
I read that like a fuckin spell "Travis vicarious excitement"
I like how Nat1's are now celebrated half-assedly
Nott1's
I forget who, but someone pledged to donate $100 to a charity for each nat 1 rolled. They have a reason to celebrate them now.
@@jbirkins
(Edit, correcting previous statement now that I’ve seen the start again) DNDBeyond pledged to donate $100 to 826LA for every Nat1 up to 100 grand, while one of the viewers pledged to match that up to 40k
1:01:24: Caleb grabs onto Mollymauk without context, Molly just accepts it and pats Caleb's hands lmao
LMFAOO i love that
TOO CUTE
I love how while they’re discussing what Evocation magic does, everyone’s like “oh yeah it does fire and lightning and elemental stuff” and all very cool with it while Liam is on the side, mumbling as Caleb “it’s killing” and things along that line.
hindsight: oooof
Rewatch oof
Oof for Caleb but Evocation spells actually include all the healing spells as well. Cure Wounds, Healing Word, Heal, and their mass version are all Evocation.
@@GewalfofWiviahealing should be necromancy imo
@@XS_OverlordDepends on how your world interprets healing magic. In base 5e, your evoking the positive energy of the upper planes, which restores and heals. It doesn't have anything to do with death. However, if you want a world where healing magic is actually reversing the injury, turning back the clock on entropy so to speak, that could be considered necromancy in a way
When Sam shakes his flask back and forth to get a drink I can't help but to see nott doing it
"Ashley has more dice then Laura,"
that's gotta be one of my favorite moments on the show!
gabthegreat01 2:28:31 for anyone interested
@@owlabouteverything2066 2:28:16 actually
@@gabthegreat01 2:28:09 actually
I love Laura and Liam passive aggressively judging Sam's amateur rogue mistakes.
"But, I don't want to"
Binging critical role right now has helped my mental health so much. I'm actually truly smiling and laughing for the first time in a long dark while and man does it feel good. Thank you. I don't feel so alone.
A few months back, I was in the same place. It still brings me joy, and yes, you are not alone.
Yeah
I’m late, but I seriously hope you’re feeling better 💙 I just started watching critical role probably a month or so ago, and though I’m not having a tough time generally, it’s helped me smile on the bad & exhausting days. Here’s to more smiles and laughs my friend!
Hope you are doing much better now dude, I was in the exact same boat with the entirety of C1 :)
I'm in the same space, right now. Multiple Thursdays per day is barely maintaining my sanity.
Laura brings so much positive energy to the show. I'm so glad she's back.
Matt Mercer’s witcher knowledge is so good, i love it. Playing the Silver sword theme when they fight monsters, and steel when they fight humans. it’s the best thing
I didn't notice that! But I do get the urge to gamble whenever the Gwent song from witcher 3 comes on, usually when they are in a tavern.
Knowing about what Swords Witcher’s use for what creature is basic Witcher Knowledge.
So cats don’t have dark vision yet to Tabaxi do? OK 5E, whatever you say.
I think you're forgetting that it's still a game, and mechanics are a thing for a reason. There are many contradictory things in every edition of DnD (and pathfinder) that don't make sense, but are the way they are for the sake of how it plays out mechanically.
@@5oundOfVictory some other examples include: padded armor giving disadvantage on stealth even though it would be better than leather, spears not being finesse even though you need more dexterity than strength to use one properly, half plate giving disadvantage despite its description suggesting that the plates wouldn't collide or scrape against each other, some spells that should probably be concentration not being so, and the existence of ring mail, it is objectively worse than any other armor type in the game, the name would more accurately describe chainmail, and what the rules describe it as makes no sense in addition to being the only armor neither based on history nor a typical fantasy trope
(Edit: and that's just the player's handbook)
@@phenjaws569 Why would leather armor be chosen as an option if padded armor didn't give disadvantage on stealth? Giving a reach weapon finesse would make the stat even more OP than it already is, and completely rule out the use of rapiers, shortswords, scimitars, etc. Also, you now have a 10ft reach d10 damage die with sneak attack. I do agree that 5e is a bit heavy on disadvantage and advantage instead of just flat bonuses (like -2 or whatever) which would be a bit more forgiving, and make more sense. Spellcasters also got huge buffs in 5e compared to previous editions, and some spells requiring concentration that don't could really waste a lot of potential in caster classes.
But the ringmail thing, I 100% agree with you, same with half plate (though I'd impose a -3 to stealth, rather than disadvantage, because the idea is that a metal plate banging against something exterior (like a rock or table) is gonna make more noise than leather bumping into the same thing.
@@5oundOfVictory I wasn't saying that these things didn't make sense aside from ring mail, I was listing examples of rules that are there to balance the game but aren't as realistic as some others, I completely understand why everything but ring mail is the way that it is, although making it so that leather armor has a 12 AC and studded leather has 13 would make padded armor more of an option, but I understand why they didn't do that, because if they had it like that, someone who rolled a high dexterity score would have equal or greater protection compared to chainmail (assuming they rolled 16 or 18 on dex and/or played an elf, raising the score to an 18 or 20) which would make the game at least a little less balanced, so I understand the mechanical reasons that these things are the way they are in Dungeons and Dragons, I was listing examples of other rules that aren't very realistic but make the game more fun (although given that padded armor is objectively worse than leather armor [which, again most classes start with] makes its presence a little superfluous as literally every other set of armor is better including what you start with)
I guess maybe the argument is that a familiar is technically a minor spirit and not the actual animal it takes the form of. Still bullshit though imho.
Matt's struggle to maintain a poker face after Marisha says she likes to go down is hilarious. I love it!
I like the little smirk he has after she says it 😂
@@madisoncarroll9011 “yeah she does 😏” 😂
@@FemboiMars that is "what she said"
2:35:46 Molly unknowingly figuring out exactly what the thing is while Matt is like "yeahsurewhatever"
Matt has a resting Meh-Face
@@FRD357 that is a hilarious description
Laura - "How do you kill a gelatinous qube?!"
Liam - "You die."
Question, regarding gqs, can you score a crit on them? I remember not being able to in previous editions for a very good reason (no discernible anatomy) but I can't seem to find confirmation of that in regards to 5e.
@@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 I'm pretty sure you can in 5e. But I'm not 100% sure
@@Spullap unless the monster description for it says it. I’m assuming you can. Unless some DM’s go by old rules (if not in 5e)
fjord: is there anything around here that looks like a staff
bo (with a staff on her back): i dunno, lemmie look around
Lol, honestly, that would've been me. "Got a perfectly good rod-like-stick on my back, but imma look for somethin' else because i don't want to lose my stick'.
I mean he probably meant something that would act as a key and I don't think Beau's staff would be able to do that as it's not the correct key
Nott doesn’t have any of her sticks on her too?
I was thinking maybe they use one of the arrows from the trapped hallway
Same energy as me looking for the glasses that I'm currently wearing
Travis telling his wife “don’t read into it” is so funny
*telling Laura.
She has a name
@@localcryptid42Obviously, but the point of the comment was that it's amusing to imply to your spouse that "you don't need to look into romantic context".
@@localcryptid42 You are such a moron, good lord.
shut up@@localcryptid42
@localcryptid42 Oh, one of _those_ people. You're making the subtle implication that there's misogyny afoot (don't deny it, the whole argument on what is a more appropriate labeling borders on the debate of misogyny) because somebody referred to a woman as a man's wife -- which isn't inaccurate and should be considered an honor just as it would be for him to be a husband, but I doubt you go around correcting people, more specifically women, when she refers to a man as a husband rather than by birth name. And, yeah, I see men being called as "(proper noun here)'s husband" all the time.
There's nothing wrong with saying "Travis's wife" nor "Laura's husband."
I hear "You're getting to the tip of it" and I IMMEDIATELY look at Laura to see if she can control herself. Hint: she cannot.
I beg you, please provide a timestamp
@@JtotheMeezy 1:29:24
Liam is having so much damn fun this episode and thats always one of my favorite things to see
2:28:10
Sam: "We've discovered that Ashley has more dice than Laura."
Laura: (puts a literally football-sized bag of dice on the table)
Gelatinous cube has entered the battlefield: "OOOOOHHH"
Liam 'don't step on my cat' O'Brien: "F*CKING FOCUS!!"
When either Laura or Sam miss from the show, you can REALLY feel it.
Agreed
Marisha too (because it gets so much better)
kripposoft this comment section would be so much better without you as well!!
+kripposoft too cold
🙄🙄🙄
"I feel guilty for having Needs!"
Same, honestly
Beau: "I'm always a fan of going down."
Matt's face = me dying with laughter
56:44 XD
Give the ring of water walking to Yasha, she can drag the boats while walking.
this should've been canon
@@thelastcube. this should be written down in the PHB 🤣
*Timestamps from Flando Maltrizian.*
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
Between Twitch and TH-cam, live viewership of this episode peaked around 59,000 people. The in-game start day for the episode was the 20th of month Fessurian 835 PD. Sam’a flask says “FART”
If you’re the kind of person who wants to see the Critical Role team in person at a convention, but hasn’t been able to yet, you might be interested in Critical Scope. This TH-cam channel films and posts panels and interviews from the cast so you’ll always know when someone accidentally lets a character detail slip. They recently posted a talk with Matt about his role in the D&D resurgence. Check it out.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it Thursday yet?
To the top!
2:37:55 Faces of Fear
3:30:37 Liam likes D&D books
Alyfio may the Traveller be with you
33:21 Laura's kewl
Travis screaming LOOOOOSE made me fuKCIN choke thANKS SAM FOR FACILITATING THAT
Gemmy Doadance when
VastSpartan during the folk song at the beginning
That. Was awesome. lol
Yeah, the song was cute and it made me smile, but Travis's screaming almost made me spit my drink. I've re-watched it several times. It was gold. Such rage! ❤
You can tell Liam DMs because as soon as the cube comes down he's like "Oh we are so fucked."
This filled me with great joy, his reactions to cool things always get me hyped
To that regard, I have just started watching (from the beginning of Mighty Nein) and I find joy how they meet the most iconic monsters of DnD. As of now, they fought Gnolls, Manticore (but I'd consider that iconic elsewhere, not that much in DnD), Imps, Phase Spider and Gelatinous Cube.
Or he just reads the player's handbook too much.
@@troubadour0663, the cube isn't in the PHB
He does DM. Not sure if you watched campaign 1 but he runs a one shot at times when people are busy with other things and they don’t have most of the group.
Can someone make a supercut of Sam’s d n d beyond promos? I need it for reasons.
The pervyness of this episode is only topped by that time Vax was talking to Percy in the bathtub, and Vex was there too. *good times*
I remember that! I yelled, HELL YEAH!
“THANK GOD HE’S GONE!!”
You can put things INSIDE the gelatinous cube mini?!
THAT IS SO FREAKING COOL
I want one!
I don’t know why, but every episode it seems like Sam’s flask gets bigger and bigger
I think you're onto something lol
This comment aged beautifully
About that... >XD
Laughs in campaign three
Flask of drinking evergrowth.
The more you drink from it the bigger it gets.
My favorite moment in the whole campaign "MY CAT!!" That was the best
The shaft description scene brings up such great memories "The shaft curves to the right..."
*Laura starts giggling uncontrollably*
"Not from her perspective"
this moment lives rent free in my brain XD
Sam’s escalation of how he does his DnD Beyond ad gives me life.
Reposting cuz it's too far down
credits: Flando Maltrizian
2:15 Sam finds a guitar (LOOOOOSE)
10:45 Episode Starts
14:45 Row your boat
15:25 Laura is back
16:45 Oskar and Guinevere
19:15 Fancy oarwork
20:40 Water walking
24:20 Battle 1
56:40 Beau Going down
58:50 Sam works the shaft
1:11:05 Nott apologizes
1:14:15 Puzzle 1
1:22:25 A little bardic inspiration
1:23:40 Redemption costs a thumb
1:42:05 Battle 2
1:58:00 Calebs don’t look at explosions
1:59:15 Break Starts
2:11:50 Art Montage
2:17:15 Break Ends
2:25:10 Rude detect magic
2:28:05 Dice measuring contest
2:38:55 Battle 3
2:44:20 Slappin the jello
2:50:15 Sam has cube flashbacks
2:53:45 Don’t mess with Frumpkin
2:57:30 Succumb to the cube
3:01:20 HDYWTDT
3:02:30 Fjord pours a potion down Jester’s throat
3:19:35 Yasha knows all
3:31:40 Caleb’s book face
3:33:05 Journal Reading
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U rock thanks!
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They've been feared in the 80s. And till this day, we still fight gelatinous cubes in dungeons :)
D&D - The game where everyone’s scared of Jell-O.
Dungeons and gelatinous cubes
Gotta love just watching Matt while the party is figuring things out. Hes got a poker face and a slight cocked eyebrow permanently plastered on his face, haha
Aww they've separated Laura and Sam. This lowers the episode's comedy levels by a minimum of 10%!
Dr. Cimmerian Im glad tbh, they were getting a bit too loud and disruptive.
@@PvtVallen Know I'm also late to the party, but whaaat? They were the best.
@@dndgeekboy honestly, only ever noticed when I was WATCHING the stream, as opposed to just listening to it. (also it throws off the even-ness of the top and bottom half of the screen, where they used to go male, female male; male, female, male.)
Dr. Cimmerian i know lol i was sad
Awgieable they probably split them up so they would speak up more?
Every episode be like:
Matt: "And we'll leave it there until next week."
Everyone: "AAAAAAA"
How many more drinks until Nott gets poison resistance? XD
ONE!
An infinite flask worth
TWO!
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What critical role has taught me: all voice actors have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy
Try all actors in general. Also dancers and instrumentalists. (All three of which I am, lol.)
and that's the reason it's so good.
Srsly...whole crew needed to go to horny jail this episode (not complaining, it was hilarious)
I first saw this at 58:48
Or maybe it's because said 12 year old boy's childhoood were filled by those voice actors
Some of this fanart is unreal, talented people out there
Matt moves the cube to consume Frumpkin.
The whole table erupts in protest.
Ashley laughs.
Matt admits to just wanting to mess with them and moves the cube past. :)
Love these guys :D
Fun fact will-o'-the-wisp is "feu follet" in french that come from latin "ignis fatuus" meaning "feu bouffon" or "jester fire" in english.
C'est bon ca!
Mais, en anglias on dit "fool's fire" pour le translation de "ignis fatuus" , Mais en anglias "a jester is a 'fool', but a fool isn't always a jester". Mais pout le temps c'est probablemet le definition de 'fool=jester' car in synonym initialment etait "jack o' lantern", Mais aujourd'hui ce best pas le definition de jack o lantern; ces les citrouille lantern
Pour fool vs jester
C'est comme in carré et un rectangle, un est les deux en même temps, Mais in rectangle ce nest pas un carré (nessisairment).
Bonne chances avec Les sous-titre, mon gars
@@BRoyce69 i cant read that it it looks smart so take a like
Darius Dahmen
What they said is actually very smart!
The top comment states will-o-wisp is feu follet in French, which comes from the Latin “ignis fatuus” which when put to French is “feu bouffon” which in English is “jester fire”.
The French person replying is saying that ignis fatuus in English is “fools fire” and that jester and fool are used interchangeably, so much so that they became synonymous.
So back then they used to call jack-o’-lanterns “ignis fatuus” and initially fool/jester was kinda like synonymous with jack o lanterns. But today the best definition of jack o lantern in French is different, just like it’s not “feu bouffon” and it’s now “feu follet”.
For fool vs jester, it’s like a square and a rectangle. Basically they’re used mostly interchangeably and nobody is like really going to care if you say square versus rectangle. It’s not a big deal. But a square isn’t a rectangle still. It’s for clarification so things don’t get so lost in translation.
And then they say thanks for the subtitles.
My translation guarantee you isn’t perfect but I did study French for a bit. Hope it helps. There’s definitely a lot of layers information wise.
I love learning about words and where they originate and such, this is a great comment thank you all
@@shortkyuu7390 Joining you in reanimating this comment for no reason: the person that commented is definitely not french (And I say that as a french person) lots of flaws (such as some of the genders of the words) some weird commas out of nowhere and also overall writing
And there I am still trying to piece together why that person went through all of that trouble to write that comment in french. And I don't have an answer. And I'm disappointed.
That must have been the most disgusting Armor of Agathys as the liquified remains of the gelatinous cube where drawn into Fjord's figure
Let's ignore the sewer armor
@@israelgalindo4800 Shit happens.
I think Bo has forgotten about her darkvision goggles
Put them on at the end of last episode when they were getting on the boat
The apparently are more similar to low light vision goggles from all Matt's descriptions.
Pyroawsome that is darkvision, dim in nothing, and bright in dim
It’s a spell called darkness. She had goggles on. You can’t see through darkness with dark vision
To be fair I tend to forget that I have holy water when I go up against undead and demons
Travis shooting Laura a pouty face when she starts coughing Bc she feels bad is the most precious thing
Even though he isnt the most experienced player in the world, Sam Riegel, is probably one of the best and most entertaining players in the world. I just love that man.
He manages to fool us all asking all the time "SURVIVAL?? wE hAvE nEvEr UsEd ThAt!" But let's not forget that he has managed to play even Matt Mercer and subvert his expectations, on multiple ocasions, in Campaign 1.
@@trinity6302 “that’s why I got closer!”
I was blown away when he casted feather on Fjord after the wisps!!
Laura looks like she’s wearing one of Travis’s shirts my god those two are incredibly adorable
Wasn't she currently trying to hide that she's pregnant. So she's wearing baggy cloths?
Awesome Man She had announced her pregnancy about 3 or 4 episodes back. I honestly think she’s just wearing Travis’ shirt because she wanted to. 😭💖
@@awesomeman8385 That ship had sailed by this time, before they did though Sam was pivotal as a baby shield, but they had already announced it about ten episodes prior
She probably wears it because it is super comfy.