Ah makes sense. I was trying to figure out what that was and what he was saying. Like were they censoring or something? But this comment clears it up for me. Thanks.
“Jenga” is the phrase the captioning team uses when they aren’t initially sure exactly what’s being said. In most cases, they replace it with “unintelligible” if nobody can figure out what was said, but sometimes it seems they forget to replace it in the final draft. You can find out more by taking a look at the Closed Caption/Subtitles part of the video description, which has a link to CR’s official site’s blog post from about 5 years ago. They have more there :]
50:22 Rules for Matt's impromptu dice game: "The key here is everyone is taking turns of rolling six dice (6d6). Any doubles (or triples) they get add together and they roll that many dice again until there's no more doubles (or triples). The final number is the winner".
I think, and it is not an issue with your explanation, but more Matt's, that it would be clearer if it said: "The key here is everyone is taking turns of rolling six dice (6d6). Any doubles (or other multiple) they get add together as their score. Then they reroll any dice that showed multiple numbers again, adding the multiples to their score, until there's no more doubles (or triples or ...) rolled. The highest total score is the winner." Though I'm not sure even this one is clear enough... it once more shows that even a simple game can be complex, :P
@@Deaddocus Agreed, that is better phrasing and it's probably what Matt meant (multiples instead of only doubles/triples). It's just that he made the game on the fly (which is already impressive), so it's hard to get completely clear wording on the first try.
Considering he made it up on the fly, it's pretty good. Statistically, the likelihood of rolling doubles or more on 6 dice is quite high, and even with just 2, it's still 6 in 36, which isn't terrible. It makes it random and fun and not too hard to win a fair amount of the time, but still risky.
@@MemphiStig The odds of rolling doubles are excellent, at least for the first roll! On 6d6, there's about a 98.5% chance of getting doubles. On two dice, it's 1 in 6, or 16.7% (36 combinations with 6 "winning" rolls).
*@henkmalan13 --* Also, character aside, Taliesin Jaffe (Dante Terrapin) had to say it _("Cowabunga"),_ since Sam Riegel (Pango Small) was not present to do so. *;)* (Sam voiced Donatello in the [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) TV cartoon series].)
Marisha is absolutely MASTERCLASS with playing Bunnie. The character is self-assured and quick witted, and such an amazing addition to the team. And Marisha gives her just enough accent without overdoing it.
I probably said this in the first Daggerfall one-shot, but I really like Travis as a wizard. He's really good at tactics, so having more tools is really good for him.
These episodes kinda remind me how much I miss older Critical Role. No intros, small pre-amble and more than anything it's the feel of it all. It feels more like a bunch of friends discovering a system together rather than a big production, I like new CR stuff, 100% I do, but the vibes from these beta tests are so good!
@Zanther11987 I've bought multiple products from their store, and they were overly expensive and below average. Inconsistent art, inconsistent characters, and characters would change sizes from 10ft tall then only 6ft in the next panel. And characters blatantly missing important details about their design. And the fact that they read ads EVERY TIME there's a pause is beyond annoying. Especially for products that start in the $100s of dollars. And the fact that they did a Wendy's paid one shot that they deleted due to backlash from fans for supporting a corporation that is helping with the genocide in the Middle East. So yea. I'd say they're pretty corporate.
Hmm. I don't think the store automatically makes it corporate, they ended up exploding with fans so it was a natural progression, however that doesn't mean you're wrong. Different experiences I guess. Valid point on the sponsors for sure
love this look into the changes in Daggerheart and into the next shenanigans of the Menagerie! BTW, the toe-plumping surgery Sam is rumored to have gotten is a reference to when Bianca Del Rio hosted the Pit Stop, the RuPaul's Drag Race Recap Show, and wore the balenciaga slip-on sneakers for a number of episodes instead of regular drag queen shoes. she claimed to have gotten her toes plumped in various south american and caribbean countries. It's not a real thing Sam got.
2:15:43 Whenever they started doing the Mission Impossible theme, instead of the high pitch "doo dee doo, doo dee doo" I started saying "Betabean, Betabean" and it worked surprisingly well.
I just realized, the worst roll you can make is a 3 fear, like Liam rolled. It had to have been a 1 hope and 2 fear. To roll any lower he would have to roll two ones, which is a critical success. Interested aspect of the 2d12 rolling system.
[25:11] *_"Bun-nie! Bun-nie! Bun-nie! Bun-nie!" "...No."_** --* Marisha Ray, *NOT* Bunnie, avoiding/declining to having to put on a burlesque show/scene. *;D*
Not sure what would have been more awkward - Marisha RPing a burlesque show in front of a live audience (ulinckudibg her husband), or her husband RPing a burlesque show for her character in front of a live audience.
@@R2C2_ -- [25:38] Less awkward than you think, given that Matt Mercer (the Game Master) countered Marisha's decline with the opportunity for Marisha to change her mind. *;)* - [Bunnie (Marisha)]: I'm sure the set list is probably completely full, right..? - [Madame Boa Arda (Matt)]: Well, I mean, we can always make room if need be. - [Travis, Laura, Ashley *(NOT* their Menagerie-characters)]: *_YES!_* *;)*
I love this so much, i love that Liam gets out of his car and hes 100% an irish monkey, i love how Laura is such a sneaky lil mushroom and i LOVE everything about Bunnie
I hope Matt doesn't mind that I now want to use his dice gambling game every time my players want to gamble because that is a great idea that he came up with in the spur of the moment.
@@symphonixbladesI'm undecided which I like better, but it's definitely not unprecedented for CR characters to start out with a more drastic voice choice and gradually mellow out to something else. I seem to remember Session One Nott the Brave being super English, but by session 100 she was more like Marge Simpson.
Just like tits are also birds in English, pugs are a europhemism for bxxbs in German and I'd like to think that Xarlo is carrying around pug pups in his shirt😌
If a roll fails or rolls with fear, then the GM gets a turn to spend as many tokens as GM wants. Then it goes back to players in any order until they fail or roll fear. Optionally every player only gets one action before allowed to take another (a GM turn would also reset this) .
I think Matt thought AShley bet a FULL handful of gold., not the half handful she stated. Also think Laura noticed and had an aside with Ash a few mins after.. Not that it matters tho lol.. it just stuck out to me in the moment hehe
have they talked about when in the beta they would add more subclasses? or is that for after they have the system where they want it. Compared to dnd 1e they are already crushing it so I'm hype for expansions.
I care more about the couple of Daggerheart games they've played than anything that's happened in all of c3. The Menagerie are the best characters they've played since Vox Machina
Idk how I feel about the lack of initiative order with combat. It's fine if your group are the lovely cast of critical role and making sure everyone gets their moment in the limelight, but with most groups I've been in, it would probably devolve into Loudest Player Goes First, quiet or socially awkward people go never.
There is a rule that you can put into the game detailed in the system that ensures everyone has a turn before someone has 2 turns if you want to use that instead. That might work better for your table
@@DerusGrindz I mean, a world that isn’t Exandria and has no connection to it comes to mind… But in all seriousness obviously it depends. If Predathos nukes the world and hard wipes it then it could be pretty blank slate. Though at that point what’s the point of having it be Exandria at all? The only reason to keep it in Exandria would be to have callbacks / references to previous things at which point it’s not a blank slate.
I do think that they should keep exandria as the main active setting regardless of system. But I don’t mind having more than one spinoff series in different settings.
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I love the captions when someone says something unintelligible and the captions just go [JENGA]
Its the writers going "Help, its again" xD
That might be a reference to C1 where their panic word was JENGA?
@@cynicap8584almost certainly is
Ah makes sense. I was trying to figure out what that was and what he was saying. Like were they censoring or something? But this comment clears it up for me. Thanks.
“Jenga” is the phrase the captioning team uses when they aren’t initially sure exactly what’s being said. In most cases, they replace it with “unintelligible” if nobody can figure out what was said, but sometimes it seems they forget to replace it in the final draft. You can find out more by taking a look at the Closed Caption/Subtitles part of the video description, which has a link to CR’s official site’s blog post from about 5 years ago. They have more there :]
"The menagerie? But theres more than three of you?" OH MY GOD HOW LONG HAS MATT BEEN WAITING TO SAY THAT
Could you explain?
@@lefterismplanas4977 It's a joke on the term "ménage à trois", which is essentially a threesome
@@lefterismplanas4977 could be a reference to "ménage à trois" (threesome) but "menagerie" itself doesn't specifically refer to three of something.
@artfuldecadence thank you 😆
Now I'll know to use the word menagerie better xD
@@lefterismplanas4977 I looked it up and it just says a large group of animals on display or performance, which seems to fit. I don't get the joke
50:22 Rules for Matt's impromptu dice game: "The key here is everyone is taking turns of rolling six dice (6d6). Any doubles (or triples) they get add together and they roll that many dice again until there's no more doubles (or triples). The final number is the winner".
I think, and it is not an issue with your explanation, but more Matt's, that it would be clearer if it said:
"The key here is everyone is taking turns of rolling six dice (6d6). Any doubles (or other multiple) they get add together as their score. Then they reroll any dice that showed multiple numbers again, adding the multiples to their score, until there's no more doubles (or triples or ...) rolled. The highest total score is the winner."
Though I'm not sure even this one is clear enough... it once more shows that even a simple game can be complex, :P
@@Deaddocus Agreed, that is better phrasing and it's probably what Matt meant (multiples instead of only doubles/triples). It's just that he made the game on the fly (which is already impressive), so it's hard to get completely clear wording on the first try.
@@pedrostormrage Full on agree!
Considering he made it up on the fly, it's pretty good. Statistically, the likelihood of rolling doubles or more on 6 dice is quite high, and even with just 2, it's still 6 in 36, which isn't terrible. It makes it random and fun and not too hard to win a fair amount of the time, but still risky.
@@MemphiStig The odds of rolling doubles are excellent, at least for the first roll! On 6d6, there's about a 98.5% chance of getting doubles. On two dice, it's 1 in 6, or 16.7% (36 combinations with 6 "winning" rolls).
1:37:02 I love how Taliesin is clearly fighting against it before going "Cowabunga"... 😂
They are also in a sewer.
*@henkmalan13 --* Also, character aside, Taliesin Jaffe (Dante Terrapin) had to say it _("Cowabunga"),_ since Sam Riegel (Pango Small) was not present to do so. *;)*
(Sam voiced Donatello in the [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) TV cartoon series].)
@@fernandoavila3929 if they do something heroic his name should be hero in the half shell
Liam O'brien getting his puppies out on camera for 3 and a half hours.
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16:57 The Puppies
30:42 Close the Beta
32:37 Travis omg
47:53 Casino
1:30:36 Divination
1:48:29 Strangle
1:57:54 Sewer Expert
Marisha is absolutely MASTERCLASS with playing Bunnie. The character is self-assured and quick witted, and such an amazing addition to the team. And Marisha gives her just enough accent without overdoing it.
1:57:54 I did not put the TTMNT connection together until Liam said this. Tortle + sword + blue outfit + sewer. How did I miss that! 😂
Bah! Uncultured plebs, Touche Turtle deserves better than being subsumed by those weebo hudlums!
They said it earlier too when they first went into the sewers 😂
I didn't put together that Bunny is from "Luhlville", and Marisha is from Kentucky.
I had a hunchh but I wasn't sure until Marisha said 'pizza' 😂
I can only aspire to Sam Riegel’s level of commitment to the bit
Sometimes it's like I can still see his radiant glistening teeth. Shame he's passed.
He died? I didnt even know he was sick
@@guyfromdubai sick of being the world’s greatest ad reader, yeah
@guyfromdubai
that hitler fella was a real jerk
@@Alaithian and prodigy master debater!
I love The Menagerie!! So happy we are getting another episode with them! I love seeing the new system too!
I probably said this in the first Daggerfall one-shot, but I really like Travis as a wizard. He's really good at tactics, so having more tools is really good for him.
Daggerfall? Showing your age there, mate lol
(And I guess now I am too, for recognising it)
These episodes kinda remind me how much I miss older Critical Role. No intros, small pre-amble and more than anything it's the feel of it all. It feels more like a bunch of friends discovering a system together rather than a big production, I like new CR stuff, 100% I do, but the vibes from these beta tests are so good!
Indeed! I like both old and new CR but for different reasons
Main CR is getting too corporate. I still like it but it's more of a business now then anything.
What do you mean corporate? Nothing about CR says "we do this just for profit". Unless you don't like that other companies sponsor them
@Zanther11987 I've bought multiple products from their store, and they were overly expensive and below average. Inconsistent art, inconsistent characters, and characters would change sizes from 10ft tall then only 6ft in the next panel. And characters blatantly missing important details about their design. And the fact that they read ads EVERY TIME there's a pause is beyond annoying. Especially for products that start in the $100s of dollars. And the fact that they did a Wendy's paid one shot that they deleted due to backlash from fans for supporting a corporation that is helping with the genocide in the Middle East.
So yea. I'd say they're pretty corporate.
Hmm. I don't think the store automatically makes it corporate, they ended up exploding with fans so it was a natural progression, however that doesn't mean you're wrong. Different experiences I guess.
Valid point on the sponsors for sure
Not gonna lie, starting to miss Sam. But love to see you guys
Okay. I'm actually really starting to miss Sam.
No joke. I hope things are good with him. Hopefully we will get him back soon.
I’m out of the loop. What’s going on with Sam?
@@JohnGalt-ry2hm he got toe plumpening surgery and it's a long recovery time
@@Scott-ql2kx that sounds horrible. Thanks for the info!
@@Scott-ql2kx WAIT REALLY?? Everyone I ask answers me something different 😭
love this look into the changes in Daggerheart and into the next shenanigans of the Menagerie! BTW, the toe-plumping surgery Sam is rumored to have gotten is a reference to when Bianca Del Rio hosted the Pit Stop, the RuPaul's Drag Race Recap Show, and wore the balenciaga slip-on sneakers for a number of episodes instead of regular drag queen shoes. she claimed to have gotten her toes plumped in various south american and caribbean countries. It's not a real thing Sam got.
@ 2:15:30 ...Matt Mercer: "...and I'm gonna pull out a map." ...this is why I am here.
is it the only combat in this vod?
2:15:43 Whenever they started doing the Mission Impossible theme, instead of the high pitch "doo dee doo, doo dee doo" I started saying "Betabean, Betabean" and it worked surprisingly well.
I immediately wrote down the rules of the dice game for my own table. Thanks Matt!
I just realized, the worst roll you can make is a 3 fear, like Liam rolled. It had to have been a 1 hope and 2 fear. To roll any lower he would have to roll two ones, which is a critical success. Interested aspect of the 2d12 rolling system.
really fun to see travis getting more hyped to play a wizard
[25:11] *_"Bun-nie! Bun-nie! Bun-nie! Bun-nie!" "...No."_** --* Marisha Ray, *NOT* Bunnie, avoiding/declining to having to put on a burlesque show/scene. *;D*
This was hysterical. I knew she would say no but omg it was such a perfect decline
@@Cyranu -- Hysterically funny because of the character-break of Marisha *_(NOT_* Bunnie) declining to (role)play out a burlesque scene/show. *;)*
Not sure what would have been more awkward - Marisha RPing a burlesque show in front of a live audience (ulinckudibg her husband), or her husband RPing a burlesque show for her character in front of a live audience.
@@R2C2_ -- [25:38] Less awkward than you think, given that Matt Mercer (the Game Master) countered Marisha's decline with the opportunity for Marisha to change her mind. *;)*
- [Bunnie (Marisha)]: I'm sure the set list is probably completely full, right..?
- [Madame Boa Arda (Matt)]: Well, I mean, we can always make room if need be.
- [Travis, Laura, Ashley *(NOT* their Menagerie-characters)]: *_YES!_*
*;)*
It was the right call.
Best ad read Laura's done in ages. It's like she's a professional!
(Literally I love Laura Bailey and would follow her to the depths of Hell)
So does Travis.
I'm really liking this daggerheart direction. I enjoy all your content, but it's always refreshing to enter a new world of possibilities. Much❤
Marisha's Bunnie now sounds less like Audrey, and more like Rhinestone the half-racoon from that racing one-shot >_
I love this so much, i love that Liam gets out of his car and hes 100% an irish monkey, i love how Laura is such a sneaky lil mushroom and i LOVE everything about Bunnie
Liam in DnD: Nat 20 on attacks! 31 perception! ACTION SURGE!!!
Liam in DnD: THAT IS NUFFIN!! 3!!!!
I hope Matt doesn't mind that I now want to use his dice gambling game every time my players want to gamble because that is a great idea that he came up with in the spur of the moment.
I can only *_wish_* my "panic improve" was half as good as Matt's, lol.
This should be how they sell dice moving forward. Its premise seems to invite **so many** variations
Oppie rolling a 1 on their cinder grasp damage makes me imagine they just flicked some cigarillo ashes on the bad guy or something.
HAH, HERE BEFORE FLAND…..oh god he’s right behind me isn’t he
he isn't, you got my hopes up :(
Looking forward to the next Daggerheart one shot.
23:55 Marisha's high-pitched "Of course I'd return" here killed me. Her voice for Bunnie is hilarious.
“We play Daggerheart open beeytaaaah!!”
Open Betay!!!
Open Bidet?
thanks for the subtitles
I love how Travis is slowly embracing his inner Morlock. He'll be a new card for Hearthstone before he knows it. XD
Apparently Bunni spent a year in Brooklyn between sessions.
I like her new accent more, the other accent was annoying
@@symphonixbladesI'm undecided which I like better, but it's definitely not unprecedented for CR characters to start out with a more drastic voice choice and gradually mellow out to something else. I seem to remember Session One Nott the Brave being super English, but by session 100 she was more like Marge Simpson.
So crits in DaggerHeart are max damage plus a roll of your weapons damage dice. Not bad
"Well, that's not the sound of shit water..."
"Speak for yourself!"
ASHLEY FUCKING JOHNSON!!! xD
I was really hoping to see Sam.
Love this, love the system. So excited it's continuing!
The illustrations by Sam were AMAZING!
Is it my imagination or has bunny evolved from Marilyn Monroe to Harley Quinn?
Just like tits are also birds in English, pugs are a europhemism for bxxbs in German and I'd like to think that Xarlo is carrying around pug pups in his shirt😌
Why do you say tits but not boobs
Caleb must be chuckling away to himself in the back of Liam's mind lol
Matt seems to have a relationship with Larian already, so maybe we'll see them make a daggerheart game? Would be awesome.
So sad Sam wasn’t there to ask about why the tunnel was so Bricked Up™
So excited to see these guys again!
So looking forward to this, can’t wait for a book
Oh Taliesin DARLING with the ninja turtle joke!!!!! Be still my heart!!
Really missing Sam now. You guys are brilliant but there's that extra spark when he's there to torment Laura or flirt with Liam.
FLANDOO where are you???
Fighting in the trenches of TH-cam e-e
The TH-cam Dark Lords are fighting him
Is it me or has bunni's accent gone from Betty boop to Harley quin this ep? Not complaining just an observation
I'm hearing some Midwest and some Jersey. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't just you.
The staff should now be called the Toe-Kiss Pocus! You can toke the toe-kiss pocus!
Oppy: "What do you think, Toe-Kiss Pocus?"
Oppy, pretending to be the staff: "Kill him"
Oppy again: "Oh, naughty Toe-Kiss Pocus"
Matt's nail color is STUNNING
wait where's a good shot to see?
It would be really helpful if during combat we could see what the action tracker looks like. I get confused about how that all works in Daggerheart.
If a roll fails or rolls with fear, then the GM gets a turn to spend as many tokens as GM wants. Then it goes back to players in any order until they fail or roll fear.
Optionally every player only gets one action before allowed to take another (a GM turn would also reset this) .
Also the GM gets a token for every player action and a fear token for fear rolls
Matt's visionary description of Mortimer evoked the DAW cover of Moorcock's The Vanishing Tower.
Do we have confirmation that Sam Riegel is still on the planet?
The sense of wonder at this table is palpable ... and their excitement for this new adventure is contagious!
I think Matt thought AShley bet a FULL handful of gold., not the half handful she stated. Also think Laura noticed and had an aside with Ash a few mins after.. Not that it matters tho lol.. it just stuck out to me in the moment hehe
I noticed the misunderstanding immediately xD
But it all turned out well
Matt named a crime family the Camarilla? World of Darkness reference I see.
[SPOILER]
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1:41:44 This was basically the logic used a few years back when they played that Pathfinder One-Shot, "To the poop!" 😂
Matt invented that game on the spot? good grief, his brain has so many wrinkles.
I still love Oppi so much! 😊
I fully expected Ashley to sniff the F out ov that shoe
This is Marishas best character, I can’t stop laughing 😂
What a pleasant surprise!
Marisha's Recant use is some Mighty Nein level shenaniganery!
Cupcake moment
Jfg I thought it would never happens! Finally for everyone
Marisha's interrogation scene is such a slay
Bummer. Hoped Sam would be here. Hope he is ok
So it was released.
I was starting to wonder when :D
Quite the Scooby-Doo chase sequence there at the end.
Bought tickets for their live show in December so excited
Yeeesss!!!!! Love the menagerie!❤
Get in there! Been waiting for this 🙌
I played along with the dice game and my first set of rolls came up to 51. My luck is done forever.
THE SEEP
It do be seepin'
It do be seepin'
Yes! I was waiting for this so excited!!
The irony of Matt (love him) talking about the dancers struggle with Mafauna. Matt is the Mafauna of voice actors (but not snooty i hope)
3:40:37 I was really expecting a response from Laura when Matt said "surrounded by members" lol
I personally think the name was supposed to be Dylan
Matt Mercer, almost reinventing Farkle on a whim
have they talked about when in the beta they would add more subclasses? or is that for after they have the system where they want it. Compared to dnd 1e they are already crushing it so I'm hype for expansions.
YEAH, MORE DAGGERHEART
Yessssssssss! More more more
I care more about the couple of Daggerheart games they've played than anything that's happened in all of c3. The Menagerie are the best characters they've played since Vox Machina
an "infestation of magicians" 🤣🤣
Truly a wild ride
19:10
"I've not seen such a beautiful bubble since I was a Tadpole...."
I love the daggerheart combat tbh
awesome one-shot !
25:15 I see your "yes and" and raise you "no thanks." ( >ヮ
Idk how I feel about the lack of initiative order with combat. It's fine if your group are the lovely cast of critical role and making sure everyone gets their moment in the limelight, but with most groups I've been in, it would probably devolve into Loudest Player Goes First, quiet or socially awkward people go never.
There is a rule that you can put into the game detailed in the system that ensures everyone has a turn before someone has 2 turns if you want to use that instead. That might work better for your table
Don't forget Dysons brothers, Bissell and Hoover 😂
At some point can we see what the miniatures look like?
Not sure the aspects of this game were thoroughly thought through considering the math skills of this group.
Sam will return as the end game boss.
I mean, this is clearly Exandria post-Predathos, isn't it?
I hope not. I want to see what Matt does with a clean slate.
@@Vespuchian How much more of a clean slate can you get dude? xD
@@DerusGrindz I mean, a world that isn’t Exandria and has no connection to it comes to mind… But in all seriousness obviously it depends. If Predathos nukes the world and hard wipes it then it could be pretty blank slate. Though at that point what’s the point of having it be Exandria at all? The only reason to keep it in Exandria would be to have callbacks / references to previous things at which point it’s not a blank slate.
I do think that they should keep exandria as the main active setting regardless of system. But I don’t mind having more than one spinoff series in different settings.
@@Markcrazeer Nah, Matt should absolutely destroy Exandria for funsies.
Many people say they miss Sam...do you even know his mother's name!?!
Ironically the only parent to appear on the show
😂😂😂 I’m the bad guy😂 well my character if I play soon is officially decided for me😂 love it❤
The word of the day is, apparently, bamf.
Huzzah,, Thank the Maker!