Hasta la vista, SPOILERS ! 0:00:00 We are MCDM productions 0:00:03 Intro 0:00:27 Welcome to the show 0:01:09 When last we left our heroes 0:01:40 Battle placement 0:02:23 Please drink responsibly people 0:03:25 Initiative 0:05:37 Matt? Now. 0:23:50 Hlan down 0:24:50 Marquis of Hell riffling through pockets 0:27:00 Ring get 0:36:57 Battlemap marching order 0:39:50 Underground crossroads 0:41:30 Big pile 'o shit 0:43:10 Initiative 0:44:43 Otyugh 0:46:15 King of D&D 0:49:30 Seen this, done that 0:50:07 Initiative 0:52:20 Do you trust me? 0:55:40 “Friendly” fire; Leech down 1:05:50 First otyugh down 1:16:45 Deadly riposte, #2 1:18:36 50 subs! 1:20:00 Slim conversion 1:20:40 J'accuse! 1:22:30 If we had a copy... 1:25:20 Otyugh #3 down 1:29:50 Dadummm, dadummm 1:35:15 Rip treasury die 1:37:44 Another 50 subs! 1:39:33 Announcements 1:41:10 Feature Fanart 1:44:09 Back to the game 1:44:47 Random die roll 1:53:59 Secret purple worm attack! 1:57:19 Initiative 1:58:08 338 shirts preorders in very few minutes 2:01:44 Classic D&D 2:03:04 Wall of fire 2:09:39 Chomp 2:13:49 Matt squee in 3... 2:20:49 Non-Euclidean universe 2:26:34 Barf 2:36:54 Purple worm no more 2:38:14 Alchemy check 2:50:24 Exploring ahead 2:55:21 Miraneth's message 3:05:54 New battlemap 3:07:32 Cats always land on their feet 3:16:44 Wall forbiddance 3:25:26 Inspiration 3:26:58 Tomb of the sun elf 3:28:11 Another 50 subs! 3:30:59 Welcome to the Chain, junior officer Frost 3:32:54 Voices of another party 3:34:27 Command check (Kingdoms & Warfare) Apologies for the late comment, but apparently this video was uploaded at 2 am for me at the only day I sleep in. Anyway! Let me know if I missed anything or wrote too much/little, happy travels!
Around 3:15:00 a great Larx-Anna sibling moment. "Yes, I mess with Anna all the time, but you don't get to mess with her when she's not here... because she'll stab me."
The part about 2:49 where they're talking about the healing spirit/rain(whatever it is) spell amuses me so much because Colville is like "wait how does that spell work, I thought it healed more" and Copper's like "no you only get so many dice" or whatever he says. It's really, really funny because they 'only' get so many dice because Colville told them it was overpowered and changed how the spell worked, and then he's now forgotten that he changed it and is wondering why they're doing it different. This is great.
@@Hazel-xl8in "hijacking" is a strange way to think of replies to a TH-cam comment. No one is really making private threads when they make a public comment to a video, so I think everyone knows what to expect and therefore disables notifications on replies. Comments are more a communal mural that people add to as they go, and then the next person, and so on, while we move on to the next video, than a static entity.
OK plenty of fun and funny stuff but Judge/Anna really did make me laugh @1:52:46 "It's very important to me that I survive". Discretion vs Valour and all that, lol
2:44:41 Hearing Matt allude to the ventral nervous system of a land invertebrate was a delightfully unexpected detail. He could have had Buts spout some pseudoscientific jargon, but the fact that the detail is grounded in actual high school-level biology, and that even an avid scholar might be uncertain of this with a rare magical creature, is just too perfect.
I feel like the W's are just specific wands the enemy group has access to that they use shorthand when mentioning. Don't want enemies to know what kind of wands you have in stock. Loved how Lars fire-balled Leech when Leech has previously fire-balled O.D. It's the circle of life.
Finally caught up!!!! You guys are legitimately amazing. Waiting for the Copper rp to open up a bit more since he is possibly my favortie member of the Chain, but i think Tom (not Tom) is juat a quiter person, like how Lars never smiles. You can tell Lars is having fun because how much he picks at O'D, my friends are the same.
*Potential Spoilers about those 'W's* I bet the 'W's are Wishes. Whoever got sent in had an item with 2 uses of it, which should be powerful enough to defeat the Forbidences. Also a nice way for Mat to say "Hey, these guys have access to crazy strong stuff, be afraid."
I preordered a physical copy of Strongholds & Followers, any chance the MCDM crew could sign it? Lol jk but in all seriousness this is my favorite D&D stream, Matt reminds me so much of my first DM that introduced me to the game. May the Chain never break!
The combined wit of this party and the DM is off the charts. Some of the brilliance is even hidden or missed by most of the others as it's thrown out there. Slim's typically-smug comment at 52:00 to Leech is missed by the rest of the party. Maybe I'm just in the right mood, but I've been laughing for five minutes straight. These PCs are great!
Judge should be at least Lieutenant, if not Commander. Anna has an natural sense of tactics, command and is almost always correct on every decision, despite Lars hand waving her decisions. She spotted the changeling on a guess, knew about the purple worm, and has a great sense of whom make great allies.
There is a reason that Lars and Phil were leading. That is their playstyle and they are comfortable with it. I won't put words in Matt's mouth but it seems predetermined off camera who will be commander and lieutenant. Töm was a curveball though. Matt O'Driscoll would make an excellent spymaster as it seems he comprehends, remembers, and knows what to ask about Capital affairs very well.
He burned a bunch of resources from high level spells to hit dice. If he let boots hypnotic pattern first, then they could have pulled slim out and targeted them one at a time- since they don’t get to repeat the save for HP. That was the perfect chance for hypnotic pattern and therefore boots to shine but decided friendly fire was the right idea
I think it was more like Big Cat would be a very awkward fit so he cant charge in with the party, but if they want to bring him through to the other side it just takes a bit of effort.
It's different for familiars as they have their own initiative for some reason per the rules. There's nothing that says you can't delay either turn in the round to be right behind eachother though.
@@LagunaDaeron Indeed. I interpret D&D and its rules as a living game, where the DM at each table is able to adjusted the Rules As Written to allow play at their table to function better for their group and be more enjoyable for their group.
@@RJ_Ehlert As a Warlock in several campaigns, I definitely agree. Having to track two different initiatives for effectively, a partial character (the familiar) is just annoying.
Dang! Cr 15 is no joke! I threw my lvl 6 party of 7 up against 2 blue slaad (cr 7), 1 green slaad (cr 8), and a death slaad (cr 10) and pulled no punches. Only one PC died...
The action economy changes how those two encounters go down. The purple worm only gets 1 turn and there were 7ish people who are basically all built to murder the shit out of it. And then when they all go nova their damage output increases dramatically. The weapon master ability also has increased the damage floor of the characters with the most attacks and so the chain arguably had an advantage going into the battle.
Jimmy Hill I don’t know whether you’ve seen the magic item Matt gave him (the Sin Metal Rod) but it is BONKERS. +2 to spell attack, DC, regain a spell slot at will (once), absorb a spell slot when targeted (once) can cast thunder step? Yes please. Leech could be a HUGE damage dealer, as big as Slim, if played right - Hexblade Patron, Devil’s Sight, Elven Accuracy - but that’s not the character he wants. He picked Celestial for support (and backstory I assume), and he doesn’t use his spells in an optimal way, nor does he assign his Eldritch Invocations or ASIs. Which is totally fine it’s a valid way to play.
I'm with Phil on the "writing" thing. Matt's response as "what letter is it" kinda tells you how skewed his vision of written languages work. Chinese ideograms are not letters, they convey more meaning than sound, and it's a writing system for a language. A triangle with an exclamation mark in it is not a letter, it conveys meaning more than sound, it's a writing system for a language that doesn't have a spoken language associated.
Stronghold and Followers is shipped
The tequilla in the background has disappeared
Everything seems to be in order
I was going to like this, but it has 100 likes!
"What about Buts?"
Phil: "she's in the back end." *grins and looks around as no one responds :)*
Critical "Blimey!" Counter: +1
There were at least 3, lets be honest.
I can’t wait to hear the intro at episode 67
“We are MCDM productions, and we had a pretty good lunch today”
RIP
Phill is my favorite owner of a major video game developing company that also plays D&D. By far!
Hasta la vista, SPOILERS
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0:00:00 We are MCDM productions
0:00:03 Intro
0:00:27 Welcome to the show
0:01:09 When last we left our heroes
0:01:40 Battle placement
0:02:23 Please drink responsibly people
0:03:25 Initiative
0:05:37 Matt? Now.
0:23:50 Hlan down
0:24:50 Marquis of Hell riffling through pockets
0:27:00 Ring get
0:36:57 Battlemap marching order
0:39:50 Underground crossroads
0:41:30 Big pile 'o shit
0:43:10 Initiative
0:44:43 Otyugh
0:46:15 King of D&D
0:49:30 Seen this, done that
0:50:07 Initiative
0:52:20 Do you trust me?
0:55:40 “Friendly” fire; Leech down
1:05:50 First otyugh down
1:16:45 Deadly riposte, #2
1:18:36 50 subs!
1:20:00 Slim conversion
1:20:40 J'accuse!
1:22:30 If we had a copy...
1:25:20 Otyugh #3 down
1:29:50 Dadummm, dadummm
1:35:15 Rip treasury die
1:37:44 Another 50 subs!
1:39:33 Announcements
1:41:10 Feature Fanart
1:44:09 Back to the game
1:44:47 Random die roll
1:53:59 Secret purple worm attack!
1:57:19 Initiative
1:58:08 338 shirts preorders in very few minutes
2:01:44 Classic D&D
2:03:04 Wall of fire
2:09:39 Chomp
2:13:49 Matt squee in 3...
2:20:49 Non-Euclidean universe
2:26:34 Barf
2:36:54 Purple worm no more
2:38:14 Alchemy check
2:50:24 Exploring ahead
2:55:21 Miraneth's message
3:05:54 New battlemap
3:07:32 Cats always land on their feet
3:16:44 Wall forbiddance
3:25:26 Inspiration
3:26:58 Tomb of the sun elf
3:28:11 Another 50 subs!
3:30:59 Welcome to the Chain, junior officer Frost
3:32:54 Voices of another party
3:34:27 Command check (Kingdoms & Warfare)
Apologies for the late comment, but apparently this video was uploaded at 2 am for me at the only day I sleep in. Anyway!
Let me know if I missed anything or wrote too much/little, happy travels!
Azur Aben where’s the smooth shaft time stamp?
@@Hazel-xl8in Must have missed that, can you tell me?
@@azuraben5128 3:09:35
You’re a saint
O'D: "I didn't even get a chance to get my rod out."
MC: "The night is young."
LOLOLOLOLOL
Drow: Shisno!
Judge: What does that mean?
Leech: It means, sir, that negotiations have broken down...
Slim: Now we do it MY way!
Wait did Matt make an Rvb reference
@@dyslegein haha no I don't think it was intentional
6:56 decide for yourself if it totally doesn't remind you of that scene
Around 3:15:00 a great Larx-Anna sibling moment. "Yes, I mess with Anna all the time, but you don't get to mess with her when she's not here... because she'll stab me."
"Behold! The Adamantium Sword!" AdamAntium Sword: "Stand and Deliver, your money or your life!"
3:11:40 - Inappropriate Corridor Description. This part cracked me up so hard. Everyone's reactions, and then Lars just totally stone-faced. XDD
Even Lars cracked a grin the first time around! (3:09:42)
The part about 2:49 where they're talking about the healing spirit/rain(whatever it is) spell amuses me so much because Colville is like "wait how does that spell work, I thought it healed more" and Copper's like "no you only get so many dice" or whatever he says. It's really, really funny because they 'only' get so many dice because Colville told them it was overpowered and changed how the spell worked, and then he's now forgotten that he changed it and is wondering why they're doing it different.
This is great.
MMMMH this upload speed! Super happy to have another episode so quickly to give more hours of my life to!
37:01 Phil's subtle "She's in the back end" 😂 😂 😂
Matt: I might not have enough d6s
Anna: Noooooo!
The piercing & poison damage is one attack, so it should be combined as one total for the concentration check on the wall of fire
GrynLin well i’m not sure it would have mattered cause Anna didn’t make the check at 19
also make your own comment why you hijacking someone else’s
@@Hazel-xl8in "hijacking" is a strange way to think of replies to a TH-cam comment. No one is really making private threads when they make a public comment to a video, so I think everyone knows what to expect and therefore disables notifications on replies. Comments are more a communal mural that people add to as they go, and then the next person, and so on, while we move on to the next video, than a static entity.
Tipsy Matt = wacky DM shenanigans
I've been there Matt! Fun episode. The Purple Worm is one of my all time favorite D&D monsters. A true classic!
Is it just me or did "A laurel and hardy handshake" go completely over the heads of Matt's players? That one had me laughing out loud.
Me too! Always good to hear Blazing Saddles references
I was loving this moment
Nice, love these. The group has a good dynamic together and I’m looking forward for I seeing some more of the Strongholds and Followers mechanics.
When the Purple Worm regurgitates Slim I just see the scene with Drax in GoG2 infront of me.
I think having some sauce before this episode started was a good idea. Great flow right out the gate. Well played.
4:00 Dusk! It’s all connected!
1:42:52 'that's his cousin, Wide' ahahahah
OK plenty of fun and funny stuff but Judge/Anna really did make me laugh @1:52:46 "It's very important to me that I survive".
Discretion vs Valour and all that, lol
That smug looking bard blowing up a wall to avoid conversation about how they are going to dismantle it manually, so good.
"We're not even in Ringwell yet and things are already getting weird."
2:44:41 Hearing Matt allude to the ventral nervous system of a land invertebrate was a delightfully unexpected detail. He could have had Buts spout some pseudoscientific jargon, but the fact that the detail is grounded in actual high school-level biology, and that even an avid scholar might be uncertain of this with a rare magical creature, is just too perfect.
I cannot WAIT to see fan art of Big Cat and the Autiyug(hope I'm spelling that right) playing tug-o-war with Leech's unconscious body. LMAO
Phat Kid it’s uh... Otyugh
I feel like the W's are just specific wands the enemy group has access to that they use shorthand when mentioning. Don't want enemies to know what kind of wands you have in stock. Loved how Lars fire-balled Leech when Leech has previously fire-balled O.D. It's the circle of life.
I totally thought "W" stood for "wizard" like they used expendable fodder wizards to trip the wards
Oh boy. Ive been waiting all week for this. So excited to watch myself some more chain:D
Finally caught up!!!! You guys are legitimately amazing. Waiting for the Copper rp to open up a bit more since he is possibly my favortie member of the Chain, but i think Tom (not Tom) is juat a quiter person, like how Lars never smiles. You can tell Lars is having fun because how much he picks at O'D, my friends are the same.
3:09:36 Even Lars smiled at that joke
With one swell foop. Lol. He's my spirit animal. I do this all the time too
I am in a pretty good mood too, now that this is out.
I love Phil - "if we're all retching and vomiting we're not attacking." 🤣
ffs someone gift these guys some area effect spell templates lol jk love you guys keep it up
I miss The Chain so much.
Thoroughly enjoyed the video :) watching combat was (To my surprise) very engaging and a lot of fun!
Glad to hear it MCDM Productions. I'm in a good mood too.
If Red means advantage then do The Chain always have advantage? Red is always in their hearts. RIP.
I like how much Matt cracks himself up.
Aww I miss the Motorhead intro.
Hell yeah !!!
The chain 2 days later
Nice
(I cant watch in wednesday D: )
sad that the purple worm didn’t have anything of value inside. the monster manual says that often times precious metals and gems get stuck inside.
Around 2:45:12 it looks like Matt rolls for it quickly
*Potential Spoilers about those 'W's*
I bet the 'W's are Wishes. Whoever got sent in had an item with 2 uses of it, which should be powerful enough to defeat the Forbidences. Also a nice way for Mat to say "Hey, these guys have access to crazy strong stuff, be afraid."
Yay Drunk Matt! Im so excited, watching this after i just ran my own game. Cant get enough d&d
Perfect for Friday Night consumption
THANK YOU for the Sweeny Todd reference!
Was JUST LAST NIGHT thinking about a sweeney todd NPC to add to my game. Fleeney Bahd.
Drunken DMing+crazy rolls=much shenanigans. Great fun.
Butts used stinking CLoud! It was ineffective!
Another fantastic episode! Going to pre-order one of those sweet shirts too to show my support!
The whole time I was watching I could only see the 'una' on Anna's can and I couldn't help but think she was drinking straight tuna juice.
Love everything! Sorry I can't be there live!
Slim is a Superior Being, with superiority dice.
Matt: "Well well well..."
Anna: (smirks) "Why can't you let us make the joke?"
Matt: "I wanted to save you the embarrassment."
Thank God for more of the Chain!
I preordered a physical copy of Strongholds & Followers, any chance the MCDM crew could sign it? Lol jk but in all seriousness this is my favorite D&D stream, Matt reminds me so much of my first DM that introduced me to the game. May the Chain never break!
Bring it to gen con
Gotta love when Matt sings the Purple Worm song 🤣🤣🤣
The combined wit of this party and the DM is off the charts. Some of the brilliance is even hidden or missed by most of the others as it's thrown out there. Slim's typically-smug comment at 52:00 to Leech is missed by the rest of the party. Maybe I'm just in the right mood, but I've been laughing for five minutes straight. These PCs are great!
It's weird to hear "and we play Dungeons and Dragons" without hearing "WEPLAUYDUNGONSANDRAGOUNSH" in a booming Willingham voice after
That figure is amazing btw, nice scary nurpley boi.
Waiting for the O'D, Kennith William's "Oh Matron" moment
WE AH MOTUH-HEAD. AND WE are in a pretty good mood :)
When Matt proclaimed himself the king of D&D, Matt Mercer suddenly perked up and said "Something horrible has happened."
"I sense something, a presence I have not felt since..."
Episode title should have been, “A Slim is Born”.
After Matt’s terrible pun:
Anna: “Turn it off Jerry!”
That killed me.
Judgen Butts sounds like a good time.
They should sell the worm meat at the butcher shop.
Tom's "Slim." at 2:34:26 is the best joke and everyone missed it.
They said it couldn't be done but I have caught up. No one said that actually but I have caught up.
Okay. Now try catching up on critical role seasons 1 & 2
And then, whilst you're at it, all episodes of the Adventure Zone (",)
@@theophrastusbombastus1359 easy tiger,
Got my Strongholds shipping confirmation today!
Hey nice! I've also just unleashed two of these bad boys (otyughs) at my players yesterday! Was a blast
Hey! its a shadow elf from the 4e game. (Oh no apparently Hlan just look like shadow elves)
Judge should be at least Lieutenant, if not Commander. Anna has an natural sense of tactics, command and is almost always correct on every decision, despite Lars hand waving her decisions. She spotted the changeling on a guess, knew about the purple worm, and has a great sense of whom make great allies.
There is a reason that Lars and Phil were leading. That is their playstyle and they are comfortable with it. I won't put words in Matt's mouth but it seems predetermined off camera who will be commander and lieutenant. Töm was a curveball though. Matt O'Driscoll would make an excellent spymaster as it seems he comprehends, remembers, and knows what to ask about Capital affairs very well.
o0mpALoompA Man The reason Lars is leading has to do with his relationship with Matt. Period.
King's fireball was a masterful move. I don't get why people are complaining down here.
He burned a bunch of resources from high level spells to hit dice. If he let boots hypnotic pattern first, then they could have pulled slim out and targeted them one at a time- since they don’t get to repeat the save for HP. That was the perfect chance for hypnotic pattern and therefore boots to shine but decided friendly fire was the right idea
Didn’t they forget Big Cat was too big to fit through the door? They had him waiting out front.
he squeeze
I think it was more like Big Cat would be a very awkward fit so he cant charge in with the party, but if they want to bring him through to the other side it just takes a bit of effort.
If I remember correctly, bigcat does fit but can't move around
It'd be really cool if Frost was from Vanigar, the clans are really cool
God the deadwood refrence made me so happy and excited. i have half of the cast of Deadwood in my campaign as NPCs.
Al is a tabaxi.lol.
Would it be helpful to game play if imp O'D goes on the same Initiative as Leech?
In the same way Big Cat goes with Copper.
It's different for familiars as they have their own initiative for some reason per the rules. There's nothing that says you can't delay either turn in the round to be right behind eachother though.
@@LagunaDaeron Indeed. I interpret D&D and its rules as a living game, where the DM at each table is able to adjusted the Rules As Written to allow play at their table to function better for their group and be more enjoyable for their group.
@@RJ_Ehlert As a Warlock in several campaigns, I definitely agree. Having to track two different initiatives for effectively, a partial character (the familiar) is just annoying.
Dang! Cr 15 is no joke! I threw my lvl 6 party of 7 up against 2 blue slaad (cr 7), 1 green slaad (cr 8), and a death slaad (cr 10) and pulled no punches. Only one PC died...
The action economy changes how those two encounters go down. The purple worm only gets 1 turn and there were 7ish people who are basically all built to murder the shit out of it. And then when they all go nova their damage output increases dramatically. The weapon master ability also has increased the damage floor of the characters with the most attacks and so the chain arguably had an advantage going into the battle.
No. Astral Chainsaw isn't his wrestler name. It's his signature move.
I feel like every character is super buffed except ODs either through buffed classes or magic items. Maybe a buff to ODs familiar.
Jimmy Hill I don’t know whether you’ve seen the magic item Matt gave him (the Sin Metal Rod) but it is BONKERS. +2 to spell attack, DC, regain a spell slot at will (once), absorb a spell slot when targeted (once) can cast thunder step? Yes please.
Leech could be a HUGE damage dealer, as big as Slim, if played right - Hexblade Patron, Devil’s Sight, Elven Accuracy - but that’s not the character he wants.
He picked Celestial for support (and backstory I assume), and he doesn’t use his spells in an optimal way, nor does he assign his Eldritch Invocations or ASIs. Which is totally fine it’s a valid way to play.
@@charlieelding5909 I did not see that. I thought it was just a rod of the pact keeper. Thanks for the reply.
i really want to know where the quote Matt says is from. "you and your sister may go". its killing me because i feel like ive heard it before.
Romancing the stone
Phil tryin'a re-enact The Shawshank Redemption over here...
45:00 Forget the dang name, Walter!
You be sorry you not give it a name.
when the npc said its probably magic i knew it was not and the it got me the W.
2:33:00 I just see the worm guys from MIB following the purple worm. Lol.
Lars has the most beautiful fucking beard, its so lush.
Matt's reaction at 2:12:28 just makes me wheeze XD
The Worm found Slim... indigestible.
Forgot to charge damage when he cut off his finger....
When Leach got knocked unconcious, OD should have used Leeches surgeon ability to revive himself.
I used a rubber fishing worm molded as a purple worm.
2:38:56 Medicine Chest. Quicksilver flask intensifies!
I MISS DA CHAIN SO MUCH WAAAHHHHH
Yay!!! More chain!
Always go left because right is wrong
Buzzed Matt is pretty fun.
Anna looking at the camera 😂
Pretty sure I got a gifted sub during this episode, and I've never seen a single episode live coz I'm in the UK
I'm with Phil on the "writing" thing. Matt's response as "what letter is it" kinda tells you how skewed his vision of written languages work. Chinese ideograms are not letters, they convey more meaning than sound, and it's a writing system for a language. A triangle with an exclamation mark in it is not a letter, it conveys meaning more than sound, it's a writing system for a language that doesn't have a spoken language associated.