I love how Caleb is literally a light breeze away from death for the first half of this episode yet no one suggests that he gets medical attention for two hours
Gotta love being the quiet friend. You get forgotten about sometimes. But more likely they just forgot he was at 1 hit point from the previous session.
@@AnxietyRat That's very likely they forgot. Even the time of the day changed - whole last battle was in a middle of the night and it was suddenly just 10pm when they rested here XD
Caleb: “I’d like to jump for joy after acquiring these new spells in the bath-house!” Dm: “roll for agility because the floor is wet now that naught spilled the pitcher” Dice: “1” Dm: “you sprain your ankle and fall into a coma”
Loved the scene of Beau making the demon's corpse mouth things while jester and fjord cackled, Molly just walked off disturbed, and nott pointed her knife at it thinking it was alive. All the whole with Caleb throwing up in the background. Truly a group bonding moment
Well technically they already realised she was (the guards I mean) and I assume Caleb saw how she didn't have her mask on and was in more chains than everyone else, so being the smart cookie that he is he concluded that it would be best to just be honest.
TIMESTAMPS 2023, BACK TO THE TOP: 00:30 - Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 4:45 - Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 8:50 - Episode Start 14:30 - No Respect for the Dead 19:40 - At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 35:05 - A heartfelt apology 37:30 - Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 44:00 - Jester, priestess of trickery 47:40 - Nott a rogue 1:11:10 - Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:14:50 - Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:24:50 - Yasha on the lam 1:38:20 - Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:43:20 - This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:46:25 - No comma 1:49:05 - This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:50:20 - That 18 Wisdom score 1:57:55 - Beau is into ladies confirmed? 2:00:02 - Break Starts 2:11:24 - Break Ends 2:19:30 - I gotta use that sometime 2:42:20 - Old Man Matt 2:50:05 - Nott a German 2:54:15 - The Bathhouse Caper 3:03:25 - Map Hype 3:15:30 - …Spice? 3:33:50 - But why though? 3:40:40 - Yippee Kiyay
@@XcZeus3469 A good DM will never murder a PC just to stop some antics. Especially not when there are times when he can't keep a straight face because of said antics.
I do not understand these types of comments. As a DM, the biggest challenge I find is having enough story prepared to keep the players entertained for a full session, without them chewing through all the plot in under an hour (my group is very goal oriented). As such, if a player wants to eat up fifteen minutes of play time on something simple, or on having a conversation among themselves, that's a huge help. You can sit back and coast for a bit and let THEM tell YOU the story, which is delightful. I cannot imagine what kind of DM would be upset by their players giving them a break and picking up the narrative slack.
@@elbruces I think 1: It's because the thing he chose to do, out of all the things possibly available to a creative player like him, he chose to bathe because his party members made up the fact that he was smelly. So instead of preparing potions, writing scrolls, shopping for spell ingredients(which he needed at one point), he chose to RP taking a bath. It's funny. So people comment on it. 2. You're taking jokey observations about RPing a bath too seriously.
Not always. I see a LOT of comments seriously suggesting that Matt should be annoyed when the characters want to take time to RP themselves without following his story. That's the context I'm coming from.
@Ambrose Contreras To be fair, expecting her to go easy on Vecna to protect Velora is complete nonsense. If you go easy at that point, you deserve the TPK.
You can immediately tell how much this strange, new group means to Caleb by how incredibly blessed he comes off for having a moment of peace with his best friend where he’s now in a position to read in silence, and in peace for even a little while. Just two days ago in character he was starving. Wanted. Scared. Not just for his own safety but for Nott’s. And now he has friends waiting for him, his best friend is safe by his side, and they can exist in peace. It’s incredible storytelling.
My favorite thing about this is that those braids were actually over 2 years ago. Most of us are caught up on the campaign and in the know by now. Those of us rewatching the first episodes and catching up to the actual campaign through Christmas break are coming to know these small details. Even after all this time this show has managed to capture our hearts and our imaginations. Watching these episodes for the first time and in many cases for many other people re-watching these episodes, it is exhilarating to see. Oh how the continuity of this content doth spring forth, much joy for d&d fans.
Alex Firefly ya but when she was arrested it was because the mask fell off. I mean town guards are stupid but not that stupid so its better to admit it than to try and talk your way out.
I hope this becomes a running theme in the series *imagine* Royal guard: The goblins in this area are extremely dangerous and cleaver, we will give you 2 silver pieces for every goblin you slay Caleb: Okay you caught us, Nott is a goblin
In fairness putting an NPC at least 2 of them have a history with into indentured servitude for 2 years would make any non Evil group pause. Nice to see even the pro DMs sometimes make little errors of foresight, gives hope for the rest of us!
47:42 "I was just a bystander!!" *rolls a 0 for Deception* Nothing will ever surpass the joy I feel when I see Liam *point and laugh* at Matt for choking on his drink.
Highlights: Matt disappearing behind the screen. Liam brazenly pointing and laughing at Matt. Sam's nearly folded hands and gestures with "3 minus 3 = zero."
@@nutterbirdy1983 It's crazy, isn't it? Matt is the most insane planner I have ever seen! And the rest of them are so amazing at dropping the smallest of hints about their backstories. It's truly a mastercraft.
Fucking love that during the court scene, everyone failed so many persuasion checks that Matt eventually had to throw them a bone and say "alright I believe you" hahaha
Hahahaha as a dm, i always have to be careful what i ask the players to roll- like, there's a balance between having fun with game mechanics and adding a sense of risk versus accidently having the party natural one themselves into hours of unintended jailtime fun or bureaucratic nonsense 🤣
Just because they roll low doesn’t mean the characters won’t believe them. Poor presentation =/= non belief. They are trying to persuade someone who was trying already to believe them, if she weren’t, she would simply execute them like she threatened dozens of times. They just did a really poor job of saying the things they had said- like a person laughing during a serious moment out of nerves. It was actualy kinda cool and said a lot about the character that she could see past that and remain objective.
So you’ve got Nott using her body as a shield when Caleb’s down for the count last episode and now we got Caleb doing the same against a whole Lawmaster. I’m just very 🥺🥺🥺 about them both.
Ah, the lesser known follow up to Shiro Emiya's famous "People die when they are killed" quote. fun fact(s): Sam Rigel was the voice of Shiro Emiya, with Liam O'Brian as the Voice of Archer Emiya from Fate Stay/Night.
i love how last time travis was grog, with an intelligence of 6 and the charisma to match, and this time he's fjord, the *only* one capable of being even vaguely charismatic
Also the one who got the price of the potions down to standard, even got a freeby. 1) Intelligent enough to even know 2) Being smart and charismatic enough to haggle him down Cut back to paying 1000 gold more while trying to haggle in C1 AND thinking he made a good deal xD
Also, Sam does the same in reverse, Nott has the lowest charisma in the group and constantly fails persuasions. Honestly the whole M9 is a negative mirror image of VM. Monk - Druid Wizard - Rogue Cleric - Ranger/Rogue Barbarian - Cleric Melee Blood Hunter - Gunslinger Warlock/Paladin - Barbarian/Fighter
First campaign healers: war cleric, druid, bard (or, briefly, an artificer with potions), ranger, eventually a multiclass paladin. Second campaign healers: trickster cleric. With a character who literally hurts himself to use his special abilities. This team is in for some pain.
Nothing healing potions can't handle. (Or the healer feat) My current party is: Gish Sorcerer, Gish Warlock, Rogue, Wizard and a Bard, who pretty much blows all his spell slots for offensive spells. So half the party is always in CQC getting blasted with Friendly Fire. And strangely they all survive.
@@ayumikuro3768 Matt limits how many healing potions the party can buy, and they burned through potions even in the first campaign, so this party probably needs to be more careful.
@@DurandalsFate Yeah I realized that in a later episode. Matt only sells a few potions at 50 ~ 70 gp. Which I personally find a bit to over the top. So they really should get the healer feat going. It's a one per long rest heal, but at least it's cheaper. Also they have song of rest for some reason which is an additional d6 per short rest, which is also rather good in the early game. I usually run much cheaper, mass produced potions (which are worse ones [I really like my d100 random potion effects], often created by a crazy old lady or they have a quest attached to reduce the price. Imho 25 gp is plenty for potions of healing. Common items should be common. That being said I tend to run much leaner economies [compared to the 2-3 DMs I played under], where one week of questing returns a potion for everyone and some basic supplies. Which they easily burn on their next quest. So I guess it's actually not that different. 🤔
Ayumi Kuro yeah, I have only limited my players ability to buy healing potions once so far, because it made sense from a story perspective (the fighting pits were running the annual championship), but I don’t think it makes any kind of sense how much money Matt charges for the basic healing potions. Like you said: common items should be common.
How much you restrict magic item availability is directly proportional to how "special" it feels in the world. Otherwise you might as well jist replace the city's tap water with healing potion.
It was a failed one-liner from the last campaign, by one of the normally wittier characters. To be fair, he hadn't had his coffee, there was no bacon. . .
@FluffyXai During the Feywild trip, right before fighting Saundor. An episode ending with a 9, I think. 79? And I know, right! I'm not sure if it'll be better or worse when I finally catch up to the current episode. On the one hand, I can't be spoiled, on the other, no going right on to the next one!
Joy to the world, Barney's dead We've barbecued his head. Don't worry about the body, We flushed it down the potty, And around and around it went. And around and around it went. Around and around the body went.
in the campaign i play i’m a half ork barbarian that every enemies race/species we haven’t fought yet i say a fine addition to my collection then steal their head i have traumatised numerous shopkeepers because of this and anything we have fought i get advantage on intimidation rolls so far i have a goblin head an ork head and an ogre head we have only played two sessions but im gonna get a human head soon because we are the good guys
I wish my players would make these types of character changes. This one dude in my group always thinks he made a different pc but they all act the same. Run face first into everything and treat everyone like shit. It should be no suprise that he's died multiple times.
@@mme.veronica735 I have a character I rolled that could roll 1 0 from a 3.... dice gods hated me this day with 5, 8, 4, 7, 8, 12... (4d6, highest 3) i tried to sacrifice a d6 to the gods under my car tyre.. they did not accept my sacrifice, the dice lives..
EverythingNerdifying i feel the same. Nott and Jester as well. The good cop bad cop bit and Nott trying to run off blaming people is hilarious! Still early bit i see this campaign going in all sorts of new and exciting directions. The first campaign *teams* are erased! XD
He is like a Tolken or RR Martin, who not only creates these incredibly detailed and full, lore rich worlds, but also then acts them out and all the the npcs who populate those worlds! Amazing indeed!
Fellow newbie (both to CR and as a DnD player). He really is great. The only thing that sucks is there are so many people acting like if their DMs aren't on his level that makes them inherently bad. 😔
Outside of his character voices and emotions, which as a professional voice actor you have to assume will be exceptional, there’s very little that Matt does that your average DM can’t replicate GIVEN THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. The right circumstances being that outside of his aforementioned voice acting career, this is his full time gig, as well as being assisted by a team and having a big budget. But in terms of pure description, narrative, world building, etc. there’s very little you can’t replicate with a creative writing class and some practice. Which again, Matt is very, very talented, but he’s also not this unassailable god that no mortal can dare approach (I’d probably give Brennan Lee Mulligan that award - his brain just works leagues faster than any other person I’ve seen).
Honestly, just the thought of roleplaying a D&D game with a player like Liam is so enticing. The roleplaying part is the most fun of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and you can tell he's very invested in that and I think he, and Sam actually, roleplay their characters the best. He gets so deep in his role. And his voice acting is absolute mint. Just a big fan!
I am legitimately in love with Liam. The depth of emotion he's able to put into his characters, especially Caleb, is one of the reasons I love this show.
Caleb has such high Intelligence and Charisma and still managed to talk around all the important points😂 he literally said i killed it 3x before he even mentioned that it was the murderer
Reminded me of the part in C1 where Vax was talking to the Raven Queen and kept focusing on "my family is in danger!" And not (spoilers) "an undead guy is becoming a god!"
@@alypatterson1078 he said in the talks afterwards that Vax assumed she knew everything about that already and that she wanted him to argue why he personally should be allowed to come back
Also, near the end when ashley said she couldn't leave yet and sam was giving her a hard time, i half expected him to say "what are you doing, building a temple to seranrae?" :p
Feels like the Circus master totally knew what was up with the devil frog, and was letting him feed on healthy people in the circus since they wouldn't likely die. Hence why the elderly were banned, but one got through and got eaten and started this whole mess.
I'm pretty sure in a talks machina or something Matt admits that the circus master made a deal with it, this was probably something similar to the arrangement
It's incredible that Nott and Caleb literally bathing, which serves no narrative purpose and is the literal equivalent of a beach episode, is one of the most hilarious and engaging parts
God damn. Sam. How can a man so consistenly roll high rolls like nat 20's in combat and then consistently roll 1's in any other form of action. His power baffles and amazes me. And I love every second of it.
I love how he said that sleight of hand was “his only skill” at the start of the campaign and then consistently rolled horribly whenever he wanted to steal something.
Honestly sounds like the druid I play. Does awesome in battle but the social interactions..... Let's just say he isn't allowed to start conversations. He gets us into some shit.
@@xengetzutensho1706 A character I used to play in a campaign that's on hold for now has a thing that makes any d20 roll you make go a success, while any d20 roll against you fails, at the cost of 1 exhaustion point. At 0 exhaustion, he sucks ass and can't deal any damage. At 3 exhaustion points, he becomes the destroyer of enemies, an unkillable menace of dicerolls managing to defeat a berzerker enemy after his friend went unconscious. He's real fun.
by Flando Maltrizian Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30 Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45 Episode Start 8:50 No Respect for the Dead 14:30 At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40 A heartfelt apology 35:05 Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30 Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00 Nott, trained rogue 47:40 Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10 Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50 Yasha on the lam 1:24:50 Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20 This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20 No comma 1:46:25 This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05 That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20 Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55 Break Starts 2:00:02 Break Ends 2:11:24 I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30 Old Man Matt 2:42:20 Nott a German 2:50:05 The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15 Map Hype 3:03:25 …Spice? 3:15:30 But why though? 3:33:50 Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40
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Can we please talk about how clever Matt was by flat out pointing out to Sam that he DOESN'T have a map, flat out putting the idea in their heads to buy a map.
he is like that one very protective friend who accidentally makes everything about race "This girl is kinda weird" "How DARE you say something wrong about her just because she is a GOBLIN???" "I didn't even know she is" "Oh"
Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30 Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45 Episode Start 8:50 No Respect for the Dead 14:30 At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40 A heartfelt apology 35:05 Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30 Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00 Nott, trained rogue 47:40 Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10 Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50 Yasha on the lam 1:24:50 Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20 This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20 No comma 1:46:25 This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05 That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20 Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55 Break Starts 2:00:02 Break Ends 2:11:24 I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30 Old Man Matt 2:42:20 Nott a German 2:50:05 The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15 Map Hype 3:03:25 …Spice? 3:15:30 But why though? 3:33:50 Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40 Live viewership peaked around 71,000 people. During the break some people in the chat were talking shit about other G&S shows. Personally, I’m a fan of Wednesday Club, AYBGF, Dread, and Signal Boost. Even if CR is all you watch, remember that the cast and crew work on those other G&S shows and be nice. Any moments I missed? Feel free to comment below. Is it Thursday yet?
As a person who knows some German, it's nice to hear Liam/Caleb speaking little bits German that I understand, its a really nice touch. Also I lost it when Caleb called the guard an Asshole in German, its just such a great touch.
It's hard to find an opportunity to speak in other languages when you're a voice actor if you are not super fluent. If you're not very confident, you tend to leave it alone. I like that Liam was brave enough to utilize this experience in the performance. Very impressed.
We learned of Yasha's book where she puts flowers this episode and we thought hey that's a cool little idiosyncrasy for a character like her...and then plenty episodes later we will be smacked in the heart by the real reason she collects flowers.
lol most of my DnD adventures start like this. Thinking about the last 5 campaigns I started as a dm by session 5 . 3 parties run out of town for causing death and destruction, 2 of them litterely burnt down the inn they where staying in. All 5 had stolen from someone 4 had found illegal drugs. 2 ignored all the bbeg clues and just left town to go somewhere random. All of us had loads of fun.
@@Ginric99 does it count to turn a whole city into undead's while killing the towns gargoyle and stealing all the stuff out of the vault? Cause that was session 2.
@@stonehorn4641 End of the day the victor writes history, do enough crazy stuff and the DnD party will become heros of legend, I mean, the truth may be a little more ugly lol. I actually had that, 2nd campaign was set 100 years on, the original party where part of legend, despite there actions in the moment being generally selfish self serving and them pissing off the npcs. 100 years later they are the great heroes who slayed an evil god.
It's my first time watching this series, but honestly this isn't that much of a spoiler at all. 😆 Death and resurrection is just how Critical Role operates.
@@matthewherndon6488 I did not say “excellent spoiler,” I said foreshadowing. Totally different! And totally unintentional on Taliesin’s part, as we later learn in the campaign 2 wrap-up, which only proves he is an ancient eldritch being of unfathomable knowing.
How about keeping stuff relating to later episodes in the comment section of said later episodes. I know that's really difficult for stupid people to understand that love to rush back and allude to stuff later on like they're something special and then just make those of us on our first time through not want to come to the comment section to see some of the funny comments people have left, or helpful ones pointing out stuff we might have missed in this episode, because we might stumble into comments from these stupid people.
47:55 has to be my favorite Sam moment so far (finally watching Campaign 2 from the start) The way he rolls, sits back with the look of a natural 20 then goes "Zero" with just as much confidence is fucking hysterical
Caleb: *has really passionate emotional moment by himself in a hot bath Nott: *immediately breaks a pitcher, eats food off the floor, and steals shit from this nice bathroom
At 1:02:50 when Norda calls them criminals and Sam says we're not criminals just travellers since Nott and Caleb broke out of....... (prison) but goes silent was brilliant!
THANK YOU! I totally missed this moment. When Beau asked Caleb (seemingly out of nowhere) when they broke out of prison I was SO confused. I reread 4 episode synopses to make sure I didn't miss the reveal, but couldn't find it! Felt so crazy.
I think my favorite interactions are when Fjord the Tex-blade, and Caleb the Uber-wizard have their little away talks as the respective "leaders" of their crews. The two smart guys having a moment measuring what future plans are. We never had moments like that before.
Well, that settles it...Tex-Blade and Uber Wizard it is! And they both DO seem to be the default leaders...until ridiculousness happens and Molly brings everyone back to heel. Guess he's familiar with "crowd control".
Hahahahahhaah holy shit thanks for this xD I couldn't really make it out and thought they were just praising the vocabulary of 'forefathers' ("He said forefathers" "It's impressive") which did not deserve Matt and everyone's reaction. this was gold xD
@@LSZ71 Possibly spoilers then: Nott went into the water when she was running from the goblins that took her and her husband, she drowned and woke up as a goblin in stead of the halfling she was when she went into the water
I love they just looked at Yasha and were like “I’m adopting this” and she barely got a say and Caleb is like that tired dad who just looks at the puppy his family adopted without his say and is just like “fine, I’m too tired to argue this” and let’s them have it.
Flando Maltrizian 2 years ago Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30 Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45 Episode Start 8:50 No Respect for the Dead 14:30 At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40 A heartfelt apology 35:05 Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30 Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00 Nott, trained rogue 47:40 Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10 Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50 Yasha on the lam 1:24:50 Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20 This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20 No comma 1:46:25 This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05 That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20 Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55 Break Starts 2:00:02 Break Ends 2:11:24 I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30 Old Man Matt 2:42:20 Nott a German 2:50:05 The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15 Map Hype 3:03:25 …Spice? 3:15:30 But why though? 3:33:50 Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40 Live viewership peaked around 71,000 people. During the break some people in the chat were talking shit about other G&S shows. Personally, I’m a fan of Wednesday Club, AYBGF, Dread, and Signal Boost. Even if CR is all you watch, remember that the cast and crew work on those other G&S shows and be nice. Any moments I missed? Feel free to comment below. Is it Thursday yet?
Anyone else notice that by 41:00 the whole season could have been a loop with time shenanigans? Caleb would wake up after having a terrible night the day before in which Nott had saved him while Fjord, Beau and Jester return to a tavern after killing a reptilian creature that was terrorising the town
@@wonderlandartwork3579 I know, right? German pronounciation can be really hard for people that didn't grow up with it. Liam is doing an impressive job here!
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"Shes had a bad night"
"I'm at one hit point i understand"
Poor Caleb.
It's the mages life
“It’s a hard knock life - for us!”
Most under rated joke of the episode imo
Gustav: Don't make the same mistakes as your forefathers.
Jester: Wow they had four fathers?
Nott: I know that's really progressive!
when was that?
1:41:25
@@jennifermk4059 Thank you! I can't believe I missed that, I honestly spent 15 minutes clicking through the video to find that and failed.
Lol
ty so much! in the Spanish subtitles this joke not make any sense.
Caleb explains that he is a hero: I murdered a man, I did it, he is dead, I killed him. He was a frog, and now he is dead. I killed the circus man.
2 days ago, on this old ass video, still managed to get 14 likes, that's incredible
And now you have 100 likes.
And then there was 200 likes
@@schwany6703 same. im trying to catch up so i can make sense of whats happened on other episodes from when i first found this channel.
This is straight up the funniest comment I've seen in my life.
Everyone: "How do we prove our innocence?"
Caleb running directly to the authorities: "I have killed a man!"
Also look at my piss goblin!
Mamaaaa,just killed a man
@@safi6749 put a spell against his head, rolled advantage now he's deeeaaaaaad
@@sobinir7933MAMAAAAAAA, OOOOOOOOOOO!
@secretsaresafe9399 DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRYYYYYY
and caleb pulls the classic "you caught us, she's a goblin." this time in court while the judge's race is a sworn enemy to goblins
Trash Panda better they find out by admission.
Another instance of Caleb's oversharing. For a man with so many secrets they're really bad at keeping them
@@Pundae makes him better at keeping the bigger secrets. They'll never know.
She was literally arrested for being a goblin.
@@micryt. that's not why she was arrested lol
In the bathhouse:
Caleb: _actually taking a relaxing bath_
Nott: _eating off the floor and stealing everything_
DeathnoteBB He’s casting “Find Familiar” again
Bartholomew Jenkins Who Caleb? I was wondering what the book was for.
When Nott takes a bath, she *takes* a bath.
@DarthLesbian420 stealing is easy! originality is hard.
Cookie the Fabulous - Precisely. Just learning from Nott.
I love how Caleb is literally a light breeze away from death for the first half of this episode yet no one suggests that he gets medical attention for two hours
Gotta love being the quiet friend. You get forgotten about sometimes. But more likely they just forgot he was at 1 hit point from the previous session.
@@AnxietyRat That's very likely they forgot. Even the time of the day changed - whole last battle was in a middle of the night and it was suddenly just 10pm when they rested here XD
He rolled some hit dice when they realized the boat ride was a short rest, so he at least wasn't at 1 hp
@@coolerthanoranges he declined the hit die, he wanted to stay at low health to show off his wounds
Caleb: “I’d like to jump for joy after acquiring these new spells in the bath-house!”
Dm: “roll for agility because the floor is wet now that naught spilled the pitcher”
Dice: “1”
Dm: “you sprain your ankle and fall into a coma”
I love that Liam takes his german accent so far as to say "A Centimeter of my Life" rather than "An Inch"
And straight up calls someone an arschloch!
It was definitely more impactful though
1:55:58 he did say "every inch of my body" tho
@@GermanyIsNotReal well the people around you rubb off 😂
Reminds me of the scene in Inglorious Basterds where the undercover American counts to 3 on his fingers incorrectly. Liam did the homework 😂💯
"Is the goblin pissing in my court" had me in tears
kicked it in the cotter Ra Ra Ra
1:15:46
Srsly thou what's he doing
MVP
@@funsize69 Yeah Sam's and Laura's characters are clearly not right in the head :D
Sam Riegel playing a character with -3 charisma is everything I never knew I needed
Zero
I was laughing so hard when he said "0", but then i remembered my character has -4 charisma so.... :D
@@xOIwa please tell me you've rolled a -2 before
@@jamesborn3603 I did. But my character's name is Kay Oss so it's kinda suitable :D
That part was so funny
Loved the scene of Beau making the demon's corpse mouth things while jester and fjord cackled, Molly just walked off disturbed, and nott pointed her knife at it thinking it was alive. All the whole with Caleb throwing up in the background.
Truly a group bonding moment
someone draw this now
This is a complete draw the squad prompt
This would be one of the best illustrations ever.
I can see my players doing this lol
Sounds like a Friday night.
caleb: most towns don’t like goblins, most people don’t
also caleb: THIS IS MY FRIEND SHE’S A GOBLIN
Omg, yeah, lolz!
Maybe he thought it was best to be honest, but in retrospect it is funny 😂
Well technically they already realised she was (the guards I mean) and I assume Caleb saw how she didn't have her mask on and was in more chains than everyone else, so being the smart cookie that he is he concluded that it would be best to just be honest.
"Is that like a magic tric-"
"What's your armor class?"
*nervous laughter*
Didnt she take enough damage to be knocked out...
Zenna mok no she had 18HP
*chuckles* Im in danger
lmfao
best part. she was getting too big for her britches.
“I’m at one hit point, I understand.” I need that on a t-shirt.
Tiffany Drudy i would totally buy that as merch. Hint hint, producers
I think that and zero would be good on a T-SHIRT
THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN
"I thought you were Nott, the brave?"
"Nono, there is no coma, I'm just not the brave." LOLOL
Your grammar went into a coma when you made this post.
Lmfao
And heartbreaking later on.
*comma.
TIMESTAMPS 2023, BACK TO THE TOP:
00:30 - Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards
4:45 - Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls
8:50 - Episode Start
14:30 - No Respect for the Dead
19:40 - At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them
35:05 - A heartfelt apology
37:30 - Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP
44:00 - Jester, priestess of trickery
47:40 - Nott a rogue
1:11:10 - Caleb is the actual worst lawyer
1:14:50 - Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC
1:24:50 - Yasha on the lam
1:38:20 - Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please
1:43:20 - This girl’s gonna be the final boss
1:46:25 - No comma
1:49:05 - This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch
1:50:20 - That 18 Wisdom score
1:57:55 - Beau is into ladies confirmed?
2:00:02 - Break Starts
2:11:24 - Break Ends
2:19:30 - I gotta use that sometime
2:42:20 - Old Man Matt
2:50:05 - Nott a German
2:54:15 - The Bathhouse Caper
3:03:25 - Map Hype
3:15:30 - …Spice?
3:33:50 - But why though?
3:40:40 - Yippee Kiyay
Bump
7:30 intro
3:01:55 “Why is this crowbar 7 gold?”
2024 now is crazy
Why the hell is the most important comment so low?
3:04:38
“Let’s go all of these places!”
*Matthew makes the face of a DM that has not prepared all of these places*
Matt has begun plotting how he can murder Jester and pass it off as "part of the plot" to stop her antics.
@@XcZeus3469 A good DM will never murder a PC just to stop some antics. Especially not when there are times when he can't keep a straight face because of said antics.
@@Rembanspellsong Sarcasm. A good commenter knows how to identify it.
@@XcZeus3469 gotta put a /s for the retards
My God that’s funny!!!
When your party members bully you so much that you incorporate taking a bath into your downtime
I do not understand these types of comments. As a DM, the biggest challenge I find is having enough story prepared to keep the players entertained for a full session, without them chewing through all the plot in under an hour (my group is very goal oriented). As such, if a player wants to eat up fifteen minutes of play time on something simple, or on having a conversation among themselves, that's a huge help. You can sit back and coast for a bit and let THEM tell YOU the story, which is delightful. I cannot imagine what kind of DM would be upset by their players giving them a break and picking up the narrative slack.
@@elbruces I think 1: It's because the thing he chose to do, out of all the things possibly available to a creative player like him, he chose to bathe because his party members made up the fact that he was smelly. So instead of preparing potions, writing scrolls, shopping for spell ingredients(which he needed at one point), he chose to RP taking a bath. It's funny. So people comment on it. 2. You're taking jokey observations about RPing a bath too seriously.
@@elbruces That's because these type of comments are jokes, and you apparently failed spotting the joke.
Must have been a natural 1
Not always. I see a LOT of comments seriously suggesting that Matt should be annoyed when the characters want to take time to RP themselves without following his story. That's the context I'm coming from.
@@elbruces No you don't.
Beau - "MY FIRST NEMESIS!!"
Matt - "A 12 YEAR OLD GIRLLL"
Beau-I just give her a little eh you know one of tho-
Travis: SHE GOES UNCONSCIOUS 💀
@@TheManowarcraft Beau:"I give her a little push"
Matt:"Okay, How do you want to do this?"
the Party: 👁👄👁
@@TheFlynCowbeau:i punch her mortal combat style and destroy her skull
@@TheFlynCow LMAO
@Ambrose Contreras To be fair, expecting her to go easy on Vecna to protect Velora is complete nonsense. If you go easy at that point, you deserve the TPK.
Caleb realizing something has finally gone right in his life, while on the other side a goblin devours cucumbers off the floor. Wonderful.
A truly historic momment
Each having fun in their own way!
Matt just played four npc's in a courtroom by himself like a beast.
1 take! xD
@@keistle That was by and far an amazing scene.
That's because Matthew Mercer is a DM god!
Bassicaly me when I'm alone.
Self roleplay
Oh my god, I didn't even think of that I just heard characters. That's some goddamn talent!
Favorite Caleb quotes:
"I'm either a clown or I'm a toad killer!"
"I'm a dirty hobo and I reek like yesterday's garbage."
I'd totally buy a "I'm either a clown or I'm a toad killer T-shirt
And I'd Totally buy a "I'm a dirty hobo and i reek like yesterday's garbage" t-shirt. LOL.
You’re forgetting some prime Nott T-shirt quotes like “All Magic Kills Goblins”
A TH-cam Commenter I LOVE TRINKETS SOOO MUCH!!!
"Why's this crowbar seven gold?"
Caleb, standing in front of the police covered in blood: I killed a man lmao
Not just "I killed a man." It was "I murdered this carnie and that proves us all innocent."
Matt had to do some quick thinking to keep Liam from having to make a new char lol
Cha cha real smooth
I'm A mUrDeReR! I'lL dO iT aGaIn!
Mamaaaaa uuwwwwuuuu
You can immediately tell how much this strange, new group means to Caleb by how incredibly blessed he comes off for having a moment of peace with his best friend where he’s now in a position to read in silence, and in peace for even a little while.
Just two days ago in character he was starving. Wanted. Scared. Not just for his own safety but for Nott’s. And now he has friends waiting for him, his best friend is safe by his side, and they can exist in peace.
It’s incredible storytelling.
Caleb never mentioned that he removed the braids so I love to think that form now on that they are just there forever now.
Honestly if his hair is as greasy from lack of bathing, the braids probably stayed in really well.
I WAS THINKING EXACTLY THIS
Hahaha thats true XD
My favorite thing about this is that those braids were actually over 2 years ago. Most of us are caught up on the campaign and in the know by now. Those of us rewatching the first episodes and catching up to the actual campaign through Christmas break are coming to know these small details. Even after all this time this show has managed to capture our hearts and our imaginations. Watching these episodes for the first time and in many cases for many other people re-watching these episodes, it is exhilarating to see. Oh how the continuity of this content doth spring forth, much joy for d&d fans.
Due to his poor hygiene they slowly become dreadlocks
No one:
Literally No One:
Caleb: Alright, you got us. She's a Goblin.
Alex Firefly ya but when she was arrested it was because the mask fell off. I mean town guards are stupid but not that stupid so its better to admit it than to try and talk your way out.
I hope this becomes a running theme in the series
*imagine*
Royal guard: The goblins in this area are extremely dangerous and cleaver, we will give you 2 silver pieces for every goblin you slay
Caleb: Okay you caught us, Nott is a goblin
No one:
Literally no one:
Not a single person:
Not an animal:
Not me:
Not anyone in the comments:
Literally no one at all:
You: haha no one funny
Caleb is by far the most sane of this party. And that is terrifying. I love it.
Looking back, this is DEFINITELY not true
The Alien Ginger huh... sane you say..?
Yeah you wana rethink that bud?
Yeah, Fjord is the most sane. And he barfs up saltwater every night.
It is unreal how every persuasion, intimidation, and deception check is a failure (when it matters) for an ENTIRE TEAM.
The team has no rizz. They completely suck at actually throwing their personality around. 🤣
At least partly because they're more interested in being amusing than sensible, and they have a lot of faith in their plot armor.
"Here."
*Pulls off one of the many rings they looted off of the toad's corpse*
"This is an old family heirloom."
XD, Jester is just amazing.
"Thanks, it looks a lot like one I lost a few days ago" either the toad stole it or it wasn't one of those rings and jester stole it. Either or.
The Gang: We should steal 2,000 gold from somewhere to get NPC Gustav out of trouble!
Matt: Dear GOD, please don't.
lmaoo fr he was like "ah shit how am i gonna fix this, please dont go stealing stuff"
In fairness putting an NPC at least 2 of them have a history with into indentured servitude for 2 years would make any non Evil group pause. Nice to see even the pro DMs sometimes make little errors of foresight, gives hope for the rest of us!
47:42 "I was just a bystander!!" *rolls a 0 for Deception*
Nothing will ever surpass the joy I feel when I see Liam *point and laugh* at Matt for choking on his drink.
Best part
I live for these moments
It's one of the rare times Matt raises his glass and actually decides to drink, and he immediately regrets it
Thanks for the timestamp!
I hope Beau keeps the gag of spamming help everytime she's being dragged to jail and sees her friends lol kills me everytime
DM: "make a deception check"
Nott: ".......zero......."
everyone but nott : dies with laughter including me
Highlights: Matt disappearing behind the screen. Liam brazenly pointing and laughing at Matt. Sam's nearly folded hands and gestures with "3 minus 3 = zero."
Nott could Star in her own film... ‘Deception Failure’.
Caleb: "You are young. Sometimes, you will meet someone you think is good, and then it turns out they are not." Me: *just quietly sobs*
Katia K I’m rewatching due to lockdown and I’m noticing sooooo many things I missed before.
@@nutterbirdy1983 It's crazy, isn't it? Matt is the most insane planner I have ever seen! And the rest of them are so amazing at dropping the smallest of hints about their backstories. It's truly a mastercraft.
this makes me think of Essek oh wow
@Katia K that’s happened to me before...
Timestamp?
Fucking love that during the court scene, everyone failed so many persuasion checks that Matt eventually had to throw them a bone and say "alright I believe you" hahaha
Hahahaha as a dm, i always have to be careful what i ask the players to roll- like, there's a balance between having fun with game mechanics and adding a sense of risk versus accidently having the party natural one themselves into hours of unintended jailtime fun or bureaucratic nonsense 🤣
Would have been fun if he sends all of them to the quarry for a session. XD
I don’t think the dc’s were very high. She probably has a high insight score and everybody but Nott rolled above a ten.
Just because they roll low doesn’t mean the characters won’t believe them. Poor presentation =/= non belief.
They are trying to persuade someone who was trying already to believe them, if she weren’t, she would simply execute them like she threatened dozens of times.
They just did a really poor job of saying the things they had said- like a person laughing during a serious moment out of nerves. It was actualy kinda cool and said a lot about the character that she could see past that and remain objective.
I think that's the reason why there was no reward for their service to the town.
So you’ve got Nott using her body as a shield when Caleb’s down for the count last episode and now we got Caleb doing the same against a whole Lawmaster. I’m just very 🥺🥺🥺 about them both.
Especially consider (possible spoilers for Caleb's backstory)
How terrified he is of being locked up, this is like facing his worst fear if he failed
"I thought you were 'Nott, the Brave'"
"No, there's no coma. I'm just 'Nott the brave'"
Ricardo Rodriguez phenominal line
I appreciate your correct use of quotation. I don't know why, but it's nice to see in a TH-cam comment for once.
comma, but yeah.
" H'ey "WhA'Ts up"'" mY+-";! guys
Ricardo Rodriguez comma*
It occurs to me that Nott can deny pretty much anything and fool a detect lies/ zone of truth. 'I'm Nott, a theif! I'm Nott .I'm Nott!!!'
if they don´t know her name.
Too bad that deception roll
Who stole the priceless gem? Nott, me!
Who murdered this man? Nott, me!
Yeah, checks out.
Oh hi Mark
Legend has it that the old gnome is still waiting for the strange man to return to buy the music box.
And the guy who held the farming books
Elsa Frost This is why people at yard sales don’t hold things without payment XD
Everyone knows you aren’t coming back
"Is that goblin pissing in my court??"
Rules of improv: Yes, and...
What *is* Sam doing???
@@endel12 He's pissing
@@endel12 he was refilling his flask lol
@@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 With piss
Time Stamps
0:08:45 Game Starts
1:59:00 Break Starts
2:11:25 Game Begins Again
Thank you.
Tonkus Lee Gaming this feels like a joke if not it made me laugh anyway
@@bigpenny8223 huh?
Sameen Shaw what?
this is wayyyyyyyyyyy too far down
"I kinda want to punch you back"
"Then do it."
Beau.exe has stopped working
When the dom tells the switch to take control 😂
@Josh Price mac curruption noise du du du du
@@LookieLoki god yes that's exactly what I thought
Jester: "Life does need things to live."
Molly: "That's a terrible phrase, who said that?"
Me: *Lost it beyond recovery*
(casts Mass Cure Wounds and directs all 700 points to Eva)
So did Bren, supposedly.
@@maxharter5716 you're thinking of the level 9 spell Mass Heal
In that same moment Molly also said "you only get one life...mostly" 1:50:07
Ah, the lesser known follow up to Shiro Emiya's famous "People die when they are killed" quote.
fun fact(s): Sam Rigel was the voice of Shiro Emiya, with Liam O'Brian as the Voice of Archer Emiya from Fate Stay/Night.
Okay but Sam helping Laura hide her pregnancy because they hadn’t announced it yet was like the cutest thing. 2:11:49 and 2:33:49
Thank you for pointing it out! That's so sweet.
@@thespankmyfrank Isn’t it!!!!!!
Well spotted, that's awesome!
I would have never noticed! So sweet!
Honestly the moments of sweetness, caring and thoughtfulness between our ragtag troup is so incredibly wonderful to behold...
i love how last time travis was grog, with an intelligence of 6 and the charisma to match, and this time he's fjord, the *only* one capable of being even vaguely charismatic
Also the one who got the price of the potions down to standard, even got a freeby. 1) Intelligent enough to even know 2) Being smart and charismatic enough to haggle him down
Cut back to paying 1000 gold more while trying to haggle in C1 AND thinking he made a good deal xD
Also, Sam does the same in reverse, Nott has the lowest charisma in the group and constantly fails persuasions. Honestly the whole M9 is a negative mirror image of VM.
Monk - Druid
Wizard - Rogue
Cleric - Ranger/Rogue
Barbarian - Cleric
Melee Blood Hunter - Gunslinger
Warlock/Paladin - Barbarian/Fighter
@@Lyonatan Fjord isn't any kind of Paladin. "Wrathful Smite" is just a spell, it has nothing to do with the Paladin feature "Divine Smite".
@@apexkonchu2234 I'm pretty sure he has the Oath of the Sea
@@Lyonatan spoilers. At this point, he isnt a Paladin
First campaign healers: war cleric, druid, bard (or, briefly, an artificer with potions), ranger, eventually a multiclass paladin.
Second campaign healers: trickster cleric. With a character who literally hurts himself to use his special abilities.
This team is in for some pain.
Nothing healing potions can't handle. (Or the healer feat)
My current party is:
Gish Sorcerer, Gish Warlock, Rogue, Wizard and a Bard, who pretty much blows all his spell slots for offensive spells.
So half the party is always in CQC getting blasted with Friendly Fire. And strangely they all survive.
@@ayumikuro3768 Matt limits how many healing potions the party can buy, and they burned through potions even in the first campaign, so this party probably needs to be more careful.
@@DurandalsFate Yeah I realized that in a later episode. Matt only sells a few potions at 50 ~ 70 gp. Which I personally find a bit to over the top.
So they really should get the healer feat going. It's a one per long rest heal, but at least it's cheaper. Also they have song of rest for some reason which is an additional d6 per short rest, which is also rather good in the early game.
I usually run much cheaper, mass produced potions (which are worse ones [I really like my d100 random potion effects], often created by a crazy old lady or they have a quest attached to reduce the price. Imho 25 gp is plenty for potions of healing. Common items should be common. That being said I tend to run much leaner economies [compared to the 2-3 DMs I played under], where one week of questing returns a potion for everyone and some basic supplies. Which they easily burn on their next quest.
So I guess it's actually not that different. 🤔
Ayumi Kuro yeah, I have only limited my players ability to buy healing potions once so far, because it made sense from a story perspective (the fighting pits were running the annual championship), but I don’t think it makes any kind of sense how much money Matt charges for the basic healing potions. Like you said: common items should be common.
How much you restrict magic item availability is directly proportional to how "special" it feels in the world. Otherwise you might as well jist replace the city's tap water with healing potion.
"roll a deception check"
...
* looks up at DM * "zero"
I died laughing at that
I also died laughing. I mean how does he get so unlucky that he rolls a 3 and has a modified or -3
Of*
i loved that matt choked on his cola XD
@@evaahh9584 47:45
Ashleigh c1: the moral compass of the group
Ashleigh c2: goes missing for two episodes and rocks up arrested
ashleigh...
Ashley*
Ashley
Ashli
I thought it was Ashlee tbh
I like the contrast of Texas Ranger Ford and German Hobo-Wizard Caleb. It's amusing.
German hobo-wizard. Bloody brilliant.
Is "Life needs things to live" Critical Role's "people die when they are killed?"
Yes
It was a failed one-liner from the last campaign, by one of the normally wittier characters. To be fair, he hadn't had his coffee, there was no bacon. . .
@FluffyXai During the Feywild trip, right before fighting Saundor. An episode ending with a 9, I think. 79?
And I know, right! I'm not sure if it'll be better or worse when I finally catch up to the current episode. On the one hand, I can't be spoiled, on the other, no going right on to the next one!
But what if they are a Lich?
@@unbreakablelag then you use the sister phrase : "Unlife doesn't need things to live"
"We literally cut off Barney's head and just shoved it in her face."
I'm dying right now xD
Let the children rejoice.
Joy to the world, Barney's dead
We've barbecued his head.
Don't worry about the body,
We flushed it down the potty,
And around and around it went.
And around and around it went.
Around and around the body went.
@@Zander_Schilling singing this was an absolute joy thank you
@@Phoenixfox-og6el I do my best to provide incredibly grotesque and messed up song to little children all over the world
in the campaign i play i’m a half ork barbarian that every enemies race/species we haven’t fought yet i say a fine addition to my collection then steal their head i have traumatised numerous shopkeepers because of this and anything we have fought i get advantage on intimidation rolls so far i have a goblin head an ork head and an ogre head we have only played two sessions but im gonna get a human head soon because we are the good guys
No One:
No One At All:
Caleb: "I HAVE KILLED A MAN!!! I HAVE KILLED A MAN FROM THE CARNIVAL AND MY FRIEND IS A GOBLIN!!!!!"
I donno if Caleb is doing it, or if Liam is pulling a Larkin moment, but its funny.
I just love it how Travis once was a not so intelligent goaliath, running into hordes of mobs. And now hes the one making the smartest of moves
I wish my players would make these types of character changes. This one dude in my group always thinks he made a different pc but they all act the same. Run face first into everything and treat everyone like shit. It should be no suprise that he's died multiple times.
Keyleth: How can I fulfill my responsibilities?
Beauregard: How can I AVOID any responsibilities?
I love how Sam OWNS his low rolls. "Zero."
To be fair that's impressive. How many people can roll a 0 with a 3
@@mme.veronica735 A fair few, -3 modifiers aren't that hard to come by.
Felicia Day rolled a negative 1 on initaitive last campaign.
@@mme.veronica735 I have a character I rolled that could roll 1 0 from a 3.... dice gods hated me this day with 5, 8, 4, 7, 8, 12... (4d6, highest 3) i tried to sacrifice a d6 to the gods under my car tyre.. they did not accept my sacrifice, the dice lives..
were the hell is bo the breaker
43:05 Nott: gets stealth of 26
Caleb: “That’s my girl!”
My heart: 💥💗💥💗💥💗
an exploding heart doesn't sound healthy are you okay.
@@JacobHeaton-tx4gd I believe the doctors call that “dead”
@@HiItsMars indeed
Watching Matt talk to himself playing multiple characters is amazing.
Also I wondered people call Beauregard the "Disaster Lesbian" I now understand.
I don't get it .
Because Beau doesn’t have her life together and she’s a lesbian
Victoria Cagande No it refers to when people are dumb due to a crush, but they’re also a lesbian
No wait I fucked up, I was thinking of “useless lesbian”
@@DeathnoteBB To be fair Beau is both a disaster & useless lesbian.
Caleb to a concerned Nott: "It was you and me. Now it's you and me and them. Take your blue friend's hand." Heartsqueeze.
Their relationship is just really amazing, i just started so i dont know anything yet
There's a story about a wolf pack in there somewhere. And yes I know I'm responding to a 1 year old comment.
@@albertnormal6834 oh hey! thought i was the only one who's late here
@@1989v9 nope
@@captainrex-cx9uv I'm the latest!
The character dynamics Liam and Sam put into Caleb and Nott never gets old.
EverythingNerdifying i feel the same. Nott and Jester as well. The good cop bad cop bit and Nott trying to run off blaming people is hilarious! Still early bit i see this campaign going in all sorts of new and exciting directions. The first campaign *teams* are erased! XD
I absolutely love Caleb and Nott's friendship.
Finally started Critical Role and now I know why Matt is held in such high regard. Holy shit, he is amazing.
He is like a Tolken or RR Martin, who not only creates these incredibly detailed and full, lore rich worlds, but also then acts them out and all the the npcs who populate those worlds! Amazing indeed!
Fellow newbie (both to CR and as a DnD player). He really is great. The only thing that sucks is there are so many people acting like if their DMs aren't on his level that makes them inherently bad. 😔
@@bloodybutterflygaming1242 Trying to be a DM to a bunch of kids that have binged all of Campaign 1 is difficult at best.
Outside of his character voices and emotions, which as a professional voice actor you have to assume will be exceptional, there’s very little that Matt does that your average DM can’t replicate GIVEN THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. The right circumstances being that outside of his aforementioned voice acting career, this is his full time gig, as well as being assisted by a team and having a big budget. But in terms of pure description, narrative, world building, etc. there’s very little you can’t replicate with a creative writing class and some practice. Which again, Matt is very, very talented, but he’s also not this unassailable god that no mortal can dare approach (I’d probably give Brennan Lee Mulligan that award - his brain just works leagues faster than any other person I’ve seen).
Honestly, just the thought of roleplaying a D&D game with a player like Liam is so enticing. The roleplaying part is the most fun of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and you can tell he's very invested in that and I think he, and Sam actually, roleplay their characters the best. He gets so deep in his role. And his voice acting is absolute mint. Just a big fan!
these guys are actual, real actors.
So it's not a surprise they can play roles better than us, average dudes
I mean Laura playing jester does exist. I absolutely adore that character
I am legitimately in love with Liam. The depth of emotion he's able to put into his characters, especially Caleb, is one of the reasons I love this show.
Caleb has such high Intelligence and Charisma and still managed to talk around all the important points😂 he literally said i killed it 3x before he even mentioned that it was the murderer
Proof that you can have a character with high stats but still play them realistically as someone who does not believe in themselves.
Reminded me of the part in C1 where Vax was talking to the Raven Queen and kept focusing on "my family is in danger!" And not (spoilers) "an undead guy is becoming a god!"
@@alypatterson1078 he said in the talks afterwards that Vax assumed she knew everything about that already and that she wanted him to argue why he personally should be allowed to come back
After Larkin, I was never surprised at Liam's occasional brain dead moments.
Caleb does or says anything
Fjord: thats very impressive
we get it travis, just marry liam already.
Also, near the end when ashley said she couldn't leave yet and sam was giving her a hard time, i half expected him to say "what are you doing, building a temple to seranrae?" :p
Hahonryuu is your pfp Dirk?
Wrong twin. He married the other one.
HUG ME THROUGH MY WIFE
I ship it
Feels like the Circus master totally knew what was up with the devil frog, and was letting him feed on healthy people in the circus since they wouldn't likely die. Hence why the elderly were banned, but one got through and got eaten and started this whole mess.
+
I'm pretty sure in a talks machina or something Matt admits that the circus master made a deal with it, this was probably something similar to the arrangement
Yes exactly what I was thinking
It’s so obvious Matt basically handed to them on a platter but they did not get it per usual 😂
Oh absolutely! Gustav absolutely fucking knew and accepted it! "No sick, no elderly" aka "no easily killable people".
It's incredible that Nott and Caleb literally bathing, which serves no narrative purpose and is the literal equivalent of a beach episode, is one of the most hilarious and engaging parts
It f*cking is.
Welcome to critical role this shit happens often
I mean, we got to see him having a disociating episode/mental breakdown there.
It's like the beach episode from avatar
Yet, Sam was smart enough to let out a little foreshadow that's almost imperceptible.
So even the bathing scene got a little importance.
God damn. Sam. How can a man so consistenly roll high rolls like nat 20's in combat and then consistently roll 1's in any other form of action.
His power baffles and amazes me. And I love every second of it.
I love how he said that sleight of hand was “his only skill” at the start of the campaign and then consistently rolled horribly whenever he wanted to steal something.
Honestly sounds like the druid I play. Does awesome in battle but the social interactions..... Let's just say he isn't allowed to start conversations. He gets us into some shit.
@@xengetzutensho1706 A character I used to play in a campaign that's on hold for now has a thing that makes any d20 roll you make go a success, while any d20 roll against you fails, at the cost of 1 exhaustion point.
At 0 exhaustion, he sucks ass and can't deal any damage. At 3 exhaustion points, he becomes the destroyer of enemies, an unkillable menace of dicerolls managing to defeat a berzerker enemy after his friend went unconscious. He's real fun.
or roll a 0, which is...an achievement none the less
Nott the Brave was waiting for 4 episodes to make that punchline.
Zoshi what punchline
Cool Dude Nott The Brave, no comma
Shit was priceless
Good
@@TheCart54321 "I'm Nott the brave" as in Not brave
"Injured within a CENTIMETER of my life" unassuming sentence showing how deep in character he is
by Flando Maltrizian
Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30
Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45
Episode Start 8:50
No Respect for the Dead 14:30
At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40
A heartfelt apology 35:05
Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30
Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00
Nott, trained rogue 47:40
Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10
Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50
Yasha on the lam 1:24:50
Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20
This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20
No comma 1:46:25
This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05
That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20
Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55
Break Starts 2:00:02
Break Ends 2:11:24
I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30
Old Man Matt 2:42:20
Nott a German 2:50:05
The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15
Map Hype 3:03:25
…Spice? 3:15:30
But why though? 3:33:50
Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40
Legend
My brother
you are a saint
this is so low in the comment section
Much gratitude
Jester: “They have four fathers?”
Nott: “That’s progressive!”
Iconic duo XD
I want to watch an animated series of nott and jester detective agency. As long as Sam and Laura do the voices
Meh, Intelligence is a dumb stat anyway. XD
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Lol i totally missed that joke
Can we please talk about how clever Matt was by flat out pointing out to Sam that he DOESN'T have a map, flat out putting the idea in their heads to buy a map.
Yet another episode of Caleb revealing his friend is a goblin without anyone asking
*Caleb* : Goblins aren't very well like, we need to keep you hidden
*Also Caleb, every 10 minutes, completely unprompted* : MY FRIEND IS A GOBLIN!!!!
he is like that one very protective friend who accidentally makes everything about race
"This girl is kinda weird"
"How DARE you say something wrong about her just because she is a GOBLIN???"
"I didn't even know she is"
"Oh"
Persona 5 Ryuuji if he liked to read
They already knew at that point
The way everyone lost their shit when Matt pulled out the real physical map was priceless. :D
Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30
Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45
Episode Start 8:50
No Respect for the Dead 14:30
At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40
A heartfelt apology 35:05
Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30
Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00
Nott, trained rogue 47:40
Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10
Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50
Yasha on the lam 1:24:50
Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20
This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20
No comma 1:46:25
This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05
That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20
Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55
Break Starts 2:00:02
Break Ends 2:11:24
I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30
Old Man Matt 2:42:20
Nott a German 2:50:05
The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15
Map Hype 3:03:25
…Spice? 3:15:30
But why though? 3:33:50
Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40
Live viewership peaked around 71,000 people. During the break some people in the chat were talking shit about other G&S shows. Personally, I’m a fan of Wednesday Club, AYBGF, Dread, and Signal Boost. Even if CR is all you watch, remember that the cast and crew work on those other G&S shows and be nice.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to comment below. Is it Thursday yet?
Flando Maltrizian You. I like you.
You're the hero critters deserve and the one it needs right now
Never watched any of them, do they do other role-playing games?
No i dont think so
Gill Wurney other tabletop games, I didn't either but I heard some of the stuff they played
As a person who knows some German, it's nice to hear Liam/Caleb speaking little bits German that I understand, its a really nice touch. Also I lost it when Caleb called the guard an Asshole in German, its just such a great touch.
As someone who speaks german as his mothertongue it does put a smile on my face
Also it for once is a believable German accent. Usually, Americans‘ idea of a German accent has me cringing so hard
as a fellow born german i have to totally agree, it is a nice touch.
It's hard to find an opportunity to speak in other languages when you're a voice actor if you are not super fluent. If you're not very confident, you tend to leave it alone. I like that Liam was brave enough to utilize this experience in the performance. Very impressed.
He also uses metric system
Caleb: “I am injured to within a centimeter of my life.” Liam is so in character that he uses the metric system!
”And it was the meteic system!” - Taryon Darrington
**After seeing Beau's character portrait for the first time**
Me: Ah, yes, Beauregard of the southern water tribe.
I thought the same thing
SAME
@@Nalwoir you alright there?
YUP. Sokka lookalike!
Marisha feels about ATLA, the way I feel about Princess Tutu 😍😌😁 It creeps into my character building, I can't help it 😭🤣🤣
"The twins are being the twins. Orna is being Orna."
And
"Yasha- yasha-ed"
Are this far my favorite Mollymauk quotes
"When in doubt, if something goes wrong, just... nudity. It usually works"
also a fitting candidate IMO
@@Konpekikaminari "I am your god, long may I reign. Eat of my fruits."
@@darthfenrir7773 not there yet
But it I'm looking forward to it
My friends and I now use "Yasha-ed" instead of "ran away"
@TheDragonflie that's the best summary of that bit
2:43:19
Matt: *Returns to normal self*
Also Matt: *Continues to eat invisible porridge*
It's really good invisible porridge.
Method acting!
Oh gosh he did, ahaha!
We learned of Yasha's book where she puts flowers this episode and we thought hey that's a cool little idiosyncrasy for a character like her...and then plenty episodes later we will be smacked in the heart by the real reason she collects flowers.
İ like comments like yours they don't spoil but rather excite by not mentioning what actually is there to be discovered
@@wardalafef5705 - same, they make me try to guess as to what the reason could be & that’s so much fun
Most D&D campaigns: becoming heroes, making friends, killing monsters...
This D&D campaign: Becoming vigilantes, drug dealing, mail fraud...
Gotta send the grandkids to UCLA
lol most of my DnD adventures start like this. Thinking about the last 5 campaigns I started as a dm by session 5 .
3 parties run out of town for causing death and destruction, 2 of them litterely burnt down the inn they where staying in.
All 5 had stolen from someone
4 had found illegal drugs.
2 ignored all the bbeg clues and just left town to go somewhere random.
All of us had loads of fun.
@@Ginric99 does it count to turn a whole city into undead's while killing the towns gargoyle and stealing all the stuff out of the vault? Cause that was session 2.
Most of the campaigns I run and play have all of that. There is no fun to be had with a party of constant heroes.
@@stonehorn4641 End of the day the victor writes history, do enough crazy stuff and the DnD party will become heros of legend, I mean, the truth may be a little more ugly lol. I actually had that, 2nd campaign was set 100 years on, the original party where part of legend, despite there actions in the moment being generally selfish self serving and them pissing off the npcs. 100 years later they are the great heroes who slayed an evil god.
taliesin hinting Molly's background so subtly "There's nothing wrong with living your life. You only get one of them, or... mostly."
How is that subtle though?
I'm excited to see what it means
The universe: "we'll see about that, Taliesin..."
Jester and Nott are an amazing duo! With sweet Beau and Caleb both being disfunctional in the background... love the new dynamics.
Travis still sometimes slips into Grog and it's. SO. SWEET.
Matt is wearing the kind of shirt you go a full circle of emotions through to wear, arriving at joyful acceptance.
"Just overthrow the government, Beauregard, it's easy."
Sherlock & Watson? No no no, I think you mean Jester and Nott! #BestDetectivesEver
B. Tt. Vs
Mollymauk saying “there’s nothing wrong with living your life. You only get one of em. Well, mostly….” is excellent foreshadowing.
It's my first time watching this series, but honestly this isn't that much of a spoiler at all. 😆
Death and resurrection is just how Critical Role operates.
Yeah...
@@matthewherndon6488 I did not say “excellent spoiler,” I said foreshadowing. Totally different! And totally unintentional on Taliesin’s part, as we later learn in the campaign 2 wrap-up, which only proves he is an ancient eldritch being of unfathomable knowing.
How about keeping stuff relating to later episodes in the comment section of said later episodes. I know that's really difficult for stupid people to understand that love to rush back and allude to stuff later on like they're something special and then just make those of us on our first time through not want to come to the comment section to see some of the funny comments people have left, or helpful ones pointing out stuff we might have missed in this episode, because we might stumble into comments from these stupid people.
@@Archangelous1337 Lol this was six years ago, get over yourself
When the devil toad is slain and the day is saved then you realize there's 76 more episodes left in the series.
They're only like second or third level at this point.
Fizzle Dimglow Cause it’s a campaign? That’s how DnD is, a bunch of different things
DeathnoteBB Mate, this was five months ago
Nurgle and Khorne Heretek Cody Okay??
@@magoswes3588 it's from over a year ago. Check the release date.
47:55 has to be my favorite Sam moment so far (finally watching Campaign 2 from the start) The way he rolls, sits back with the look of a natural 20 then goes "Zero" with just as much confidence is fucking hysterical
I just got to this part and I agree lmao.
And Liam pointing and laughing “look at him look at him look at him” is the icing on the cake
Caleb: *has really passionate emotional moment by himself in a hot bath
Nott: *immediately breaks a pitcher, eats food off the floor, and steals shit from this nice bathroom
The two of them are the perfect pair
"As you two take a bath" had two meanings here.
1) Having a bath and healing wounds
2) Stealing the bath
@@PaintedBirds ok this gave me a good chuckle
@@PaintedBirds they'd do *both* those things.
-someone rewatching and reading the comments because why not
@@PaintedBirds Nott brekkered what shouldn’t be brekkered
At 1:02:50 when Norda calls them criminals and Sam says we're not criminals just travellers since Nott and Caleb broke out of....... (prison) but goes silent was brilliant!
THANK YOU! I totally missed this moment. When Beau asked Caleb (seemingly out of nowhere) when they broke out of prison I was SO confused. I reread 4 episode synopses to make sure I didn't miss the reveal, but couldn't find it! Felt so crazy.
I think my favorite interactions are when Fjord the Tex-blade, and Caleb the Uber-wizard have their little away talks as the respective "leaders" of their crews. The two smart guys having a moment measuring what future plans are. We never had moments like that before.
LinkRue The two dads. Trying to keep their kids from setting everything on fire.
It’s also completely weird how I imagine Vax and Grog doing that, even though Grog wasn’t smart enough and Vax was a more “in-the-moment” guy
Well, that settles it...Tex-Blade and Uber Wizard it is! And they both DO seem to be the default leaders...until ridiculousness happens and Molly brings everyone back to heel. Guess he's familiar with "crowd control".
Plottwist, Nott is probably smarter than them both but Sam is having just too much fun
1:41:30 their whispering is "they have four fathers?"-jester
"It's progressive"-nott
Hahahahahhaah holy shit thanks for this xD
I couldn't really make it out and thought they were just praising the vocabulary of 'forefathers' ("He said forefathers" "It's impressive") which did not deserve Matt and everyone's reaction.
this was gold xD
I heard this but I didn’t understand it till I saw it written out. Thank you
Jesse Mathis
Can you read Matt's lips in the intro? And post to twitter or the new channel?
2:52:01 - Oh fjuck, I just realized the implications of Nott asking someone going into water "You'll still be the same Caleb when you're done, right?"
MY WORD! THAT gave me chills!
I dont get it..
Logan Szafas Dp you know Nott’s backstory?
@@LSZ71 Possibly spoilers then:
Nott went into the water when she was running from the goblins that took her and her husband, she drowned and woke up as a goblin in stead of the halfling she was when she went into the water
I should really watch season 1....
I love they just looked at Yasha and were like “I’m adopting this” and she barely got a say and Caleb is like that tired dad who just looks at the puppy his family adopted without his say and is just like “fine, I’m too tired to argue this” and let’s them have it.
Flando Maltrizian
2 years ago
Sam Presents the DnD Beyond Awards 00:30
Foreshadowing this episode’s rolls 4:45
Episode Start 8:50
No Respect for the Dead 14:30
At level 2, you don’t kill kids, you just traumatize them 19:40
A heartfelt apology 35:05
Travis with unlimited Disguise Self is OP 37:30
Jester, priestess of trickery 44:00
Nott, trained rogue 47:40
Caleb is the actual worst lawyer 1:11:10
Yasha ran to get to the set of Blindspot, Fridays on NBC 1:14:50
Yasha on the lam 1:24:50
Nott and Jester Buddy Cop movie please 1:38:20
This girl’s gonna be the final boss 1:43:20
No comma 1:46:25
This feels like an actual Monty Python sketch 1:49:05
That 18 Wisdom score 1:50:20
Beau is into ladies confirmed? 1:57:55
Break Starts 2:00:02
Break Ends 2:11:24
I gotta use that sometime 2:19:30
Old Man Matt 2:42:20
Nott a German 2:50:05
The Bathhouse Caper 2:54:15
Map Hype 3:03:25
…Spice? 3:15:30
But why though? 3:33:50
Yippee Kiyay 3:40:40
Live viewership peaked around 71,000 people. During the break some people in the chat were talking shit about other G&S shows. Personally, I’m a fan of Wednesday Club, AYBGF, Dread, and Signal Boost. Even if CR is all you watch, remember that the cast and crew work on those other G&S shows and be nice.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to comment below. Is it Thursday yet?
This... this is good.
Thanks
Good like really good. TY
You hit that right. People still have the Matt Mercer effect. It's sad, but Matt Mercer has taught me to use combat scenes.
Commenting to respect flando, a saint of the modern age
Anyone else notice that by 41:00 the whole season could have been a loop with time shenanigans? Caleb would wake up after having a terrible night the day before in which Nott had saved him while Fjord, Beau and Jester return to a tavern after killing a reptilian creature that was terrorising the town
Oh my gosh thats so true
Wow
That’s some Re:Zero shit right there
That awkward moment when your D&D campaign turns into Groundhog Day.
James Crooks this comment takes on a whole new meaning now....
"Arschloch!" - Caleb, Level 2 Wizard , 2018
Love the level of depth Liam goes to in his character. He gets my german seal of approval!
Darth Mustache what does Arschloch mean? Don’t know German.
@@tenacityxl lucky you I am here in the middle of the night, it literally means asshole
Franz Prüller notes for the future.
haha i know right? His pronounciation is pretty good too, makes me wonder if Liam can actually speak german
@@wonderlandartwork3579 I know, right? German pronounciation can be really hard for people that didn't grow up with it. Liam is doing an impressive job here!
Matt to Marisha: You approach the Baumbauch family brewery.
Me, a German learner: Ah, yes. The tree stomach family.
I assumed it was the Baumbach, which would be like a tree-lined brook.
Guards in this world definitely don't get paid enough to deal with the amount of shit they have to.
No wonder their always so jumpy
Guards are generaly underpaid. In history as well. I find guards in role playing games allways unrealisticly diligent.
i think they dont even get paid
same as in every rpg, be at table or videogame, good old guard annoyance
One day someone stole a sweetroll the next day a giant frog goes on a killing spree.
I NEED a Spinoff series where Jester and Nott actually have a PI office
I liked and subscribed to *just the idea of it*
In a tent.
They cracked the case!
This would be amazing, Fluffer Nutter was one of my all-time favorite scenes of both campaigns 💕
Mighty Nein: Nicodranas Nights
1:02:45 "We're not criminals! We're not! Me and Caleb we're just traveling ever since we broke out of that..... nothing" 😂
1:58:20 Marisha " I smell bad ya'll ". Travis sneaks a sample sniff. " You smell like girl ".
Cracked me up.