i think that talesin do a lot meta gaming in these but they arent stoping him. like where did he know that caleb isn't going to share his findings or that nott is loking for a paper in fjord stuff. it look like small things but sometimes its effects the stories progressing speed, and i find it irritating sometimes.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 I feel like the most "morally upstanding" members of the group at this point would probably be Molly and then Fjord (though I'd consider Jester to be Chaotic Neutral with a bit of a Good "lean", as I don't think I've really seen Jester show genuine malice at any point thus far). Fjord may have a certain "problem" involving certain dreams of his, but he usually comes across as rather level-headed and someone who keeps the group from trying something *too* crazy. I'd love to see the actual character sheets if only to see what each of their respective alignments are listed as though. But if I had to guess, I would assume that Molly was Chaotic Good, Jester was Chaotic Neutral, Beau would probably be either True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral, Yasha would probably be True Neutral, Fjord would probably be either either True Neutral or Neutral Good, Caleb would probably be Chaotic Neutral, and Nott would probably be Chaotic Neutral as well. For the "guest" PCs up to this point I would guess that Shakaste would probably be either Neutral Good or Lawful Good.
@@ufukozcelik9809 Just because you don't pay attention to what characters hear and see doesn't mean that you can call it meta-gaming when someone who does acts upon what they see. Caleb has been shifty all campaign so far, so much so that his kleptomaniac Goblin companion is the more personable one. Of course Molly would be skeptical of Caleb's findings. Taliesin himself is an observant guy, and Mollymauk a very curious one. To blame either of the two for positive traits is laughable at best, and ignorance at worst.
I introduced my big bad by making him kick a cat as my party walked in. He was SUPPOSED to be a recurring villain.... but my party used every single rare item they had to kill him for kicking a cat.
I mean, depending on their level of influence killing them once is a mere setback. Clone, resurrection, etcetera can bring them back if you truly want them to be recurring.
That is why my big bads are always overpowered with an exit plan when introduced. I had this evolution path and huge twist for a background bard character that turned out to be manipulating their story. A random detect magic made her a target and a silence hurt her bad. She got jumped. I had to pawn her off as a lackey of the organization but they got a hat of disguise out of it.
It was the same for me in the last campaign too. When he used is normal voice I'd turn my head like a dog because it didn't make any sense to me. It didn't feel right.
Laura uses Jester's voice most of the time as well, but it doesn't throw me off when she drifts back to her regular voice the way it does when Liam shifts away from Caleb's voice and back into his own. It absolutely throws me... to the degree that I have to remind myself that Liam isn't the character voice, Caleb is (Caleb just feels so very like a fully fleshed out person within that voice and the way it shapes his phrasing).
caleb getting protective over frumpkin makes me happy. "Who kicks a fucking cat?" "Do you remember his face." "Oh I remember his face. He had a face alright..." *Scowls with seething hatred*
Your first important character always affects you afterwards. Everytime in some oneshot a friend says "So I guess I can sneak attack" I get very pumped up
I mean, Nott is genuinely greedy, but Caleb kept the gold there, because he's just that much antisocial. And seriously Ford, Beau, Jester, Molly and Yasha aren't greedy.
Not greedy. Definitely morally ambiguous. These are the people who choked out a small child and then displayed her friend's severed head, traumatising her for sure, in their first quest.
It's pretty funny how every quest the M9 have gone on so far has pretty much ended with them dumping a monster's corpse at the law enforcement's doorstep like a cat
@@stevenbrown5246 Caleb has been headcannoned as autistic so, yea. Introverted, horrible social skills and, erhm, past things haunting him, to keep this relatively spoiler free.
@@FrostyTheSnowPickle I mean, the happy hand flapping upon seeing Nott's spell is a dead giveaway of "just anxiety"... As is his insistance on wearing the same coat, on keeping Frumpkin in this specific form, counting out coins*, seeking out certain sensory experiences, losing his ability to speak or at least to do so easily and/or in a manner easily understood by others. I mean, everyone can have their own headcannons, but it's also likely you're not very well informed about what autism actually is and how it can look like which, well, you can't be blamed for, it's basically universal. There are many where it's not extremely obvious they're autistic and most adults that can do so have also learnt and been forced to hide it at least to some extent (called masking, terrible for your mental health, though). *Look up changeling myths, often the "explanation" that was given for Autistic or otherwise developmentally disabled children.
@@teaartist6455 I just got this notification, I forgot I even left this comment a year ago. I absolutely love the autistic Caleb head canon, and it's a bit funny to me that I mentioned relating to him so long ago as I recently got diagnosed with autism. :^) But also, people can have different head canons and all of them are ok! Caleb definitely seems to have the symptoms of anxiety, and if that's how someone wants to hc him that's cool too.
Taliesen. Considering he spent many years in the fey realms between serving as the bard of Bran the Blessed, the great raven, high king of albion, brother of Manawyden and brother of Branwen, and Arthur Pendragon, the Great Bear, High King of Britain, weilder of Excalibur and sleeping king in the hidden realm of Avalon. THE bard who served both, he is the being responsible for conjuring the chaotic fey being, that is Sam.
Timestamps! 1:28 - Sam's new art form 11:15 - Game starts 17:29 - Jester has a crush 26:32 - The beat's all off 34:35 - Beau the diplomat 46:19 - Detective Nott investigates 55:20 - Poop rat initiative 1:14:26 - HDYWTDT 1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt 1:46:53 - Break starts 1:56:08 - Fan art montage 2:01:36 - Break ends 2:08:20 - Initiative 2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks 2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT) 2:55:29 - "We're one of you" 3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment 3:06:45 - Nott's button collection 3:09:40 - "gently" "socially" 3:21:24 - It matters 3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol) 3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester 3:59:00 - Game ends 4:00:52 - Art Montage
Im always excited to see Ashley in person in the show. It doesn't feel like something is missing when she's gone, but it definitely feels complete when she's there.
@@horizonsky9508 I do as well, though she is not quite as unifying a character as Pike was. Pike made everyone be better I feel. Yasha is super cool though
Eh, she’s the worst at role playing out of the lot. She doesn’t think well on her feet. Always seems awkward like she just went over the rules 5 min before she sat down.
@@kevinamburgey1627 Tbh I think that she's just not super thrilled about Critical Role being an online thing. Imagine if you and your friends were playing D&D for years as a social gathering, then all of a sudden boom, millions of people are watching you play every game live. She's just seems shy about it. Don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, but it's certainly what it's always looked like to me.
Add to that the way everybody treats her when she does show up at the table (everybody immediately screams "YASHAAA" as if to reassure her that it's a safe space or something).
She's constantly travelling back and forth between New York for filming Blindspot, and for filming this, her "awkwardness" is simply flying across the country and being ready to go and spend some time with her friends as much as possible before she goes back.
@@jonathansims967in Sam's case, he's also playing characters that Liam suggested to him, so there's probably some self satisfaction to see him really run with it and play a rogue in quite a dramatically different way
I think it’s more like she presses some positive option or whatever idk I don’t play, but the coding is fucked up so the game responds like she chose Antagonise. “Antagonise” also gets the Antagonise replies.
@@aromaladyellie That almost sounds like the unpatched version of LA Noire. Unclear response labels causing surprisingly caustic dialogue. Though with Beau it's a matter of presentation.
Reminder to everyone watching this back in nostalgia: Sam is a father of 2. He has a wife and two kids. He has voiced Teddie from Persona 4, and STARSCREAM in the High Moon Studios Transformers games. The man who has this much range begins this episode dancing to a cover of the Nutcracker he made to the words of “DnDBeyond...” with two ballet ribbons. God I love actors, so much.
He also voiced the 2003 TMNT Donatello, and he voices a deep-voiced Norn in GW2 name Braham. This man has extreme range! And is honestly living the life I want.
"Is that a dog next to Caleb?" "I ran out of rats." For some reason that was just so funny to me. My group's used various other figures, not even D&D brand, as stand-ins for stuff we didn't have.
Bruh, that IS my group. Our character tokens usually consist of: a smol blue rock, a Sorry peice, red plastic rock, cool Harry Potter ghost peice, smol plastic penguin, a green wizard hat, and one of those green alien plastic peices, that we hot glued a stand for. XD And i haven't even added what we use for encounters!
@@cussundriakneal9904 I just bought a bunch of Halloween cupcake toppers lmao has goblins spiders and orcs, oh and mummies and frankensteins lol. They are gonna be stand ins for everything in the upcoming campaign
We used cut up squares of paper with the name of the creature written on them laid out on a dry-erase grid board. We had to imagine a lot, so I think I remember those games a bit better than the ones with good miniatures
Head Guard: “I’ll fetch the reward for the mighty seven.” Fjord: “Nein... we lost two in the sewers...” Beau: *Snort* Edit: 3:18:31 thanks Konstantyn Kurbatskyi in the comments.
I liked the feel of the NPCs response. I'm glad the roll supported it because Fjord just spoke with the man at most a day ago and the name was explained iirc
I love how incredibly grossed out Matt is by everything when they get into the sewer, but it is ENTIRELY his fault for sending them after a sewer monster. You did this to yourself, Matt.
Interesting fact: The ability of people of lower station to just purchase expensive clothing and be indistinguishable from the upper class was actually a concern in certain places and times. So much so that in Shakespeare's time there were literally fashion police. It wasn't unusual for them to ban you from wearing certain fashion unless your caste was high enough.
@@andrewtv9873 I have never heard of fashion police specifically, but this is the commonly known problem of new money (google "nouveau riche"). I've seen this discussed in literature on Ancient Greece/Rome, feudal Japan, and early modern England/America. Traders and merchants were especially despised by the upper class because of their "impropriety". Nobles threw around all sorts of complaints of "dishonourable" and "not the natural order" to try to make themselves feel better about it. Nobles would certainly find creative ways to try to sabotage new money, perhaps by excluding merchants from their organizations, perhaps by sending thugs to bust up their shops. Police in older society were employed by the nobility, so they had a lot of leeway for maliciousness.
Aside from the fact that would make him look like a giant (haflings aren't that small only half the size of an adult human hence why they are called halflings) it would be stupid so, nope.
Samael considering they are half in all dimensions there could be up to 8 halflings playing a humanoid and considering Goliath and so on some humanoids are quite big.
How it should have happened: Nott "I'm gonna taste the sewer water" DM: "Make an intelligence test" Nott: "22" DM: "You are too smart to taste sewer water"
Wisdom would have been better. Being smart doesn’t mean you understand that you shouldn’t make bad or unwise choices. Intelligence is better suited for experimentalists.
I love how Travis is always in character. His sailing days haven't been talked about in more than half the eps ago and he still reacts, even ever so subtly, to any mention of ocean or sea. His attention to detail is matched only by Matt. And the few times he does talk irl, he's making more nerd pop culture remarks and jokes than anyone else.
@@MorinehtarTheBlue true. I'm playing a wizard with 12 AC right now and it's always dependent on the situation whether you want to go in the back or the middle
@@Hugo-pg9hq My favorite character I've played is a hobgoblin war wizard. First feat is moderately armored, for half plate and shield. Slap on some haste for AC 19, 21 once he gets to level 10, and he likes to be at the front at all times.
I wanted Caleb to have it because while it can clean clothes it can also soil them. Just walk into someone's shop dirty their clothes "there now you are presentable and we can do business"
This is my first time through, but Matt has given them a water walking ring and now an armor set of water breathing. I have a feeling that things are going to go nautical
First time through as well! I'm always curious how the items they get will be useful. They don't have a druid this time, though. I'm playing a campaign where in the first part we fought a ton of undead, and at the END of it I picked up a mace with radiant damage. One actual year later and zero undead later, I finally got to use it on some shadow creatures.
@@krazykoala7329 Absolutely! I watched Vox Machina first and I'm glad I did (though they have their share of technical and other issues). The Mighty Nein took what made Campaign 1 great and improved upon it, so the quality is more consistent throughout.
I'd like to say that the idea of spider eggs opening up and hundreds of really big spiders that can turn invisible coming out and vanishing is the SCARIEST NIGHTMARE FUEL I'VE EVER HEARD OF. When Matt said "It appears you got them all. Some seem to have burned, *some seem to have vanished."* I went "NOPE! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!"
For those who don't know, the spider were Phase Spider, they can go in the etheral plane and litteraly vanish. That's why Jester spell had no target, not because she didn't saw it, but because it wasn't there
@@captaintiefling9618 I doubt the idea of a spider that can just nope the idea of being targeted like obito of naruto would make anyone feel better. That just makes me go nope.
A few possible responses to "but there's only 7 of you": "Well we started with 9, but we lost two to a roving band of mimics." "The other two are invisible. Look behind you." "Yeah, there used to be 9, but Simon and Garfunkel got annoying, so we ate them." "Oh, you see, Caleb is actually three gnomes wearing a trenchcoat." "Not if you count the voices in Jester's head." "It's not about how many of /us/ there are, it's about how many beholders it would take to take us down."
For everyone giving the players greif about Caleb... 1. They already established that he wasn't steathling. And he took. A FULL SET OF ARMOR. 2. Molly watches EVERYTHING, so it would make sense he paid attention to the man looting the bodies. he probably has a high passive perception. 3. Matt didn't even bother having Liam roll deception when he lied. 4. If Molly was meta gaming, then he wouldn't have bothered Caleb because Caleb shared with Jester. 5. Molly gave Caleb the warning because it was a cool narrative and made for good story telling. Chill
as far as storytelling goes, I think that's more a matter of opinion. Additionally they weren't aware that the armor was taken and we don't know what his intent was to do with it.
It’s not a totally invalid complaint. The scene with Nott trying to steal the letter was such blatant meta gaming that it totally pulled me out of the story. Definitely a flaw of Talesins as a player.
In the sewer, how exactly could you strip a body wrapped in web completely naked and pocket 300+ coins in purses in plain sight of everyone dealing with the halfling and spider body and expect it to go unnoticed? In the room no check was made that the room was empty, but yes the bit with the paper was metagaming based on OOC comments. Left unchecked inter party animosity can end up with a confrontation and characters killing one another off. Taliesin's interventions for me was like saying "Hey dudes not cool, dial it back a bit."
Howe's life? Molly’s PP is shit.... I don’t like taliesen really at all. He is ALWAYS investigating and percepting, always trying to check everything and he just seems to ruin. He’s such a meta gamer, I don’t like it.
In hindsight Matt should've had Caleb roll slight of hand with disadvantage since its an armor set + 300 ish coins and then have ither put it against Molly's passive perception or Have molly roll perception. Taliesin on multiple occasions has meta gamed and ignored a dice roll situation even if realistically it should've happened. Both this occasion, with the letter, and during the first campaign.
I'm convinced the guy who does the subtitles is a professional transcriptionalist or at least knows a lot about the standards. They make all the right cuts.
there are some programs that let you play dnd online which my friends and I are using during quarantine, I know they're not the same but it's nice to still be able to play
I just started a campaign with a group of people online. We had never actually met in person although we are in a DND Facebook group for our city. We have played 2 weeks in a row using Roll20 and Discord. Although we are moving on to a different online platform next Sunday. It has been an awesome blast! It's my first non one shot game, I'm pretty new, but it is great. Roll29 allows maps and pictures to be uploaded and has a grid with the 5 foot movement squares that the DM can scale the maps to and use little pictures for moving our characters. Roll20 is free. They wanted to use Tabletop Simulator, but my hard drive in my PC died and my laptop can't handle it. Next week we are moving to FantasyGame or something like that. Don't let your games die!
2:08:27 This self-interrupt by Taliesin is about Matt bringing out the battle map but I wasn't looking at the screen and honestly it works so great in-character. "To be fair, invisible spiders are the best spiders because you can't-- hey, look at that!"
The scenes with Caleb seeming to keep the gold to himself, THEN giving it all to Jester in secret, THEN being confronted by Molly for seemingly being greedy are a PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WELL DONE STORYTELLING! We get to know each of those characters more, there’s a nice build-up of narrative tension and SO MUCH opportunity for misunderstanding in the future - just, MWAA! THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING ACTORS AND STORYTELLERS, AHH!
To me Liam is also the person that has like episode long soliloquys whilst the others have amazing RP moments. Liam is like the protagonist from a Goethe novel walked off the page.
By Tierra Abeyta 1:28 - Sam's new art form 11:15 - Game starts 17:29 - Jester has a crush 26:32 - The beat's all off 34:35 - Beau the diplomat 46:19 - Detective Nott investigates 55:20 - Poop rat initiative 1:14:26 - HDYWTDT 1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt 1:46:53 - Break starts 1:56:08 - Fan art montage 2:01:36 - Break ends 2:08:20 - Initiative 2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks 2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT) 2:55:29 - "We're one of you" 3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment 3:06:45 - Nott's button collection 3:09:40 - "gently" "socially" 3:21:24 - It matters 3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol) 3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester 3:59:00 - Game ends 4:00:52 - Art Montage
Makes me wanna try and use material components more. I stuck to using arcane focus when I’m playing a wizard since having to collect and worry about components is a pain in the butt
@@kuroneko1813 it's actually really manageable. It's assumed that as long as you have your component pouch, you always have the necessary components for your spells UNLESS that component has a specified GP amount associated with it. That stuff you have to keep track of but I'm pretty sure you have to have that stuff even if you use an arcane focus.
Watching these now, I read a lot of comments, I'm surprised how salty some people are about Molly and Caleb, especially those saying Caleb being shady towards his party is somehow condemnable behavior. I've had characters betray the whole party before, conflicts and battles between PCs...it adds depth to characters. To me some drama or conflict leads to more interesting growth and character development. Having characters who barely know eachother trust and play nicely all the time doesn't make sense. So long as real life animosity doesn't happen, it always makes it more interesting to me!
Yea, and I personally loved the scene. Cause Molly did see him grab stoof from 5! bodies. So he knows he has a lot. He knew he was talking to Jester, but he didn't know he had given her the gold. So his character acted as if Caleb was being selfish. Which makes sense.
I love all of the characters in this campain, None of them seem too far off to where its annoying or weird. But they all fit together in their own little ways
Well it depends on development of the story. On the one hand, it is soo true that it add depth to the characters. On the other hand, it sometimes becomes about rivalry and deceit. Also it kills the mood if players before hand agreed on being cooperative
It's also only 10 sessions in, maybe a week at the most in-game since the party met, and a lot of these characters have presumably spent years, maybe the majority of their lives, being kind of shady and untrusting of people. Narratively it would be weird if they met and were suddenly like, "I don't get along with pretty much anyone, but somehow this group is different and get along with all of them 100%."
I like it here because you know that even if Liam will let it develop organically, he's doing all this in service of character, and would only walk away if it was really the only thing that made sense. Also he can trust-fall with his friends that if it looks like Caleb's gonna bolt or whatever, that their characters will rise to help him stay. (I also know some people who came from campaign 1, where they were literally family basically before the stream even started don't like these early days of strife as much)
I've gotta say, I'm super impressed by Marisha for seeing a near-random NPC, immediately doing an insight check and inquiring about The Gentleman as a result, giving her a lead on a personal quest she'd gotten only the episode before. That was super cool and I wouldn't even have thought to do the same.
Really? She basically already knows that The Gentleman is one of, if not THE major player in the city's underworld. And she just came upon what are almost certainly passages for underworld smuggling operations. I would really hope you would think to do the same in her shoes, as it was a pretty easy bet.
And I'm sure her being married to the DM has nothing to do with it. No flak to the woman personally, but she is the absolute worst meta gamer at the table.
Yeah, let's remember not to give Marisha even a modicum of credit for paying attention at the table and instead really beat her inferiority into her at the barest of compliments. @@mr.mayhem4054
@@TheDapperDragon I noticed that. Her character is really pushy on Caleb and idk if it’s her or character. Maybe as the campaign goes on it will change or make sense
@mommymonsterandprincessabb340 her character is like this. In the first campaign her character was socially awkward to but in a more shy way less abrasive. She and Liam's character were very close to last campaign too The funny thing is it her character is very different this season than it was last campaign. So you can see that this is acting all the little things they do it's all acting. Even the way they hold themselves as different this campaign.
CALEB: Who kicks a cat?! I mean you might as well be at home picking the wings off flies! You kick a cat - what is wrong with you? JESTER: Wait a minute is it bad to pick the wings off flies? FJORD: That's actually really hard to do, they're very small and hard to catch. JESTER: Well, not if they're already dead. Then you can pick the wings off super duper easily. MOLLYMAUK: Oh, sure, if they're already dead I mean you just go for it. FJORD: Well... that's just a little-- BEAUREGARD: You know what we used to do as kids? We used to take fireflies and crush 'em, they make glow jewelry. NOTT: **grossed out face** BEAUREGARD: When they would- when then they'd light up, you crush 'em right as they light up, and you can make glowy war paint. JESTER: What's a firefly? MOLLYMAUK: **genuinely disturbed Taliesin face** 3:48:23 😆😄
It's so fun seeing Travis being very excited to use Relentless Endurance when you remember that one time in campaign one when Grog was beat up by a half-orc. I think the moment that NPC came back to 1 hp just to kick his ass, Travis already knew he'd be playing a half-orc in the next campaign.
That's why you play half-orc, add in as a barbarian with their rage, and maybe circle of the moon druid for the extra hp for all the potential to not die lol
That C1 fight was how I came to know critical role, I was new to DMing and was researching how to narrate gladiator fights. Obviously couldn't replicate it, but here I am, a year later. Loved this moment for Travis.
@@DeathnoteBB Jester is actually really generous and polite, that is Laura and she admits it as much on Talks Machina, and at the table during sessions.
Reposting bc I had to scroll So. Far. By Tierra Abeyta 1:28 - Sam's new art form 11:15 - Game starts 17:29 - Jester has a crush 26:32 - The beat's all off 34:35 - Beau the diplomat 46:19 - Detective Nott investigates 55:20 - Poop rat initiative 1:14:26 - HDYWTDT 1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt 1:46:53 - Break starts 1:56:08 - Fan art montage 2:01:36 - Break ends 2:08:20 - Initiative 2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks 2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT) 2:55:29 - "We're one of you" 3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment 3:06:45 - Nott's button collection 3:09:40 - "gently" "socially" 3:21:24 - It matters 3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol) 3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester 3:59:00 - Game ends 4:00:52 - Art Montage
@@dakotamiller2559 thanks for the no spoiler reason lmao. I only come down to the comments after I watch the episode to see people's thoughts about it but there are still some people who spoil stuff that happens 50 episodes down...
Fjord and Beau's interactions are amazing. They have a lot of chemistry, and it's honestly surprising, coming out of Campaing 1 where Travis and Marisha did not interact so much. Campaing 2 has been a treasure trove of great roleplaying so far.
Not a lot of people, besides Scanlan and Pike really interacted with Grog much outside of jokes, which is a shame, cause he had some great character moments
Travis spent half of campaign one rolling his eyes at Marisha for being an idiot to be fair “HE JUST EXPLAINED WHAT WAS HAPPENING...” lol She’s a lot better this time but C1 she had been playing a minimum of 5 years of DND and was genuinely too airheaded to have to listen to anything anyone else said
1:29:30 I love how the eventual motivation given for not accidentally burning people alive is "so the party member who gets ptsd from fire won't have nightmares about it" and not that... you know... it would suck for the people being burnt alive
A less noticeable trait Matt exhibits that I adore: how much Matt looks over the screen and around the table constantly. He doesn't seem to look behind the screen for any noticeable period of time. That's one of the most impressive things that I want to be able to do comfortably. I usually look down behind the screen during narrative which cuts out eye contact and keeps you from being able to read your players' expressions.
As a dm that’s why I only do bullet points in my notes for characters dialogue, I just have one or two things I have to remember to say with the rest being improv based on the character and the players.
That’s a public speaking thing. If it helps you grasp it better, you could think about it as speaking to an audience as part of a lecture or speech or presentation.
"Healing word is dogshit" laura said, not realising some dms ban this spell as it forces them to finish characters off or never having casualties since the spell is a free get out of jail card
39:30 *down into the sewer* Jester: "do you see any monster down there?" Yasha: "no, everything seems fine" Matt: "make a perception check" Yasha: 😳*simpsons meme 'im in danger'*
More like Riddick in Pitch Black. "What's it look like?" "Looks clear" Walks in, beast flies out "You said it was clear!" "Said it looks clear" "Well, what's it look like now?" *looks* *shrugs* "Looks clear"
I love how Matt goes "Nice" or "Sorry" to good/bad rolls. It's like he stops being the DM for a second, and becomes an ally of the party who cheers on for his friends.
@@Nohawkkid008 as a DM, this is so true. Ultimately tell the story and make the pressure and danger feel real, but I’m so on the side of my players because I want them to win.
That's not him stopping being the DM. That's just being the DM. It's *never* Players v.s. DM. It's all a collaborative effort, yall are playing together, not against each other. The dm should be happy when the players do cool stuff, and the players should be happy and excited when the dm does cool stuff. It goes both way.
3:44:44 The fact that they can just RP into a scene out of nowhere, like a switch to a different scene in a movie seems astonishing to me. Just making it up on the spot - top notch role playing!
Since last campaign Sam's always been the most honest and forthright player. He proves D&D doesn't have to revolve around winning. Hard to think he's considered new to D&D.
Sam loves the chaos and always rolls with the punches. It's awesome to watch because he's so quick witted. He never complains about a bad roll. I think he honestly enjoys the 1s more than the 20s
Very few people are just innately, inherently, originally funny. Sam Reigel is one of them. His humour is absolutely his own. I’m a fairly humourless old fart... and Sam makes me laugh, effortlessly. Thanks Sam. For some of us, laughs are hard to find. It makes your gifts all the more precious.
*SPOILERS FOR DALEN'S CLOSET* My thought was to ask how Silas Briarwood managed to crash a wedding then? Of course that one shot hadn't been filmed at this point in time.
3:44:10 this scene is mindblowingly smooth. The back and forth, the rhythm of the dialogue, the sighs, and the ending. Two people can rehearse this shit and might still struggle to produce a smooth take like that.
@@SeerOfTime577 Same, their dynamic and dialogues are soooo cool. I also love that Travis and Marisha bonded this friendship for their RP, because those 2 are probably the ones who interacted the less with one another in campaign 1, so I was so thrilled (still am) to see this awesome connection blossom between Fjord and Beau. Which is funny because neither of them are my fav characters (that'd be Jester, then Nott), and yet their dynamic between two party members is by far my favourite.
Thanks Matt and co. for the shout out and to all the lovely messages and comments I've received regarding my music. From the bottom of my soppy man-heart, they mean the world to me! I started watching this show while I would set up my recording rig for composing while I was in college and then for game and commission projects. Seeing this come full circle means more to me than you can imagine and seeing the piece paired with so many incredible pieces of fan art only shows me how much I need to continue stepping my game up! Love y'all Critter Community
So glad to see this comment so I can let you know your music is really stirring and wonderful. Thanks for making such beautiful sounds for us all to enjoy.
agreed. Just too bad the camera was off the spider (the actual main opponent in said-combat) most of the time ! I mean, okay it's a phase spider, but COME ON !!! lol
I see a lot of people giving Caleb (or even Liam) shit for not telling the others about the money he looted. But you gotta realize, it wasn't that long ago Jester said that 50 gold, more than he's had in his life, was a pittance and she's got so much more coming in from her mother. She absolutely didn't need it, yet he still offered it to her in the end.
@@Ailieorz Like how Laura is always shat on for it by shitty people on the internet but in Liam and Sam's characters it's an endearing trait! So frustrating. I feel so bad for Laura.
@@CallistoTheWarriorQueen No I meant the exact opposite in fact. Everyone dumps on Liam for being greedy about keeping the boots of haste, but nobody picks on Laura for wanting to loot everything on the planet. She's special
It's always Thursday when you're over two years behind..
Agreed
@@SlickDestro i’ve gone so fast that it’s not going to be thursday everyday after tomorrow..
@@itsthetreesknees I feel your pain
Same
Me too😂
1:18:00 yasha: do you want to talk about your emotions Caleb
Caleb: no
Nott: I do
Yasha: I know nott
Nott: I’m sad
Yasha: I know nott
That’s what I was thinking too 😂
LOST MY SHIT I'M SORRY
I love it when vine meets dnd 👌
1:17:42 more like
@@krisymac3514 Thank you!
I hate when people do that... Why tf do you put up a timestamp if it doesn't take to the actual spot?!
The fact that the Tiefling blood Hunter is the moral compass of the entire campaign is amazing
Or that it is the Goblin saying "We cant just burn the webbing, what if the people are alive." Yet, the rest of the group is like "Eh." lol
I think they kind of take turns
i think that talesin do a lot meta gaming in these but they arent stoping him. like where did he know that caleb isn't going to share his findings or that nott is loking for a paper in fjord stuff. it look like small things but sometimes its effects the stories progressing speed, and i find it irritating sometimes.
@@JustPlayTheGame76 I feel like the most "morally upstanding" members of the group at this point would probably be Molly and then Fjord (though I'd consider Jester to be Chaotic Neutral with a bit of a Good "lean", as I don't think I've really seen Jester show genuine malice at any point thus far). Fjord may have a certain "problem" involving certain dreams of his, but he usually comes across as rather level-headed and someone who keeps the group from trying something *too* crazy. I'd love to see the actual character sheets if only to see what each of their respective alignments are listed as though. But if I had to guess, I would assume that Molly was Chaotic Good, Jester was Chaotic Neutral, Beau would probably be either True Neutral or Chaotic Neutral, Yasha would probably be True Neutral, Fjord would probably be either either True Neutral or Neutral Good, Caleb would probably be Chaotic Neutral, and Nott would probably be Chaotic Neutral as well. For the "guest" PCs up to this point I would guess that Shakaste would probably be either Neutral Good or Lawful Good.
@@ufukozcelik9809 Just because you don't pay attention to what characters hear and see doesn't mean that you can call it meta-gaming when someone who does acts upon what they see. Caleb has been shifty all campaign so far, so much so that his kleptomaniac Goblin companion is the more personable one. Of course Molly would be skeptical of Caleb's findings. Taliesin himself is an observant guy, and Mollymauk a very curious one. To blame either of the two for positive traits is laughable at best, and ignorance at worst.
I introduced my big bad by making him kick a cat as my party walked in. He was SUPPOSED to be a recurring villain.... but my party used every single rare item they had to kill him for kicking a cat.
I mean, depending on their level of influence killing them once is a mere setback. Clone, resurrection, etcetera can bring them back if you truly want them to be recurring.
There are unspoken rules, kicking cats is against these rules.
My neighbor kicked my cat. He then stomped it flat and slide it under my front door.
Well that’s fucking stupid
That is why my big bads are always overpowered with an exit plan when introduced. I had this evolution path and huge twist for a background bard character that turned out to be manipulating their story. A random detect magic made her a target and a silence hurt her bad. She got jumped. I had to pawn her off as a lackey of the organization but they got a hat of disguise out of it.
Liam is in character so often that when he speaks normally it sounds strange to me
It was the same for me in the last campaign too. When he used is normal voice I'd turn my head like a dog because it didn't make any sense to me. It didn't feel right.
Same with most of them, although Travis is just talking like a cowboy and Yasha is just a depressed sounding Ashley.
I said the same thing with Laura, theyre both always so in charactee and i love it
Laura uses Jester's voice most of the time as well, but it doesn't throw me off when she drifts back to her regular voice the way it does when Liam shifts away from Caleb's voice and back into his own. It absolutely throws me... to the degree that I have to remind myself that Liam isn't the character voice, Caleb is (Caleb just feels so very like a fully fleshed out person within that voice and the way it shapes his phrasing).
@Bethanne Callahan for me it sounds like a norweigan accent if you take the Swiss-ish part of it out
caleb getting protective over frumpkin makes me happy. "Who kicks a fucking cat?"
"Do you remember his face."
"Oh I remember his face. He had a face alright..." *Scowls with seething hatred*
Caleb generally behaves around Frumpkin like every cat-owner behaves around their cat. And it's Beautiful.
When was this?
That guard needs to go down.
@@unbreakablelag 3:48:22
That guard did not know what he had just started.
"There is only 7 of you"
I can imagine they could respond like this
"Yes but this guy has a cat, and Jester is sometimes 2 people. Thats Nein "
YEEES!!!
YEEES!!!
Even though you said "this guy" I still pictured it as Caleb saying that in his Zemnian voice! Haha!
MakDemonik I always think their answer should be
“.... what’s your point?”
@Eli Wolf You can't see Schmidt, so that'd be confusing.
Liam's shirt: *LEAVE THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR YOU*
Travis' shirt: bike wild
Not to spoil anything but damn
Sam’s shirt: 🙂
😊 2:39:42
Taliesin's shirt: *dead bird sounds*
"I would like to use a Caleb bonus action to dry heave."
ayy, it's our buddy Pike!
I believe dry heaving is a free action.
@@broken12smiles No, it's actually an entire action
@@broken12smiles Even if it was, I'd be a full action for Caleb.
I hope Sam plays small characters forever, because the comically oversized drink containers is just the best.
Pluveus HOW THE HELL DIDNT I MAKE THAT CONNECTION 😂😂😂 That's amazing
@@g0ddess0fdeath Next campaign he'll play a a Dwarf, and it will be hilarious as hell
But if he plays a HUGE character then he has to drink out of an itty bitty cup which would be fun too.
Pixie next?
@@g0ddess0fdeath ME EITHER. Sam is so weird already I didn't think much of it, but he's also a genius, apparently.
My favorite thing about Ashley playing a Barbarian is how pumped Travis is about it
Once a Barbarian, always a Barbarian.
She is monsthaaaa
Your first important character always affects you afterwards. Everytime in some oneshot a friend says "So I guess I can sneak attack" I get very pumped up
@@amato6829 I was a dragonborn druid my last game, started a new one and one of my party members is a dragonborn druid
Amato every time a party member says “I wildshape-“ I’m already cheering
rewatching in nov'23 and when jester says she is going to lick the dead spider i hear gale's voice from bg3... "STOP LICKING THE DAMN THING!"
I have to wonder how many references to CR they put in BG3, ive noticed some things over the first campaign that might be vague easter eggs
Such as?@@FFMolasses
With all of the Ford car puns Sam has been making, when Travis missed 2 of the 3 scorching rays, I'm really sad he didn't say, "Ford, Focus."
If he doesn't have to sell his body at some point for money and become a ford escort, i'll be extremely disappointed
You could say this whole campaign is a Ford Expedition.
I want them to be sponsored by Ford.
@@KymeraBJD Fjord the Explorer
Fjord's birthday needs to be in late April or early May, because that would make him a Ford Taurus.
Caleb sums up my whole life in one sentence: "I used to think I was going to be something someday...and now I don't."
Mine too... Unfortunately.
I hope one day you two and others will regain the feeling that they will be something oneday.
3:30:20 timestamp for my own reference and maybe it'll help someone else out too
Too real
Me too. But I'm super okay with it. I'll just spend my days playing DnD and climbing walls. It makes me happy.
It's funny how Vox Machina only had essentially one greedy person in the group and the Mighty Nein consists of 7 morally ambiguous greedy people.
They're not morally ambiguous, they're mostly good. And a bit greedy.
I mean, Nott is genuinely greedy, but Caleb kept the gold there, because he's just that much antisocial. And seriously Ford, Beau, Jester, Molly and Yasha aren't greedy.
Not greedy. Definitely morally ambiguous. These are the people who choked out a small child and then displayed her friend's severed head, traumatising her for sure, in their first quest.
Except the carnival tiefling sword juggler who somehow is the most selfless out of all of them
And kinda forgot to mention that even though Nott steals things (stick and stones 😄) she's chaotic good. She's not evil at all.
It's pretty funny how every quest the M9 have gone on so far has pretty much ended with them dumping a monster's corpse at the law enforcement's doorstep like a cat
Why did you feel the need to cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter on me...
And your so right...
The Mighty Nyan.
Well, the authorities can't hunt so the comparison is accurate.
That’s what happens when Frumpkin usually has custody of the brain cell
I mean they were told both times to bring back proof and what's better proof then the monster it'self
“I don’t usually talk to the dead on the first date”
God I love Molly with all my heart
As a character Molly is my fav but Sam Riegel ALWAYS steals the show
When did he said this?
@@Ζήνων-ζ1ι 18:06
It's the way he says it that makes it so good. The casualness.
“I gently, socially, pin Caleb to the wall”
Not even Rats escape Matts love of broken jaws.
It’s officially a fetish at this point.
*t o o t h y m a w*
The disturbing descriptions are a little unhinged
@@whoseverpanic3160 As are their jaws
Broken jaw is the new toothy maw.
“I’m going to stare at the wall because I don’t know how to deal with attention very well” you and me both caleb
Caleb is Introvert Prime
@@stevenbrown5246 Caleb has been headcannoned as autistic so, yea. Introverted, horrible social skills and, erhm, past things haunting him, to keep this relatively spoiler free.
Luna Fowler - Nah, I think it’s just social anxiety.
@@FrostyTheSnowPickle I mean, the happy hand flapping upon seeing Nott's spell is a dead giveaway of "just anxiety"... As is his insistance on wearing the same coat, on keeping Frumpkin in this specific form, counting out coins*, seeking out certain sensory experiences, losing his ability to speak or at least to do so easily and/or in a manner easily understood by others.
I mean, everyone can have their own headcannons, but it's also likely you're not very well informed about what autism actually is and how it can look like which, well, you can't be blamed for, it's basically universal.
There are many where it's not extremely obvious they're autistic and most adults that can do so have also learnt and been forced to hide it at least to some extent (called masking, terrible for your mental health, though).
*Look up changeling myths, often the "explanation" that was given for Autistic or otherwise developmentally disabled children.
@@teaartist6455 I just got this notification, I forgot I even left this comment a year ago. I absolutely love the autistic Caleb head canon, and it's a bit funny to me that I mentioned relating to him so long ago as I recently got diagnosed with autism. :^)
But also, people can have different head canons and all of them are ok! Caleb definitely seems to have the symptoms of anxiety, and if that's how someone wants to hc him that's cool too.
I'm somewhat convinced that Sam is actually a creature from the Feywild that Matt and Marisha accidentally summoned into the real world.
You might be onto something
Hmmm, I agree, but I think the Summoners were Liam and Laura. All the signs point to them.
It was a group seance. They were all involved
Taliesen. Considering he spent many years in the fey realms between serving as the bard of Bran the Blessed, the great raven, high king of albion, brother of Manawyden and brother of Branwen, and Arthur Pendragon, the Great Bear, High King of Britain, weilder of Excalibur and sleeping king in the hidden realm of Avalon.
THE bard who served both, he is the being responsible for conjuring the chaotic fey being, that is Sam.
He is a figment of his own imagination.
He is the Sharmat!!!
Timestamps!
1:28 - Sam's new art form
11:15 - Game starts
17:29 - Jester has a crush
26:32 - The beat's all off
34:35 - Beau the diplomat
46:19 - Detective Nott investigates
55:20 - Poop rat initiative
1:14:26 - HDYWTDT
1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt
1:46:53 - Break starts
1:56:08 - Fan art montage
2:01:36 - Break ends
2:08:20 - Initiative
2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks
2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT)
2:55:29 - "We're one of you"
3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment
3:06:45 - Nott's button collection
3:09:40 - "gently" "socially"
3:21:24 - It matters
3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol)
3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester
3:59:00 - Game ends
4:00:52 - Art Montage
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Marisha's reaction to Fjord saying "we lost two in the sewers." Is one one of those moments travis waits all episode for.
Marisha being caught off guard by all the jokes is so funny everytime it happens
Im always excited to see Ashley in person in the show. It doesn't feel like something is missing when she's gone, but it definitely feels complete when she's there.
@@horizonsky9508 I do as well, though she is not quite as unifying a character as Pike was. Pike made everyone be better I feel. Yasha is super cool though
Eh, she’s the worst at role playing out of the lot. She doesn’t think well on her feet. Always seems awkward like she just went over the rules 5 min before she sat down.
@@kevinamburgey1627 Tbh I think that she's just not super thrilled about Critical Role being an online thing. Imagine if you and your friends were playing D&D for years as a social gathering, then all of a sudden boom, millions of people are watching you play every game live.
She's just seems shy about it. Don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, but it's certainly what it's always looked like to me.
Add to that the way everybody treats her when she does show up at the table (everybody immediately screams "YASHAAA" as if to reassure her that it's a safe space or something).
She's constantly travelling back and forth between New York for filming Blindspot, and for filming this, her "awkwardness" is simply flying across the country and being ready to go and spend some time with her friends as much as possible before she goes back.
I love how excited Travis gets when Ashley does Barbarian stuff. It's the same energy as Liam getting excited when Sam does Rogue stuff. Adorable.
Its a player pride thing its great to see your friends finally understand things you did before and enjoy it :))
@@jonathansims967in Sam's case, he's also playing characters that Liam suggested to him, so there's probably some self satisfaction to see him really run with it and play a rogue in quite a dramatically different way
"Let's try and not set fire to human-shaped things."
I fucking love Molly.
Molly is everything I aspire to be when I’m out with friends.
@@joholloway8818 relatable
I just realized Beau is basically this one player in Red Dead Redemption 2 that just keep pressing *Antagonize* whenever she talks to peope.
No, shes the one player who TRIES to hit antagonize but keeps hitting Quick draw.
Her game is broken and she doesn’t have the option to greet it’s just antagonize and antagonize
I think it’s more like she presses some positive option or whatever idk I don’t play, but the coding is fucked up so the game responds like she chose Antagonise. “Antagonise” also gets the Antagonise replies.
@@aromaladyellie That almost sounds like the unpatched version of LA Noire. Unclear response labels causing surprisingly caustic dialogue. Though with Beau it's a matter of presentation.
Or a Telltale game where you chose an appealing dialogue, and ended up stabbing someone with a broken bottle.
Reminder to everyone watching this back in nostalgia: Sam is a father of 2. He has a wife and two kids. He has voiced Teddie from Persona 4, and STARSCREAM in the High Moon Studios Transformers games.
The man who has this much range begins this episode dancing to a cover of the Nutcracker he made to the words of “DnDBeyond...” with two ballet ribbons.
God I love actors, so much.
He also voiced the 2003 TMNT Donatello, and he voices a deep-voiced Norn in GW2 name Braham. This man has extreme range! And is honestly living the life I want.
@@hexxidelux6224 I’ve been playing GW2 since it launched 9 years ago, and I only found out that he was Braham like a month ago. It blew my mind apart.
he's voiced WHOMST???
No wonder I hated that fucking bear.
Wait he’s voiced STARSCREAM before?!
Fjord: "I have a new quest guys!"
Everyone else: *Plots to murder cat-kicking guardsman*
"Is that a dog next to Caleb?"
"I ran out of rats."
For some reason that was just so funny to me. My group's used various other figures, not even D&D brand, as stand-ins for stuff we didn't have.
Bruh, that IS my group. Our character tokens usually consist of: a smol blue rock, a Sorry peice, red plastic rock, cool Harry Potter ghost peice, smol plastic penguin, a green wizard hat, and one of those green alien plastic peices, that we hot glued a stand for. XD
And i haven't even added what we use for encounters!
@@cussundriakneal9904 I just bought a bunch of Halloween cupcake toppers lmao has goblins spiders and orcs, oh and mummies and frankensteins lol. They are gonna be stand ins for everything in the upcoming campaign
I use lego pieces as a stand and in the crack of the two pieces place a paper cut out of the image of the character
Marbles, stickers, buttons, coins, bottle caps, rubber bands you name it lol... us normal folk gotta use our imagination
We used cut up squares of paper with the name of the creature written on them laid out on a dry-erase grid board. We had to imagine a lot, so I think I remember those games a bit better than the ones with good miniatures
When the Goblin Thief and the Tiefling are the moral compass, that says something about the party.
Tiefling Blood Hunter
@@filipferencak2717 _Conman_ Tiefling Blood Hunter
Yes Jester is the moral compass and the glue that holds them together
@@Questfinder1 --this post made by Jester.
@@CappuccinoSquid The only morally firm person is Fjord. The rest are heathens. But Molly puts in the work.
Head Guard: “I’ll fetch the reward for the mighty seven.”
Fjord: “Nein... we lost two in the sewers...”
Beau: *Snort*
Edit: 3:18:31 thanks Konstantyn Kurbatskyi in the comments.
We’ve got an underrated comment over here everybody!!!!!!!
I think it was the Harold he’s just underneath the head guard aka law maker
I lost it so hard, right there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:18:31
I liked the feel of the NPCs response. I'm glad the roll supported it because Fjord just spoke with the man at most a day ago and the name was explained iirc
I love how incredibly grossed out Matt is by everything when they get into the sewer, but it is ENTIRELY his fault for sending them after a sewer monster. You did this to yourself, Matt.
"You played yourself."
The amount of DM’ing that is “oh, well… seemed cool in my head,” is quite a large amount.
Liam’s shirt this episode is awesome.”leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you.”
Sam's huge flask just cracks me up so bad. ''Goblin juice''
Goblin Slayer wants to know your location: you failed the 49th goblin test only goblins like goblin juice
He should cosplay Knott with that huge flask it would be awesome
Lmao i am hoping you've seen current (ep 70s) Notts flask then I'm watching old eps enjoying the changes XD
and to think it only gets bigger....
It had a 9 taped to it last episode.
Caleb's "Don't worry, I'm only burning the dead ones" made me burst out laughing.
liam said that just as i read this
WillowTheWolph lets hope he's okay.
@@lostonessoul8435 He's definitely not okay, but he's... er... resembling stability?
GZilla311 I'm at ep: 19 at this point....I know the truth.
Dun...dun...DUNNNNNNNN
Caleb: *Is a fire mage*
Caleb: *Is deeply traumatized around fire*
well i mean makes sense considering his view on himself
So that spider was Molly-mocked to death?
This should be so much higher
EVERYONE IN THE COMMENTS TAKE 12 NECROTIC DAMAGE
that pun was amazing!! I love this thank u
How many Molly's could a Mollymauk mock, if a Mollymauk could mock Molly's?
@@sandeman1776 Now imagine if Mollymauk could chuck mollys! Caleb would be flashing back so hard he'd see the light at the beginning of the tunnel.
It is for moments like this that I read the comments.
Interesting fact: The ability of people of lower station to just purchase expensive clothing and be indistinguishable from the upper class was actually a concern in certain places and times. So much so that in Shakespeare's time there were literally fashion police. It wasn't unusual for them to ban you from wearing certain fashion unless your caste was high enough.
That is actually hilarious. So using that in my homebrew world.
Source?
@@andrewtv9873 I have never heard of fashion police specifically, but this is the commonly known problem of new money (google "nouveau riche"). I've seen this discussed in literature on Ancient Greece/Rome, feudal Japan, and early modern England/America.
Traders and merchants were especially despised by the upper class because of their "impropriety". Nobles threw around all sorts of complaints of "dishonourable" and "not the natural order" to try to make themselves feel better about it.
Nobles would certainly find creative ways to try to sabotage new money, perhaps by excluding merchants from their organizations, perhaps by sending thugs to bust up their shops. Police in older society were employed by the nobility, so they had a lot of leeway for maliciousness.
I need some citation
@@r.r815 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
Anyone think that the traveler is 4 halflings in a trench coat?
Aside from the fact that would make him look like a giant (haflings aren't that small only half the size of an adult human hence why they are called halflings) it would be stupid so, nope.
How about 4 squirrels in a trench coat?
I was attempting to make a Norgorber joke... I cry.
Drakey Lvingston Vincent?!
Samael considering they are half in all dimensions there could be up to 8 halflings playing a humanoid and considering Goliath and so on some humanoids are quite big.
How it should have happened:
Nott "I'm gonna taste the sewer water"
DM: "Make an intelligence test"
Nott: "22"
DM: "You are too smart to taste sewer water"
She's a goblin tho. If you haven't yet, you should probably watch the hilarious "To the Poop" one-shot 😂
@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * lol
Make an intelligence saving throw
Wisdom would have been better. Being smart doesn’t mean you understand that you shouldn’t make bad or unwise choices. Intelligence is better suited for experimentalists.
@@TheDragonsRose it’s tasting sewer water, what more do you want
It's adorable how the first thing Molly wants to do when he gets a slight surplus of money is to give it away to others who need it more.
Molly's the best 💜
@@rewindcinema7355 *was
@@kabir3510 spoliers much?
@@kabir3510 sociopath detected
@@kabir3510noooooo😢
Matt: *mentions the ocean*
Travis: O.O
Fenan Lavellan
Anyone: *mentions going into water*
Nott: *0 o 0*
I was watching Travis's face the whole time!
I love how Travis is always in character. His sailing days haven't been talked about in more than half the eps ago and he still reacts, even ever so subtly, to any mention of ocean or sea. His attention to detail is matched only by Matt. And the few times he does talk irl, he's making more nerd pop culture remarks and jokes than anyone else.
Just once I'd like to see Critical Role start a second or two early to see how every one shouts out at Matt just before the game starts.
@Joe Tonner Yea but imagine what they're saying to break Matthew the Magnificent Mother Fucker Mercer!
In the One Shot with Liam Dming, at the end you get to see them “start the stream over” and Marisha yells out “Pussy Pockets!”.
Every time it starts theyre all laughing i wonder what goes on right before the begging of the stream
There were a couple times during campaign 1 when they mistimed it after the break and the mic catches someone saying "cock goblin" or something.
Illithid Syphilis
Nott scaring the shit out of people the Nein save by trying to console them is my new favourite thing about this campaign.
I love how quick Caleb is to say he's at the back every time.
Typical squishy PC move though Jester pointing out how that may bite him in the ass is rather smart here
@@MorinehtarTheBlue true. I'm playing a wizard with 12 AC right now and it's always dependent on the situation whether you want to go in the back or the middle
@@Hugo-pg9hq My favorite character I've played is a hobgoblin war wizard. First feat is moderately armored, for half plate and shield. Slap on some haste for AC 19, 21 once he gets to level 10, and he likes to be at the front at all times.
I really want Jester to learn the Pumat Sol cleaning spell so she can skip around randomly cleaning people
Tully Boys I don’t think clerics get Prestidigitation
I think nott has it
I wanted Caleb to have it because while it can clean clothes it can also soil them. Just walk into someone's shop dirty their clothes "there now you are presentable and we can do business"
@@lukasbhame9384 They do not. She could take an Arcane Adept feat to get it though.
@@elbruces or multiclass, pretty sure cleric get all their traits by lvl 17 or 18 anyways.
Y'all, the screen format in this one is AWESOME. The three player screens to the left and the large map screen to the right.
I just kind of wish there was more than one angle? For different action shots
I noticed it as well! So much better!
Yeah, I can actually see shit now
This is my first time through, but Matt has given them a water walking ring and now an armor set of water breathing. I have a feeling that things are going to go nautical
First time through as well! I'm always curious how the items they get will be useful. They don't have a druid this time, though.
I'm playing a campaign where in the first part we fought a ton of undead, and at the END of it I picked up a mace with radiant damage. One actual year later and zero undead later, I finally got to use it on some shadow creatures.
As a rewatcher, I'm just gonna say, you're both onto something 😁
@@slywolfe Finished it a few weeks ago. You're not wrong!
@@Amethystar just started watching, is it worth watching through?
@@krazykoala7329 Absolutely! I watched Vox Machina first and I'm glad I did (though they have their share of technical and other issues). The Mighty Nein took what made Campaign 1 great and improved upon it, so the quality is more consistent throughout.
"You don't see anything dangerous Georgie."
I agree with Travis's reaction to that. Oh Jesus! Please no!
Kill it with fire
them talking about frumpkin being kicked into another dimension is sending me lmaoo
I'd like to say that the idea of spider eggs opening up and hundreds of really big spiders that can turn invisible coming out and vanishing is the SCARIEST NIGHTMARE FUEL I'VE EVER HEARD OF.
When Matt said "It appears you got them all. Some seem to have burned, *some seem to have vanished."* I went "NOPE! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!"
I think I’d blocked that bit out and now my skin is just crawling off my body.
For those who don't know, the spider were Phase Spider, they can go in the etheral plane and litteraly vanish. That's why Jester spell had no target, not because she didn't saw it, but because it wasn't there
@@captaintiefling9618 I doubt the idea of a spider that can just nope the idea of being targeted like obito of naruto would make anyone feel better. That just makes me go nope.
@@captaintiefling9618 I knew the spell Blink from The Adventure Zone and I figured it was similar!
@@DeathnoteBB Yup. Blink also involves the ethereal plan so you're absolutely spot on with that deduction.
A few possible responses to "but there's only 7 of you":
"Well we started with 9, but we lost two to a roving band of mimics."
"The other two are invisible. Look behind you."
"Yeah, there used to be 9, but Simon and Garfunkel got annoying, so we ate them."
"Oh, you see, Caleb is actually three gnomes wearing a trenchcoat."
"Not if you count the voices in Jester's head."
"It's not about how many of /us/ there are, it's about how many beholders it would take to take us down."
Yep, those were better than I expected when I clicked Read More. You earn yourself a like.
@@a-walpatches6460 aw thanks😂
For everyone giving the players greif about Caleb...
1. They already established that he wasn't steathling. And he took. A FULL SET OF ARMOR.
2. Molly watches EVERYTHING, so it would make sense he paid attention to the man looting the bodies. he probably has a high passive perception.
3. Matt didn't even bother having Liam roll deception when he lied.
4. If Molly was meta gaming, then he wouldn't have bothered Caleb because Caleb shared with Jester.
5. Molly gave Caleb the warning because it was a cool narrative and made for good story telling.
Chill
as far as storytelling goes, I think that's more a matter of opinion. Additionally they weren't aware that the armor was taken and we don't know what his intent was to do with it.
It’s not a totally invalid complaint. The scene with Nott trying to steal the letter was such blatant meta gaming that it totally pulled me out of the story. Definitely a flaw of Talesins as a player.
In the sewer, how exactly could you strip a body wrapped in web completely naked and pocket 300+ coins in purses in plain sight of everyone dealing with the halfling and spider body and expect it to go unnoticed? In the room no check was made that the room was empty, but yes the bit with the paper was metagaming based on OOC comments. Left unchecked inter party animosity can end up with a confrontation and characters killing one another off. Taliesin's interventions for me was like saying "Hey dudes not cool, dial it back a bit."
Howe's life? Molly’s PP is shit.... I don’t like taliesen really at all. He is ALWAYS investigating and percepting, always trying to check everything and he just seems to ruin. He’s such a meta gamer, I don’t like it.
In hindsight Matt should've had Caleb roll slight of hand with disadvantage since its an armor set + 300 ish coins and then have ither put it against Molly's passive perception or Have molly roll perception. Taliesin on multiple occasions has meta gamed and ignored a dice roll situation even if realistically it should've happened. Both this occasion, with the letter, and during the first campaign.
I love the fact that the subtitler refused to subtitle “what looks to be”
Considering the amount of times Matt says that phrase, I understand why.
That and "you watch" are his favourite phrases.
they're kinda hard to read
I'm convinced the guy who does the subtitles is a professional transcriptionalist or at least knows a lot about the standards. They make all the right cuts.
As much as I enjoy binging on these during our self isolation during the Covid-19, I just want to play D&D with my friends in person...
I'm doing the same thing for quarantine! Maybe by the time it's up I'll be caught up lol; first time watching!
there are some programs that let you play dnd online which my friends and I are using during quarantine, I know they're not the same but it's nice to still be able to play
@@radio781 We did play on zoom last Friday, it worked quite well actually!
Try zoom or something! I’ve been keeping a new campaign going for a couple of weeks with that!
I just started a campaign with a group of people online. We had never actually met in person although we are in a DND Facebook group for our city. We have played 2 weeks in a row using Roll20 and Discord. Although we are moving on to a different online platform next Sunday. It has been an awesome blast! It's my first non one shot game, I'm pretty new, but it is great. Roll29 allows maps and pictures to be uploaded and has a grid with the 5 foot movement squares that the DM can scale the maps to and use little pictures for moving our characters. Roll20 is free. They wanted to use Tabletop Simulator, but my hard drive in my PC died and my laptop can't handle it. Next week we are moving to FantasyGame or something like that. Don't let your games die!
2:08:27 This self-interrupt by Taliesin is about Matt bringing out the battle map but I wasn't looking at the screen and honestly it works so great in-character. "To be fair, invisible spiders are the best spiders because you can't-- hey, look at that!"
The scenes with Caleb seeming to keep the gold to himself, THEN giving it all to Jester in secret, THEN being confronted by Molly for seemingly being greedy are a PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WELL DONE STORYTELLING! We get to know each of those characters more, there’s a nice build-up of narrative tension and SO MUCH opportunity for misunderstanding in the future - just, MWAA! THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING ACTORS AND STORYTELLERS, AHH!
To me Liam is also the person that has like episode long soliloquys whilst the others have amazing RP moments. Liam is like the protagonist from a Goethe novel walked off the page.
PREACH.
@@Eadwulf_Skald • Damn, that’s a good way to put it, he really is!
I want to be half as good as they are 😍
@@PlanetLovingMom • Anything (well, almost anything) can be achieved with practice and passion - WE CAN DO IT! 🎉
Gotta say, I like this layout 100% more with the battle map in the large frame.
Adam Martinez wow I somehow managed to read your comment as it switched to that view, so I looked up & it matched.
I love that you can see there minis with this new set up too. They look so cool
Agree
Yeah this has been the first fight you can actually see what's happening.
By Tierra Abeyta
1:28 - Sam's new art form
11:15 - Game starts
17:29 - Jester has a crush
26:32 - The beat's all off
34:35 - Beau the diplomat
46:19 - Detective Nott investigates
55:20 - Poop rat initiative
1:14:26 - HDYWTDT
1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt
1:46:53 - Break starts
1:56:08 - Fan art montage
2:01:36 - Break ends
2:08:20 - Initiative
2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks
2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT)
2:55:29 - "We're one of you"
3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment
3:06:45 - Nott's button collection
3:09:40 - "gently" "socially"
3:21:24 - It matters
3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol)
3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester
3:59:00 - Game ends
4:00:52 - Art Montage
Gently socially seductively pin him to the wall and get couple close to him
MVP
@@ashestoash_4076 and 5000 fanfics begin to be written
Thx
True mvp
2:55:37 my favorite thing about Sam pulling the “we are one of you” thieves cant trick is how excited Liam got
Why does every classic rpg come back to fighting rats in a sewer
William Sutton The alligators are unionized.
@@unbreakablelag underrated comment
@@unbreakablelag and meth gators weren't a thing
Because RPG players are dirty disgusting vermin, and it's familiar territory.
@@magonus195 who pissed in your brekfast cereals?
I love how Liam uses the components for his spells. It helps me enjoy the RP.
Makes me wanna try and use material components more. I stuck to using arcane focus when I’m playing a wizard since having to collect and worry about components is a pain in the butt
@@kuroneko1813 it's actually really manageable. It's assumed that as long as you have your component pouch, you always have the necessary components for your spells UNLESS that component has a specified GP amount associated with it. That stuff you have to keep track of but I'm pretty sure you have to have that stuff even if you use an arcane focus.
Watching these now, I read a lot of comments, I'm surprised how salty some people are about Molly and Caleb, especially those saying Caleb being shady towards his party is somehow condemnable behavior. I've had characters betray the whole party before, conflicts and battles between PCs...it adds depth to characters. To me some drama or conflict leads to more interesting growth and character development. Having characters who barely know eachother trust and play nicely all the time doesn't make sense. So long as real life animosity doesn't happen, it always makes it more interesting to me!
Yea, and I personally loved the scene. Cause Molly did see him grab stoof from 5! bodies. So he knows he has a lot. He knew he was talking to Jester, but he didn't know he had given her the gold. So his character acted as if Caleb was being selfish. Which makes sense.
I love all of the characters in this campain, None of them seem too far off to where its annoying or weird. But they all fit together in their own little ways
Well it depends on development of the story. On the one hand, it is soo true that it add depth to the characters. On the other hand, it sometimes becomes about rivalry and deceit.
Also it kills the mood if players before hand agreed on being cooperative
It's also only 10 sessions in, maybe a week at the most in-game since the party met, and a lot of these characters have presumably spent years, maybe the majority of their lives, being kind of shady and untrusting of people. Narratively it would be weird if they met and were suddenly like, "I don't get along with pretty much anyone, but somehow this group is different and get along with all of them 100%."
I like it here because you know that even if Liam will let it develop organically, he's doing all this in service of character, and would only walk away if it was really the only thing that made sense. Also he can trust-fall with his friends that if it looks like Caleb's gonna bolt or whatever, that their characters will rise to help him stay.
(I also know some people who came from campaign 1, where they were literally family basically before the stream even started don't like these early days of strife as much)
I've gotta say, I'm super impressed by Marisha for seeing a near-random NPC, immediately doing an insight check and inquiring about The Gentleman as a result, giving her a lead on a personal quest she'd gotten only the episode before. That was super cool and I wouldn't even have thought to do the same.
Really? She basically already knows that The Gentleman is one of, if not THE major player in the city's underworld. And she just came upon what are almost certainly passages for underworld smuggling operations. I would really hope you would think to do the same in her shoes, as it was a pretty easy bet.
And I'm sure her being married to the DM has nothing to do with it.
No flak to the woman personally, but she is the absolute worst meta gamer at the table.
Yeah, let's remember not to give Marisha even a modicum of credit for paying attention at the table and instead really beat her inferiority into her at the barest of compliments. @@mr.mayhem4054
@@TheDapperDragon I noticed that. Her character is really pushy on Caleb and idk if it’s her or character. Maybe as the campaign goes on it will change or make sense
@mommymonsterandprincessabb340 her character is like this. In the first campaign her character was socially awkward to but in a more shy way less abrasive. She and Liam's character were very close to last campaign too
The funny thing is it her character is very different this season than it was last campaign. So you can see that this is acting all the little things they do it's all acting. Even the way they hold themselves as different this campaign.
CALEB: Who kicks a cat?! I mean you might as well be at home picking the wings off flies! You kick a cat - what is wrong with you?
JESTER: Wait a minute is it bad to pick the wings off flies?
FJORD: That's actually really hard to do, they're very small and hard to catch.
JESTER: Well, not if they're already dead. Then you can pick the wings off super duper easily.
MOLLYMAUK: Oh, sure, if they're already dead I mean you just go for it.
FJORD: Well... that's just a little--
BEAUREGARD: You know what we used to do as kids? We used to take fireflies and crush 'em, they make glow jewelry.
NOTT: **grossed out face**
BEAUREGARD: When they would- when then they'd light up, you crush 'em right as they light up, and you can make glowy war paint.
JESTER: What's a firefly?
MOLLYMAUK: **genuinely disturbed Taliesin face**
3:48:23 😆😄
In Marisha's defense, I've heard my father talk about doing that when he was a kid.
@@jessicakavin4178 we need to talk about your father...
@@thetransientone6254 we need to talk about Kavin?
I am from the south. This is, in fact, a thing.
@@SiminaDar I am too and it's definitely a childhood thing
It's so fun seeing Travis being very excited to use Relentless Endurance when you remember that one time in campaign one when Grog was beat up by a half-orc. I think the moment that NPC came back to 1 hp just to kick his ass, Travis already knew he'd be playing a half-orc in the next campaign.
Surprisingly enough, their rivalry was one of the most emotional aspects of C1 for me
That's why you play half-orc, add in as a barbarian with their rage, and maybe circle of the moon druid for the extra hp for all the potential to not die lol
That C1 fight was how I came to know critical role, I was new to DMing and was researching how to narrate gladiator fights. Obviously couldn't replicate it, but here I am, a year later. Loved this moment for Travis.
I know I'm late, but this is the same when I think they all saw the quivering palm. Beau was born mentally
@@jasonlycan1860 nah my dude, I'm sure it was the keyfish incident.
If Caleb would be able to make his unseen servant have radiant energy, it would be a holy Schmidt.
well done lmfao
Thanks!
W OW
Someone drops a sword, "Bring me that Messer, Schmidt."
Delete this
Liam's Vax accent sounds EXTRA British after listening to Caleb for the last 9 (Nein!) Episodes
Late comment but you could say it's his Vaxccent 👀
N E I N
"Leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you"
- Liam shirt
And perhaps a hint of Caleb's backstory ;)
(I'm not caught up to live yet)
Ok but Caleb’s reluctance to get new clothing is such a subtle statement of SO much of his character and I ADORE that character choice
We love one (1) autistic-coded wizard.
The Mighty Nein:
Caleb
Nott
Jester
Jester #2
Molly
Fjord
Beau
Yasha
Schmidt
And Frumpkin.... And WC.... And the Traveller
@@doommaster956 yeah but that would make it the mighty 12
What about Frumpkin?
@@XxPhoenix1872 I see Frumpkin as a package deal with Caleb
@@doommaster956 The Traveler is a package deal with Jester
Caleb: **breathes**
everyone: "Caleb you're *super squishy !!!!* "
or
Caleb: *Breathes*
Everyone: "CALEB WHAT IS YOUR TRAUMA?"
Bane of a wizard
Caleb- "You carry the money"
What he really means: Take the goddamn money, Jester
*Laura
Will Grey *Jester
@@DeathnoteBB Jester is actually really generous and polite, that is Laura and she admits it as much on Talks Machina, and at the table during sessions.
Healing Word might be the most clutch spell in the game. You can stabilize a dying character from a distance as a bonus action.
nah, true polymorph lets you turn into a terrasque and level a city
kyle Ellette except you can only turn into a creature equal to your CR (Level) or lower.
@@dominickfinch5693 i didn't know that
@@dominickfinch5693 You can still turn into a big ass dragon and level a city.
@@filipferencak2717 ancient brass dragon ftw
I still find it funny that Nott at lvl 1 still had a higher AC than Scanlan at lvl 20
I think most of them do. Scanlan had an ac of like 14. A lot of them right now have like 15 if I remember correctly
Fjord and Molly are the squishy ones so far
@@OutlawWalker if fjord and molly are squishy what does that make Caleb
@@tacolord2561 wet paper
@@OutlawWalker wet toilet paper 😂
Liam and Laura are having a hard time not being siblings lol
Reposting bc I had to scroll So. Far.
By Tierra Abeyta
1:28 - Sam's new art form
11:15 - Game starts
17:29 - Jester has a crush
26:32 - The beat's all off
34:35 - Beau the diplomat
46:19 - Detective Nott investigates
55:20 - Poop rat initiative
1:14:26 - HDYWTDT
1:30:55 - Welcome Schmidt
1:46:53 - Break starts
1:56:08 - Fan art montage
2:01:36 - Break ends
2:08:20 - Initiative
2:40:50 - Mollymauk Molly-mocks
2:41:40 - Molly-mocked to death (HDYWTDT)
2:55:29 - "We're one of you"
3:05:00 - Touching Caleb and Jester moment
3:06:45 - Nott's button collection
3:09:40 - "gently" "socially"
3:21:24 - It matters
3:34:00 - Nott tries to steal (one of the best scenes so far lol)
3:44:53 - Storytime with Jester
3:59:00 - Game ends
4:00:52 - Art Montage
Q
THANK YOU
Appreciate it thank you
Still had to scroll so far but many thanks nonetheless
More people need this
It took me till the start of this episode that Caleb is dirty and stinks to remove the attention from Nott...
Im a idiot.
Did not pick up upon that until I read your comment...
"I'm an idiot."
I am watching this show for the second time and didn’t put that together until now,
To be fair, there are also other reasons, but that almost certainly factors in. (he does not want to be easily recognized, is the no-spoilers reason)
@@dakotamiller2559 thanks for the no spoiler reason lmao. I only come down to the comments after I watch the episode to see people's thoughts about it but there are still some people who spoil stuff that happens 50 episodes down...
Fjord and Beau's interactions are amazing. They have a lot of chemistry, and it's honestly surprising, coming out of Campaing 1 where Travis and Marisha did not interact so much. Campaing 2 has been a treasure trove of great roleplaying so far.
Not a lot of people, besides Scanlan and Pike really interacted with Grog much outside of jokes, which is a shame, cause he had some great character moments
I did love the rare Grog and Keyleth moments.
In generel I'd say that the group is much better at 1-1 interaction between everyone this time around.
According to a talks episode they had a bit more chemistry before the stream started.
Travis spent half of campaign one rolling his eyes at Marisha for being an idiot to be fair
“HE JUST EXPLAINED WHAT WAS HAPPENING...”
lol
She’s a lot better this time but C1 she had been playing a minimum of 5 years of DND and was genuinely too airheaded to have to listen to anything anyone else said
1:29:30 I love how the eventual motivation given for not accidentally burning people alive is "so the party member who gets ptsd from fire won't have nightmares about it" and not that... you know... it would suck for the people being burnt alive
A less noticeable trait Matt exhibits that I adore: how much Matt looks over the screen and around the table constantly. He doesn't seem to look behind the screen for any noticeable period of time. That's one of the most impressive things that I want to be able to do comfortably. I usually look down behind the screen during narrative which cuts out eye contact and keeps you from being able to read your players' expressions.
As a dm that’s why I only do bullet points in my notes for characters dialogue, I just have one or two things I have to remember to say with the rest being improv based on the character and the players.
That’s a public speaking thing. If it helps you grasp it better, you could think about it as speaking to an audience as part of a lecture or speech or presentation.
"Healing word is dogshit" laura said, not realising some dms ban this spell as it forces them to finish characters off or never having casualties since the spell is a free get out of jail card
39:30 *down into the sewer*
Jester: "do you see any monster down there?"
Yasha: "no, everything seems fine"
Matt: "make a perception check"
Yasha: 😳*simpsons meme 'im in danger'*
More like Riddick in Pitch Black.
"What's it look like?"
"Looks clear"
Walks in, beast flies out
"You said it was clear!"
"Said it looks clear"
"Well, what's it look like now?"
*looks* *shrugs* "Looks clear"
I love how Matt goes "Nice" or "Sorry" to good/bad rolls. It's like he stops being the DM for a second, and becomes an ally of the party who cheers on for his friends.
Real dms commemorate when the Paladin lands a crit
That's because it's not DM vs Players. A good DM celebrates and mourns as the players do! You're telling a story, not TRYING to kill your party!
@@Nohawkkid008 as a DM, this is so true. Ultimately tell the story and make the pressure and danger feel real, but I’m so on the side of my players because I want them to win.
I like how he goes "good to know" after a random feeling check.
That's not him stopping being the DM. That's just being the DM. It's *never* Players v.s. DM. It's all a collaborative effort, yall are playing together, not against each other. The dm should be happy when the players do cool stuff, and the players should be happy and excited when the dm does cool stuff. It goes both way.
3:44:44 The fact that they can just RP into a scene out of nowhere, like a switch to a different scene in a movie seems astonishing to me. Just making it up on the spot - top notch role playing!
Cassandra Schäwel Plus the comedic interaction between Beau and Fjord leading up to it - the whole thing was just perfection
A group of close friends who are also professional actors is a table-top RPG dream come true.
TBH its not really that hard. Just conversate like you normally would but just remember to add a previous aspect to it
Top NOTT-ch roleplaying?? Eh? Eh?
I'll show myself out.
Since last campaign Sam's always been the most honest and forthright player. He proves D&D doesn't have to revolve around winning. Hard to think he's considered new to D&D.
not considered new at this point hes played over 600 hours of DnD on stream... not including the prestream games etc. Far from new.
Sam loves the chaos and always rolls with the punches. It's awesome to watch because he's so quick witted. He never complains about a bad roll. I think he honestly enjoys the 1s more than the 20s
@@Baconbeerify yea hes an amazing player
Sam is hands-down my absolute favorite of both Campaigns. I just adore this man. He can make me laugh, cry, every emotion possible.
Very few people are just innately, inherently, originally funny. Sam Reigel is one of them. His humour is absolutely his own. I’m a fairly humourless old fart... and Sam makes me laugh, effortlessly. Thanks Sam. For some of us, laughs are hard to find. It makes your gifts all the more precious.
"we have the same middle name" did it for me
There was really a missed opportunity to claim the sewer rats were "Riddled with Syphilis"
"Extreme Syphilis!"
Matt says, gesturing to self, "You must invite the vampire IN for it to cross the threshold."
Why do I need Count Mercer so badly?
We ALL need Count Mercer in our lives
*SPOILERS FOR DALEN'S CLOSET*
My thought was to ask how Silas Briarwood managed to crash a wedding then? Of course that one shot hadn't been filmed at this point in time.
@@MorinehtarTheBlue I guess the party tent counted as being outside
Well let me tell you fren th-cam.com/video/g9XP5aluDPo/w-d-xo.html
So he can keep dming and podcasting with just tallisen for eternity? 😂
3:44:10 this scene is mindblowingly smooth. The back and forth, the rhythm of the dialogue, the sighs, and the ending. Two people can rehearse this shit and might still struggle to produce a smooth take like that.
Reza Natsir yes!!!! i was looking for a comment like this.
It’s so goood.
@@SeerOfTime577 my other fjord/beau observation here th-cam.com/video/qS9rz1srwio/w-d-xo.html
@@jazzinstinct Oh! I'm definitely not that far yet, but thanks for sending it. I'm really loving Fjord and Beau's dynamic.
@@SeerOfTime577 Same, their dynamic and dialogues are soooo cool. I also love that Travis and Marisha bonded this friendship for their RP, because those 2 are probably the ones who interacted the less with one another in campaign 1, so I was so thrilled (still am) to see this awesome connection blossom between Fjord and Beau.
Which is funny because neither of them are my fav characters (that'd be Jester, then Nott), and yet their dynamic between two party members is by far my favourite.
Whenever I hear Ashley say “I would like to rage” I just think that our Little Monstah grew up
I felt like crying by reading this omg ;_;
There's fan art featured in the last two videos of a Yasha raging, and the shadow behind her is Grog's shadow and I just 😭😭 Best Buddies!!!
Moving the battle map to the big screen is ABSOLUTELY the right call
1000% improvement
"I don't really know what's goin' on-"
"YOU'RE SAFE NOW!"
"OHH GOD!"
When matt was explaining the smell to nott i expected him to say "youve lived with caleb youve smelled worse."
Thanks Matt and co. for the shout out and to all the lovely messages and comments I've received regarding my music. From the bottom of my soppy man-heart, they mean the world to me! I started watching this show while I would set up my recording rig for composing while I was in college and then for game and commission projects. Seeing this come full circle means more to me than you can imagine and seeing the piece paired with so many incredible pieces of fan art only shows me how much I need to continue stepping my game up!
Love y'all Critter Community
All of it well deserved, Colm!
i egarly anticipate listing to more of your epic tunes. TY
Holy shit listening to it rn it’s so good ?
So glad to see this comment so I can let you know your music is really stirring and wonderful. Thanks for making such beautiful sounds for us all to enjoy.
I liked the music a lot. Did you play any of the instruments or is it done another way? Either way, it is beautifully put together!
Only Caleb can turn a successfully connected handshake into an awkward moment.
"Oh friend, I don't need to roll an insight check to know that's bull$%^&." -Beauregard, 2:55:12
Boy, making the battle screen the main screen was a great move! (And, yes, I realize I'm literally years behind on this comment)
Ahead of me!
@@MrK133n and me
As am I lol
agreed. Just too bad the camera was off the spider (the actual main opponent in said-combat) most of the time ! I mean, okay it's a phase spider, but COME ON !!! lol
I would Just like to say I still want Justice for Caleb, #smuttforCaleb
Red Headed Tyrant he probably hasn’t jerked in months!
XD
@@vermont6260 But if he has, Pumat Sol sure got rid of the funk. It's time for a fresh beating.
@@vermont6260 hard to get a chance when more than half your buddies see in the dark...
Red Headed Tyrant you are the backbone of the newbies such as myself
I see a lot of people giving Caleb (or even Liam) shit for not telling the others about the money he looted. But you gotta realize, it wasn't that long ago Jester said that 50 gold, more than he's had in his life, was a pittance and she's got so much more coming in from her mother. She absolutely didn't need it, yet he still offered it to her in the end.
It's just kinda funny how it's only certain players who get shat on for this, but for others it's considered an endearing character trait
@@Ailieorz Like how Laura is always shat on for it by shitty people on the internet but in Liam and Sam's characters it's an endearing trait! So frustrating. I feel so bad for Laura.
@@CallistoTheWarriorQueen No I meant the exact opposite in fact. Everyone dumps on Liam for being greedy about keeping the boots of haste, but nobody picks on Laura for wanting to loot everything on the planet. She's special
@@Ailieorz People constantly shat on Laura for how greedy Vex was.
@@majere666 it got worst in the later arcs. She had a flying broom AND the large carpet that could carry Grog.