@@whynaut1 i don't remember exactly who said it, but i think it was Siobhan who answered something along the lines of "we read the books! or, emily did". i think maybe battle of the brands is in canon, and brennan says the plinth is a returning champion.
Lou even said that's what they were doing--but he said it into his hands. (Thank you to the person who corrected me. I midgendered Ally and--though unintentional--I should have realized it sooner)
My favorite part is that Lou absolutely understood what Ally was doing, but everyone was talking over each other so none of them heard him explaining it.
Crown of candy when murph leaps into ocean with heavy armor but then gets to use the homebrewed magic weapon to teleport back up to boat protect the king is another legendary moment
My favourite detail in that moment is that Swirlwarden specifically lets the bearer teleport to the protection of a member of the royal family, and the only eligible target in range was a distant cousin of the king who his character had met for the first time only seconds earlier.
Ally "if you miss, he gets an immediate attack on the corn" Emily "and you're rolling with disadvantage because of the net" Murph "and I'm gonna go ahead and do a shove attack" now THAT's what I call teamwork!
@@barbarabeatriz6504 Sure! So, "Them's the breaks" is incorrect, grammatically, by intention. We do this with aphorisms (turns-of-phrase) sometimes, not really sure why, but a similar example would be the phrase "How 'bout them apples?" as popularized in the movie Good Will Hunting. "Show [someone] the breaks" is a phrase in reference to pool (billiards) where you'd "rack" the balls into a formation and then "break" them with the cue ball, and it's sort of random. So when you say "Them's the breaks," you're saying, in effect, "Bad luck, nothing you can do about it."
So funny to me that Gorgug has mindless rage and is an artificer. "Don't THINK about applying your knowledge! just apply it you knucklehead!" Honestly relatable.
@@jasonninja55no, he's so angry, he goes full circle back to calm enough to concentrate. Like how you get so mad, everything is just a blue, then something boils over and now you have damn near perfect clarity, you have no distractions, no worries, no pounding in your head. Its a temper so strong that your consciousness becomes the eye on the storm. The rage is as powerful as can be, but you aren't buffeted by its force, able to direct it exactly as you want.
I love the shift on Brennan's face at 2:58 when he realizes that Zac's line was too good to keep going after and that he simply has to end the episode now lmao
The dice didn't cooperate, but it was still a great move. Anyone can roll lucky. It's more impressive to do something where even if it doesn't work it was still clearly the right choice.
That's honestly one of my favourite moment in that episode, coupled with Brennan's "NOo!!" and Murph and Em not missing a beat to explain what's about to happen
Watching D20 and Critical Role is such a wild juxtaposition. Matt Mercer is one of the sweetest human beings and the CR cast are rarely, if ever, out to "beat" him at D&D. Brennan also seems like a genuinely nice person, but then there's the Intrepid Heroes: "We read the book this time", "I'm trying to kill you, Brennan. You specifically ", "Reddit's gonna eat your ass", "🖕🖕", "Eat your dice, dude", "You are sick. Think about it", etc... Both dynamics are wonderful, but the contrast never fails to make me laugh
I think what makes this dynamic work so well is that matt is substantially more willing to pull punches Brennen actively tells his players that he is out to fuck them this combat and they take that as a challenge. which works with who they are as friends the jokes and jests carry out of the game. but when asked to list positives about each other they just melt into positivity over how much they love and care about each other
I love the difference in dynamic and style. Matt is much more of a background player while Brennan is more of actively antagonizing, but in a friendly way. Matt is the Yin to Brennan's Yang.
Part may just be that Brennan is _able_ to go all out a little more because he has a group who can hit back. Obviously Emily Axford is a terror, but everyone's good. Once they get a feel for D&D, Beardsley's one of the best support players I've ever seen. Zac both has moments of ad hoc brilliance but also just has a knack for always picking the right place to be to share a buff or stop an enemy with Sentinel. Murph is conventional but solid, even though he has the dice luck of a man who pissed off two witches on the same day. And Lou and Siobhan just never miss a beat - look at how Lou instantly understands what's going on with the Call The Guards play even though Brennan has all the same information and doesn't see it. Past the early seasons, Brennan _has_ to play the enemies aggressively, because otherwise that group of players would just cakewalk through everything. From a mechanical perspective there was no way in hell they should have survived the brutally overleveled opposition in the Battle of the Brands. But despite the fact that Brennan didn't go easy on them at all, they _still_ squeaked out a win.
@@ericeves1180I laughed so hard at 'the luck of a man who pissed of two witches on the same day'. But not this season. It's a new season it's a new Murph~~
@@cinderlord4950 i think the idea that matt frequently "pulls punches" is a little overblown (ESPECIALLY if you watched c3e91 today lmfao💀) and that the dynamic difference is entirely down to the casts being fundamentally different people. the intrepid heroes are all comedians so naturally they gravitate more towards loud, boisterous jokes at each other's expense while matt is a lot more soft-spoken and gentle, even when he's absolutely destroying the party, so the cast takes the same tone with him in turn for the most part (cause if you make too many aggressive jokes against someone not reciprocating the hater energy it just feels like bullying lol 😭😭)
Knock is one of my favorite moments. The quiet rage on Murph/Theo's face and the simple "I cast knock on the door" is so freaking powerful and chilling. I can't get enough of it
I also love how candias secret of magic is what saves him here. They don’t know Sur Theobold has this power and then ge just busts out there with his knightly chivalry to save the crown family!
I know exactly what you mean. There’s such raw emotion, like Murph is feeling all of Theo’s adrenaline and nerves and reckless badass abandon, it literally gives me the chills. More human and emotional/serious than they usually get, but it was a wild time. So, so good, I’ve watched it on repeat.
@@octave38 Spoilers The family was betrayed by a close ally and Theobold (Murph) was locked in a room while the rest of the players were attacked. What Brennan didn't know is that Theo could cast 'Knock', a kinda niche spell that can immediately open any non-magical lock allowing him to kill some of his would be captors and protect the royal family
Honestly the biggest reason it works so well for Zac is because he usually doesn't play spotlight characters. Most of his characters tend to fade into the background to let others shine, and then have their breakout moments shine harder because they're less remembered. Gorgug is one of the least, if not THE least notable members of the Bad Kids due to his life's overall relative stability compared to the others, which in turn means all the cool things Gorgug can do tend to slip Brennan's mind. Lapin, Cumulus, Ricky, Pib, and Colin also tend to fall into that same niche. Lapin and Cumulus don't stand out or make themselves prominently known nearly as much as the rest of the Rocks do, but Lapin helped massively on the political side of things and would've been an absolute unit of a character had he lived longer. Cumulus is also rather understated and seems a bit distant, but he's the biggest reason they got out with so few injuries from the Dairy Sea. Pib's entire story *_was_* assisting others with his own talents for "his own profit", but he continued to do things that benefited others more than himself. Colin wasn't as notable as his other counterparts in the Ravening War, but that allowed him more leeway to make an impact. Ricky's arguably the most normal of both Unsleeping City parties comparatively and for the most part is just there to help the team when they need him. Squinge and Skip are probably Zac's boldest characters, and even then Squinge still prefers the sidelines. Skip's by FAR Zac's most spotlighted character, yet still ends up being support just as much as a mainline fighter. All of Zac's characters work like his comedy style- understated till they whack you in the face. It overall leads to less standout moments, but in turn it means Zac helps others have more frequent standout moments (like telling Lou to roll against the Nat 20 in the arcade, which does save Fabian, or jokingly telling Margaret to bank when they were escaping Rec 91) and that makes Brennan forget about Zac's own cool stuff until it whacks him in the face.
I was drawn to D20 by clips of Emily's chaos, but Zach quickly became my favorite. The way he can get his dumb characters to say seemingly dumb stuff to get the other players to clock onto his solutions is brilliant.
Emily fucks Brenan up in combat, Ally is a consistent wild card whos luck will put Brennan on the backfoot, Zac is a Rouge at the table, almost everything he does has a purpose.
@@BonesCapone honestly even i was kind of convinced especially given that zac immediately turned to the others in the room and went "whats wrong with him" then continued gaslighting this man
The “should I rage” bit absolutely killed me when I watched that scene, I had to rewind just to watch Brennan’s face when he realized he fucked himself over again a couple times. It was absolute gold
I love the confused "Okayyyy?" right before the Plinth destruction. He can't think of any possible way for her to be doing this, but he knows Emily is sneaky enough to somehow pull it off. So he is just waiting for the explanation of her shenanigan.
You could also have added Siobhan's play in the 1st part of the Starstruck finale when she teleported into an ennemy ship to destroy the crew instead of the ship itself.
Don't forget the time Ally and Lou got back into the worst, Ally hoping on the gun, and Lou supercharging the weapons systems, just to atomize the Vercadian with 560 damage.
god you are so right!!! I was just going by my memory of most memorable episodes per each season and completely missed that bit. yes also a legendary moment
sorry to ruin the magic but brennan totally knew. in most of these he knows. he's playing into the villain dm character. he's setting these up for the party.
I had a moment like that with my old DnD group where an evil wizard conjured a balrog and I'm new to DnD so I didn't think i would have outsmarted the DM without even knowing it. I cast dispel magic since the balrog was summoned using magic and after a little bit of reading the rules on his part, he sighed and said "And the Balrog vanishes" and you have no idea how proud of myself I was.
And that's called dispelling the balrog though your game master you may displease for once you have dispelled the balrog You'll find bashing that wizard a breeze
one that came out after this vid - riz hiding from kipperlily in the lava because the bad kids were immune to fire damage thanks to ice feast, and brennan realizing the lava is now ONLY a danger to his guys!
Casting Knock was one out of maybe a dozen clutch moments during that whole escape but i always remember it because it so rarely happens that Brennan is made fully speechless by a player's decision. Like his jaw is on the floor, could not see that coming, the simplest & most effective solution is simply to magically unlock the door.
Zac is so smart! It's not always obvious because he clearly enjoys playing less overtly intelligent characters, but he's such a brilliant player! If I ever got to have him at one of my tables, I'd be honored and terrified :D
When everyone was perfectly silent for someone's bit instead of their usually quips and gags with eachother. They're up to something BIG. One of the best bits with Ally's charged Fragmentation, is that structures and constructs that fail, take the MAXIMUM damage. So that's 80 damage
Couldve added the Amithar rage falling scene "You said i had three turns until i hit the ground, right? Can i go into a rage?" is so epic god i love CoC
One moment is missing that definitely deserves to be here, and that's Siobhan scrying on Kalina Kalina was nearly impossible to scry on but using portence to force her to take a natural 1 was genius
8:29 So this character fucking limps up to the corn, says “you suck”, straightens up and walks away with as little stumbling as they can, and the corn obviously uses the opportunity to- get blasted in the face. Fuck, I’m using that for a fight scene in my fanfic now.
0:00 Gorgug's Mindless Rage, Fantasy High Junior Year 1:15 "Where is your Bulb now?", A Crown of Candy 3:07 Saccharina rescues Grissini (& obliterates the entire enemy mob in the process), A Crown of Candy 4:36 "I cast Knock on the door", A Crown of Candy 5:13 Operation Slippery Puppet, A Starstruck Odyssey 7:04 Margaret's Call to the Guards vs the Corn Cuties, A Starstruck Odyssey 8:56 WELCOME TO THE STREETS, FOOL, Coffin Run 9:43 Pib pulls the ultimate theft on Baba Yaga, Neverafter
I love seeing crown of candy clips along with the other seasons. They’ve all had some intense moments, but watching CoC you can just feel it in the room how high the stakes are.
Neverafter was my first season of dimension 20 and i will never forget the experience of figuring out Pib's plan in the final episode, i was for real pounding the chair i was leaning against and jumped from my seat.
Mostly humor. Margaret was canonically not an athletic person and a businesswoman in a pencil skirt, so it's unlikely that she would be athletic or brave enough to leap out of a crow's nest 30 ft in the air.
Zac, Emily, and Brennan (as DM mainly) on screen will NEVER be not entertaining. Zac just has the ability to break Brennan at every corner, and Emily? Well all I have to say is “Operation Slippery Puppet.” Zac: His Emotional Guard Break Emily: His tactical Guard Break
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"How did you know there'd be a plinth in this fight" has got to be one of my favorite lines of all time
Seriously though, how did they?
@@whynaut1 Probably in case she wanted to breach a wall and escape the arena
@@whynaut1 i don't remember exactly who said it, but i think it was Siobhan who answered something along the lines of "we read the books! or, emily did". i think maybe battle of the brands is in canon, and brennan says the plinth is a returning champion.
"Am I getting Ocean's 11'd? On my OWN show?" is truly the funniest most bamboozled he's been and it kills me every time
And he sounds so wimpy and defeated too. Like, he fully WHINES it.
i adore the fact that brennan didn't at ALL find ally suspicious and just thought they were doing yet another incomprehensible bit alskjdfalkjd
Its ally, you never know what they're thinking
That's why you ALWAYS keep em' guessing! xD
It's just a nonsensical bit... until it isn't!
Lou even said that's what they were doing--but he said it into his hands.
(Thank you to the person who corrected me. I midgendered Ally and--though unintentional--I should have realized it sooner)
My favorite part is that Lou absolutely understood what Ally was doing, but everyone was talking over each other so none of them heard him explaining it.
@@CMonty wait, what did lou said?
Crown of candy when murph leaps into ocean with heavy armor but then gets to use the homebrewed magic weapon to teleport back up to boat protect the king is another legendary moment
“Are you using the weapon I homebrewed for you to fuck me??” (Or something like that, I forget the exact quote)
I’m honestly surprised that wasn’t in here.
@@drewjones7735it wasn’t bambozoling it was just a epic moment
how DARE you use a magic item i homebrewed JUST FOR YOU, to FUCK me.
My favourite detail in that moment is that Swirlwarden specifically lets the bearer teleport to the protection of a member of the royal family, and the only eligible target in range was a distant cousin of the king who his character had met for the first time only seconds earlier.
Ally "if you miss, he gets an immediate attack on the corn"
Emily "and you're rolling with disadvantage because of the net"
Murph "and I'm gonna go ahead and do a shove attack"
now THAT's what I call teamwork!
It's beautiful.
If only it had actually worked in the episode
"Hey! Them's the breaks! 🤷♂" Will never not be funny
Right up there with Ally’s ‘I don’t know what to tell you’
@@jonathanjernigan3865 "I don't know how else I can say it."
"You don't know how else you can say it... besides 'meat mama'?"
"They/Them's the breaks!"
I'm not a native English speaker, can someone explain this expression to me?
@@barbarabeatriz6504 Sure!
So, "Them's the breaks" is incorrect, grammatically, by intention. We do this with aphorisms (turns-of-phrase) sometimes, not really sure why, but a similar example would be the phrase "How 'bout them apples?" as popularized in the movie Good Will Hunting.
"Show [someone] the breaks" is a phrase in reference to pool (billiards) where you'd "rack" the balls into a formation and then "break" them with the cue ball, and it's sort of random. So when you say "Them's the breaks," you're saying, in effect, "Bad luck, nothing you can do about it."
So funny to me that Gorgug has mindless rage and is an artificer.
"Don't THINK about applying your knowledge! just apply it you knucklehead!"
Honestly relatable.
No he just thinks so hard he gets angry about it
That's so Warhammer orc of him
Mechanics vs engineers
@@jasonninja55no, he's so angry, he goes full circle back to calm enough to concentrate.
Like how you get so mad, everything is just a blue, then something boils over and now you have damn near perfect clarity, you have no distractions, no worries, no pounding in your head. Its a temper so strong that your consciousness becomes the eye on the storm. The rage is as powerful as can be, but you aren't buffeted by its force, able to direct it exactly as you want.
@@jasonninja55 maybe im a barbaficer
I love the shift on Brennan's face at 2:58 when he realizes that Zac's line was too good to keep going after and that he simply has to end the episode now lmao
‘Shit that was good. Shit that’s better than what I got.’ “Alight we’re gonna end it here!”
"I quit! Brennan come back. I don't want 'em anymore." Is very funny.
I'm so glad you included Ally's "Call to the Guards" play. Even though it didn't pay off as well as the rest, the set up still got me so good
The dice didn't cooperate, but it was still a great move.
Anyone can roll lucky. It's more impressive to do something where even if it doesn't work it was still clearly the right choice.
That's honestly one of my favourite moment in that episode, coupled with Brennan's "NOo!!" and Murph and Em not missing a beat to explain what's about to happen
this is one of the few i saw coming! it was so exciting to know what was coming and watch it bamboozle the table
Watching D20 and Critical Role is such a wild juxtaposition. Matt Mercer is one of the sweetest human beings and the CR cast are rarely, if ever, out to "beat" him at D&D.
Brennan also seems like a genuinely nice person, but then there's the Intrepid Heroes: "We read the book this time", "I'm trying to kill you, Brennan. You specifically ", "Reddit's gonna eat your ass", "🖕🖕", "Eat your dice, dude", "You are sick. Think about it", etc...
Both dynamics are wonderful, but the contrast never fails to make me laugh
I think what makes this dynamic work so well is that matt is substantially more willing to pull punches Brennen actively tells his players that he is out to fuck them this combat and they take that as a challenge. which works with who they are as friends the jokes and jests carry out of the game. but when asked to list positives about each other they just melt into positivity over how much they love and care about each other
I love the difference in dynamic and style. Matt is much more of a background player while Brennan is more of actively antagonizing, but in a friendly way.
Matt is the Yin to Brennan's Yang.
Part may just be that Brennan is _able_ to go all out a little more because he has a group who can hit back. Obviously Emily Axford is a terror, but everyone's good. Once they get a feel for D&D, Beardsley's one of the best support players I've ever seen. Zac both has moments of ad hoc brilliance but also just has a knack for always picking the right place to be to share a buff or stop an enemy with Sentinel. Murph is conventional but solid, even though he has the dice luck of a man who pissed off two witches on the same day. And Lou and Siobhan just never miss a beat - look at how Lou instantly understands what's going on with the Call The Guards play even though Brennan has all the same information and doesn't see it.
Past the early seasons, Brennan _has_ to play the enemies aggressively, because otherwise that group of players would just cakewalk through everything. From a mechanical perspective there was no way in hell they should have survived the brutally overleveled opposition in the Battle of the Brands. But despite the fact that Brennan didn't go easy on them at all, they _still_ squeaked out a win.
@@ericeves1180I laughed so hard at 'the luck of a man who pissed of two witches on the same day'.
But not this season. It's a new season it's a new Murph~~
@@cinderlord4950 i think the idea that matt frequently "pulls punches" is a little overblown (ESPECIALLY if you watched c3e91 today lmfao💀) and that the dynamic difference is entirely down to the casts being fundamentally different people. the intrepid heroes are all comedians so naturally they gravitate more towards loud, boisterous jokes at each other's expense while matt is a lot more soft-spoken and gentle, even when he's absolutely destroying the party, so the cast takes the same tone with him in turn for the most part (cause if you make too many aggressive jokes against someone not reciprocating the hater energy it just feels like bullying lol 😭😭)
Knock is one of my favorite moments. The quiet rage on Murph/Theo's face and the simple "I cast knock on the door" is so freaking powerful and chilling. I can't get enough of it
After confirming there's ONLY 3 guards outside. Like "I can take 'em"
I also love how candias secret of magic is what saves him here. They don’t know Sur Theobold has this power and then ge just busts out there with his knightly chivalry to save the crown family!
I know exactly what you mean. There’s such raw emotion, like Murph is feeling all of Theo’s adrenaline and nerves and reckless badass abandon, it literally gives me the chills. More human and emotional/serious than they usually get, but it was a wild time. So, so good, I’ve watched it on repeat.
@@Cheeseman822 honestly Theo is one of my fav IH characters... so many sick ass moments in ACOC... but that scene casting Knock was such a power move
'I cast knock' is one of my favorite Murph moments
It’s kinda hard to get without context, can somebody explain?
@@octave38 Spoilers
The family was betrayed by a close ally and Theobold (Murph) was locked in a room while the rest of the players were attacked. What Brennan didn't know is that Theo could cast 'Knock', a kinda niche spell that can immediately open any non-magical lock allowing him to kill some of his would be captors and protect the royal family
@@yake222 It is fun ti watch a simple but uncommonly used spell pop up and straight up destroy the best laid plans.
@@Blasted2Oblivion that was the best part for me like I've never seen anyone ever need Knock... but it was the
*perfect* spell for this moment.
I still love Zac having the utter balls to pickpocket the Baba Yaga in the epilogue.
“Leap? No, I FALL.” Will forever be my favorite Margaret moment
I love that Zac has the most moments. It feels so fitting that he can come up with clever solutions and choices that Brennan doesn’t expect
Honestly the biggest reason it works so well for Zac is because he usually doesn't play spotlight characters. Most of his characters tend to fade into the background to let others shine, and then have their breakout moments shine harder because they're less remembered. Gorgug is one of the least, if not THE least notable members of the Bad Kids due to his life's overall relative stability compared to the others, which in turn means all the cool things Gorgug can do tend to slip Brennan's mind. Lapin, Cumulus, Ricky, Pib, and Colin also tend to fall into that same niche. Lapin and Cumulus don't stand out or make themselves prominently known nearly as much as the rest of the Rocks do, but Lapin helped massively on the political side of things and would've been an absolute unit of a character had he lived longer. Cumulus is also rather understated and seems a bit distant, but he's the biggest reason they got out with so few injuries from the Dairy Sea. Pib's entire story *_was_* assisting others with his own talents for "his own profit", but he continued to do things that benefited others more than himself. Colin wasn't as notable as his other counterparts in the Ravening War, but that allowed him more leeway to make an impact. Ricky's arguably the most normal of both Unsleeping City parties comparatively and for the most part is just there to help the team when they need him. Squinge and Skip are probably Zac's boldest characters, and even then Squinge still prefers the sidelines. Skip's by FAR Zac's most spotlighted character, yet still ends up being support just as much as a mainline fighter. All of Zac's characters work like his comedy style- understated till they whack you in the face. It overall leads to less standout moments, but in turn it means Zac helps others have more frequent standout moments (like telling Lou to roll against the Nat 20 in the arcade, which does save Fabian, or jokingly telling Margaret to bank when they were escaping Rec 91) and that makes Brennan forget about Zac's own cool stuff until it whacks him in the face.
Emily and Ally deserve their reputations but Zach is such a sleeper agent of chaos
@@eaglefan2569 “Sometimes it’s about doing a lot of stuff, sometimes it’s about doing not a lot of stuff” - Zac Oyama
I was drawn to D20 by clips of Emily's chaos, but Zach quickly became my favorite. The way he can get his dumb characters to say seemingly dumb stuff to get the other players to clock onto his solutions is brilliant.
I love Erika's face 100% knowing what's coming but trying not to tip off Jasmine XD
For real! Jasmine handed him that bit and still suspected nothing.
Zac's "where is your bulb now" line was absolutely legendary.
That and "what should I tell your family" are probably two of the coldest lines to come out of D20
I FORGOT ABOUT THE PAPER EATING IN COFFIN RUN! That one really was on Jasmine XD
i love how during the call to the guards play you can hear lou say "its a trigger so that murph.." and no one else hears it
Everyone talks about Emily and Ally wrecking Brennan's shit but Zac is the silent killer of the group
Emily fucks Brenan up in combat, Ally is a consistent wild card whos luck will put Brennan on the backfoot, Zac is a Rouge at the table, almost everything he does has a purpose.
"Why would that be mine? You pulled it out of YOUR pocket." from Starstruck is so great
@@BonesCapone honestly even i was kind of convinced especially given that zac immediately turned to the others in the room and went "whats wrong with him" then continued gaslighting this man
The “should I rage” bit absolutely killed me when I watched that scene, I had to rewind just to watch Brennan’s face when he realized he fucked himself over again a couple times. It was absolute gold
I love the confused "Okayyyy?" right before the Plinth destruction. He can't think of any possible way for her to be doing this, but he knows Emily is sneaky enough to somehow pull it off. So he is just waiting for the explanation of her shenanigan.
FINE I’ll rewatch Crown of Candy
FINE, I’ll rewatch the Starstruck Odyssey
FINE! I'll watch Crown Of Candy then rewatch Starstruck Odyssey.
I just love how Emily has her pointing fingers CHAMBERED while Zac is describing rage
You could also have added Siobhan's play in the 1st part of the Starstruck finale when she teleported into an ennemy ship to destroy the crew instead of the ship itself.
Don't forget the time Ally and Lou got back into the worst, Ally hoping on the gun, and Lou supercharging the weapons systems, just to atomize the Vercadian with 560 damage.
god you are so right!!! I was just going by my memory of most memorable episodes per each season and completely missed that bit. yes also a legendary moment
@@pibscuite oh no I guess you have to make part 2 now. sorry, but them's the breaks
@@solidmoon8266 wasn't that Emily?
@@debran940 Yeah because Emily did a bunch of crazy shit to add extra dice to the roll and then crit.
Zac: 4
Emily: 2
Murph: 1
Ally: 1
Brennan: 0
Jasmine: 0
Murph's move with Swirlwarden to keep from drowning should have been in here.
@@branecollisionas too Emily’s thunder step rescue of Joren
lol
Lou also has one with the rematch Daybreak fight
@@branecollision literally started cheering while watching alone in my apt at 2am!
Brennan seems like a super cool guy, but there's something about watching him get his shit rocked that is just consistently delightful.
Zac was laughing and trying to hide his glee when he asked if he should go into a rage? And Brennan still didn't catch on lol
sorry to ruin the magic but brennan totally knew. in most of these he knows. he's playing into the villain dm character. he's setting these up for the party.
@@SharinganMan that "no wait" was the sound of a man who just got tricked
@@wowdogememe1541 no, it was acting from a happy dm
@@SharinganMan He has repeatedly said he doesn't know
@@kai325d3 doesn't know what
I always think of Emily and Ally as the chaos monsters.... I forget about what a sly mother Zacky is.
I do truly love how much Brennan honors it when the players pull cool shit even or especially when it fucks his plans.
I had a moment like that with my old DnD group where an evil wizard conjured a balrog and I'm new to DnD so I didn't think i would have outsmarted the DM without even knowing it. I cast dispel magic since the balrog was summoned using magic and after a little bit of reading the rules on his part, he sighed and said "And the Balrog vanishes" and you have no idea how proud of myself I was.
And that's called dispelling the balrog
though your game master you may displease
for once you have dispelled the balrog
You'll find bashing that wizard a breeze
Brennan SCREAMING 'nooooo!' as Ally says they call the guards is so good
one that came out after this vid - riz hiding from kipperlily in the lava because the bad kids were immune to fire damage thanks to ice feast, and brennan realizing the lava is now ONLY a danger to his guys!
this is how dnd should be played, keep your DM on their toes
Casting Knock was one out of maybe a dozen clutch moments during that whole escape but i always remember it because it so rarely happens that Brennan is made fully speechless by a player's decision. Like his jaw is on the floor, could not see that coming, the simplest & most effective solution is simply to magically unlock the door.
I love how 2/3 of this is just Zac bein Zac
Zac is so smart! It's not always obvious because he clearly enjoys playing less overtly intelligent characters, but he's such a brilliant player! If I ever got to have him at one of my tables, I'd be honored and terrified :D
i just noticed that lou could tell what ally was doing as Margaret when NO ONE ELSE DID 😂😂😂
I’m so happy that most of these Zac, what a MVP
When everyone was perfectly silent for someone's bit instead of their usually quips and gags with eachother. They're up to something BIG.
One of the best bits with Ally's charged Fragmentation, is that structures and constructs that fail, take the MAXIMUM damage. So that's 80 damage
Emily's *
Couldve added the Amithar rage falling scene "You said i had three turns until i hit the ground, right? Can i go into a rage?" is so epic god i love CoC
I LOVE Jasmine’s reaction lol
The shortening of the cigarette holder so so good😂
"YOUR CHILDREN ARE MENACES I AM NO LONGER BABYSITTING" energy
I wasn't the biggest fan of that season but "Welcome to the streets, fool!!!" never fails to make me howl with giggles.
The "noo wait" of a dm getting completely GOT is throwing me
One moment is missing that definitely deserves to be here, and that's Siobhan scrying on Kalina
Kalina was nearly impossible to scry on but using portence to force her to take a natural 1 was genius
9:32 Carlos' "Welcome to the streets...FOOL!" Is the perfect button on that moment. 😂
Brennan’s confused face is incredible
8:29 So this character fucking limps up to the corn, says “you suck”, straightens up and walks away with as little stumbling as they can, and the corn obviously uses the opportunity to- get blasted in the face. Fuck, I’m using that for a fight scene in my fanfic now.
"Brennan come back I don't want them anymore" will always be my fav.
"Leap? No, I *fall* " is still in my brain forever.
And now in the most recent episode of FH, Brennan made a hazzard that only affects his guys
the playful yet very real antagonism is why i love d20
Emily's evil laugh at Brennan at 0:20 fuels my soul
0:00 Gorgug's Mindless Rage, Fantasy High Junior Year
1:15 "Where is your Bulb now?", A Crown of Candy
3:07 Saccharina rescues Grissini (& obliterates the entire enemy mob in the process), A Crown of Candy
4:36 "I cast Knock on the door", A Crown of Candy
5:13 Operation Slippery Puppet, A Starstruck Odyssey
7:04 Margaret's Call to the Guards vs the Corn Cuties, A Starstruck Odyssey
8:56 WELCOME TO THE STREETS, FOOL, Coffin Run
9:43 Pib pulls the ultimate theft on Baba Yaga, Neverafter
I love seeing crown of candy clips along with the other seasons. They’ve all had some intense moments, but watching CoC you can just feel it in the room how high the stakes are.
I forgot how good the Plinth Heist was.
Edit: The whole friggin' Battle of the Brands
I love BLeeM, as Caradin,'s delivery of "Apostate!". To the point where it distracts me so much I never really get the brunt of Lapin.
Brennan's face at 4:17. One of the best moments in tabletop RPG history.
I love Zac's 'Does that work?'s lol
I love Brennan's cautious, but still quite curious, "Okaaay..." at 5:59
4:31 Brennan's face during this whole thing , i kinda feel bad for him . Emily the icon that you are
just found your channel- new sub for sure. love this
thank you so much!!
I love murph’s reaction at 6:54 he is just utterly impressed and in love with Emily they’re so cute
Zac is truly a trickster spirit irl
Crown of Candy is one of the best D&D actual play moments ever TBH. So solid, so grim, so fun.
This needs Emily saving Joren Jawbreaker and the Gift of Gab moment from ACOFAF
Unless my memory is falty I am pretty sure that last one isn't the DM being bamboozled. That was what the Baba Yaga wanted to happen.
“Fookin GOT ‘EEM!” 😂😂 Absolute mad lad! Zac is Nuts! Also, friggin Emily and Siobhan are so damn pretty! 😭😭😭
Is this currently one of my favorite videos?
Yes.
Have I watched it multiple times?
Yes.
Is that the point of this post?
Yes.
The best part is that watching these before watching the whole thing is already hilarious, but with context its still so much fucking funnier😂
That first clip is one of my favorite player barbarian moments ever. Just such a huge "GET FUCKED, DM!" moments.
I need all the pain in my life to be resolved so I may do this with my life, amongst other things
That thats all of em his facedrop omg and the look of disbelief as she counted damage i was crying 😂😂😂
Emily is the mastermind behind so many of these moves, I love her
Neverafter was my first season of dimension 20 and i will never forget the experience of figuring out Pib's plan in the final episode, i was for real pounding the chair i was leaning against and jumped from my seat.
I forgot how AMAZING Crown of Candy was!!
Oh, how the graphics and models evolved! 🤘
I truly need to know HOW they knew there’d be a plinth in that fight? TRULY HOW??????!!
I think Emily read the Starstruck graphic novels before the season, so she knew there had been a Plinth in Battle of the Brands.
@@DaveHogg ok gotcha, wasn’t sure if the plinth was a Brennan addition or a origina. Makes way more sense now!
4:33 face gets me lmao
Late to the party but I want to add one of my favs which is Griffin McElroy removing his banana peel robe to Mario Kart 64 a car
The best part is there's a good chance brennan wanted them to do exactly what they did in many cases and acts surprised
Emily is such a chaos demon!!!! Love it!!!
Emily with an absolute witch cackle in the first clip
the fact that "do you get advantage if you attack yourself" isn't here
9:17 even Izzy couldn't believe she handed it over
Shame Siobhan's Last Stand play came too late to be included!
love that a rage gave zac clarity 😂
7:56 Ally is really in their Tim Heidecker era here
Goddamn, Action Kate every time
gods, i love crown of candy
so good!!
Why did Ally specify that they rolled out of the nest instead of jumping?
Mostly humor. Margaret was canonically not an athletic person and a businesswoman in a pencil skirt, so it's unlikely that she would be athletic or brave enough to leap out of a crow's nest 30 ft in the air.
Plus, doing it that way helped con Brennan into thinking it was a bit rather than a play.
It’s so that she has enough movement to get to the corn guy then move away. Leaping would use movement
To convince Brennan it was one of her comedy bits, which worked. She even fooled Siobhan and Zac.
Not enought people are talking about Em's witch cackle when Zac rages
WELCOME TO THE STREETS, F O O L
I always used to forget to use Sentinel.
Then I made a card.
Now it is my DM who forgets about Sentinel.
😁
Cards and flow charts are genuinely (characters') lifesavers. Can't play smart until you can remember what you can do.
I need a man to look at me like Brennan looks at people when they're kicking his ass @4:33
Had me rolling from the first scene
"Got him, dog. Got him."
39 damage!
Brendan: 👁👄👁
My my my. How the turntables.
Zac, Emily, and Brennan (as DM mainly) on screen will NEVER be not entertaining. Zac just has the ability to break Brennan at every corner, and Emily? Well all I have to say is “Operation Slippery Puppet.”
Zac: His Emotional Guard Break
Emily: His tactical Guard Break