Grog is clearly the brains of the group, he has a vast knowledge of shapes, colours and shiny things and an intelligence of 6.

@ricksturgis4451

Жыл бұрын

Also ale

@tudeslildude

Жыл бұрын

Ah, nice to see people of culture for a change.

@sealofapproval637

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I spent the hundreds of hours of my life needed to get this reference 😁

@josephcroeniangamer3727

Жыл бұрын

In stats that means he can't read, isnt?

@TomElliottJackson

Жыл бұрын

@@josephcroeniangamer3727 Yup, he was once briefly turned into an animal in the livestream and somehow became 2 or 4 points smarter 😆

So in the actual campaign Ashley (Pike's VA) was busy with the shooting of a movie, doing this journey to gain her powers back is a nice addition from the show.

@JaySpotTx

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the hit TV show Blindspot, available to watch on PBS at 2AM on Thursdays, correct? 😅😅

@nuclearbirds

Жыл бұрын

@@JaySpotTx It was in a prime time evening slot on NBC when Ashley was doing it.

@JaySpotTx

Жыл бұрын

@@nuclearbirds I know, that was an old Talks Machina bit about the timeslot.

@nuclearbirds

Жыл бұрын

@@JaySpotTx Ah - didn’t consistently watch Talks; must have missed that episode 😂

@tycol322

Жыл бұрын

Sam also made fun of it during one of the D&D presidential campaign spots

Percy grabbing the Wraith, hurling it into a wardrobe, and curbstomping the hell out of it while screaming his head off is probably my favorite action beat of the entire first season.

The reason behind Pike's choice at the end is because Ashley Johnson the player/voice was filming the tv show Blindspot in New York, so she was gone for a lot of campaign 1& 2. She would skype in sometimes when she could.

3:32 btw he's not an ogre or orc he's a goliath which is basically half human half stone giants who are born with tattoos and are really strong (The story varies but don't ask how they are made)

@stevencavanagh7990

Жыл бұрын

Very Brave Bards LOL

@syressx9098

Жыл бұрын

How they made tho?

@xxshaggygrxx1792

Жыл бұрын

Brave bards indeed, only a fool gets in-between a bard and his conquest.

@WillGlacier

Жыл бұрын

@@syressx9098 it depens on the canon. Some are born from climbing a mountain and being "transformed" to goliaths by some god and others are born from either a brave bard with a giant or... giants kidnapping people

@josephcroeniangamer3727

Жыл бұрын

@@syressx9098 it goes from magic, brave horny people, or the goblin slayer route.

Fun fact, Matt Mercer, the DM of Critical Role is the voice of Sylas Briarwood.

Vex and Vax, Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brian respectively, got their names because the players wanted to mess with the DM. The original name of the Vox Machina party was The S.H.I.T, or, Super High Intensity Team. It was changed to Vox Machina, literally voice machine, specifically for the stream.

@firepuppies4086

Жыл бұрын

... yo imagine Zach Aguilar joined for a moment. We already have Jotaro as the DM,

@tycol322

Жыл бұрын

And Sam (Scanlan) also half joked that if he died he was coming back as a character named "Vix" to further fuck with Matt. While he never did it, he did say in the campaign 2 wrap up that "Vix" was the starting point of trying to name his campaign two character though it did evolve quite a bit from there and was not Vix

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

@@tycol322 I love where he landed for his character in campaign 2, the backstory reveal is definitely top 5 moments for me so far.

@tycol322

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozgarthefighter oh totally. He really excels at designing characters you think are just throw aways or having them throw out some random comment that seems like a joke or spur of the moment but really have a huge implication

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

@@tycol322 SPOILERS The "My safe word is mommy" joke from episode 3 is going to take on a whole new meaning once..... You know.

a little insight on the characters for you Alicia Grog: a Goliath Barbarian Vex: (girl) half-elf ranger Vax: (boy) half-elf rogue Pike: gnome cleric Scanlan: Gnome Bard Keylith: half-elf druid Percy: human gunslinger

@Fatalbeast22

Жыл бұрын

Specifically a fighter subclass Matt made to do gunslinger things, since gunslinger didn't exist in 5e

Grog is such a good bean. He's so honest about his feelings and what he's thinking. He may be a violent enraged goliath who won't hesitate to murder anyone in the face, but he's such a sweetheart!

@jordanpeterson5140

Жыл бұрын

Grog Strongjaw: big of heart, dumb of ass

Pike was missing for a chunk of the original campaign because her player had a job filming in NY and seldom could even Skype in, so they have kept that dynamic of the party having to lose her and go in with no cleric rather than rewriting the scenario for the show, which I appreciate.

A little fun fact, the voice actor for Delilah Briarwood is the same voice actor of Azula from Avatar! (Grey DeLisle)

Can't wait for the bathtub scene in season 2.

@aaronbourque5494

Жыл бұрын

Depending on the sequence of events, that might not be until season 3...

@NoSoulJoel177

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronbourque5494 There was some stuff going about on Reddit about it a month after season 1 finished. But yeah I know, but I'd like it now.

Everlight, based on Sarenrae from Pathfinder is a deity that teaches temperance and patience in all things and the problem she was really having, as you might have noticed from earlier episodes was that she was indulging a little bit too much in things, so this trip of discovery kind of works to explain away her absence. But what really happened was that the player was busy with her real life acting career and couldn't show up for game sessions during much of this arc or future arcs either honestly, and thus she was sort of gone "finding herself".

@ShadowyFox_86

Жыл бұрын

Apparently she's also the goddess of redemption. I only learned that detail due to it being part of Pike's story.

@Mordaedil

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowyFox_86 All gods are gods of redemption, since they all allow you to cast atonement.

@ghurcbghurcb

Жыл бұрын

Actually, Pike lost her powers, because she THOUGHT she indulged too much in things. She thought that made her unworthy, but later The Everlight basically said "Have fun, I don’t care".

Pike coming in with Little foot's mom vibes in her goodbye

They always took the bear in the stream, Laura Bailey, Vex's voice actress, always insisted (though Sam Reigal, Scan's voice actor, really didn't like Trinket, and the effort involved in keeping him involved, and constantly joked about killing him off to ease the burden on the party).

Vax was only temporarily under Silas' control. That broke as soon as he was bitten

D&D gets pretty spooky sometimes.

@ShadowyFox_86

Жыл бұрын

Especially if you have Matt Mercer as your DM

Have you noticed that delilah is voiced by azula

Vampire rules for D&D is a little different from a lot of lore. The bite needs to bring your HP to 0 in order for you to be turned

@TresTrefusis

Жыл бұрын

and Vax was making death saving throws and saying his last thoughts so it was really that close.

@tycol322

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure there's also a willingness factor too. As in if you're buddy buddy with Dracula and want to become his literal BFF then I doubt you have to go through the whole 0 hp by bite thing. Ultimately though it boils down to the DM and their interpretation of the rules. As Jack Sparrow once said "the rules are more like guidelines really"

@ShadowyFox_86

Жыл бұрын

@tails322 Unless there's major house ruling, it's standard that you have to be reduced to zero (or killed outright) by the bite to turn. I can't see most DMs scrapping the mechanic.

@elbruces

Жыл бұрын

From the D&D Monster Manual... > The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises the following night as a vampire spawn under the vampire's control.

Vex Vax Vox...and when my character dies I'm coming back as Vix. Matt:you can find another GM

Pike's VA, Ashley Johnson, was away for many sessions (of both campaign 1 and 2) to record Blind Spot so they added this scene to explain Pike's absence. In c2 it was handled better as her character had character reasons for constantly disappearing from the party.

What's funny is Sam Riegel, who voices and plays Scanlan Shorthalt, once joked on stream that if Scanlan bit the dust he'd come back to play a character called "Vix", just to mess with Matt Mercer, the DM. Matt told Sam that if that day should come, they were getting a new DM. XD

I like to think right when the bolt hits the head of the wraith NWA's "straight out of compton" starts playing.

I don't know why this "one bite turns you into a vampire" idea persists as a default assumption when in the VAST majority of vampire stories, that's NOT how it works. Most vampire stories, there are three steps: 1) vampire bites/feeds on you 2) vampire feeds you some of its blood 3) you die, and rise later as a vampire I mean, that's been the MAIN way it works since "DRACULA" yet the idea of the single-bite turn persists. Drives me bonkers, man.

@jordanhansen5934

Жыл бұрын

In dnd you only become a vampire if the bite reduces you to 0 hp and there are multiple ways to undo it. Ultimately if you want your play group can homebrew how vampirism works.

@BringingTheHell

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like something a vampire would say.......*grabs cross*

@ThisIsAUsername69

Жыл бұрын

Yeah idk where it comes from either but I remember starting to watch The Vampire Diaries also thinking if a vampire bites you you'll turn. Even some of the characters thought that too. But you turn if you die with vampire blood in your system, in that show at least. The only one I can think of that works that way is in Skyrim, but that's not a bite its them using that drain spell or whatever. Maybe its from some folklore stories or maybe people be confusing it with zombies. xD

@inkpenavengerYT

Жыл бұрын

@Jordan Hansen I know how it works in D&D, my peeve is with vampire-media in general. I don't know where the one bite idea came from.

@reversalring3522

Жыл бұрын

If I had to guess, it would probably be because of Twilight... the same series that makes vampires become disco balls under sunlight instead of dying.

Even if I thought that Silas had something on Vax from biting him, Pike healed him using divine magic afterwards, so I'd assume that would fix it.

Ant simps for azula? (I mean who doesn't?) Then you're gonna love this... The VA for Delilah Briarwood is the same VA for Azula... you're welcome ant XD

22:59 once again guessing everything spot on. Also it wasn't until campaign three that Ashley Johnson (voice and creator of Pike) got to be there for the whole thing. She was a film and tv actor on top of voice acting and there were many points of time in campaign one and two where she would be gone for week after week because she was out of state or country working on projects. Canonically Pike's connection with her goddess is momentarily cut off so she stays behind to repair it, astral projecting in to save her friends at the right time, but IRL she was in a different time zone, I can't remember if she skyped in for that part or if Matt played it out.

How is she so good at predicting things? 😆

"Eat a fucking sandwich" My second favourite line of this show, the first is at episode 7 or 8, can't really remember, it's been some time.

"This is your 'leave now and come back stronger' arc." More like, "This is your 'the player can't make it to multiple sessions due to her job and needs their character taken out of the story temporarily' arc." Ashley was a busy woman in those first two campaigns.

The trick the helped me with Vex and Vax (everyone suffers from their names at first, lol) is their full names- Vex'ahlia the girl, Vaxildan, the boy, voice of Illidan Stormrage from WoW (although Laura Bailey voices Jaina Proudmore in WoW, that name isn't nearly so helpful 😁)

Prolly know this already but Sylas' va is Matt Mercer (Who is the dub actor for Jotaro)

its wild watching this so much later because you talk about fangirling over Azula WHNE HER VOICE ACTOR IS IN THE SHOW!!!! and i cant tell you! because im from the future!

18:31 Another Mercer easter egg

gotta love matt as Sylas

Grog is a goliath, not an orc

Doesn’t Grey DeLisle also voice Lady Briarwood? If Ant likes Azula I would think he would be simping more over Delilah

one thing i can say wont spoil it is only the begining X3 be warn dear elf this is but a drop of what is yet to come so let your mind and soul be ready for the fight yet to be seen if you want to know there background try critical role youtube they have there origin if ya curious its quite interesting story

3:31 *Goliath

Oh, I forgot about the horror episode

@elbruces

Жыл бұрын

WHICH ONE?!?

So sadly Vax doesn't turn into a vampire from this. The way vampirism works in D&D is that the bite has to reduce your hit points to zero, i.e. kill you. Since Vax survived the bite, he was only severely injured rather than getting turned. He'd 100% rock it as a vampire though. I mentioned last time that Vox Machina's keep in the game was based off Castle Greyskull from the 80's He-Man cartoon. Well this is the episode where you can see it. In the exterior shots of the keep's grounds where we see the whole compound, the keep itself (the central building) still has the general shape of the 80's He-Man castle, minus for that show's giant skull of course. Speaking of the keep, the massive table in the center of the dining room was actually the exact table they had for Campaign 2, which was the current campaign when the show was being developed. You can see the slot where Matt sits as the DM and how from there the others could sit in the two angled sections of the far edge of the table, allowing for the players and cameras to be set up in opposing Y shapes to best fit a stream. Matt has one camera on him, half the party sits on one side and half on the other, displayed on the stream as the "upper" and "lower" tables with Matt's view off to one side. It's funny you keep mentioning Avatar, Keyleth's entire journey is essentially Aang's. Marisha Ray, Keyleth's player, is a big Avatar fan and modeled Keyeth's mission after Aang's. She's a member of the Ashari, a druidic tribe that guards the points around the globe where the barriers between the Prime Material plane (our world) are thin and can cross over into the different Elemental planes of Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. Keyleth specifically is from the Air Ashari tribe. Every generation, one person is sent out to meet with the other Ashari tribes and maintain communication with them, learning their ways and becoming a leader of the community in the process. She already has her Air powers and as of the start of the game's stream she had also already visited the Earth Ashari and passed their trials to learn some of their powers (though that might not have been the case with this show's version of events). The process of travelling to and meeting the other Ashari tribes is called the Aramente and is Keyleth's personal storyline across the entire campaign as she pops over to see the other Ashari whenever the party are close to their locations. Pike leaving the party here is a way of incorporating her frequent absences in the game. For all of Campaign 1 and the majority of Campaign 2, her player Ashley Johnson had a regular role on the TV show Blindspot. Problem is Blindspot filmed in New York while Critical Role filmed in L.A. This meant that she was unavailable for long stretches of time. She'd pop in between filming runs if she had a couple months off or if she'd be able to have the Thursday night they film CR off to Skype in remotely if she could, but she was gone a lot across both campaigns as as result. Fortunately ever since Blindspot ended Ashley has been back full time and has been making up for lost time by absolutely killing it with her Campaign 3 character.

@ShadowyFox_86

Жыл бұрын

I can't see it going well for Vax as a vampire, considering his arc. Something just tells me that would end poorly.

Secret Tunnel!!!

I dont know if you figured it out or if someone already said it but Delilah Briarwood is the same voice of Azula

@Aliciaxlife

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Someone mentioned it today and I lost it! That is so cool!!

@blackheartthedarklord6428

Жыл бұрын

@@Aliciaxlife I guess we found your type of person

Is grog an orc? Or a goliath?

@__Insanity_

6 ай бұрын

Goliath

Scanlan is the definition of Bi-Energy XD

@Ozgarthefighter

Жыл бұрын

He's canonically pan 😀

Happens

Is horror 😱😱👍🏻

I know you are uploading quite a lot of videos so it must be a busy schedule but it's been a while since your last Vinland saga video. I atleast hope you didn't dropped it

nice

I would give this a like but i am not going to destroy the holy number of likes that is 911