Scanlan is the best.
Scanlan's character creation @ the Wizard World panel. The whole panel is great.
Scanlan is the best.
Scanlan's character creation @ the Wizard World panel. The whole panel is great.
I tried watching the first episode of this, but audio quality seemed bad and there were too many people, I stopped after like 10 minutes. Does it get better? I guess I was expecting more when I heard they were voice actors.
I do like itmeJP's RollPlay stuff, 4 players and a GM. Production is usually pretty good with decent audio when Skype isn't being a piece of shit. West Marches and Swan Song are good long running series. Mirrorshades was awesome, but just ended. I haven't started watching their new Balance of Power show based on Star Wars yet, but am pretty excited to sit down and watch it soon.
It gets A LOT better, production-wise, and story/character-wise too. What you saw in the first episode was literally a group of friends who had been playing a game at home for two years, suddenly thrust on video. They work a lot of things out.
Scanlan's character creation @ the Wizard World panel. The whole panel is great.
Before I got to this post I had forgotten about that. I was thinking 'I just got done watching The Last Witchhunter a couple days ago and love that it is just a big love letter to his DnD character. I'd watch Vin play DnD.'They recorded an episode with Vin Diesel as part of his promotion of The Last Witch Hunter. He seems pretty psyched about it.
Alright, I'll give it another shot when I get a chance. Good to know it improves.
Oh my god, that episode was one of the best yet. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time... Jesus... SO. EFFING. INTENSE. And so much new lore at the end. That battle, the puzzles... God I love this show.
Grog going insomniac to try to fill the sword was such a risk. Of course he had no idea he was walking into "Skill Check City" when he decided to take the exhaustion, which made it great. But boy, did it pay off with the transformation. I can't wait to see how that arc plays out. So many remaining questions about that sword. Crazy bad luck that the second thing he ever hit with the transformed sword would be Pike, but it made for great drama.
Man some of the locations for those Vestiges are insane. See you guys for the first Chroma Conclave fight in 2 years.
I missed that part. How did it fill up?
Grog didn't take a short rest after the big fight on last week's episode, so he kept his strength bonus that he gets when he hits w/ the blade and they fail their saving throw. Grog had just finished killing everything in the Orc camp, and was REALLY buffed out with extra strength points, and he had one of those conversations with his blade. Instead of telling Grog he was "sooooo hungry...." or whatever like usual, the blade told him he was almost full. Grog decided to forgo all rest, so he could keep his buffs.
Grog ended up taking an exhaustion point, so he had disadvantage on all skill checks in the temple. He rolled really lucky though, and made it through, somehow.
At the fight with the Sphinx, the Sphinx failed a save vs. the blade and the blade transformed into a bigger, badder blade. Longer, with spikes, and more darkness. It also now deals necrotic. No idea if the blade will revert after Grog rests. I kinda think it's a permanent transformation.
*knowing chuckle*Does Percy ever come out of his shell? Of all the characters I like him the least just because the dude is silent like 90% of the time. I find his backstory to be interesting, but it's kind of wasted if he doesn't develop the character.
Does Percy ever come out of his shell? Of all the characters I like him the least just because the dude is silent like 90% of the time. I find his backstory to be interesting, but it's kind of wasted if he doesn't develop the character.
*knowing chuckle*
I have a question for those who play DnD or at least understand the rules better than I do. Is Trinket pretty useless or does Laura just not utilize him properly? It just seems like he is a burden to the group more often than not. Don't get me wrong, I love the damn thing and Laura is just adorable talking about him. Just wondering.
She's too afraid to let Trinket possibly get hurt.Is Trinket pretty useless or does Laura just not utilize him properly?
She's too afraid to let Trinket possibly get hurt.
I just started getting into this after the promotion on Gamespot and Kinda Funny, and I remember that someone linked it to me about a year ago when they only had a few episodes. Back then, the starting audio was so horrendous that I didn't even bother sticking with it.
However I started again. pushed through it, and now I'm in deep. There is soooooo much to catch up on though when each episode is ~3hrs, but I'm actually very happy about that because I love it so much.
I do feel that first impressions are important, and that first episode is super unfortunate in starting out with the most horrendous audio that I feel turns most people off without even giving it a chance.
Also people should check out the crossover they did with Kinda Funny, because it convinced me to give the show another shot and is also a hilarious off shoot episode.
I've never seen this show and won't continue (I'm not into D&D or RP in general), but I watched the Kinda Funny crossover. Holy shit, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
You say that but that's pretty much what Critical Role is. Yeah it can be serious. Not everyone is cracking jokes all the time. But they never take the show too seriously (especially Sam).
Wow, just finished the first two parts of Trial of the Take last night. That shit was intense. Felicia Day and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn were amazing. If guest appearances always go that well I hope they do much more of that in future episodes.
Also, a reminder that Matt Mercer is DMing a Pathfinder one-shot tonight on Geek&Sundry's twitch channel at 7PM Pacific Time with Taliesin, Marisha, Phil Lamar, Ashly Burch and Ivan Van Norman.
https://twitter.com/GeekandSundry/status/722126154514059264
I'm up to the point where they announce Orion is leaving the show. Not going to miss that dude at all. Over the course of the first few story arcs it became ridiculously obvious that the notoriety went to his head and instead of "Vox Machina" it was "Tiberius Stormwind and Friends". From trying to bend the rules to do "cool" stuff, constant interruptions during dialogue, running off by himself to do random things and getting visibly annoyed when the focus wasn't on him. There was a point where the Briarwood arc was starting up he left the party to do something and understandably Matt kept his focus on Percy and the rest of the party, Orion tried to get Matt's attention a few times and was ignored repeatedly so he said something snarky about him being "secondary" to Sam. Yeah, you are secondary when you run off by yourself and the DM is focused on introducing a major story arc for another character. Such annoying behavior, even Travis snapped at him during episode 27 for taking forever shopping. Not sure how the group dynamic will work now, but I think I'll be happier.
I see what you guys meant about Percy now. Yikes.
It's much better know without him to the point where I can't go back and watch those early episodes with him in it.
I think the very early Tiberius was pretty cool because he was the only player to think of the game like a game. Which worked out well at the start of the stream because Orion hadn't yet been influenced by a legion of fans praise so he didn't try to single handedly solve every problem.
I'm up to the point where they announce Orion is leaving the show. Not going to miss that dude at all. Over the course of the first few story arcs it became ridiculously obvious that the notoriety went to his head and instead of "Vox Machina" it was "Tiberius Stormwind and Friends". From trying to bend the rules to do "cool" stuff, constant interruptions during dialogue, running off by himself to do random things and getting visibly annoyed when the focus wasn't on him. There was a point where the Briarwood arc was starting up he left the party to do something and understandably Matt kept his focus on Percy and the rest of the party, Orion tried to get Matt's attention a few times and was ignored repeatedly so he said something snarky about him being "secondary" to Sam. Yeah, you are secondary when you run off by yourself and the DM is focused on introducing a major story arc for another character. Such annoying behavior, even Travis snapped at him during episode 27 for taking forever shopping. Not sure how the group dynamic will work now, but I think I'll be happier.
I see what you guys meant about Percy now. Yikes.
Seems like it would've just kept on going if Grog had been able to stick with that original 20. All stemmed from getting remembering disadvantage via exhaustion and getting a 1.
Grog pushing onward without rest in the last session made it an option, which was all him. Don't think Matt's particularly gunning for people, but he's not pulling punches either.
That was a crazy opening to the episode. I love this show.
Crit Role Stats just put up total gameplay time of all 50 eps so far. 151:22:38