Henchmen21
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Well last thurs. ep is up on G&S. Anyone wanna guess what the title is? 
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Critical Role: Voice Actors Playing D&D
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Henchmen21
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Well who's up for a two week wait?
Rockin' Ranger
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Dimension Dooring inside a dragon is clearly one of those ideas that works much better in theory than reality.
Henchmen21
Banned
Yeah what where they thinking with that? They were so afraid of dying they made things worse.
Rockin' Ranger
Member
I believe the plan was for the inside of the dragon to be a bit more spacious so Vax could just go ham with his dragon sword, it just didn't work out that way. If only Scanlan knew more about dragons.
The highlight of last night's episode for me was Laura panicking while holding the open book on her head during the attack rolls and asking, "That killed it, right? How do I want to do this?" Her 100 damage on the opening attack was great too though.
Extra Sauce
Member
I'm surprised she's not a movie or TV star considering how gorgeous she looks in addition to her acting ability.
Could be of her own volition which is obviously fine.
I mean...if they rolled well it could have been amazing, them the chances you take I guess.
Henchmen21
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Anyone else ready for tonight's Q&A? Ashley also announced that she's going to be part of the D&D at meltdown comics thing that's going to have Matt & Chris Perkins. She made a Half-Orc Cleric
Pristine_Condition
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Just a reminder:
Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey are going to be on twitch.tv/Wotc_DND in about 5 minutes.
Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey are going to be on twitch.tv/Wotc_DND in about 5 minutes.
Jay Shadow
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fixed
Henchmen21
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Yeah, Laura's on a plane back to LA with Travis.
Speaking of, what they just announced,
I don't know how matt is going to do this new thing and Critrole too. He's already stated that doesn't have any free time anymore anyway. I fear it's going to burn him out.
Pristine_Condition
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This production is a fucking disaster so far. You have to be more clever shilling shit in 2016. People in the chat are starting to rage after an hour and a half of this bullshit and no game.
Jay Shadow
Member
I assume it's gonna be pre-taped and cut up into episodes. Jonah Ray has a lot of jobs lately too, and Chris Hardwick has all the jobs. And if they're gonna be on Wednesday's, that's the day they tape 2 episodes of @midnight.
Henchmen21
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Even if it's pretaped, they still have to shoot it for several hours. Matt unfortunately strikes me as the kind of guy who can't say no to people and ends up doing everything. It's going to burn him out.
Henchmen21
Banned
Time for Critrole!
I have a sneaking suspicion that tonight we'll get our first perma-death.
New Year. New Me
Member
I`ve been looking forward to this session all week!
Gonna be good.
Gonna be good.
Megalosaro
Banned
Um... what did you think this event was going to be, dude?
It was always going to be about promoting the next phase of releases.
Henchmen21
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Scanlan Shorthalt: Fisting Dragons.
Jay Shadow
Member
Sam Riegel: "Wow. This didn't go well."
Zod the Bear
Member
Perkins!
"Goat ball--it's more civilized than what we were thinking."
"Goat ball--it's more civilized than what we were thinking."
Rockin' Ranger
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Rockin' Ranger
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I was really hoping for a, "How do you want to do this?" on Bigby's Hand fingering Umbrasyl.
Henchmen21
Banned
This damn dragon won't die!!!!!!!!
Pristine_Condition
Member
I know that, but it was incredibly poorly executed. They led people to believe the game was going to start an hour and a half before it actually did. So viewers felt they got bait-and-switched. They never updated the viewers when the game was actually coming up. Plus the audio was fucked up, and the video cueing was a disaster. They did a long segment interviewing a mural artist, and failed to show the mural.
When you lose 500+ viewers to your event, (which was like 1/5th of your live audience) you failed.
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What an awesome episode last night!
If anybody was waiting for the rebroadcast to start, but was disappointed to see the stream having technical issues...THE STREAM RE-BROADCAST IS FINALLY STARTING RIGHT NOW!
https://www.twitch.tv/geekandsundry
Jay Shadow
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I looked at the calendar of upcoming events at Meltdown and it looks like this Sunday they're taping the entire D&D at Meltdown series from 12pm - 8:30pm.
Henchmen21
Banned
That was certainly something. Bring hankies everyone.
GROG GROG GROG GROG! What a fucking sick close to Grogs character arc for this part.
Henchmen21
Banned
Grog of War. I hope the cast teases Travis mercilessly about this
Henchmen21
Banned
Did anyone catch the Critrole panel at e3? I was asleep and missed it.
Zod the Bear
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They've got it on VoD for Twitch for subscribers, starting at about somewhere in minute 7.
The last half hour is a Q&A with about 50/50 voice acting/Critical Role questions.
The last half hour is a Q&A with about 50/50 voice acting/Critical Role questions.
Henchmen21
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I'm not a subscriber nor do I have the money to (unemployed) though.
Zod the Bear
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Gotcha--that's the only uploaded version I could find at the moment, but hopefully they'll throw it up on G&S soon.
Jay Shadow
Member
Just caught up on last week's episode. This is perfect.
Rockin' Ranger
Member
Scanlan being able to inspire himself now fits his character perfectly.
Rockin' Ranger
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"I know Jenga, it's one of my favorite words." - Grog
Jay Shadow
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Liam is running a game tonight with Matt and Marisha out of town.
Henchmen21
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Critical Role Live!!!!! July 14th!!!! in LA
edit: Metacritical role
Does Travis look really sunburned?
edit: Metacritical role
Does Travis look really sunburned?
Rockin' Ranger
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Henchmen21
Banned
Tonight. Enter the Feywild!
Jay Shadow
Member
The wrong person is Skyping in...man, this Feywild really is weird.
Henchmen21
Banned
It occurs to me, how are they going to do this live thing tomorrow? I don't think Game the Game is going to be live also so are they going to air that in studio and then cut to CR at the theater? Are they cutting GtG altogether tomorrow? They really didn't explain how this is going down.
I've finally caught up after binging the show for the past month or so. Bittersweet, since now I have to wait, but I really love this show.
The actors have the chops to pull off the the goofy, the serious, and everything in between. I especially enjoy the Grog-heavier episodes; Travis does the character very well and adds some nice depth to it when he get's a chance. That's an archetype that could easily be really shallow and annoying in the wrong hands. He and Pike are also adorable. And of course, Scanlan is the MVP of the party.
I've always been interested in playing D&D, but getting a group together with a good DM has just seemed like such an ordeal. This is great for me to play vicariously through.
The one-off that Liam DM'ed recently was a lot of fun, too, and delightfully weird. That faux voice acting session at the beginning was the best part. "Pickup!"
So my first episode that I watch streaming live will be their first live show tomorrow night. Lots of pressure for Liam and Laura to have a big, dramatic family reunion in front of a live audience. Honestly, I'm a little worried about the audience being being backseat players or just shouting out memes throughout the show. Hopefully they convince them all to be respectful before the show starts, because I think it could really easily ruin the whole vibe.
and it got infinitely better after episode 27
I've always been interested in playing D&D, but getting a group together with a good DM has just seemed like such an ordeal. This is great for me to play vicariously through.
The one-off that Liam DM'ed recently was a lot of fun, too, and delightfully weird. That faux voice acting session at the beginning was the best part. "Pickup!"
So my first episode that I watch streaming live will be their first live show tomorrow night. Lots of pressure for Liam and Laura to have a big, dramatic family reunion in front of a live audience. Honestly, I'm a little worried about the audience being being backseat players or just shouting out memes throughout the show. Hopefully they convince them all to be respectful before the show starts, because I think it could really easily ruin the whole vibe.
Calcium
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Yeah, I know that feeling. Being able to binge this show was amazing. Kind of a bummer having to wait, especially with G&S not putting out the new episode for free for a few days after the livestream.
Yep.
Yeah, I'm worried too. I'm guessing the Critical Role fan base skews older, so maybe it'll be alright.
I may go down the dark path of re-watching the series, though at a much slower rate. Probably just starting at Whitestone, because I tried watching one of the earlier episodes and I actually find the atmosphere in the room physically uncomfortable on a second viewing.
Let's hope so, the community seems to be quite positive from what I've gleaned. Alpha nerds who fancy themselves MST3K hosts are alive and well, however.
I also hope they have a decent sound setup, or at least a good backup recording they can edit over the top of the footage for the upload on Monday.
Zod the Bear
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I'll echo some of the worry about the live audience, just due to some of the crazy that's been unleashed with large donations in the charity live streams. I'm hoping it'll just be cheering and general reactions though, and I'm sure the crew will prep the audience for general expectations and adjust the crowd's sound pre show.