@@The1337Duke not essentially ... your muscles and sinew are instantly burned, whats worse they will automatically contract before failing ... falling into lava unless you have some magical immunity to heat is instant death, no rolls no "take x amount of damage", if you step in it you are dead its that simple.
That nat one in the lava had such a profound effect on Marisha, she designed a whole character with the attention of avoiding it ever happening in future.
I mean, the distance you can comfortably cover with a long jump is normally equal to your Strength Score (e.g. score of 14 means you cover 14 feet), and I don't remember Keyleth having less than 6 Strength, so she should have been fine, but oh well :D
@@Iottary I think the implication was that the fight was a horrible failure that really hurt morale so keyleth failing to jump 6-7 feet was just the cherry on top.
@@Iottary well, full context keyleth hates the green dragon raishan for unleashing thordak ( big red dragon) and killing most of Pyra fire based druids members of a not familial but related tribe to keyleths Zephra air based druids. at this point they had just gotten done fighting the big ancient red one and immediately at keyleths behest rushed after the green ancient dragon, not really the smartest move as most of the party was pretty beat up after the first fight (this event is just after the green dragon ''fled'' , so the metaphor from my perspective is a general sense of ''oh look what your hubris has wrought, and just in case you forgot this was all your fault, here's a mouth full of lava on top''
God, that last set with Travis getting natural 1s on both his Reckless throws. That man exploded in some massive rage and just sat there soulless. Also, Ashley trying to ask to help him in any way is just precious
Travis has the power to roll absolutely perfectly for maximum drama, comedy, or badassery, as the situation calls for. Probability bends around the power of plot for him.
@@LednacekZ Rolling a one on a d20 is a critical FAIL...regardless on what bonuses you have on your stats. There was actually one or two instances where one can roll into the negatives depending on stats (Campaign 2's Nott the Brave once rolled a 0 (rolled a 3 with a -3 in Deception/Charisma skill).
@@eternasapphiremoon81 you can get negatives when you add the proficiencies, but you cant roll a negative. Rolling a nat1 does not mean it has to be a critical fail. It all depends on how the DM is playing the rules. Also, correct me if I am wrong, but halflings can reroll 1s.
falling into lava should have been automatic death, GM giving you any other result is him simply taking pity on the player and making a MIRACLE happen.
@@Asghaad There are lots of things in D&D that realistically should kill a character outright, but they only do a certain amount of damage (RAW). The game designers didn't want to make instant death to be a real threat for PCs. I'm not sure about the lava rules, but it seems like this kind of thing.
Tbf it was kind of self-inflicted, if you have a 10ft run up before your jump you can make a distance equal to your strength score in feet without needing a roll. Even with the standing jump rules you can still leap a distance of half your strength score without needing to roll a check, so at this point Keyleth would have had a 7ft/14ft jump distance.
@@moumooni You realise they came very close to a TPK here, and if that had happened we would be looking back at this clip and talking about how a missed rule lead to the premature end of Vox Machina which would have been a sucky way for it to end. Honestly I think Matt may have had a brief foray into fudged dice roll territory here.
@@nervesconcord yet it was very fun and exciting, even for the players. Failure can create very intense feelings of things going wrong, which is great for a RPGAME. Also the DM has freedom to make any rules they want to enhance gameplay and narrative and that could've been Matt's choice, which overrules the D&D rules. Furthermore, if you look at it realistically, the requisite of rolling for that jump (and the natural one itself) actually makes alot of sense, since they were fighting an ancient red dragon right before the green dragon, so they would've been exhausted. Matt's decision to force that roll was genius and the results were very, very powerful from a narrative standpoint.
@@moumooni I'm sure he just forgot the rule, which is completely forgivable for any DM. But it's kind of making me sad how you are advocating Matt, just because he is such a star in a world of D&D, I guess. Realistically, I can make almost a 6 feet step with a slight push and I'm exactly 6 feet tall. I don't see how can I fail this jump, unless I can't keep myself on my legs. And if that's the case, I won't be trying. So I see it like a lame call. And again. I'm certain Mercer just forgot the rule. "Asking for a check for usual action, when 2 party members are down, is genius" - brr, it terrifies me imagining you as a DM.
4:56 you can just FEEL the disappointment in Matt's face as he's trying to come up with the worst possible outcome to just JUMPING ACROSS 7 FEET OF LAVA
the keyleth lava moment and goldfish were the moments marisha decided that she was gonna make a monk so she could "dope monk shit" her way out of ever doing that again
We were playing D&D 3.5 and one of the players rolled 9 natural 1's in a row on 9 different dice, this was witnessed by two other people, the player was in combat at the time, his opponent offered to stop and finish later when he had time to recompose himself, the player has not lived it down to this day.
7:02 Matt: "This whole thing is a metaphor for 2017" I can't believe we used to say things like this. After 2020, every other year seems amazing by comparison.
I'm pretty sure people say that about most years. It's a forever-cycle of complaining about new goings-on that never stops, it's certainly the case for "the end of the world" or generational cultural differences (kids have the weirdest slang these days!). I've been doing some thinking on the matter lately.
-Keyleth attempts to jump. -trips on the edge. -falls off camera. -cut to everyone else doing an "Ow! That's gotta hurt!" face. -enter hissing noise and smoke from off camera, of burning flesh. -back to previous shot, same angle. -Keyleth emerges from off camera, up into frame. "I'm OK!". Heavy panting.
Vex, a ranger: I land and I instantly cast Cure Wounds. Jester, a cleric: I don't have any healing spells prepared. I absolutely love Laura. I hope she never changes.
@@AlexQuill63In theory cleric is a cool class that can do many cool things. Sadly I never got to do any of the cool stuff because everyone expected me to use my turn to heal them and the DM didn't care about balancing his fights because "you can just heal them" and then he started targeting my character because "trying to kill the healer first is smart" Never had less fun in my life.
@Nike-gs8ig Ugh, sorry that happened, sounds like a really crappy experience. For starters that's a party that needs an abrupt reminder that you hold Dominion over whether they live or die and perhaps you should have some fun as well, and that DM needs a reminder that it is not "DM vs the party" at all times.
Idk if I remember right but when “The Meatman” was trying to escape & Vex was trying to stop him while they were in the alley way then they both rolled natural 1’s and fell over an ate shit was one of my fav nat 1 moments
3:00 Tal looking so happy and excited like a little kid when asking if there was going to be blood. His reaction to the whole incident just make this 1000times better
There have been a lot of spectacular failures and glorious triumphs with the natural 1's & 20's, but somehow Travis just finds a way to push it even further on both ends.
I do miss Taliesin and Marisha just sort of falling over each other laughing but at the same time I love Liam becoming collateral damage to her flailing
@@n3onvalkyrie936 care to explain how? i can think of a few ways but is kind of hard to kill a paladin, had to be a sudden big amount of damage out of nowhwere
@@arthaiser I had 3 health and the party was out of healing. I just so happened to lose my weapon down a hole that had a home-brew monster horde in it and failed trying to get my weapon. I didn't fall to my death or anything I just didn't climb fast enough and my cleric threw 150+ D6 worth of explosives down into the hole. It was rough.
@@High-LordHarza Oh yeah definetely. My comment is oversimplified. I definetely enjot the nat 20s on serious battles or important saves. But when it's general RP which makes up most of the episodes, the failures are made great by the cast.
Gotta love it when none of these Natural 1s are from the Wil Wheaton Dice Curse episodes. I mean, these are pretty hilarious in their own right...but there's nothing like watching the mental breakdowns of everyone trying to figure out how Wil Wheaton can defy math and physics.
@Kristopher Chavez Depends on how you phrase it. If all rolls are independent and unconnected to each other, then you’re right. But if we consider that each roll before Travis last roll have to be 2 nat 20 for Lionel land 1 nat 1 for Grog, the combinations of that should be (1/20)*(1/20)*(1/20)*(1/20).
What about recently when Beau hit a natural one, swore loudly and Caleb went deadpan, “That’s the goal”? Suddenly everyone but Caleb burst into laughter with Matt going “Even when Beauregard loses, she wins.”
Love that these guys are listening to the Oblivion soundtrack during their campaigns. I don't play DND whatsoever, but this group is really fun to watch and listen. Thanks for the compilation!
9:00 Man that role...It would have changed everything. Matt stated in one of the Q&A´s that if Travis had done that, then Grog would have been possessed by the Githyanki pirate & he would gradually try to control Grogs actions more & more
You can add Laudna's 1 to the list. Also, for future DMs, you do not sink in lava. You will bounce off it like hitting concrete. Any fall from height into lava should take falling damage on top of heat.
I remember a moment in my current campaign, I rolled 6 Nat 1’s out of 12 total rolls. It was that kind of night for me. I believe I also rolled double Nat 1’s on one roll. I think I’ve also rolled the most Nat 1’s out of the group lol. But I will say, in clutch moments, I’ve had good rolls so I guess that’s how the universe balances everything lmao
Get yo-self some new dice. Sometimes they are badly mis-weighted. I have a dice that defaults to crits more than any other roll. After realising that, I tested all my dice, tallying the results of hundreds of rolls and seeing if they float in water because of hidden air pockets, etc. Whenever I am DMing, I am sure to use the dice that was the most balanced in all tests. Obviously you can just use Google dice or an app instead to prevent that... a lot quicker than rolling dice a couple of hundred times.
So we were playing in our game today and myself (Rogue) and our party Bard was having a friendly duel/sparring match with each other. In a town where such things are a cultural custom. Being a Tiefling I cast darkness to try and make it abit more interesting. Having a decent perception I knew where he was and thus threw a dagger in his direction. I casually rolled WITH ADVANTAGE mind.... Double Nat 1.... This dagger flies out of the darkness circle and embeds itself in the chest of an innocent commoner/bystander and kills her..... Total freak accident. But..... Yea jesus....
My first and experience i was playing the halfling rogue from the starter set i remember all my friends told me i was gonna roll all mat 20s I ended up rolling like 10 nat ones that night.... I didnt notice till the end of the night that halfling reroll ones...
@Kristopher Chavez The players hand book doesn't specify a limit, only stating that you have to use the new roll, so unless you've played at a table with homebrewed limitations then no halfling luck has no limits.
I thought, at first, you could cast Feather Fall on the chicken to give yourself a better shot. But Feather Fall has to be cast on a Creature. So, when the servant throws the chicken, you first have to cast Animate Dead. THEN you can cast Feather Fall, and it will be a much easier target!
I'm pretty sure if you were to fall into a river of molten lava you wouldn't actually sink, the liquid rock being heavier than you. You'd most likely float on the surface easily.
Ah- memorable Nat 1s.... Mine was when Avery (my Rouge) tried to sneakily open a door to get out of someone's house before he noticed us... Nat 1 and I pushed a pull door so hard I put my fuckin' elbow through it. Needless to say- I was spotted.
oh my god why didn't they animate the chicken skeet shoot scene that would've been fuckin hilarious! there were so many scenes in taverns too. and the chances of rolling three nat1s in a row is 1 in 8000. just incredible unluck from travis.
It's always so weird to see Taliesin with his hair dyed instead of its natural blue color.
That’s not even his original hair color lmao, he bleached it a few weeks before c1e1
@@presleylopez9619 He knows.
@@strings1586 woosh
@@korrasmuscles More like woosh for you, OP was pointing out how we've never seem his natural hair colour
@@LordVader1094 woosh, he wasn't replying to op
Being "essentially prone in lava" is the worst kind of essentially prone.
You're essentially boned at that point
if you fall into lava you act like water in a hot pan, not pretty
@@The1337Duke not essentially ... your muscles and sinew are instantly burned, whats worse they will automatically contract before failing ...
falling into lava unless you have some magical immunity to heat is instant death, no rolls no "take x amount of damage", if you step in it you are dead its that simple.
You could see Matt's despair as he realized what had happened too.
Keyleth doing a burn ankin tribute
In the first clip, Sam was prototyping his trademark Nott Scream™️
I LOL'd so hard at Sam's acting that my fiance' was asking what I was watching
I thought the same thing the second I heard it XD
That nat one in the lava had such a profound effect on Marisha, she designed a whole character with the attention of avoiding it ever happening in future.
Yup, and now we get to listen to her awkwardly describe how she parkours over everything.
Oh, she passed through fire alright
Now that's what I call a baptism by fire.
@@westy1637 Yes, truly a massive improvement.
I mean, the distance you can comfortably cover with a long jump is normally equal to your Strength Score (e.g. score of 14 means you cover 14 feet), and I don't remember Keyleth having less than 6 Strength, so she should have been fine, but oh well :D
"Oh look, someone left a metaphor on the ground." Taliesin's humor is always so amazing.
Hypothetically, if someone didn't get the joke, how would you explain it? Hypothetically, of course.
@@Iottary I think the implication was that the fight was a horrible failure that really hurt morale so keyleth failing to jump 6-7 feet was just the cherry on top.
@@Iottary the floor is lava
When Taleiesin hitsits hits big times
@@Iottary well, full context keyleth hates the green dragon raishan for unleashing thordak ( big red dragon) and killing most of Pyra fire based druids members of a not familial but related tribe to keyleths Zephra air based druids. at this point they had just gotten done fighting the big ancient red one and immediately at keyleths behest rushed after the green ancient dragon, not really the smartest move as most of the party was pretty beat up after the first fight (this event is just after the green dragon ''fled'' , so the metaphor from my perspective is a general sense of ''oh look what your hubris has wrought, and just in case you forgot this was all your fault, here's a mouth full of lava on top''
God, that last set with Travis getting natural 1s on both his Reckless throws. That man exploded in some massive rage and just sat there soulless. Also, Ashley trying to ask to help him in any way is just precious
I like how Travis gets over half the nat 1's on this list, but tbf, he got that Nat 20 on Kevdak, so it all balances out
And the search for grog crits!
@@mr.c207 Yes! Soooo good!!!
Plus his double nat 20 in the search for Grog
Travis has the power to roll absolutely perfectly for maximum drama, comedy, or badassery, as the situation calls for. Probability bends around the power of plot for him.
he got the nat20 on Kevdak bc it was a Reckless, the first roll on Kevdak before the advantage reroll was a 1
Travis: “2 shit throws in a row, can’t get any fuckin’ worse.”
Also Travis: “Why would you put that out there??!?”
technically, it didnt. you cant go worse than a 1.
@@LednacekZ Technically it did. He was referring to the 2 in a row, not the number thrown. 🤷🏻♂️
@@LednacekZ Rolling a one on a d20 is a critical FAIL...regardless on what bonuses you have on your stats.
There was actually one or two instances where one can roll into the negatives depending on stats (Campaign 2's Nott the Brave once rolled a 0 (rolled a 3 with a -3 in Deception/Charisma skill).
@@eternasapphiremoon81 you can get negatives when you add the proficiencies, but you cant roll a negative.
Rolling a nat1 does not mean it has to be a critical fail. It all depends on how the DM is playing the rules. Also, correct me if I am wrong, but halflings can reroll 1s.
@@LednacekZ wellll....Nott would like to disagree because he rolled a 0 on deception(rolled 3, and modifier of -3)
"this whole thing's a metaphor for 2017." oh they had no idea.... No Clue....
I said the same thing when I heard that
Thought this exactly... was going to comment that, but you beat me to it lol
i know right, my immediate thought was, “oh man...they thought 2017 was bad...?”
2020 - somehow we rolled a nat negative 20.
Well, you know what they say; hindsight is 20/20. And the people who made this exact joke back in 2019 must feel terrible.
It's a bloody miracle that any of them survived. Great video.
You can see Matt's face when Keyleth falls into the lava - "Whelp, this might be a TPK..."
To quote the man himself:
"How have you all survived to level 12?!"
falling into lava should have been automatic death, GM giving you any other result is him simply taking pity on the player and making a MIRACLE happen.
@@Asghaad There are lots of things in D&D that realistically should kill a character outright, but they only do a certain amount of damage (RAW). The game designers didn't want to make instant death to be a real threat for PCs. I'm not sure about the lava rules, but it seems like this kind of thing.
keyleth and the lava, one of the very few times matt looked really upset at a dice roll
Tbf it was kind of self-inflicted, if you have a 10ft run up before your jump you can make a distance equal to your strength score in feet without needing a roll. Even with the standing jump rules you can still leap a distance of half your strength score without needing to roll a check, so at this point Keyleth would have had a 7ft/14ft jump distance.
@@nervesconcord but adding a check to it made that battle feel so much more intense and actually cool. Probably one of the best battles of CR.
@@moumooni You realise they came very close to a TPK here, and if that had happened we would be looking back at this clip and talking about how a missed rule lead to the premature end of Vox Machina which would have been a sucky way for it to end. Honestly I think Matt may have had a brief foray into fudged dice roll territory here.
@@nervesconcord yet it was very fun and exciting, even for the players. Failure can create very intense feelings of things going wrong, which is great for a RPGAME. Also the DM has freedom to make any rules they want to enhance gameplay and narrative and that could've been Matt's choice, which overrules the D&D rules.
Furthermore, if you look at it realistically, the requisite of rolling for that jump (and the natural one itself) actually makes alot of sense, since they were fighting an ancient red dragon right before the green dragon, so they would've been exhausted. Matt's decision to force that roll was genius and the results were very, very powerful from a narrative standpoint.
@@moumooni I'm sure he just forgot the rule, which is completely forgivable for any DM. But it's kind of making me sad how you are advocating Matt, just because he is such a star in a world of D&D, I guess. Realistically, I can make almost a 6 feet step with a slight push and I'm exactly 6 feet tall. I don't see how can I fail this jump, unless I can't keep myself on my legs. And if that's the case, I won't be trying. So I see it like a lame call. And again. I'm certain Mercer just forgot the rule. "Asking for a check for usual action, when 2 party members are down, is genius" - brr, it terrifies me imagining you as a DM.
Everyones daily reminder that the goldfish incident wasn't even due to a natural 1.
i was thinking that but no, keyfish was pure hubris
wasn't even a dice roll in general, even with the low rolls she just completely forgot birds exist XD
4:56 you can just FEEL the disappointment in Matt's face as he's trying to come up with the worst possible outcome to just JUMPING ACROSS 7 FEET OF LAVA
I've never seen him hesitate on describing something like that in the game.
the keyleth lava moment and goldfish were the moments marisha decided that she was gonna make a monk so she could "dope monk shit" her way out of ever doing that again
I love in the first clip Laura calls out her natural one and Tal’s response is just “Easiest number to count to” 😂😂
Travis Willingham: pure ecstasy w/ Nat 20s and pure humiliation w/ Nat 1s. Idk which one is better
We were playing D&D 3.5 and one of the players rolled 9 natural 1's in a row on 9 different dice, this was witnessed by two other people, the player was in combat at the time, his opponent offered to stop and finish later when he had time to recompose himself, the player has not lived it down to this day.
Man, didn't know Wil Wheaton was possessing people now
@@DParkerNunyathe fact that your comment has 9 likes is too perfect
1 in 512 billion chance
7:02 Matt: "This whole thing is a metaphor for 2017"
I can't believe we used to say things like this. After 2020, every other year seems amazing by comparison.
Yep we went from "life is kinda crummy" to life being put on pause.
I'm sorry bud but 2022 is even worse
I'm pretty sure people say that about most years. It's a forever-cycle of complaining about new goings-on that never stops, it's certainly the case for "the end of the world" or generational cultural differences (kids have the weirdest slang these days!).
I've been doing some thinking on the matter lately.
Remember when we thought 2016 was the worst year ever?
With no context, hearing how many people were down or dead in that second clip actually shook me to my core
That episode was such a stressful period, one of the rare times I thought they were gonna TPK
-Keyleth attempts to jump.
-trips on the edge.
-falls off camera.
-cut to everyone else doing an "Ow! That's gotta hurt!" face.
-enter hissing noise and smoke from off camera, of burning flesh.
-back to previous shot, same angle.
-Keyleth emerges from off camera, up into frame. "I'm OK!". Heavy panting.
Wil Wheaton watches this video on repeat to not feel as bad.
Vex, a ranger: I land and I instantly cast Cure Wounds.
Jester, a cleric: I don't have any healing spells prepared.
I absolutely love Laura. I hope she never changes.
Jester would have healed him, but she would've bitched about it the entire time.
Laura did more healing as her Ranger than she ever did as her Cleric.
@@AlexQuill63In theory cleric is a cool class that can do many cool things. Sadly I never got to do any of the cool stuff because everyone expected me to use my turn to heal them and the DM didn't care about balancing his fights because "you can just heal them" and then he started targeting my character because "trying to kill the healer first is smart"
Never had less fun in my life.
@Nike-gs8ig Ugh, sorry that happened, sounds like a really crappy experience. For starters that's a party that needs an abrupt reminder that you hold Dominion over whether they live or die and perhaps you should have some fun as well, and that DM needs a reminder that it is not "DM vs the party" at all times.
Taliesin's cackling after Travis rolled the double Nat 1's after Lionel's incredible made my day :)
A one? /rolls again. A ONE?!!?
Video title: Five Memorable Natural 1s
Me: "But there's only three clips... Oh... Oh no..."
Idk if I remember right but when “The Meatman” was trying to escape & Vex was trying to stop him while they were in the alley way then they both rolled natural 1’s and fell over an ate shit was one of my fav nat 1 moments
3:00 Tal looking so happy and excited like a little kid when asking if there was going to be blood.
His reaction to the whole incident just make this 1000times better
Honorable mention: Grog's save against Kraven Edge to stop it from eating his soul.
Taliesin with the “oh look. Someone left a metaphor on the ground” killed me. I burst out laughing, EVERY time
That first clip is the perfect reminder that it's not the monsters you have to worry about, it's your own teammates.
The real monsters were the friends made along the way
Vex's nat1 in the tomb was literally fate-defying for the entire rest of the campaign
4:54 even Matt’s heart broke at the announcement of the nat 1
12:33 Travis: “2 crap throws in a row, can’t get any worse than this!”
Throws a 3rd natural 1 in a row! 😂😂😂
The looks of joy on Matt's face is priceless.
The odds of that happening are 1 in 8000
Note to self: Do NOT tempt the fates like that! EVER!!!!!
The oh so defeated “~ooone~” of Laura Bailey with her head down is my favourite thing
16:07 you can see the moment Travis got his soul sucked out of him
There have been a lot of spectacular failures and glorious triumphs with the natural 1's & 20's, but somehow Travis just finds a way to push it even further on both ends.
Taliesin will live another 10,000 years after witnessing those high rolls
These are great! my personal favorite nat1 was vax's walk of shame luck
oh gods i forgot about that one, that was pure universe fucking with liam sayin nope you fuckboi you walk this hall with pride!
I do miss Taliesin and Marisha just sort of falling over each other laughing
but at the same time
I love Liam becoming collateral damage to her flailing
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New favorite Nat1 is the first roll for Molly's resurrection. The experience of fate on that one was off the charts
I absolutely *sobbed* at that.
I've had the double nat 1's... not fun, killed my character
@@toschiworlds7212 My Paladin died out of combat. It was last week. I'm still upset
@@n3onvalkyrie936 care to explain how? i can think of a few ways but is kind of hard to kill a paladin, had to be a sudden big amount of damage out of nowhwere
Our sorcerer recently died to a natural 1 saving throw after failing to have shield, which he claimed to have.
@@toschiworlds7212 is a death that has to do with rolling two ones
@@arthaiser I had 3 health and the party was out of healing. I just so happened to lose my weapon down a hole that had a home-brew monster horde in it and failed trying to get my weapon. I didn't fall to my death or anything I just didn't climb fast enough and my cleric threw 150+ D6 worth of explosives down into the hole. It was rough.
16:42 After that was said, Grog's pride was crushed more than Emon was during the Chroma Conclave attack.
"This whole thing's a metaphor for 2017" Oh Matt, if only you knew.
"Ohh, I didn't need that disad-that's a natural 1"
5:38
The "Snort" laugh;
the truest form of laughter
8:48 Travis looks straight up for about 20 seconds upon seeing his roll. He really did not want to believe it.
4:23
Marisha: "Can I kind of jump and make my way... "
*Me waiting for it...
*Doesn't happen...
Me: "Wait what just happened?!?!"
I lowkey get happier when they get a nat 1 rather than a nat 20
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To me it depends on the situation. A tense, serious situation and a nat 1 is really heartbreaking imo
@@High-LordHarza Oh yeah definetely. My comment is oversimplified. I definetely enjot the nat 20s on serious battles or important saves. But when it's general RP which makes up most of the episodes, the failures are made great by the cast.
The first clip was the moment veth's voice was created
The Lional situation was an absolutely hilarious moment, I was pissing myself watching that the first time I watched it.
Gotta love it when none of these Natural 1s are from the Wil Wheaton Dice Curse episodes.
I mean, these are pretty hilarious in their own right...but there's nothing like watching the mental breakdowns of everyone trying to figure out how Wil Wheaton can defy math and physics.
Wil already answered that. Somewhere there is a person who rolls no less than a 17. Wil is here to balance the universe,so it doesnt implode.
If I don’t get my statistics wrong, the chance that Lionel would get 2 nat 20’s in a row and Grog 2 nat 1’s is 1 in 160 000!
@Kristopher Chavez Depends on how you phrase it. If all rolls are independent and unconnected to each other, then you’re right. But if we consider that each roll before Travis last roll have to be 2 nat 20 for Lionel land 1 nat 1 for Grog, the combinations of that should be (1/20)*(1/20)*(1/20)*(1/20).
Not just in critical role, but in any DnD game, nat 20’s and nat 1’s make for the most memorable moments in the game.
1:24 LIam's face right here is just the ultimate brother energy, absolutely elated at his sister's misfortune, I love it XD
This is utterly bizzare...
Laura willingly healing.
Beau: Do it again, do it again.
And he did.
2:58 when talisen raised his hand to ask if there was gonna be a pool of blood at the door was hilarious
What about recently when Beau hit a natural one, swore loudly and Caleb went deadpan, “That’s the goal”? Suddenly everyone but Caleb burst into laughter with Matt going “Even when Beauregard loses, she wins.”
"Fucking titties"
"that's the gooaal."
It's not funny if you omit that the swear in question was "Fucking titties!"
The "fuckin tits" joke?
"...Two shit rolls in a row, can't get any worse..."
I mean, technically speaking, he wasn't wrong XD
16:20 Taliesen showing true friendship xD
I wanna smile like how Liam smiles when someone rolls a 1
Keyleth trying to find a friendly Sun Tree to talk to should be here.
Anyone else expecting these to be all either will Wheaton focused or at least with him in the room?
4:50 Matt is just Sad
13:51 From the top of thr mountain to the bottom of thr valley. Poor Grog.
PLEASE keep Sam's arrow hit scream in the animated!
"What are the chances?!"
Well, about that...
The video started with breakfast chickens, I already know this will be amazing.
Love that these guys are listening to the Oblivion soundtrack during their campaigns. I don't play DND whatsoever, but this group is really fun to watch and listen. Thanks for the compilation!
"for dignity's sake"... It's too perfect
9:00 Man that role...It would have changed everything. Matt stated in one of the Q&A´s that if Travis had done that, then Grog would have been possessed by the Githyanki pirate & he would gradually try to control Grogs actions more & more
He still had Craven Edge at the time, too. 😳 The possibilities!
@@kaitlynwickham6237 Ohh yeah Craven Edge & The Githyanki would essentially be fighting over Grogs mind & soul then...
14:03 is my favourite, he's so excited.
Three of these should be Fjord trying to lift a sack of grain
Love this vid. Could add Imogen’s Nat 1 after Laudna’s stabbing or Laudna’s corresponding Nat 1 on her last death save from C3 😭
7:03
>This whole thing's a metaphor for 2017
Oh Matt, if only you knew how bad things got.
You can add Laudna's 1 to the list. Also, for future DMs, you do not sink in lava. You will bounce off it like hitting concrete. Any fall from height into lava should take falling damage on top of heat.
7:04 imagine being able to think that 2017 was a particularly bad year, what a nice luxury.
Sam just going along with it is the best.
If only she had a ring of fire protection
Taliesin's laugh at Travis' nat 1s gives me life. XD
The three natural 1s at the carnival game are literally one in a million chances!
It's 1/8000
I remember a moment in my current campaign, I rolled 6 Nat 1’s out of 12 total rolls. It was that kind of night for me. I believe I also rolled double Nat 1’s on one roll. I think I’ve also rolled the most Nat 1’s out of the group lol. But I will say, in clutch moments, I’ve had good rolls so I guess that’s how the universe balances everything lmao
Get yo-self some new dice. Sometimes they are badly mis-weighted. I have a dice that defaults to crits more than any other roll. After realising that, I tested all my dice, tallying the results of hundreds of rolls and seeing if they float in water because of hidden air pockets, etc. Whenever I am DMing, I am sure to use the dice that was the most balanced in all tests.
Obviously you can just use Google dice or an app instead to prevent that... a lot quicker than rolling dice a couple of hundred times.
You can play a divination wizard and give some of the 1s away.
So we were playing in our game today and myself (Rogue) and our party Bard was having a friendly duel/sparring match with each other. In a town where such things are a cultural custom. Being a Tiefling I cast darkness to try and make it abit more interesting. Having a decent perception I knew where he was and thus threw a dagger in his direction. I casually rolled WITH ADVANTAGE mind.... Double Nat 1....
This dagger flies out of the darkness circle and embeds itself in the chest of an innocent commoner/bystander and kills her..... Total freak accident. But..... Yea jesus....
You can tell that the lava clip was old from the lack of singing after Marisha said "..make my way over".
My first and experience i was playing the halfling rogue from the starter set i remember all my friends told me i was gonna roll all mat 20s
I ended up rolling like 10 nat ones that night.... I didnt notice till the end of the night that halfling reroll ones...
@Kristopher Chavez The players hand book doesn't specify a limit, only stating that you have to use the new roll, so unless you've played at a table with homebrewed limitations then no halfling luck has no limits.
Smash-cut to the end of "The Search for Grog"
“Easiest number to count to.”
This is gonna be so awesome animated
I thought, at first, you could cast Feather Fall on the chicken to give yourself a better shot. But Feather Fall has to be cast on a Creature. So, when the servant throws the chicken, you first have to cast Animate Dead. THEN you can cast Feather Fall, and it will be a much easier target!
7:04 "This whole thing's a metaphor for 2017"
Laughs in 2020
16:06 Travis.exe has stopped working
5 nat ones and 3 of them were fjord
I'm pretty sure if you were to fall into a river of molten lava you wouldn't actually sink, the liquid rock being heavier than you. You'd most likely float on the surface easily.
Ah- memorable Nat 1s.... Mine was when Avery (my Rouge) tried to sneakily open a door to get out of someone's house before he noticed us... Nat 1 and I pushed a pull door so hard I put my fuckin' elbow through it. Needless to say- I was spotted.
Five most memorable nat 1's and Travis should have 3 of those with his throwing contest
It's so weird to hear 2017 given as an example of a bad year
0:22 Taliesin looks like Billy Joe from Green Day with that hair ...very punk rock
Travis: “2 shit throws in a row, can’t get any fuckin’ worse.”
Little did he know that it could, in fact, get worse.
I havent seen this video yet but just from the title i know theres gonna be a lot of wil wheaton moments xD
"What are the fucking chances!?"
Well... about 1 in 20
"two shit throws in a row, cant get any fucking worse..." -Travis Willingham
"Hold my beer" -Fate
oh my god why didn't they animate the chicken skeet shoot scene that would've been fuckin hilarious! there were so many scenes in taverns too.
and the chances of rolling three nat1s in a row is 1 in 8000. just incredible unluck from travis.