The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2 Episode 1 & 2 Group Reaction
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Just a small fact: dragon breath type depends on the color of the dragon. Brimsythe from season 1 was blue dragon who had lightning breath. Vorugal the white dragon has ice, Umbrasyl the black dragon has acid, Raishan the green dragon has poison and Thordak the red dragon has fire
Adding to this the good counterparts are metallic copper, brass, bronze, silver and gold who match up weapon to weapon e.g. gold and red use fire. I believe there are also neutral gem dragons and a whole heap of other rarer types like deep dragons and some forgotten ones that only showed up occasionally in the games history like purple, orange or brown.
Yeah but if you don't know I definitely understand getting mixed up so I don't really blame them for thanking the acid and poison were coming from the same dragon
It was so wild to me reading the monster manual and learning that the green breath weapon was straight-up Chlorine Gas
@@internetfriend6701 There are some fun details buried in the game lore. Back in first ed fireballs went round corners and lightning bolts richoched. Found that one out by nearly killing myself with a lightining bolt that bounced back onto me then bounced off the wall behind me. Went from full health to 1 hp thanks to my own spell. Extra annoyance was there wasn't enough length left in it to hit the enemies a third time.
@@liamwarner5749They don't match up weapon to weapon. Gold and Brass (the typically agreed upon counterparts to Red and Green dragons) both have Fire, with Brass also having a Sleep breath
Well, unless you want to bring in Steel Dragons (whoch do have poison), but I feel like discussions around Metallic and Chromatic dragons tend to be about Red/Blue/Green/White/Black and Gold/Bronze/Brass/Silver/Copper
In the original Critical Role, this was the WILDEST thing, because Matthew Mercer was willing to tear down an entire city and disrupt the setting for the plot, which was both impressive and terrifying. We had no idea how it would continue from there
Should get them to watch that clip from the campaign. Just how it builds and then all of a sudden, shit and fan come into contact, and wouldn't you know it, they left their umbrellas at home =P
Matt also revealed the plan was to kill Gilmour during this raid. If the party had immediately fled the city like Matt thought they would, Gilmour would have died. But instead, they went to his shop and were able to save him. These are the kinds of moments that make DnD so special.
FYI the acid dragon and the poison dragon are two separate dragons, one is green and the other is black
It is very kind of them to be as identifiable by their scale colors as certain snakes. You know, til they shapeshift.
@@silentinfinityin general D&D a dragons breath and ancestry is often based on the colour of their scales. This even applies to the humanoid Dragonborn race. For example I play a black chromatic ancestry Dragonborn who has black scales and acidic breath.
Thanks@@backpack_hermit25 ! Sincerely appreciate you're taking a kind approach to explain to someone. I actually have played D&D / Pathfinder for over 20 years. I was more poking fun at dragon colors having evolved in such a way in D&D lore that any learned character can go "oh red dragon? fire? black? acid" Of course, shapeshifting dragons get real trixy...
@@backpack_hermit25
Dragonborn scale color has nothing to do with their breathe weapon or you really look into the lore.
You can have a red scales Dragonborn spewing lightning.
@@erickchristensen746 well of course you can always flavour it yes
Grog's axe breaking in the show was them realizing they were outmatched in the campaign. Grog rolls a 20+ to hit and it misses. It was a serious "oh shit" moment for them.
Grog's player: "19." *Starts to roll damage
DM: "19 misses."
Grog's player: "19 misses‽"
@@Juice1984 I love Travis's "Oh shit" face that he makes.
@@riolkinvery much a rut ro moment lol.
@@Juice1984 "Everybody hear that?" "What?" "19 Misses" "Oh we gotta fuckin go" always kills me
Breaking his weapon is also a way to "force" him into using the vampire sword.
RIP a legend, Lance Reddick is one of my favourite voices and his passing was only about a month or so after the second season finished premiering. Absolutely dominated as Thordak for this season, I look forward to seeing who has the honour of succeeding his role
I for one am 100% onboard with Sorta Stupid D&D!
That could be so much fun to watch them play through a campaign!
Yes, just yes
The 4 dragons that showed up are all ancient dragons, the blue dragon from season 1 was only a young adult... the 4 being Green- Poison, Black- Acid, White- Ice, and Red- Fire, the thing with dragons is the older they get the more powerful they become, so these new ones are a PROBLEM PROBLEM.
Just so you know the acid dragon and the gas dragon are two diffrent dragon the acid one is a małe called Umbrasyll and the gas one is a female called Raishan
I like how everyone underestimates Raishan because she's "just gas". Can't wait for them to see how much of a menace she is.
Black dragons are the ones that scare me the most. Not only are they canonically the most evil dragons, acid has always made me very squeamish.
Yeah fire may hurt a lot and burn you poison can well suffocate you blue dragons can shock you that also heard ice can be very chilling but black dragons acid that’s gnarly Plus they will make sure you suffer a lot till you die
Oh yeah and they’re sadistic AF. They will torture their prey till it begs for the dragon to kill them. They also decorate their lairs with blood, corpses and bones. So even if you do die your remains won’t be respected.
@@destinymcintire2188 if I was to ever DM a campaign I would have and go against a black dragon at some point this black dragon named pelliparius de Mille animarum which translates from Latin to Skinner of a Thousand souls in the campaign just for a giggle he went to a orphanage gathered every single child and baby and skinned them all alive then poured tiny droplets of his acid on them until they died and he didn’t even eat them (ALL JUST FOR A GIGGLE) that’s a true black dragon
RIP Lance Reddick. Such an incredible opening episode.
Umbrasyl - the black dragon- is voiced by Matthew Mercer (also voiced Sylas Briarwood), Vorugal - the white dragon- is voiced by Liam O'Brien, who also voices Vax.
The BTS stuff the animators talk about how they took the 3D dragons and applied so much hand-painted accents and details. That's why they look so much better. They also went way into more sophisticate lighting and atmospherics (like the embers, snowflakes and ashes flying through the air), all of which are hand-painted. The animation is so much better this season. Season 3 should come out early next year some time, and Campaign 2, The Mighty Nein, is already at storyboards. Sam Riegel, (scanlon) has said that he'd like to see at least one more season (4) if not 5 altogether to finish out the major arcs in Vox Machina.
Honestly 5 seasons seems most likely with all of the story that they have to push and condense into animated form. The Mighty Nein I can see being 6 seasons, and if they ever do Bells Hells I can see them currently having 3-4 seasons with a 4-5th beginning now with the current arc they just started. One can only hope though. 🙏🤞
Thordak the Cinder King
Had a very shiny gem
And if you ever saw him
Run the fuck away from him
One of my favorite Scanlan songs from the campaign
One fateful December, Matthew Mercer received 4 dragon miniatures for Christmas. The rest is history
“Miniatures”
When Grog's axe broke in the show it's because Travis rolled a 19 in the campaign and his attack missed. The whole party was shook, but Travis's expression was a memeable moment. "19 _misses_ ?"
A Sorta Stupid One shot D&D campaign goes hard
Victor is one of the best side characters.
To give you a prospective: the Blue Dragon form season 1 was somewhere between a young and an adult dragon, and an Adult Dragon is already Final Boss material for most campaign. The four that showed up are all Ancient Dragons, these are being that can challenge gods an WIN.
There is no way /NO WAY/ Victor the black powder merchant died in that blast. Dude's too popular. He *has* to come back.
Spoilers below 👇
He actually dies when Veccna attacks Vassalhein with an undead army. Victor lures them into his shop, and then blows them to smithereens along with himself. It's been confirmed by Matt.
Edit: This also happens during the last few episodes of the last arc. So I'm sure we'll get to see more of Victor in TLoVM.
I'm halfway through the Mighty Nein campaign and that series is gonna be epic. So happy they're making it into a show
Jester is my favourite Crit Role character from all 3 campaigns...can't wait to see her animated!
the thing that makes c2 so special is that every single character that the pc's care about has a full arc, heres to many more hours of enjoying the Nein!
No spoilers dw, but you're gonna be in for one helluva time with the second half. Shit gets *WILD.*
Victor is a fan favorite. Matt himself even dressed up as him for an episode or two of the live show! XD
That Halloween episode was awesome. Virtually none of them could say anything with a straight face because of his costume. It took everything they had to focus.
5:24 Interesting thing about this in the stream, when Grog attacked they rolled a 19 to hit, and was genuinely surprised when Matt said it missed
That look of "excuse me, what?" when he's reaching for damage roll
that was the moment they realised it wasn't intented to be a fight they could win
While he doesn't appear again this season, Victor is far from dead...he just might be missing something the next time we see him...
1:05 yep the Mighty nein can’t wait for that one
Episode 40 for campaign 1 if anyone is curious on this whole event. Was spectacular watching the first time and still gives me goosebumps
And the last half hour of 39! That has the beginning of the event with Uriels speech and the attack on the castle.
@@hhylobates4098 right? It gave me such goosebumps hearing Matt talking as Uriel in that speech among other things too!
Gentlemen, welcome to the Chroma Conclave arc.
Bidet Critters and Sorta Stupid Crew! Now you know the Critter greeting. Also, take into consideration that Matt Mercer spent years with them in their home game building them up as heroes of Emon.. .then as soon as they have any success... He destroyed EVERYTHING. The whole capitol he created with painstaking detail.. rendered asunder for the good of the narrative. This is what makes this story "the greatest story ever told"
A nice cameo was hidden in the slayers take in ep 2, hidden amongst the mercenaries at the slayers take were some of the characters from the comic book/video game battle chasers, this is a direct nod to friend of the cast artist Joe Madureira who created one of critical role's first Vox Machina party posters and the art was all in his signature battle chasers art style... it's gorgeous, and I own it :)
6:55 you mention them being serious DnD players, but for the players behind Scanlan, Grog, Pike, and Vex, this was their first campaign! Matt Mercer just wanted to shake things up and throw them into an armageddon about 40 episodes in :)
Grog saying BIDET has become a community joke, at the start of each live stream, all the Critters in the twitch chat will say "BIDET from (insert home area)!" It's the best!
RIP Lance Reddick. The voice of Thordak the Cinder King...
YYYEEEEESSSS SEASON TWO!!! Season one was such a masterpiece everyone was worried how the second would compare and somehow it’s even better! I CANNOT WAIT for you guys to get to The Killbox! By far the greatest episode of Vox Machina to date!
I will also add in that they almost killed Gilmore during this invasion. In the live show, they had the option to either loot, kill bandits that were looting the store, or find Gilmore. The choice to look for Gil saved him
If you really want to see these moments as they occurred TP Burrow has clipped them spoiler free for comparison, I’d also recommend Arsequeef (these guys are both on here and the other socials too I’m just crap at linking!😅) and as always don’t be afraid to ask questions, critters love bringing new peeps into the fold! Bidet!! 😁
Re: The Grog fight. That’s what happens when you put a level 12 Barbarian up against a level 20 Monk. 😂
Campaign 2 The Mighty Nein is getting it's own animation series. It's still in the early phases with story boards, but they are actively busy with it. Migthy Nein = best campaign.
There were a few meme references in these episodes. Grog coming out of the tavern and gesturing at the butterfly is the "Is this a bird?" meme, and the profit meme.
Others have already explained the other type of dragons (color and damage type), but also, Brimscythe from season 1 was a Young to Adult dragon. Dragons get stronger the older they are, and the four that attacked Emon are all Ancient dragons. They are way stronger than Brimscythe was. Dragons go from Wyrmling (0-5 years), Young (6-100), Adult (101-800), Ancient (801-1200), then Greatwyrm (1201+ and some other requirements). Just to give some context on why this is an even bigger deal than just it being four dragons.
Do yourselves a massive favor and look up the short clip of Matt Mercer's cosplay of Victor, the black Powder Dealer.
5:08 this is from se1 ep2
5:22 if you want to see a quick vid of the gravity of this moment you can look up “19 misses”.
6:33 they did a great job of animating the overwhelming power of this attack. The helplessness everyone felt.
22:25 lol. Nope. Not having a bidet.
27:26 Matt (the DM) playing victor in the campaign was so hilarious. Love this npc
Great reaction. Looking forward to your reaction to ep3.
One Dragon was bad enough, but now there are four as we enter the arc of the Chroma Conclave. Each Dragon's colour identifies its power; Umbrasyl is the acidic black dragon (voiced by the DM, Matthew Mercer) the Hope Devourer, Raishan is the toxic green dragon (voiced by Cree Summer) the Diseased Deceiver, Vorugal is the white ice dragon (voiced by Vax's player and VA, Liam O'Brien) the Frigid Doom and Thordak is the red dragon of fire (voiced by Lance Reddick) the Cinder King. Their destruction of Emon set the tone of how powerful they are compared to Vox Machina, who could only be put in an escape situation as the dragons - who in Exandria were one of the first beings of existence - claimed the city. Thordak was in fact hinted in the early campaign, and a bit in Season 1 talking about the red dragon, the show didn't cover it but a great shadow in the Fire Plane the group hid from was the dragon, so on the table it was a 'is that what that was?' moment.
Oh trust me, they were shitting themselves, not all on the table are as experienced as you'd expect. The bar was set to be high when Grog's player Travis rolled 19 to attack, and missed, 22 barely hit. Trinket was frozen to unconsciousness and they only survived the assault on Greyskull because Thordak ordered Vorugal away, only 25 refugees survived the night. Of course more stuff happened, Percy and Grog fought over a wishing skull, Gilmore's was being looted, stuff like that the show trimmed off to make the story more linear.
Keyleth's spell 'Pass through Trees' does come in handy for the escape, but it means now the group have to seek out a means to defeat the Conclave, which leads them to Religious hub Vassalheim...who are kinda dicks ngl they're often about not helping more than they are with helping. Still it leads them to one of the twins' old clubs, the Clasp, and Grog faces a dawn marshal of one of the gods, Kord, the Stormlord. We have word of what tools we need though, the Vestiges of Divergence, weapons of godly champions during the Calamity (a war between gods hundreds of years ago).
The Black Powder dealer is one of Matt Mercer's more famous NPCs in Critical Role as well, he put his all into the performance, bit more bargaining involved than what was in the show of course.
Still, you'll find this arc to have more expressed focus on Vax, similarly to how the last season focused more on Percy, something is seen among all the death, but only for his eyes.
"Let us know if you want Sorta Stupid D&D" I would love nothing more
I honestly can't wait for the next show to premiere. As much as I've been enjoying watching Vox Machina, what drew me into Critical Role was the Mighty Nein. I cannot wait to bust a gut when the Harvest Close Festival games get animated! And that's not even getting into the Cupcake...
Edit: Just realized Grog basically did the "Is This A Pigeon?" meme pose when the butterfly showed up. Knowing the cast of this show, I'm calling that an easter egg, 'cause there's no way that was on accident with these nerdy-ass voice actors
(At 4:14) Did y'all forget David Tennant was a dragon?
(At 6:18) If you're talking about the one with David Tennent, then it was probably lightning.
The Mighty Nein is actually considered to be a more popular campaign than Vox Machina. It starts off with the characters meeting for the first time. The character dynamics and development into a found family is the best I've ever seen in any media. Not to mention that they just brought them back for a liveshow oneshot that takes place DURING campaign 3. I only hope that they get greenlit for Bells Hells once its over because that'd just make a perfect trilogy with everything thats been happening in the current campaign.
Either Sorta Stupid DnD or Sorta Stupid Baldur's Gate playthrough.
(At 5:50) Great! NOW we got dragons that can "spit" acid!
There was a bunch of stuff in the campaign that made the arrival of the Chroma Conclave even more buck-wild than it is here.
First is the fact that it happened much later in their story. The first season of the show picks up basically 3 years into the campaign (between their home game and the early stuff of the live stream). They were much more integrated and attached to Emon as a setting, it was their home. Seeing it destroyed was devastating for the players.
The second, even more wild thing is that the players convinced themselves at first that the dragons attacking was Vox Machina’s fault. That was never Matt’s intention with the story he was telling. But the players had re-raided the lair of the dragon from season one out of pure greed, and in the early fog of war they were heartbroken because they thought the dragons attacked out of retaliation for that.
Just gonna throw this into the void and see what comes back. You guys really want to play D&D and steam it I’d be willing to run a game for
You. I’m an OG critter and could run a game for you in the CR world or one of my own creation.
Currently playing in an Exandrian Netherdeep Campaign myself. Lvl 9 Pureblood Artificer (1)/ Enchanter Wizard (8) Santiago Ezparaza Guerrero.
THAT Thordak scene inspired my UA-cam name
As someone who watch the campaign the did in fact shit their pants
The thing I pray for constantly is that Critical Role will do an Animated EXU: Calamity. That prequel campaign was so fire 🔥 (pun intended.) Literally my Roman Empire. I'm excited we're getting Mighty Nein, but I will actually weep tears of joy if they ever announce Calamity.
Victor was a fan favourite NPC from the campaign, they had to get him in there somewhere😂
The best thing is that a) Matt came up with this character on the spot b) the way he _immediately_ fell into this voice and the physicality of this character was just absolutely hilarious in the moment and c) Victor's character design in the show (while, yes, looking somewhat like Bumi) is actually based on Matt's own cosplay of him. They are big on Halloween over at Critical Role and always come dressed up for their Halloween episode. One year they all dressed up as various NPCs Matt has played and he himself chose Victor. That same year Laura (Vex) and her husband Travis (Grog) were cosplaying the Briarwoods and their cosplay actually also influenced the Briarwoods final design in the show.
Just an fyi, there is also a maturity hierarchy to dragons. Wyrmling < Young < Adult < Ancient. The Blue one they took out was only an Adult. These are all at least Ancient. Thordak is like a Mythical Uber Dragon.
Ooooooo sorta stupid dnd or baldurs gate 3 would be great
I wouldn't say it's a dick D&D Move Boomy. It's fun as a DM, or so I've heard, to build up a world in one campaign, then in the next destroy it :D *evil, malevolent laughter*
Dragons get more powerful as they age. Blue dragon from S1E1+2 was a young adult roughly 100 years old, these four fuckers are ancient meaning 800+
Funny you should say they are experienced DnD players, cause when this happened the majority of the table was still relatively new to DnD, one or 2 had prior experience but this was the first real campaign for like 6/8 of them?
The thing osisu was touching on for Keyleth was that she’s the only full elf in the party, and a young one. Full elves live to be around 750 years old. The only ones who can get even close are the gnomes pike and scanlan who can get to about 350. The twins are half elves so they’ve got a solid 150, everyone else will cap at 100 if they’re lucky.
On top of that she’s a Druid. When you become arch Druid, which is what she’s training for, she will age at 1/10th the rate. Meaning she caps put at around 7500 year old life span. She will outlive civilizations.
Keyleth is a half elf too (with both her parents being half elves so its a bit weird if you dont have the direct D&D game, but its visible when comparing her ears to the twins and to elven NPCs), but the arch druid slow aging still applies
Scanlan is fairly young for a gnome too, being only 69...
It only gets better from here...the intro didn't change from season one, but by the end of the season you may find some new meaning in it...unlike last season which focused mainly on Percy, everyone gets a bit of the spotlight this season...
Earthbreaker Groon is voiced by Ike Amadi, who also voiced Javik in Mass Effect 3
If you need a DM for sorta stupid DnD I would volunteer my services as a forever DM of my group.
Victor was one of Matt's more unhinged NPCs and a fan favorite.
I'mma be honest, I'd prefer seeing the whole video with the smear on it, rather than seeing tidbits unsmeared.
I would KILL for a dnd campaign by you guys!!
Yeah I’m actually really interested in a sorta stupid D&D game
I'd watch at least every other episode's intro... for reasons...
I want Sorta Stupid Dnd
Just an fyi when they played this campaign it was the first for a lot of them lol
I never watched anything beside the show itself, when the sphynx mentioned keyleth fears, does she mean it literally? like Keyleth will live waaay longer than others through age, cause I don't think it was fears about the dragons or being killed, it seemed like keyleth knows from the start that she will live longer but doesn't want to accept it
Its a druid thing, by about level 20 they become functionaly immortal more or less.
Like they can still be killed, but it would take a lot, and they don't die of old age, poison and can heal and buff second only to clerics.
So yeah, its kind of meant that way: will you fail to meet the challenge or live so long as to see all you love die before you suceed. The Sphinx new exactly how to press on the bruise of Keyleth's insecurities.
@@richardhealy I kinda understood what you meant, I played a game before with druids and clerics, although the druids in that game were debuffers instead
Yes once Keyleth becomes a powerful enough druid her aging will slow by tenfold, since she's already a long-lived half elf she could last 2000 years. So here the sphinx is asking if its worse that she attempt her Aramente and fail, or keep putting it off so long that all her friends die without seeing her achieve it.
I can't wait for your reactions to the rest of this season! They really stepped it up in every way and its a wild ride
Victor in the show is still alive at the end of the first campaing.
1:22 i unironically want that
Would anyone else want to see them watch critical role calamity?
FYI the acid dragon is voice by the man himself, Mathew Mercer
When the dm says now go kill godzilla and his friends 😂
personally, I would love to watch you guys play dnd
He's fine. Victor's fine. It's okay. He explodes a lot.
I kinda hate how they portrayed the council of Vasselheim. Here they're like "Oh wow, that sucks. Well, fuck off now." while in the actual campaign their motivation makes more sense. They considered helping, but sending forces out would leave the city vulnerable. And being the oldest city and archive of knowledge in the world, they couldn't afford that. So they started preparing while Vox Machina were gathering allies.
Yes they had a very logical argument of "We could be the dragons next target anyway so we should prepare our city first." Notice they made the sphinx seem like a better ally by giving information but in the game she had a similar response of refusing to send the Slayers Take to help, while when they asked the Platinum Sanctuary for aid they were assigned one of their best champions to join their cause.
And Highbearer Vord did give them help. He tried to send Platinum Knight Udai, but Lady Kima "volunteered" in the most epic way possible.
Wohoo!
i would love to see you guys play D&D
Funnily enough the dragons wouldn’t even phase Bill, Collector, and full calamity trio. The show is just so much more violent that it makes the dragons feel stronger.
Grogs hit where broke his axe is the animated version of 19 misses
red-fire-Thordak-male-ancient
white-ice-Vorugal-male-ancient
green-poison gas & magic-Raishan-female-ancient
black-acid-Umbrasyl-male-ancient
blue-lightning-Brimscythe-male-adult
the older a dragon is the more powerful it is, so being an adult dragon is NOTHING compared to an Ancient
each of these dragons have given themselves titles too so Thordak is The Cinder King and Brimscythe is The Iron Storm. you’ll have to keep your ear out for the remaining titles of the rest of the dragons. (i know what they are but i wont spoil)
also reminder that gods exist in this world and created it and all the mortal races on it, gifted them magic both holy magic like pike’s and magic like scanlan’s or a wizard’s. this world has a history and is it not just “vox machina is the only story on it”.
“ziggurats were used for contacting gods”
“the solstice is where the planes are the thinnest”
“the Sun Tree was planted by the DawnFather (one of many very real deities)”
“its like the Everlight (another deity) can’t hear me anymore”
D&D… NOW!!!! Do it, do it now!!!!!
Answer to a question in your video, dragons gain the ability to turn into humans at a certain age. They aren't humans that turn into dragons. Dragons have a shape change ability once they are a certain age (800-1000+ years). D&D wizards of the coast confirms this for metallic dragons (silver, gold, bronze, etc.) and from VM we know Matt also did this for some of the chromatic dragons of the chroma conclave with Thordak, Raishan, and Brimsythe.
Bidet, all! I've really been enjoying your reactions: I love listening to them while I work, and have gone through so many that I just listen to the audio while I work, I know where you are in the series based on the audio.
There are recently some really silent spots, though, with neither commentary--I know you all are super-engrossed, I get that!--nor show audio, which makes it difficult to follow. I know you probably edit due to DMCA worries, but you're doing a great job with chopping up and covering video, they're totally cool as long as you're not just straight-up playing the whole show (although I've seen that, too.) On to Episodes 3 and 4, I can't WAIT to see your reactions to them!
Notice how in this episode, Vox Machina tries doing everything they successfully did against Brimscythe at the start of season 1, but literally none of it works against these ones because they're just *that* much more powerful. (Brimscythe was a young/adult dragon, while these are *ancient.*) More specifically:
1. Grog, their strongest fighter, rages and strikes their weak spot at the base of the neck, and while it killed Brimscythe, these are so tough that *his axe* breaks instead and the dragon is totally unharmed.
2. They try illusions to fool them, but ancient dragons have detect magic and can see through illusions.
3. They try magic, but these are powerful magic users themselves and are fully capable of casting Dispel Magic.
4. They fought Brimscythe inside a cave where his mobility was hindered, but as Thordak demonstrates, these ones are so powerful they could just break through a mountain even if you manage to corner them inside one.
Oh yes, the MeToo broom. This is a case where the show changed things from the original campaign. Originally Vex stole the broom from one the many celebrity guests that Vox Machina has on their show to play for a short time named Gern Blanston. He was a blue Dragonborn that specialized in a special in necromancy and candle making. Not to long after he was on the show the real life actor who played him, Chris Hardwick, faced abuse allegations from his then girlfriend Chloe Dykstra. This happened right at the height of the MeToo movement and since the people of Vox Machina were friends with both people they decided the best thing to do was distance themselves from Chris so they killed of Chris's character offscreen and wrote him out of the narrative. Even after Chris came out with evidence clearing his name and proving that he was the one who broke off the relationship with Ms. Dykstra after finding out she was cheating on him. The accusation of abuse didn't come util Chris and spent several weeks rejecting her attempts to restart their relationship.
9:08 I'm guessing the intact chest is a reference to the livestream. Matt (the DM) was secretly making death saving throws for GIlmore when they showed up...if they had looked for items or loot first, he likely would have died. But they focused on saving him and got there in time.
Yeah you dont fuck with dragons, especially if they are thousands years old as they get stronger with age.
The dragons we seen till now all strangely belong to a faction, The Chroma Conclave, and are:
Brimscythe - blue dragon in season 1 with lighting breath, was the youngest
Vourgal - white dragon - breathes ice
Umbrasyl - black dragon - breathes acid
Raishan - green dragon - breathes poison
Thordak- red dragon - breathes fire
Another thing about dragons that you noticed is the glowing eyes - which was probably them using magic.
As if being a dragon not powerful enough, dragons are also capable of learning some spellcasting and they often do.
6:55 oh don't worry, they were shitting themselves plenty😂😅
Look up 'Critical Role 19 misses' to see the moment that inspired that bit where Grog completely biffed trying to attack the poison dragon.
Once Grog started saying "Bidet", the twitch stream chat all greet each other with "bidet from Florida" " bidet from Washington"
So Bidet Billies!
I WANT Sorta Stupid D&D!!!! I know I'm a rando... But i would be willing to DM if you can't find anybody. B)
Just to put into perespective brymscythe (the blue dragon in season one) wasn't even an adult, these four are all ancients dragons, significantly older, bigger, and stronger
1:22 YES we do want sorta stupid dnd! That would
be awesome!
This are the people who agree👇
7:00 like imagine them playing an actuall campaign , ruff's amazement as he discovered the acid dragon was pure gold. I need them to play
The harsh fact about Keyleth is real dark. High level Druids gain the ability to automatically slow their aging to a crawl, every 10 years that pass, they only age 1 year. So if Keyleth keeps faffing about with her duties, everyone she knows and loves won't be around to see her eventually succeed.
RIP Lance Reddick & Ray Stevenson. Both did an amazing job in two amazing rolls and didn't get to finish. 😢
Dragons in dnd are very inteligent. The older the larger the more powerful and inteligent. They can posses magic and take human form. Their power literally changes their home/lair to their own element. In the first season it was the gold conducting electricity. The chromatic coloured ones are evil. red - fire, black - acid, green - poison, blue - lighting and white - ice.