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  • @LatetotheParty
    @LatetotheParty  2 роки тому +5

    ::NEXT EPISODE:: The Legend of Vox Machina 1x7 Reaction @ ua-cam.com/video/WwQ1k3c-Lt0/v-deo.html
    The Legend of Vox Machina 1x6 Full Watch-Along @ www.patreon.com/posts/62156415
    The Book of Boba Fett 1x6 Reaction @
    ua-cam.com/video/78EY2Eb_Pss/v-deo.html

  • @briandalke5946
    @briandalke5946 2 роки тому +102

    Loved that they included the door scene. For reference they were trying to open a door, but due to crap rolls it just wasn't happening. Lockpicks didn't work. Spells didn't work. Strength checks to remove the lock didn't work. Trying to use a sword only resulted in damage being taken. Trying to find an alternative entrance failed. They eventually managed to get a decent roll, but it was about five minutes of nothing but failure. Thus the running joke that VM's true enemies are doors.

    • @Aussie27Legend
      @Aussie27Legend 2 роки тому +6

      Yes was great haha

    • @bouboulroz
      @bouboulroz 2 роки тому +3

      IIRC they didn't even get a good roll, Matt just took pity on them and made a guard open the door just like in the show.

    • @briandalke5946
      @briandalke5946 2 роки тому +10

      @@bouboulroz Didn't Sam get a good enough roll to have Bigby's Hand finally knock the locking bar out of the way? I don't recall there being a guard...

    • @bouboulroz
      @bouboulroz 2 роки тому +1

      @@briandalke5946 It's possible the guard thing was about another door and I'm getting confused. To be honest, it's been a while~

    • @CallistoTheWarriorQueen
      @CallistoTheWarriorQueen 2 роки тому +4

      In the campaign they all went through the cellar together for this first house. They've taken Percy, Vax and Scanlan's attempt to get into the temple where they kept failing until I think Scanlan finally dimension doors in and put it here instead.

  • @Heritage367
    @Heritage367 2 роки тому +131

    Interestingly, Percy's gun in the streaming show was called 'The List', for obvious reasons.

    • @TheIrishloon
      @TheIrishloon 2 роки тому +13

      It was called Pepperbox.

    • @JuankvDM
      @JuankvDM 2 роки тому +59

      @@TheIrishloon Nope, Pepperbox is the type of weapon it is (Literally it is a type of pistols that existed). 'The List' is the name he gave it, just like his other weapons that have names, although you can call them by what they are.

    • @TheIrishloon
      @TheIrishloon 2 роки тому +12

      @@JuankvDM I misread, I thought you were describing the type of gun. You are correct, I stand corrected.

    • @danzansandeev6033
      @danzansandeev6033 2 роки тому +16

      @@JuankvDM well in this episode we also saw bad news)

    • @JuankvDM
      @JuankvDM 2 роки тому +5

      @@danzansandeev6033 I know, but I didn't want to give any spoilers in case they or others hadn't realized that's the name of that weapon.

  • @TheIrishloon
    @TheIrishloon 2 роки тому +89

    That undetectable enchantment charm is simply a Bag of Holding in this world.

    • @jetvulcan2020
      @jetvulcan2020 2 роки тому +19

      yeah the bag of holding the item almost every adventuring party in D&D has so you don't have to deal with all the crap you have to carry

    • @Zombiewithabowtie
      @Zombiewithabowtie 2 роки тому +14

      It was not cleaned until Ep 71. A lot of its contents were decidedly; past best by then.

    • @devildham
      @devildham 2 роки тому +2

      More like the other way around. Bag of Holding came first.

    • @georgerobins4110
      @georgerobins4110 9 місяців тому

      @@Zombiewithabowtie Lol I'm pretty sure in the first arc of the stream they threw a bunch of rotten food and a disintegrating troll dick at a poor NPC lol

  • @phoenixdzk
    @phoenixdzk 2 роки тому +41

    Archie’s played by Merry from lord of the rings and the duke is voiced by Clegane from GOT

  • @caseymiller3540
    @caseymiller3540 2 роки тому +62

    As far as the wealth of material, campaign 1 "Vox Machina" was 115 episodes approximately 4 hours each. The Briarwood arc is only episodes 24-38, that's this season of the animated show completely. IMO we have 3-4 seasons worth of material for Vox Machina before the story concludes.
    Campaign 2 "The Mighty Nein" is set about 25 years after Vox Machina and is 141 episodes of roughly 4 hours each. Maybe we'll get "The Legend of the Mighty Nein" someday.
    Campaign 3 is only 12 episodes in so far.

    • @guiltriple
      @guiltriple 2 роки тому +7

      Holy shit, I didn't realize C2 was that long, genuinely. It makes sense since C1 only started being streamed mid-campaign, so the public side of it is gonna be shorter if both campaigns are about the same, but for some reason I had the (incorrect) intuition of C2 being shorter lmao

    • @caseymiller3540
      @caseymiller3540 2 роки тому +5

      @@guiltriple the home game happened less often so I’m guessing that the number of actual game sessions are closer between C1 & C2 than it looks on paper.

    • @passenthrualaska3293
      @passenthrualaska3293 2 роки тому +9

      The Mighty Nein are just begging to be animated, the diverse and colorfully exotic looks of the characters, Jester's habit of painting on things, the well described spells, the various environments... including plenty of underwater adventures... man... it would be BEAUTIFUL! The campaign does also have some great story arcs that would translate really well into a season of episodes with a bit of creativity. Which they have in spades. If they do, Matt HAS to play both Pumat and Essek. edit: and Orly.

    • @thehikingviking2049
      @thehikingviking2049 2 роки тому +2

      Just for fun I did my own calculation of how long the full series could run including all of the parts that I consider essential and omitting everything else. I came up with approximately 5-6 seasons, though I'm sure there is a balancing act between producing content and not dragging things out. would suck to have a 6 season road map only to hit canceled after season 4.

    • @Becky31389
      @Becky31389 2 роки тому +1

      @@guiltriple campaign one had at least 2 years of off stream content so I'm sure the number of episodes would be about the same if we had seen all of that too. Campaign 1 also went on for about 3 years if my math is correct.

  • @MsMorri
    @MsMorri 2 роки тому +40

    They have just started their 3rd Campaign, and still going strong. As a Critter who watched the original campaign, their hitting the main plot points while also adding some changes, but so far I haven’t minded the changes. I also appreciate the nods to some of the jokes in the original campaign like how doors are Vox Machinas worst enemy.

  • @Phi1618033
    @Phi1618033 2 роки тому +90

    TLoVM is more or less following the story of the original live stream campaign. They've changed some things, condensed parts, of course, and generally tightened the dramatic structure so that it works as a proper narrative. But all in all, the basic story is generally the same. For example, the part where Scanlan, Vax and Percy can't open a door happened in the original live show, but it was a door to a different building that served a different purpose in the story.

    • @Zombiewithabowtie
      @Zombiewithabowtie 2 роки тому +22

      Three spells, three characters, a wasted Nat 20 Sleight of Hand check to pick a nonexistent lock, and a gash in Scanlan's hand - to defeat a door.

    • @xilliaz
      @xilliaz 2 роки тому

      I wonder if they will discuss any of the underdark stuff, there was some pretty important story beats that happened down there.

    • @johnobrien7562
      @johnobrien7562 2 роки тому +1

      @@xilliaz we got two shout outs to that arc in episode 5 - the duergar and the bullette - and a mention of Gradim Greyspine in episode 3. but it seems they hadn't met Kima before episode 1 here, and the other beat - the horn - could be repurposed with something they find in Whitestone leading them across the Ozmit Sea

  • @JackMValentine
    @JackMValentine 2 роки тому +56

    Oh man, not rolling the right way not leading to success. You have no idea, with that cursed back door they literally broke a lock picking set, spent two spells and one of them got hurt to open a single mundane door. It was a much longer scene, obviously, in the live stream and a much bigger funnier moment. It was nicely homaged here to keep the flow of the story, but that's one of those unforgettable moments that became a running joke in the campaign.

    • @AlmostOtaku7
      @AlmostOtaku7 2 роки тому +10

      It took 3 spells and 4 points of damage, _because_ there wasn't a lock to pick, but rather a cross-bar block.

    • @Zsil33
      @Zsil33 2 роки тому +3

      If I remember correctly it was only a church door as well...so not even that secure a lock XD

    • @johnobrien7562
      @johnobrien7562 2 роки тому +5

      @@AlmostOtaku7 Dimension Door, Unseen Servant and finally Bigby's Hand, yeah.

    • @Becky31389
      @Becky31389 2 роки тому +3

      Bigbys hand on a dirty 20 roll. Opening it with one finger no less. Just added to the moment of laughter 😂

    • @johnobrien7562
      @johnobrien7562 2 роки тому +3

      @@Becky31389 there's probably a joke there about Scanlan's hand and a "dirty" 20 that I'm not going to pursue.

  • @bartonbrevis3831
    @bartonbrevis3831 2 роки тому +25

    Pike is in her spiritual "Blindspot". Lol. Which is coincidentally the name of the show Ashley was filming in New York during the original campaign run of what would become Vox Machina.

    • @richardhealy
      @richardhealy 2 роки тому

      That's a reference so meta even the metapigeon was like "woah!"

  • @sluggardly
    @sluggardly 2 роки тому +16

    The Sontaran comment got me, because Stonefell's voice actor Darren DePaul played one in a Dr. Who RPG game (Eric's TBD RPG) I really enjoyed. Taliesin Jaffe (Percy) was in a good chunk of that game too, and ho boy, was that a performance... Probably my second favorite character I've ever seen him play, after Percy.

  • @richardhealy
    @richardhealy 2 роки тому +11

    It's an obviously condensed version of the story with pretty much all the narrative and dramatic beats from the stream in there with a few things moved around for narrative and dramatic reasons. For example the "YOU FOOL. YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT! DIE! DIE! DIE!" line was spoken by Percy to a different character than the hapless carriage driver in the game but everyone's hair stood on end as No Mercy Percy was born so it got lifted up from there moved over here and if you'd not seen the stream you'd be none the wiser. And it's still extremely cool to see performed and animated in a version of how one had imagined it. You also see more of what happens outside of the party: Pike going to the temple, Deliliah casting the spell in the graveyard that summoned the shadows, the family invited to dine with the briarwoods etc are all perspectives that only ever existed inside Matt's DM notes until now if at all.

  • @Indioprophecy81
    @Indioprophecy81 2 роки тому +12

    FlufferNutter. Vox Machina is the first to do a successful fluffernutter. Its canon now.

    • @melnay1352
      @melnay1352 2 роки тому +7

      That’s how I see it going down.

  • @Zombiewithabowtie
    @Zombiewithabowtie 2 роки тому +16

    6:14 "Scanlan's idea has some merit."
    Also, 9:58 in the campaign, using a Sabertooth Tiger was Keyleths' go to combat Wild Shape, and was usually referred to as "Going Minxie!"

    • @negate3
      @negate3 2 роки тому +3

      12:11 FLUFFERNUTTER

  • @Jaxom35x
    @Jaxom35x 2 роки тому +19

    TLOVM isn't following beat by beat all the things with dice rolls from the campaign. But the general way of how things went are being shown with little changes here and there for visual and story effect.

  • @matthewletexier
    @matthewletexier 2 роки тому +3

    The backdoor scene is a reference to the stream when the same 3 characters spent 12 real life minutes, 3 spells, took damage, and still failed to open a door. Truly iconic

    • @cobaltsable1800
      @cobaltsable1800 2 роки тому +1

      "It's not even locked; it's just heavy"
      - Marisha Ray

  • @nadeeml9276
    @nadeeml9276 2 роки тому +5

    That scene where Percy f***s that guy up, BEAUTIFULLY done. Really captured that 'enjoying revenge' moment when he blasted that sontaran ass looking guy - it even went a step farther by showing his face without the mask when he's taken over by that entity/power, whatever it is (dont tell me in any responses, I want to see it in the show). Very eager to see the story behind that

  • @TheSilentEninja
    @TheSilentEninja 2 роки тому +4

    05:50 It's funny that you mention that he looks and sounds like a sontaran, Darin De Paul, the one who voices Kerrion Stonefell, played in a Dr Who ttrpg show and played a sontaran librarian

  • @kenklingler4094
    @kenklingler4094 2 роки тому +8

    This story arc is going from something like 60 hours of table time down to about 6 screen hours. Just their first campaign would provide several seasons worth of this show. And they are on the 3rd campaign right now.

    • @Becky31389
      @Becky31389 2 роки тому

      Travis said in one of the story interviews that it's about 35 hours of story for the Briarwood arc that they have to condense into this 12 episode season of just under 6 hours.

  • @elbruces
    @elbruces 2 роки тому +20

    Good points, if the plot had started in a writers' room, they probably would have lost Archie this episode. That would have been the "best" narrative choice. But it's based on player choices and dice rolls instead.

    • @sybariticcupboardrat3763
      @sybariticcupboardrat3763 2 роки тому +4

      Actually, the writers must have been the ones to add more importance to Archie. In the game, Archibald Desnay was the elderly former chancellor to Percy's father. There was no rescue scene and he wasn't Percy's childhood friend. They very well could have dropped him from the overall plot and combined his role with Keeper Yennen.

  • @TriXJester
    @TriXJester 2 роки тому

    The bag Percy put his rifle into is a Bag of Holding, extremely common in D&D because adventuring parties will take a lot of insane crap around with them and they cant physically carry it all otherwise. Usually there is one bag for the whole team and one person is usually the designated bag holder, but a DM can be nice and give each member their own bag for all their stuff.

  • @leahkotlarchyk679
    @leahkotlarchyk679 2 роки тому +16

    They're condensing WAYYYYY more than 4 hours into 30 minutes. Each episode of CR is 4 hours but there are over 100 episodes in the first campaign. They've already condensed and/or skipped over 120 hours of gameplay.

    • @BarrengerFynar
      @BarrengerFynar 2 роки тому +2

      true, but how much of that time is game mechanics, Matt's world descriptions and out of character discussion?

    • @leahkotlarchyk679
      @leahkotlarchyk679 2 роки тому +7

      @@BarrengerFynar I definitely won't argue with that. I mainly just meant to bring their attention to the fact that the game is probably longer running than they think. Honestly, at the pace they're going, I'm guessing they could get 3 or MAYBE 4 more seasons out of campaign one. Then they have all of campaign two to pull from. And by the time they get that fair in, if they do keep going, campaign 3 will probably be wrapped up. If this show is successful enough, it could go as long as some anime.

    • @Rated314
      @Rated314 2 роки тому +1

      The Briarwood arch only covers about 14 episodes of CR.
      Also, we lose A LOT of time, with the fact that a round of dice rolls is 6 seconds.
      So something like Scanbo, which is an epic 30 minutes, is about 60 seconds of action, if memory serves.
      Matt seems to have a good radar, and each story arch in the campaign fits roughly into a season

    • @Becky31389
      @Becky31389 2 роки тому

      They've specifically said that this first season is focusing on the Briarwoods only. Travis said in an interview that this story arc is approximately 35 hours of time on stream that they are condensing into under 6 hours. So season 2 and (hopefully) additional seasons after that will cover more of the other story lines. I mean, this is just Percy's backstory. There's so much to cover!

    • @Rated314
      @Rated314 2 роки тому

      @@Becky31389 I've been revisiting campaign 1... and looking at the ground covered for the Briarwood arc... Season 2 will probably cover as far as Umbrasyl, the Ancient Black Dragon.
      That would cover about 16 episodes, but several points that could be condense heavily.... with a natural break point between seasons.
      Season 3 would cover the rest of the Chroma Conclave...
      Stretching 4 and 5 to cover the big baddie

  • @kaizen5023
    @kaizen5023 2 роки тому

    15:00 Yes there are slight differences but it fairly closely follows the campaign. In fact you ARE seeing a lot of rolls go badly, like when they can't open doors, which is a running joke with CR that "Doors are our worst enemy!" - And you will see Percy's gun misfire or Vex miss arrow shots, etc. etc., so there are plenty of times shown in the animation where the dice went against them.

  • @LinguaPhiliax
    @LinguaPhiliax 2 роки тому +4

    "Those were bad ideas and you should all _feel_ bad."

  • @dillonfloyd1801
    @dillonfloyd1801 2 роки тому +4

    Love y'alls reactions so far, it's been so much fun watching people who don't know the story or the show fall in love with these characters and this world. Welcome to the family 🤗
    Others have commented already, but Critical Role has 3 campaigns so far. They've played basically every Thursday night for an average of 4 hours each week (other than during breaks, or work conflicts, and of course they stopped for awhile in 2020 before adapting their set to be safe from the plague), so they absolutely have the content for many seasons lol
    If you're interested, I'd suggest starting with campaign 2, as 1 follows Vox Machina and 3 has some pretty significant connections to VM, but 2 is starts off with the crew asking the community not to spoil anything for those still watching 1. They also have a review show called Talks Machina, where they discuss the previous week's episode and engage with the Critters.
    I hope that ramble made some sort of sense lol
    Also also, if you just want to get a feel for how Matt DM's, and how he is one of the most wholesome people ever, check out DnDiesel and Stephen Colbert's Red Nose Day. Both are fairly short-ish and well worth the watch on UA-cam lol

  • @EchanteDante
    @EchanteDante 2 роки тому +2

    Arcane was beautiful and really well written. BUT MY GOD IS THIS SHOW ENTERTAINING AS ALL HELL!! I have never been into animation unless it shows like Rick & Morty or South Park but Arcane sucked me in with the animation style and that 3rd episode. But this show is on a different level in my opinion just because of how well paced and well written it is. Sure it may be predictable at times but it is everything I love about fantasy. And thank god it isn’t fantasy that takes itself way too seriously!

  • @johnkeady2357
    @johnkeady2357 2 роки тому

    Started from the beginning, 6 years ago. Also recommend Encounter Party, also with voice actors!

  • @justinc5967
    @justinc5967 2 роки тому +2

    There must always be a de Rolo in Whitestone.

  • @TroubleSturm
    @TroubleSturm 2 роки тому +4

    Re: doors
    They have the skills, the players just kept rolling critical failures when trying to open doors.

  • @donovanhavok9160
    @donovanhavok9160 2 роки тому +4

    All hail No Mercy Percy!

  • @Luzarioth
    @Luzarioth 2 роки тому

    There are MASSIVE changes to the actual game.
    We never saw the Brimscythe story on stream, and the entire storyarc that started on stream they skipped. Guest Characters are also all missing, Keyleth is missing some of her powers and the short szene of Vax killing the Tiger dude was also part of the missing story arc.

  • @Logan.Strange
    @Logan.Strange 2 роки тому +10

    Love this show

  • @Dotterelly
    @Dotterelly 2 роки тому +2

    so many spell slots wasted on that door man XD

  • @johnhenkel1828
    @johnhenkel1828 2 роки тому

    That back door was exit only.

  • @nameless_milk_1624
    @nameless_milk_1624 2 роки тому

    Critical role is on season 3, one season is like 100 episodes each 3-4 hours long

  • @tofu_golem
    @tofu_golem 2 роки тому

    Archie is voiced by Dominic Monaghan.

  • @EchoASMRtist
    @EchoASMRtist 2 роки тому

    I love the Hotis reference in this ep

    • @Becky31389
      @Becky31389 2 роки тому

      Was it Hotis though? The hands weren't backwards...

  • @lordfoul6259
    @lordfoul6259 2 роки тому

    I just binge watched all the latest episodes when do the next set of episodes drop?

    • @LatetotheParty
      @LatetotheParty  2 роки тому +2

      They seem to be dropping on Thursday evenings sometime. Even though they say they're supposed to drop on Friday's.

    • @lordfoul6259
      @lordfoul6259 2 роки тому +1

      @@LatetotheParty okay thx for letting me know

  • @IronShaq
    @IronShaq 2 роки тому

    I'll just leave this here: ua-cam.com/video/Kx-T1xeEBqg/v-deo.html

  • @mattheweagle3580
    @mattheweagle3580 2 роки тому

    It’s a bag of holding🙄

  • @packofweaviles1027
    @packofweaviles1027 2 роки тому

    Spoilers...
    What til you find out its not Percy taking these shots but something entirely

  • @Countfoscolikesmice
    @Countfoscolikesmice 2 роки тому

    I'm wondering if it's one of those D&D campaigns where none of the characters can die. I'm hoping the jack-black wannabe gets it eventually.

    • @seanstone7351
      @seanstone7351 2 роки тому +8

      You've evidently not seen the stream. They have killed PCs at times. The end results of those deaths are often traumatic.

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces 2 роки тому +7

      I'd tell you but that's a spoiler.

    • @princeOpalite3650
      @princeOpalite3650 2 роки тому +4

      Honestly i dont blame you...he was a cool charcter in c1 but because they had to condense multiple 4 hour episodes into 12 30min episodes it wouldmake scense that to anyone new to the world of vox machina that scanland would seem annoying since they dont have time to give any charcter thier full development...yet

    • @sevencats4964
      @sevencats4964 2 роки тому +9

      In the original campaign, Pike's white hair was a result of being resurrected after she was killed in a pre-stream fight that was adapted out here, so yes, they can definitely die.

    • @richardhealy
      @richardhealy 2 роки тому +1

      Spoilers..... Shh.

  • @blaketarno4145
    @blaketarno4145 2 роки тому +1

    Vanessa really let herself go. You’re older videos she looks like a different person.