9:45 Question #1: Do you guys like your seating arrangement and would you ever want to change it? 11:10 Question #2: (actually a thank you) A thank you to the Critical Role cast & crew for all of the charity they do. 12:47 Question #3: How do you come up with your NPC's, especially on the spot? How do you make them interesting? 14:50 Question #4: What are Lady Kima's stats? (Directed at Matt) In Trinkett's voice, can you tell us how he felt when he saw what happened to Vex? 16:25 Question #5: Have you ever been in a campaign that you didn't like or had to play as a character that you hated? 19:04 Question #6: (Directed at the player's) How often do you guys think about your character? (Directed at Matt) How do you control this? 24:17 Question #7 (Directed at Laura) Thank you, you and Alison Hailslip are the reason as to why my wife now plays D&D. (Directed at everyone, but specifically Travis) Thank you for supporting the military. (Directed at Matt) I've recently been DMing my wife's campiagn. How far out did you plan your campaign when you first started? 26:59 Question #8 (Directed at Everyone) As voice actors, is there a popular cartoon out there that you are not in, but you would want to be in...and why is it Rick & Morty? 28:57 Quesition #9 Thank you for teaching me how to play through your game. Thank you for giving me a show to binge-watch for like three weeks straight. Have you ever thought of having a guest on that is completely new to D&D? 31:05 Question #10 Thank you, becuase you guys are the only reason why I thought that I could DM. As a DM, there is a guy in our group and he is kind of homicidal. How can I stop the character from doing that? 35:07 Question #11 Thank you guys for being you. You guys are awesome and very entertaining and thank you for what you do for the community. I have been DMing for about 12 years now. Just within the past year from watching you guys, I have learned so much. As voice actors, you guys have kind of an advantage and can get really into your characters, which is something that not anyone can do. Is there any time where you get too sucked into your character? 41:05 Question #12 Thank you for Critical Role and especially you Matt for all of your great GMing advice. It inspired me to be a better DM for my friends. I know your campaign is very homebrewed and houseruled, but I have something that is bugging me about the Earthbreaker Groon fight and the Quivvering Hand that he used. Shouldn't that have killed Vax. Will we ever see conclusion with Vex and Vax's father? 45:03 Question #13 (It turns out to be a person that Matt went to school with) (Directed at Matt) Thanks for being one of the runners of the Popular Arts Club when I was a freshman. I would never have been the kind of geek I am today. Now that you're playing much more regularly, do you worry about power level creep (basically when someone gains too much experience too fast)? 48:05 Question #14 I know you guys have experienced critters saying "like hey, they should fight thouse next". I have a paricularly sadistic moon druid in my party. I want to punish him, what do you think I should punish him with? 51:23 Question #15 If you could be a fruit, what fruit would you be and why? 52:20 Question #16 Matt, you like throwing in little references like Thordak being Thusday and Scanlan kind of being based off of Eminem. Are there any references in the story or in any of your characters' backstories that haven't been revealed yet or have you thrown in something that you thought they were going to notice, but didn't?
On the video, click the settings gear in the bottom right (next to the full screen / theatre mode buttons) Click "Subtitles / CC" Click "Add subtitles / CC"
Panel-goer from 2016: 'Thank you for giving me a show that I binge watched for three weeks...' Me having just gotten out of a corona-lockdown in 2021: 'Those are rookie numbers!'
+quantumnaught Vex: "It's ok that you killed me, it's no big deal" Percy: "Yeah, no, no big deal" Vex is a little bit shocked Percy: "Maybe next time it'll take... and we'll see how that goes" (as in, maybe she'll die next time)
Oh my Odin! I'm "norse" (Swedish), and never realized Thordak stands for Thursday. It makes sense! Thursday is spelled "torsdag" in swedish, danish and norwegian and pronounced similarly: [tours-dawg]. I don't know about old norse, but if Vasselheim had a shrine to the Aesir, they would know exactly what day of the week to expect Thordak. From now on I'll only hear Matt sign off like "Is it Thordak yet?"
The question about NPC names is a really good one tbh. In my group, we met a bandit leader, who we convinced not only not to fight us, but to fight with us. So the DM had to come up with a name. I instantly said Bob, so she took it. But to make it 'fantasy', she spelled it 'Bauhb', which made the players laugh uncontrollably every time his name is said. Kind of the same thing as with Purvan (get your pervon).
I love watching these as a new person to the community, it makes me so excited for what's going to happen even though I'm 8 years behind, I'm still watching and enjoying as if it's the present :')
Matt "... your names can be as fantasy driven as you want... " Marisha "Pervan." Taliesin "Pervan. We´re all just sitting here going..." Matt "¡¡IT'S A REAL NAME YOU GUYS!! ... Oh, man I can't wait until Pervan shows up and TPKs the whole party. Sweet sweet vengance" Travis "¡¡SAY MY NAME!!" Hahahaha! Man, it kills me. XD
Didn't think about that Thordak-thing, but yeah, now that they've mentioned it I can see the association xD Thordak = Thors dag (A soft 'g' sound) = Thor's day = Thursday Days named for Norse gods: Tirsdag (Tuesday) = Tyr's day. Onsdag (Wednesday) = Odin's day. Fredag (Friday) = Frej's day.
...somehow it is SO weird to hear that organizer-person call Matt 'Mr. Mercer'. I know it IS his name, but somehow it feels not right, ok? I don't think I've actually seen anyone ever call him that. He's just Matt. Outside of that: Even all this time later I just love seeing these videos and see questions answered. And oh do I love the rolling off for what side gets to start there. Oh, Purvon is still a sore point. Love it. Oh GOD I love the 'how do you manage them?' question so much. I don't think there is much managing there in some cases. No way. Also the 'It's great, it means you're traveling the world' about his unused maps that he never gets to use again was SO passive aggressive. Love it. 'you guys should be glad I forget about concentration checks. I'm trying to get better about that.' 'Don't get better about that.' LOL. 'We're very good people. We're role models' Well YOU are. Your characters? Not always xD OH GOD Matt remembered a guy he went to High School with there? That's AMAZING! I sometimes don't recognize people I met like... a few months ago. Or, at least don't remember their names. Oooh Matt had fun going over the possible ways to shut down that one Druid one of the askers had there. Oh God Marisha saying 'So I just appropriated it. Classic white person' and Travis just kinda rubs at his eyes like that. Love it.
i think the guy who asked the earthbreaker fight wasted a question by asking it. Matt answered that on the Q and A session. If he cant accept that answer then that's on him...
+cryofpaine seriously. I mean i dont mind when dms house rule stuff and if the players dont mind it then what's the harm. It's not like that guy is playing in that campaign
+cryofpaine yeah really, also matt made it realllllllllly fucking clear that he house ruled that on twitter on reddit, on other q&a's like come on dude matts things at the start was "this is a homebrew game" of course shit is not gonna be exactly to the book.
Maybe he didn't watch the Q&A session, maybe he isn't on Reddit, Twitter... The guy had an innocent question, he wanted to probe Matt's thought process. He also got another question after that. You made it sound like it was a really bad question...
I'm actually not on Twitter and not on Reddit you know how I know that matt answered it? I watched critical role and got over it (cause he answered it there and at the beginning of the first episode)
Matt’s answer about D&D just clicking, I had that moment, my dwarven paladin friend and I had just climbed up a garbage shoot, I was a dwarven ranger, we happened to go into the boss room just the two of us while everyone was fighting from the front, we both in like 1 hit were brought down from 14 and 13 to like 1 and 3, so I was desperately trying to figure it out, the boss was way bigger than the garbage shoot, and it was 30 feet straight down, so I lassoed the boss, wrapped the rope around the two of us and jumped and survived with the boss bugbear trapped and held there for 3 rounds as I shot up at him
All of us watching the early panels and like.... the foreshadowing of things that happened in the Dragon Arc, the Vecna arc, in Campaign 2, and Campaign 3. And then all the success such as making 3 sourcebooks, CR being it's own company and all that good atuff
+Daniela Blake Whoops, I replied to the wrong comment. Here's the part: Vex: "It's ok that you killed me, it's no big deal" Percy: "Yeah, no, no big deal" Vex is a little bit shocked Percy: "Maybe next time it'll take... and we'll see how that goes" (as in, maybe she'll die next time)
Awesome video yet again :D It's always nice to get an insight on players and what goes on behind the scene ^^ Might I suggest that you get a steady camera or something like that, just like in Wizard World, Portland :D That was a really really good video both in quality and fun ^^
+Nicolaj Stokholm Thank you for the suggestion. Sadly, we rely on people locally to provide us with the footage. This means we can't always choose what type of equipment we use.
English speakers are rarely good at the soft g in the end, making it hard instead. Then it kinda sounds like a k... But yeah, I didn't catch that at all, and I'm Danish. Maybe we are to close to the language to notice?
amiserable Dude the fuck are you talking about? This panel is a for a DnD series called Critical Role, Nathan Fillion has no part in it so of course he's not there.
I m not here to judge, but it s sad to see how many geeks are overweight. Society wants us to be look fat and antisocial, but this shouldnt be the case. Go try out some working out guyz and dont mind the gym trolls. Take care of yourselves first !
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Thank you for helping us #critters who can't be at these events. As a critter in Australia, this means so much to me to be able to see this :D
Hear! Hear!
+Aurora Skylyght We need to band together and get them invited to Oz comic-con or something.
Koda, The White Mage I do agree with that!
9:45 Question #1:
Do you guys like your seating arrangement and would you ever want to change it?
11:10 Question #2:
(actually a thank you) A thank you to the Critical Role cast & crew for all of the charity they do.
12:47 Question #3:
How do you come up with your NPC's, especially on the spot? How do you make them interesting?
14:50 Question #4:
What are Lady Kima's stats?
(Directed at Matt) In Trinkett's voice, can you tell us how he felt when he saw what happened to Vex?
16:25 Question #5:
Have you ever been in a campaign that you didn't like or had to play as a character that you hated?
19:04 Question #6:
(Directed at the player's) How often do you guys think about your character?
(Directed at Matt) How do you control this?
24:17 Question #7
(Directed at Laura) Thank you, you and Alison Hailslip are the reason as to why my wife now plays D&D.
(Directed at everyone, but specifically Travis) Thank you for supporting the military.
(Directed at Matt) I've recently been DMing my wife's campiagn. How far out did you plan your campaign when you first started?
26:59 Question #8
(Directed at Everyone) As voice actors, is there a popular cartoon out there that you are not in, but you would want to be in...and why is it Rick & Morty?
28:57 Quesition #9
Thank you for teaching me how to play through your game.
Thank you for giving me a show to binge-watch for like three weeks straight.
Have you ever thought of having a guest on that is completely new to D&D?
31:05 Question #10
Thank you, becuase you guys are the only reason why I thought that I could DM.
As a DM, there is a guy in our group and he is kind of homicidal. How can I stop the character from doing that?
35:07 Question #11
Thank you guys for being you. You guys are awesome and very entertaining and thank you for what you do for the community. I have been DMing for about 12 years now. Just within the past year from watching you guys, I have learned so much.
As voice actors, you guys have kind of an advantage and can get really into your characters, which is something that not anyone can do. Is there any time where you get too sucked into your character?
41:05 Question #12
Thank you for Critical Role and especially you Matt for all of your great GMing advice. It inspired me to be a better DM for my friends.
I know your campaign is very homebrewed and houseruled, but I have something that is bugging me about the Earthbreaker Groon fight and the Quivvering Hand that he used. Shouldn't that have killed Vax.
Will we ever see conclusion with Vex and Vax's father?
45:03 Question #13
(It turns out to be a person that Matt went to school with)
(Directed at Matt) Thanks for being one of the runners of the Popular Arts Club when I was a freshman. I would never have been the kind of geek I am today.
Now that you're playing much more regularly, do you worry about power level creep (basically when someone gains too much experience too fast)?
48:05 Question #14
I know you guys have experienced critters saying "like hey, they should fight thouse next". I have a paricularly sadistic moon druid in my party. I want to punish him, what do you think I should punish him with?
51:23 Question #15
If you could be a fruit, what fruit would you be and why?
52:20 Question #16
Matt, you like throwing in little references like Thordak being Thusday and Scanlan kind of being based off of Eminem. Are there any references in the story or in any of your characters' backstories that haven't been revealed yet or have you thrown in something that you thought they were going to notice, but didn't?
+Connor Brown great work man!
Can I suggest to add these questions as subtitles? We have enabled community subtitles so you can add them :-)
How?
On the video, click the settings gear in the bottom right (next to the full screen / theatre mode buttons)
Click "Subtitles / CC"
Click "Add subtitles / CC"
Connor Brown i
"CALM DOWN!.. IT'S JUST IN YOUR MIND!"
Travis is a legend.
22:58
Panel-goer from 2016: 'Thank you for giving me a show that I binge watched for three weeks...'
Me having just gotten out of a corona-lockdown in 2021: 'Those are rookie numbers!'
The jumps and shakes and all that are no problem! :D
That you're doing all of this is great so any complaints should be kept inside!
thank you for posting their panels! lack the money to go to any cons. Again thank you very much.
+quantumnaught Vex: "It's ok that you killed me, it's no big deal"
Percy: "Yeah, no, no big deal"
Vex is a little bit shocked
Percy: "Maybe next time it'll take... and we'll see how that goes" (as in, maybe she'll die next time)
Oh my Odin! I'm "norse" (Swedish), and never realized Thordak stands for Thursday. It makes sense! Thursday is spelled "torsdag" in swedish, danish and norwegian and pronounced similarly: [tours-dawg]. I don't know about old norse, but if Vasselheim had a shrine to the Aesir, they would know exactly what day of the week to expect Thordak.
From now on I'll only hear Matt sign off like "Is it Thordak yet?"
I swear to god I not only do I want to go to one of these but ANY panel with Travis is going to be hilarious.
The question about NPC names is a really good one tbh. In my group, we met a bandit leader, who we convinced not only not to fight us, but to fight with us. So the DM had to come up with a name. I instantly said Bob, so she took it. But to make it 'fantasy', she spelled it 'Bauhb', which made the players laugh uncontrollably every time his name is said. Kind of the same thing as with Purvan (get your pervon).
44:46 Indeed. I would have loved to have seen Percy in the Groon fight just to have Groon catch his bullets and launch them back at him. xD
I love watching these as a new person to the community, it makes me so excited for what's going to happen even though I'm 8 years behind, I'm still watching and enjoying as if it's the present :')
This was really great, rewatching everything that they do. So thanks!
38:41 Which explains why he keeps making broody characters. :p
Matt "... your names can be as fantasy driven as you want... "
Marisha "Pervan."
Taliesin "Pervan. We´re all just sitting here going..."
Matt "¡¡IT'S A REAL NAME YOU GUYS!! ... Oh, man I can't wait until Pervan shows up and TPKs the whole party. Sweet sweet vengance"
Travis "¡¡SAY MY NAME!!"
Hahahaha! Man, it kills me. XD
Fast Foward to the animated show.
34:00 Travis is a homicidal maniac, confirmed. :p
34:37 And Taliesin is a klepto. :p
Thank you for apologizing to youtube, it made my day.
I love these dorks so much :)
Awwwwww YEAH! I was hoping this would make it's way to this channel. THANK you.
Didn't think about that Thordak-thing, but yeah, now that they've mentioned it I can see the association xD
Thordak = Thors dag (A soft 'g' sound) = Thor's day = Thursday
Days named for Norse gods: Tirsdag (Tuesday) = Tyr's day. Onsdag (Wednesday) = Odin's day. Fredag (Friday) = Frej's day.
lmao the interaction between Laura and Travis was hilarious.
Thank you very much for this! Much less then three !!!
you make my day thanks for the content
When Matt mentions Ebberon, my heart actually flitters, the fact that he was familiar with it solidifies his place in geekdom for me.
52:30 :o I never realized that until now.
Best Travis Line 16:27
Thanks for that. Lol.
Anyone know what the shirt was?
Thank you for posting this!
Thank you so much ...I was slowly dying with out this. ^.^
Thank you guys so much for posting these!
+Jon Nathan Our pleasure :-) We try to collect as much of these as we can, so everyone can enjoy them
16:25 Travis being laid-back and suave with fans, as per usual. XD
...somehow it is SO weird to hear that organizer-person call Matt 'Mr. Mercer'. I know it IS his name, but somehow it feels not right, ok? I don't think I've actually seen anyone ever call him that. He's just Matt.
Outside of that: Even all this time later I just love seeing these videos and see questions answered.
And oh do I love the rolling off for what side gets to start there.
Oh, Purvon is still a sore point. Love it.
Oh GOD I love the 'how do you manage them?' question so much. I don't think there is much managing there in some cases. No way.
Also the 'It's great, it means you're traveling the world' about his unused maps that he never gets to use again was SO passive aggressive. Love it.
'you guys should be glad I forget about concentration checks. I'm trying to get better about that.' 'Don't get better about that.' LOL.
'We're very good people. We're role models' Well YOU are. Your characters? Not always xD
OH GOD Matt remembered a guy he went to High School with there? That's AMAZING! I sometimes don't recognize people I met like... a few months ago. Or, at least don't remember their names.
Oooh Matt had fun going over the possible ways to shut down that one Druid one of the askers had there.
Oh God Marisha saying 'So I just appropriated it. Classic white person' and Travis just kinda rubs at his eyes like that. Love it.
What did Taliesin say at 13:41? I've been replaying and I can't make it out
bad touch at 4th level i believe haha
i think the guy who asked the earthbreaker fight wasted a question by asking it. Matt answered that on the Q and A session. If he cant accept that answer then that's on him...
Those nit-picky kinds of questions annoy me. It's so stereotypical nerd, like the SNL William Shatner skit.
+cryofpaine seriously. I mean i dont mind when dms house rule stuff and if the players dont mind it then what's the harm. It's not like that guy is playing in that campaign
+cryofpaine yeah really, also matt made it realllllllllly fucking clear that he house ruled that on twitter on reddit, on other q&a's like come on dude matts things at the start was "this is a homebrew game" of course shit is not gonna be exactly to the book.
Maybe he didn't watch the Q&A session, maybe he isn't on Reddit, Twitter... The guy had an innocent question, he wanted to probe Matt's thought process. He also got another question after that. You made it sound like it was a really bad question...
I'm actually not on Twitter and not on Reddit you know how I know that matt answered it? I watched critical role and got over it (cause he answered it there and at the beginning of the first episode)
43:07 The answer is no... They even leave him out of her wedding.
Watching this Sept. 23, 2022.
"Have your character jump off a cliff!" is much funnier knowing what happens to Keyleth 50 episodes later.
c-ya:-j
Matt’s answer about D&D just clicking, I had that moment, my dwarven paladin friend and I had just climbed up a garbage shoot, I was a dwarven ranger, we happened to go into the boss room just the two of us while everyone was fighting from the front, we both in like 1 hit were brought down from 14 and 13 to like 1 and 3, so I was desperately trying to figure it out, the boss was way bigger than the garbage shoot, and it was 30 feet straight down, so I lassoed the boss, wrapped the rope around the two of us and jumped and survived with the boss bugbear trapped and held there for 3 rounds as I shot up at him
Thanks for the upload! I fear this is as close as I will get beung in the uk!
Matt just being Trinket, and Laura giving him a hug! 15:51
"Go out guns blazing and you roll a new one." Ouch. 17:58
All of us watching the early panels and like.... the foreshadowing of things that happened in the Dragon Arc, the Vecna arc, in Campaign 2, and Campaign 3. And then all the success such as making 3 sourcebooks, CR being it's own company and all that good atuff
34:36 taliesin wants to steal!
I particularly love the elevator music at the end. :P
GO FOR THE CANDLES!
18:34 It's funny Marisha's sheepish grin at that comment, considering Keyfish hadn't happened yet.
24:33 No it's not. :(
Laura: "I'm a voice actress as well"
Me: "Doesn't that mean Travis is an actress??" xD
Best aluminium siding convention EVER! xD
Thank you so much!
(Does anyone know what Taliesin says around 22:30? I can't quite make it out)
+Daniela Blake He's saying "The next one will take"
Thank you, Dan- D: Oh God!
+Daniela Blake
Whoops, I replied to the wrong comment. Here's the part:
Vex: "It's ok that you killed me, it's no big deal"
Percy: "Yeah, no, no big deal"
Vex is a little bit shocked
Percy: "Maybe next time it'll take... and we'll see how that goes" (as in, maybe she'll die next time)
+Critical Scope DDDDDD:> WAUGH
+Critical Scope You left the other comment too XD
"classic white person..." oh my fucking GOD Marisha that's why i love you so much
ty so much!
+darkleoforever You're welcome :-)
Oh god... Percy going from “whose your daddy?” To actually being Vex’s father?... 0_o
BTW: There's a brief spoiler for possibly up to ep 76 in this.
what did travis say at 34:30
+Roraigh “Roars” Price "You won't kill a chicken, but you'll steal a broom!"
Awesome video yet again :D It's always nice to get an insight on players and what goes on behind the scene ^^ Might I suggest that you get a steady camera or something like that, just like in Wizard World, Portland :D That was a really really good video both in quality and fun ^^
+Nicolaj Stokholm Thank you for the suggestion. Sadly, we rely on people locally to provide us with the footage.
This means we can't always choose what type of equipment we use.
It is Torsdag in danish atleast.
34:29 BroomGate
PINEAPPLE!
thanks for this but could we have the uncut version of this
+adem sheehan This is all the footage we had. There is nothing cut out. It's only stabilized (removed a lot of the shakiness)
Is it just me or did the person with the camera whisper "these guys suck" about 30 seconds in at the start
A great panel. Thanks again, Critical Scope!
Does anybody know where I can find a video of the sloth visit to Geek and Sundry, though?
+AnkokuEvangeline It will be up tomorrow on the G&S website
Was Liam on any panel ever?
+PSGameStation They said that Liam has 2 very young children running around and because of that, he doesn't have time to go to cons. Same for Sam...
1 view! : D I love this content keep it up!!
+LordofBlackrock Thank you! You were quite fast ;-) We will :-D
Since when is Thordak simmilar to Torsdag? O.o (Torsdag= Thursday)
English speakers are rarely good at the soft g in the end, making it hard instead. Then it kinda sounds like a k...
But yeah, I didn't catch that at all, and I'm Danish. Maybe we are to close to the language to notice?
I don't get it. I watched the whole thing --- no Nation Filion? wtf
Lies. If it happens in the valley, Nathan Fillion owns it. wtf
amiserable Dude the fuck are you talking about? This panel is a for a DnD series called Critical Role, Nathan Fillion has no part in it so of course he's not there.
#Broomgate.
I m not here to judge, but it s sad to see how many geeks are overweight. Society wants us to be look fat and antisocial, but this shouldnt be the case. Go try out some working out guyz and dont mind the gym trolls. Take care of yourselves first !