Storytime with Matt Mercer | PAX Unplugged 2023

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  • @mxochimera
    @mxochimera 9 місяців тому +448

    Praise the algorithm for finding this for me.

    • @brian_isalich_kescenovitz
      @brian_isalich_kescenovitz 9 місяців тому +1

      Come to the wells 🕳️

    • @juliejames6322
      @juliejames6322 9 місяців тому +3

      Same same samey same

    • @jessatlife
      @jessatlife 8 місяців тому +1

      Hahaha same

    • @T0NI_
      @T0NI_ 4 місяці тому +2

      Praise be whatever made me search “Matt Mercer interview” and then this showed up near the top

  • @CMLT.
    @CMLT. 9 місяців тому +123

    4:12 Travis' slide
    10:00 Laura's slide
    21:18 Marisha's slide
    24:32 Taliesin's slide
    26:41 Ashley's slide
    29:55 Liam's slide
    35:12 Sam's slide

    • @anja930
      @anja930 9 місяців тому +7

      Haven't finished watching, but Sam's slide being last is so ominous lol

  • @naomimckinlay9750
    @naomimckinlay9750 9 місяців тому +94

    Someone yelling “Orley” when the turtles came up!!!

  • @PeTTs0n88
    @PeTTs0n88 9 місяців тому +248

    He is such an amazing human being and must be protected.

    • @MinurielLai
      @MinurielLai 9 місяців тому +4

      +

    • @operative2136
      @operative2136 9 місяців тому +14

      The thing I appreciate most about Matt, is that he clearly believes in the value of gaming. It's made him what he is, and he has absolutely no qualms about pointing that out. More importantly, he makes every effort to try and invite others to discover what makes gaming great and transformative.

    • @Gristoufle2
      @Gristoufle2 7 місяців тому

      So true

  • @matheusfiorelli8829
    @matheusfiorelli8829 8 місяців тому +47

    30:37 Liam in the background: VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Thorkyan
    @Thorkyan 9 місяців тому +54

    Thank you Pax to have upload this presentation, it was amazing.

  • @limecola4343
    @limecola4343 9 місяців тому +135

    I love that every time a new Matt Mercer interview comes out-- it doesn't matter how many times he gets asked similar questions, he always has something new to say on a subject. I love hearing about the thought and creativity and compassion that goes into everything he does. People like Matt are what makes the community as wonderful as it is.

  • @RJeremyHoward
    @RJeremyHoward 9 місяців тому +134

    "Like most children, Matthew was born..."

  • @Mgaak
    @Mgaak 9 місяців тому +52

    Critical Role C2 got me through the worst year of my life. I will never forget the intensity of when they fought the blue dragon in the Folding Halls of Halas. I bursted into tears after the end of the fight and also hearing thousands of people cheer was a heartwarming feeling. Thank you.

  • @LordOwenLongstrider
    @LordOwenLongstrider 9 місяців тому +19

    On what he said about others wanting you to succeed, I recently came across a quote by Neil Gaiman, who said many of his successful past projects he got because someone else recommended him, or encouraged him to apply for. Sure, there may be a lot of people talking behind your back, but not all of them are hating on you, some are praising you, gushing over you to their friends, and praying for your success. 😁

    • @LordOwenLongstrider
      @LordOwenLongstrider 9 місяців тому +1

      Found it again; "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game." Neil Gaiman

  • @naomimckinlay9750
    @naomimckinlay9750 9 місяців тому +17

    Matt Mercer is incredible, I don’t think he will ever understand how he has changed many peoples lives. Him and the CR team

  • @new-dystopia
    @new-dystopia 9 місяців тому +50

    A supportive family, engaged parents, are such foreign ideas to me. I grew up largely ignored at home unless I was in trouble. It is good to know there are people growing up with parents that are involved, that is the future I'd like to see.

  • @terrors.of.phantom
    @terrors.of.phantom 9 місяців тому +56

    i could listen to this dude talk about whatever all day

  • @XavierBakunawa
    @XavierBakunawa 9 місяців тому +63

    Love how the rest of the CR cast keeps taking the piss with Matt's slides.

  • @Draail19
    @Draail19 9 місяців тому +27

    As I sit in bed watching an episode of The Mighty Nein, watching the small screen while the big screen plays a thing of comfort. Matt, you are one of the biggest sources of inspiration many people have. Your voice work is incredible in its variance, your world building is atsounding in scope and scale. Your love for your community is inspiring and genuine. It's still the fact that you love/live to fuck up your players' minds as they fall in love with the worlds and stories you build, and how you accept the chaos that they bring. You frekking rock. +1 to all the things. Thanks for all you do.

  • @rhoda255
    @rhoda255 9 місяців тому +12

    time stamps for photos cr cast choose:
    4:11 Origins and Inspirations (Travis)
    9:59 Community (Laura)
    21:15 Preparation (Marisha)
    24:30 Adaptability (Taliesin)
    26:39 Collaboration (Ashley)
    29:51 Creation (Liam)
    35:10 In Conclusion (Sam)

  • @spencer_abrams
    @spencer_abrams 8 місяців тому +10

    Sorry... was he dressed as Sokolov from mgs3 in one of those cosplay pics? lol. I love this dude

  • @threadsandpurrs
    @threadsandpurrs 9 місяців тому +7

    The rest of the Critical Role cast trolling him in the slide show...
    and the Omar inspiration. I'd love to see that. My boyfriend and I have figured out what our cats would be as characters as well.

  • @gemapix
    @gemapix 8 місяців тому +5

    There is so much wisdom in this, I will be rewatching this for years.

    • @postbunnie
      @postbunnie Місяць тому

      TO DO WHAT?!?!? i don't think THAT'S what you're supposed to watch to come...

  • @LoveReacts
    @LoveReacts 9 місяців тому +32

    Love hearing Marisha support Matt through the whole speech 🥲 loved this!

    • @joncarr5545
      @joncarr5545 9 місяців тому +2

      I didn't hear her at all, what do you mean?

    • @LoveReacts
      @LoveReacts 9 місяців тому

      I don't have it in me to timestamp every time I heard her, but I listened with headphones so that might've helped idk. 15 people agreed with me so I don't think I'm going crazy, you might just want to give it a relisten if you wanna hear her
      @@joncarr5545

  • @TheDisplacerBeast
    @TheDisplacerBeast 9 місяців тому +9

    Im disapointed in ashley, and so is the mummy that goes “huh!”
    Edit: im no longer disapointed. Well done liam, you did what ashley couldnt.

  • @danlaw1991
    @danlaw1991 9 місяців тому +7

    Such a great video. Couldn’t love Matt more if I tried. He’s just such a delightful and passionate person. Great seeing & hearing about his earlier life and how everything led him to where he is now. The pics the CR cast snuck in were hilarious.
    Most of all though the questions asked at the end were brilliant and Matt gave such thoughtful and eloquent answers. Never change Matthew Mercer.

  • @LordOwenLongstrider
    @LordOwenLongstrider 9 місяців тому +7

    I grew up drawing, I always had a drawing-pad, when we went on vacations, I spent the long hours of driving in the back seat drawing away; I still have most of the pads, filled cover to cover. And that helped with my creativity, I would see a TV show, movie, or video-game and I was inspired to draw the characters, despite my poor drawing skills, similar to Matt apparently, which despite taking Art almost every year in school didn't improve my hand-drawing skills, but then I found Microsoft Paint. 😁 But, I have always been creative, even developing the eye and mind for making intricate designs, like an exploded view of something, or drawing a 3D object from all sides; my parents still talk about how amazed they were that I was doing that at like 10yo, probably helped by also having a big box of LEGOs and K'nex. 😁 And I also loved playing video-games, I had the first Nintendo, with Mario, Duck Hunt, and ?Contra?, then the Gameboy, and then the X-Box and Wii, playing games like Zelda, Halo, Elder Scrolls, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and many others, becoming so fascinated by the stories and lore of the games, inspiring even more creativity. And all that, combined with my love of DnD, anime, History, fantasy, sci-fi, etc., led to me now being a writer (nothing finished or published yet, YET), and doing concept art for my stories; hopefully I'll be ready to share my stories with the world soon. 😁 Maybe that's why I love Critical Role and the cast so much, I guess I felt a connection that I hadn't noticed before. 😁

  • @DQuartermane
    @DQuartermane 9 місяців тому +25

    I love when he saw the size of the crowd and his brain went "Oh My!"

  • @GottaLookInwardToSeeOutward
    @GottaLookInwardToSeeOutward 8 місяців тому +4

    love watching and listening to him talk about pretty much anything

  • @Gristoufle2
    @Gristoufle2 7 місяців тому +4

    Matt looks like such an amazing person. Even with all this famousness he somehow keeps talking about empathy ❤️

  • @OctopusOwl
    @OctopusOwl 9 місяців тому +11

    Love that I share the same entry point into DND as Matt. That ADnD Monster Manual was a game changer

  • @michaelrodger
    @michaelrodger 19 днів тому

    I love this human being. The world is better with people like Matthew Mercer in it.

  • @kgeller1538
    @kgeller1538 9 місяців тому +7

    Thank you Matt for all the stories you tell!

  • @HillValleyMaker
    @HillValleyMaker 9 місяців тому +2

    This is absolutely brilliant and wonderful.

  • @Crispy7861
    @Crispy7861 10 місяців тому +21

    Was wondering when I would get to watch this!

  • @Birdhism
    @Birdhism 9 місяців тому +6

    I see Matt, I click ❤

  • @majestyc0359
    @majestyc0359 9 місяців тому +7

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @Kiloku2
    @Kiloku2 9 місяців тому +4

    Omar the Paladin Barbarian Corgi. Love it

  • @deanandrejevic1946
    @deanandrejevic1946 18 днів тому

    This unplugged is so beautiful

  • @allenharragarra2025
    @allenharragarra2025 9 місяців тому +3

    I love the talk of this real reprise of how he is being a real ! REAL! person with his life . Shit I grew up in the era of what he went through

  • @kossowankenobi
    @kossowankenobi 9 місяців тому +7

    Bless you, Matt, for having the courage to build and share this story.
    I loled at "Solid Snake - useless with SDC weapons". 😂 IYKYK

    • @JerichosFishStand
      @JerichosFishStand 9 місяців тому +3

      Mega Damage baby. It was the 90s. Everything had to be EXTREME. Rifts went so far over the top, it couldn't even see it anymore.

    • @lloydritchey
      @lloydritchey 6 місяців тому +2

      and it's still fun :) ​@@JerichosFishStand

  • @jeroen92
    @jeroen92 10 місяців тому +36

    Is this Matt confessing he secretly has a vendetta against Liam's boots? This explains the marble situation!

  • @lloydritchey
    @lloydritchey 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow, that's the most anyone has talked about Palladium Books' RIFTS in ages. (Still great fun to play, BTW.)

  • @YukFai
    @YukFai 9 місяців тому +3

    I love the ankylosaur answer - that's my favorite, too!

  • @user-microburst
    @user-microburst 19 днів тому

    He seems genuine to me, this man.

  • @drakodrizzt7795
    @drakodrizzt7795 8 місяців тому +2

    Cada vez lo quiero mas a este tipo lpm... es el Keanu Reeves de D&D

  • @SanJacintoArtGuild
    @SanJacintoArtGuild 9 місяців тому +1

    Great Interview.
    Thanks!

  • @dgymnast6473
    @dgymnast6473 8 місяців тому +1

    I started reading those same books at 10. Big influence.

  • @bumblewyn
    @bumblewyn 7 місяців тому +2

    what a great talk!

  • @haxenheimer9707
    @haxenheimer9707 9 місяців тому +2

    Matt's reaction to 56:57 is one of my favorite moments in this

  • @michaeltreon4034
    @michaeltreon4034 9 місяців тому +1

    man Louise Knocked it out of the park in calamity! loved that series!

  • @Fizz508
    @Fizz508 Місяць тому +1

    I really needed this

  • @jlajr1974
    @jlajr1974 9 місяців тому +4

    Rifts was greatest broken table top RPG in the 90s

    • @JerichosFishStand
      @JerichosFishStand 9 місяців тому +2

      You could literally play a Vagabond; just a normal dude with no special equipment or powers except, like, campfire cooking skills. Or you could be a Hatchling Dragon with magic, psionics, an innate shape shifting ability, and bullet-proof skin.

    • @lloydritchey
      @lloydritchey 6 місяців тому

      It's still a fun setting with the right GM.

  • @billberndtson
    @billberndtson 9 місяців тому +3

    50:23 I read a quote once on Twitter that read "Scared? Fine. Be scared. Do it anyway." I think it was on Kari Wahlgren's page but icr to whom, if anyone, she attributed it.

    • @kristenwalsh9456
      @kristenwalsh9456 9 місяців тому +1

      Carrie Fisher has a quote like that

    • @billberndtson
      @billberndtson 9 місяців тому

      @@kristenwalsh9456 Another reason to love and miss that woman. 🙂

  • @jackboil84
    @jackboil84 9 місяців тому +1

    I love matt. Period.

  • @gregsteele806
    @gregsteele806 9 місяців тому +5

    Gurps: Where buying armor points was cheap, but buying health was expensive. Wonderful for campaign balance: You take 500 damage. Great, it bounces off my 510 pts of armor. You take 540 pts of damage. OK, I take 30 health, so I'm dead.

  • @MeerkatADV
    @MeerkatADV 9 місяців тому +46

    I feel like I can hear Dani laughing.

  • @Jango1989
    @Jango1989 9 місяців тому +2

    Matt is truly the GOAT

  • @argella1300
    @argella1300 9 місяців тому +5

    I really wanna see Omar in a campaign as an NPC now. Gnome or dwarf barbarian/paladin of the storm lord

    • @SamuBrownYT
      @SamuBrownYT 2 місяці тому

      He was just played by Matt in the Puppy Roll if you want to watch that. It's on UA-cam

  • @MilanderLeavemealone
    @MilanderLeavemealone 9 місяців тому +2

    Ahh, the Amber Diceless RPG. I miss that game.

  • @roboticd
    @roboticd 8 місяців тому +1

    The art in the OG MM2 was a big influence on me in 5th grade

    • @roboticd
      @roboticd 8 місяців тому

      And Palladium system was the best thing as a teen dude in the 90's, though I got in through the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game. Their system for building mutant animals is a character generation dream.

  • @jenny_of_oldstones3523
    @jenny_of_oldstones3523 9 місяців тому +1

    We do not deserve Matt Mercer. This WORLD doesn't deserve such a beautiful person. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @jphugin
    @jphugin 9 місяців тому +7

    23:50 is this Robin Atkin Downes on the left?

  • @Malachi57
    @Malachi57 9 місяців тому +1

    It would have been nice to see this in person. My only gripe about this con was that all the special talks and classes were overbooked before most people had a chance to even register. It's a huge con. Please start making room for all the people who are attending. It's not like the convention center doesn't have the space for it.

  • @jenny_of_oldstones3523
    @jenny_of_oldstones3523 9 місяців тому +4

    Ugh Trent Ikithon an NPC so despicable that when (around the end of C3) the MN decided to ride with our beloved Hot Boi Matt said "Yeah FUCK THAT GUY!"...

  • @T0NI_
    @T0NI_ 4 місяці тому +1

    Matt borrowed a fraction of Taliesin’s power to manifest those chairs halfway through this lmao

  • @johannastatum4226
    @johannastatum4226 9 місяців тому +2

    That was the most taliesin picture he couldve picked i feel lmao

  • @nickm9102
    @nickm9102 9 місяців тому +1

    Just looking at all the pictures added to the panels by the CR crew I am sure that when he left the stage he got on his phone and sent a group message
    "I hate you all..."
    And waited for the laughs, I knows, and you're welcomes to come in.

    • @nickm9102
      @nickm9102 9 місяців тому +1

      Also, you know that all of them put more effort into busting him up than Matt did to get ready.

  • @zomlida5001
    @zomlida5001 9 місяців тому +1

    That woman screaming like Toad got me where it counts 7:16

  • @Thurrak
    @Thurrak 9 місяців тому +1

    We don't deserve this wonderful human being.

  • @briegookin2112
    @briegookin2112 5 місяців тому +1

    If you wanna see the true character of an actor, give them a social media account.

  • @erbgorre
    @erbgorre 8 місяців тому +1

    ankylosaurus hype!

  • @facetankhank
    @facetankhank 24 дні тому

    Omar needs to happen in CR canon.

  • @nuru666
    @nuru666 4 місяці тому +2

    Is it just me or does Travis just get bigger every year? He looks so weeie in the picture at 29:33

  • @LydiaTereK
    @LydiaTereK 9 місяців тому +3

    Sam's prank 🤣

  • @cole9799
    @cole9799 9 місяців тому +1

    Wonder what Dave Heatwave (his brother) is doing now and if they are close?

  • @devengray1611
    @devengray1611 9 місяців тому +2

    Did PAX just not post this anywhere??

    • @postbunnie
      @postbunnie Місяць тому

      It's posted right here. You're commenting under it.

  • @JBish0
    @JBish0 12 днів тому

    41:11 I sense a future Sam shirt

  • @milez6197
    @milez6197 9 місяців тому +1

    13:06 free feet.

  • @theNoviceGuardian
    @theNoviceGuardian 9 місяців тому +18

    This has overwhelmingly low views for the one DM that puts his all into what he does.

  • @nathanbrehm1085
    @nathanbrehm1085 9 місяців тому +1

    Matts best character, Victor. We need more Viktor. If he plays in another campaign, he needs to play as Viktor. Lol

  • @RougeBananaman
    @RougeBananaman 5 днів тому

    I hope I get to meet Matt before I go back to non-existence 🥲