you're right - we're less than a month away from the premiere of season 3 (October 3rd). the opening is an homage/parody of the people (and music) from Lord of the Rings. there are really too many easter eggs to mention. the lineup is Vax (assassin rogue), Vex (beast master ranger), Keyleth (moon druid), Grog (berzerker barbarian), Percy (gunslinger fighter), Scanlan (lore bard) and Pike (war cleric). dragons do have a Frightening Presence that Keyleth failed the save for. the first two episodes are a new story created for the show with elements from their home game. episodes 3-12 (and subsequent seasons) are based directly on their stream
Fun fact, Khary Payton was actually a guest player in Critical Role's 2nd campaign. Before they started streaming, Percy was a "gunslinger" which is a fighter subclass in the Pathfinder RPG. They converted their characters to D&D to make everything simpler for viewers, so Percy became a homebrewed class, since D&D doesn't have that.
Welcome aboard! They're already about level 9 from what I recall when this adventure begins, they were playing at home for quite a while before Critical Role started streaming, and this first episode or two condenses some of what happened before the stream that led into the main plots going forward. It's always super fun to see someone who does play TTRPG's but isn't familiar with Critical Role or Vox Machina precisely. If you want to see more of the pre-stream and pre-show adventures, there's a comic, "Vox Machina Origins" that's taking us through the VERY early stuff. (There's also prequel comics for the second campaign, the Mighty Nein, which is going to be another show on Prime in another year or two from what I understand and hope, they've got an animatic and such up on UA-cam for it already.)
@@RedhoodReacts fair warning, those campaigns are hundreds, even thousands of hours long, episodes are about 3 hours long. But there are the "Exandria Unlimited" shorter campaigns DM'd by Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan of Dimension 20, a live play show that has episodes that are only about an hour long at a go. They are my other favorite D&D play show. Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is an ancient prequel to all the other CR campaigns and is considered by many to be one of the best short campaigns on the Internet entirely and I guarantee people would love a supercut reaction to that. There's desperate hopes by many of us Critters that Calamity might wind up a movie someday or something.
@@RedhoodReacts My phone apparently ate my first reply to this- apologies if it comes twice! But fair warning, the Critical Role live-play campaigns are literally hundreds, even thousands of hours long. Every CR episode is roughly 3 hours. Some go longer. So if you want to do it, it will take you months at least! There ARE a few one-shot games that take place after stuff that should be covered in LOVM that could have easier supercuts done to, and then there are the Exandria Unlimited short campaigns run by Dimension 20 (another D&D show) DMs Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan. While those are still 3 hours long per episode, they're not years-long, and I guarantee a LOT of people would like to see supercut reactions to "EXU: Calamity" in particular, which is an ancient prequel game run by Brennan Lee Mulligan- so it doesn't really have 'spoilers' in it even if you watch it before all of LOVM comes out. (They're aiming for 5 seasons total I think I heard Sam say) There are also a number of comparison videos out there that show scenes from LOVM and compare them to what happened in the original games, which are fun and much shorter, and Critters seem to like to see people react to. If you want to get into doing some reactions to live-plays, while they aren't Critical Role, Dimension 20 is probably a good call because their episodes are only1 hour long, so won't take as long to watch a season/campaign of. Since you caught the LOTR references in Ep1 here, you might very much enjoy the "Escape from the Bloodkeep" mini-campaign on Dimension 20's channel, as it is a LOTR parody sort of game, seen from the evil side. It's hilarious, and Critical Role's DM, Matt Mercer, gets to play a character in it. I watch it a couple of times a year if I need some serious cheering up lol.
Welcome to Vox Machina, if you thought the first one was good or ok then hang in to when the story really gets cooking in Episode 3 it’s a wild ride all the way into season three, even for those of us who watched the original campaign live :3
@@RedhoodReacts we are always excited to have others enjoy our favorite nerdy voice actors’ D&D show :) I highly recommend checking out the Legend of the Making of the Legend of Vox Machina shorts after you finish, for a little more context and the story of how they got this thing made. It’s super fun.
you're right - we're less than a month away from the premiere of season 3 (October 3rd).
the opening is an homage/parody of the people (and music) from Lord of the Rings. there are really too many easter eggs to mention.
the lineup is Vax (assassin rogue), Vex (beast master ranger), Keyleth (moon druid), Grog (berzerker barbarian), Percy (gunslinger fighter), Scanlan (lore bard) and Pike (war cleric).
dragons do have a Frightening Presence that Keyleth failed the save for.
the first two episodes are a new story created for the show with elements from their home game. episodes 3-12 (and subsequent seasons) are based directly on their stream
@@johnobrien7562 thank you! to this day I still wasn’t sure what Percy’s class was lol
Fun fact, Khary Payton was actually a guest player in Critical Role's 2nd campaign.
Before they started streaming, Percy was a "gunslinger" which is a fighter subclass in the Pathfinder RPG. They converted their characters to D&D to make everything simpler for viewers, so Percy became a homebrewed class, since D&D doesn't have that.
@@elbruces they have some goated VAs on this show for sure!
Welcome aboard! They're already about level 9 from what I recall when this adventure begins, they were playing at home for quite a while before Critical Role started streaming, and this first episode or two condenses some of what happened before the stream that led into the main plots going forward. It's always super fun to see someone who does play TTRPG's but isn't familiar with Critical Role or Vox Machina precisely. If you want to see more of the pre-stream and pre-show adventures, there's a comic, "Vox Machina Origins" that's taking us through the VERY early stuff.
(There's also prequel comics for the second campaign, the Mighty Nein, which is going to be another show on Prime in another year or two from what I understand and hope, they've got an animatic and such up on UA-cam for it already.)
@@neintales1224 when I’m all caught up I’ll think of doing a supercut reaction to their Critical Role campaigns
@@RedhoodReacts fair warning, those campaigns are hundreds, even thousands of hours long, episodes are about 3 hours long. But there are the "Exandria Unlimited" shorter campaigns DM'd by Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan of Dimension 20, a live play show that has episodes that are only about an hour long at a go. They are my other favorite D&D play show.
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is an ancient prequel to all the other CR campaigns and is considered by many to be one of the best short campaigns on the Internet entirely and I guarantee people would love a supercut reaction to that. There's desperate hopes by many of us Critters that Calamity might wind up a movie someday or something.
@@RedhoodReacts My phone apparently ate my first reply to this- apologies if it comes twice!
But fair warning, the Critical Role live-play campaigns are literally hundreds, even thousands of hours long. Every CR episode is roughly 3 hours. Some go longer. So if you want to do it, it will take you months at least!
There ARE a few one-shot games that take place after stuff that should be covered in LOVM that could have easier supercuts done to, and then there are the Exandria Unlimited short campaigns run by Dimension 20 (another D&D show) DMs Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan. While those are still 3 hours long per episode, they're not years-long, and I guarantee a LOT of people would like to see supercut reactions to "EXU: Calamity" in particular, which is an ancient prequel game run by Brennan Lee Mulligan- so it doesn't really have 'spoilers' in it even if you watch it before all of LOVM comes out. (They're aiming for 5 seasons total I think I heard Sam say)
There are also a number of comparison videos out there that show scenes from LOVM and compare them to what happened in the original games, which are fun and much shorter, and Critters seem to like to see people react to.
If you want to get into doing some reactions to live-plays, while they aren't Critical Role, Dimension 20 is probably a good call because their episodes are only1 hour long, so won't take as long to watch a season/campaign of. Since you caught the LOTR references in Ep1 here, you might very much enjoy the "Escape from the Bloodkeep" mini-campaign on Dimension 20's channel, as it is a LOTR parody sort of game, seen from the evil side. It's hilarious, and Critical Role's DM, Matt Mercer, gets to play a character in it. I watch it a couple of times a year if I need some serious cheering up lol.
@@neintales1224 all good food for thought! I’ll take a peek at Dimension 20
@@RedhoodReacts
Plus, D20 caps its campaigns about 12 episodes or less, whereas Critical Role can run for well over 100 episodes per campaign.
Welcome to Vox Machina, if you thought the first one was good or ok then hang in to when the story really gets cooking in Episode 3 it’s a wild ride all the way into season three, even for those of us who watched the original campaign live :3
@@JRDickens20 I feel welcomed!
@@RedhoodReacts we are always excited to have others enjoy our favorite nerdy voice actors’ D&D show :) I highly recommend checking out the Legend of the Making of the Legend of Vox Machina shorts after you finish, for a little more context and the story of how they got this thing made. It’s super fun.