@@adamushu so 3.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...1?
@@Nyrufa True, but Goliaths are still pretty sturdy, and he shows up wearing Full Plate armor IIRC (so a fairly high AC combined with a Goliath's natural durability). Against anything but a Dragon he'd probably be surprisingly helpful. :P
Crazy that a Magic item apperated a fully sentient, totally normal Goliath is also crazy. Like he's not a familiar. Just some normal dude created via unknown magic. Age of Arcanum must've been wild
I actually did this. Backstory is that my character's master resorted to pulling from the deck during a tpk spiral, and got the knight and void back to back. So I popped into existance, did a similar 'I am here to serve!' thing, just in time to watch the entire reason that I exist crumple soulless to the ground. I proceeded to backpack his unconsious but out of there while the beholder vaporized the rest of his party, and was left with just the little problem of figuring out how the heck to get him back. Still playing the character today, all the way up to level 12. just recently got my wish to find out where his soul is trapped. It's an unbelievably fun concept to play.
Its literally like a kid in a candy shop. I can understand as DM’S campaign breaking items like deck of many things excites us but terrifies us that our campaign we spent so long making and planning is about to be cut several chapters by players anctics but at the same time we love to see what random chaos they do. I imagine for matt that this session being an alternate universe from the campaign he was really hoping to dish out some world ending cards.
@@chirpbirds924Critical Role started off as a continuation of a home game of D&D started in early 2013. Until the start of that home game, Sam had never played D&D before.
Back in 3.5 one of my players drew a card and drew the knight, thus gaining a 4th level fighter. Then he ordered his knight to draw a card and the knight drew the Fool, lost 10,000Xp (which was the exact amount that he had) and promptly evaporated with a small wail.
is that how it worked in 3.5, i never got a deck in that edition. i know in 5th that even if your draw the fool You lose 10,000 XP unless If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you with just enough XP to keep your level.
He was a Goliath in Full Plate armor. Goliaths are already tough and sturdy as-is. Adding Full Plate (even non-magical Full Plate) just makes them even more tanky. I'm not all that surprised, to be honest.
@TheSmashMaster9000 my character has a 7 intelligence, -2 modifier. How dumb is she? My group keeps arguing about it, and so what we know for sure is that she can't read or count past ten, and she can't pronounce big words. And then half the group thinks she's just not educated and the other half thinks she's mentally handicapped.
Katarena K. It really depends on how you want to play it. It is only a -2 so I don’t imagine that they’d be straight up mentally handicapped but they’re certainly no especially bright. I normally place a -1 at uneducated so I imagine that they’re not bright and would likely have a hard time learning things that ‘don’t’ effect them. They likely would still have a sense of basic tactics and areas surrounding their class and/or profession with little useful knowledge outside of their interests. I think. I could be completely wrong and it’s your character so it’s your choice as to how you handle that.
Even when Travis WANTED to pull some major bad cards he still got relatively good and ok cards and you could see he was a little bummed by it... I can't believe his luck with that deck
I love how Laura suggested, “Intelligence!” when Travis could give Grog 2+ on abilities. I love even more how Travis immediately shut her down and said, “Nah, fuck that.”
I can't believe Travis got these five cards out of 17. Like ten of them are universe game breaking possible campaign ending cards and he got hitpoints, a weapon and an assistant xD Matt got so excited I love it. Luckily this is alternate universe and not canon.
Nah, it's 13/22. There's a 25% chance on a Deck of Many Things that it's the full 22 card deck, the cut down deck has the cards Vizier/Comet/Fates/Gem/Talons/Idiot/Donjon/Balance/Fool removed.
The people freaking out are remembering the 3.5 Deck which, while not world destroying, was monstrous. A very old campaign I played in, our party abandoned a revenge quest to create a secure resting place for the Deck, building our own dungeon around it to keep it safe
I pulled this move in a battle royale. We were 20th level, I was a wizard against a fighter, an artificer, and a sorcerer/fighter multi class. I cast meteor swarm and took out the fighters, but the artificer survived with one hit point. He would have killed me on his next turn if he hit. So I pulled cards as a last ditch effort and drew void. I resent it to this day
In a Battle Royal I once drew star, and gained two strength on my mage-monk multiclass. And I out muscled our barbarian with 22 strength, by a factor of one. Threw the bitch into a lava pool.
Honestly, I think my favorite part of this is Matt: "Grog, first card! What'd you pull?" Travis: **pulls card** **stares at card** **regrets choices** _"RU I N."_
You're a fourth level fighter, returning home after another adventure, when suddenly. You appear before a badly injured man with desperation in their eyes, you can tell at a glance that even in their current state they far out match you. You see the biggest, most terrifying creature you've ever seen over their shoulder. The man looks at you, as a sense of loyalty fills your heart, and they tell you, "kill the fiend".
I love when they bring creatures into existence only to fuck them over: Knight: I live to serve! Grog: Kill the dragon! Knight: Dragon...? Keyleth brings a dryad into existence to test a booby trap, a pixie to go check out the Orb of Death, Vex brings Giant Eagles in to attack an ancient black dragon...
Thats hiw mosy people use summons unless theres benefits to keeping them alive. And its usually implied they're different summons unless stated otherwise. ... and i just gave myself the idea of always using the same summon for my druid and ranger players. Hopefully that fey they summon wasnt in the shower at the time XD
@@r.s.2890 I mean there were specific rules back in 3.5 and Pathfinder about how your Summon Creatures spells could be used to summon a specific creature. I have a Conjuration Specialty Wizard who used specific summons, ever equipping them with various magical items, as in one of the rules it stated any items you give them will remain on them even after they desummon, So i'd have like fully kitted out summons coming in.
I was so glad I got to see this one live, one of the best episodes ever. The Deck pull was great, but Grog critting Keyleth out of black dragon form while he was at 1 hp was even better.
The first D&D campaign I was ever a part of was Curse of Strahd, and we came across the Deck of Many Things. At one point, we met with Strahd, and was told we would be forced to draw from the Deck. We drew, and one of the draws gave us another Deck of Many Things to bring with us. I drew Rogue, which was a bit of a problem down the line. The party druid, however, convinced Strahd that he would pull a card only of Strahd pulled one as well. Strahd did so... and drew Void.
The funniest bit isn't even acknowledged.. If you think about it, grog lost all non-magical items, including clothes and such. Meaning, keyleth got killed by an "enlarged" goliath wearing nothing but a belt, boots, gloves and necklace. XD haha. Technically his defence should've been lowered, but I found that who thing funny... and to think, grog can redraw them at anytime in the future cause they weren't technically used in the "dream"
Yes, he has. The one card that gave him a weapon, but that was Matt's mistake by thinking it was the wrong card. That's why he got to "redraw" that one. But in the dream, all lost, used or broken items are returned, so in theory, the five cards used should've returned to the deck.
From the description of the Deck of Many Things: "Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears in the deck, making it possible to draw the same card twice."
Yes but Matt has already described that items used in this battle royal dimension are returned, vex'halias necklace wouldn't be broken, All the gems taryon used would be returned, even the bag of holding being emptied would be refilled upon exiting the dream. Odds are, grog won't keep the bonuses he got from the cards, so it'd be unfair to remove the cards from play permanently if they can't keep the items. But ultimately, it's up to Matt to determine.
That's not the point. Of course nothing that happened in the Battle Royale carried over to the real campaign, except for Taryon's fate die. The point is that cards do not disappear forever after they're drawn and used.
I've gotten some more appreciation for this moment lmao it's fantastic. This feels like it was an opportunity for Travis to do something I bet Grog has wanted to do for ages in the main campaign, and that Travis only hasn't done because he doesn't want to take the chance of actually royally fucking up the main game by mass pulling cards
The Only thing i can think of for this is if the fighter survived and the group came all together, seeing grog and the knight and them going "OH GODS, THERE'S TWO OF THEM?!"
This is one of my favorite moments from the show. I love how everyone gets so excited about the possibilities. Pulling one card is ballsy, but he pulled 5... Amazing.
I've personally seen the deck used in a campaign twice. Grog is the first character I've seen who didn't look the DM straight in the eyes and say "Seven" with a shit eating grin on their face. A buddy of mine tells the tale of a friend who went with 11, drew 10 of the 11 good ones, and then drew the void. Something about the deck just makes people want to push their luck to the very edge.
I once had a skeleton draw a card and the Grim fucking Reaper showed and disintegrated his boney ass. After that we have a house rule that Necromancers were not allowed to have the undead draw from the deck.
I love how travis almost looks insulted when Laura suggests to raise his intelligence like "no I started as a muscly himbo and I'm going to die as one"
Anybody else notice that when Matt first starts describing the sword Grog got from the key card "a beautiful, beautiful black" Laura's face drops and you can faintly hear her say "Oh god it's not Craven Edge?" and then Matt continues the description
I saw this live and was facebook chatting with my friend who was also watching and we both FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT! *AND THE CARDS HE PULLED TOO!* We were both team grog at this point too so I was INVESTED!
lol I absolutely love how much Taliasin is just enjoying the hell out of the potential chaos. That deck is of much chaos and it's amazing. I want an ACTUAL physical Deck of Many Things for my collection now..... I MUST find one. ^__^
One time we doing a Lordship play through, were one of the chapters was a lord of a castle, and at level 12 we got the deck of many things, at level 13 my Necromancer drew the Knight card. So, we protected him and brought him home. From then on I sent on small time missions with a Wight I had cast “Command Undead” on. So here was this level 4 knight grinding his way through the levels with a badass ghost demon bodyguard and a small platoon of zombies under his indirect command. When we finished the campaign my Necromancer was level 20 and the knight was level 16. He dealt the killing blow to the BBEG. Momma couldn’t be more proud.
Yes, let's give the invulnerable tank a sword that will heal him per hit... that won't create an invincible character lol. He's resistant to every type of damage except acid and can come back to life "multiple" times. Haha. If grog hasn't become a God by the end of this play through, I'll call shenanigans.
Are you saying we shouldn't already be calling shenanigans Grog may be killable the issue is so is the reaper and everything else and one on one well Reaper will be beaten by Grog right :D
I was really hoping that when Grog lost all his money and title, at some point he would be like "I'm the grand pooh, remember?" And percy would be like "what? What are you talking about?"
How do..... Grog pull all the good cards? Seriously his first card gave him a magical weapon The second card gave a random stranger 2 wishes And this time he pulls mostly good or nuetral cards too. Then again the 4th time the cards come up he travels to an alternate demension where percy may or may not have lost an arm....
Actually, Matt made a mistake with the first card. He thought Grog drew the Key, but it was Euriale. So he worked around it saying that it was a cursed weapon
After he got the rogue and then the knight card, I was for sure the knight was going to attack him. Yes I know the rogue card came first, but it would've been hilarious if it was the other way around.
I was so hoping he would pull the skull card. That would have been so epic. For those who don't know what the skull card does: It summons an avatar of death. It's HP equal half of the hit point maximum of the one who summoned it. The summoner must face the avatar alone, anyone else who attacks it summons another avatar of death for themselves.
First time I used the Deck of Many Things I got Void...my soul was captured by a Warlock and they basically had to drag my corpse around and use it as a meat shield until they shattered the Giant Soul gem used to basically open a portal to hell so the warlock would become a lich by bringing this demon lord he made a deal with into reality (I think we named him Vae The Forest Eater, or Sun Eater. I just know this demon lord was made up and caused half an entire country to become a desert due to his rampage) I had to write and add a new character just to escort them, buuuuut this character was a bit evil. Since he had a fear of death and would do anything for immortality so he could gather infinite knowledge, he soon became a lich who ended up wearing a trinket that basically removed all demonic whisperings that character heard that drove him to do heinous acts...like blowing up an ally with a fireball because he was holding this bandit chief we were fighting still. I literally quoted abridged vegeta and yelled "THAT'S IT! KILLIN' YA BOTH!!!!"
If you draw multiple cards, you have to draw 1, do the effect, put it back in, shuffle, then draw again. The only exceptions to this are cards that say "do not place back in the deck" or if you do not draw all of your cards within an hour after pulling the first one (as this causes the remaining number of cards needed to be drawn to fly from the deck and all take effect at once). Edit: This is also why some cards say "has no effect if drawn a second time"
start about 16 seconds in RIGHT when he says "5" and hit it at .25 speed. endure it until about 30 seconds. man so much terror and pain in their eyes lmfao
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I pulled the knight
Then the rogue
Then my knight stabbed me
My lord! I have arrived to help thee in your hour of need!
...Wait. I know you.
You're a wanted man! You have committed crimes against Skyrim!
I feel like that shouldn’t be allowed. The knight is supposed to be loyal until death no matter what.
The rogue card makes a trusted ally an enemy, that is literally how it should work
Metabates Knight.exe stoped working
@@Xane875 if they stab you then they can be free to be disloyal :D
*Grog increases their intelligence score by +2*
*sudden epiphany*
"This was a bad idea!"
"Intelligence is a dump stat anyway, that's why mine is the number that comes after 3."
@@adamushu sounds like a crap guide to dnd.
@@1Wintersoldier of course
@@adamushu so 3.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...1?
His?
I love how it's like
Knight: MY LIFE FOR STRONGJAW
Grog: Kill the Dragon...
Knight: .... (knight.exe has stopped working)...Dragon!?
oh... stand on-top of the tower waving your middle finger
knight: why?... ok
"Kill the Dragon."
"....Dragon?!"
"It's how I haze new recruits. Go on, I know you can do it!" >:D
:P
"4th level Fighter..."
"But he's the same race as you, so he's a Goliath in full armor."
*He's still only 4th level!*
@@Nyrufa True, but Goliaths are still pretty sturdy, and he shows up wearing Full Plate armor IIRC (so a fairly high AC combined with a Goliath's natural durability). Against anything but a Dragon he'd probably be surprisingly helpful. :P
Knight. Kill. Dragon. It's a tale as old as time.
Grog: "kill the dragon"
Knight who has literally not existed for longer than 20 seconds: "Dragon!"
Less than 6 seconds if you think about it
Crazy that a Magic item apperated a fully sentient, totally normal Goliath is also crazy. Like he's not a familiar. Just some normal dude created via unknown magic. Age of Arcanum must've been wild
Some day, I want to play in a campaign that starts at level four or five, and have my backstory be that I'm a knight created by a Deck of Many Things.
That is such a good idea!
I'm in the midst of forcing friends to play dnd with me. If one of them say that they have no idea for a backstory I'll give them this one!
I actually did this. Backstory is that my character's master resorted to pulling from the deck during a tpk spiral, and got the knight and void back to back. So I popped into existance, did a similar 'I am here to serve!' thing, just in time to watch the entire reason that I exist crumple soulless to the ground. I proceeded to backpack his unconsious but out of there while the beholder vaporized the rest of his party, and was left with just the little problem of figuring out how the heck to get him back.
Still playing the character today, all the way up to level 12. just recently got my wish to find out where his soul is trapped. It's an unbelievably fun concept to play.
@@levibyrne5206 That's awesome.
If you put that on UA-cam I will LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE
I love Matt's little clapping happy dance when Travis says he wants to pull from the deck.
Lucas VerBeek Matt was waiting for Travis to do it, that's why he was excited and laughing maniacally when Travis said he pulled out the deck.
His face was like a kid on christmas.
Matt Briddell It was awesome!
I am now the 666th like.
I want a gif of that so badly.
I love Matt's delight at potentially having 5 ways to destroy lives
Its literally like a kid in a candy shop. I can understand as DM’S campaign breaking items like deck of many things excites us but terrifies us that our campaign we spent so long making and planning is about to be cut several chapters by players anctics but at the same time we love to see what random chaos they do.
I imagine for matt that this session being an alternate universe from the campaign he was really hoping to dish out some world ending cards.
The pure, unadulterated joy was absolutely breathtaking.
That was better than Christmas morning for Matt
I'm so glad that Liam dragged Sam into this. Sam was made to play d&d in front of an audience.
Sam Riegel is a natural D&D player. I have learned so much from watching his play.
Speaking a year later from the GenCon live show, I have never read a more true statement.
Was Sam newish here?
@@chirpbirds924Critical Role started off as a continuation of a home game of D&D started in early 2013. Until the start of that home game, Sam had never played D&D before.
Back in 3.5 one of my players drew a card and drew the knight, thus gaining a 4th level fighter. Then he ordered his knight to draw a card and the knight drew the Fool, lost 10,000Xp (which was the exact amount that he had) and promptly evaporated with a small wail.
is that how it worked in 3.5, i never got a deck in that edition. i know in 5th that even if your draw the fool You lose 10,000 XP unless If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you with just enough XP to keep your level.
**POOF** "I live to serve my lord!"
_'Pull this card...'_
"Sure thin~! **POOF**
In 5e it won't drop you below a level. The 3.5 sounds so much better though
0XP is actually start of adventure, so level 1
@@bennickless2143 Level drain was a thing in 3.5, perhaps most notably as the signature ability of vampires.
“But keep it facedown.”
I’ll lay these five cards facedown on the field and end my turn.
Ah yes, Yugioh GX
You activated my trap card... wait I instantly die... well shit
I will never not die at 5:26
*"siR gRoG"*
*_MY LiFe fOr sTronGJAW_*
Dragon?!?!
Stealthlock i got the throne card so i am lord Gark
"When did I get this deck? Oh, that happened many fives ago."
For a level 4 fighter Grog's sidekick lasted a lot longer than I expected
Matt might have bugged him given the circumstances
He was a Goliath in Full Plate armor. Goliaths are already tough and sturdy as-is. Adding Full Plate (even non-magical Full Plate) just makes them even more tanky. I'm not all that surprised, to be honest.
Travis: "I would like to pull out, the deck of many things."
Matt: *VISIBLE EXCITEMENT*
Matt AND Tallesin
...Dragon?!
lose it every time.
5:48 ftw
"Intelligence!"
"nah"
"...fuck that"
Tyler Ross Your profile picture is the same as my D&D group chat. It's perfect.
My group too. It really is the perfect image for a D&D group.
@TheSmashMaster9000 my character has a 7 intelligence, -2 modifier. How dumb is she? My group keeps arguing about it, and so what we know for sure is that she can't read or count past ten, and she can't pronounce big words. And then half the group thinks she's just not educated and the other half thinks she's mentally handicapped.
Katarena K. It really depends on how you want to play it. It is only a -2 so I don’t imagine that they’d be straight up mentally handicapped but they’re certainly no especially bright. I normally place a -1 at uneducated so I imagine that they’re not bright and would likely have a hard time learning things that ‘don’t’ effect them. They likely would still have a sense of basic tactics and areas surrounding their class and/or profession with little useful knowledge outside of their interests.
I think. I could be completely wrong and it’s your character so it’s your choice as to how you handle that.
"Go kill the dragon."
"....Dragon?"
"Your life for Strongjaw', now _go kill the dragon!"_
i watched this live. the chat was calling for it prior, and when it actually happened, the chatroom LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS. it was glorious.
the chat room briefly crashed from how many people freaked out
Oh man, that was such a moment that I feel so bad for everyone that missed it live.
I concur, it was glorious live.
Even when Travis WANTED to pull some major bad cards he still got relatively good and ok cards and you could see he was a little bummed by it... I can't believe his luck with that deck
I watched it live to and i remember a couple people joking that wilhand would come to finish Grog off once he killed Tary XD
I love how Laura suggested, “Intelligence!” when Travis could give Grog 2+ on abilities.
I love even more how Travis immediately shut her down and said, “Nah, fuck that.”
I can't believe Travis got these five cards out of 17. Like ten of them are universe game breaking possible campaign ending cards and he got hitpoints, a weapon and an assistant xD
Matt got so excited I love it. Luckily this is alternate universe and not canon.
This is a smaller deck of 13, not the full 22. But yes, he got very lucky.
I thought based on the DMG there are sets of 22 and 17? Although maybe Matt thinned this one to keep the horror of complete annihilatioin out of it XD
Nah, it's 13/22. There's a 25% chance on a Deck of Many Things that it's the full 22 card deck, the cut down deck has the cards Vizier/Comet/Fates/Gem/Talons/Idiot/Donjon/Balance/Fool removed.
The people freaking out are remembering the 3.5 Deck which, while not world destroying, was monstrous.
A very old campaign I played in, our party abandoned a revenge quest to create a secure resting place for the Deck, building our own dungeon around it to keep it safe
well ruin and rogue would be terrible on a real pull xd.
"Increase intelligence"
Grog with a scolding look: "pff no"
He has six intelligence, he knows what he's doing
I would like to believe that somewhere in the out planes there is a lost knight
Trying desperately to make his way back to his lord. For strongjaw
The way that Matt can't actually get the word "five" out and then has to repeat it a couple of times cause hes laughing too much is just WAY TO CUTE
Grog absolutely epitomized the mentality "The only hitpoint that matters is your last one."
"...Dragon" i love the voice acting, it's so damn spot on
Matt perfectly nails that tone of "keeping it together but really wants it to be something that isn't a dragon." What a pro.
1:13 Oh, look, Thats Keyleth on the card doing her's "We're basically Gods leap". Thats nice.
"My life, for Strongjaw!!!!!"
"kill the dragon"
😲 "Dragon?"
Talison: "Well..."
Lmao
I love the absolute despair as Sam realises what Grog's just done.
'It'll be chaos, and you're not even gonna be here to deal with it!'
"Intelligence!"
"Nah fuck that"
Grog must always be stupid. I love it.
I pulled this move in a battle royale. We were 20th level, I was a wizard against a fighter, an artificer, and a sorcerer/fighter multi class. I cast meteor swarm and took out the fighters, but the artificer survived with one hit point. He would have killed me on his next turn if he hit. So I pulled cards as a last ditch effort and drew void.
I resent it to this day
In a Battle Royal I once drew star, and gained two strength on my mage-monk multiclass. And I out muscled our barbarian with 22 strength, by a factor of one. Threw the bitch into a lava pool.
Couldn’t you have metamagiced?
If you had that feat of course
Honestly, I think my favorite part of this is
Matt: "Grog, first card! What'd you pull?"
Travis: **pulls card**
**stares at card**
**regrets choices**
_"RU I N."_
With that art, i cant blame him.
Gotta love the childlike excitement and gleaming eyes in Matt's reaction :)))
"My Life for Strong-Jaw! " Best moment of the whole match
You're a fourth level fighter, returning home after another adventure, when suddenly. You appear before a badly injured man with desperation in their eyes, you can tell at a glance that even in their current state they far out match you. You see the biggest, most terrifying creature you've ever seen over their shoulder. The man looks at you, as a sense of loyalty fills your heart, and they tell you, "kill the fiend".
I love when they bring creatures into existence only to fuck them over:
Knight: I live to serve!
Grog: Kill the dragon!
Knight: Dragon...?
Keyleth brings a dryad into existence to test a booby trap, a pixie to go check out the Orb of Death, Vex brings Giant Eagles in to attack an ancient black dragon...
Thats hiw mosy people use summons unless theres benefits to keeping them alive.
And its usually implied they're different summons unless stated otherwise.
... and i just gave myself the idea of always using the same summon for my druid and ranger players. Hopefully that fey they summon wasnt in the shower at the time
XD
@@r.s.2890 I mean there were specific rules back in 3.5 and Pathfinder about how your Summon Creatures spells could be used to summon a specific creature. I have a Conjuration Specialty Wizard who used specific summons, ever equipping them with various magical items, as in one of the rules it stated any items you give them will remain on them even after they desummon, So i'd have like fully kitted out summons coming in.
I was so glad I got to see this one live, one of the best episodes ever. The Deck pull was great, but Grog critting Keyleth out of black dragon form while he was at 1 hp was even better.
The first D&D campaign I was ever a part of was Curse of Strahd, and we came across the Deck of Many Things. At one point, we met with Strahd, and was told we would be forced to draw from the Deck. We drew, and one of the draws gave us another Deck of Many Things to bring with us. I drew Rogue, which was a bit of a problem down the line.
The party druid, however, convinced Strahd that he would pull a card only of Strahd pulled one as well. Strahd did so... and drew Void.
That Goliath Knight is the MVP
Kokobro Wilfred OP plz nrf.
As soon as the last card was announced, and Matt started laughing, I thought, that grog, was dead,
*THE UNWRITTEN RULE, IF UR DM LAUGHS, YOU’RE DEAD*
The funniest bit isn't even acknowledged.. If you think about it, grog lost all non-magical items, including clothes and such. Meaning, keyleth got killed by an "enlarged" goliath wearing nothing but a belt, boots, gloves and necklace. XD haha. Technically his defence should've been lowered, but I found that who thing funny... and to think, grog can redraw them at anytime in the future cause they weren't technically used in the "dream"
He's drawn before though hasn't he?
Yes, he has. The one card that gave him a weapon, but that was Matt's mistake by thinking it was the wrong card. That's why he got to "redraw" that one. But in the dream, all lost, used or broken items are returned, so in theory, the five cards used should've returned to the deck.
From the description of the Deck of Many Things: "Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears in the deck, making it possible to draw the same card twice."
Yes but Matt has already described that items used in this battle royal dimension are returned, vex'halias necklace wouldn't be broken, All the gems taryon used would be returned, even the bag of holding being emptied would be refilled upon exiting the dream. Odds are, grog won't keep the bonuses he got from the cards, so it'd be unfair to remove the cards from play permanently if they can't keep the items. But ultimately, it's up to Matt to determine.
That's not the point. Of course nothing that happened in the Battle Royale carried over to the real campaign, except for Taryon's fate die. The point is that cards do not disappear forever after they're drawn and used.
The first ten seconds of this video are everything to me
I've gotten some more appreciation for this moment lmao it's fantastic. This feels like it was an opportunity for Travis to do something I bet Grog has wanted to do for ages in the main campaign, and that Travis only hasn't done because he doesn't want to take the chance of actually royally fucking up the main game by mass pulling cards
Matt's face at the beggining, when he knows shits gonna happen......
It's like a kid in a candy shop.... :D
“Key.”
Grog gets chosen by the keyblade.
Cody LaDuke I’m actually pretty sure that he got Nine Lives Stealer And could have instantly won if he did find time to attune to it
this is why Grog should have won, greatest character in this fight.
Shame what happened to him in round 2.
The Only thing i can think of for this is if the fighter survived and the group came all together, seeing grog and the knight and them going "OH GODS, THERE'S TWO OF THEM?!"
This is one of my favorite moments from the show. I love how everyone gets so excited about the possibilities. Pulling one card is ballsy, but he pulled 5... Amazing.
I've personally seen the deck used in a campaign twice. Grog is the first character I've seen who didn't look the DM straight in the eyes and say "Seven" with a shit eating grin on their face. A buddy of mine tells the tale of a friend who went with 11, drew 10 of the 11 good ones, and then drew the void. Something about the deck just makes people want to push their luck to the very edge.
I once had a skeleton draw a card and the Grim fucking Reaper showed and disintegrated his boney ass. After that we have a house rule that Necromancers were not allowed to have the undead draw from the deck.
D&D: The only game where you could have a nice, hearty, wholesome laugh over someone throwing their acid-melted skin at a party member.
I love how travis almost looks insulted when Laura suggests to raise his intelligence like "no I started as a muscly himbo and I'm going to die as one"
4:30 you can hear the crew laughing at Taliesin’s joke in the background lol
My husband plays a half ogar and only counts by 5s
Anybody else notice that when Matt first starts describing the sword Grog got from the key card "a beautiful, beautiful black" Laura's face drops and you can faintly hear her say "Oh god it's not Craven Edge?" and then Matt continues the description
I've been listening to NADDPOD recently so my immediate reaction was "the Balnor card!"
"I have 18 hit points. Everybody's alive." More people are alive than before he drew! That's impressive.
Travis: "Key."
Matt: "Okay, umm."
Sam: "All the doors open."
And not one person laughed!
Literally anyone: *pulls out deck of many things*
happy DM noises
they need to do another battle royale as their C2 characters
They just did.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Matt get more excited for anything since Travis announcing he’s pulling from the deck
I saw this live and was facebook chatting with my friend who was also watching and we both FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT! *AND THE CARDS HE PULLED TOO!* We were both team grog at this point too so I was INVESTED!
MY LIFE FOR STRONGJAW!
Every time Matt's saying 5 cards and laughing it just makes me laugh every single time. This battle royale was one of the best.
lol I absolutely love how much Taliasin is just enjoying the hell out of the potential chaos.
That deck is of much chaos and it's amazing.
I want an ACTUAL physical Deck of Many Things for my collection now..... I MUST find one. ^__^
They do exist in multiple places, It prompted one of my Players to draw a card from the deck as soon as he got hold if it.
You know it’s about to get good when the DM starts slamming his hands on the table with excitement
Love how Matt's eyes light up when Travis says that haha 0:04
SIR GROG.
5:40
The knight is Protoss, confirmed.
I LOVE HOW GITTY AND EXCITED MATT GOT AT THIS PART OMG SO PRECIOUS
I will always like Matt's reactions to Travis pulling from the Deck just because he knows Travis is crazy enough to do it.
Matt looks so cute when he goes into the Knight dude. “Sir Grog I’m here to serve you. My life for Strongjaw.”
One time we doing a Lordship play through, were one of the chapters was a lord of a castle, and at level 12 we got the deck of many things, at level 13 my Necromancer drew the Knight card. So, we protected him and brought him home. From then on I sent on small time missions with a Wight I had cast “Command Undead” on. So here was this level 4 knight grinding his way through the levels with a badass ghost demon bodyguard and a small platoon of zombies under his indirect command. When we finished the campaign my Necromancer was level 20 and the knight was level 16. He dealt the killing blow to the BBEG. Momma couldn’t be more proud.
That dead ass straight faced stare at 5:50 killed me
I love how happy matt is at the beginning
I just love how willing Travis is to cause a little chaos. It makes for some great moments
I like how this was the episode that got me into Critical Role xD
Honestly with some of
The bull Keylith was pulling, Matt should’ve at least let Grog have the attuned sword
0:07 I love seeing that sadistic childlike wonder and excitement in Matt Mercer... BUT WHEN HE'S A GM/DM ITS TERRIFYING!
Did Grog just get fucking Craven Edge back?
It was a sword of lifestealing but requires attunement so he couldn't use it.
Ivory Greatsword of Lifestealing.
O I wish it were so.
Yes, let's give the invulnerable tank a sword that will heal him per hit... that won't create an invincible character lol. He's resistant to every type of damage except acid and can come back to life "multiple" times. Haha. If grog hasn't become a God by the end of this play through, I'll call shenanigans.
Are you saying we shouldn't already be calling shenanigans Grog may be killable the issue is so is the reaper and everything else and one on one well Reaper will be beaten by Grog right :D
I loved Matt's reaction to this live, the knee slapping excitement. I lol'd so hard.
I was really hoping that when Grog lost all his money and title, at some point he would be like "I'm the grand pooh, remember?"
And percy would be like "what? What are you talking about?"
This whole video is all about the reactions. I die at all of Laura Bailey's looks... especially at, "Sir Grog". :D
I love how excited Matt got when Travis said he was pulling out the Deck of Many Things xD
How do..... Grog pull all the good cards?
Seriously his first card gave him a magical weapon
The second card gave a random stranger 2 wishes
And this time he pulls mostly good or nuetral cards too.
Then again the 4th time the cards come up he travels to an alternate demension where percy may or may not have lost an arm....
A cursed weapon* (first card)
Actually, Matt made a mistake with the first card. He thought Grog drew the Key, but it was Euriale. So he worked around it saying that it was a cursed weapon
Love how Travis pulled out the shades JUST for this moment!! Lmao!!
I just LOVE Matt's expression of slowly growing excitement at the beginning. He's all "Really? Really?! Yessss!!!
After he got the rogue and then the knight card, I was for sure the knight was going to attack him. Yes I know the rogue card came first, but it would've been hilarious if it was the other way around.
I drew at the same time as grog. I drew the Talons, The beginning, Skull, Knight and Key.
I was so hoping he would pull the skull card. That would have been so epic.
For those who don't know what the skull card does:
It summons an avatar of death. It's HP equal half of the hit point maximum of the one who summoned it. The summoner must face the avatar alone, anyone else who attacks it summons another avatar of death for themselves.
Duraari Not just that, if they die to the avatar they can never be resurrected, so losing to an avatar basically forces you to create a new PC.
First time I used the Deck of Many Things
I got Void...my soul was captured by a Warlock and they basically had to drag my corpse around and use it as a meat shield until they shattered the Giant Soul gem used to basically open a portal to hell so the warlock would become a lich by bringing this demon lord he made a deal with into reality (I think we named him Vae The Forest Eater, or Sun Eater. I just know this demon lord was made up and caused half an entire country to become a desert due to his rampage)
I had to write and add a new character just to escort them, buuuuut this character was a bit evil. Since he had a fear of death and would do anything for immortality so he could gather infinite knowledge, he soon became a lich who ended up wearing a trinket that basically removed all demonic whisperings that character heard that drove him to do heinous acts...like blowing up an ally with a fireball because he was holding this bandit chief we were fighting still. I literally quoted abridged vegeta and yelled "THAT'S IT! KILLIN' YA BOTH!!!!"
yeah I currently have a deck but I am afraid to use it because I am in serious doubt that my party would come to rescue me if something went wrong.
Little did they know that Sir Bertrand Bell is related by blood to that magical Knight.
Matt whipping another hilarious character out of his ass! Grog: Kill the dragon! Knight: "....... Dragon!?"
If you draw multiple cards, you have to draw 1, do the effect, put it back in, shuffle, then draw again. The only exceptions to this are cards that say "do not place back in the deck" or if you do not draw all of your cards within an hour after pulling the first one (as this causes the remaining number of cards needed to be drawn to fly from the deck and all take effect at once).
Edit: This is also why some cards say "has no effect if drawn a second time"
The fire in Matt's eyes could burn the city, when he was excited about the deck :D
start about 16 seconds in RIGHT when he says "5" and hit it at .25 speed. endure it until about 30 seconds. man so much terror and pain in their eyes lmfao
These guys are brilliant!
My favorite quote is “Sir Grog!” “Do you have a health potion?” “A...Are you injured?!”
I love how even the DM iss surprised and even seeming panicked about the entire 5 CARDS!
This episode is still the best battle royale one-shot they’ve made.
I love how Matt is the most excited about it. His reaction is like "THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! I LOVE YOU TRAVIS!!"
the bruise on his head and shades really completes the look for someone about to pull 5 cards so recklessly
This is still probably my favorite CR episode. So many great moments
I love how giddy Matt gets at the prospect drawing from the deck.