@@kirbytheotaku737 OP just means that Sam wasn't there for the ExU bits (not including Calamity) not that he's gone for good or not playing DnD! Critical Role isn't going anywhere, but I'd expect more player changes and guest DMs in the future cause It's hell of a workload for Matt that's been going on for years at this point.
@@feitocomfruta Marquet is supposed to be Asia-inspired... and "Bassuras" is very close to the Tagalog/Spanish word for "trash." I've been wondering if Matt intended that.
@@stevesmith5883 Matt didn't know how well the DM power could corrupt Aabria, nor with what creativity she could get from it. Now HE thinks she gave him material for his own campaigns--because fair is fair, after all.
@@devinspencer1678We got multiple movies on 9/11. You just gotta figure out which perspective you want to watch. If I remember correctly, there's also a movie about the citizens who rehijacked the plane that was supposed to crash into the Pentagon.
5 minutes of Matt being bullied in the most lovingly and affectionated way possible. Like, she knows so much of the lore and decided to make a pun out of everything I love her so much and her dming
God I can just picture Vex overhearing that the Whitestone wine company needed some slogan ideas and (without saying anything to Percy) *immediately* walking over and suggesting 'Life Needs Wine to Live'
@@alekseihaidukevich3697 Nope! It's a reference to a group from Campaign 1 called the Chroma Conclave, which was an order of different colored Dragons.
No lie though, as a DM myself, I long for the day that one of my own players decides to take on a game in one of my settings and makes a funny gag location out of my lore just like this.
I've been blessed with a player who is thoroughly invested in the world I built for them and routinely runs oneshots in it. You know how the real world is not really cohesive and doesn't always make sense? I have found that another voice in the worldbuilding , given leeway, will make it so much better and feel so much more real.
I've been gifted with the pleasure of my Changling Fathomless Warlock, Jin, being used in campaigns that aren't mine as a primary baddie. In their source campaign they got routinely driven out of their port town just for existing and dunked on constantly to the point where their patron (Zlotharkis, the half-fiendish kraken) wasn't finding it too hard to convince them to do evil. During a random encounter our party ran into Jin got knocked out within the first initiative of a round by AOE damage and ended up failing two wisdom saves to NOT accept a worser deal with Zlotharkis, so they became a Kraken Priest for a full minute and TPK'd the party and got driven mad. I loaned em to a friend to use as a general baddie in that campaign and Jin's now TPK'd 4 separate parties. Nowhere near the initial direction I started with for this character but stuff happens and now I find polite amusement in seeing just how many people die to this charismatic trickster
What's more is that it's entirely believable for the world, so it's not like frustratingly bad writing or something. It's hilarious and it's believable. It doesn't take you out of the world despite its wondrous stupidity.
I am 100% sure that such a thing actually exists irl, some sort of establishment thats dictator/terrorist themed. Like there are people who romanticize serial killers, of course someone somewhere has thought of that 😂
@@christiandavegutierrez475 i mean if theyre making a visual novel game about genderbent dictators(its satire and they have to state as such on their website) then yeah im sure that likely happened at least once xD
It's probably more like having a spa named after volcanoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. The Chroma Conclave were intelligent, but they were intelligent forces of nature.
Any lore more than ten in-game years will be commercialized, commodified, and marketed to people who should know better. Aabriya is making her fantasy worlds _way _*_too real_* ! XD XD
This is really shown off well in the first season of EXU when they visit Gilmore's and not only does Aabria remember Sherri, the half-elven NPC that works at Gilmore's, she remembers that she had blushed about Scanlan's flirtations with her early on in C1 and carried that over 30 years later when she learned that Dorian was a bard as well, reminding her of Scanlan.
Having Scanlan's writings be taken as a blueprint for a tacky Vegas outlet? Yeah, I could see it as going even further out there than even Taryon Darrington's book.
@@kedabro1957 He’s an actor bro he’s hamming it up. You can tell he thinks this is all hilarious. This is a specially crafted psychic damage-inducing attack between two really good friends. If he seriously had a problem with it why would he decide to include it at all in campaign 3, which is set on an entirely different continent?
@@fisher8024 People can quickly realize their first impulse makes them look bad and change how they feel to something more publically acceptable. I've even other children do this when I was growing up. Work-place-harassed women learn to do this to avoid consequences to their career. I've done it too, to avoid attracting more bullying from my co-workers.
@@kedabro1957 how does a conversation on fictional dnd name puns lead you to workplace harassment and career consequences. go see a therapist or something
I keep picturing an over-embroidered throw pillow with that overly swoopy font you see at like JoAnn's and Michael's on stuff like that. the Zafara-adjacent font.
Lets face it, Tal'dorei cant be serious ALL the time. Sometimes it needs the cheese. But I wonder how much bigger Sam's head got knowing there was a one man show about Scanlan...
I love this detail, though. Because it makes the world so much more real, because stuff like that legit happens anyway. Hahaha! Excellent world building! But also, I feel like it's a game that Aabria and Matt play to rip up each other's lore and cheese it up. Hah! Matt's such a good sport.
Aabria is a demon, sent to torture poor Mathew. This was fantastic, I love how Matt has opened his world to Aabria and now Brennan to put their own little flare on it.
Aabria is to Alex. What Emily is to Brennan. Chaos incarnate with a lovely emotional twist and some wild battle choices that always end up working out somehow.
Make sure you don't lean on alcohol as a crutch. There's always better coping methods. (Sorry, I grew up amongst alcoholism and feel the need to say this when people say things like that)
Inside, Matt seems delighted, yet also horrified. But as a good friend that has seen his other friend put a lot of work into something, all he can say outside is "I dig it".
Honestly, the addition of Aabria and now Brennan is such an amazing thing. Matt is a very sensitive and emotional guy so he takes care of the emotional stuff like a champ, but Aabria and Brennan are silly geese (super smart silly geese) so they fit in perfectly but add things in ways Matt would perhaps not. All in all, Exandria is shaping up to be a huge IP in a few years where novels and perhaps movies will be made with. ( There's alreay a animated series and comic books...)
A month later, and Brennan’s EXU: Calamity was anything but silly by the end. He does a great job of pulling something horrific and serious out of a silly original concept. Great work from Brennan this time around.
Novels I could definitely see. I'm surprised they don't already exist yet. I'd love even just a novella about Vex and Percy's kids, either as grown ups having their own adventures or just their lives growing up.
@@simmyish6431 it is. It's like their origin story. Recommend the audio book as it's narrated by Robbie with Liam and Laura doing their dialogue. It's great for VM nostalgia
Very much this! He wouldn't give the reigns to persons' if he didn't feel comfortable enough with them to do so. I love Aabria and very much love Brennan. Thematically, they're filling voids that Matt has and/or can not. For that, I appreciate them as expansions to Matt's universe!
Such a twist of the knife for the guy working the cold pool to be a dragonborn. Vorugal took over Draconia! :( That’s a villain origin story if I ever saw one.
No place called "The Toothy Maw"? I actually did that in a campaign I was writing that never got passed session 0 (one of the players never finished his character) One of the players is a huge fan of Matt Mercer and who actually got me into CR, so as a treat, I started his session 0 in a tavern called "The Toothy Maw", and the proprietor's name was "Merc Matther"
It should have been a Medieval Times style dinner show, where you got to sit in your dragons section and cheer them on as animatronic dragons fight for your honor.
I'm so excited to see what the Taste of Tal'Dorei looks like in Marquet because I've been imagining it as one of those chain restaurants that are just slightly different by region but also shockingly identical and I am very excited for the regular CR cast to get to react to it
It’s so hilarious to see how Aabria adds her own twists to the campaign settings Matt has created. Even though I have CR sourcebooks I’m worried that my own twists just won’t feel right.
Their latest dm roundtable had Matt saying like 50 times to absolutely do what you want and fuck up his world and make it yours. It'd everything he wants is for you to treat his setting however you'd like.
I wonder when episodes were filmed...if Taste of Tal'Dorei is also in Marquet...did Matt make the decision after RP'ing on Kymal to make it a chain restaurant. Is Taste Of Tal'Dorei the Outback Steakhouse of Exandria?!
If the CR crew ever do a theme park as they discussed at one point, then THIS MUST HAPPEN!!! Aabria put her whole body and soul into those descriptions and they were PERFECT. 🥰😁
So im slowly making my way (*making my way!*) through C1 and this is currently my only knowledge of the dragons of thr Chroma Conclave and thus I am very excited to see S2 of LOVM
Watching Matt die inside *with every sentence* is giving me such life. Especially when it happens because of Aabria's "Tovar" voice. This is everything I ever wanted.
The partner heard that last statement and as tradition we watch each episode together here in China. She turned to me and said “haha, wife needs wine to live. I need that shirt” 🙃🙃😅
I saw this a while ago with out ever having seen C1 but now that im watching/listening to C1 (little past half way now) this makes so much more sense and is so much more amusing. Sad though that if you are a critter like me that started watching CR with EXU and C3, there's soooooo many call backs and missing histories that you will miss out on unless you go back and watch/listen to it all. and that's many hundreds of hours of listening/watching.
The whole concept of somebody in-universe being inspired by Taldorei`s culture and cuisine and making a whole restaurant out of it is amazing. And honestly, it sounds like a place that`s totally worth visiting.
This took place after campaign 3 started and I’m pretty sure the location where the buffet is located is in Taliesans back ground information. I like the idea that they both might came to a similar idea of a garish buffet themed after something it has no business being themed after separately and he liked hers better so he changed his answers on the homework last minute.
I have never seen matt look so sad at what his creation has become, he knows it for entertainment, but you can actually see that the OG crit role is becoming just a running gag haha
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“You turned my sigil into a butthole, I turned your entire universe into a tourist trap.”
bahahahahahaha!!!!!!
An absolutely equal repayment.
Wow! No need to be such an Ash-hole🤣
Look, it's a HOLE OF ASH, what else would you call it?! 😂
Mutually assured destruction.
I love that Sam isn't even there and he is STILL tormenting Matt
May Scanlan's legend never die!
This comment is underrated
A 20th level bard never truly dies as they are always immortalised in verse!
@@stevesmith5883 ...and descendants. *SOOOOO* many descendants!!!
@@kirbytheotaku737 OP just means that Sam wasn't there for the ExU bits (not including Calamity) not that he's gone for good or not playing DnD! Critical Role isn't going anywhere, but I'd expect more player changes and guest DMs in the future cause It's hell of a workload for Matt that's been going on for years at this point.
Now if she would've pulled out some huge ridiculous mug and taken a drink from it while Matt was about to break I would've lost my mind laughing.
i love that the Taste of Tal'dorei is a big enough chain restaurant to have one in Marquet now XD
Even in a place as sort of ghetto-ish as Bassuras.
I mean Kymal is pretty trashy/tacky, so Bassuras is probably a twinned city for them.
And Ashton absolutely hates that place
@@feitocomfruta Marquet is supposed to be Asia-inspired... and "Bassuras" is very close to the Tagalog/Spanish word for "trash." I've been wondering if Matt intended that.
@@crypto66 If you think to yourself whether Matt intended something, likelihood is he intended it.
I love how over two seasons of EXU Aabria went from "I was terrified playing Gilmore for you" to Chromadon cave and taste of Tal'dorei
She realised the true power she had as a DM haha, I love that Matt even adopted a Taste of Tal'Dorai into campaign 3 now!
@@stevesmith5883 Matt didn't know how well the DM power could corrupt Aabria, nor with what creativity she could get from it. Now HE thinks she gave him material for his own campaigns--because fair is fair, after all.
Matt: *shakes head embarrassingly with each reveal*
Also Matt: *adds everything to his latest campaign*
When you as a world builder have this gift presented to you, you have to use it
@@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802 The only one he vetoed, IIRC, was making North Carolina or some other state part of Exandria.
@@romxxii It was a state because of an accent but I can't remember which one
@@romxxii And making Santa Claus being a canonical character in his world
This shit literally writes itself 😂😂😂
I loved Aabria’s comment about this where she says, “time heals and sometimes it just heals stupid.”
It's so accurate though. That's how we got a movie about the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, and I think we almost got one about 9-11
@@devinspencer1678We got multiple movies on 9/11. You just gotta figure out which perspective you want to watch. If I remember correctly, there's also a movie about the citizens who rehijacked the plane that was supposed to crash into the Pentagon.
@@devinspencer1678 It's only a matter of time before there's an action movie about it, we've had plenty of Oscar bait.
@@devinspencer1678there’s been a couple i think
That's from the game masters roundtable right?
I'm at the pizza hutch!
I'm at the breakfast bar!
I'm at the combination pizza hutch and breakfast bar!
I'm at soup!
I did not expect to see this here and it made my day better for being so
@@BoojumFed
WHY ARE YOU BUYING ARMOR AT THE PIZZA HUTCH?!?
this comment wins
He’s at the pizza hutch!
He’s at the breakfast bar!
He’s at the combination pizza hutch and breakfast bar! (okay)
To be fair, Matt often brings up creating a Critical Role theme park, this should be right up his alley.
#MakeCriticalRoleLandAThing
I think this warned him what themepark people would do to his awesome vision.
Critical Epcot
@@biancabrooks280 six flags: Critical role discovery
If anything him shaking his head is because he didn't think of it first.
5 minutes of Matt being bullied in the most lovingly and affectionated way possible. Like, she knows so much of the lore and decided to make a pun out of everything I love her so much and her dming
"Life needs wine to live"
Aabria definitely knew that'd be the cherry on top of it all 😆
The shot at Talesin leaven’s the blows to Matt
I have the memory of a goldfish, what is this reference?
I’m not the best at remembering that stuff…. What was that a reference too?
@@centurionquincy3899 I forget when but at some point Percy said "Life needs things to live."
I believe Jester also said this
"Life needs Wine to live"
Somehow, somwhere, Taliesin starts sweatting bullets.
Oh no...... it's again
I hope those bullets don't come with a side order of black smoke...
@@VanNessy97 finally, the other half to my joke. thank you
@@VanNessy97 pretty sure Percy quit smoking but maybe after this, he will decide to pick up that habit once again lol
God I can just picture Vex overhearing that the Whitestone wine company needed some slogan ideas and (without saying anything to Percy) *immediately* walking over and suggesting 'Life Needs Wine to Live'
The Chromadon cave is a fucking amazing play on words by Aabria.
Her best pun is during Misfits and Magic, The Confirmation Dais (say it in a fake British accent)
"Our Chroma-crisis of options!"
I... don't get it. Is it an American thing?
@@alekseihaidukevich3697 Nope! It's a reference to a group from Campaign 1 called the Chroma Conclave, which was an order of different colored Dragons.
@@BubbleBelly thanks, but where does the -don part come from?
Matt is simultaneously suffering like no man ever did and enjoying this so much
The enjoyment enhances the torture like a bit of sugar brings out the tartness of a refreshing lemonade. 👌
"Can I walk you through our ChromaCrisis of options?" Both the line and the delivery are deathless. Fabulously played by Aabria.
But Matt loved it so much it showed up in the main campaign (also meaning it's probably a chain restaurant 😂)
Lol. Maybe a chain restaurant but this one is the last one of the chain :P
It's a franchise X'D
Wonder if there's a Taldori version of Rainforest cafe
i hope they end the campaign by opening their own franchise location
@@davidschuster9532 The Taco Bells Hells?
No lie though, as a DM myself, I long for the day that one of my own players decides to take on a game in one of my settings and makes a funny gag location out of my lore just like this.
I've been blessed with a player who is thoroughly invested in the world I built for them and routinely runs oneshots in it. You know how the real world is not really cohesive and doesn't always make sense? I have found that another voice in the worldbuilding , given leeway, will make it so much better and feel so much more real.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I've been gifted with the pleasure of my Changling Fathomless Warlock, Jin, being used in campaigns that aren't mine as a primary baddie. In their source campaign they got routinely driven out of their port town just for existing and dunked on constantly to the point where their patron (Zlotharkis, the half-fiendish kraken) wasn't finding it too hard to convince them to do evil. During a random encounter our party ran into Jin got knocked out within the first initiative of a round by AOE damage and ended up failing two wisdom saves to NOT accept a worser deal with Zlotharkis, so they became a Kraken Priest for a full minute and TPK'd the party and got driven mad. I loaned em to a friend to use as a general baddie in that campaign and Jin's now TPK'd 4 separate parties. Nowhere near the initial direction I started with for this character but stuff happens and now I find polite amusement in seeing just how many people die to this charismatic trickster
What's more is that it's entirely believable for the world, so it's not like frustratingly bad writing or something. It's hilarious and it's believable. It doesn't take you out of the world despite its wondrous stupidity.
The Chromadon Cave is the equivalent of having a spa dedicated to dictators and terrorists lmao
I am 100% sure that such a thing actually exists irl, some sort of establishment thats dictator/terrorist themed. Like there are people who romanticize serial killers, of course someone somewhere has thought of that 😂
@@christiandavegutierrez475 i mean if theyre making a visual novel game about genderbent dictators(its satire and they have to state as such on their website) then yeah im sure that likely happened at least once xD
America's got school's named after Confederates, so that's about the same.
@@christiandavegutierrez475 I am almost certain there was a Nazi-Themed spa or restaurant in japan at one point that was kind of forced to shut down.
It's probably more like having a spa named after volcanoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. The Chroma Conclave were intelligent, but they were intelligent forces of nature.
Matt: "My lore....what have you done to my beautiful lore?"
Aabriya: (happily drinks from a cup of Matt's tears) 😘
Any lore more than ten in-game years will be commercialized, commodified, and marketed to people who should know better.
Aabriya is making her fantasy worlds _way _*_too real_* ! XD XD
2:27 Matt making a note.
*Matt will remember this.*
what this whole scene shows is that Aabria REALLY knows her VM and C1. and that's a tribute to Matt
This is really shown off well in the first season of EXU when they visit Gilmore's and not only does Aabria remember Sherri, the half-elven NPC that works at Gilmore's, she remembers that she had blushed about Scanlan's flirtations with her early on in C1 and carried that over 30 years later when she learned that Dorian was a bard as well, reminding her of Scanlan.
Having Scanlan's writings be taken as a blueprint for a tacky Vegas outlet? Yeah, I could see it as going even further out there than even Taryon Darrington's book.
honestly all i can think of is scanlan hitting the fat elvis stage of his career just doing a residency in this tacky vegas outlet for ages XD
Aabria already planning out Critical Role Land lmao
I think Matt was taking notes.
Full of Critical Roller Coasters?
On the spirit of Scanlan,
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@@kedabro1957 nice
Still don't understand why people think Matt is actually upset over this, he willingly brought it back as a reference in campaign 3 even.
they're projecting their own reactions to him
@@LetTheBodyFall
I dunnoe. Putting his head in his hands at least signifies chagrin.
@@kedabro1957 He’s an actor bro he’s hamming it up. You can tell he thinks this is all hilarious. This is a specially crafted psychic damage-inducing attack between two really good friends. If he seriously had a problem with it why would he decide to include it at all in campaign 3, which is set on an entirely different continent?
@@fisher8024
People can quickly realize their first impulse makes them look bad and change how they feel to something more publically acceptable. I've even other children do this when I was growing up. Work-place-harassed women learn to do this to avoid consequences to their career. I've done it too, to avoid attracting more bullying from my co-workers.
@@kedabro1957 how does a conversation on fictional dnd name puns lead you to workplace harassment and career consequences. go see a therapist or something
Can we get a "live laugh love"-type sign made up that says "life needs wine to live" and gift it to Tal
On it
I now have a maker project this summer
You can commission it
I keep picturing an over-embroidered throw pillow with that overly swoopy font you see at like JoAnn's and Michael's on stuff like that. the Zafara-adjacent font.
Once upon a long time ago they were selling a pencil set with pencils for each cast member, and Percy's was "Life needs things to live'.
"I use it because I have really bad cystic acne." Is such an underrated line. That whole character had me dying.
Lets face it, Tal'dorei cant be serious ALL the time. Sometimes it needs the cheese. But I wonder how much bigger Sam's head got knowing there was a one man show about Scanlan...
Like he would watch the show or anyone would be willing to tell him
I'm pretty sure Sam established Scanlan writing this play or at least the story it's based on during the final episode of Campaign 1.
@@TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN Yep. It's also hinted at in the ending of season 1 of TLO:VM.
@@TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN Yeah and wasn't there a poster up on the wall for it during C3 in the theatre?
And this bit was all the Vegas-level Cheese in a Fondue of Funny. Matt was chuckling, and making subtle notes mentally for future twists.
This is hilarious and I have no doubt it was revenge for the ash hole
I love how Aabria described making this as “proof of the saying that nature heals itself, but sometimes it heals kinda stupid.”
I love this detail, though. Because it makes the world so much more real, because stuff like that legit happens anyway. Hahaha! Excellent world building! But also, I feel like it's a game that Aabria and Matt play to rip up each other's lore and cheese it up. Hah! Matt's such a good sport.
Aabria is a demon, sent to torture poor Mathew.
This was fantastic, I love how Matt has opened his world to Aabria and now Brennan to put their own little flare on it.
Can it really be called torture if all the ideas were Beautifully executed? All of these themed stuff is heading straight to critrole land.
Aabria is to Alex. What Emily is to Brennan. Chaos incarnate with a lovely emotional twist and some wild battle choices that always end up working out somehow.
"Life needs wine to live" - can relate..
Make sure you don't lean on alcohol as a crutch. There's always better coping methods.
(Sorry, I grew up amongst alcoholism and feel the need to say this when people say things like that)
@@musiclikerperson thanks for taking care of me (seriously), though worry not, it was just a joke
I want this on a shirt.
Inside, Matt seems delighted, yet also horrified. But as a good friend that has seen his other friend put a lot of work into something, all he can say outside is "I dig it".
you saw that too huh?
Nah it’s you weirdos
Yeah it was a bit of a walk for him with the Pizza Hutch to get to "I dig it."
He is calculating how to add it to Campaign 3 to mess with his friends.
I'm still surprised the Umbrasyl package didn't come with an enema.
It should have
the theatre show probably did.
I love how Matt kept seesawing between "I hate this" and "I love this"
Matt: It hurts me to my core and im dying inside but it feels so good im gonna add this to the main campaign
Honestly, the addition of Aabria and now Brennan is such an amazing thing. Matt is a very sensitive and emotional guy so he takes care of the emotional stuff like a champ, but Aabria and Brennan are silly geese (super smart silly geese) so they fit in perfectly but add things in ways Matt would perhaps not. All in all, Exandria is shaping up to be a huge IP in a few years where novels and perhaps movies will be made with. ( There's alreay a animated series and comic books...)
A month later, and Brennan’s EXU: Calamity was anything but silly by the end. He does a great job of pulling something horrific and serious out of a silly original concept. Great work from Brennan this time around.
Novels I could definitely see. I'm surprised they don't already exist yet. I'd love even just a novella about Vex and Percy's kids, either as grown ups having their own adventures or just their lives growing up.
mentioning novels, isn't Kith and Kin a novel about Vex and Vax?
@@simmyish6431 it is. It's like their origin story. Recommend the audio book as it's narrated by Robbie with Liam and Laura doing their dialogue. It's great for VM nostalgia
Very much this! He wouldn't give the reigns to persons' if he didn't feel comfortable enough with them to do so. I love Aabria and very much love Brennan. Thematically, they're filling voids that Matt has and/or can not. For that, I appreciate them as expansions to Matt's universe!
Everyone's focusing in on Matt thinking how much this is killing him inside. But I like to think he's expanding on ideas for Critical Role Land
I had to watch this a few times to get the Conclave references, because Aabria's squeaky teen voice as Tovar had me rolling 🤣
"there is the buffet, it's called the taste of tal'dorei"
I loved that it rhymed
... it did and considering how those words are written it REALLY shouldn't
Such a twist of the knife for the guy working the cold pool to be a dragonborn. Vorugal took over Draconia! :(
That’s a villain origin story if I ever saw one.
did we learn if the guy was a Ravenite or Draconblood? if he was a Ravenite he probably didn't care much
No place called "The Toothy Maw"?
I actually did that in a campaign I was writing that never got passed session 0 (one of the players never finished his character)
One of the players is a huge fan of Matt Mercer and who actually got me into CR, so as a treat, I started his session 0 in a tavern called "The Toothy Maw", and the proprietor's name was "Merc Matther"
I think the toothy maw would be the dining area🙂
OMG the faces of Matt were priceless.
It should have been a Medieval Times style dinner show, where you got to sit in your dragons section and cheer them on as animatronic dragons fight for your honor.
Not animatronics. They have an old drunk wizard who creates the Dragons for the paying customers.
Wait til you get to episode 25 of C3.
In-universe Critical Role Land
This was just Aabria’s pitch to Travis and Marisha for Matt
Like, she knows so much of the lore and decided to make a pun out of everything I love her so much and her dming.
He is trying SO HARD not to break. He feels the torment and wants to laugh and cry all at the same time.
I desperately need Taliesin’s reaction to life needs wine to live
I'm so excited to see what the Taste of Tal'Dorei looks like in Marquet because I've been imagining it as one of those chain restaurants that are just slightly different by region but also shockingly identical and I am very excited for the regular CR cast to get to react to it
It’s so hilarious to see how Aabria adds her own twists to the campaign settings Matt has created. Even though I have CR sourcebooks I’m worried that my own twists just won’t feel right.
As someone who is currently running an exandria based campaign, I felt that at first. Making it your own is really fun though!
Why do you care so much ? It doesn't matter. Add you own touch. That's what makes your game unique !
Their latest dm roundtable had Matt saying like 50 times to absolutely do what you want and fuck up his world and make it yours. It'd everything he wants is for you to treat his setting however you'd like.
Matt, facing the inevitability of his retirement years.
“He makes the hot pool hot, and the cold pool cold. That’s his whole job.”
I wonder when episodes were filmed...if Taste of Tal'Dorei is also in Marquet...did Matt make the decision after RP'ing on Kymal to make it a chain restaurant.
Is Taste Of Tal'Dorei the Outback Steakhouse of Exandria?!
I think it would be after, so Aabria made it a thing here in Kymal and then Matt added it into Marquet as well.
It better be or I riot!
No: Black Angus. Look it up youngsters..
Matt is absolutely dying inside. With each reveal, a little bit passes away to just be immediately resurrected with laughter.
"Life needs wine to live".
That’s just straight up true
At 2:26 you can see matt write "stop inviting aabria to make fun of me"
I see additions being made to the Critical Role amusement park as she's going along!
Lol, Matt's reactions and facial expressions when Tovar starts describing the Chromadon Cave 😂🤣
If the CR crew ever do a theme park as they discussed at one point, then THIS MUST HAPPEN!!! Aabria put her whole body and soul into those descriptions and they were PERFECT. 🥰😁
So im slowly making my way (*making my way!*) through C1 and this is currently my only knowledge of the dragons of thr Chroma Conclave and thus I am very excited to see S2 of LOVM
Oh my god that’s amazing 😂
Matt's face clearly says "someone is touching my things!"
Matt: she is dead. Her next character is dead.
@@binder38us Aabria's Calamity character did die lol
Mental image: taste of tal dorei is the casa bonita of exandria
So basically Matts' Critical Role Land dream
Watching Matt die inside *with every sentence* is giving me such life. Especially when it happens because of Aabria's "Tovar" voice. This is everything I ever wanted.
The partner heard that last statement and as tradition we watch each episode together here in China.
She turned to me and said “haha, wife needs wine to live. I need that shirt” 🙃🙃😅
Grog's Grotto, Spar and Grill
I can think of no better revenge againts a dragon than using their likeness for a human cheesy tourist trap.
"I use it because I have really bad cystic acne"
Well me from a decade ago feels attacked lol
No one out pizzas the Hutch.
I wanna hit up Frostweald Frozen Yogurt and the Syngorn Salad Bar, I assume Aabria just skimmed over those one. lol
"Life needs wine to live", i know what im doing tonight
It is rare to see a creators reaction in real time to having their work turned into a parody. 🤣😭
YESSS! The return of "Life needs things to live!"!!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOOOooO LoNG! *voice cracks*
The Chromadon cave is like making a gift shop about 9/11.
I love this I need to go watch this right now!
Poor Matt...
you can see Matt's soul leave his body more and more as the night progresses lol
Are we all pretending that we don't want a place exactly like this to be real?
If CR land ever becomes a thing, it has to be
I listened to this while I drove... I'm so sad I didn't watch the stream... this is all so amazing!
I saw this a while ago with out ever having seen C1 but now that im watching/listening to C1 (little past half way now) this makes so much more sense and is so much more amusing. Sad though that if you are a critter like me that started watching CR with EXU and C3, there's soooooo many call backs and missing histories that you will miss out on unless you go back and watch/listen to it all. and that's many hundreds of hours of listening/watching.
Matt Mercer getting sniped mercilessly through the duplex door by Aabria Iyengar.
The whole concept of somebody in-universe being inspired by Taldorei`s culture and cuisine and making a whole restaurant out of it is amazing. And honestly, it sounds like a place that`s totally worth visiting.
I love watching a DM write a love letter to another DM
I love how matt just either cringe-laughs or face palms at the different names
I love her sm
Aabria like: "I ain't one of your players, time to fuck you up!"
Is there a insulated tumbler or tote bag or shirt that says “Life needs wine to live” or have they slept on that golden opportunity?
This took place after campaign 3 started and I’m pretty sure the location where the buffet is located is in Taliesans back ground information. I like the idea that they both might came to a similar idea of a garish buffet themed after something it has no business being themed after separately and he liked hers better so he changed his answers on the homework last minute.
I saw matt hit every stage of grief with this lol
I have a DND character that was born in Kymal. She is now definatly working a part time job at The Taste of Taldorei
I didn't scroll very far down...did anyone say "Nobody expects the Robbie Inquisition!"
I have never seen matt look so sad at what his creation has become, he knows it for entertainment, but you can actually see that the OG crit role is becoming just a running gag haha
A year later and this is still hilarious!!
It’s great that you can tell which ones he cringes at and which ones he loves
I somehow missed the "life needs wine to live" and I LOVE THAT SO MUCH
You laugh now but it will all be added to critical role land when it comes out.
I imagine Matt has noted all these down to include in Critical Role Land (TM)! ...when it eventually gets built.
I was delighted by all this.
Aabria was brought on specifically to pitch ideas for Critical Role World.