Yeah these are incredible. Do you have a patron or something we can contribute to? Or just watch them on repeat overnight for hours to wrack up them views
@@kurtdrawbridge1581 They could've always copped out by having his "devil form" speak different- which was probably the plan if he was too busy to film that week. But I"m so happy that they got him back.
As much as the show battle was absolutely epic and super entertaining, I am so sad we didn’t get pikes epic first divine intervention. I really wanted to see the everlight drop the hammer of dawn on that dragon.
Same, I almost think this might come at a different time though. Bear in mind pike did just get out of a region where she was told not to be by the everlight, so in terms of the story, I'm not sure it would have made sense in this instance.
Hey there, TP Burrow! I'm the Editor from the Meesh & Dee channel and I just want to say that I'm loving these compilations! Thank you for getting these out swiftly! Can't wait to see what the next half of the season brings!
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I can't wait for the next episode. I love Zerxus' backstory animation, which matches the art style from EXU:Calamity, and that they got Luis Carazo back to voice Zerxus, but I hardly recognized his voice. In the campaign, Keyleth's vestige, the Spire of Conflux, is inside Yenk's stomach when he devoured the last wielder. I wonder if they will find it in the next episode.
[Spoilers] Nope, they left for Whitestone after this fight, but they might save that little excursion for when they have to make their second trip to hells for reasons that have not been revealed yet.
@@deathbykonami5487 That's really interesting. But since the show has limited episodes only, I don't think VM will make it back to Dis. However, they did tease that the gang might meet Zerxus again during the Vecna arc.
Some context and scaling to this battle, for those less D&D familiar/fluent... *:)* 1.) *_D&D Rules Scaling..._* - a.) *Player Levels -* By basic D&D standards, Player level scale from 01 to 20. - b.) *Challenge Rating (CR) -* In D&D, monsters are scaled by their *_Challenge Rating (CR)._* The CR [number] is the scale for 4-6 Players of that level-[number] to effectively fight/defeat that monster. So a CR 12 monster is generally scaled for a (4-6) group of level 12 Players. The CR [number] can go *HIGHER* than (level) 20, for scaling Epic-tier adversaries, such as arch-devils, demon princes, elemental lords, ancient eldritch horrors, a god's physically-manifested avatar, etc. 2.) *_Critical Role Scaling_** --* So with the *[CR 1x71 - "Vorugal"]* play-session, and the *[LoVM 3x05 - "The Frigid Wastes"]* episode, the scaling is... - a.) Vox Machina (VXM) = level 15 average, Small creatures (gnomes) and Medium creatures (dwarves, goliaths, half-elves, humans) take up 1 map-square each - b.) Vorugal, the Frigid Doom; male ancient white dragon = CR 20, Vorugal was a Gargantuan dragon, taking up 4x4 map-squares - c.) Yenk; male demon (Goristo) = CR 17, Yenk was a Huge demon, taking up 3x3 map-squares 3.) *_Vorugal vs. Yenk (vs. VXM)_** --* So while Yenk (17) was powerful enough to battle Vorugal (20), Yenk was not powerful enough to defeat Vorugal alone. But as VXM's (15) intent/hope was that Vorugal and Yenk would kill each other, or at least both be damaged enough for VXM to finish either/both off, it (obviously) worked out for VXM. *;)* Thanks for uploading this, *TP Burrow.* :)
It is worse than that. Matt has the habbit of increasing creature hp to allow them to survive more than one round against 7 players. So where a normal ancient white dragon has 333 hp, Vorugal had 855.
@@mathy1799 -- Correct for the most part. *:)* Even before [CR Campaign #1 - Vox Machina (2015-2017)] began broadcasting/livestreaming, the friends circle that are the CR cast were already D&D play-veterans (the home game began in 2010). As you pointed out, Mercer does not want his important villains going down in 1-2 combat rounds. Additionally, Mercer also has shown he will add *EVEN MORE* Hit Points &/or Attack Power to enemies in DM-retribution, when the CR cast annoy him &/or engage in game-disruptive (not simply Comedic) shenanigans. *;)*
I would have loved to have seen a divine intervention. I know they’re doing something different with Pike for this season because she actually wasn’t there for a while, but it would have been SO DOPE to see Kima call down the platinum dragon to absolutely wreck Vorgal.
Thank you! I haven’t caught up with Campaign 1 yet so it was a surprise to see everything I animation. I thought it was just for the show with Yenk vs Vorugal. It was awesome to see that that actually happened in stream. 😂
I'm gonna be honest, the stream was cool but the TV show adaptation was much more epic than I had anticipated. It might be up there with The Killbox battle
I didnt realise it was zerxes until i heard his backstory, when i saw his face i was like "no it couldnt be?" Then the reveal had me screaming with hype I hope we get a calamity movie, would be awesome Alsovthis fight was amazing
i love that you do this for the people who haven't watch the stream, but why not add Matt picture in there too? I get the whole focusing on Vox Machina, but watching what Matt does is the other half of why it's so entertaining.
@CruciferWarden he was never a follower of asmodeus. He was a man who believed and had his oath dedicated to himself. He was tricked into becoming the champion of asmodeus he thought he could teach a god. His pride and hubris lead to his fate. Being a follower of vecna who make sense
Man, they are really taking the shit on Scanlan and making him a joke when he was MVP. Like the mansion scene, for example. Damn. The compilation amazing as usual.
It is actually a part of his character, I won't say more if you don't actually know the tabletop story, but there IS a reason (and legit narrative purpose) for him being treated that way.
@tristanmilner9511 the bard's lament hit so hard precisely because of how much of an MVP he was. In here, he is useful, but he isn't making a huge difference either.
All different takes on Scanlan I think come from Sam Riegel. Him and Travis are the main writers for the show, so I think the way Scanlan is portrayed is like that, because Sam Riegel want him to be portrayed like that. Not that I don't agree with seeing a difference.
It’s probably just an oversight from them having to condense so much stuff into only 12 episodes, combining Yenk vs Vorgal with the trip to hell rather than them being seperate things. But it is feasible Yenk was under the effects of dominate monster or planar binding/summon greater demon, or seeing how Zerxes is now a follower of the whispered one it could be that Yenk also follows them and are effectively on the same side now.
I really wanted to see Pike's Divine Intervention in the animated series. I was pretty disappointed they didnt include it, but overall the fight was still cool.
two things: Why would Zerxus be working for Vecna? and why the hell would they cut out the part where Pike has the Everlight punch a dragon in the face?
If I had to guess, they probably want the divine intervention to come at the end of Pike's current arc. Zerxus had her question her faith, so a divine intervention now would not make sense, and also would kinda have normies wonder why she doesn't do it all the time. Even a hand-wavey explanation about not being able to do it too often wouldn't be enough, since this is quite literally a Deus Ex Machina. The powers of the character have been greatly downgraded to fit the show format, so it's a bit too OP. My guess is, Pike is going to question her faith to a point where she questions the Everlight, maybe even has a face to face with her, which will then lead to the divine intervention being used against Thordak. We'll see though, I might be wrong.
i was a little upset that they made pike seem like she was loosing faith in her deity in the animated series when this encounter was the first time pikes divine intervention hit which was nuts
They keep taking away scanlans clever moments, moments. What does Scanlan have left? I feel like people watching the show for the first time, are not going to get to see Scanlan as clever as we all see him.
I think that is because Sam Riegel doesn't see Scanlan as, as clever as we see him. Maybe it's because Sam Riegel is really clever, and so would do clever things, so we assumed it is part of Scanlans character when he does something smart, but that is not how Sam himself sees it..? I don't know.. I have just noticed that when Sam talks about Scanlan as a character he often describes him much more like a character failing upwards, kind of. Never as clever or strategic, wich he sometimes was in the campaign, but I think maybe that's because that part was just Sam.. In any case the changes to Scanlans character in the show must be Sam Riegels own decisions. Him and Travis are main writers on the show after all..
@@TheFashionablyDepressedBard I wouldn’t be surprised if Sam was underplaying his own character, but the proof is in the pudding. The videos of the live show have Scanlan making so many important decisions that affect the entire outcome of the show. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they change Scanlan‘s last and final cool moment. Regardless, in this episode, I was really hoping that Scanlan would at least get to charm yank. I figured he might not get the summon yank. But this was overall disappointing to me.
Because the animated show depicts Scanlan the way Sam Riegel always imagined him, instead of how we saw him in the live show due to Riegels genius in the game
Wow, they changed so much, I had no idea. That's... kinda disappointing, honestly. Still love the show but I'm really curious why they decided to leave out the divine intervention and give Kima a much more prominent role in the fight
The dialogue writing in this episode was so bad I had to turn it off twice before I could finish it. I wanted to like it. But it was so cringingly on the nose and bad.
This is just a general thank you for doing these Table to Screen compilations. I've enjoyed them all!
Thanks, It's nice to know the time is well spent editing, crashing, editing and re-editing.
It's what I immediately look forward to after the show itself
Yeah these are incredible. Do you have a patron or something we can contribute to? Or just watch them on repeat overnight for hours to wrack up them views
Very Nostalgic stepping back 7 years to when this aired.
It was short but Luis was so good as Zerxes
His voiced disappeared in Zerxes, for me that's perfection, when you have to check if it's really that actor behind the voice
I think they brought him in to cover for Arkhan later on the road, it was amazing tho!
I mean they had to considering he plays the character in game. Would be strange to hear a random voice him
@@kurtdrawbridge1581 They could've always copped out by having his "devil form" speak different- which was probably the plan if he was too busy to film that week. But I"m so happy that they got him back.
He may be back later on
I don't care, a demon hitting a Stone Cold Stunner on a dragon is the best thing that ever happened in animation history
A stunner or suplex instantly elevates any fight.
I love that Liam made Vorugal's voice more guttural to show the damage Yenk did to his mouth.
Wait Liam does vorguals voice? Holy shit I haven’t looked up the casting yet it’s more of an after series thing for me
As much as the show battle was absolutely epic and super entertaining, I am so sad we didn’t get pikes epic first divine intervention. I really wanted to see the everlight drop the hammer of dawn on that dragon.
Same, I almost think this might come at a different time though. Bear in mind pike did just get out of a region where she was told not to be by the everlight, so in terms of the story, I'm not sure it would have made sense in this instance.
@@Sancarn It was this fight and against this dragon. I"m sorry it wasn't included as well
@@Sancarn completely agree. From a writing perspective it makes so much more sense to pull it out against thordak or even raishan
It was basically an easter egg in the Umbrasyl fight.
I think we'll get it vs Thordak.
Asmodeus' betrayal forcing Zerxus to ally with the Whispered One is such a great plot twist and a nice connection between EXU Calamity and Campaign 1
Hey there, TP Burrow! I'm the Editor from the Meesh & Dee channel and I just want to say that I'm loving these compilations! Thank you for getting these out swiftly! Can't wait to see what the next half of the season brings!
Hey Thanks, Please give my love to Meesh and Dee, I love their reactions and your edits. This is the s3 playlist for table to screen: ruclips.net/p/PLs0WFF4YTIgwYGZ1twScUGAkJzeTnLytj&si=x8EHdPDynzX7nHEn
Wow, just mentioned this video for a tts watch!
I can't wait for the next episode. I love Zerxus' backstory animation, which matches the art style from EXU:Calamity, and that they got Luis Carazo back to voice Zerxus, but I hardly recognized his voice.
In the campaign, Keyleth's vestige, the Spire of Conflux, is inside Yenk's stomach when he devoured the last wielder. I wonder if they will find it in the next episode.
[Spoilers] Nope, they left for Whitestone after this fight, but they might save that little excursion for when they have to make their second trip to hells for reasons that have not been revealed yet.
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HIS VOICE
@@deathbykonami5487 at this point, I highly doubt they will go back. The whole reason why they went there wasn't adapted
@@LoryK98what do you mean? Didn’t they went there to get the vestige armor?
@@deathbykonami5487 That's really interesting. But since the show has limited episodes only, I don't think VM will make it back to Dis. However, they did tease that the gang might meet Zerxus again during the Vecna arc.
As soon as Zerxes said “Yenk” I knew what was coming(also the trailer but that was a nice tease moments before the chase began)
Some context and scaling to this battle, for those less D&D familiar/fluent... *:)*
1.) *_D&D Rules Scaling..._*
- a.) *Player Levels -* By basic D&D standards, Player level scale from 01 to 20.
- b.) *Challenge Rating (CR) -* In D&D, monsters are scaled by their *_Challenge Rating (CR)._* The CR [number] is the scale for 4-6 Players of that level-[number] to effectively fight/defeat that monster. So a CR 12 monster is generally scaled for a (4-6) group of level 12 Players. The CR [number] can go *HIGHER* than (level) 20, for scaling Epic-tier adversaries, such as arch-devils, demon princes, elemental lords, ancient eldritch horrors, a god's physically-manifested avatar, etc.
2.) *_Critical Role Scaling_** --* So with the *[CR 1x71 - "Vorugal"]* play-session, and the *[LoVM 3x05 - "The Frigid Wastes"]* episode, the scaling is...
- a.) Vox Machina (VXM) = level 15 average, Small creatures (gnomes) and Medium creatures (dwarves, goliaths, half-elves, humans) take up 1 map-square each
- b.) Vorugal, the Frigid Doom; male ancient white dragon = CR 20, Vorugal was a Gargantuan dragon, taking up 4x4 map-squares
- c.) Yenk; male demon (Goristo) = CR 17, Yenk was a Huge demon, taking up 3x3 map-squares
3.) *_Vorugal vs. Yenk (vs. VXM)_** --* So while Yenk (17) was powerful enough to battle Vorugal (20), Yenk was not powerful enough to defeat Vorugal alone. But as VXM's (15) intent/hope was that Vorugal and Yenk would kill each other, or at least both be damaged enough for VXM to finish either/both off, it (obviously) worked out for VXM. *;)*
Thanks for uploading this, *TP Burrow.* :)
It is worse than that. Matt has the habbit of increasing creature hp to allow them to survive more than one round against 7 players. So where a normal ancient white dragon has 333 hp, Vorugal had 855.
@@mathy1799 -- Correct for the most part. *:)*
Even before [CR Campaign #1 - Vox Machina (2015-2017)] began broadcasting/livestreaming, the friends circle that are the CR cast were already D&D play-veterans (the home game began in 2010).
As you pointed out, Mercer does not want his important villains going down in 1-2 combat rounds.
Additionally, Mercer also has shown he will add *EVEN MORE* Hit Points &/or Attack Power to enemies in DM-retribution, when the CR cast annoy him &/or engage in game-disruptive (not simply Comedic) shenanigans. *;)*
Thank you for putting this out there
@@nintendoborn -- Happy to nerd-share. You are welcome. *:)*
I would have loved to have seen a divine intervention. I know they’re doing something different with Pike for this season because she actually wasn’t there for a while, but it would have been SO DOPE to see Kima call down the platinum dragon to absolutely wreck Vorgal.
Thank you! I haven’t caught up with Campaign 1 yet so it was a surprise to see everything I animation. I thought it was just for the show with Yenk vs Vorugal. It was awesome to see that that actually happened in stream. 😂
The editing on these scenes is pretty good. Nicely done.
Grog: This show is AMAZIN'!
Audience: The actual show or the fight with the dragon?
An ethereal Matt Mercer arrives: YES
I'm gonna be honest, the stream was cool but the TV show adaptation was much more epic than I had anticipated. It might be up there with The Killbox battle
Nah. The show butchers the living shit out of the dnd game. Fucking disgrace
I didnt realise it was zerxes until i heard his backstory, when i saw his face i was like "no it couldnt be?" Then the reveal had me screaming with hype
I hope we get a calamity movie, would be awesome
Alsovthis fight was amazing
I saw the ram's horns in Pike's vision(?) and I started freaking out while my husband is like "wtf dude?"
I strongly hope that if we get a Calamity movie, Brennan plays Asmodeus. I NEED that back and forth between them.
My friend, you are doing the work of the gods. The Matron of Ravens gives her thanks to you.
That was an unfairly epic fight on screen!
The Vorugal vs Yenk fight on screen was awesome. The whole season was excellent
i love that you do this for the people who haven't watch the stream, but why not add Matt picture in there too? I get the whole focusing on Vox Machina, but watching what Matt does is the other half of why it's so entertaining.
Zerxus as a follower of the whispered one
I hadn't thought of that !
@@jonnyso1 we are his blood was said by the briarwoods. Connecting threads
But Zerxus was a follower of Asmodeus, his champion so that would be an interesting change. I don't think so though.
@@CruciferWarden A very unwiling follower.
@CruciferWarden he was never a follower of asmodeus. He was a man who believed and had his oath dedicated to himself. He was tricked into becoming the champion of asmodeus he thought he could teach a god. His pride and hubris lead to his fate. Being a follower of vecna who make sense
Man, they are really taking the shit on Scanlan and making him a joke when he was MVP. Like the mansion scene, for example. Damn.
The compilation amazing as usual.
I have a feeling that's on purpose. So the Bard's Lament will hit even harder.
It is actually a part of his character, I won't say more if you don't actually know the tabletop story, but there IS a reason (and legit narrative purpose) for him being treated that way.
@tristanmilner9511 the bard's lament hit so hard precisely because of how much of an MVP he was. In here, he is useful, but he isn't making a huge difference either.
@@tristanmilner9511what is this bard’s lament? Context? Spoilers are welcome ‘-‘
All different takes on Scanlan I think come from Sam Riegel. Him and Travis are the main writers for the show, so I think the way Scanlan is portrayed is like that, because Sam Riegel want him to be portrayed like that. Not that I don't agree with seeing a difference.
The best part is you can watch the show for the first time because it's nothing like there DnD play.
Looking forward to the tub scene :)
You know if it works for Stargate blowing up a Hive Ship at the supergate to destroy an Ori ship, why not send Yenk through to fight Vorugal.
I just wonder how keyleth is going to get her staff now tho?
Aramente is my guess
Maybe she dosen't..? Maybe they decided her powerups in the show, would be just through her aramente..?
Soo good!!
Please watch Calamity if you haven’t!!
Ashley saying "10" like she wasn't sure if it was good or not LOL
I love these videos!
14:15 Me watching LOVM:
I’m confused why is a demon like Yenk serving a devil in the Hell. They usually kill each other
It’s probably just an oversight from them having to condense so much stuff into only 12 episodes, combining Yenk vs Vorgal with the trip to hell rather than them being seperate things.
But it is feasible Yenk was under the effects of dominate monster or planar binding/summon greater demon, or seeing how Zerxes is now a follower of the whispered one it could be that Yenk also follows them and are effectively on the same side now.
I really wanted to see Pike's Divine Intervention in the animated series. I was pretty disappointed they didnt include it, but overall the fight was still cool.
Im a bit sad that you cant see the spell Pike do to Vorugal, that she do in the game!
two things: Why would Zerxus be working for Vecna? and why the hell would they cut out the part where Pike has the Everlight punch a dragon in the face?
First- maybe he promised to bring his family back, Second - Kima punched a dragon instead, they can't translate everything to screen.
We dont know he works for Vecna necessarily. Pike’s thing will probably happen later on when she reconciles with the Everlight
If I had to guess, they probably want the divine intervention to come at the end of Pike's current arc. Zerxus had her question her faith, so a divine intervention now would not make sense, and also would kinda have normies wonder why she doesn't do it all the time. Even a hand-wavey explanation about not being able to do it too often wouldn't be enough, since this is quite literally a Deus Ex Machina. The powers of the character have been greatly downgraded to fit the show format, so it's a bit too OP. My guess is, Pike is going to question her faith to a point where she questions the Everlight, maybe even has a face to face with her, which will then lead to the divine intervention being used against Thordak. We'll see though, I might be wrong.
which episode is that on the stream?
i was a little upset that they made pike seem like she was loosing faith in her deity in the animated series when this encounter was the first time pikes divine intervention hit which was nuts
The Brennen EXU series aloud for some great retcons
13:40 so canonically, those gay couple weren't supposed to be there?
So yenk didn’t actually die yeah? He just goes to reform again in the hells?
Xerxes was a much better change to the hell trip, but honestly, I feel the Yenk/Vorugal fight was much more entertaining in the actual campaign
They keep taking away scanlans clever moments, moments. What does Scanlan have left? I feel like people watching the show for the first time, are not going to get to see Scanlan as clever as we all see him.
I think that is because Sam Riegel doesn't see Scanlan as, as clever as we see him. Maybe it's because Sam Riegel is really clever, and so would do clever things, so we assumed it is part of Scanlans character when he does something smart, but that is not how Sam himself sees it..? I don't know.. I have just noticed that when Sam talks about Scanlan as a character he often describes him much more like a character failing upwards, kind of. Never as clever or strategic, wich he sometimes was in the campaign, but I think maybe that's because that part was just Sam.. In any case the changes to Scanlans character in the show must be Sam Riegels own decisions. Him and Travis are main writers on the show after all..
@@TheFashionablyDepressedBard I wouldn’t be surprised if Sam was underplaying his own character, but the proof is in the pudding. The videos of the live show have Scanlan making so many important decisions that affect the entire outcome of the show. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they change Scanlan‘s last and final cool moment. Regardless, in this episode, I was really hoping that Scanlan would at least get to charm yank. I figured he might not get the summon yank. But this was overall disappointing to me.
Because the animated show depicts Scanlan the way Sam Riegel always imagined him, instead of how we saw him in the live show due to Riegels genius in the game
@@arwo1143 Yeah, that's what I think too.
THEY LIE!!!!!! Chills
I wish we actually got to see scanlan dominate a demon 😢
Wow, they changed so much, I had no idea. That's... kinda disappointing, honestly. Still love the show but I'm really curious why they decided to leave out the divine intervention and give Kima a much more prominent role in the fight
they are really 50/50 on the changes the are making from table to anime, most of the combats are better in the table top
Watching the entire original critical role s1 Vox Machina was epic. An emotional roller coaster. The cartoon seems sterile.
mom's Spaghetti
Rule of cool, I suppose, but if she rolled a 0, she should have rolled again. two 0's isn't 0/99. It'd have been a 100 and failed.
🤓☝🏼
Much better on table than amazon
The dialogue writing in this episode was so bad I had to turn it off twice before I could finish it. I wanted to like it. But it was so cringingly on the nose and bad.
whats wrong with you
What?
Bro comments on a RUclips video like this person was the writer 😂 no one cares if you didn’t like it man, they’re not gonna change it for you