For sure Critical Role makes D&D more enjoyable for non-players. I mean they are professional voice actors and have a lot of lovable personalities, and Matt is on hell of a DM but I assure you, while D&D is complicated to learn at first, you can try and start with your friends from zero and learn on the way like my party did, and while I am no Mercer and my dming style is different, we have a lot of fun as a group every session!
Especially with his various game ads and his eternally bizarre NordVPN skits lol ^__^ I would’ve thought D&D itself was Sam’s outlet for weirdness and everything, but the various ads are his **true** weirdness outlet for all his strange creativity ^__^
I want either a sprinkle-centered "Castaway"style one shot where it's just travis doing that voice narrating all the times sprinkle should have died and detailing how he didn't, or a moment in game where Professor Thaddeus rescues him from the m9 only to eat him in a a weird animal's seppuku situation or something. as Travis would squeak, "sweet death!" haha
Except the only "Gay Actions" were between Beau and Yasha. All Caleb did was kiss Essek on his forehead, similar to what Mollymauk did to pull Caleb out of a PTSD episode, so the kiss was meant in to be a reassuring gesture since Essek was grappling with his guilt of working with the Cerberus Assembly and sparking the war between Xorhas and the Empire.
Nobody heard Marisha say "it's fine we're basically gods" during Jester trying to drop Yasha onto Caleb.... Then Failing. TWICE. Like... That phrase has been CURSED since the moment she uttered it before Keyfish back in C1 lmao
I think its pretty cool that Matt is using various gender identities in the game. I also think it's really cool that it's not just good guys or just bad guys, but a mix. No matter the gender identity, we're all still people and we all have the capacity to be good or shitty.
@@alexj848 What if the next campaign, everything is changed, but the players have characters who remember things as they happened in the campaign. All the meta knowledge they have of Exandria is now both useless and a really meaty plot hook to drive the players to find out what changed the world. What if all the mighty nine get what they want the most...Jester's parents never separated, Fjord stopped the destruction of his Captain Vanderan's ship, Veth escaped the goblins unscathed, Caleb never killed his family. All these wonderful things for the Might Nein... but there is a cost and now the new characters are caught between righting the universe but also taking away their previous characters happiness.
@@toddalexander5015 I feel like that would cause more bad than good imo as we don’t know the rules of time travel in this world. Matt said in an earlier episode that their is more than one prime material. That either means a multiverse of individual worlds, or a multiverse of Exandria. I believe that Artagan said that, so I think the gods are as well, multiversal, and that would put the entire pantheon against them, so Caduceus probs wouldn’t like time travel (it meddles with the god’s plans and all that).
@@UponThisAltar TNG. If I’m remembering correctly he antagonized an entire alien race so hard the rest of the Q decided to punish him by making him human... which makes me wonder whether there’s anyone in the Feywild who would be more upset with Artagan’s shenanigans than the Moonweaver!
21:20 onward makes so much more sense after the Artagan reveal later on (I can't remember the episode number). "It's not that I'm teleporting. I'm just HERE!"
really, you watch them before you watch the full episode? that's interesting! i hadn't anticipated that people may watch them in that order, but that's good to know.
I do the highlights before the full show also. With all the stress of the later episodes, it's nice to know what I'm in for before I tuck into 4 hours of stress and worry
@@Notorious_BHG hmm, i'd never thought of that, but that makes sense! i almost wish i had the luxury to do the same, but this is the life i've chosen i suppose lol
I'm behind a few episodes, so I watch your highlights to get caught up before the next live stream. Then, I go back and watch full episodes once I have time :-P
1:37 Nothing says true friendship like eliciting that scream from Laura as she begs Sam to stop drinking 🤣 Jesus man, you knew the yogurt was real, WHY WOULD THE OTHER PROPS BE FAKE?! ❤❤❤❤❤
Dang lvl 14 Monk and the Barbarian Zealot path Ashley has taken they going to be an unstoppable force! So many great moments in this episode thanks for making the video. My fav part actually is Sams realisation that it was real absinthes used and he drank it with coffee and yogurt! his "Oh boy!" loved it
I don't know whether we should be worried that Matt ended the episode before specifying that they arrived safely at their destination. But, I don't think I see he roll any dice for that so maybe I was just paranoid.
Ever since they started talking about Aeor I’ve been thinking about Matt’s love of Spelljammer and now after this episode my theory that Aeor holds a Spelljammer ship has increased immensely! I REALLY want this to be true!
Started going back and watching these after finding your videos from Campaign 3. Your editing is so fantastic. This is such a good way to refresh myself on past events with out having to re watch the long long episodes :) thank you for the effort you put into these.
Its so great watching these after I've watched the vod to catch tiny Easter eggs i didn't notice because it wasn't zoomed in enough 😊 another great video 👍 always a blast, marisha raygun
2:01 Anyone get the number of that train that just ran over Sam? Better question...why did he stand in the middle of the tracks instead of getting out of the way?
It's also the drink responsible for one of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes: "After the second glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the third, you see things as they are not."
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I love how when Matt said “the viewers don’t wanna watch us ramble about leveling up” the entire twitch chat basically begged to see it instead
They really should make a seperate video of them leveling up each level, I never even played D&D but I'm really interested to watch it.
@@alexanderstar1998 for the short time post-game when they were discussing level 14 it was actually really entertaining.
I really want to see that
For sure Critical Role makes D&D more enjoyable for non-players. I mean they are professional voice actors and have a lot of lovable personalities, and Matt is on hell of a DM but I assure you, while D&D is complicated to learn at first, you can try and start with your friends from zero and learn on the way like my party did, and while I am no Mercer and my dming style is different, we have a lot of fun as a group every session!
Lets just put it this way, I love leveling up my characters, I love the people at critical role, why wouldn't I love to see them lvl up?
The look on Sam's face when he realized that he drank actual Absinthe is probably *the most* "I fucked up." face I've ever seen him make.
I did that once. Never again. Terrible night.
I can't even stand cut absinthe. I don't wanna imagine drinking it straight.
@@starmantheta2028 absinthe is great. I'd rather drink absinthe than tequila.
Absinthe must be awful if it was that that threw him off and not the YOGURT..
A couple episodes before, he drank from his week old wine flask without washing it and it was vinegar and I’d argue that face was… worse
"Now, they didn't ask me to, but" would probably be a fair intro sentence to every single one of Sam's ads.
Especially with his various game ads and his eternally bizarre NordVPN skits lol ^__^
I would’ve thought D&D itself was Sam’s outlet for weirdness and everything, but the various ads are his **true** weirdness outlet for all his strange creativity ^__^
You know Sam is at his best when the cast is reduced to horrified screaming.
"I love you like family-"
"THATS NOT COMFORTING"
"You're in such trouble :)"
“I love you like family. You’re in such trouble.”
Caduceus’ best and scariest thing he’s ever said.
I swear I would’ve lost it if Sam went, “two shots of vodka” and then poured a ton in 😂
His meme powers were overflowing that night
its a meme refrence
He kinda did with the “M” one haha
Me too, ahhhh vine...
Sam making the mixed drink everyone bored in college thought was the shit.
Donkey Juice, where you just mix every drink together
Can we talk about the fact that travis' sprinkle voice is the same as macaroni from the darrington brigade one-shot.
I want either
a sprinkle-centered "Castaway"style one shot where it's just travis doing that voice narrating all the times sprinkle should have died and detailing how he didn't, or a moment in game where Professor Thaddeus rescues him from the m9 only to eat him in a a weird animal's seppuku situation or something. as Travis would squeak, "sweet death!" haha
If any PC ever was going to secretly be artagen fucking around, it would 100% be macaroni.
When Laura started laughing at Sam's mustache I almost choked on my drink. It's one of the funniest non-game related things that has happened
You can see her visually struggling not to laugh and its the best kind of anticipation XD
13:38 god Matt and Marisha are so married, what with them planning a Mulaning at the exact same time.
"Oh oh oh, let's Mulan them!"
*boooom*
"Oh, THEY are Mulaning US..."
One of my favourite bits from that episode.
The cast has never been so happy to be social distanced as when Sam's abomination of a drink started leaking as he shook it
"Gay Activity" "More Gay Activity" LMAO, love the timestamps
The timestamps had me just as dead as the actual video itself I swear lmao
Except the only "Gay Actions" were between Beau and Yasha. All Caleb did was kiss Essek on his forehead, similar to what Mollymauk did to pull Caleb out of a PTSD episode, so the kiss was meant in to be a reassuring gesture since Essek was grappling with his guilt of working with the Cerberus Assembly and sparking the war between Xorhas and the Empire.
@@deathbykonami5487 ok
Nobody heard Marisha say "it's fine we're basically gods" during Jester trying to drop Yasha onto Caleb.... Then Failing. TWICE.
Like... That phrase has been CURSED since the moment she uttered it before Keyfish back in C1 lmao
i legit thought sam was gonna drink the whole thing and be drunk all game
he would have died...
He-he was, actually...
It was enough.
When Matt brought up that Otis goes by all pronouns, I thought to myself "Oh hey, so many different ways to say 'Fuck you, Otis!'" 😆
I think its pretty cool that Matt is using various gender identities in the game. I also think it's really cool that it's not just good guys or just bad guys, but a mix. No matter the gender identity, we're all still people and we all have the capacity to be good or shitty.
ikr it’s so pog
@@timpind.8237 I don't know what that means, but I liked your comment anyway. :)
@@procrastinator99 a translation would be "I know, right! It's so great!
@@dovearchambault9229 Thanks! :)
26:14 Laura flipping through her notes for a good few seconds and just saying "it's just a lot of dicks" made me laugh so hard I cried a little bit
I love that you can tell that every sentence Caduceus says always ends in a ":)"
Oh lord. "That is REAL absinthe guys!" Had me legitimately crying with laughter
18:32 Travis’s face: “Is this dude about to put time travel in my D&D?!”
It’s more likely than you think.
@@Caddynars not that time travel isn’t cool, what could actually do with it?
@@alexj848 What if the next campaign, everything is changed, but the players have characters who remember things as they happened in the campaign. All the meta knowledge they have of Exandria is now both useless and a really meaty plot hook to drive the players to find out what changed the world.
What if all the mighty nine get what they want the most...Jester's parents never separated, Fjord stopped the destruction of his Captain Vanderan's ship, Veth escaped the goblins unscathed, Caleb never killed his family. All these wonderful things for the Might Nein... but there is a cost and now the new characters are caught between righting the universe but also taking away their previous characters happiness.
@@toddalexander5015 I feel like that would cause more bad than good imo as we don’t know the rules of time travel in this world. Matt said in an earlier episode that their is more than one prime material. That either means a multiverse of individual worlds, or a multiverse of Exandria.
I believe that Artagan said that, so I think the gods are as well, multiversal, and that would put the entire pantheon against them, so Caduceus probs wouldn’t like time travel (it meddles with the god’s plans and all that).
I feel like this is Travis is not just realizing Matt's talking time travel, but what Caleb would do with that power...
18:23 Travis and Laura look like disappointed parents when their child says a bad word and it kills me every time
Not even the CEO Travis can stop Sam. XD
"Two shots of tequilla"
This is the modern vodka version and I'm all for it
"You are such a taint smear" is now my favourite way to refer to my close friends
"Shut up. It's mine. Get away from it. Don't touch it."
1:39 Laura’s squeak of concern for Sam is really enduring
The next episode of these highlights is just gunna be disaster gays variety hour and im so hype
Artagan is just Q at this point.
Damn, that's really accurate.
He was always Q. But now we're passed that episode where he lost his powers temporarily.
@@MarcRodriguez1 DS9 right? ...Q-Less? Can't remember for sure...
@@UponThisAltar TNG. If I’m remembering correctly he antagonized an entire alien race so hard the rest of the Q decided to punish him by making him human... which makes me wonder whether there’s anyone in the Feywild who would be more upset with Artagan’s shenanigans than the Moonweaver!
OH WOW I JUST REALIZED THIS
First campaign is Travis character being best friends with Sams. Second campaign is Travis character being BULLIED BY Sams.
The way Laura bypasses _yelling_ and goes straight to _horrified shriek_ at Sam's unholy concoction... lmfao
I love when Talisan and Travis take Laura’s anger during her messages and just make it into Jester’s actual message 😂
I love that all of Sam's ads could be described with the quote "They didn't ask me to"
"But~"
I miss when Laura was squished between Sam and Tal. Specifically for the sponsor promos.
21:20 onward makes so much more sense after the Artagan reveal later on (I can't remember the episode number). "It's not that I'm teleporting. I'm just HERE!"
You know you think Cad is a nice guy and then you remember how he behaved with his siblings in this situation.
Can´t wait for an artist doing either the Artagan´s failed intervention or the Caduceus amazing divine moment xD
Watching these highlight compilations before the full show is so much more fun. Thanks for the work you do!
really, you watch them before you watch the full episode? that's interesting! i hadn't anticipated that people may watch them in that order, but that's good to know.
I do the highlights before the full show also. With all the stress of the later episodes, it's nice to know what I'm in for before I tuck into 4 hours of stress and worry
@@Notorious_BHG hmm, i'd never thought of that, but that makes sense! i almost wish i had the luxury to do the same, but this is the life i've chosen i suppose lol
@@marisharaygun You're doing god's work 🙏 Thank you so much
I'm behind a few episodes, so I watch your highlights to get caught up before the next live stream.
Then, I go back and watch full episodes once I have time :-P
Honestly when Sam said 3 shots of absinthe I was like "no"
The whole thing is that you dilute the shit out of that stuff.
Laura's scream at Sam's drinking is a MOOD.
the traveler saying hes just There hits different now that we know about sprinkle
1:37 Nothing says true friendship like eliciting that scream from Laura as she begs Sam to stop drinking 🤣 Jesus man, you knew the yogurt was real, WHY WOULD THE OTHER PROPS BE FAKE?! ❤❤❤❤❤
Sam didn't care about the concoction he made he only cared that there was real absinthe
Dang lvl 14 Monk and the Barbarian Zealot path Ashley has taken they going to be an unstoppable force! So many great moments in this episode thanks for making the video. My fav part actually is Sams realisation that it was real absinthes used and he drank it with coffee and yogurt! his "Oh boy!" loved it
I don't know whether we should be worried that Matt ended the episode before specifying that they arrived safely at their destination. But, I don't think I see he roll any dice for that so maybe I was just paranoid.
I love Caduceus "I love you like family, your in trouble."
06:59 Otis identifies as a fuckin problem
Sam making that drink reminds me of that flash bartender game that blows-up when the drink sucks.
Omg you brought back some childhood memories embedded deep in my mind
i LOVE these highlights!! thank you so much for making tem!!!!!
i'm glad you like them! thanks for watching!
Matt’s face was a snarl when he saw Sam’s shirt. I don’t know why I love that moment!
Matt looking at that drink like “it’s bad enough that Veth could die at any time, I don’t need Veth’s character dying IRL too!”
And on this day, Jester learned how Artagan works.
Ever since they started talking about Aeor I’ve been thinking about Matt’s love of Spelljammer and now after this episode my theory that Aeor holds a Spelljammer ship has increased immensely! I REALLY want this to be true!
The zoom in on Travis at 18:00 killed me
“Pull up a stool”
You've become my favorite CR highlight creator. I love the scenes chosen each week.
aww, thank you!!!
2:24 Even Yasha is done with Veth at this point. She's been denied her desired "hot meal" for ages.
What an incredible comment. Highly underrated.
Jester put Cad to sleep brushing his hair. Aww ♥
Love watching the reactions of the others. And when the Kentucky comes out in Marisha.
Started going back and watching these after finding your videos from Campaign 3. Your editing is so fantastic. This is such a good way to refresh myself on past events with out having to re watch the long long episodes :) thank you for the effort you put into these.
Taliesin as Cad is one of my favourite things. The one liners aren’t even really one liners, it’s usually just brutal honesty.
The fact that marisha mentioned Drag Brunch makes me so happy lol
Laura: "Did you guide me!?" Tal: "I didn't know what you were doing." That exchange really got me, oh man. I love these guys so much.
Sam is legit a legend. He does so many crazy things for this channel.
1:55the most adorable marisha has ever looked
her face was like "should i call an ambulance?"
Literally have these on repeat. Constantly going through all of them
Caduceus Threatens Fjord is my favorite part, you don't expect that from him and then we do!
Its so great watching these after I've watched the vod to catch tiny Easter eggs i didn't notice because it wasn't zoomed in enough 😊 another great video 👍 always a blast, marisha raygun
Everyone: oh God! Sam is going to drink a death potion
Marisha Ray: how much rum is left?
I was hooked at Elderberry then shrank away in horror shortly thereafter. What's wrong with you?! NEVER CHANGE- I love you guys...lol
Love Marisha’s face as Sam is making his drink since she knows that stuff isn’t fake.
I love these highlights, since I don't really have time to rewatch the entire episode on mondays, so these are really fun way to relive the episode :D
Given what episode 123 contained, they really needed this episode to have good amounts of comedy to break the tension that was built.
"All pronouns are valid, and your hate is earned because Otis is terrible" A+ Matt
1:43 Sam - "Oh, dear God, what have I done?" Heehee
fuck, Cad making a threat was genuinely terrifying
thank you for another video!! i love the bite sized variant of the session even if i'm gonna watch it later too
Go to the Matt Trolling section and watch 6 times focusing on a different person you will not be disappointed.
Sam Rigel the sonic egghead pringle monopoly burt renolds
loving the timestamps, god bless u, it's an amazing recap when i don't want to watch the whole thing again
Every time I see Marisha say “we’re basically gods in this”
Travis’s eyes at 18:44
I can’t
I can’t breathe
Every drinker felt a disturbance in the force during Sam’s ad.
These edits are spectacular!
15:12
I heard "Gee whiz, you are straight" and that couldn't be farther from the truth when talking about Essek LMAO
I would drink that! Except the absint was overkill of the alcohol amount xD. Scratch absint and I'm in!
... Your moustache 🤣
“Cmon, we’re basically gods!”
Marisha!!! Have you learned nothing?!”
“Now they didnt ask me to, BUT” 🤣🤣
2:01 Anyone get the number of that train that just ran over Sam?
Better question...why did he stand in the middle of the tracks instead of getting out of the way?
There are a bunch of highlight vids but these are my favorite.
Your Highlights are the best!
Yooo the zoom ins are killing me
Talisens I didn’t know what you were doing
Hahahaha
I feel like I’m about to watch the Marble Olympics
IDK if anyone has had absinthe, but it is murder. It competes with Jaeger.
It's also the drink responsible for one of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes:
"After the second glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the third, you see things as they are not."
I haven’t watched a full episode of critical role in ages, sadly.
These compilations are my only mighty nein outlet lol
Ok. Does Sam have a storage locker full of all his Matt shirts
Mighty Nein Next adventures, The Search for Professor Thaddeus!
Artagan Faesplaining his powers was pretty hilarious
Cad "I didn't know what you were doing". Always on brand with that low int.