I always like when they ask Matt for someone’s name because you can almost always see him look down at what I can only assume is either a sheet of paper with names or like top 100 baby names but he always plays it off so well
It's like people completely ignored the dialogue here. Scanlan didn't "offer exposure for a commission". The artist insisted that the work was free because of their victory over the Brairwoods.
uptownkretch if I remember correctly- they were taking about opening a library for the people of Whitestone because there were Vacant lots and most of the books and other historical information etc... were stolen and hoarded in castle when the Briarwoods were there. They were also going to name it after their dear friend Gilmore (and shop owner)
An interesting thing to note is that Resident Evil was originally called Biohazard when it released in Japan, but since there was already an American game called Biohazard they could not secure the name for the international release. A contest was held to determine the new name, and "Resident Evil" won. Kind of makes you wonder how awful the other name suggestions must have been lol
I once played a sorcerer and spent one of my levels becoming a level 1 rogue for expertise in persuasion and deception. Best decision I ever made in dnd.
gotta love how the minor detail at the end (the destroyed TP circle) ended up being a huge tell for Raishan later, and how casually Matt slipped it in.
liam needed to ANCHOR himself during the fabio bit and laura leaned back so far he had to reach over to grab travis and that's genuinely so funny to me????????
The average party needs the intentional efforts of 4-6 murderhobo's to make a trainwreck. Sam does it all by himself in between the entre and main course.
Shit like this is the reason im watching/listening to campaign 1 a second time. Also as a DM of currently 2 campaigns and a player of 1, ideas/inspirations are good too lol
I love watching these videos and recognizing that background music and thinking "Oh shit I remember that game." On that note I'm off to play Dragon Quest 8 again.
I mean....when sam described this art piece of course i laughed hysterically. But i wasnt surprised in the least bit because it is EXACTLY how scanlan would do it.
I just now started to realise how "full Orion/Tiberius" Scanlan went there. "I wanted to do 4 things" is one thing, but "I will sing your praises far and wide as the greatest artist in... - where are we? WHITESTONE! WHITE- WHITE HOUSE! BRIARSTONE! HARDWOOD!"...
Tiberius/orion was a lot worse. He was not only doing very boring things but he kept backstepping and adding multiple things that he was doing at the same time. It was incredibly obnoxious where here it was hilarious, Sam/scanlan added to the fun for everyone involved while Tiberius/orion grounded everything to a screeching halt and took the game from "wasn't that a great time? let's celebrate and maybe spend some gold for a good time and some upgrades" to "he's still doing this... he added another thing.. come on let's go already:
I know this thread is 3 years old but I can't help myself. You're comparing apples to oranges, whenever Orion 'wanted to do 4 things' those things were always ways to increase his power as a player regardless of how blatant his metagaming was, or how overpowered the results were. When Sam here does 4 things he: 1) Composes a poem; something that has no metagame value but is completely in character and lets him set up a silly joke to make his friends laugh 2) Commissions an absurdly egotistical portrait; this actually has negative value for him as a player if he spends money on it because it gives him no tangible reward - but once again he does it because he knows doing it will make his friends laugh and it's completely in character 3) Attempts to learn if they can teleport again; this one is clearly purely for gameplay purposes which is something Orion would do but the main difference here is in how Sam tries to accomplish his goal. Instead of saying "I spend 3 days learning how to teleport" he says that he wants to research if he can - the key difference there is that instead of assuming that he'll succeed at this potentially gamebreaking endeavor, he lets the DM know what he wants and then leaves the outcome entirely to Matt. If Matt had reasons for allowing them to use teleporting again, he would find a way to incorporate it here and likewise if he had other plans or didn't think it made sense Sam trusted that Matt would let him know how and why it wouldn't work. Even being met with semi-failure (the party can't teleport using the circles, but they uncover Whitestone as a teleportation destination) Sam finds a way to accept and roll with it, whereas Orion would try and argue that if he only half succeeded then he should get half his time back and use it for crafting magical items or somesuch. 4) Despite the title, in this video we never learn what the 4th thing was and I can't be bothered to check the actual episode but I can 100% guarantee you that it was either something in character that made the table break out laughing, or something useful that he wasn't sure he would get.
Fabio is a famous model, i think. you can look up "Fabio" and you will see a very handsome man with large muscles and long hair, often portrayed open shirt and wind in his hair
I'm listening to the struggling artist and all I hear is Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5...I wonder if Matt used this as inspiration...? Edit: For Yusuke's character I mean.
I honestly don't think they sound anything alike (other than coming from the same actor, of course; I mean the pitches as well as the emotive elements behind the voice sound completely different).
@@omegagilgamesh Speaking of which, when i played Persona 5 Royal last time, during battle, one of the Battle Phrases Yusuke said was ""How do you want to do this?'' and i'm still not sure if it was made on purpose or if it was pure coincidence
just occurred to me - "I want to do 4 things" could have been a troll of Orion when Tiberius once decided to do about 6 things and that was the tipping point to get rid of Orion from the cast. admittedly he had already deeply upset Marisha and Laura by that point
@@Shortlan i agree he isn't petty, but as we have seen recently, eg in C3 trolling from cast members towards each other and deliberate misinformation to the viewer (Travis saying Chetney was a rogue) has almost become part of the cast's culture. i still love CR, but i love that aspect less. i wonder whether it wasn't part of the show from the beginning, but we didn't notice it because we all loved it so much
@@rantdmc I would say that the show now is nothing like it was back then. At the beginning, they tried to keep it as similar to their home game as possible - they had no idea it would become what it has today with all the success. These days the show is more of a production and a spectacle, but none of the 'trolling' is ever malicious in nature. The internet is such a sensitive place we sometimes forget to just roll with things and have fun. I've also been following Sam's career since well before CR so like to think I have a pretty good idea of his character. He's a good egg.
@@Shortlan i am a huge admirer of Sam too. he's been incredible as a roleplayer and performer since CR started (and he's done an amazing job as casting director for TLOVM). i completely agree with you how different the show is now than it was then - it's still awesome but it's now a produced spectacle rather than an extension of the home game. i think we may have a different definition of "trolling", i know it's not malicious, i think "teasing" is better. i'm less sensitive and i hope more constructive than some on the internet!
@@Shortlan You didn't pay attention then, he liked trolling and he was pretty pissed at Orion, there are some pretty obvious jokes Sam made towards Orion before and after he left.
Here is how debate works. You make a claim based on a premise, such as, "The new campaign doesn't have magic like this" Someone says "I disagree" or "that is incorrect" or "you're wrong" The burden of proof lies on the one who made the claim to prove what they said is accurate. So YOU prove it.
He didn't "ask an artist". The artist insisted to do it free of charge because they defeated the Brairwooods and Scanlan felt bad about it and offered something in return. He said before Matt brought the NPC in that he fully intended to spend coin.
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I always like when they ask Matt for someone’s name because you can almost always see him look down at what I can only assume is either a sheet of paper with names or like top 100 baby names but he always plays it off so well
Having a list of names for random NPCs is a must have for a DM
@@yooooo8600 I name everyone especially people in combat so unsteady of 5 bandits it’s Jim, John, Gary, Gary, and Gary
I’m not very creative
matt said in DM Tips that he has lists of NPC names for different races behind his DM screen
Imagine if Matt and Marisha have a baby, when asked what will be the name of the baby, Matt will keep talking for hours
I love how when Taliesin laughs he ducks behind someone's back or rests his head on their back its amazing
Sam: "His name was Fabio."
Liam: *Cringes so hard he nearly collapses in on himself to create a black hole*
Fabio?
When?
@@ProbieKnox Yes, Fabio.
@@RevonLuco 3:05
@@GZilla311, Who's Fabio?
This artist is one of the most underrated NPCs on the show. I want more of him.
Ask and you'll recieve! Yesterday Jameson made another appearance! :)
I know! It was awesome!
+jenprochatful what episode was it, i have been looking for it to show a friend.
I love that Scanlan asks for a portrait of him and Pike done and then gives a very weird, landscape dimension for the painting
to be fair Scanlan requested an equestrian portrait - 20 x 6 makes more sense then
@@rantdmc Good to know, thanks for letting us know!
i really hope Jameson appears in the new series fully grown and a well known artist
VaanTD
Ooh, that would be pretty kick-ass!
Then again, they ARE in a different region in the new campaign, so that would probably be a good while in.
@@timpind.8237 But tarry was from zedash so it could work
@@seancruz1785 actually it was deastok but still in the empire
It's like people completely ignored the dialogue here. Scanlan didn't "offer exposure for a commission". The artist insisted that the work was free because of their victory over the Brairwoods.
For those of you confused, the four things were:
1. The Poem
2. The Library (Vex got it)
3. The Portrait
4. Teleportation Circles
4. See who in the group can use teleportation magic.
Yea no that just confused me some more
I know I'm two years late but what was the library in reference to?
uptownkretch if I remember correctly- they were taking about opening a library for the people of Whitestone because there were Vacant lots and most of the books and other historical information etc... were stolen and hoarded in castle when the Briarwoods were there. They were also going to name it after their dear friend Gilmore (and shop owner)
@@73crows oh yeah, Gilmore's glorious books.
"Resident Evil."
Me: But why th-
"I don't know why."
Me: Fair enough.
The real reason is Matt, Sam, Travis, Laura, and Liam were all on Resident Evil 5 together. It's an inside joke
Matt: There was a teleportation circle in castle Whitestone but it was destroyed and sundered.
Raishan: No I don’t think it was.
Is no other artist going to bring up how Scanlan literally offered exposure for a high detail commission?
Well, exposure is better than no payment at all.
The guy did offer to do it free of charge...
creedthemage he only offered exposure bc he insisted on no payment at all lmao
"Scanlan offered exposure" can mean many different things.
He also offered free of charge before Scanlan told him it was going to be 6x20 lol he was probably thinking like 2 square feet not 120 XD
Matt: "make a persuasion check"
Sam: "33"
Do you think he passed the check?
First time I got a 31 on a Deception check was magical, then there’s Scanlan…he’s the true GOAT
This show justified the creation of the Internet.
I still love the resident evil part
They were residents of the town... That were evil.
An interesting thing to note is that Resident Evil was originally called Biohazard when it released in Japan, but since there was already an American game called Biohazard they could not secure the name for the international release. A contest was held to determine the new name, and "Resident Evil" won. Kind of makes you wonder how awful the other name suggestions must have been lol
@@ocelotryuu6352 That and Matt Mercer is Leon Kennedy...
GhostBlazerX I did not know that O.O Ill have to listen for that next time im playing RE lol
Devin Klinkowsky He’s the voice actor in RE6, Damnation, and Vendetta
Keeping in mind that Matt used to draw in high school and considered going for an art degree in college, this plays differently the second time.
I once played a sorcerer and spent one of my levels becoming a level 1 rogue for expertise in persuasion and deception. Best decision I ever made in dnd.
gotta love how the minor detail at the end (the destroyed TP circle) ended up being a huge tell for Raishan later, and how casually Matt slipped it in.
6:45 Little did Scanlan know how important knowing about the teleportation spell would be in his final battle...
This is one of the episodes that shows how great this show is, and how entertaining the cast is.
You mean every episode they make
@@craigwhiteman2820 lol maybe except the last episode with Orion Acaba
liam needed to ANCHOR himself during the fabio bit and laura leaned back so far he had to reach over to grab travis and that's genuinely so funny to me????????
I wanted to do *more than 3 things* makes me think of Tiberius.
1:08 laura's laughter..damn I love it
After watching this again....I am sure Sam tried this to see where Matt went with it lol and the DC was 30
Whom would of thought you could reference a Motley Crue song, a Star Wars catch Phrase and Fabio in one sentence. Brilliant!
What are the references? I only caught the Fabio one
also resident evil
*Who and would *have
It hurts me to see how he is wearing that beret
The average party needs the intentional efforts of 4-6 murderhobo's to make a trainwreck.
Sam does it all by himself in between the entre and main course.
I only here Donatello when Reigel talks. Curse you Reigel and your amazing voicing skills.
I keep thinking "When will you make an end?!" "When it is finished."
Shit like this is the reason im watching/listening to campaign 1 a second time. Also as a DM of currently 2 campaigns and a player of 1, ideas/inspirations are good too lol
And this is where Caleb was born...
gnome + beret = smurf?
Kenneth Mitchell MY OG
Viva la revaluation!
I love watching these videos and recognizing that background music and thinking "Oh shit I remember that game." On that note I'm off to play Dragon Quest 8 again.
You have done... a noble deed.
Matt: "My name is..." **looks around DM screen, lands on non-Twitch-appropriate beverage** "Jameson!"
Everyone lost when Scanlan described the portrait he had fashioned.
+TheMegoShow me either
+ErinHunter fanfoursixone fan art someone?!?!?!?#?
Finally, Scanlan will no longer be known as The Cube, but as a "well hung adventurerer"
I mean....when sam described this art piece of course i laughed hysterically. But i wasnt surprised in the least bit because it is EXACTLY how scanlan would do it.
Except Sam. He won at DnD.
Aaaand then nothing bad happened to any of these characters ever.
GOOD LORD!!! WE NEED THIS PAINTING!!!!
I just now started to realise how "full Orion/Tiberius" Scanlan went there. "I wanted to do 4 things" is one thing, but "I will sing your praises far and wide as the greatest artist in... - where are we? WHITESTONE! WHITE- WHITE HOUSE! BRIARSTONE! HARDWOOD!"...
Tiberius/orion was a lot worse. He was not only doing very boring things but he kept backstepping and adding multiple things that he was doing at the same time. It was incredibly obnoxious where here it was hilarious, Sam/scanlan added to the fun for everyone involved while Tiberius/orion grounded everything to a screeching halt and took the game from "wasn't that a great time? let's celebrate and maybe spend some gold for a good time and some upgrades" to "he's still doing this... he added another thing.. come on let's go already:
The difference is Scanlan took 7 minutes here and was fun, Orion took an HOUR to do 4 very boring and impossibly OP things.
Isn't like Scanlan having 7 wis?
He is supposed to act like that
To be honest, from the get go with this, it felt like a mockery of Tiberius' antics in the big preparation episode
I know this thread is 3 years old but I can't help myself.
You're comparing apples to oranges, whenever Orion 'wanted to do 4 things' those things were always ways to increase his power as a player regardless of how blatant his metagaming was, or how overpowered the results were. When Sam here does 4 things he:
1) Composes a poem; something that has no metagame value but is completely in character and lets him set up a silly joke to make his friends laugh
2) Commissions an absurdly egotistical portrait; this actually has negative value for him as a player if he spends money on it because it gives him no tangible reward - but once again he does it because he knows doing it will make his friends laugh and it's completely in character
3) Attempts to learn if they can teleport again; this one is clearly purely for gameplay purposes which is something Orion would do but the main difference here is in how Sam tries to accomplish his goal. Instead of saying "I spend 3 days learning how to teleport" he says that he wants to research if he can - the key difference there is that instead of assuming that he'll succeed at this potentially gamebreaking endeavor, he lets the DM know what he wants and then leaves the outcome entirely to Matt. If Matt had reasons for allowing them to use teleporting again, he would find a way to incorporate it here and likewise if he had other plans or didn't think it made sense Sam trusted that Matt would let him know how and why it wouldn't work. Even being met with semi-failure (the party can't teleport using the circles, but they uncover Whitestone as a teleportation destination) Sam finds a way to accept and roll with it, whereas Orion would try and argue that if he only half succeeded then he should get half his time back and use it for crafting magical items or somesuch.
4) Despite the title, in this video we never learn what the 4th thing was and I can't be bothered to check the actual episode but I can 100% guarantee you that it was either something in character that made the table break out laughing, or something useful that he wasn't sure he would get.
This was such a fun episode. Trinket with a pie eating contest.
this is why I love Scanlan lmao
More characters should play just like this!
i so hope that that commission hangs in the keep once i managed to get to the more recent episodes :)
I kind of wish that Matt had made the artist's name Robert of the family Ross. My friends call him Bob Ross for short.
Im making a note to do this somehow in any game i dm.
20 x 6 oh my GOD! I lost my shit at that!
Sam Riegel you are the MVP.
Everone loves Jameson. Till they dont xD
what's up with the Fabio joke? Liam was nearly pissing himself....
+onehandyguy I think is a reference to Fabio Lanzoni,an italian model that is exactly how Scanlan described.
+Adam Beaton Thank you for these, now all i need is adobe photoshop
So I got me some adobe photoshop
@@evan1686 Howd it go?
Sam: "What's your name?"
Matt: *at a loss until he sees his whisky* "Jameson."
Whisky and coke*
4:37 it’s ok grog, I gotchu
The "folk hero named Fabio" is clearly a reference to something. What is Sam referencing? Where does it come from?
Jirka Kunst fabio was a guy modeling for romance novels back in the day, google it! Its amazing
Fabio is a famous model, i think. you can look up "Fabio" and you will see a very handsome man with large muscles and long hair, often portrayed open shirt and wind in his hair
I'm listening to the struggling artist and all I hear is Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5...I wonder if Matt used this as inspiration...?
Edit: For Yusuke's character I mean.
I honestly don't think they sound anything alike (other than coming from the same actor, of course; I mean the pitches as well as the emotive elements behind the voice sound completely different).
@@omegagilgamesh Speaking of which, when i played Persona 5 Royal last time, during battle, one of the Battle Phrases Yusuke said was ""How do you want to do this?'' and i'm still not sure if it was made on purpose or if it was pure coincidence
This halfling sure have big confidence and personality
Well Scanlan and Pike are gnomes
1:56 Scanlan Solo
This is freaking GREAT
just occurred to me - "I want to do 4 things" could have been a troll of Orion when Tiberius once decided to do about 6 things and that was the tipping point to get rid of Orion from the cast. admittedly he had already deeply upset Marisha and Laura by that point
Nah Sam isn’t petty like that.
@@Shortlan i agree he isn't petty, but as we have seen recently, eg in C3 trolling from cast members towards each other and deliberate misinformation to the viewer (Travis saying Chetney was a rogue) has almost become part of the cast's culture. i still love CR, but i love that aspect less. i wonder whether it wasn't part of the show from the beginning, but we didn't notice it because we all loved it so much
@@rantdmc I would say that the show now is nothing like it was back then. At the beginning, they tried to keep it as similar to their home game as possible - they had no idea it would become what it has today with all the success. These days the show is more of a production and a spectacle, but none of the 'trolling' is ever malicious in nature. The internet is such a sensitive place we sometimes forget to just roll with things and have fun.
I've also been following Sam's career since well before CR so like to think I have a pretty good idea of his character. He's a good egg.
@@Shortlan i am a huge admirer of Sam too. he's been incredible as a roleplayer and performer since CR started (and he's done an amazing job as casting director for TLOVM). i completely agree with you how different the show is now than it was then - it's still awesome but it's now a produced spectacle rather than an extension of the home game. i think we may have a different definition of "trolling", i know it's not malicious, i think "teasing" is better. i'm less sensitive and i hope more constructive than some on the internet!
@@Shortlan You didn't pay attention then, he liked trolling and he was pretty pissed at Orion, there are some pretty obvious jokes Sam made towards Orion before and after he left.
Still super confused about his last thing...both the "Teleportation Circle" and "Teleport" spells are bard spells...
The first is expensive. The second is somewhat risky
Gotta love Sam.
Sam through this whole campaign never made a great arcana check lol
No pie eating contest? Trinket kicked ass! Lol
that's a different way to wear a beret...lol
How can I not find any fanart of this commissioned portrait!?!
20x6 canvas, it's a letterbox format. Lol, Shorthalt of Exandria
"What's my mother's name?!"
I cried a little.
aww my name is jamison thats so great ! haha
Disney and Capcom BOTH?
Holy crap, that's double f@cked.
oh that gnomish bard
I watch this one a lot
Gonna be disappointed if this isn't in the show somehow
#JamesonConspiracy2016
I love when matt says my last name :) Jameson
I get that on a weekly basis because I share a name with Travis Willingham.
Oh hes so cute! I must take himď
Did anyone ever make any fan art of that portrait
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Anyone know the song that starts playing around 5:47?
I think I recognize it as part of the Pillars of Eternity soundtrack. I'm not sure, though.
DerLamer Yeah thanks I found it a couple days after asking. Its called Encampment
As a soldier in the army does anyone besides me get triggered by how wrong scanlan is wearing that beret XD
How did they get anything done with Sam around?
That was 3 things
What was the 4th
1. Poem
2. Opening a library
3. Portrait
4. Teleportation stuff
So is the painting a magical item?
If not in function, then it is in form
Didn't Orion Acaba almost ruin an episode by trying to do 4 things?
Trying to cram 4 things in one, six-second combat turn.
On multiple occasions.
What happened to that portrait?
wrathanet hangs in Scanlion’s mansion
Well, it's a highly detailed 20x6 portrait by a hobbyist who has another job to put first. Probably gonna take years.
Timothy Jones, Jr. No, he got it finished, but I forgot which episode Scanlan went back for it in.
Where is this art?
@forexposure
I miss this campaign the new one doesn't have magic like this....
You are wrong
Prove it...
Shut up, nerd.
Here is how debate works. You make a claim based on a premise, such as, "The new campaign doesn't have magic like this"
Someone says "I disagree" or "that is incorrect" or "you're wrong"
The burden of proof lies on the one who made the claim to prove what they said is accurate.
So YOU prove it.
Trust Scanlan to ask an artist for a commission in return for 'exposure'.
He didn't "ask an artist". The artist insisted to do it free of charge because they defeated the Brairwooods and Scanlan felt bad about it and offered something in return. He said before Matt brought the NPC in that he fully intended to spend coin.
Loved this episode 😂