FUN FACT: 7:35 The voice of Pike, Ashley Johnson was actually the voice of Gretchen Grundler on Recess. Also, if you like this, I have no doubt you would like the live streamed campaign.
Lore bonus: forGrogs burbs the entire cast went into the booth and gave it their all. They ended up using a mix of Laura Bailey (Vex) and Marisha Rays (Keyleth) burbs
Seriously, all the Briarwoods needed was a good PR campaign, and no one would have been the wiser. "Clean streets and guaranteed retirement plans! Sign up for the Pale Guard today!"
@@mirrorXshard To be fair, they 100% did. No one suspected them of shit (save for seeker asum, but he got literally nowhere since they kept executing his spies), the only reason they had issues was because of Percy, who would be kind of hard to beat with PR. Even so, the council still took the Briarwood's side until AFTER the whole thing.
Fun fact about Vex and the feathers in her hair: that wasn't originally part of the design of the character (like, way back when, when Critical Role first started streaming ca. 2015. oh god. I just refered to 2015 as way back when. I was in highschool then. Ok. Not the place for a quarter life crisis.), but it somehow consistently kept showing up in the fanart (Critical Role used to show fanart at the break in their episodes, which was really cool. They still do a fanart Gallery every week, but it's on their website now.) and so Laura Bailey (Vex's player) decided to adopt it and sort of retroactively made it part of the design. Which I think is very cool.
Just to make this clear grog and pike stuffed lots of gold into grog's "bag of holding" in the scene prior to meeting the dragon vex ran out with an armful and scanlan managed to get a troll member a scroll and three potions.
@@ShadowyFox_86 That troll dick was an Easter egg callback to something that happened in the pre-stream days of their game, which did get mentioned eventually in an episode.
What’s cool about Critical Role is that their all voice actors just playing dnd. They were asked if they wanted to stream their campaign for viewers on twitch by Felicia Day over at Geek and Sendry. They said yes and the rest is history. Critical Role is now it’s own company with Matthew Mercer, (Dungeon Master), his wife, Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, her husband, Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, Sam Reigel, Liam O’Brian and Talisan Jaffe as it's founders. The Legend of Vox Machina series came about when the Critical Role crew wanted to do an animated special with Vox Machina and launched a Kickstarter with a goal of $750k and it quickly hit that goal within hours and eventually they raised $11 million by the Critter community (Critters is the CR fan base name). Their kickstarter is the highest grossing kickstarter ever. So the special episode became a full series, we know that there’s a least 2 seasons. It funny how it has come full circle to them voicing their own characters on the TLOVM. The 2nd campaign follows the Mighty Nein 30 years after the events with Vox Machina. They're currently on their 3rd campaign, which follows Bells Hells within the same world a few years after the Mighty Nein.
I think they even thought 'No one will want to watch this but it might make enough money for some free snacks before it flops... fast forward to today and yeah, just a few snacks have been bought and a multi-million $ company a charity foundation, and the Nordiverse
It's currently the highest grossing film and tv Kickstarter, (and will probably keep that title for a good while) but I think it comes in at around 7 or 8 in the top funded Kickstarters of all time. Which is still an amazing achievement btw. At the time of the Kickstarter, it would have had to have beaten Pebble ($21mil) to claim that top spot. Pebble has since been toppled and the target you need to be the highest grossing Kickstarter is now $40mil.
The Scottish voice of Brymscyth/ Kreig you might recognize as the 10th Dr's. a few other voices you might recognize, are Pike's & Delilah's they are ones most people recognize though all the cast are Voice actors.
14:44 This reminded me about an adult, beautifully animated show (and games) called 'Castlevania'. You'd probably enjoy watching that one as well. So, I do hope you'll decide to watch it in the future.
This show was created by a Kickstarter Campaign to create a 2 part animantion of the Critical Role D&D campaign. They were able to raise enough to do an entire season and then Amazon picked the show up for a second season
Lol the fact you said she gives you Spinelli vibes is almost perfect. She is the voice actor that played Gretchen on Recess. Love to see those feelings coming through. Love this show, and love critical role.
"Good people wouldn't viciously murder bandits." Me in my D&D Campaign when my Party is set upon by bandits while we're traveling and we have to protect our Cleric Guide: "Ok so I draw my Bow, aim at the Big Guy in the back, and say 'You're Mine' as I shoot him twice." Also, to be fair, they shot at me first so I just returned the favor. Granted, they missed by a mile because I'm a Ranger with 20 Dex and 17 AC, but still... THEY SHOT AT ME! Chaotic Good btw.
It's absolutely wild seeing the theatre of mind from the campaign come to life in this series. Also Delilah Briarwood being voiced by the actress who voiced Azula is so perfect 😂
Adult dragons of certain types in D&D can polymorph into lesser beings, good ones do this to help protect cities or town and evil ones do it to infiltrate and gain power and control. Kreig was Killed by Brimscythe ( a Young adult Blue) and replaced by him.
You need to look up the Critical Role voice actors IMDB's. Ashley Johnson (Pike) was "Ellie" in the last of Us video game and appeared in the tv series.. Laura Bailey (Vex) was "Abby" in the Last of Us video game. Sam Riegel (Scanlan) was Donatello in the TMNT cartoon.
While some Pathfinder/D&D dragons have shapeshifting abilities, blue dragons are not one of them. However, they do have spellcasting abilities and there is nothing stopping them from having self-transformation spells, (or an item with such an effect).
Just to explain about the dragon shapeshifting: Not all dragons can shapeshift. Dragons are obviously magical in nature however, which allows some of them to develop and master innate spellcasting abilities.
This video is super loud, and I appreciate it... It annoys the crap out of me that I can't hear most videos at 100% volume, with my AC on. Unless I put headphones on, which gets annoying on the ears. So thank you for making your video hearable.
"Are they good or are they bad?" You... you did see him casually *shove his hand through a guy's torso and then crush the whole group with a tree* right? Even though they were bandits, don't you think that's... a *little* overkill for a good guy? 😂
I don't know why but I always imagine there being a tension between you two.. the question is.. is it sexism or part of all the soap operas and serials and movies ... Basically culture...
As now the reactions to Ms marvel has ended as well as reactions of The boys and Stranger things have ended too. Now can we finally get reactions to season 2 Dark? Or u guys have completely dropped the show because u couldn't understand it?
Apparently dick jokes and swearing is what makes for clever humor these days. Or is it just so the CR critters can delight in those youtube Shorts (clickbait)? Probably both. I know that these episodes on the stream are just reactions and not really scripted, but they are hard to watch. I still can't for the life of me fathom why CR is so popular.
Because its fun, the cast is creative and talented, and not everyone is uptight like you. You can like whatever you want, but its a bit weird on your part to not be able to fathom why Critical Role is popular. Because they are GOOD at what they do. Matt Mercer is incredibly smart and has amazing worldbuilding. And the cast are amazing players.
In the world of D&D; the greatest enemy Vox Machina has ever faced was never evil wizards, the undead or even dragons.
It's doors
They're not doors. They're things of evil!
“ a storm is coming tonight “ I just realized that was him being smug because he call’s himself the iron storm
FUN FACT: 7:35 The voice of Pike, Ashley Johnson was actually the voice of Gretchen Grundler on Recess. Also, if you like this, I have no doubt you would like the live streamed campaign.
She also voiced characters like Gwen Tennyson, Terra, Jinmay and even a few anime dubs
i could not believe she got that!!!!
She also voiced and mo capped Ellie in last of us.
Lore bonus: forGrogs burbs the entire cast went into the booth and gave it their all. They ended up using a mix of Laura Bailey (Vex) and Marisha Rays (Keyleth) burbs
I still think that is the most hilarious bit of trivia to come out of this. It makes me laugh every single time.
What are burbs?
Those in the carriage are such a perfect, noble couple. Did you see? They just made travel on the roads safer!
Truly, their only goals were cleaning up the streets of Tal'Dorei and preserving their perfect love.
Seriously, all the Briarwoods needed was a good PR campaign, and no one would have been the wiser.
"Clean streets and guaranteed retirement plans! Sign up for the Pale Guard today!"
@@mirrorXshard To be fair, they 100% did. No one suspected them of shit (save for seeker asum, but he got literally nowhere since they kept executing his spies), the only reason they had issues was because of Percy, who would be kind of hard to beat with PR. Even so, the council still took the Briarwood's side until AFTER the whole thing.
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Well, there’s only room for murderous, cold-hearted, remorseless, necromancers in Whitestone.
The part with the Dragon was the prologue. The rest of the season deals with the famous Briarwood story arc from the first campaign.
Fun fact about Vex and the feathers in her hair: that wasn't originally part of the design of the character (like, way back when, when Critical Role first started streaming ca. 2015. oh god. I just refered to 2015 as way back when. I was in highschool then. Ok. Not the place for a quarter life crisis.), but it somehow consistently kept showing up in the fanart (Critical Role used to show fanart at the break in their episodes, which was really cool. They still do a fanart Gallery every week, but it's on their website now.) and so Laura Bailey (Vex's player) decided to adopt it and sort of retroactively made it part of the design. Which I think is very cool.
It again shows the love the cast has for their Critters. ❤
Lady Brierwood. Always nice to hear the voice actress of Azula.
Grey Delisle-Griffin is always so deliciously evil in her villain roles
Met her a few years ago. I knew her more from Baldurs Gate 2 and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. Some bad girls!
Just to make this clear grog and pike stuffed lots of gold into grog's "bag of holding" in the scene prior to meeting the dragon vex ran out with an armful and scanlan managed to get a troll member a scroll and three potions.
The best part about a Bag of Holding is no matter how big or heavy the object you put in, the bag still feels as light as a feather
That troll part was horrifying.
@@ShadowyFox_86 That troll dick was an Easter egg callback to something that happened in the pre-stream days of their game, which did get mentioned eventually in an episode.
What’s cool about Critical Role is that their all voice actors just playing dnd. They were asked if they wanted to stream their campaign for viewers on twitch by Felicia Day over at Geek and Sendry. They said yes and the rest is history. Critical Role is now it’s own company with Matthew Mercer, (Dungeon Master), his wife, Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, her husband, Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, Sam Reigel, Liam O’Brian and Talisan Jaffe as it's founders.
The Legend of Vox Machina series came about when the Critical Role crew wanted to do an animated special with Vox Machina and launched a Kickstarter with a goal of $750k and it quickly hit that goal within hours and eventually they raised $11 million by the Critter community (Critters is the CR fan base name). Their kickstarter is the highest grossing kickstarter ever. So the special episode became a full series, we know that there’s a least 2 seasons. It funny how it has come full circle to them voicing their own characters on the TLOVM.
The 2nd campaign follows the Mighty Nein 30 years after the events with Vox Machina. They're currently on their 3rd campaign, which follows Bells Hells within the same world a few years after the Mighty Nein.
I'm pretty sure you mean Sam Riegal, his husband, Liam O'Brian.
@@747Jason747 XD
I think they even thought 'No one will want to watch this but it might make enough money for some free snacks before it flops... fast forward to today and yeah, just a few snacks have been bought and a multi-million $ company a charity foundation, and the Nordiverse
@@747Jason747 that will be news to their wives
It's currently the highest grossing film and tv Kickstarter, (and will probably keep that title for a good while) but I think it comes in at around 7 or 8 in the top funded Kickstarters of all time. Which is still an amazing achievement btw.
At the time of the Kickstarter, it would have had to have beaten Pebble ($21mil) to claim that top spot. Pebble has since been toppled and the target you need to be the highest grossing Kickstarter is now $40mil.
Pike VA did play on RECESS but as Gretchen😉
The Scottish voice of Brymscyth/ Kreig you might recognize as the 10th Dr's. a few other voices you might recognize, are Pike's & Delilah's they are ones most people recognize though all the cast are Voice actors.
14:44 This reminded me about an adult, beautifully animated show (and games) called 'Castlevania'. You'd probably enjoy watching that one as well. So, I do hope you'll decide to watch it in the future.
Yes! I do like that show!
that dragon is David Tennant.
Putting his Scottish accent to 11.
This show was created by a Kickstarter Campaign to create a 2 part animantion of the Critical Role D&D campaign. They were able to raise enough to do an entire season and then Amazon picked the show up for a second season
Lol the fact you said she gives you Spinelli vibes is almost perfect. She is the voice actor that played Gretchen on Recess. Love to see those feelings coming through. Love this show, and love critical role.
"Good people wouldn't viciously murder bandits."
Me in my D&D Campaign when my Party is set upon by bandits while we're traveling and we have to protect our Cleric Guide: "Ok so I draw my Bow, aim at the Big Guy in the back, and say 'You're Mine' as I shoot him twice." Also, to be fair, they shot at me first so I just returned the favor. Granted, they missed by a mile because I'm a Ranger with 20 Dex and 17 AC, but still... THEY SHOT AT ME! Chaotic Good btw.
It's absolutely wild seeing the theatre of mind from the campaign come to life in this series. Also Delilah Briarwood being voiced by the actress who voiced Azula is so perfect 😂
Cool scot general? voiced by David Tennant btw
Adult dragons of certain types in D&D can polymorph into lesser beings, good ones do this to help protect cities or town and evil ones do it to infiltrate and gain power and control. Kreig was Killed by Brimscythe ( a Young adult Blue) and replaced by him.
I imagined Steph with elf ears and now I can't unsee it .
I find it interesting that Pike reminds Steph of Spinelli, because the actor who plays Pike (Ashley Johnson) played Gretchen in Recess
I just binged this series. It's awesome!
The main plot of the season starts here and next episode is wiiiild!
Terrific content! Hey, hats off to your editors. You have been able to hit the highlights and keep in a lot of good stuff.
You need to look up the Critical Role voice actors IMDB's. Ashley Johnson (Pike) was "Ellie" in the last of Us video game and appeared in the tv series.. Laura Bailey (Vex) was "Abby" in the Last of Us video game. Sam Riegel (Scanlan) was Donatello in the TMNT cartoon.
It is SO funny that you say that Pike gives you Spinelli vibes, because her voice actor actually played Gretchen in Recess!!! hahaha
While some Pathfinder/D&D dragons have shapeshifting abilities, blue dragons are not one of them. However, they do have spellcasting abilities and there is nothing stopping them from having self-transformation spells, (or an item with such an effect).
Next episode is when this series picks up and keeps going up.
Just to explain about the dragon shapeshifting: Not all dragons can shapeshift. Dragons are obviously magical in nature however, which allows some of them to develop and master innate spellcasting abilities.
Always love it when Steph and Achara are reacting together! Love ya ladies 😁❤️
General Krieg or the Blue Dragon is David Tennant, Better known as Doctor Who.
good news critical role: vox machina's campaign last for 7 years. Theres plenty of story you have yet to see.
This video is super loud, and I appreciate it... It annoys the crap out of me that I can't hear most videos at 100% volume, with my AC on. Unless I put headphones on, which gets annoying on the ears. So thank you for making your video hearable.
Achara Kirk Gives Goosebumps
"Are they good or are they bad?" You... you did see him casually *shove his hand through a guy's torso and then crush the whole group with a tree* right? Even though they were bandits, don't you think that's... a *little* overkill for a good guy? 😂
That and he had that really nice smile on his face when he was doing so. He's obviously a good guy, otherwise he wouldn't have been smiling so much.
He just made murder hobos look like saints.
@@ShadowyFox_86 Murder Noble
06:14 Good rule of thumb. 🙂
Yay new part
She said GetJaby 🥺
really cool you guys are reacting to this
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Whats up BRAHHH!!!
For the Algorithm!
Blue dragons are more sciemie not that powerfull in Pure Power also it was luckily just a young Dragon.
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Hi
Please react to demon slayer anime series it's an amazing series you will definitely enjoy it.
jsyk this was drawn by the same studio that animated the Legend of Korra
I don't know why but I always imagine there being a tension between you two.. the question is.. is it sexism or part of all the soap operas and serials and movies ... Basically culture...
As now the reactions to Ms marvel has ended as well as reactions of The boys and Stranger things have ended too. Now can we finally get reactions to season 2 Dark?
Or u guys have completely dropped the show because u couldn't understand it?
Well said. Incomprehensible for Jaby, the disector.
@@vatsalsanwaria537 yeah, it definitely looked like that..but again it was like most of us watching the show for first time..
Apparently dick jokes and swearing is what makes for clever humor these days. Or is it just so the CR critters can delight in those youtube Shorts (clickbait)? Probably both. I know that these episodes on the stream are just reactions and not really scripted, but they are hard to watch. I still can't for the life of me fathom why CR is so popular.
Because its fun, the cast is creative and talented, and not everyone is uptight like you. You can like whatever you want, but its a bit weird on your part to not be able to fathom why Critical Role is popular.
Because they are GOOD at what they do. Matt Mercer is incredibly smart and has amazing worldbuilding. And the cast are amazing players.