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RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
I just started episode one. Not a fan of dragonborn sorcerer.

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RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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I am on season 1 episode 11. Clarota is my favorite

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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I'm on s1 e15 now. He doesn't seem too bad yet. But I can see people kind of being short with him as the campaign progresses. And also I'm only listening so I can't see the reactions. Also his turns take forever and I feel like he fudges his sorcery points and tries to power game. I'm excited for him to be gone.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Vex goes to do a cool Robin Hood shot to shut down a trap. Gets 35. Matt describes the cool way her shot moves.
Tiberius: I cast telekinesis
Everyone: gently caress off she rolled a 35 why are you taking this from her?
gently caress tiberius

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Warm Woolen Pants posted:

I watched this live and this was the exact moment I turned around on Orion and disliked him all the way to the end.

I just listened and didn't watch. What was the rest of the cast's reactions?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Dameius posted:

If you really want to see a DM give up on someone, the moment Matt realizes Orion has been cheating through selective misunderstanding of his spell ring is painful to watch.

What episode is that? Also I feel like they explained how it actually works at some point out loud

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

CobiWann posted:

https://youtu.be/zGaISHs2s7Q?t=13303

Episode 21, the Slayer's Take storyline with Wil Wheaton and Will Friedle.

I believe it's the only time in both seasons I've ever seen Matt get upset. Frustrated yes, and he plays it off by saying "Welcome to Dungeons & Dragons" once it's been explained, but when you've managed to piss off the human teddy bear known as Matt Mercer...

Just watched that clip. That's brutal and there is no way a power gamer like him wouldn't know that.
Also the telekinesis daggers was dumb. You can move one thing a turn dickweed

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Fighting a hydra and tiberius tries to cast chain lightning from his ring of spell storing. They told him once more how it works. Then he casts fireball twice and tries to go back after damage once he realizes he hurts the party. Everyone else is like gently caress off that's half the fun is the ride.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Is Gern the older guy?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Ok so this white dragon fight is cool. I love the two guests!

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Just finished the rakashasha fight. Tiberius is a punk. Rip carpet. And loved kayleth's first kiss

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Percy has the coolest backstory
Fake edit : I'm on chapter 25

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Is scanlan the best? I love him so much. Why can't I play a fun character like that

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
I'm on episode 26 of s1 'welcome to the adventures of tiberius'. Also they are a very murder hobo group aren't they?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
I'm watching episode 27 of the first campaign. I'm not seeing what everyone was talking about. Are they mad that tiberius spent 20+ minutes cramming half a years worth of activities into 10 days? Or does something else happen soon?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
I finished it, what was the comment? I didn't notice and was listening rather than watching.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Blockhouse posted:

He also openly, non-jokingly starts telling Orion that none of what he's doing matters, and at one point Matt is clearly nervous laughing to hide his frustration with Orion's bullshit.

It's miserable.

Was that his last session either way? Also what was up with the mirrors?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
The ripley reveal where Marisha breaks character was cool

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Does Critical Role season 1 episode 60 have a laugh track or am I insane?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Sion posted:

I think thats a live show.

I hate it. I can't get through the podcast. It's so jarring

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Season 1 is great. I'm on episode 65. Sam is a national treasure

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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I'm on episode 69. God drat was 68 good.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Is it me or does Keyleth overact and also steal the spotlight? When Percy died I feel like Keyleth was making it about her. It should have been more of a time for Vex since her boyfriend died. Also the Raishan reveal. 'ten thousand fire ashari died' gently caress off. If two dragons killed 10,000 druids then they didn't deserve to live. I get that this is her moment and I agree with her being angry, but it feels like she pulled that number out of nowhere. I think I'm still annoyed from the last 2 episodes of her basically crying and doing that overdramatic voice that she tends to do.
The Raishan reveal rocked though.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Silynt posted:

Marisha got a lot of hate for that stretch of the show, to the point where it became A Thing and they had to block posts about it on Reddit and poo poo. While I think it's crazy to send personal hate mail to someone because you don't like the way their character behaves in a show, I do agree that she really derailed the whole conversation with Raishan and made it hard to watch.

What stretch? Does it get better? (her stealing the spotlight and interjecting over everyone else) like does Marisha become aware of what she is doing?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Jesus gently caress Keyleth. It's getting worse and worse. Still on episode 70.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Sion posted:

I have bad news.

Also using spells wrong. And complaining about 'burning spells' healing people. In character keyleth should be concerned with burning spells in combat. gently caress offffffff. Her character just feels inconsistent and all over the place.
Listening to the podcast at work and I want to just take a break. Or somehow skip her talking.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Ok Grog Scanlan buddy cop saves the day.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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I'm on 71 and its better besides her not knowing how her spells work still. Scanlan could be the only character and I'd watch.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Scorchy posted:

To be fair Druids and Clerics have a a couple of hundred spells to understand, Bards have a set spell list they pick at level up.

And yet somehow she forgets how move earth and stone shape works which she uses all of the time.
But in her defense Liam doesn't know how sneak attack works still sooooooo

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
I think it's the overacting. Liam and Percy do it semi often too. Just not as much and they don't seem to steal the spotlight. They wait for their moment to shine.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Kraps posted:

I find Marisha's overacting way more tolerable than Taliesin's.

Actually I think Liam's is the worst. It's happening now. He pulls someone aside(usually Laura or Marisha) and starts talking about how they could die tomorrow every third episode or so. And making broad statements the other person doesn't agree with and he keeps insisting until they roll with it.
Like now. He's telling Vex that Percy only listens to her and Vex keeps saying nah he listens to Keyleth and also you. And he keeps saying no until she agrees.
It's ok to do your 'we could die tomorrow' speech, but not all of the time for 10+ minutes each time. And its the same speech everytime. I hope Vax doesn't die so I don't hear an hour of him going to each party member and apologizing for it and another hour trying to talk to the Raven queen.
Post Voragul right now and its just off-putting right now.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
And now again Grog and Scanlan save it by showing up and attacking Keyleth who turned into an elephant and is stupidly trying to knock a door down for some reason?
Their buddy cop dynamic is perfection.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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CuwiKhons posted:

Vax is easily my least favorite party member in the first campaign and a lot of it stems from his post-RQ behavior. My main gripe is that he keeps displaying madly reckless, near suicidal behavior that he never suffers the consequences for, but other people around him do. And Vax never learns from those mistakes. He just keeps making them, over and over and over again, all while walking through nearly every situation untouched because he's a rogue who is quite difficult to kill. Liam's said before that he the player knows they're stupid decisions but they're "what Vax would do" so he keeps doing them. Which would have been fine - if Vax ever grew as a character as a result of those actions.

I once described the difference between Vax and Percy like this: Percy and Vax are both huge dumbass fuckups who make gigantic mistakes that get themselves and people around them hurt or killed. The difference between them is that Vax admits he's wrong and agrees he made mistakes, but he keeps doing what he was always doing. Percy is too proud to admit he hosed up and it takes a lot to even get an apology out of him, much less an admission of guilt - but by god he won't make the same mistake twice.

For sure. He also plays sub optimally for story and almost kills the party. Like dude. When you're fighting a loving ancient white dragon maybe don't fly into its reach and fly out when you're at 1 hp so it can attack of opportunity you. Maybe just attack.
Also percy wears on me a bit with his 'i'm so dark and did so much bad. I invented GUNS' dude gently caress off. Your guns are basically a bow that has a 15% chance to break every attack.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Generic American posted:

I'm not nearly as far in with Campaign 1 to compare notes, but I can definitely say that I'm already seeing the seeds of it up to the Briarwoods arc. Most recently, with Liam adamantly obsessing over the idea of someone using magic to read Vax's mind and verify what happened when they "attacked" them, even after several in-character explanations from both Matt and the rest of the Vox Machina on why that wouldn't be enough to definitively prove their side of the story. It's definitely something that makes me hesitant to like Caleb so far, though at least he's already improved from the once-an-episode "pull Nott aside and debate whether they should leave the group yet" routine.

Or much earlier, it always struck me as weird how randomly hostile Keyleth was to Lady Kima during the Underdark. There were multiple times where whole conversations would just grind to a halt so that she could yet again express how they shouldn't trust her. (Granted, the audio quality from those episodes made it much harder for me to pay attention while doing other things, so I zoned out a lot and might be forgetting some context there beyond Kima's hostility towards Clarota.)

Nope. You're spot on for both.
I can still hear Liam in my mind saying ' look into my MIND. It's grating.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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God Liam has had like 4 separate encounters so far. Kynan, Gilmore, Vex, and Keyleth. All overly dramatic 30 minutes into the episode.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
Oh look another keyleth derail about Raishan. it sounds like she just makes things up on the fly. Not like she's bluffing. Like Marisha is making stuff up that Keyleth knows all of the time.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Malpais Legate posted:

Okay we get it you hate Keyleth and Vax and from what I can tell, the entire rest of the cast that isn't Scanlan.

We don't really need a liveblog of your gripes with
the show; your hot takes about this aren't so hot.

You can ignore my hot takes, but I'm just live posting as I listen to it. I can also enjoy the cast and find certain bits annoying. I know when I play dnd I have my own issues far worse than any of theirs.
I wish Ashley was around more.
Everyone ripping on Percy after he stabbed illusion Seeker Asume 3 times in the back was great. You can tell that they are friends first and a TV show second.

RC Cola fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Sep 12, 2018

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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CuwiKhons posted:


Also I should say that while I did say Vax was easily my least favorite character, that's kind of like saying he was my least favorite puppy out of the litter. I still love him. I just love the others more and I wish he'd stop peeing on the electronics.
This.
Also yeah. Even the joking tone of Scanlan calling for a young boy is creepy

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Ok so three plans and all of them involve identical sextuplets.
Their plans get worse as the show goes on and I love it so much.

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RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

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Ok so honey heist is the best thing so far. Amazing.
Is talks machina ever worth watching? I hear Matt sometimes describes what could have happened and motivations for characters.
Also I'm on 77 now. The last short arc into this one was amazing. Vox Machina are very good at planning half of a plan.

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