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I want to see the prestream appearance of Grog's father, Stonejaw Strongjaw.
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Feb 2, 2022 04:15
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So, Twitch Watch Parties work on desktop machines and iPads but not AppleTV for some reason? Ugh. I just want to watch this like a dvd commentary track.
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Feb 2, 2022 04:17
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Push El Burrito posted:I want to see the prestream appearance of Grog's father, Stonejaw Strongjaw. OK. That's pretty funny.
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Feb 2, 2022 04:23
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Ultimate Mango posted:So, Twitch Watch Parties work on desktop machines and iPads but not AppleTV for some reason? Ugh.
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Dameius posted:Speaking of Keylith, I can't wait for the we're basically gods moment in... probably season 2? 3? moment. IMO it would work best in a "filler" episode just before the finale, similar to Ember Island Players in Avatar. That scene will have the most impact once they've fully built her up, showing how far she has come and how powerful she is. Remember at that point, everyone else had died at least once in combat. Kiki just needed an important lesson in humility..
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Paracaidas posted:I ran into the same issue and then real life intervened. Enterprising souls can keep trying or try next week if they'd like though. I'll probably multidevice/rifftrax it once it goes VOD and I have a minute Don't feel bad about missing it and having to pick it up on VOD. Been watching them since 2015 and I can count on a single hand the number of things they've done that I've caught live. e: Rougey posted:Remember at that point, everyone else had died at least once in combat. Kiki just needed an important lesson in humility.. Really showcases her strengths of sound a calm decision making while under panic. Also the bathtub moment will be golden. Dameius fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Feb 2, 2022 05:14
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lol sam revealing that the children that get killed in e1 are his son and liam's daughter
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"It's funny because Liam isn't usually a dramatic guy but we coached him through it." Watching Matt losing his poo poo at that was good.
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TV IV > Legend of Vox Machina - Every Grandparent Has Seen a Ball
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eke out posted:lol sam revealing that the children that get killed in e1 are his son and liam's daughter Sam's son already had a semi-regular role in Elena of Avalor. He is going to grow up to be the worst 
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Dameius posted:Speaking of Keylith, I can't wait for the we're basically gods moment in... probably season 2? 3? moment. It happens during the Taryon arc, which hopefully won't get too trimmed because it has crucial plot points like Keyleth finishing her story quest and VM going to Hell to permakill Hotis.
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DesertIslandHermit posted:It happens during the Taryon arc, which hopefully won't get too trimmed because it has crucial plot points like Keyleth finishing her story quest and VM going to Hell to permakill Hotis. It also has the shopping scene which made me laugh harder than probably any other thing in the entire campaign.
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Push El Burrito posted:It also has the shopping scene which made me laugh harder than probably any other thing in the entire campaign. The follow-up scene to that in Episode 103 is also a riot. The shop scene was a result of the PCs rolling low. The follow-up was the result of the NPCs rolling high. e: Watching the Twitch watch-a-long. We are in Episode 3 riiiight before Scanlan's moment of infamy.
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There it is; SAM, NO!
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Dameius posted:Really showcases her strengths of sound a calm decision making while under panic. I picked up tabletop rollplay in the Pandemic and that lead me to here - the whole goldish sequence resonates with me so much. I've had a similar moment, and my character even had featherfall which helped me about as much as Kiki being able to turn into a bird. Sometimes you gently caress up and just have to wear it, it's funnier for it. Dameius posted:Also the bathtub moment will be golden. Honestly their whole courtship was just loving I do worry about how it will translate, I feel like most of the fun in those those scenes were the other players losing their poo poo, or in the case of "The Experience" that Vax gave Grog towards the end, the energy of the thousands of people watching it live.
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Paracaidas posted:I ran into the same issue and then real life intervened. Enterprising souls can keep trying or try next week if they'd like though. I'll probably multidevice/rifftrax it once it goes VOD and I have a minute I'd certainly appreciate it, since I had some technical stuff that kept me from viewing the watch party, and it seems like they won't be putting the full watch party up on youtube. If nothing else, some transcripts would be great! I can make due with a raw audio of the watchalongs as well and just manually sync that up with the episodes. I'm too broke to justify dropping money or a free prime sub on a subscription just for these watchalongs as well. NowonSA fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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The Q&A sections from the episodes 1-3 watch party are on YouTube through the official Critical Role channel. Topics include character concept art, redesigning Emon, the idea behind beginning the series with an over-the-top bar brawl scene, etc.
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My DM for my online D&D game found out most of the players have Prime and wants to do a watch party the hour before our game. Two (including me) watched the Vox Machina campaign to the end, one had only watched Mighty Nein, another has only see EXU and C3, the other two are absolutely new to it. Might be fun. Might be just an hour-waster. If anything goes wrong, I blame Scanlan.
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It ended up working having the watch party on an iPad with the actual synched Amazon stream and audio, and the twitch stream and audio on the TV. And holy hell the finale bit with Sam in the live studio, and it’s special effects were awesome. It is also on YouTube.
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I told a coworker last Friday about TLoVM, and he checked it out over the weekend. It's all he wanted to talk about Monday. He's planning on listening to the main campaign, so I had to give him the usual warning about a certain someone, and that the podcast is going to be very different than the show in many ways which interested him even more. He's also kind of stoked for 3-4 hour long episodes. I don't hear that much.
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The Repo Man posted:I told a coworker last Friday about TLoVM, and he checked it out over the weekend. It's all he wanted to talk about Monday. He's planning on listening to the main campaign, so I had to give him the usual warning about a certain someone, and that the podcast is going to be very different than the show in many ways which interested him even more. He's also kind of stoked for 3-4 hour long episodes. I don't hear that much. I was super stoked for 3-4 hour episodes when I got into it because I would listen at work. 8 hour work day meant I got 2 or 3 a day (because I listened at 1.25x-2x speed to catch up to live.) Of course, now that I am caught up it isn't as much fun to power through a bunch in a week anymore because I would just be watching repeats.
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I love the long show format. It's great to have on when I am tired just relaxing on the couch or painting miniatures. I have watched a few other groups play that edit out a lot of the non-rp stuff and I can not stand it. Half of the fun of CR is the stupid non-rp poo poo.
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The Repo Man posted:I told a coworker last Friday about TLoVM, and he checked it out over the weekend. It's all he wanted to talk about Monday. He's planning on listening to the main campaign, so I had to give him the usual warning about a certain someone, and that the podcast is going to be very different than the show in many ways which interested him even more. He's also kind of stoked for 3-4 hour long episodes. I don't hear that much. Honestly the roughest thing to get through of Campaign 1 besides That One Sorcerer is how the audio quality of the first 30 or so episodes is pretty poor and their shouting leads to mic clipping.
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The Repo Man posted:I told a coworker last Friday about TLoVM, and he checked it out over the weekend. It's all he wanted to talk about Monday. He's planning on listening to the main campaign, so I had to give him the usual warning about a certain someone, and that the podcast is going to be very different than the show in many ways which interested him even more. He's also kind of stoked for 3-4 hour long episodes. I don't hear that much. If That Guy bothers him too much, he can go to the Critical Roll wiki. It has detailed recaps of the episodes he was in. That's what I did for the last couple of them.
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Ok, I’m never gonna listen to the podcasts but I’m super curious about what you guys are talking about. Anyone wanna post a spoiler summary?
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Robobot posted:Ok, I’m never gonna listen to the podcasts but I’m super curious about what you guys are talking about. Anyone wanna post a spoiler summary? Basically there was a player in the home game that preceded Critical Role and was in the first 30 or so episodes of the first campaign (the one The Legend of Vox Machina is based on, though episode 3 of TLoVM takes place shortly before that player left the show and the rest of the season will be based on episodes after he already left). Apparently there weren't any major problems with him before Critical Role started (when it was just some people meeting once a month or so to play a private game), but after the weekly show started and became an unexpected hit certain aspects of his personality came into conflict with the rest of the group. He ended up leaving the show, and to this day the Critical Role Reddit thread disallows discussion about him because the cast of Critical Role wishes to drop the matter. His character, Tiberius Stormwind, was featured in the first volume of the Vox Machina comic series, but was written out of the story at the beginning of the second volume. The Legend of Vox Machina omits the character entirely, though if you go to the show's trailer on Amazon and look under the Trivia section Tiberius is acknowledged as a character whose player parted ways with the rest of the cast. Hexmage-SA fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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A super short summary that leaves out a lot of the supporting details: Orion Acaba played Tiberius Stormwind the dragonborn sorcerer and was a member of the original pre-stream cast. He said he grew up in the adversarial DM era of ttrpgs and so he was a heavy min/max meta gamer to the point of outright cheating dice rolls and selectively misinterpreting rules in his favor.He also suffered from main character syndrome and once things went to stream all of this came to focus. Right during the events that make up episodes 3 through maybe 4 or 5 of the show he wad kicked off the stream and his character has since been retconned out of everything because part of the leave agreement was him arguing he gets full rights and control of Tiberius which he used to create a radio drama since cancelled. He was a mess in his personal life and did a string of supremely lovely things post ejection.
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Ah, ok. So they had some rear end in a top hat playing the game with them that liked to mess up the campaign until they tossed him out. Every group's got one, it seems.
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Whenever Tiberius isn't on screen, the other characters should be asking "where's Tiberius?" and the answer should be that "he's attempting to buy every mirror in the city and painstakingly role-playing all of his mundane errands before he discovers his planet needs him and he has to go".
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Its a real shame because the character Tiberius in the hands of a different person would have been pretty fun to see. It wasn't really until the big bad of the first narrative arc that without hindsight the cracks started showing, at least as I remember them watching week to week. Travis (Grog) hates shopping episodes and Orion would spotlight steal by going on exceptionally long solo shopping adventures and towards the end it looked like Travis was struggling to keep composure on camera during them. Owell, what a shame. e: completely unrelated, this whole thing started when Felicia Day asked them to bring their game on her Twitch channel and she guest starred in an episode that takes places before the show. I think it would be nice if they worked her character into the plot somewhere down the line. Dameius fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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He played his character well, and was fun to watch. However, he did try to bend rules in his favor for literally everything. Much like the rest of the cast were doing with their abilities and spells, but he actually knew drat well he couldn't do this or that but tried it anyway. When things worked out, it was great to watch. He was also HIV positive and got cancer while on the series, which likely contributed to his what the gently caress moments. Anxiety and stress, and even PTSD is a huge thing with these illnesses. Generally you get offered mental help when you have these types of issues. He was in rough shape and you get to see this in the series. He went too far and they booted him. He appears to be pretty successful today still doing a lot of voice work, traveling the world, and best of all, being happy.
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yeah it's pretty hard to watch "one guy no one likes" who is also "the guy who is constantly literally cheating"Dameius posted:e: completely unrelated, this whole thing started when Felicia Day asked them to bring their game on her Twitch channel and she guest starred in an episode that takes places before the show. I think it would be nice if they worked her character into the plot somewhere down the line. she already was the military commander that got fried by brimscythe! with how voice acting works, i wouldn't be surprised if she has some other small parts
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Dameius posted:Travis (Grog) hates shopping episodes and Orion would spotlight steal by going on exceptionally long solo shopping adventures and towards the end it looked like Travis was struggling to keep composure on camera during them. There was also the point where Orion made a decidedly untoward comment to Laura in the middle of an episode and everyone kind of stopped cold and Travis looked like he was about half a second away from seriously losing his temper.
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If you would like to read a massive essay on the subject, someone on Reddit very helpfully compiled a summary of all the poo poo that went down with Orion Acaba, including things that happened after he left CR (spoiler alert, he was also abusive to his ex-girlfriends and stole money from people who made the mistake of supporting him). All in all, the guy was (and probably still is) a mess and the show is better off pretending he never existed. If you want a sampler platter of his bullshit, I highly recommend the four "Trial of the Take" episodes (18-21) which feature several guest characters (two of whom are actually important) and set up a subplot that I don't think the cartoon is going to actually include but it'd be neat if they did. Orion is only in episodes 20 and 21 but while he's not at his absolute worst, he's also definitely not at his best. Orion was removed following episode 27 and I know a lot of people who recommend skipping that episode entirely because it's Orion's worst showing by far and it's wildly uncomfortable to watch.
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CuwiKhons posted:it's Orion's worst showing by far and it's wildly uncomfortable to watch. Dameius posted:Travis (Grog) hates shopping episodes and Orion would spotlight steal by going on exceptionally long solo shopping adventures and towards the end it looked like Travis was struggling to keep composure on camera during them. just an excerpt of the cast's reaction to a small portion of Orion's errands that episode posted:ORION: Can we infuse a Fog spell with a Sleep spell? Paracaidas fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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In non intracast drama news.... new episodes tonight, right??
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