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Added 2025-05-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTCEnjoy! Next ep Monday!
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The show is not doing R.A.W. D&D, and deliberate flavoring by the players and DM shift things, like vampires and wizards for example, away from the "default setting" D&D conceptualizations. You can expect things in the future will continue to deviate from the preliminary "outline ideas" of D&D.
Zain Cassis
2025-05-30 23:44:55 +0000 UTCGrog's incoherent rambling when he's chopping that giant down the middle is some of my favorite voice-acting in the series. π€£π€£
HBelmont 24
2025-05-26 17:35:24 +0000 UTCI think Scanlan was fully serious when he asked Pike to marry him, even if it was in the heat if the moment. π Seeing her jokingly lead him on for a sec kinda hurt, ngl.
HBelmont 24
2025-05-22 07:28:26 +0000 UTCRegarding the Vampire Ascendant thing, that's a BG3 creation, and within the lore it only exists because of the deal Cazador made with Mephistopheles. The Briarwoods' plans are something much different and much, much worse.
Ferret
2025-05-21 20:19:52 +0000 UTCRegarding the Vampire Ascendant thing, that's a BG3 creation, and within the lore it only exists because of the deal Cazador made with Mephistopheles. The Briarwoods' plans are something much different and much, much worse.
Ferret
2025-05-21 20:19:06 +0000 UTCKenny most episodes have a different ending song from scanlan you should listen to them
π₯Katsuki BakuGOATπ₯ (Tobio)
2025-05-21 10:17:56 +0000 UTCMatt definitely has an affinity for creating classes related to blood. Aside from his Blood Hunter class he created the Blood Domain for clerics, and Blood Magic for Wizards
dannydarko27
2025-05-21 06:01:17 +0000 UTCYea I know that haha but thanks!!
Letts React
2025-05-21 02:22:59 +0000 UTCYeah, the show makes a point of mentioning that the temple is a conduit for more power than an average person can normally handle, so it's not a spell she can just use any time anywhere.
David Bodor
2025-05-21 01:08:42 +0000 UTCok I have to point this out. Wizard's study their magic, they don't just get a book. That book, allows them to store spells, and change their readied spells easily. A warlock is one is bestowed power a seperate entity, doesn't have to be a god or a eldritch being, it can be cursed items as well. Also the best person for casting fire right now in their party would be Keyleth because we have seen her do it already and Bards aren't really known for casting elemental damage most of the time.
TLKDesu
2025-05-20 22:41:04 +0000 UTCThis is my favourite episode of this session it gets me to tear up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! Like when Pike comes in and just fucks everything up ugh SO GOOD! I remember watching the actual campaign and Kenny you were 100% right the astral projection was a way for Pike to come in mid scene, but damn she legit jumped down into the horde of undead and used her Turn Undead (where at level 5+ turns to Destroy Undead) and immediately obliterated like 40+ undead all around her or something? And then she had a Mace of Disruption that if you deal damage to Undead and their health drops below a certain threshold it would just instantly kill them! Like ugh so goood and in the show it became so much more badass with them not having to be really confined to the rules (like her imbuing all the villagers weapons!)
AuroraZero_
2025-05-20 19:59:11 +0000 UTCYou just . . . not gonna post the link?
HBelmont 24
2025-05-20 16:48:17 +0000 UTCI like how the Briarwoods' backstory was handled, in that it didn't make them sympathetic, but still understandable. Cause while all their actions are still their own, it is kinda messed up that this Whispered One manipulated Delilah when she was so emotionally vulnerable and nudged her and her dying husband on this path.
HBelmont 24
2025-05-20 16:44:11 +0000 UTCHaha chill out just having fun as a dnd player
Letts React
2025-05-20 02:51:00 +0000 UTCThey dont need to be saying "bet that was a roll" every other minute... the show changes quite a bit and the show isnt not dnd... it HK annoying
cade-carter
2025-05-20 00:04:22 +0000 UTCThis is such a good Pike episode. Pike is top tier the rest of this season (as a cleric, she's just great against undead). The spell used is Astral Projection. My understanding is that Pike wasn't yet a high enough level caster to have it (it's a 9th level spell), the astral projection was instead bestowed by the Everlight to help with the "Skyping".
Robert Bonfante
2025-05-19 20:58:19 +0000 UTCA lot of reactors do that. Also, Amazon likes to skip to the next episode. You have to actively stop that to enjoy the credits.
Robert Bonfante
2025-05-19 20:52:54 +0000 UTCFun fact - There is a whole Vox Machina musical on youtube made by the youtube channel Cantata Pansophical. Unfortunately it has spoilers for season 2 and 3, but there is a song all about Pike and having to Skype in and being away from the party for too long lol. (The musical is based on Hamilton, they use the songs from that as the basis and rewrote them a bit and made custom lyrics and cast a bunch of people all around the globe as difference characters and it is really cool)
David Bodor
2025-05-19 17:05:54 +0000 UTCSuch a good episode, the white stone arc still remains one of my favourite critical role arcs, it's the one that made me fall in love with the show and it's characters
wanira 11
2025-05-19 16:24:17 +0000 UTCOh dang, I never caught the similarities between Vox Machina fighting on the Sun Tree here and fighting on the Tree of Time in Korra. Good catch, Kenny! To answer about there being a love confession, maybe you're thinking of Eska coming to save Bolin and him saying he loved her. πβΊοΈ
HBelmont 24
2025-05-19 15:55:22 +0000 UTCHa π
HBelmont 24
2025-05-19 15:51:41 +0000 UTCWhy do they keep skipping the credits whenever Scanlan's singing? π₯
HBelmont 24
2025-05-19 15:51:22 +0000 UTC24:30 πΆ Secret tunnel, secret tunnel, through the castle, secret secret secret secret tunnel! πΆ
HBelmont 24
2025-05-19 15:50:15 +0000 UTCPike cast the legendary forgotten spell called Skype.
David Bodor
2025-05-19 15:42:12 +0000 UTCGreat episode/reaction! I just wanted to add in case it hasn't been mentioned before but despite this being based on the first critical role d&d campaign, there were many changes made mainly for copyright and pacing reasons. So things like spells, items and creatures are altered from the actual game. They also nerfed some of the characters to allow others to stand out more.
Castor
2025-05-19 15:05:26 +0000 UTCMachina Monday! Woo! This episode is killer
David Bodor
2025-05-19 15:05:14 +0000 UTCI dont think its a spoiler 5o point out soemthing you miss. Not un a bad way. Your theories make sense. You were right that a voice was whispering to her about the spell. She made a deal to another entity to save Silas so now they are doing his, The Whispered One's, bidding. She pledged loyalty to him in exchange for the spell to save her husband.
Suplee215
2025-05-19 14:32:31 +0000 UTCI know now haha
Letts React
2025-05-19 14:27:51 +0000 UTCNow that you've seen this episode, you absolutely need to watch this fan video of Shrek 2 I Need A Hero overlayed the fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4DxAWogdY
Blayke
2025-05-19 14:25:01 +0000 UTCRIP, Archibald π
HBelmont 24
2025-05-19 14:08:57 +0000 UTCIs anyone gonna tell this man that, Delilah is necromancer lol
Law
2025-05-19 14:04:47 +0000 UTC
