12:36 Laura is diabolical. Waving in Matt’s face 😂

Every character of every campaign has their defining moment, this was Jesters.

Jester The Trickster Beast!

Anyone else watch this again and again each time focusing on another persons journey of reactions?

Best moment of campaign 2 IMO

what Jester said: "lets go, lets go, lets get the f*ck out of here..." what critters heard: "MARINES, WE ARE LEAVING!!!!"

People in the chat rules lawyering about how the spell shouldn't work are just telling on themselves for completely misunderstanding what the game is about. Laura simply put a Jester flavor on the spell that succeeded. Matt taking that flavor to punish the player and making it not succeed would be an insanely poor choice. "Yeah, sucks for you for RPing at this table!! Based on a technicality the spell you succeeded with after passing several checks and baiting the hag into wanting what you offered is now a failure because you made it fit your character. You almost created an amazing moment with your disarmingly happy and charming trickster cleric, tricking and feeding an enchanted baked good to a misery hag and giving her the memory of a good time in your company." Or what are those people trying to argue there? The moment is so perfect considering everything Jester is and how Laura played it by outsmarting the DM without treating him as an enemy and creating the moment together with him. It's a once in a lifetime DnD play. You don't ruin that as a DM.

Laura played one hell of a gamble

I like to imagine Jester has kept contact with the hag via Message.

sooo much respect for matt. regardless of any frustration or disappointment about future plans, in the end the game should be fun, and him letting this moment happen anyways is a really awesome DM move in my book. laura played it so well and i think she earned this win. good play, matt :)

I find it really funny people trying to rules lawyer in the comments. Because your comment really didn't matter things happened. Rules were forgotten whatever it made a very legendary moment.

I LOVE the mixed look of frustration and pride from Matt xD

This gives "I DON'T CARE HOW SMALL THE ROOM IS, I CAST FIREBALL", but in a much gentler way

Let's also not forget, Matt is big enough as a DM to look past his plans for a big encounter and to recognize when a player has outmaneuvered him. he isnt stubbornly finding excuses and ways to railroad the game to demand that they really trade something or fight the hag, which many people would. not everyone is that reasonable or able to conceive of entertaining paths forward and improvising in the moment to make it work. Many would fudge the role and say it didn't work and force combat.

Watching chat, the rules Nazi's are going crazy. DnD is supposed to be entertaining and the DM can modify in the moment, this was one of those moments, just let it go.

Everyone in chat that was screaming things like “legendary resistances?!” forgets: rule of cool trumps all. No DM in their right mind would shut this moment down.

And now, with Jester and Fjord preparing to get married... this might come up again.

I only just recently watched this episode (I'm watching through the campaign for the first time) and I was driving while listening to this episode and was punching the air and yelling to myself when Matt said she succeeded. However, watching this with chat is really disappointing seeing how many people as she's talking to the hag are just being so negative, calling out rules, saying it shouldn't work like that, so on and so forth. Matt can decide for himself whether to let it work or not and in this situation, you just have to respect that power play and I'm sure that's why he let it slide. The amount of subscribed people watching this in chat being that way is astounding

I remember watching this episode and thinking, "Man. Beau is not recovering. Even knowing this is a win. I think there's something else going on here. I sure hope Matt or some one plans an intervention." It made much more sense watching the campaign wrap up and Marisha explained how she associated Beaus brother TJ with her real life family member. I think in this episode, she went to a really dark place. Anyway, I don't know what I'm trying to say, other than I love this group of misfits, both in and out of character.

I'm still getting a T for Teen vibe instead of M for Mature, there's no blood, no finishers, all the particle effects seemed very fun instead of visceral. The tactical mode was severely lacking, looks like they went back to DA2 with only being able to tell companions what moves to use instead of in-depth tactics like Origins or even Inquisition. Glad to see character backgrounds are back and the action side of combat looks good, so I'm still hopeful but this left a lot to be desired for me.

‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s get the faaaaak out of here, let’s goooooo….’ 😂😂😂😂

Just want to note how quickly the haters stopped hating when the moment came. Either they became believers or they were mad that their narrative fell apart, either is great with me.

I love how the CR community will get so riled up there are people genuinely angry at how Laura is choosing to play her character, only for them to be reminded time and again that these people always have a plan

everyone like 'she couldn't cast spells' are misunderstanding the function of a Somatic element to casting. You need to have a [hand] free because mechanically, the ability to cast a spell with a somatic component is meant to be considered wielding a weapon, and the way we typically wield a weapon is with our hands. It's not because you need HANDS specifically, it's just the shorthand (hah) we use to discuss 'available equipment slots' for damage-doing items in the game's mechanics. But hands aren't necessary: your character could still fight as a monk with their arms/elbows/knees instead of fists, or commission a wrist-mounted crossbow instead of a 'hand crossbow' that you can activate by aiming and pressing something with your other wrist on the back etc. It's all just flavouring - the mechanics are the same still - so the same goes with 'somatic' elements of spells. If your character really has no hands, that doesn't mean they literally can't do any spells anymore, as long as they are not equipped with the equivalent of something two-handed :P Up to the DM how you want to proceed from there in terms or re-flavouring your abilities, possibly changing subclasses or making adjustments for things to make sense in-world. Definitely need to have a convo out-of-game to work out what can and can't be done, and what needs to be adjusted etc., but there's no reason you couldn't MECHANICALLY still have your character able to cast spells or fight - just a matter of learning how to do things differently, getting equipment adjusted, etc. There will be some things that you can't do eg Jester would struggle with her magic paints (though i guess she could use her mouth to hold the brush, but it would be very slow), and maybe trade that with someone else - or paint herself a hand in a paintbrush-holding grip or with an open palm for casting spells.

Everyone: "NOOO! JESTER, DON'T DO IT!!!" astarenbeoulve: "SHE'S A TRICKSTER!!!!"

Jester is the i=undisputed GOAT of Campaign 2

I've been coming back to this video for years and it NEVER disappoints!!!

[ *GrinderX5:* Offer her Sprinkle, the weasel who cannot be killed! ] Well, you’re close- she _sprinkled_ delicious dust on a cupcake, like a genius lil’ _weasel,_ & no one was _killed!_

Never has a chat made it more clear why we watch the cast play dnd and not them because so many of them are fucking annoying

This is an excellent example of what the phrase, “it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” means. You play the game in a manner that facilitates you being invited to more games in the future. That’s why sportsmanship matters. You might win this game or this battle by underhanded tactics or strict rule lawyering, but when you’re not invited back to play again, you lose the metaphorical war. Rules are a great structure for games but in a game like this, strictly adhering to them in all situations won’t keep the game fun for 99% of players. The meta game, the game above the game is playing as epic characters, telling a great story, and making fun and interesting memories together. The DM’s job is to facilitate those things. Give them a road map for those memories to happen along. To challenge them in fun and unique ways. And when your players attempt and pull off epic strategies that also fit into the narrative and are brilliant displays of their individual character’s traits, you gotta let rule of cool ride. You gotta reward the creativity, the grit, the gutsy play, so they will take those risks/fun ideas and go for those epic moments when the opportunities present themselves in the future.

What was up with Marisha during this episode I wonder. She looks so completely out of it. Drunk? High? Stoned?

A modified memory doesn't necessarily affect how a creature behaves, particularly if the memory contradicts the creature's natural inclinations, alignment, or beliefs. An illogical modified memory, such as implanting a memory of how much the creature enjoyed dousing itself in acid, is dismissed, perhaps as a bad dream.

Everyone avoiding looking at Marisha while she was acting stunned is telling.

I didn't start watching Critical Role until 2021 and wasn't there for this stream, but I'm willing to bet real money that like at least 50% of the chatters spamming "Laura don''t do it, this is stupid!" or telling the other party members "Stop her!" immediately flipped on a dime and started saying "Let's go Jester! Let's go Laura Bailey! I never doubted you for a second!" Fuck those meta-gaming, backseating, doubting motherfuckers 😂

I sincerely hope that, when they animate this, they add a little scene of Jester telling the others what she did after, as imagining the groups' reactions to what she did is the other half of this delicious cupcake and I *want* it! <3

Jester should *be* the trickster god, not worship the trickster god. She has unseated Artagan in F-ing with people.

This was the single most clutch play of all Critical Role. This moment is everything.

In the most recent campaign I was in, I played a CE rogue who made a deal with a hag for some powers (fey touched feat), in exchange for spreading misery all over the place. I wonder if this hag will send similar people after Jester.

Im so glad i never watched the chat. Everyone screaming "just kill her! Fireball!", telling jester to stfu and get out...just let the scene play out guys jesus christ.

That was entertaining but also I don’t know how y’all can follow these Twitch chats! That stream of consciousness was making my brain hurt!

Idk if yall noticed, but at 10:00, you can see Laura throwing a lifeline to Matthew to help get back to "yes, and" COLLABORATION AT ITS FINEST!

Sam asks “would stopping a peace summit count”? Beau ask if her solitude would count Yasha asks if her flowers would count JESTER THE BEST TRICKSTER CLERIC EVER ask “ Do you know the muffin man?” *smirk*

Taliesin goes full Beaker from the Muppets at the complete glory of this @11:00

cant wait for the Mighty Nein show to see this animated

This clip always gives me goosebumps LOL

My head canon is that the rest of the M9 had to physically hold Beau back from barging in when Marisha wanted to knock. Also watching Marisha’s mental journey is amazing because she was fully ready to essentially kill off her character to save her friends

9:08 Ashley: (says what everyone is thinking)

The pause, "Okay..", "Did I succeed?"........."Yyyup." Cinematic. That's true tension.

seeing this again after seeing some of matts plays in bg3, i love to think he was so beyond happy he got his fucking shit rocked like that in a play of utter unexpected genius.........

Even trying to read twitch chat at .25 speed is damn difficult...look...pause...read. I used to watch on twitch but was very laggy and chat was like trying to listen to someone in a very crowded room full of drunk people. Was very happy when they split it to also stream on KZbin