158 Points of Damage | Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 90

Matthew Mercer rolls a whole lot of damage dice for a massive explosion in #CriticalRole Campaign 3, Episode 90! 🎲🎲🎲💥
#dnd #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #improv #voiceactor #roleplay #kronk #dice #diceroll

[@numbernine5894]

the cut to liam is incredible

[@savingpyro]

That's his brain trying to come up with Sam's next character 🤣🤣🤣

[@arolurker3511]

Liam just actually died

[@BEEDRILL303]

It's like the fish all over again

[@redrichmond8485]

He took all of that as psychic damage, NOT halved.

[@Nkai]

Orym wasn’t even there, he was just gutted for those that were

[@atenek9243]

This is the dnd equivalent of a videogame lagging due to detonating large amounts of explosives

[@AuntLoopy123]

I once had a massive housefire in The Sims 2, that spanned all three floors of the building. It took TWO HOURS to burn out. Two hours of REAL TIME. I didn't know my game could spawn that many firefighters. And my sim was frantically casting spells to try to extinguish the flames outside the building. Absolutely everything in the building was burned to ash, but the walls, floors, ceilings and paint were pristine. Well, it was time to redecorate, anyway. But, TWO HOURS. TWO HOURS of me frantically clicking "Extinguish" with my non-witch sim and frantically casting spells with the other (Sorry, I can't remember the name of the spell, but it required going through the pie menu, so it took longer and more clicks). TWO HOURS. Always install sprinklers! ALWAYS!!!

[@elizabethbrown5537]

@@AuntLoopy123technically this is what’s happening in the video game as well 😂

[@hostiledodo1150]

Me when I fill a Minecraft house with tnt on my old pc

[@keithmaclennan1932]

1000 Easy Petes

[@Rocker4JCforever]

As an avid D&D and Baldur's Gate 3 player, I completely agree! 😂

[@bucue802]

Fun DM tip: if you want your players to worry, roll a bunch of extra dice that don't count.

[@UltraIsa297]

This why I have blank dice

[@bucue802]

@@UltraIsa297 exactly

[@savingpyro]

@@UltraIsa297 I was just about to ask if there are blank dice🤣

[@BEEDRILL303]

Ok satan calm down

[@jackaltwinky77]

@@savingpyroor roll d10s, when the damage is only d6s. Roll dice that aren’t part of the effect for dramatic effects

[@Vin_Venture896]

‘You’re laughing. He’s rolled 300 dice and you’re laughing?’ - Ashley Johnson

[@AndorRadnai]

At that point… what else is there to do? 😂

[@johnwolfe7596]

They get what they [...]ing deserve, Murray.

[@anamariefalk3796]

At this point we know that’s how Travis is going to react

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@AndorRadnai The mushroom cloud is RIGHT there. You can’t run, so just enjoy the fireworks

[@sethwilliams8916]

Yes and I’m tired of pretending like I’m not

[@andrewdolasinski2623]

If only he said, "That was halved"

[@bobasaur5324]

That's what I thought he was gonna say 😂

[@qualityshloimy]

That's a Brennan Mulligan move right there lmao

[@gantaroo3140]

Lee ​@@qualityshloimy

[@mindtrait0r879]

​@@gantaroo3140 Since when is a middle name necessary in referring to someone?

[@pumpkin7446]

​@@mindtrait0r879Since Brennan Lee Mulligan was born.

[@Verylengthyapple]

Liam took the damage in real life

[@invertedghostgames9899]

He didn't take Force Damage though, that poor dude was having Vietnam Flashbacks and take taking Psychic Damage xD

[@parmesanwench]

"This is more than the Keyleth one" lmao

[@lockskelington314]

And inaccurate!

[@NathanJ666]

I remember him saying something like “too many dice to roll” then

[@divanshukumarmahajan4803]

Spoiler (for those who don't know): Keyleth died in _Taryon, My Wayward Son_ after taking over 360 points of damage in the stupidest way possible. My favorite part about that bit was that at the end of the episode, Sam makes a joke about the same thing happening to Grog, but Liam correctly points out that (unlike Keyleth) Grog would actually survive that situation.

[@angeloinciong2822]

​@@divanshukumarmahajan4803 not only would he survive, if he was raging, he wouldnt even fall unconscious

[@Ark_Nexus]

matt had to use a dice rolling app for that one

[@shadowrealm4206]

Was almost expecting the 158 to be the halved amount

[@disco_slime_]

Oh god Liam’s face at the end lol

[@sarahw7790]

Liam was remembering what it was like playing a wizard last campaign 😂

[@ShinobiBoyfu]

His soul left his body 😂😂

[@scragglybeard9322]

Disintegrate

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@sarahw7790 Liam: God I miss fireball

[@walterhartwellwhite7924]

HE HAD NO SOUL

[@DillonMeyer]

"You both are completely and utterly obliterated. There is no trace you were even there to begin with."

[@hakkesho12]

Ashley just being so done with the rolls had ME rolling 🤣🤣🤣. Her reaction to Travis laughing gave me Goldfish Kiki flashbacks too lmao

[@colinmckoy4445]

That'd been an extra 10 rolls for that

[@lyianx]

She wasnt laughing at Travis. She was in a different spot, so she was actually looking at Matt, referring to him. The next cut you see him laughing.

[@jackhutton5078]

Ashley just ring so done with rolls… and then he keeps on rolling 😂

[@jackwriter1908]

I kinda hoped of a _don't worry guys, we are basically gods_ throwback 😂

[@zlatan_2197]

*splash*

[@jonathanhirst6997]

In fairness, I think Vox Machina was around lvl 20 at that point and Bell's Hells are just barely over half of that. They're not even basically demi-gods yet. XD

[@artmanha999]

​@@jonathanhirst6997they were level 17 if I'm not mistaken

[@eric_moore-6126]

They did reference "the Keyleth one"

[@maximemilhau252]

The subtitle at the end saying "yes, more dice rolling" had me dying :D

[@iluvsoramorethanyou]

LIAM'S FACE IS ALL OF US

[@Aphelia.]

your youtube channel is a time machine of pure nostalgia

[@TechnoL33T]

Bro I wanna do enough damage in a game that my computer says "hold on, I'm doing math."

[@remael22]

I used to play a mobile game where we were able to break the number display for damage above the enemies heads because they didn't code enough spaces for damage. It was awesome to see just -1 a bunch of times because you "broke the game"

[@suspendedresolution]

That's literally what your computer says when it's lagging.

[@brickeezii843]

That's basically what happens when you cause an integer overflow in a bethesda game

[@rapipanmanoch6470]

BG3 when you collected every combustible item in the game, sneak laying down in the entire boss room, then throw candle in

[@Aliceeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

I mean that is essentially what frame time is. Practically everything the computer does is some form of math. But if you actually want the damage calculation itself to cause a noticable delay you are going to need either a massive amount of independent but similarly timed damage sources or damage that scales in a way that is not reducible to addition or multiplication. Because those are almost instant for a computer, a couple clock cycles, and your processor likely does between 2 and 5 Billion of those cycles in a second. It is a bit of a simplification but essentially, good luck :P

[@TheGreatDudist]

LOL! That cut to Liam, completely drained of his soul.

[@ladydjiv]

Travis giggling maniacally as more dice are thrown is just peak Travis energy and I love him for it~

[@Wesmin]

"Hehe I'm in danger." Was the vibe I got from this. 😂

[@ascarydriver]

I’m the same. Love the chaos🤣🤣🤣

[@mattixender3016]

That whole escape was so stressful but the mental image was so fucking cool at the same time

[@midgetfish6129]

The increasing concern of Ashley mixed with the increasing delight of Travis as Matt roles more and more dice really tells a tale of two players.

[@ericrotondo8636]

He's died once already lol

[@corpsehandler5321]

ashley: "oh NO 😨" travis: "oh noooo 😅"

[@stephensmith7098]

158 damage "Remeber half damage" Matt: "that is half damage"

[@Aatroxious]

You’re laughing, he rolled 7 times and you’re laughing

[@JujFuj]

That might be even more cruel than Brennan's avalanches of dice😂

[@mikkelnpetersen]

"And you had 2 health left, soooo, that's 77 overkill damage and you're BEYOND DEAD"

[@Ruby_Eve]

"There isn't even an afterlife for you"

[@alekvillarreal3470]

Imagine if you had a cleric or artifact to revive you but you still owe so much HP from that overkill that you just immediately die again 😂

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@alekvillarreal3470 DM: This resurrections gonna take like 5 diamonds and an entire day.

[@Tadpoli]

Liam really took that full damage in psychic form plus a few extra d10 for flavor

[@roetemeteor]

There is a certain level to taking damage and it runs on a bell curve. At the beginning of it, you're happy because it's not a lot of damage, and the middle of it you are upset because that's a lot of damage. Near the end of the curve, it goes back to being happy, because you're just utterly annihilated and there's no point in getting upset about it. Taking 55 damage sucks, because that puts you very close to death generally. Taking 550 damage is just funny.

[@throwaway1376]

*rolls for another 5 min to increase the tension* "You take about 12 points of dmg"

[@EmeraldNight42]

Now which is more terrifying, your walking through a forest, the dm rolls a d20 and goes “hmm”, or you take damage from something unknown and the dm starts rolling handfuls of d6?

[@TenohHikari]

The sudden dice roll is terrifying cause the dm just “I’ll tell you in a moment keep walking” anxiety increases

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@TenohHikari It’s why I love playing high wisdom characters. My lizardman Druid from a while back could practically see through walls 🤣

[@PSTLNC2]

Travis laughing is the funniest thing. To bad they didn't show the other 58 points of damage from their fall from the height of their explosive ejection. They saved on that as well and Sam took 29 more points and Tailisan took like 14 or 15 points because he was raging from fall (bludgeoning) damage from the fall back to earth. I think Sam had 2 points when it was all done.

[@BelleDreamer7]

Wow, you can see the hope just draining from certain party members.

[@raknaroo2]

Liam seeing god straight in the eyes has me rolling 😂

[@Cultureghost]

This is one of those explosions where there’s a flash and no audio for like a half second before your eardrums then explode.

[@jacobtibbitts8310]

I was waiting for, "158 IS half."

[@commandercaptain4664]

Of oooonnnne meeeelllleeeeeeeooooon HP.

[@wiej007]

That would be perfect 😂

[@FrikInCasualMode]

That's a lot of emotional damage. And it hit Liam hardest.

[@swgj2901]

There will be nothing that beats the Keyfish roll incident! Matt had to use an app because it was”TOO MANY DICE TO ROLL”😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JimBob4233]

Clearly he could've rolled 100d6, he just wasn't ready to do 10 lots of 10d6 yet

[@Grayson.P]

Waiting for the day Keyfish comes to life in Legend of Vox Machina.

[@dimwarlock]

One time that happened in my game, my players don't know about Critical Role and in my mind I was like "no way... NO WAY!!!" It wasn't a goldfish, it was a moth flung by a strong air current, causing 1 pint of damage, enough to end the polymorph and make the player fall, but same stupid situation. I didn't even roll because the number of dice was almost equel to their HP.

[@DarthVincentiusOfficial]

So much damage. So little HP.

[@commandercaptain4664]

When you need a Bag of Holding to roll half damage...

[@eliyahmcneill9302]

Liam's soul just left his body at some point

[@Hazel-xl8in]

there’s something truly magical about introducing new players to the game and treating them to their first fireball. i once had 5 players and i stood up at the table, reached for each of their d6s and counted them up one by one in my hand as they all started shouting at me. wouldn’t miss it for the world

[@Ashezth]

"This is more than the Keyleth one!" LMAO

[@FrostFire2002]

Part of me wishes he had said “that was halved” 😂😂

[@lilporky8565]

Imagine if he didn't get those shitty rolls at the start.

[@TheHerrDoctor]

When the paladin crits

[@colgino16]

When Ira said he had a grudge he went to work and damn so many dice cant wait Thursday

[@Dogo.R]

That was 7 rolls of what sounds like 5 dice. Since its so many rolls the outcome should be very close to the average. 7 rolls of 5 d8 matches perfectly with an average roll of 157.5 So the ability was a "35d8" ability.

[@stargazer1998]

Since one said “why did he put five down” perhaps it was 7d8 for each one?

[@BackroomBandit]

when you do a light amount of tomfoolery and get glassed in the process.

[@Maessiah_____]

*First set of roll* "Its fine" *Second set of roll* "Were fine" *Third set* *Genuine concern*

[@commandercaptain4664]

Matt: YAHTZEE! *keeps rolling*

[@hweidigiv]

Seven sets

[@corpsehandler5321]

seventh set "💀💀"

[@dominicdeluca7113]

I was fully expecting the “no, that’s halved”

[@Saxdude26]

Liam's face at the end! I'M DYING! 😂

[@LieutenantAlaki]

So was Liam.

[@russdarracott395]

Damn, that's huge damage. Both full and half.

[@rory8182]

would have been funnier if he did the: "79 damage", someone is like "what is that halved?" and he just goes "that is it halved"

[@Pioootr]

Everyone: Half! Matt: 158 is already halved

[@harrowedone974]

I love as a DM rolling dice at random and nodding emphatically at them, especially rolling a bunch of pointless dice in my normal rolls like putting d6s into d20 roles and d20s into damage rolls.

[@OnlyRoke]

Liam's soul just left 😂

[@commandercaptain4664]

Liam, your life force is running out!

[@hollowreclaimer]

I was waiting for Matt to yell "Yahtzee!" at the end

[@phoebegilliland8897]

One Shot Questers?

[@hollowreclaimer]

@phoebegilliland8897 yes, of course ❤️

[@demetrinight5924]

I can only imagine Matt is rolling this damage with only 2 dice at a time to build tension.

[@richardd3367]

Nah, I heard at least 3 😂

[@kkav4586]

I like to think Liam's face was also Orym's reaction to this fucking attack almost skewering Chetney😂 that face is the most "fish who saw something so horrifying it knows it should have died"

[@thaddbriscoe4290]

That's a close to a cliff dive worth of dammagt. 😮

[@j-dawg4774]

Liam's dead face at the end is what broke me

[@Naev0w0]

Thats an aoe disintegrate, ON A SAVE

[@DANTVSVERGIL]

“Hold on I’m doing math.” DMing is the only time I’m ever happy to do math.

[@palemoonpresence3435]

Everyone of their faces is sending me!!, its like a moving Rennnesiance painting😂

[@benjamintim3542]

wait wait wait. that many dice slapping around for only 158 damage prior to halfing? wow.

[@LizzieNeedsALife]

That is half

[@tazyload]

"You take half damage" The words all players love to hear......followed by the sound all players fear the most, an avalanche of dice falling behind the DM screen :D

[@shadowhell8378]

The fact that he rolled all that physical means he wasn't them to know and suffer just how bad that went. Because he used a dice roll app for the cliff jump.

[@jasonhare8540]

Legend says Matt rolled so many dice that day he now has carpal tunnel 🤔🤣

[@adamreid116]

"Hes still rolling!?" XD the fear in her voice

[@timeless9534]

Funny thing: I’ve actually done something like this before. I rolled 26d8 for a crit. I dealt over 150 damage. In a single hit.

[@Kris-wo4pj]

i tpked a party doing that. i couldnt stop laughing cuz i thought at least 2 of them would survive. nope. they were pissed. we had to reset. i told them to stop standing cone shapes.

[@lilCrusader]

After fucking around Matt helps them find out

[@DarcOne13]

Yeah, but... this is gonna look so fucking cool animated!

[@TheRaziBearz]

I love Matt's cheeky grin 😂❤

[@ijustworkhere1008]

Liam at the end looked like he’d just taken that damage IRL

[@SilverAranda]

"hold on, I'm doing math" my guys... the most frighting sentence a DM could say...

[@moonlight2870]

Matt is actually just playing yatzee

[@HailHydra27]

The way things were going I was half expecting him to ask something along the lines of "FCG, do you feel you arm is weakest at the shoulder or the elbow?"

[@miimo_channel]

maybe 50d6 or 30d10 ? if 158 was the average roll, the total could have had a maximum of around 300 potential points of damage. since Sam clarified that it was 5 bombs, and Matt rolled 5 (?) times. the # of dice rolled that adds up to that total could be 50d6 (10d6 per bomb) or 30d10 (6d10 per bomb). Either way, SO many dice 😅

[@mohammedtahmid6718]

30d10 is I think the highest damage roll in the game. The damage caused by a comet that eradicates 500ft of space.

[@francisgayon5259]

Touching the Ythryn mythallar does more damage on average-180 (20d10 + 70) radiant.

[@Coilla85]

Was looking for a comment like this, cause I'm curious what die and how many were used. Matt rolled 7 times

[@miimo_channel]

@@Coilla85 perhaps 35d6? 5d6 per roll, 7 times.. an average would be 105 with a max possible roll of 210 perhaps 🤔 we’ll never know but it is so fun to guess ☺️

[@michaelj.mccall6530]

Liam’s face has me rolling

[@HojiDaSquirrel]

*precedes to roll them new characters*

[@benrodman8013]

The cut to Liam is the best thing

[@B4rb0ssa]

I was drinking my drink and Liam's face caught me so off guard that I nearly spat it out XD

[@amandarae5337]

“It’s a nuclear explosion,” -FCG (EP 90 which comes before EP 91.)

[@emilyjames8778]

And... 79 dmg I thought the same thing 😢

[@maxschrapel4985]

Grog could've tanked the whole thing and would have a hundred hitpoints left

[@crimsonphoenix2094]

Imagine he said, "That was halved."

[@kingskelett6265]

After seven rounds of rolling I was waiting for him to say „159, and that is already halved.“

[@titch1989]

Welcome to City Roll home of the City Roll

[@HerobrineMC4267]

I love how even the subtitles say "[yes, even more dice rolling]"

[@jodinsan]

I don't know the context, but I'm imagining Brennan Lee Mulligan calling/texting Matt later and saying, "I heard about that. Even _I_ think it was excessive." 😂

[@blumind_web2264]

HOW HAVE THEY NOT HAD A TPK ALREADY JESUS.

[@ianmcpherson2171]

Liam giving up on life 💀

[@tjk21504]

The amount of times I've asked for fake skill checks or rolled extra dice just to mess with ppl... this makes me so happy lol

[@dr.sparklz9569]

I was waiting for "ok, that's not so bad, so half that." 'That WAS halved' 😶

[@MarcJensan]

"When the DM smiles, it's already too late."

[@Snulge]

He had to have rolled like 2 sets extra just to troll hahaha

[@Wolfencreek]

Ira: "you survived?!....i mean....you survived!"

[@artisannoteworthy]

*Hard cut to Liam, who may have *ACTUALLY* died.* GOoD ThiNg The DamAgE was HalVed!!!

[@Technodreamer]

What is it with this many dice, Shadowrun? Aberrant?!

[@diamondmagus]

Wow, an Aberrant reference out in the wild.

[@Technodreamer]

@@diamondmagus Haven't played it in, uh...a very, very long time, but I have fond memories nonetheless.

[@marcusg3058]

'that IS half'

[@OHaaaiden]

Where’s the 1d200 die when you need it?

[@derrekgillespie413]

I want a 10 hour loop of this scene just rolling dice over and over

[@Stardust_Paradox]

It's giving, "that's enough slices!!"

[@jblack5596]

i was half expecting Matt to yell "YAHTZEE" after the rolls

[@SkrillDisc]

The worry in their voice and faces is priceless.

[@exsuspalp5078]

Nuclear explosion 😪 fcg you are the goat