Galfast Hamhead, the Relentlessly Cheerful Halfling | Escape From the Bloodkeep (SPOILERS)

NPC April Day 10: Galfast Hamhead, the cheery halfling who haunts Leiland's nightmares.
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[@BriannaZumbro]

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[@Bloodshark123]

The fact that she doesn't even dislike Leland makes it so much worse for him.

[@lewiswhite95]

Every time the clip or algorithm shows up😂 I almost hiccup in laughter. 😅

[@kira7683]

This is a halfling with 29 in strength, 20 in constitution and 230 hit points

[@ziib123]

Gardening does builds up your strength and constitution!

[@castlejames4736]

According to the wiki, Galfast has Sky Giant stats

[@kingskelett6265]

@@castlejames4736 Brennan said on a talk she had storm giant stats. Who knows.

[@Magus_Union]

Jesus fucking Christ, no wonder Matt was having a hard time.

[@kieran10202]

There's a joke there: storm giants plant giant gardens

[@LazorJunkieninja]

This halfling reduced the witch king of her universe to a traumatised wreck in the space of like half a day

[@DeathnoteBB]

Tbf she’s been avoiding him and his group for a while now, so this half a day was the straw that broke the Leiland’s sanity

[@Barely_Here]

she has storm giant stats, too. galfast is a monster of a halfling.

[@Grim_Sister]

Well, she is no man

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

And she did it by being a beacon of positivity, acceptance, and good vibes. I love it! XD

[@pauciloquentflibbertigibbe5217]

Man, Matt was real confident going into that first exchange, wasn't he.

[@DeathnoteBB]

It’s funny cause I feel like most people would be, since you’d think logically a wraith could easily take a halfling. But her being hard to kill solidifies how she made it this far.

[@ophiuchus_kin]

Imagine a compressed Storm Giant that can hide easily and never rolls 1s

[@Taguren]

@@ophiuchus_kin when you put it like that… he’s well fucked

[@kylebeardsley6200]

I like the mental image of a Home Alone-style scene of Leiland trying to attack Ruckland, but Galfast and a bunch of halflings have set up random traps, shelves full of cutlery that get knocked over, fireworks, etc, so he's just exasperated the entire time and can't actually kill any of them.

[@MrCharles7994]

Honestly, I kinduve want to see a sequel to bloodkeep now that is just the Ruckland halflings humiliating the forces of evil while extoling the virtues of egalitarian politics.

[@benjaminhondorp8593]

@@MrCharles7994 omg, an all halfling campaign where the inhabitants of Ruckland have to "talk some sense into the noggins of the forces of evil" hahaha I can see it now

[@buckstoeffler8363]

I can't help but feel you just described the entirety of the Endor battle in Return of the Jedi.

[@Onitramm]

@@MrCharles7994 oh my god i just thought the same thing, but it’s DM’d by Matt Mercer so he could play Leiland again!

[@AlexQuill63]

They wouldn't even need to do that, just he shows up, Galfast happily welcomes him as a friend to Ruckland and then it's just YOU HAVE ALERTED THE HORDE with relentlessly cheerful halflings coming out of the woodwork to greet Leiland as a friend while he just has a total mental breakdown.

[@phi7534]

god i love unkillable lesbian sam gamgee

[@ollie__reid]

I feel like we don't talk enough about Galfast calling Kasara "Ms. The Beige", it's incredible.

[@carlottaz4642]

Big Mr. the Insatiable energy

[@Barely_Here]

"and ive learned that some things need to be put back in the groiiiiund" is such a raw line

[@trashotaku]

It really is

[@GripTightThin]

The Halfling with the stats of a Storm Giant!

[@mortimermcmirestinks]

this is Samwise Gamgee fanfic as written by someone who goddamn respects Samwise Gamgee

[@j.s.5685]

THAT LITTLE ".........no." GETS ME EVERY TIME.

[@vdubmerc3]

If Matt ever DM’s Dimension 20 again, it needs to be a sequel to Escape From the Bloodkeep, with all the players as hobbits fighting against Leland

[@justgemthings]

"Do I happen to see a parachuting halfling?"

[@flyingfujigi8560]

I think Brennan revealed that Hamhead was a Storm Giant reskinned as a halfling in a BTS thing.

[@iamabread9614]

In some universe Sauron and Leiland would be best friends from having the horrible experience in fighting an undying, pan smacking, genius, of a small person.

[@charlesjunior5087]

I really want ham head to show up in the next critical role campaign

[@elbruces]

I doubt if Matt would introduce his own worst nemesis.

[@vraiman16]

@@elbruces I want Brennan to be a guest...just to put a hamhead-like character in.

[@amarakeizer-quintanilla9761]

@@vraiman16 yessssss that would be perfect

[@paladin_jam]

@@vraiman16 the best would be not tell matt and then just sit down and wait to be introduced and then brennan just goes hi my name is gal galfast hamhead. Cut to Matt's reaction to his nightmare come back to haunt him

[@AlexQuill63]

The ultimate for this would be Brennan as a guest. Comes in having kept his character private, sits down, introduces himself as Galfast Hamhead and watches Matt go through a PTSD flashback on the spot.

[@garbyoil4325]

She gives off Keradin Deeproot energy with the horrifyingly relentless intensity of her personality

[@Ripcookiethief]

*4 hit combo with a frying pan* Whelp, I'm dead.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

"I think I'm getting the hang of this!" *bong!*

[@kingskelett6265]

"Be well miss longfoot, I'll see you in rockland in short order! I just have some business to attend to." Matt Mercer, grinning happily: *Oh we're doing this!* If I may be so bold to make a suggestion for another supercut, if not already planned: Olag the War King, who just really wants to die.

[@BriannaZumbro]

You absolutely may, and a video of him is already scheduled for this weekend! I’m always happy to take suggestions for videos, even if I can’t get to them right away.

[@kingskelett6265]

@@BriannaZumbro GLORIOUS

[@eddiekalista3222]

2:00 holy shit Brennan can do Crazy Eyes

[@sainttheresa2736]

3:02 as well

[@Simmons8519]

Brennan is ALL the crazy eye's!

[@hishamhasan1026]

YES!! imo one of the BEST NPCs in EftB, right alongside J'er'emi'h (technically pc but shush) and John Feathers

[@ryanw6074]

Don't forget Avadesh!

[@afreerobin5939]

I played a one shot as the son of Galfast Hamhead and Drova Longfoot, named Sigbert. Sigi to his friends. His friends happend to be kids from the Bloodkeep, including Leiland Jr, his long time penpal and teen hood crush. Yes by the end of it Sigi and Leiland Jr confessed to each other and it was perfect.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Leiland learns about this: “NO DARK MASTER OF MINE WILL GO CAJOLING WITH A HAMHEAD!”

[@paulchavez3039]

Some real Tom hiddlston Loki vibes from Matt lol I loved this series

[@GaanaSrini]

Everyone's enraged reaction to Hamhead's compliment at 2:58

[@gabejones8112]

I think we've skipped over how the first few words out of Galfast are just incomprehensible 0:16

[@Emma-yn9op]

(For those who can’t make it out) “Right! Oh, it’s Kasara the Beige! Oh oh aren’t we lucky to have a wizard show up?”

[@gabejones8112]

@@Emma-yn9op You are the greatest, thank you

[@only2comment98]

God, I love Brennan Lee Mulligan

[@LegacyFTW]

Galfast giving off Samwise Gamgee vibes

[@shridharbiju7370]

It is a LoTR parody

[@jsmountain]

Help, I love her.

[@Daemic9]

Can someone explain why everyone laughed when Brennan mentioned the name, Galfast Hamhead? This joke is going over my head.

[@BriannaZumbro]

I think it’s just a weird funny sounding name. I don’t think it’s a reference to anything.

[@Fyreflier]

Escape from the Bloodkeep is a parody of Lord of the Rings from the perspective of the villains; Galfast Hamhead is meant to be Samwise Gamgee. Both names are just funny-sounding

[@brandontjy]

@@Fyreflier I just figured it out it’s actually a clever mangling of LOTR names. Sam’s father’s called Hamfast Gamgee, so Galfast Hamhead switched the syllables around and added a “head” for extra randomness. Praise be to Brennan, king of nerds

[@draxiss1577]

@@brandontjy HOLY WHAT

[@brandontjy]

@@draxiss1577 Yepp. Bets that Brennan knew this too it WOULD be like him to just swap Tolkieneque names around for comedy - except that it’s such obscure comedy that almost no one except diehard nerds would get it

[@EvelynNdenial]

i soooooo wish they'd do a scouring of ruckland one-shot

[@abj6920]

THIS is what Samwise was supposed to be, Talking! If that is even your real name!

[@Wes9859]

Its hilarious that we never see Drova again, its just her power lesbian gf fighting evil and kicking ass so she doesn't have to. Iconic honestly

[@adrivoid5376]

I fell in love with her. Like thanks Brennan, giving me the positive traits of Samwise but as jacked stormgiant stat lesbian. Be still my heart

[@jade-ic2gp]

no dislikes. just as it should be

[@tysondennis1016]

Leiland 🤝 Derek *Getting traumatized by skillets*

[@VanNessy97]

That is too many picnics, put those back.

[@emmanuelvargas9691]

My favorite D20 campaign 😍

[@lewiswhite95]

Make you a pic a nik. Bonk bonk bonk!😂

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

The fact the king of the Legally Distinct Nazgul got humbled in a 1v1 with a lesbian hafling gardner honestly made me double over with laughter when I first watched this! The fact she managed to survive and escape was honestly my favorite part of the entire campaign

[@robysword12]

Giant, hairy feet... up there

[@Nightwing20]

You all are here for 3:31 Lol

[@cr820]

Jokes aside, Leiland likely had that fight in the bag. She had 36 hit points left, and he had been steadily dealing damage. Not his fault Marcus decided to kill-steal.

[@keithhagen7571]

I'm sorry, hamheads art....is she wearing sunglasses.

[@nomukun1138]

No it's a poofy 80's hairsprayed glam-metal bouffant with a headband.

[@Nyghtgirl27]

I hate hobbits/Halflings