Grandpas Blue Eyes Lives! 😭 Vox Machina Episode 2 Reaction

[@YaBoyRockLee]

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[@SilverScribe85]

Fun Fact: Whether in the campaign or the show, Vox Machina's greatest of enemies isn't dragons, evil wizards or any other D&D baddie...it's doors

[@jordanpeterson5140]

"How do you afford all of that if you're broke?" The secret ingredient is crime. He literally swiped it off the cart next to him.

[@JackMValentine]

Hans, is that you?

[@Luzarioth]

also, they just left a village where no one needed their stuff anymore ;P

[@TheGodlikeDragon]

Nah. In D&D(which is the tabletop game this is based after), you always send someone to charm the owners. Stealing usually ends with way too much trouble and you get hunted by the city guard which will hinder you to finish the mission and getting any kind of pardon you could have gotten from beating the monster. It is a game of consequences, which you will find out soon in the series

[@rogue7723]

Hey, characters in the '90's have been doing it for years.

[@Zylarlander]

If Percy's your favorite, I think you'll like the rest of the season.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Yessss Percy!!

[@JustNinj]

@@YaBoyRockLee his nickname is No Mercy Percy

[@oriondourden]

Unmerciful Percival

[@BeinIan]

@@oriondourden Hurtful and Unkind Percival Frederickstein

[@darielurena3632]

How about next ??

[@joshuaseagondollar2495]

Grog's entire deal is "I have an Intelligence of 6. I know what I'm doing!"

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

also, Grog: "I'm not so hot on the numbers...."

[@Reblwitoutacause]

To be clear: average number is 10. 16-18 is genius levels. 20 is Gods Level. 6 is “I’d rather chew on a leather shoe, than wear it”

[@seaztheday4418]

Except when someone wild-shapes him into a dumb beast… then he becomes MORE intelligent

[@steelangel9039]

This series is brought to you by Critical Role, a show where a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors from LA sit around and play D&D on Twitch. It is basically an adaptation of their first campaign they played live on stream back in 2015-2017. The point of the game is more or less collaborative storytelling, where the players play off of each other's strengths, quirks and punchlines. As such, there is no single "main character"; the story is focused on an adventuring party.

[@katienichole6905]

They play dungeons and draGOOOONS

[@dyingontheinside5795]

literal star studded va cast

[@KingZolem]

"That dragon seemed intelligent." Me: "Oh, you definitely don't know D&D." The reason for my instant reaction being that is that, well, dragons are absolutely terrifying massive monsters of intellect, physical power, elemental fury, and magical aptitude all at the same time. Depending on the type of dragon and its preferred style it might be a solo act, lead a cult, run a mafia, rule a tribe or kingdom, command an army, or more.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Facts

[@TheGodlikeDragon]

Yeah, ancient dragons are some of the highest ranked monsters in D&D. It gets even worse when they learn to cast magic

[@ShadowyFox_86]

Even the dumbest dragons are still dangerous as shit.

[@steelangel9039]

In D&D, the rangers have this concept of "favored enemy", which can be of the following types: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. That gives certain bonuses if they want to study, track, hunt, and even talk to a certain type of enemy. In the animation, that translates to Vex having this "spider sense" when a dragon is nearby. Her brother Vax is a rogue, not a ranger, and therefore does not have that ability.

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

Was about to mention this

[@Phi1618033]

@@MrBlorp-sf9ye Me too.

[@wtimmins]

Favored Enemy: Dragon is REALLY freakin ambitious at low levels. heh.

[@nicolas._.2294]

What does D%D mean?

[@fabi3790]

@@nicolas._.2294 D&D or DnD is the short term for dungeons and dragons

[@TriXJester]

Brimscythe standing in the throne room when Vox Machina comes in like "Wow, I thought I murdered them, hilarious."

[@SternenLegion]

It's interesting seeing people reacting to the series without knowing who Critical Role is. kinda refreshing. But to clear up. The Legend of Vox Machina tells the story of Critical Role's first campaign. The first 2 episodes are the Story before their life show started. after that it retells the story they played in their lifeshow. The first season is the Briarwood Arc, the first major plot/story they had in campaign 1

[@boastaboutgames2747]

They honestly don't seem to know anything about DnD in general which is what makes this oddly charming. The ability Vex gets to sense dragons is just an ability from her class. But these guys are theorizing why she has this power and where it leads but in truth its just a class skill. No lore behind it whatsoever. It s what makes it kinda funny watching XD.

[@Scrubthulhu]

FRESH MEAT 😈

[@markamanic]

@@boastaboutgames2747 I mean, it ties into their backstory

[@ShadowyFox_86]

The Briarwood Arc is the 2nd arc in Campaign 1. They only vaguely reference parts of the first arc due to a certain person featuring in it that is no longer part of Critical Role.

[@Invader_Rin13]

So locked doors is a running gag in the streams this is based off of, for some reason they can never get good rolls to unlock them.

[@jled787]

Only when it blocks progress at critical moments. As is the trope in every DnD game.

[@steelangel9039]

Arcanist Allura Vysoren is a court mage and a former member of an adventuring party herself. That's why she often feels sympathy for Vox Machina, however dysfunctional they may be at times 🙂

[@ShadowyFox_86]

Vox Machina feels like Allura's adopted kids. They're entirely dysfunctional but she loves them nonetheless.

[@freenerdman7736]

Travis Willingham, the voice actor who played Grog always went with the fact that Grog had an Intelligence stat of 6 (out of 20). And a common struggle in D&D is opening doors. This lot have had many failures at that.

[@felixfelicis86]

Yea Vax using a toothpick to pick a lock is REALLY not indicative of a typical Door Encounter 🤣.

[@ShadowyFox_86]

An Intelligence of 6 and always knowing what he's doing.

[@ryhnoking]

As soon as Adorkable said in the beginning "how did he escape" i immediately said out loud "Polymorph", thank you Monster Manual.

[@TheIrishloon]

This is adapted almost beat for beat (including the raunchiness) from Critical Role’s Briarwood arc of their first campaign that was streamed on Twitch (they are in Campaign 3 now).

[@CC-of5xl]

I would not call it beat for beat at all. In fact I don't think there's a single scene in season one that's beat for beat with the original campaign.

[@TheIrishloon]

@@CC-of5xl Right. Hence the word “almost”.

[@CC-of5xl]

@@TheIrishloon no I'm saying it's not almost. Watching both there's not a single scene that's the same

[@stargic8499]

@@CC-of5xl But they're obviously inspired directly in the scenes. They're adapted to a TV series

[@CC-of5xl]

@@stargic8499 apparently "beat for beat" means something completely different to you guys. As far as faithful adaptations go this might be the least beat for beat one I've seen. Character roles and lines are changed for pretty much every scene. And most scenes are either in different order or have a completely different path to an outcome.

[@katyneuman4476]

Sorry im new here, but the guy on the far right, im living for his laugh and reactions to everything, he is so cute and animated lol when they showed the reward i fucking died.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

He’s dope

[@colt1903]

Director Nasty. He also has his own channel if you wanna check him out.

[@21BearPapa]

"The budget!" *Laughs in 11 Million*

[@magicnshitghetto5746]

11 million is laughably tiny for an animation series. invincible was 10 million dollars an episode. they do amazing job with what was given but I do hope season 2 is given more of a budget.

[@hawkthorn33]

A lot of us just love Grog. For reference, in D&D score can range from 3 to 20, Grog has an Intelligence score of 6, that actually means he can not read. If you continue, you will be into the meat of the first Arc, but we critters have seen hints for two other main arcs.

[@LocalMaple]

“Is that Cyborg?” Meanwhile, when Fire Princess Azula shows up: …

[@cptmcquacken4887]

"Why dont you just open it?" Well, you see, dungeons and dragons.

[@HowManyTimes234]

14:59 Vax: says exactly where the weak spot is, "the neck." 15:08 "I think the neck is gonna be it, though. if the neck fails, then the butt"

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Second bit is actually a ref to a different reaction they did, Arifureta .... Uuhhh, let's just say _they found out the dragon was a masochist in the worst way possible_ and leave it at that. From *WAR* to weird in 5 seconds. Since you're probably here from the algorithm, d&d flopped in Japan way back, instead they favoured TORG (now rereleased as TORG: Eternity) which has a lot more sci-fi/schizotech involved, influenced Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy, and all the works _those_ spawned, so most fantasy anime might have vaguely familiar elements, but then there's also weird junk like ancient spaceships, mecha, or riding around in modern day vehicles instead of horses (main guy in Ari _has a freaking Hummer_ complete with 20mm cannon) The only ones I've heard directly cite d&d for inspiration are Lodoss Wars (like this, based on an actual campaign), Arislan, Goblin Slayer (complete with "gods" rolling dice on how to screw the protags), Dungeon Meshi, Berserk (+ heavy metal), Shield Hero (unusual combination of both. Trad&d setting + more "gamey" jrpg mechanics) and Twelve Kingdoms. (d&d in mythical China) Generally speaking "d&d aligned manga" will have more "realistic" or western-y armor & clothing design, while TORG descendants have "skimpy" designs for everyone, cover 99% of isekai, and have rapid fire "machine gun magic" Mushoku Tenshi does not cite either one, but in practice leans more towards d&d as magic requires casting time + mana, and melee techniques are tied to "levels" of a sort. Also a very annoying constantly interfering god

[@wargboyz]

Critical Role is a streaming D&D live-play game with professional voice actors. They are the number #1 stream on Twitch (all categories), and their Kickstarter to do an animated special set records for Film and Art Kickstarters (they asked for $750k, they got $11.3 Million and got picked up by Amazon for a second season). The world is custom made by the DM Matt Mercer (who does the narration, the voice/face of a lot of extras/NPCs, and Silas Briarwood (the vampire). The cast is a whose who of talent from anime, video games and cartoons - just google it, but you recognize everyone. This first two episodes were a story from their home D&D game, before they started streaming, but from here on out we get a single arc that slows down the pace a bit and gets a bit more serious. Really looking forward to it!

[@Nastyn1nja808]

Dagger Dagger dagger

[@RabidDogma]

Another thing people should know is that Critical Role got so popular that it kinda-sorta singlehandedly elevated D&D. It's more popular now that it's *ever* been because people now realize that D&D is really just a fun way to do improv. It's a way to create something and have fun with your friends. Wizards of the Coast (who owns D&D now) have actually canonized A LOT of what Matt Mercer created for the Critical Role campaigns, so it's no longer non-official for the most part. If Matt makes it for CR then there's a good chance that it's going to be considered official by Wizards of the Coast.

[@Jammy._.]

the wish bone is part of the chickens rib cage the front middle part, its where our collar bone would be

[@WolfgirlAidan]

Yeah, basically the chickens sternum

[@andrewwebb3248]

The King is voiced by Khari Payton who did Cyborg and other voices. He also voiced a character in another campaign for Critical Role.

[@TheRyssaRave]

Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) it's a table top role-playing game, this is very tightly based off of the group Critical Role's very first campaign (which is on KZbin, they're currently in their 3rd campaign and go live on twitch every thursday) This was completely fan funded via kickstarter and Amazon put it out. Don't worry it's gonna get so so good! The characters development is going to ramp up and they've done such a great job at adapting an insane amount of hours of dnd game play.

[@wargboyz]

gonna keep comments how happy it makes me you are reacting to this show.

[@Kal_Al_Thor]

Blind wave r also reacting to it. Critical role is exploding in popularity and it makes me happy. I get u man

[@TheLightbane]

I loved the end of this episode. "ohhhhh you killed a dragon?, here is a key to a keep, you know, in case we need your help again" 🤣

[@Tye-Dyed]

I like seeing reactions from people who don't know Critical Role because I like to see that I'm not entirely biased in my love for the show. Like my love for the characters and the people who made/play them isn't obscuring my judgement.

[@ShadowyFox_86]

Vax and Gilmore are one of my favorite running gags in campaign one

[@boiledcrap]

I can tell you guys are going to like Scanlan the Barb. He gets a lot of titles throughout the series. Kingslayer. God killer. Dragonfister. That last one is not what you think...'kinda'.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

So far my homie is Percy 😭😭😭. Has the most edge. Only on ep 3. Though

[@jled787]

Hopefully Scanlan does get his Kingslayer Title as the animated series skipped their Rescue Mission in Kraghammer to find Lady Kima from Druegar (Dark Dwarves from the Underdark). And since they skipped that adventure, Grog would not have his beard as well.

[@SylverQrow]

Primal Sense is a ability for the Hunter class I believe The brother is a rogue so no tracking/ sensing abilities

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Favored Enemy: Dragons is what Vex has, specifically. There is no hunter (except blood hunter) class in d&d, it's Ranger.

[@jeffreymeehan3567]

So happy you guys are enjoying this! Hope you're able to keep posting these to KZbin. The first two episodes were just an introduction to the characters and the world. The story really picks up starting next episode and just does not let off the gas.

[@nversefx3777]

the characters are so good in this show. i still remember watching the actual campaign this is based on and they did such a great job adapting it. u guys should love the rest of the show.

[@TheRandomBits431]

most voice actors are from the Critical role group (D&D), you can check them in their youtube...

[@DamielBE]

yup, that's Payton doing Uriel, indeed!

[@jesterstyr4584]

I love watching your One Piece reactions, and am so glad you found your way to The Legend of Vox Machina. Such a great show, I'm so excited for you guys' take on the next arc/rest of the season.

[@oougahersharr]

Joined your patreon when i saw you were reviewing Vox Machina. I love Critical Role, and my favorite campaign so far was the one they are filming. My favorite character is No Mercy Percy. -)

[@haku8135]

Some Dragon info. Nothing spoilery, just general DnD knowledge. Dragons come in 2 basic flavors. Chromatic, and Metallic. Metallic dragons are generally good, Chromatic dragons are varying kinds of evil. Brimscythe was a Blue dragon, and their scales are blue of course and they breath lightning as their breath weapon. All true dragons get more powerful as they age. Metallic dragons that are old enough generally always can shapeshift, Chromatic dragons generally can't because they have no reason to, but they can learn it if they have a specific reason and are old enough. So Brimscythe can be considered an unusual blue dragon. Fun fact, voiced by DAVID FREAKING TENNANT OH MY DOCTOR! The other dragon colors are Red for fire, green for poison, black for acid, and white for frost.

[@steelangel9039]

Percy is the resident anime edgelord of the show 🙂

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Vax would like a word lol

[@steelangel9039]

@@Michael-bn1oi in the actual campaign, yep, there definitely is rivalry about who would out-angst the other. In the series, not so much 🙂 Edit: Vax may be an edgelord, but not the anime one. Percy having glaring glasses, the Naruto run, the menacing walk is most definitely an anime edgelord specifically.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

@@steelangel9039 give it some time outside of Percy's arc, if you have seen it I don't know why you are trying to correct me.Vax is 100% angst. "I walk away." Lol

[@phenixslayer21]

I think there is a very cool thing about this show in relation to predictability. There are subtle hints for a bunch of stuff throughout the show. For instance next episode there will be a conversation that relates to another one, that even I missed in the very first episode, right before Vox Machina is introduced to Sovereign Uriel. Really makes you want to go back a watch a second time to see what you might have missed.

[@marthajo7071]

Amazon has video has X-ray where it will show you who the actors are in the show and give you a mini biography

[@RhiannonNeale]

I loved this and your last reaction! It's so fun to watch people who clearly are familiar with the beats of a fantasy/game watch a show that both plays into them and also subverts them. I too love when I can predict something, and hate when stuff comes out of nowhere or makes no sense. It was a lot of fun watching you try to work out who was/was working with the dragon. I hope you continue to react to the rest of the series! Each episode gets better than the last. I'm subscribing to keep track of your videos now too :)

[@ticozayas6430]

The rest of the season follows a single story arc from early in critical role's first campaign, it's a fan favorite... the 1st 2 episodes are intro to the group and their dynamic, the rest of the season really picks up

[@trailblazerlazerrazerd9027]

The voice actor for the King is Phil Lamar, so he's been both Cyborg and Aqualad/Kaldur'Am. So YBR is kinda right either way. Also Critical Role is likely related to a D&D thing. They probably do something similar with Warhammer because they have the PC games, some console games and most of all the table top RPG games, both fantasy and sci-fi fantasy.

[@corybishop3084]

You mean Khary Payton. But yes, Cyborg, also King Ezekiel from Walking Dead.

[@trailblazerlazerrazerd9027]

@@corybishop3084 Damn, you're right. I keep getting them mixed up somehow. Thanks

[@VxDRAGONSLAYERxV]

Second video I've watched, really enjoy your editing style. Keep it up, just subbed

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

it don't matter if you lock pick with a toothpick as long as you roll a nat 20

[@Josmoose_Josaro]

vox machina is latin for voice machine/machine voice like dues ex machina ma-ki-na = machina

[@DL0P]

This is really fun, I'm a long time fan of vox machina. Watching people react to the show with no context of the original show brings a whole new view to the show. Thank you for sharing your reaction.

[@chamomilecraft]

I wouldn’t be afraid Vax doesn’t want to get some Gilmore action. The original character from the D&D campaign is very very bi/pansexual and very intrigued by Gilmore. I can’t see them changing that.

[@ronanfel8191]

Most anime fans have heard these voices many, many times. In case you didn't catch it: The voice actor for Vax is also the voice of Gara from the Naruto dub. Vex is Kid Trunks from DBZ, Lust from FMA. Grog is Roy Mustang from Full Metal Alchemist. Delilah Briarwood is Azula from Avatar TLAB. Silas Briarwood is sooo many other voices, including Levi from AoT, Jotaro from JoJo, and Pain from Naruto.

[@AnxietyRat]

From what others have said...they don't watch dubs. So they probably aren't going to recognise any of the VAs. 🤷‍♀️

[@applepie6832]

In the first episode Vex mentions that the tracks turn from dragon or animal to human.

[@sequentialscott]

Btw - Did anyone mention yet that Vax (the guy twin) voice actor also voiced Gaara in Naruto?

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Maybe by the end of the show you will all be interested enough in D&D to give it a whirl. There really isn't anything else quite like pen and paper games. Mostly do digital these days though

[@YaBoyRockLee]

😬😬😬. My man said pen and paper

[@Michael-bn1oi]

@@YaBoyRockLee Whatever you want to call them lol just didn't want to say "d&d" cause there tons of great ones besides it. For real though, you don't even have to take it very seriously and you really might have a blast. Plus, the algorithm loves that kind of content so win/win

[@Hazzbazz]

Next episode gose from 0 to 100 so fast it's like THE episide that's gona make or break if your gona watch the rest.

[@trailblazerlazerrazerd9027]

I Love this series. Some series and legends have Dragons that can transform into humans or temporarily take human form. Tio from Arifuerta was a Dragonborn a human who is the descendant or child of a dragon and a human. Milium from That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime was a Dragonborn too. But she never turned into one. That being said, Rimuru was able to make a body for Veldora to possess. And having been inside of him, Veldora likely learned how to shapeshift thanks to Rimuru eating Ifrit the Fire Spirit. But then in the other episodes the red haired dude seemed to have a blue haired girlfriend or something that said that Veldora was her brother so I guess she learned how to do it on her own, maybe? Anyway there was also an Old anime called Slayers, in like the 3rd or 4th season they became friends with a girl who was a Golden Dragon and her people were in danger from a Demon Dragon trying to destroy the world. So she took human form and joined the main group of heroes to save it, as an add on character.

[@ricardoariel1239]

I I'm waiting for the moment when they discover that the story is based on a game of dnd. Today they were very close hahaha

[@christiankaleopaa8834]

Love it. I was wondering if you you'd do a reaction for this series

[@TheGreatDayne1983]

Really excited for what’s coming!

[@theinfernalfae]

Just so you guys know it's pronounced ma-key-na 😊

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Facts

[@nameless_milk_1624]

"its some harry potter shit" context: 3:57 bro harry potter was inspired by dnd, just like pretty much every magic health and stamina system in some form were, Critical Role the show this series is based on is a bunch of ppl playing dnd.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Facts

[@dennisboone1580]

The General Krieg was David Tennent

[@Outzienhier]

Seriously one of the best dragon encounter ever. Also it's a ranger passive skill to sense

[@Nova-uy7ub]

the guy who plays Vax is the same guy that voices Gaara

[@nestoraquino-serrano7058]

"I think the neck is gonna be it, though. if the neck fails, then the butt" To be fair, that's the kind of thought process I've seen at D&D tables lol

[@inesfuentes9290]

Can't wait for y'all to see the rest of the season

[@zippomage]

I....WOULD LIKE.......TOO RRAAAAAAAAAGE "SMAAAAAAAASH" welcome. Welcome to the critters.

[@chillwill2918]

They didn't buy that ale, they stole it.

[@StMargorach]

about the door not opening and impossible to pick. Thats is kind of a running joke in the d&d game. They sort of always rolled bad when trying to open a locked door. It kind of funny seeing a really powerfull group being stopped by a simple lock just because they rolled badly XD

[@nightmarestorage]

once you get "oh Grog..." you know it's gtg!!!

[@jamesmorehouse9896]

Watching this first RIGHT Before final episodes drop. Booyah!

[@theeLonelyRedPanda]

any one who's a critter and plays a barbarian, always go I WOULD LIKE TO RAGE!

[@AnxietyRat]

I mean...it's the standard announcement of rage being used...it was a thing long before CR. But yes, it's become a catchphrase of grog, specifically. But ALL barbarians say it in D&D because you NEED to verbally announce the effect being activated every time it is used.

[@Promance2300]

0:15

[@sebbat9575]

Critical Role is a group of "nerdy ass voice actors" that play D&D together! The characters and storyline of the show are the characters and game they played themselves. They streamed their game, and it blew up. They're now in the beginning of their third campaign! The first two episodes actually happened in their home game before they started treaming. Episode 3 is when they started streaming basically. So yeah!

[@MFinch-zn6nn]

Love your reactions. Welcome to D&D and the world of Critical Role. Critical Role is a D&D roleplaying juggernaut and this cartoon is the animated version of what happened in their first campaign. The end battle is literally one round of combat in D&D. Each player getting one movement and action. There is a bit of tweaking to make it work in the animated form. Everyone misses this on the first viewing. Before we see Krieg and meet Brymscythe we can see Pike, Grog and Vax in the background shoving gold into the Bag of Holding(a magical bag that is a small pocket dimension and can hold ALOT of stuff, alot more than the size of the bag would make possible) Vax even shoves in a big vase. Vex does grab an armful of gold as they leave which is right in character for her. So they did get some gold and Scanlon gets out with three potions, a magical scroll and a troll dick.

[@lou7041]

Glad you like it

[@sickonesnow]

If they haven't figured it out by now it is based off of campaign one off of critical role which is a twitch and KZbin live play d&d game. And the series wound up getting made because I signed up for a Kickstarter campaign that was looking for 750.000 to make one half hour episode and in the first day they made over a million dollars by the end of the kickstarter campaign they had made over 11 million dollars they were going to do a season of the show and then Amazon approached them said will give you the money to make it two seasons that's the legend of vox machina and how it got started and it's an awesome show

[@corpralcobra420]

Hell yeah.

[@Grim_death144]

Leeeeeeeeeeeet's Goooooooooooooooooo

[@ccloudleaf]

Critter Hug!

[@corporealghoul]

Okay I know this is uber old now but some background info on the campaign and D&D to answer a question. Dragons are considered highly intelligent magical creatures. And most everyone in that "era" know that. As well, enough if know about dragons that some could know which color dragons to avoid. The non metallic dragons are considered hostile. Extremely so. None of the non metallic dragons will really ever be bartered with. If it was a gold or bronze dragon it would be very different. And people like Vex might know this.

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Yup. Correct

[@StMargorach]

try to remember that in D&D all chromatic dragons are by nature Evil and all metallic dragons are on the good side of things. Its also really funny to see people wathcintg this when they havent seen the original critical role episodes and have no clue about wtf is going on XD And believe me, you wont be able to predict the story at all. Matt Mercer ( the dungeon master) is a master of plot and unsuspected twists

[@jeffreydegraw4070]

This show is great!! I hope you watch the whole thing!

[@passenthrualaska3293]

Predictable? LoL!! You aint seen nothing yet.

[@hypocritex]

"Predictable" half the story is based on chance lol.

[@JustNinj]

Yeah it’s a group of nerdy ass voice actors who sit around a table and play dungeons and dragons. I honestly can’t wait for you to watch the rest of the vampire arc (I won’t give any names)

[@MastaRhee]

I'm sorry, but they're pronunciation of "Vox Machina" is bugging me... Other than that I'm happy to see people who don't know critical role enjoying the show and getting into the show

[@Short_Round1999]

You have to watch the Critical Role streams to get context

[@YaBoyRockLee]

Facts. We do blind reaction videos including blind speculations

[@Arekiris]

Vox Mashina.

[@danieltilleru3528]

This show was made with a really small budget

[@AnxietyRat]

Compared to Arcane...absolutely. and it shows in the quality of animation. A single episode of arcane had the budget of the *entire* season of LoVM.

[@Nastyn1nja808]

Ma key na

[@Gwolf303]

Id debate Smaug was pretty effective for a dragon attack but for audience members this probably is more intense. Spoilers for non critical role fans This will probably be nothing compared to a certain dragon attack later campaign

[@Josmoose_Josaro]

it is D&D

[@SeaMermaid777]

Critical role is a KZbin channel

[@Arekiris]

Could you turn off the background on the subtitles?

[@YaBoyRockLee]

I can’t

[@AnxietyRat]

Yeah you don't have that much control over what the subtitles visually look like on prime. You get what you get, sadly. With KZbin subtitles there is a bit more customization. But not for Prime.

[@Jammy._.]

wait hes the same dragon? wasnt he in human form when the dragon was attacking which means that there atleast 2 dragons if not more working together

[@davidillarretasolans6970]

There passed a few hours before the dragon returned. The general could have perfectley snuck out of the camp with any pretext (you are not going to question the military leader), and after he attacked the camp, shifted back into his human form and joined the survivors, which aren't going to suspect him. If you are referring to the first episode, we saw them flying in a giant skyship and reaching the location in a matter of hours. It's not that unlikely that the dragon could have flown over the area, attacked them, then returned back to the capital.

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

In the first scene in EP 1, there would have obviously been a time skip between the opening scene and the council scene Here in EP 2, General Krieg was mysteriously and obviously not there when the blue dragon attacked the army

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Polymorph only takes 6 seconds. He walked off screen, the dragon entered the screen.

[@davidillarretasolans6970]

@@Michael-bn1oi It's not really polymorph (since polymorph only allows you to turn into *beasts*) It's the shapechange trait.While that one is mostly localized to metallic dragons, some DM's give it to chromatic dragons for fun twists. (In fact, it's revealed in Storm King's Thunder that there's a dragon that does and abuses the hell out of it for their own benefit, so it's not like WotC negates this type of thing happening)

[@Michael-bn1oi]

@@davidillarretasolans6970 Remember that they did not start with D&D rules, they converted everything to 5e form pathfinder. 5e monster manual wont do you much good for that and like any good DM Matt uses the books as a guideline not a rule. In Pathfinder Adult dragons can polymorph self 3/day!

[@Jammy._.]

a magical painting is a terrible place to make a portal i would have totally touch it too, also it doesnt happen often but when it does i do point it out i was wrong about the ugly guy being evil i thought this was a simple evil guy being evil because evil story

[@Jammy._.]

i feel like the guy named vox is the leader and the green elf druid is the love interest i see a lot of ships trying to be made like the healer dwarf and the gigant or the same healer and the other honry dwarf and the gunner and the female twin they need another girl so a guy doesnt get left out

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

Some corrections for some misconceptions He isn't actually named Vox, it's Vax, short for Vax'Ildan (his sister being Vex/Vex'Ahlia There aren't actually any dwarves in the team, they're gnomes Pike's (gnome cleric) relationship with Grog (goliath/half-giant) is more of the best of friends variety

[@GeirenKuzunoha]

Also remember Grog has an intelligence of 6....he knows what he's doing lol

[@Michael-bn1oi]

No one is named Vox, but I get why you would think that. It's Vax, and he for sure isn't the leader. They don't really have one since they are all player characters. Also they are gnomes, no dwarfs in the party.

[@jled787]

Its an in-joke for the group as Scanlan's VA sometimes get the two names mixed up in their early adventures that later on he jokingly threatened to make a character named Vix to add to the confusion. The idea was then revisited in their 2nd campaign where Sam Regeil named his Goblin Rogue 'Nox' .

[@AlmostOtaku7]

@@jled787 Nott*

[@Jammy._.]

the problem i have with this is that theres a bunch of characters that are all in this group they all seem like MC material but no one is taking the lead also for us to care about these guys they need to be beat and slapped around more thats basic hero building 101 i dont know diddly about them i dont care if they die or not i do like the druid elf but shes so flat ... its hard for me to care

[@jeffreymeehan3567]

That's because this is from a D&D game ... they're all PCs run by a different player. They're ALL MCs.

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

@@jeffreymeehan3567 yes.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

You are posting a lot of comments complaining lol

[@hhylobates4098]

You can only be beaten to near death, and suddenly be all better, so many times before it looses impact. This is only episode 2 and there's been 2 dragon encounters and a bar-room brawl. There's only so much fighting you can put in a 23 minute episode while leaving room for the actual story.

[@AnxietyRat]

Yeah...they are an adventuring party...there IS no leader. But the actors have said if they had to pick a leader of the group it would be Vex the ranger half elf.

[@Jammy._.]

this isnt a bad animated show, i do think it feels like it tries too hard to be edgy like i said the last episode it feels like a bunch of youtubers wrote a story and amazon paid them to make a cartoon ala invincible style clearly some one tossed alot of monet to the animation team, but the group doesnt have a leader and feels like everyone is trying to be the MC which doesnt work

[@whocares6757]

You know this is based off of an actual d&d campaign that the voice actors played right?

[@Jammy._.]

@@whocares6757 never played dnd im not that nerdy ...

[@whocares6757]

@@Jammy._. anyway my point was that it follows a pre-existing story from an actual campaign. Also why does the group need a leader? that's a stupid complaint.

[@Invader_Rin13]

@@Jammy._. You never played D&D and call it nerdy, yet you have a human Ainz as your profile pic? Which Overlord is based off D&D.

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

D&D for neeeerds, *_Earthdawn for Freebirds!!!_* ‡*heavy metal guitar solo*‡

[@Xantheus07]

I think the show is kind of stupid for making the first bad guy a dragon and the new 2 look like Vampires. Sorry but Dragons are alot harder to kill them Vampire. So i lost interest pretty quick. Plus the Obvious the bad guy isnt who you think it is but i knew all along the bad guy was going to end up being the only white male in the kings counsel.

[@whocares6757]

This is based off of an actual d&d campaign. I think the dragon part might have actually been pre campaign that they did i on their own not recorded.

[@jjjustice4343]

Being mad at the obvious fake bad guy and then being confused that 2 "Vampires" are weaker than a dragon to defeat is kind of odd. I would try to look at it like Arrogant dragon is weaker than two "Vampire" leaders of a large city.

[@Jammy._.]

im just shocked the dragon wasnt a loli 300 years old ... lol

[@kailupo7543]

Vampires in d&d are pretty crazy. They can only be truly killed in specific conditions, if you don't do it correctly they just revive and come back later.

[@Ragdefender]

It always depends on the dragon and the vampire. DM's adjust the monster manual all the time. Also you assumed wrong about the "two vampires".