The Legend of Vox Machina 1x2 Reaction | The Terror of Tal'Dorei Part 2

[@Deeplight32]

Just one quick thing, "this" dragon is not the one that killed Vex and Vax's parents.

[@funnylilgalreacts]

For some reason I thought that’s what they said. I went back and rewatched the episode and sure enough… whoops! 😅

[@timidwolf]

Also it was only their mother that was killed by a dragon.

[@Deeplight32]

@@timidwolf oh yeah, also true

[@nyghtmoon]

@@funnylilgalreacts It was a red dragon and someone in this episode had a run in with a red dragon...

[@thetankgarage]

@@funnylilgalreacts They got a book that is all about Vex and Vax's upbringing, Kith & Kin. Totally adequate fantasy if you like reading.

[@billbishop6109]

Fun little fact, when they were recording for Grog's burps they had a little competition with the cast, and Laura Bailey and Marisha Ray won, so they combined their burps for it.

[@jeremydickey3879]

you know i didnt know that but at the same time im not surprised at all by that it tracks

[@SeanBlader]

Laura Bailey is one of those rare "cool girls", Travis is a really lucky guy.

[@damian01061973]

Scanlan also created a complex illusion of the party in Episode 1 to accompany the musical introduction to the court.

[@Logan_Baron]

"Where was Trinket during that fight?" In the game Trinket sometimes got left behind, as Laura was very protective of her bear and he wasn't well protected early on, so it kind of fits, but the real reason is that apparently animating animals is a lot harder than animating people, so they kept it to a minimum. Edit, also animating him in combat would be even harder work than like the scenes we saw of him just being adorable.

[@zippomage]

also he's just a regular bear. Everyone else in the party slowly becomes superhuman, but he's....just a bear

[@gaymerknight3726]

In the game a Ranger's pet has to share their turn actions, so Laura often chose her own actions as they were often more useful than trinket attacking, and she often forgot about utilizing trinket in combat because of this. usually only when she had nothing else to do she'd let him attack. Ranger Pets also do not scale well in levels and constantly are in danger of benig one shot killed.

[@mattdrahos2662]

Tusk Love is running joke from Campaign two. They buy some high quality smut, and it shows up often:) Ridiculous fan service everywhere in this series.

[@johnwoodworth9127]

The best part of that whole thing was that it was one huge troll by Liam. He kept asking about it, hyping it up, making a big deal of it. So Matt would have to make something up for it... But when they finally found it he just was like "Oh... Meh, whatever"

[@theanyktos]

4:03 Yeah, Scanlan and Pike are both Gnomes. The twins and Keyleth are halfelves, Grog's a goliath and Percy's the token human.

[@SCUBAguypnw]

You are the first reactor I have seen that made the connection between the rug on the floor and other dragons. Well done!

[@wtimmins]

'I would like to RAAAAGE' In D&D, Barbarians get a number of Rages per day (or rest or whatever, depending on the edition). While raging, they generally get bonus chance to hit, damage, ability to take damage, and sometimes a number of other things. But rage only lasts a fairly short amount of time. So while in a game, it's important for players with barbarian characters to declare that they are actually doing so; they can't try to retroactively go 'oh that was all while raging.' Gotta SAY that's what you are doing, and use up one of your rages. So... art imitating ... an imitation of life. As it were.

[@andyme3541]

Also during the campaign that was what Travis would say basically to show Grog was raging 'I would like to rage' it became a running joke in the campaign and since then, I think in campaign 2 and 3 the same phrase has been used by other people playing Barbarians, so it was also a little nod of the head to that

[@pandemoniumeris]

@@andyme3541 By Ashley, yes, Tal I don't thing so. I think he purposely tried to avoid saying those words exactly in that order.

[@elbruces]

The specific phrase "I would like to rage" became a meme of sorts. He could have said "I rage" or "rage on" or whatever.

[@corybishop3084]

It wasn’t Krieg’s son who he was talking to, just one of the soldiers under his command. It was a “son” from an elder in authority to a younger subordinate. Also, you must have a pretty solid following. Watched this video less than an hour after it posted, and there’s already a solid number of views and likes. I don’t know if you take notes or are just very observant, but for someone coming to this without prior knowledge you catch on quick!

[@ghurcbghurcb]

Also, at least in the campaign, Brimscythe killed the original general Krieg, and was posing as him. So even if this soldier was Krieg's son (he wasn't), there wouldn't be any contradiction.

[@wtimmins]

Delilah is voiced by the great and wonderful Grey DeLisle/Griffin. She's voiced... so so SO many characters: Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender; Monster Girl, Olga, Shrinking Ray in Invincible... and many many many many many others.

[@samcarter565]

She’s probably most famous as the voice of Daphne in Scooby-Doo since 2001

[@TheJerbol]

She played both of them in Invincible? Had no idea

[@nyghtmoon]

Everyone loves Gilmore. The Briarwoods are next up and it will be a ride. As you know, the show gets more serious in the remaining episodes. The story is definitely not done with dragons.

[@jaywhite6]

So just to address some of your questions. Brimscythe is not the dragon that killed Vex and Vax's mother. Vex said in episode one that 'A' Dragon killed their mother, and thus, she spent her formative years studying them and trying to track down the one that killed her. Keyleth is a druid, and thus uses nature magic. Pike is a cleric, She uses her connection to The Everlight (her deity) to use magic. she was so tired in episode 1 after she healed Grog, because she had already been using a lot of magic during the first fight with Brimscythe. In D&D you use 'spell slots' to cast spells. This is the shows way of saying she ran out of spell slots. Pike and Scanlan are both in fact Gnomes. :) Hope this helped with some questions.

[@binder38us]

Grog was once turned into an Eagle. Grog as an Eagle was smarter than Grog himself

[@bandi138138]

“I have an intelligence of 6, I know what I’m doing”

[@momqabt]

@@bandi138138 yup, hes a genius😉

[@ventusbruma1039]

That moment was amazing!! 🤣🤣

[@neighborlyfiend1484]

One of the funniest moments to be sure!

[@btgardener39]

The animation gets even better as the season progresses! Really looking forward to your reactions to later episodes this season.

[@grimm516]

There so many references to the original stream and cool easter eggs so good so much love and care went in to the show.

[@ricktaylor5397]

You might want to watch the “Voices of the Legend of Vax Machina” to see all of the incredible actors that did voiceovers for this series.

[@elbruces]

Honestly she should finish the show first. Those videos have a lot of spoilers.

[@zippomage]

ah yes, the Legend of the Legend of Vox Machina

[@chrism7395]

Random fact: Grog's belches were done by Laura Bailey who voiced Vex

[@cryofpaine]

And Marisha Ray, who voices Keyleth. There was a belching contest among the cast, and those two won. They blend the two together for Grog.

[@chrisd7047]

As an added insult to injury, Laura and Travis, Grog's voice, are married. Basically, 6'4" Travis Willingham got outbelched by his 5'5" wife.

[@AAAndrew]

Gilmore's has so many little easter eggs for various of the campaigns (like Tusk Love, a romane book that became a running gag in Campaign 2) as well as other, more esoteric DnD references. For example, the sandal is a reference to Gygax's sandal. The creator of DnD, Gary Gygax used to make shoes. One day he realized that he could make a living out of this DnD thing and the last shoe he ever made was a sandal. That sandal is now a treasured object in the community and gets passed around. The head of Titmouse, the animation studio, is the current owner of the Gygax sandal.

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

U said it b4 I could. I love this lil bit of knowledge! 💯

[@testfire3000]

I have played D&D starting back in the early 80's. I never knew this bit of Gygax lore until it started getting posted on Vox Machina reaction videos. Pretty cool!

[@gaymerknight3726]

5:48 I nearly spit out my lemonade

[@eazolan]

Now starts my favorite part of the first season. The Briarwood arc!

[@funnylilgalreacts]

The Briarwood’s are…. Something.

[@jordanpeterson5140]

@@funnylilgalreacts they're perfectly normal people, don't know what you're talking about.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

The Briarwood arc is the entirety of the first season, sans the first two introductory episodes.

[@PristineTX]

Scanlan first showed his ability to cast illusions of the group in the first episode, when he sang an introduction to the group in Sovereign Uriel's throne room in Emon. He made them all look heroic and stuff during the song, and even showed Trinket the wonderbear, even though Trinket had to wait outside with the guards, and they were all very hung over and disheveled from the bar fight. In addition to their standard abilities, all the characters have certain limited-use special abilities, according to their character classes and choices and paths their characters make. Some are magical and some are physical, depending on the class of the character and their experience level. The more experience a character gains, the more abilities are unlocked.

[@calbert630]

Be prepared for many deadly battles opening doors

[@TheMadirishgunner]

9:10 Tusk love is a running gag easter egg from their second campaign its a book that kept getting brought up around the characters more specifically 2 of them

[@MsSneekyNinja]

Laura Bailey is super protective of Trinket both her and Vex, her character, so sometimes she'll have left him somewhere safe when they go into a big fight. ^^

[@adinin]

I didn't hear you say that you noticed, but General Krieg is voice by David Tennent. Its a bit hard to tell as he went full Scottish for the part... They said in some of the behind the scenes stuff that he actually recorded his lines in his attic, as it was right in the middle of the pandemic lockdown and he couldn't get to a professional studio for it. Travis also said that when they first started getting some of the animation back, its was a bit tame, as most of the animators were used to doing children's shows. They sent it back, asking for it to be a bit more graphic. The next version came back better, but again sent it back saying "Close, but really f**k our characters up." What came back the next time is the fantastic level of violence we get to see.

[@binder38us]

Gilmore is truly fabulous. Matt has created many NPC characters over the years, but he has admitted that Gilmore is his boy.

[@neonom1024]

Glorious more than fabulous, really.

[@AnxietyRat]

@@neonom1024 Matt has used the word fabulous to describe Gilmore in the past. So it's absolutely a descriptive word that fits Gilmore lol

[@neonom1024]

@@AnxietyRat I've deleted a couple drafts of responses to this in favor of simply saying: I don't know if you just didn't get my reference, or did get it and ignored the innocuous joke.

[@brewdaly1873]

​@@AnxietyRat his shop is literally called Gilmore's Glorious Goods. That was the joke.

[@AnxietyRat]

@@neonom1024 no, I got it I've been a fan of CR since the early 70s of campaign one. It's just a bad joke since Matt has LITERALLY used the word fabulous to describe Gilmore before. So fabulous is a descriptor of Gilmore not just glorious like his shop name. Bad joke. 🤷‍♀️

[@TheMcMatey]

One of my favorite things about the show was the amount of guests actor they got for it. Khary Payton by far is my favorite one as Sovereign Uriel Tal’Dorei

[@funnylilgalreacts]

His voice is SO distinct.

[@cryofpaine]

He also guested on a couple of episodes in their second campaign, and was a main player in their 4 episode miniseries Undeadwood. It's an entirely separate series from the rest of Critical Role, set in the old west, but with a supernatural bend. Well worth a watch, it's easy to get into without a major time commitment.

[@TheMcMatey]

@@cryofpaine Yeah, season 2 of Crit role is definitely my favorite to watch, I think the Mighty Nein arc is where they really hit their stride as friends playing a game togeather while building an epic story for people to watch

[@TheMcMatey]

@@funnylilgalreacts The amount of guests they've had over the years has been crazy, and from interviews I've seen, it's being planned to get all of them back as their original characters from the campaigns

[@cryofpaine]

@@TheMcMatey The first 30 or so episodes were rough for me. It felt like they were starting over again not just in story, but in how to tell the story - it just didn't flow the same as the end of campaign 1. After the incident, they started to find their stride. Loved the last half of that campaign especially. For me, campaign 3 is my favorite. I love the Addams Family vibe they've got going on, and the fact that there's been an overarching story from episode one.

[@EatSleepRepeat1988]

"Tusk Love" is an easter egg from campaign 2 of the critical role cast, where one of the members in particular likes reading it

[@dehro]

in DnD rules, Trinket is the animal companion of Vex, who is a ranger beastmaster... The trouble with that particular class and subclass is that the animal companion is rather underpowered (things have improved in later rewrites, but not at the time in which they played this campaign)... so Trinket was mostly a liability in fights and would be quick to die if they let him out... So they mostly keep him out of sticky situations. quick rundown to the characters and classes: Percy is a human gungslinger fighter... which makes him good with most weapons but in this setting he is the guy who invented firearms.. his weapons are early prototypes and prone to misfire or jam. Grog is a Goliath barbarian. he soaks up damage, can take a punch and deal them too.. in raging mode, he becomes a beast. Goliaths are renamed half-giants in this cartoon because of copyright issues. Scanlan is a Gnome bard of lore, which means he has a lot of magical abilities and is a great support character/jack of all trades.. his magic expresses itself in the form of music. Pike is a war cleric Gnome. her deity is the Everlight. She has healing powers, damage dealing magic and packs quite a punch, especially against the undead. Vexalia is a half-elven beastmaster ranger.. making her expert at tracking and archery. Trinket is her companion. She has chosen as favoured enemies the Dragons, which gives her a few advantages against them. Vaxildan, her twin brother, also a half-elf... he's a rogue assassin, making him quite lethal with the daggers, and expert at stealthing around, pickpocketing and lockpicking. Keyleth is a half-elven Moon Druid. this makes her an expert in magic that has to do with manipulating and controlling nature and the elemental forces. Druids are one of the most well-rounded and powerful classes in the game, and moon druids are especially good at wildshaping. Each character is voiced by the actor that played the character in the game, and the DM, the dungeon master who runs the game, voices a bunch of minor characters and Sylas Briarwood. if you google the voice cast, you will find that you probably have watched cartoons or played games with a bunch of characters that have been voiced by at least a few of them. In fact, in this show, the extended voice cast includes some very big names of television and big screen fame. Check them out...I am sure you will recognise at least a few names.

[@Deeplight32]

So about Grog, in the original game, fans kept track of the stats and Grog ultimately dealt the most damage, far outstripping the rest of the party. He is an e will continue to be an absolute beast.

[@funnylilgalreacts]

He seems like he’d do more damage than anyone else!

[@Deeplight32]

@@funnylilgalreacts That is also accurate in a way. If you ever get into DnD, look up how barbarians work. Btw the party's classes incase you didn't know: Grog: Barbarian - Path of the Berserker Pike: Cleric - War Domain Vex: Ranger - Beast Master Conclave Vax: Rogue - Assassin Keyleth: Druid - Circle of the Moon Percy: Fighter - Gunslinger (custom subclass by Matt Mercer) Scanlan: Bard - College of Lore

[@pabloc8808]

But Percy did pull off an incredible feat of damage, to the point that the live audience was roaring. I love Grog but Percy is incredible in every way

[@jeremydickey3879]

@@pabloc8808 no mercy percy was a beast

[@stevencavanagh7990]

I heard Keyleth has the highest kill count

[@calibadgerdude6082]

What’s really funny about Grog, is that his player, Travis, is one of the smartest people at the table and very often figures connections or plot points out long before the rest of the group. But Travis is such a team player and committed to his role of idiot barbarian that he either sits on it and waits for the smarter “characters” to figure it out or finds some goofy way for Grog to say something or do something stupid that points the team in the right direction. Every table needs a Travis at it. XD

[@wtimmins]

Dragons are very powerful creatures. A single adult dragon, at least in 3rd edition D&D, is a formidable opponent for a team of fairly advanced adventurers. They have powerful natural attacks (biting, wing buffet, tail swipe), they are incredibly tough (armor-like scales, lots of hit points to soak up damage), plus, obviously, their breath weapon. They are also very intelligent and often have a bunch of spell-like abilities.

[@laserpanda94]

Mmm, wing buffet. BBQ is my favourite... 😋

[@HelloThere.GeneralKenobi]

We got a peek of them fighting in the bar in episode 1 and now we see them actually battle!! Without any knowledge of Critical Role I was pysched and hooked for more! Get ready for the action!!

[@clownzzz4837]

Someone pointed it out elsewhere but if you go back to the bar scene, watch Pike. You will see that she already has her mug down before Grog finishes, showing she won in the drinking game. A brief insight into Pike and Grog's relationship.

[@AL-ch5cz]

10:23 Grog giving off some drax vibes with this line 😂😂😂

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

In the context of the D&D game, he is a barbarian, with the power to RAGE!. Basically, he Hulks out. Not Bruce Banner level Hulking out, but bad-ass enough to ignore some pain, get stronger, faster, etc.

[@elbruces]

Grog came first.

[@AL-ch5cz]

@@elbruces I didn’t know grog lost his virginity first good for him

[@Drakengard65]

It is so fun to watch someone who haven't watched the D&D web Series of C1. Oh the things they will miss and the things they will find out! Bless them.

[@nmcnea771]

In D&D each color dragon is a distinct creature different habitat, things they're good at, and breath weapons as they're called in game. Krieg set the trees on fire via lightning, which is what blue dragons have. There's also poison, acid, ice/frost, and fire for black, green, white, and red dragons respectively

[@alto1MO]

I'm so glad the KZbin robots decided to suggest your Vox Machina episodes to me. Can't wait to see what you think of the rest of the season, and in the meantime I get to dive into the rest of your videos too.

[@misteryman526]

"I like General Krieg" 😏 BTW, Krieg called the soldier "son" as a jovial way of addressing one of his men, I don't think he was actually meant to be General Krieg's son.

[@old_geezer_gamer1874]

I've been impatiently waiting since your first reaction to the first episode. Can't wait for the rest! Such an amazing show. Season 2 in January I think.

[@funnylilgalreacts]

I didn’t realize that until last week, so I’m gonna try to do as many as I can before January

[@old_geezer_gamer1874]

@@funnylilgalreacts Wonderful! I look forward to it. I love when you jump into something new and give a fresh take and share your perspective.

[@Ozai75]

The running joke about Trinket never being in the fights was because at the time the Ranger class in D&D that used pets was *incredibly* under powered and Trinket would basically get one shot by any of the baddies that they'd face at the levels they're currently at. So he was always "left at home" or (eventually) put in a magical necklace where he could just chill out in his own demiplane. But that's one of the reasons why you don't see him get involved in fights.

[@ticozayas6430]

pike not having enough power to heal the kid after healing grog is a nod to actual dnd mechanics, spell casters get a certain number of spells per day and when you run out you need to sleep to replenish your spells, her not having enough power is their way of saying she ran out of spell slots without outright saying so. Also dnd gnomes are waaaay different than garden gnomes lol

[@Luzarioth]

In the D&D Game, Grog can activate "Rage", which makes him take less Damage, deal more Damage and so on. Roleplay wise, Grog loses his mind and goes full on berserker, but Travis, his player and voice, always politly said to the Game Master: "I would like to Rage". Funfact: Travis is an absolut Dragon Ball fan, his wife even had a few Roles in Dragon Ball Z as Voice Actress. Him really dipping into his shouting to get a Powerup must have felt incredible :)

[@jordanpeterson5140]

Percy is good with THE gun. He literally is the one who invented them in this world.

[@jebus7679]

Grog is a dummy, but he's also a barbarian. The Barbarian's whole thing is going into a rage and becoming an unstoppable killing machine. Travis Willingham, the man behind the character, would always say, "I would like to rage" when he wanted to use the mechanic at the table, so Grog saying it was reference to that.

[@samhachmeister9876]

Your knowledge of film and actors, as well as your appreciation of good material, has gained you a devoted subscriber!

[@ryanbrooks8045]

Keep in mind while watching this that it's based off a D&D campaign which means anything can happen. They let the dice decide a lot of story points and Mercer (the DM) is merciless. I'm not going to say if characters die or not but if the dice aren't on their side, Mercer will let what happens happen. So don't watch it thinking anyone is safe.

[@AGLxlv]

You got watch after the BTS/promo of the making of the series and you will be practically ready for season 2 coming next year

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

EDIT: 18:14 I have not seen this show yet and I wrote the following before you mentioned so maybe true? and Good Guess! 12:39 No sane and good person would make a floor symbol like that. There are generally two types of dragons: the EVIL Chromatics (colors) and GOOD Metallics. The floor is displaying the colors of the Chromatics (black, blue, green, red, white) . Each Chromatic dragon has a specific breath weapon (acid, lightning, chlorine gas, fire, frrezing cold). The only thing the five Chromatics ever agree on is worship or respect of their goddes / queen Tiamat who has the form of a five headed dragon larger than any of them, each head is a different color and fires the breath weapon of the color !

[@jeremydickey3879]

is the chlorine gas supposed to be the poision breath?

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

@@jeremydickey3879 Yea. Don't recall at the moment if it is still "chlorine". I have been playing since the 1970s so if the specific flavor text got changed between versions, well we old people get set in our ways LOL.

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

Rewatching these, and impressed all over again at how quickly you nailed down everyone's names!

[@JustGrowingUp84]

Yesss, I was waiting for this!

[@leonielson7138]

Fun Fact: the person who voices the captain in the cold open is Felicia Day, who convinced Matt Mercer and company to move their monthly Pathfinder home game to a weekly D&D streamed game on her Twitch Stream, 'Geek and Sundry'. Tusk Love is a smutty romance novel introduced in the second campaign about a noblewoman's romance with a half-orc commoner, and was one of the reasons that Laura Bailey's character, Jester Lavore, started crushing on Travis Willingham's character, Fjord Stone, who was a half-orc. Laura and Travis are married in real life, which is the only reason he was comfortable with playing out the romance. The 'Lance of Dragonslaying' is a reference to the campaign setting 'Dragonlance', which is where the D&D animated movie adaptation of the books takes place. The troll dick was a thing in the home game, which they'd lost before the live stream started. As the cavern was coming down there was a giant bolder in the shape of an icosahedron (20-sided die, commonly called a d20) that was smashed by Scanlan's spell. This is a reference to the Luck feat that Vax'uldan has and to the Bardic Inspiration that Scanlan can use to give his party members, allowing them to succeed saving throws. "I would like to rage" is a catch phrase Travis would say when Grog would go into a rage.

[@LucVasAbb]

I'm so glad you are watching this. Your reactions and analysis are so good! Keep up with the great work. =)

[@CosminEu85]

These first 2 episodes were mostly made for the fans of Critical Role because they sum up a little the story before they started streaming the game. On another note, "I would like to rage" became Travis Willingham's (Grog) most iconic phrase from Campaign one (and Ashley Johnson uses it in Campaign 2 when she plays a barbarian). That and Sam Riegel's "Bixby's haaand" that was replaced in the show with "Scanlan's haaand" (because of the copyright from D&D, I believe). Oh, and Liam O'Brien's (Vax) "I walk away".

[@magp1001]

It's not just copyright -- all the people who'd never played D&D before would be asking, "Who's Bigby?"

[@Zenshu1]

@@magp1001 it was definitely a copyright issue moreso than worrying about people being confused about the name bigby, same reason that they never use the proper names of any gods or spells or anything, grog is a half-giant not a Goliath, Pikes god is just "The Everlight", "The whispered one" will never be called by his true name(unless the cr crew gets a license from WoTC to use the name in later seasons) they mentioned on one of their many Q&As at some point that it was just easier to not use anything that was owned by WoTC than to try to go through the hassle of getting a license to use the proper names when they could just change a few minor things that would still be recognizable without violating any copyrights...same reason why the groups safe word on the animated series is Chenga instead of Jenga.

[@nuru666]

Dagger Dagger Dagger.

[@Damalatorian]

It's soon time for episode 3 my guys!!! :D *straps on*

[@funnylilgalreacts]

👀

[@BiggySn1p3r]

You are going to love this show. Hopefully you can react to the 6 ep making of series after you finish this. Very excited and can't wait for the rest.

[@theanyktos]

Ooh, yeah, that would be cool!

[@Logan_Baron]

Gnomes in D&D have evolved over time and editions. They started out as an option in the books as the typical pointy hatted gnomes. But that wasn't as conducive to adventure roleplaying, so they were played a bit differently, which resulted in changes over time to they way they were written in the lore and the way they were played. But that's also true of many of the races and classes in D&D. But that's a lot of why Scanlan and Pike don't seem like the type of gnomes you think of.

[@charlie53echo]

The dragons on the rug: Red, Blue, Green, Black and White are the chromatic dragons. In D&D they are typically evil. Blue has lightning breath, Red has fire, Green has acid, Black also has acid, but instead of a cloud of acid they spew a line of acid, and White breaths frost. Just putting this here for later: Tiamat? (I haven't watched ahead so this is a prediction, wonder if it'll amount to anything.) Great work as always, both of you. ❤️

[@ryanwatson1482]

Tusk Love is a call back to Campaign 2 of CR. There are so many cool little call backs throughout the series. I love it.

[@MrPingn]

"Nice to see Percy's gun actually go off." Phrasing.

[@darrenl3289]

"The blood the guts the kills... i'd love to see more" wish granted lol I love that VM takes a serious tone when it comes to battle. No epic, clean pretend battle... you really get the vibe of life and death. By the way, try rewatching episodes with Fince, but keep in mind it's Tony Hale... Now picture Buster from Arrested Development in place of Fince... ROFL

[@GameMasterToolbox]

Scalan and Pike are both gnomes. Vex, Vax, and Keileth are half-elves, and Grog is a goliath. Goliath are also called half giants, but that doesn't mean one parent is human and the other is giant, it's just a nick name.

[@jasonstephens2740]

As to then reminding her of elves, elves in DnD are very different to 'Santas Elves'. Think Lord of The Rings. And to be honest, DnD wise, I would describe Gnomes as pint-sized DnD elves, whereas Halflings are pint-sized Humans.

[@stefanjentoft8107]

Vex, Vax, and Keyleth are all half-elves, Grog is a Goliath, Percy is human, and Scanlon and Pyke are indeed both gnomes

[@cruciare2750]

The rug you described is the holy symbol of Tiamat - Goddess of evil dragons, greed and tyranny

[@CountryMusicMann]

In the tabletop show, Grog regularly survives things that would kill anyone else in the party. That's what barbarians do.

[@MehrGills]

When you said you like dragons, there will be more next season, and at least in stream they meet at least one who isn't evil. That being said, others have pointed out that there are the Chromatic (generally evil dragons) like Brimscythe, but also Metallic (generally good dragons). There are also others but that gets complicated

[@MehrGills]

Will love to meet Devo'ssa, a very nice dragon, sometime later in the series. (Not this season). Name isn't a spoiler as they learn the name as they meet them

[@manahakume9870]

you are only the 2nd or 3rd person ive seen that recognized the floor symbol as important :o good catch :D it IS important

[@brianbortner5962]

"Deus ex Machina" is an old theater term translating to "Hand of God" - Machina = Hand. So Vox Machina also means "Hand of Voice" and Scanlan does his magic as song, so when he does the big glowy purple hand spells, they are literally "Hands from his voice"

[@elbruces]

Episodes 1-2 are kind of the prequel. Episode 3 is where this story arc really kicks off. Bu5 already there's a lot here you should remember from this episode, it'll come back later. You catching the red blue black green and white is exactly right. What you didn't mention is that wall with the 4 orbs that Keyleth found, one of which turned into a green reptilian eye, and then it said "intruuderrrsss...." and then it alll crumbled away. Scanlan and Pike are both gnomes, yes. Everybody loves Gilmore.

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

22:10 Just so u know, the blue dragon breathed lightning ⚡ not fire 🔥 Each colors breath is different. 22:53 Red is fire White is ice Black is acid Green is poison gas I am glad u r enjoying this show so far!

[@jonathaneverson3673]

Brimscythe didn't kill Vex and Vax's mother, in the last episode she said A Dragon killed their mother. In Critical Role (the DND show this animated show is based on) they specify that it was a Red Dragon that killed her.

[@Brakkart]

"Kriegs floor had a bunch of different coloured dragons on it. I'm expecting the rest of those dragons to eventually show up" Ohhh they will, but not for a while yet.

[@grimm516]

You are correct pike & scanlan are gnomes but just a heads up in d&d gnomes are bigger then halflings & it would be funny so see scanlan with a garden gnome hat

[@stevencavanagh7990]

There are 2 kinds of dragons in D&D, divided into 10 different sub-races depending on their colour, the ones in the show are the Chromatic Dragons, (Blue, White, Black, Green & Red). they all tend to be Evil. The other kind is Metallic. ( Bronze, Copper, Silver, Brass & Gold). they tend to be Good.

[@LordBaktor]

Traditionally in D&D, Chromatic Dragons (Red, Blue, White, etc.) tend to be on the evil side and Metallic Dragons (Gold, Silver, Iron, etc.) tend to be good. This is not a spoiler, it is common knowledge in the world of D&D so use it to inform your reactions whenever a dragon appears in the show.

[@theanyktos]

Aw man, I can't wait for you to see episode 3

[@bobbyhall994]

No specifics, but as the characters develop, there’s a lot of nuance and I canNOT wait for your thoughts. Eagerly waiting for every upload from you!

[@theanyktos]

20:57 in Vex's room, usually.

[@IceMetalPunk]

The "Tusk Love" book is an in-joke about Critical Role's second campaign. At one point, Liam O'Brien (who plays Vax here, but played Caleb in campaign 2) derailed a huge portion of the game by deciding to just explore a city that Matt, the DM, hadn't prepared. So Matt had to improvise everything on the spot, and then Liam asked if there was a bookshop, and what the titles of every book were 😂 At one point they start asking about the smutty books, so Matt ad-libbed "Tusk Love" which is basically a smutty fantasy version of Romeo & Juliet. Laura Bailey (Vex here, Jester in that campaign) bought the book and they referenced it constantly the rest of the campaign.

[@JesterRed]

"Where was Trinket?" is a question we asked in the live streams as well. Trinket gets left out of the action quite a bit.

[@samshare2146]

That was pretty good perception to predict/foreshadow the other dragons based on the design on the floor in Krieg's "dragon room", but I think it was actually Tiamat's design. I haven't played D&D since the 80s (the original AD&D) and dragons were pretty rare. Encountering one is pretty much all you could expect. Tiamat was a multiheaded chromatic dragon (black, green, red, blue, white) Queen of evil chromatic dragons. I didn't make anything more of it since everything in the room had something to do with dragons.

[@wtimmins]

The rug with five dragon heads of various colors is probably a reference to the D&D dragon goddess Tiamat, who is a ... divine evil dragon with 5 heads, one of each of various chromatic dragons. If you look up 'D&D tiamat' you'll get a bunch of art of her. It's one of the hints that Krieg is a dragon or at least has a great affinity for them. (That and the half dragon sexy painting)

[@jaywhite6]

It is a reference, however not the only reference the rug is alluding to... I'll leave it at that.

[@thehikingviking2049]

This series has both gnomes and halflings. Though both are small folk, halflings have human-like ears and gnomes have elf-like ears. Not the only difference, but the most obvious one

[@williamlittle3325]

KiKi is a druid . She is in tune with nature . Call Lightning is a spell . Pike is a cleric and the Everlight is the name of her deity.

[@lyleabrahams]

Yaaaay! Prepare for the build up of this show after this one... it only gets better. I'm not going to say too much... but, you will get all the dragons you could ask for.

[@DaDunge]

2:30 Keyleth's problem isn't being afraid of stuff her problem is her own feelings of inadequacy.

[@ebanker1]

Dragons in dungeons and dragons, and specifically in pathfinder which season 1 is based on tend to be all 1 alignment based on their color, chromatic or non Metalic colors tend to be evil or their scales fade

[@christophercorbin9387]

Trinket isn't in the animation as much as in the game, because illustrating a 4 legged character is apperently much harder to do. And they were being very budget conscious. Illusion is something Scanlan excels at.

[@Citizen88020120820]

When it comes to what they do it was based on dice rolls and D&D rules. Pike is a Gnome Cleric depending on her level she can do certain spells at different levels only so many times. Like when Vax picks a lock with a toothpick he's a rogue with high lockpicking so he probably rolled high. Doesn't matter its weak wood lol D&D is organized chaos that goes as far as players & DMs imagination lol Not to mention homebrew rules etc.

[@educatedlaziness3268]

Rule one of D&D, all Dragons are shapeshifters

[@insomnaholic]

Their abilities are weird. It's like they can only use them so many times per day or something. I would totally watch Gilmore's Glorious Antique Roadshow.

[@jeremydickey3879]

they can only use them so many times per day

[@saiyasha848]

You can always see when a check suceeded or failed. (Don't know how much you know about DnD in general, but you roll dice to determine if you can do something or not.) For instance, the moment where Grog and Scanlan rolled behind the Barrel to hide form Fince. Definitly a successfull stealth check, and a good one at that. On the other hand, when Scanlan tried to magic he door open, he probably failed his check, while Vax succeded his. And the rage thing XDDD It's something his class can do, and because the players usually tell the gamemaster what they want to do, Grogs player always said he would like to rage when there was a good moment for it. It became his catchprase and I love that they kept it in the show this is a loose recreaction of Adventures they had while actually playing DnD, so moments like that make me laugh hard

[@Logan_Baron]

Good remembering of all the characters names. Now do you know which one is Vex and which is Vax?

[@funnylilgalreacts]

Yes, but only because Vex says Vex’ahlia a few times. I definitely screwed it up in the first episode and didn’t leave it in there.😬

[@mkohlhorst]

I've been binging Critical Role's first campaign (up to episode 51 now... which might actually be campaign two, but the videos still call it one). Was wondering why the show didn't have Tiberius in The Legend of Vox Machina (what introduced me to the KZbin CR series) but as the campaign has gone on I was glad they picked up where they did (Tiberius exited in what would have been early episode three of the show and ep one and two was a original story introduction that covered an earlier pre-stream quest). The player, of Tiberius, ended up leaving their game after developing what many describe as Main Character Syndrome.

[@sadlobster1]

Tusk Love is a reference to Campaign 2, the Mighty Nein

[@michaelmaguire4147]

It's really interesting the things you think about not knowing much about D&D; to me, someone who knows the lore, I saw that rug and thought of the evil dragon god that has a head for each of the colored dragon types. You however, [spoilers for those who haven't seen season 2] correctly predicted the plot.

[@PaulGuy]

"What's in the catapult?" Cats, obviously. Dragons hate cats.

[@tlaragihai5953]

Scanlan totally absolutely has a reputation, yes 😆And yes, he and Pike are both gnomes :3 Next episode (or should I say the whole arc?) is a journey and you will never be prepared enough for it! Good luck!

[@theanyktos]

6:35 well, you asked for some more gorey kills. Ask and you shall recieve.

[@markharland2459]

Vex'ahlia- Half-Elf (Half-Human) Vax'ildan- Half-Elf (Half-Human) Keyleth- Half-Elf (Half-Human) Grog- Goliath Percival- Human Scanlan- Gnome Pike- Gnome Trinket- Brown Bear

[@thetankgarage]

I'll just put another random highlight vid from their current campaign here, for fun or context. Still in Exandria but 30 years after Vox Machina. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5Ctha2grd1gnbc