@@devinspencer1678We got multiple movies on 9/11. You just gotta figure out which perspective you want to watch. If I remember correctly, there's also a movie about the citizens who rehijacked the plane that was supposed to crash into the Pentagon.
@@stevesmith5883 Matt didn't know how well the DM power could corrupt Aabria, nor with what creativity she could get from it. Now HE thinks she gave him material for his own campaigns--because fair is fair, after all.
@@feitocomfruta Marquet is supposed to be Asia-inspired... and "Bassuras" is very close to the Tagalog/Spanish word for "trash." I've been wondering if Matt intended that.
@@kirbytheotaku737 OP just means that Sam wasn't there for the ExU bits (not including Calamity) not that he's gone for good or not playing DnD! Critical Role isn't going anywhere, but I'd expect more player changes and guest DMs in the future cause It's hell of a workload for Matt that's been going on for years at this point.
5 minutes of Matt being bullied in the most lovingly and affectionated way possible. Like, she knows so much of the lore and decided to make a pun out of everything I love her so much and her dming
I am 100% sure that such a thing actually exists irl, some sort of establishment thats dictator/terrorist themed. Like there are people who romanticize serial killers, of course someone somewhere has thought of that 😂
@@christiandavegutierrez475 i mean if theyre making a visual novel game about genderbent dictators(its satire and they have to state as such on their website) then yeah im sure that likely happened at least once xD
It's probably more like having a spa named after volcanoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. The Chroma Conclave were intelligent, but they were intelligent forces of nature.
@@alekseihaidukevich3697 Nope! It's a reference to a group from Campaign 1 called the Chroma Conclave, which was an order of different colored Dragons.
Any lore more than ten in-game years will be commercialized, commodified, and marketed to people who should know better. Aabriya is making her fantasy worlds _way _*_too real_* ! XD XD
No lie though, as a DM myself, I long for the day that one of my own players decides to take on a game in one of my settings and makes a funny gag location out of my lore just like this.
I've been blessed with a player who is thoroughly invested in the world I built for them and routinely runs oneshots in it. You know how the real world is not really cohesive and doesn't always make sense? I have found that another voice in the worldbuilding , given leeway, will make it so much better and feel so much more real.
I've been gifted with the pleasure of my Changling Fathomless Warlock, Jin, being used in campaigns that aren't mine as a primary baddie. In their source campaign they got routinely driven out of their port town just for existing and dunked on constantly to the point where their patron (Zlotharkis, the half-fiendish kraken) wasn't finding it too hard to convince them to do evil. During a random encounter our party ran into Jin got knocked out within the first initiative of a round by AOE damage and ended up failing two wisdom saves to NOT accept a worser deal with Zlotharkis, so they became a Kraken Priest for a full minute and TPK'd the party and got driven mad. I loaned em to a friend to use as a general baddie in that campaign and Jin's now TPK'd 4 separate parties. Nowhere near the initial direction I started with for this character but stuff happens and now I find polite amusement in seeing just how many people die to this charismatic trickster
God I can just picture Vex overhearing that the Whitestone wine company needed some slogan ideas and (without saying anything to Percy) *immediately* walking over and suggesting 'Life Needs Wine to Live'
This is really shown off well in the first season of EXU when they visit Gilmore's and not only does Aabria remember Sherri, the half-elven NPC that works at Gilmore's, she remembers that she had blushed about Scanlan's flirtations with her early on in C1 and carried that over 30 years later when she learned that Dorian was a bard as well, reminding her of Scanlan.
Having Scanlan's writings be taken as a blueprint for a tacky Vegas outlet? Yeah, I could see it as going even further out there than even Taryon Darrington's book.
I keep picturing an over-embroidered throw pillow with that overly swoopy font you see at like JoAnn's and Michael's on stuff like that. the Zafara-adjacent font.
Inside, Matt seems delighted, yet also horrified. But as a good friend that has seen his other friend put a lot of work into something, all he can say outside is "I dig it".
Lets face it, Tal'dorei cant be serious ALL the time. Sometimes it needs the cheese. But I wonder how much bigger Sam's head got knowing there was a one man show about Scanlan...
@@kedabro1957 He’s an actor bro he’s hamming it up. You can tell he thinks this is all hilarious. This is a specially crafted psychic damage-inducing attack between two really good friends. If he seriously had a problem with it why would he decide to include it at all in campaign 3, which is set on an entirely different continent?
@@fisher8024 People can quickly realize their first impulse makes them look bad and change how they feel to something more publically acceptable. I've even other children do this when I was growing up. Work-place-harassed women learn to do this to avoid consequences to their career. I've done it too, to avoid attracting more bullying from my co-workers.
@@kedabro1957 how does a conversation on fictional dnd name puns lead you to workplace harassment and career consequences. go see a therapist or something
Aabria is a demon, sent to torture poor Mathew. This was fantastic, I love how Matt has opened his world to Aabria and now Brennan to put their own little flare on it.
Aabria is to Alex. What Emily is to Brennan. Chaos incarnate with a lovely emotional twist and some wild battle choices that always end up working out somehow.
I love this detail, though. Because it makes the world so much more real, because stuff like that legit happens anyway. Hahaha! Excellent world building! But also, I feel like it's a game that Aabria and Matt play to rip up each other's lore and cheese it up. Hah! Matt's such a good sport.
Make sure you don't lean on alcohol as a crutch. There's always better coping methods. (Sorry, I grew up amongst alcoholism and feel the need to say this when people say things like that)
Such a twist of the knife for the guy working the cold pool to be a dragonborn. Vorugal took over Draconia! :( That’s a villain origin story if I ever saw one.
Honestly, the addition of Aabria and now Brennan is such an amazing thing. Matt is a very sensitive and emotional guy so he takes care of the emotional stuff like a champ, but Aabria and Brennan are silly geese (super smart silly geese) so they fit in perfectly but add things in ways Matt would perhaps not. All in all, Exandria is shaping up to be a huge IP in a few years where novels and perhaps movies will be made with. ( There's alreay a animated series and comic books...)
A month later, and Brennan’s EXU: Calamity was anything but silly by the end. He does a great job of pulling something horrific and serious out of a silly original concept. Great work from Brennan this time around.
Novels I could definitely see. I'm surprised they don't already exist yet. I'd love even just a novella about Vex and Percy's kids, either as grown ups having their own adventures or just their lives growing up.
@@simmyish6431 it is. It's like their origin story. Recommend the audio book as it's narrated by Robbie with Liam and Laura doing their dialogue. It's great for VM nostalgia
Very much this! He wouldn't give the reigns to persons' if he didn't feel comfortable enough with them to do so. I love Aabria and very much love Brennan. Thematically, they're filling voids that Matt has and/or can not. For that, I appreciate them as expansions to Matt's universe!
It should have been a Medieval Times style dinner show, where you got to sit in your dragons section and cheer them on as animatronic dragons fight for your honor.
No place called "The Toothy Maw"? I actually did that in a campaign I was writing that never got passed session 0 (one of the players never finished his character) One of the players is a huge fan of Matt Mercer and who actually got me into CR, so as a treat, I started his session 0 in a tavern called "The Toothy Maw", and the proprietor's name was "Merc Matther"
It’s so hilarious to see how Aabria adds her own twists to the campaign settings Matt has created. Even though I have CR sourcebooks I’m worried that my own twists just won’t feel right.
Their latest dm roundtable had Matt saying like 50 times to absolutely do what you want and fuck up his world and make it yours. It'd everything he wants is for you to treat his setting however you'd like.
I wonder when episodes were filmed...if Taste of Tal'Dorei is also in Marquet...did Matt make the decision after RP'ing on Kymal to make it a chain restaurant. Is Taste Of Tal'Dorei the Outback Steakhouse of Exandria?!
I'm so excited to see what the Taste of Tal'Dorei looks like in Marquet because I've been imagining it as one of those chain restaurants that are just slightly different by region but also shockingly identical and I am very excited for the regular CR cast to get to react to it
The partner heard that last statement and as tradition we watch each episode together here in China. She turned to me and said “haha, wife needs wine to live. I need that shirt” 🙃🙃😅
If the CR crew ever do a theme park as they discussed at one point, then THIS MUST HAPPEN!!! Aabria put her whole body and soul into those descriptions and they were PERFECT. 🥰😁
So im slowly making my way (*making my way!*) through C1 and this is currently my only knowledge of the dragons of thr Chroma Conclave and thus I am very excited to see S2 of LOVM
Watching Matt die inside *with every sentence* is giving me such life. Especially when it happens because of Aabria's "Tovar" voice. This is everything I ever wanted.
The whole concept of somebody in-universe being inspired by Taldorei`s culture and cuisine and making a whole restaurant out of it is amazing. And honestly, it sounds like a place that`s totally worth visiting.
I saw this a while ago with out ever having seen C1 but now that im watching/listening to C1 (little past half way now) this makes so much more sense and is so much more amusing. Sad though that if you are a critter like me that started watching CR with EXU and C3, there's soooooo many call backs and missing histories that you will miss out on unless you go back and watch/listen to it all. and that's many hundreds of hours of listening/watching.
This took place after campaign 3 started and I’m pretty sure the location where the buffet is located is in Taliesans back ground information. I like the idea that they both might came to a similar idea of a garish buffet themed after something it has no business being themed after separately and he liked hers better so he changed his answers on the homework last minute.
Part of me wonders if we could get a reverse version of the D&D cartoon from this. "Cool, its a Papers and Paychecks ride" as kids get teleported to our world.
