Brennan Shows Us How to DESTROY the Party

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This clip comes to you from Critical Role's EXU: Calamity Ep. 4.
SPOILERS! You have been warned!
Brennan proceeds to open an unholy can of whup upon the party for a scene of devastation I have yet to see replicated! Not only that, but Brennan manages to do this with his patented smirk emblazoned on his face =)
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@Jeffry_Ab Год назад

Lou's reactions throughout this entire mini series can be compacted to "Brennan please stop, they are not gonna invite us to play again"

@ianheinke1405 Год назад

Lou said “ I’m gunna throw up” lol

@ashstar7495 Год назад

This is my favorite comment ever and I'm high so you know I'm not lying

@t76a2d Год назад

@@ashstar7495 I wanna roll insight to see if this guy’s lying. :D

@hyperjump1169 Год назад

@@ashstar7495 ok go ahead and role a persuasion check

@Morbidity100 Год назад

@@ashstar7495 high on what

@CarpeDonnelly Год назад

"Is this a spell effect?" "Nah, this is physics"

@yayabouhamal8293 Год назад

this made me laugh so hard in the midst of all this chaos

@nicholaskehler9169 Год назад

Don't wizards have resistance to physics?

@aquawoelfly Год назад

Has it been a second yet?

@Mijal15 Год назад

@@nicholaskehler9169 Physics is vulnerable to wizard damage but wizards don't resist physics.

@xiataima378 Год назад

@@yayabouhamal8293 😊

@brigwe616 Год назад

"Thankfully you failed your constitution save" is an unbelievably terrifying sentence

@zeddwulfen7737 Год назад

WTF would have happened if hey had! YEESH.

@chaosismyjam8187 Год назад

@@zeddwulfen7737 Death. Arm is stuck in the tree and so is Paisha unable to escape the following explosion. Instadeath.

@raeg1100 Год назад

It is horrifying and so good at the same time. It absolutely makes me want to create scenarios in scarier games I run that failing some saves is the better option

@mustangwolf1997 Год назад

My DM did this to me with a wisdom save in a Star Wars 5e campaign. The result is my character that just died couldn't find peace, and continued to exist as a force ghost. I still had to make a new character, so now I had to play both whenever the dead dude was relevant.

@chaosismyjam8187 Год назад

@@mustangwolf1997 Chuckles?

@13sampepper Год назад

"are you weakest at the elbow or the shoulder". IMMEDIATE sweating

@JKSSubstandard Год назад

Ha ha. I'm in danger

@davidbycroft Год назад

The one thing that bugged me about this sequence and how they resurrected each other afterwards, is that some of them suffered catastrophic damage to limbs and lower tier resurrections don't restore missing limbs. I was expecting, at least, Patia to be missing an arm for the rest of the session/campaign due to that explosion.

@apawhite Год назад

@@davidbycroft Yeah, that would have been cool, but to be fair we would all screw up some stuff if we were trying to do this much over a six-hour televised session, with six players and countless NPCs. Even demigods like Brennan can fail.

@davidbycroft Год назад

@@apawhite I agree that's fair. It was minor and I didn't lose sleep over it but it would have been a cool complication for her character.

@behindthesmile1276 Год назад

@@davidbycroft didn't they lose almost all of their magic items in the process, or were they able to recover them?

@soph0429 Год назад

"are you weakest at the elbow or shoulder" has the same energy as "ok lets go down the line, everyone tell me what you're most afraid of" in fantasy high sophomore year

@dominictemple 10 месяцев назад

What I always love is Travis' squeaking fear laughter straight afterwards.

@smoogieboogie1694 9 месяцев назад

@@dominictemple Every time Travis does his high pitched laugh/scream with his mouth closed I lose it.

@ShardtheWolf Год назад

The amazing thing about this, is that at no point does brennan seem to be vindictive. He's sadistic, but not vindictive, it never feels like a DM spite killing players. This isn't "Rocks fall, everybody dies"

@mndlessdrwer Год назад

Not having watched what led to this happening, my guess is that this is just one of the possible scenarios that Brennan had for if someone decided to play fast and loose with an end-game interaction. It's not spiteful, as he foresaw this possibility, it is merely the outcome of the lore playing out to its conclusion. Pretty awesome though.

@kennethmorgan8795 Год назад

@@mndlessdrwer essentially, it helps everyone went in knowing that "they couldn't win this"... they could have and Matt had contingency lore but they knew they weren't supposed to... it was more of a "fight to not loose" sort of thing.

@MeonLights Год назад

@@mndlessdrwer they basically did destroy an incredibly powerful thing that was both divine and magic. It's like they kicked a sea mine that also could rend their mines.

@PoeticElysium Год назад

The universe does not have malice, but it does have a sick sense of humor and sometimes people end up walking into the punchline.

@kelseycain3469 Год назад

This is just Brennan establishing stakes.

@Dragonz401 Год назад

Are we still under 1 second?! Brennan sure knows how to make the fun last forever =)

@JudgementFish Год назад

And yet...by the end of this video...they still haven't reached 1 second ha!

@250-daffazhafrank3 Год назад

Yeah the entire episode is nineteen second lol, the hour-long one second and the 18 second of fight :)

@optimistprime3192 Год назад

@@250-daffazhafrank3 There is the time between that one bullet-time second and the last 18 before the city lands, where everyone is off doing their last thing before gathering for the final battle. I think in in-game time, this entire episode is only an hour and some change.

@carlwitt3934 Год назад

"Fun", he says.

@ZacGames3 Год назад

@@250-daffazhafrank3 Sounds like DIO's stop time in the anime...

@romxxii Год назад

It's crazy how compressing this "second" into a greatest hits clip still takes over 15 minutes. Brennan Lee "Emotional Damage" Mulligan.

@ZombiePilot420 Год назад

Brennan "emotionaLee damage" mulligan

@DevilWearsAdidas Год назад

Know whats worse? The single second took 2 hours in the show.

@G.F.SF55 Год назад

@@DevilWearsAdidas I love how it's both the worst and the best part about it XD

@EnzoFoove 8 месяцев назад

Ah yes, the worst kind of damage in DnD, emotional

@atlander4204 6 месяцев назад

It makes you feel things in the best/worst way possible. That’s tragedy, baybee!

@patton_3605 Год назад

"Is this a spell effect" "No , this is PHYSICS" best moment right there

@strdseraph2765 Год назад

Lou: You survived the spells just to be killed by science. 💀

@TheRand0mG4mer Год назад

it gets worse cause shes asks like 7 times for brennen to remind her that it is in fact not spell damage lmao

@atlander4204 6 месяцев назад

@@TheRand0mG4merIt’s like she’s praying for mercy from an uncaring god.

@bastiwen Год назад

I love Lou's reactions. Brennan and Lou together in a game is probably one of my favourite combination of people ever.

@godemperorofmemes992 Год назад

Their Bromance is truly something worth aspiring to. You love to see it

@cl8855 Год назад

totally agree with this

@CarpeDonnelly Год назад

They are the greatest duo in the game. Like Jordan and Pippen, or Montana and Rice, or Hull and Oates. The two of them together are a force of nature

@M3H8014 Год назад

Misfits of magic is truly amazing

@bastiwen Год назад

@@M3H8014 yes it is and I still want a GOAT HOUSE shirt so bad

@zararose7194 Год назад

The fact that this sequence took about an hour in the actual stream still blows my mind this whole campaign was unbelievably incredible to watch

@linds7076 Год назад

And Lou continually asking “Has it been a second YET?!?”

@agent00puffball 11 месяцев назад

Calamity was such a brilliant miniseries, and this was the height of it. I knew Brennan was good at storytelling, but this is what really proved it to me.

@ashleydavidson6365 6 месяцев назад

What was this campaign and where can I watch it

@chaxinitus 6 месяцев назад

@@ashleydavidson6365 Exandria Unlimited: Calamity - it's all available on Critical Role's RU-vid Channel for free

@atlander4204 6 месяцев назад

@@ashleydavidson6365 It’s “Exandria Unlimited: Calamity” on the Critical Role RU-vid channel. 4 part miniseries.

@jessy5241 Год назад

“Wait, you have healing spells?” “NO, I’M A FULL ASS WIZARD!” I love Aabria with my entire heart.

@darkestlight660 Год назад

As we all should

@elianasites Год назад

I was gonna like this comment, but it's at 666 right now and brennan is the devil so I'm leaving it as is

@CJ-ur3fx Год назад

12:58 For anyone interested.

@jlinkous05 Год назад

Within a one second of bullet time it couldn't really be done. Instant reaction sent the shielding effect to someone, and maybe a cleric or paladin could have a similar reaction for sending healing somewhere but without properly targetting it to exactly to who it needed to go based on the sudden surge of saving throws and damage.

@moviebad109 10 месяцев назад

@@ShannonBarber78unless it’s a bonus action that happens immediately, I doubt she’d have the time to do that AND the arcane barrier she threw up.

@tycol322 Год назад

"It's not called EXU Super Happy Fun Party Time" "It's not too late..."

@AbhorrentDelight Год назад

The narrative poetry that happened BY CHANCE: Patia and the ring's mind damage, Nydas and the bag's damage via lost wealth, Loquatius' only success being an item he didn't choose but received from Laerryn...!

@pretentiousname01 Год назад

Damn. Thats good. The dice really do want to tell a story

@Pluto137 Год назад

It is wonderful when ya can work the chaos of dice into an amazing story

@ColieBear18 Год назад

Its the best part of the damn game. Its absurd how all of those story beats fell where they did and its so satisfying when they do.

@jacksonmagas9698 Год назад

also just choosing to take blight in character creation just because it seemed cool, and then ending up using it on the super important magical guardian tree

@satsudead 5 месяцев назад

and then the protector of Avalir, Xerxes's *only* item to break was his shield! because he broke his vow to protect the city even if unintentionally

@Lyonatan Год назад

"Thankfully you failed your constitution save."

@optimistprime3192 Год назад

Tree of Names, sundering in its dispelling: *explosion go brrrrrrr*

@nerolisk7630 Год назад

@@optimistprime3192 love a good tree sundering

@SirChris314 Год назад

I love the care put into the absolute gargantuam damage numbers done here. He could have just said "the tree explodes and everyone takes 30d6 fire damage" but the sadistic *deliberateness* put into every effect really sells how fucking insane the moment really is.

@dashiellgillingham4579 9 месяцев назад

Description always increases the brutality of any action.

@lukijez 29 дней назад

Not only that, but the number of dice is also meticulously chosen so that some characters get instakilled while others avoid getting downed

@Nyrufa Год назад

When the DM gets a look of excitement at the player rolling a natural 20 against them, you should probably just have your character lay down and accept death at that point.

@JudgementFish Год назад

Oh you rolled a nat 20 and you think that's actually going to help you? Oh how cute... =p

@traditionalnative 11 месяцев назад

@@JudgementFish literally the most anxiety I've ever felt, and I've been stabbed multiple times 😂😂😂

@traditionalnative 11 месяцев назад

@@JudgementFish DMs do that psychological damage (it was very effective!)

@santino7470 Год назад

10:39 the raw “MARISHA!” cracks me up every damn time

@vincentbechard-ouellet1581 Год назад

The "Le ten" kills me

@chiffon788 Год назад

I love when someone makes a comment with a timestamp and that second becomes the most replayed second of the video. You're an influencer!

@JediJess1 Год назад

"I got a natural 20." "*Gasp* Natural 20!" "That's two natural 20s in a row! If we roll two more, we win." "Yes. If you do roll two more nat' 20s, we avert the calamity." "Ok. Four natural 20s in a row and we win. What'd you roll?" "... ehlah uuh 'le- ten." "MARISHA!"

@ATaleOfMenAndWolves 4 месяца назад

@@JediJess1NOW WE KNOW WHOS FAULT THIS IS

@michaelmcarthur2944 Год назад

Idk what's going on here, but him asking if she feels weaker at the elbow or the shoulder and seeing the immense dread in their reaction is fucking golden

@jonsimpson6240 Год назад

Her arm was somewhat fused to the thing that exploded. Because her arm got ripped off she didn't do a terminator 2 fence nuke scene and got thrown away as the explosion hits.

@SteveWhipp Год назад

I still consider this mini campaign one of, if not the, finest Actual Play D&D streamed, anywhere. Every episode was amazing, exciting and so well played.

@guttyjip Год назад

Agreed

@dialog_box Год назад

agreed

@MagnusGuard Год назад

Agreed

@raeg1100 Год назад

Agreed

@ConcaCon Год назад

Agreed and this was my introduction to Critical Role. Couldn't've had a better one.

@shiekatyt4635 Год назад

"you, in frozen time, will have a front row seat to see what happen to them" HOLY SHIT THAT'S RAW

@TheMythicalDemon Год назад

Jesus, almost a TPKO in under a second. That's talent.

@JudgementFish Год назад

It takes a special kind of monster to do that to a party....Brennan is that monster and man is it a joy to watch

@Landis963 Год назад

What's even more impressive is, even through the constraints imposed by the random magic item explosions, he was able to leave _just enough_ for them all to come back.

@user-xb5bz4fu9o Год назад

@@Landis963 idk how brennan is so clutch at balancing encounters or at least making them feel balanced bc man. the amount of times this guy took a party to what felt like their last hit points only to get that roll or that idea to entirely win back over the battle, is insane. he left just enough juice in their tanks that the spell slot based automatons wouldn't slaughter them at the end, but they still had enough to hold on just long enough. man it's impressive to watch

@Landis963 Год назад

@@user-xb5bz4fu9o Resurrections may have helped with that, depending on how death affects active spell slots.

@Drraagh Год назад

I see Brennan is as a narrative DM. He wants to tell a story, Dimension 20 lets him do that with a group of comedians, and their usual approach is take a dramatic beat and turn it comedic. It's not 'bad', Robin Williams made a career out of that, as did Jim Carey and others. But, as we see in EXU or even when Brennan plays like Evan Kelmp in Misfits and Magic, he is a great storyteller, he can weave the dramatic side of things, the intrigue. He sets the stage with something for the players to do, having a rough idea how tough the encounter can be with D20's Challenge Ratings, whether one big boss or a bunch of single enemies. Then adapt on the fly for what makes a great narrative. TL;DR: Why are Brennan's encounters so balanced? He runs it like a movie, giving a cool looking showdown, and then if things start getting hard for the players... lower the HP of a monster, have enemies do something less than the optimal move, perhaps even fudging the rolls of the enemies when not in Box of Doom for the 'Dramatic Moments', maybe the 'reinforcements' don't show up...

@gabrielamedeirosribeiro3223 7 месяцев назад

“Are you weakest at the elbow or the shoulder” has very similar energy to “What do you want me to tell your family”

@beesbrownies Год назад

For those who want to mimic a bit of storytelling here, be it for a party or writing: Notice how Brennan slowly zooms in. The large things, like being thrown back. Then the objects around you breaking, what does it look like? What does THAT make you feel? Then, finally, the debris, the damage, inside of you. Immediate impact, things in front of you, you.

@vincentbalinos4114 Год назад

Thqnka

@MysterySteve Год назад

"Are we still under one second!?" is one of my favourite reactions someone's ever given to something Brennan said

@aakash2868 Год назад

Love how Brennan flavored each person's force damage from the explosion of magic items.

@efbless Год назад

Watching this clip again after the finale of A Court of Fey & Flowers, it's utterly unbelievable that the two campaigns were filmed around the same time. The amount of whiplash that Aabria, Lou and Brennan must have experiencing going from one tone to the other is incomprehensible!

@druid_the_lizard_wizard Год назад

That's so funny to me. From horny Regency where characters are *so* horny that it turns into a major plot point to "Are you weakest at your elbow or shoulder"

@SSJKenpachiZaraki Год назад

@@druid_the_lizard_wizard "Thankfully you failed your constitution save."

@ethanchapman969 Год назад

Idk one is dnd 5e and the other is improv with performative dice rolling. Though both are very good.

@efbless Год назад

For Fey & Flowers, Aabria combined dnd 5e with Good Society. The latter has more narrative mechanics to emphasize the importance of social interactions and reputation in their world. So yes, Aabria intentionally cultivated a very different feel for the gameplay in addition to the tone!

@Verylengthyapple Год назад

so crazy, from comedy and happy and love to ANGRY FIRE DEATH SGDHFJFJF

@cadetstar Год назад

"Luis, you do not need to roll for your Holy Avenger" Luis: "Whew, I'll still have that! " Brennan: *internal evil laughter*

@alexspain9103 Год назад

"Is this a spell?" "No, this is physics."

@ImThe1stCoolest Год назад

Is this the Krusty Krab?

@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet Год назад

@@ImThe1stCoolest No, this is physics!

@pretentiousname01 Год назад

Best part being that it wasnt even Brennan that said that

@ryanmcintyre5639 Год назад

“Would you say your arm is weakest at the shoulder or the elbow?” I like to think I can get pretty nasty as a DM, but that is just a whole other level

@havvik3505 Год назад

I require this to be an animated scene.

@GrassPokeKing Год назад

If they start immediately, I give it seven years!

@Psykko_ Год назад

If you like Anime, Hunter X Hunter has a similar situation where around 15 episodes(+ or - 10) represent just a few seconds of time in the series.

@Bobstew68 Год назад

A one second long animated scene.

@jonsimpson6240 Год назад

Should be extremely easy. A fraction of a second of a cascade of explosions. Shouldn't be that difficult to animate.

@kooziekami Год назад

@@Psykko_ which episode ?

@jomiran1000 Год назад

Without a doubt, EXU: Calamity is the best Actual Play I have ever seen. I'm a old ass guy who's not that into D&D high fantasy and I cried my ass off.

@Liquessen Год назад

I think I cried during the last hour, non stop, sobbing and snotty. Glorious emotions!

@chcklfckl Год назад

5:57 this is why i love brennan. his reaction to one of the players getting a nat 20 wasnt “oh shit, im losing” he was genuinely excited and happy. 11:05 “thats just the fire damage

@HaloInverse 10 месяцев назад

"How wonderful! You will live to see _the entirety_ of your annihilation!"

@tauIrrydah Год назад

We have fun here.

@JudgementFish Год назад

All types of fun going on here! Especially if that fun includes grinding the majority of the party into little bloody nubs =p

@galgrunfeld9954 Год назад

If this is what Brennan can come up with (with the help of rules) in real time, imagine what if he wrote for fantasy shows like Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings.

@Khaoscntrl Год назад

Shockingly he’s done something like that on dimension 20 called ‘a crown of candy’ and it is just as brutal with a very unconcerning title like it has lol

@jonsimpson6240 Год назад

@@Khaoscntrl I love the juxtaposition of "brutal murder, and callous intrigue" with "this mans is a cake in very fine pants"

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

He wrote the Strong Female Protagonist webcomic, and it's extremely good, but sadly on indefinite hiatus, and I doubt he'll ever get back to it with all his current projects.

@KangarooKommando Год назад

@@jonsimpson6240 Brutal betrayals, interspersed with jokes about watching each other take a dump in battle

@ShawnLevasseur Год назад

The tree of names opening > the Red Wedding

@HelplessTeno Год назад

Watching Calamity as someone who knows very little about DnD was a wild fucking experience. I've never watched a full campaign and I've never played so I went into this not knowing what to expect. The story told through Calamity is one of my favorites told in media, right along with Vox Machina. Another stellar story that I never saw the campaign for. There were so many moments that felt like fate, like all of Loquacious' items being destroyed except for what his wife gave him. It's those poetic moments and the perfectly timed natural 20s that kept me hooked through dozens of hours of the campaign.

@Danlows1 Год назад

You need to watch Dimenision 20 Fantasy High and the Unsleeping City, amazing stuff. A Starstruck Odyssey is also amazing with their new space travel battles

@keiganbenny3008 Год назад

The more you know the scarier the whole story is, the staff for example if it broke it was gunna be a TPK. It has a special effect just for breaking it

@HelplessTeno Год назад

@@Danlows1 I ended up giving some D20 content a try after I saw this comment and it just wasn't for me. I really like Brennan and Lou, but the vibe of the cast wasn't my speed.

@Danlows1 Год назад

@@HelplessTeno that’s fair enough. You can also try Critical Role, they have a (VERY) long running campaign on youtube

@SSJKenpachiZaraki Год назад

And I have to say, I really believe their latest campaign is the best one yet.

@imhappy3173 Год назад

Lehren's arcane ward on Loquacious makes me weep every single time

@donniek5187 Год назад

Gif of Aabria with "I'm a full-ass wizard" is now in my repertoire.

@gordonhenderson1969 Год назад

Please share

@JudgementFish Год назад

The new definition of raw magical power..."I'm a full-ass wizard!"

@blitzwinger999wright6 Год назад

“You’ll have a front row seat to see what happens to them!” **proceeds to pour out what can only be described as an UNHOLY amount of dice**

@Darmathecaster Год назад

I feel like Lou was getting flash backs to all those poisoned water daggers in crown of candy

@umarrosman Год назад

Brennan doesn't let down with the sound effects and the brutality detailed description of the unnecessary destruction, all that after overpowering them with so much equipment🤒🤒🤒🤒

@ITLLBGRAND Год назад

My mate is running a spin off mini-campaign of our DMs and I asked what'll the story/plot be like. He mentioned this series. He's letting us pick whatever magical items we want. We're not safe.

@JudgementFish Год назад

Dear God....it's happening again! Hold onto your butts, you are in for a wild ride! Definitely let us know what happens! lol

@ASuspiciousCrab Год назад

Take the ring of wishes :)) First wish is to remove any and all curses, with no strings attached

@laurentaylor346 Год назад

Oh God, you have a Mini-Mulligan in the making.

@megarotom1590 Год назад

@@ASuspiciousCrab annihilates the entire zone with holy light eliminating all curses including the "curse of life" bc whatever genie or dark god or whatever that is granting your wishes is a nihilist

@ASuspiciousCrab Год назад

@@megarotom1590 "I wish to remove all curses afflicting this ring, without inhibiting it's power to grant wishes, and without affecting me, or anyone around me in a negative way"

@AssortedJade Год назад

This whole campaign and episode are so incredible. I love the heartbreaking part when Cerritt uses his detective skills to uncover the story of his own children’s lives.

@sw8228 Год назад

Which campaign is this?

@Yashi8384 Год назад

@@sw8228 Exandria Unlimited: Calamity

@conormartin3757 Год назад

And people say the namek saga was bad, my man spent like 2 hours describing a second.

@arthurgangnon3504 Год назад

? You have to. Noone knows what's going on, DnD games like this aren't a videogame or show or movie where you get to watch it unfold, they have to calculate everything to determine everything that happens, and then describe it so that the players actually know what's going on. 🤔 Sorry your little mind couldn't wrap around something that lasted longer than a 20 second RU-vid short 🤣

@bobbirdsong6825 Год назад

@@arthurgangnon3504 pretty sure the guy was making a comparison between a campaign that is known for being brutal to this one, not that they were saying the 2 hours for one second was a bad thing

@meursaultroquentin Год назад

@@arthurgangnon3504 Jesus, calm down.

@onilink134 Год назад

@@bobbirdsong6825 He's actually comparing it to Dragon Ball Z's Planet Namek arc, which at its most egregious stretches a (stated) 5-minute fight to something like 17 episodes.

@bobbirdsong6825 Год назад

@@onilink134 Thanks, don't watch DB.

@seleternal3442 Год назад

The time 1 second took nearly 2 hours >.> good times

@Jarvolo27 Год назад

Lou around the 3:20 time is having flashbacks to Brennan saying he's all the bad guys

@solidmoon8266 Год назад

I can see now why Lou gets so upset when Brennan pulls out a lot of dice during his campaigns on Drop-out. Brennan has seriously dialed it back on Drop Out.

@JudgementFish Год назад

Lou....he knows when chaos is afoot =)

@JaydedWun Год назад

I dunno there are some pretty brutal moments on drop out, I think this one is just especially brutal

@michaelfels4742 Год назад

Cut to neverafter gameplay on drop out 😅

@solidmoon8266 Год назад

@@michaelfels4742 ya, that was more part of the story though. It was done on purpose for plot development.

@jpereda97 Год назад

@@solidmoon8266 so was it here :) Also, A crown of candy (my favourite d20 setting and the one Matt's gonna DM a spin off fron soon) was very brutal as well

@josephhernandez3824 2 месяца назад

My favorite part of this entire very short campaign was the building resentment as an audience member I felt growing towards the PC’s and their actions. And watching this scene unravel from the very start of this episode had me ABSOLUTELY enthralled for the hour + it took for this to unfold. By far my absolute favorite D&D moment I’ve ever had, without question

@Linsquip_ Год назад

Fun fact, bones are weaker than tendons so its likely the arm coming off included the breaking of the bone between the tree and the joint.

@greatturning Год назад

Respectfully, that fact was not fun.

@limepop340 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this information; now I can horrify my party with factual accuracy

@rebeccabarnet6746 2 месяца назад

Okay that's really cool addition to this but also holy heck man! The emotional damage

@4elementstudios Год назад

lou sitting there like I asked my friend to be a visiting prof and now he's going get us killed when the students riot, "I Knew better, I knew better"

@lemnajcavite Год назад

How does his eyes look soulless and with soul at the same damn time tho? It scares but also draws you in, esp. with his DMing.

@13vatra Год назад

His focus is inward. He's giving most of his attention to narrative and game rules so he can run the scene properly. Very little of his focus is outside his own head during this scene. The soulless look in his eyes just shows how hard he's actually working.

@robspirko7383 Год назад

Simple. He's a ginger.

@Kalimatai17 6 месяцев назад

A year later and this is still so satisfying to watch. “You gotta cut this shit out man” 😂😂😂

@thomaschapman9112 Год назад

8:35 Travis is emitting BIG Big Brother Energy 🤣

@Stellaform Год назад

Yo Lou gives THOSE hugs. Lou gives the kind of hugs that make you feel like you're gonna cry even if you dont feel like you need to.

@BEEDRILL303 Год назад

I love that she felt the high five behind her and reacted immediately I also love Tavis's squealing it's so good it gives me so much serotonin.

@Micsma Год назад

I love Brennan. He's a beautiful goblin and his brain is wonderful.

@flaminyawn Год назад

Considering the absolute devastation that was wrought on the Ring of Brass, you also have to respect the luck (or scripting if you're a conspiracy theorist tool) that gave them just enough time and resources to bring back those who died so the full party could participate in the last stand.

@pokefreak004 Год назад

Brennan is a good enough DM that he would have known both what resources they have available and how to push them to use all of them to keep going. Love it!

@RukeFarvrey Год назад

It's not a conspiracy or scripting. Brennan has explicitly stated on multiple occasions that he will keep the party up if there is absolutely any meaningful way to do it. He obviously tailors his encounters as any good DM would. Watch Brennan's face when Patia tells him that she is fully dead, he's actually a little surprised and you can tell he didn't mean to go that far. He probably thought the healer would still be up as well, but he built in a way for him to get the paladin up if he was down due to shit rolls.

@Blue_Lunacy Год назад

The Nat20 miracle by Quay that let him saved the ether energy from his ex, to be given to Zerxus for the revivify spell. Sometime the dice just write good story.

@frigginresulrum Год назад

Brennan: "We are resolving everything that happens in response..." My Nerd-Ass: "Stack resolves top-down."

@dopeyiceman Год назад

Abbria needed a split-second spell during all that.

@TheComicBookJoker Год назад

@@dopeyiceman Split Second spell got countered by a morph creature getting flipped face-up. Twenty-three damage.

@dopeyiceman Год назад

@@TheComicBookJoker Hahaha. Love it. Forgot to mention that I have a Stuffy Doll enchanted with Pariah. I will redirect all the damage to it and hit you for 23.

@sherylramon3250 Год назад

AAAHAH I had to go back and watch EACH of their reactions in turn to the severing of Patia's elbow. Brennan is SUCH an amazing storyteller, you are FULLY immersed and captivated, hanging on his every word. THE SOUND EFFECTS! OMG I love it. And Aabria's reactions~ ♥HeheHEh! Are we at a second YET? ...No This is Physics! AMAZING!

@Van-dq4sw 10 месяцев назад

Aabria looking over at Travis with the "where ARE you right now" is a very important moment of levity before it continues to roll downhill.

@Slyphantom 9 месяцев назад

By the blessings of the Raven Queen i hope they animate this. It could be a stand alone movie or special on prime. And obviously Brennan must voice Asmodeus and Bolo.

@milly7843 Год назад

To me, this campaign will forever go down as one of the best I have ever had the pleasure of watching and one of the best I have ever seen Brennan DM, and as you all know, he is phenomenal! All of the Party were incredible, too! I can't tell you the number of times I had to pause each episode because I burst into tears, the raw emotions evoked hit me hard every single time. *Especially* when Lou gets loud and emotional. Oh, and don't even get me started with all of the Evandrian stuff, that *killed* me! Again, this Campaign will go down in history for all of us D&D Nerds 💞

@bjornterlegard Год назад

Yes yes and yes!

@XxEvolutionxX23 Год назад

This is the type of shit Brennan gets off to, if you have never seen all the games he DMs on his show I HIGHLY suggest you watch them. I really wasn't sure how I felt about them at first, but I absolutely LOVE the man. He is the best at storytelling improv and being funny at the same time. A lot harder than most people think. Also the world's the man comes up with for just a small campaign is nutty AF. I would love to see what some of his real, long term games look like.

@lizabee484 8 месяцев назад

The dichotomy between Brennan’s terrifying “Hannibal” -esque monologue and the ridiculous clipart tree stabbings is complete gold

@grantsvoiceongames1992 Год назад

Sam: “Who’s alive?!” *Travis and Aabriya raise hands* *Aabriya just high fives Travis*

@Eothr Год назад

Matt Mercer off screen going "Write that down! Write that down!"

@ChristopherFeeken Год назад

Brennan is a monster and must be protected at all costs.

@aakash2868 Год назад

The sound/visual effects you added are on point

@JudgementFish Год назад

Thanks Aakash!

@fatcoyote2 Год назад

When you set off a car bomb with a sledgehammer

@p0lar_bear 6 месяцев назад

ExU was low key the best DnD ever.

@capnstewy55 3 месяца назад

Now we can deal with the fire made me laugh.

@vlrze Месяц назад

Anytime someone says "Thankfully your arm was dismembered", you know it's about to go down.

@lorenzadenarus Год назад

Oh the memories! 😱 That was such an intense episode! Thank you for this edit!

@shannononeill482 Год назад

The entire series was a massive rollercoaster...but there was so much to emotionally unpack after this final episode. OMG. Brennan is an amazing storyteller...all of them are.

@gabrielamedeirosribeiro3223 7 месяцев назад

12:40 this whole bit from “down, down, dead” through the “yay we’re alive” high five al the way to “I’m a full-ass wizard!” Is pure gold. 13:50 also “nah this is Physics” 😂

@gabrielamedeirosribeiro3223 6 месяцев назад

4:03 Also also “SAFE!”

@Hobbnobbs Год назад

Loved the edits you added to this!

@johnnysizemore5797 Год назад

"Is this a spell effect?" "No this is Physics." Priceless Man

@ethanhorn6093 3 месяца назад

This was a fifteen minute long second. Fantastic.

@ferrous719 2 месяца назад

It was well over an hour in actual game play. Phenomenal table to watch

@hms21793 Год назад

“Patia, do you feel you are weakest at the shoulder or the elbow?” I screamed

@johnhagala3622 Год назад

“IF WE GET 4 NAT 20S IN A ROW WE WIN What’d you roll?” “I-uh-uh-uh eh- a 10.” “MARISHA!!!” 10:26

@AKMediaCollector Год назад

It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this it’s always awesome.. he’s such a genius and it makes me wish I understood these kind of games better

@wickedly4 Год назад

The edits on this make it even more effective. Very cool job!!!

@Flushedfox Год назад

12:59 the best line, do you have healing spells? NO! IM A FULL-ASS WIZARD!

@sirken2 Год назад

once you pop the fun won't stop.

@itsthegoose11 Год назад

*Matt Mercer before episode 33*: WRITE THIS DOWN

@erikeverson7812 Месяц назад

I love all of the effects you added to this.

@michaelmcnamara1839 4 месяца назад

Some of the most amazing tabletop moments I've ever seen in this series!

@chrisnowlin7882 3 месяца назад

I'm late to the party but what I have seen from Mr. Brennan says I will turn your worst nightmares into your best case scenario.

@ferrous719 2 месяца назад

That is incredibly apt

@badroady 8 месяцев назад

The fact that Brennan can make the players dread regardless wheather or not they passed a save is enormous. Honestly I'm just curious how this scene would look from an animators perspective, going from character to character or all at once. And then the sound of a clock restarting.

@moviebad109 11 месяцев назад

Brennan: Luis, you do not need to roll for your holy avenger. Luis: oh I don’t? *shows visible relief* Brennan: BUT WAIT…THERES MORE!

@mischievousscroundel7277 Год назад

Your animations are INSANELY well done

@jacobweaver3016 Год назад

This was the best thing ever hearing it for the first time gave me so many emotions The entire Calamity Was amazing.

@SeventhGod77 Год назад

Good job you beat the campaign! On another note you have summoned an eldritch outer god that c’thulu calls “grandpa”.

@rachelclaw 2 месяца назад

I've seen this like 10 times, and I still react like I did the first time. It's so intense.

@gilly_axolotl Год назад

My god, he is an amazing storyteller. I have no context to this story and usually struggle visualizing things but his descriptions are creating such vivid imagery in my mind

@tamnker8465 3 месяца назад

I can imagine this happening in slow-mo with opera music playing in the background As it all falls down

@Achloryn 8 месяцев назад

I am not used to seeing such physical reactions from Sam starting at 2:50. The whole bottom row is completely aghast, but I don't ever remember Sam losing poker face that hard.

@ephemispriest8069 10 месяцев назад

Travis just poking them the entire time is amazing.

@mndlessdrwer Год назад

I'm guessing they did the thing that Brennan was secretly hoping they'd do this whole time. Like, final stage party wipes are brutal. I was hearing those damage figures and going "They must either be playing high-level characters or they've modified the rules for this one if they can tank more than 40 cumulative damage.

@optimistprime3192 Год назад

Since this was a 4-part prequel series in an age of powerful and incredible magic leading up to a guaranteed apocalyptic event, the player characters are level 14 or thereabouts. Watch the whole Calamity campaign if you can, they can do some crazy stuff in battle, let alone the storytelling of it all.