Critical Role Animatic - Henry Crabgrass (C2E112) 

Matt gave us a brilliant performance of Henry. I was puzzling myself on how to transfer that on a grass 🤣

@@Deelusi today in DND history where Crabgrass is not only an NPC but is also kind of adorable.

@@Deelusi I was half-expecting a face to FORM out of the grass and dirt. but, uhh, crabgrass isn't like regular grass so that wouldn't have worked the same. the smiley face was a good choice!

@@Deelusi it was an adorable illustration of the conversation I'll tell you that much :D

@@Deelusi You had three choices. 1. Have the grass move like a body. 2. Have the grass shape itself into a face. Like the spiders in that Netflix Dark Crystal prequel. 3. That adorable speech bubble.

Well if you think about it, grass being stepped on would be like someone bumping into you on the street. Unpleasant, but there was no active intention to touch. Whereas Jester petting him was her wanting to touch him. So in conclusion: gardeners are criminals.

Gardeners should be put on the sex offender registry! (Jk)

Lol, there are limitations to a grass, apparently

@@TheWurstBrat8179 Only if you touch the seeds, flowering bodies, or pollen, though in the case of the latter you could argue that the grass is non-consensually attempting to fertilize your nose.

Henry has a kink, don't shame him !!

Fjord Simp. i like it i can see it now

I mean he made a promise to jesters momma, no one fucks with jester not even grass 😂

It's always fun to go a little murder hobboish to annoy the other players... Or at least threaten to and not actually do it... Just to bug them...

I only just noticed that he almost said “falchion” instead of “star razor”, old habits I guess 😂

Sjmp

I dont get it

I also do not get it

@@IceBite49 that's kinda why it's funny. It's such a nonsensical, and entirely Caduceus thing to say.

​@@pazz Horses eat grass... why do i imagine grass begging the horse for mercy now. XD

You sit on a horse, you step on some grass- he’s saying they’re similar haha

Not if you watch roll with me. Hardcore torture corn in that one episode

no joke, it turns out plants really do scream when they are damaged. They release gas and chemicals when damaged. some plants have been found to release their gas in response to just the sound of caterpillars chewing. We have laser microphones that can detect them now. You know that freshly cut grass smell, yeah you are smelling your lawns collective screams. i'm not even joking.

@@3mparchangel357 this is like being surprised when your phone reacts to being poked. plants don't have feelings, those aren't screams. :/ it would be like saying us getting cut and bleeding is equivalent to screaming for help.

@@Lycaon1765 3mp mentioned that plants give the same reaction just to the SOUNDs of caterpillars chewing leaves. Meaning they aren't being damaged themselves, but they recognize and associate the sound with damage, and respond to it. It might not be the same as 'fear' but it's certainly a 'fight-or-flight' without the flight sort of response :)

@@Lycaon1765 agreed, its relative of course. Did you know plants help each other grow by sharing nutrients with each other and when one plant of a close species gets damaged they actually give nutrients to the damaged plant until it heals or dies and gets absorbed. Just guess how they know their fellow plant is hurt... the gas they emit when harmed. Not saying it is on par with actual screams of emotional pain. But still, it's pretty crazy close. but i guess that again is all relative.

God if she brings that up next time they see him itd be hilarious

"He has a heart of gold"

Essek is a kirin confirmed

They should introduce Essek to Henry 😂

Same

See but that's the thing, moving eating plants down the food chain is less efficient, cows eat so much more plant then you possibly could. So by eating meat you actually indirectly eat MORE plants than you would if you went straight to the source. A steak is like... Twenty salads worth of plant! At least! You gotta play the long game with these things

@@awesomepawn2 how many calories of grass can you actually convert when your digestive system isn't built for grass

@@awesomepawn2 it's not about statistics, it's about making it personal.

Did you know scientists have found that lettus screams when people come to pick them.

If it helps, eggs and dairy both contribute to an immense consumption of ressources, in the form of plants and water, and animal deaths and suffering, as male chicks and calves are killed shortly after birth. So are dairy cows once their body can no longer keep up with production.

Wait what exactly are the details of his character now and his pact/oath? I don't mind spoilers

@@avaty8350 Still Pact of Blade/ Hexblade Warlock, and Oath of Open Sea Paladin (homebrew Matt released it on dndbeyond)

@@avaty8350 Fjord took one of Molly's swords and his falchion absorbed it. Now instead of the falchion is called the 'star raiser' and looks different with runes and stuff, I can't remember exactly. His sword actually changed again in episode 113 after a certain hdywtdt, but I believe is still called the 'star raiser'

@@SrShotMan it’s not called the star razor because it absorbed Molly’s weapon. Fjord’s original weapon that he had for a long time was a falchion but eventually when he turned against ukotoa he threw it into the lava and he hasn’t gotten it back, the falchion is gone. His new sword that he had created near uthodurn by the dwarves in a volcano is called star razor. And it’s more like a broad sword I believe.

@@massterofeffect6103 Absolutely right, I got the moments mixed up trying to remember off the top of my head. Now it makes sense why is changed after the fight, it's technically a vestige

And he's so happy about it, too.

Well, he's tall.

He’s almost 7 feet tall I believe.

Having played a firbolg, yeah, that's just how it be

Lol Caddy Shack is a tall boi 🤣

Wooooow its you! I didnt expect you here!

He's just a little guy

That just goes to show how talented this group is. I mean...when you can turn a PATCH OF CRABGRASS into a lovable NPC, you have talent the likes of which makes you wonder which deity blessed you. This is pretty much "roll Performance with disadvantage" and getting two Nat20's.

This made Cad seem so sinister lmao

@@Ellisepha well not sinister but he actually murdered a man at his own dinner table, I mean respectfully

Caleb is apex predator

@@Ellisepha Nature can be cruel and I love whenever people make characters that are in tune with nature have subtle brutal moments like when Caduceus admits that he can talk to plants and after this moment it suddenly seems horrific but he’s still like “yeah but whatever”. I remember a different DnD podcast where someone played a Homebrew character that was a Mushroom Man and a Warden (a more combat oriented Druid) his name was Chromagill due to the fact he has rainbow glowing Mushroom gills. He’s really strong but kind and seeks peace and order for the safety of Nature. He’s True Neutral by the way and the conversation about Terrariums got brought up and everyone was surprised he had no problem with plants being trapped in bottles just to look at. He says happily “If I got mad at everything you fleshies did, none of you would be alive” and continued with his work like nothing happened.

Apex

Like putting your ear to a conch shell

The foley effects are really good!

NO NO NO NO FJORD NO

Make Henry Crabgrass a Leshy and it'd be perfect.

Sprinkles is the quest giver.

@@williamfalls Sprinkle is the character they're trying to rescue. ZORTH is the quest giver.

Would that be just three hours of Matt talking to himself? I'd watch that. xD

As part of a joke campaign I played a sentient small venus fly trap druid. I was less than 5 pounds in my little pot, so Mage Hand allowed me to fly. Since I was a plant already, my druidic philosophy was to protect civilization (cities) from the encroaching, dangerous, despicable nature (forests, etc.) that sought to consume Humans (and other city dwellers). I was also telepathic. It was pretty funny. I say this to say, Sir Crabgrass as an adventurer would probably be hilarious.

Molli lives! Our loving god returns

@@Cell287 long may he reign

The problem is he's not back...

@@Cell287 So about that...

@@Emma-if9bf lmao

Her horrified little "Henryyy!!" is just amplified in cuteness by the chibi face. XD

"Right here" -The ferocious predator out of the group.

Laura's voice as Vex is incredible. She sounds like a completely different person.

​@@chrisi8373 I started with M9 so when I heard Vex the first time I was like "what?!" Especially because the role Laura did I'm most familiar is is Maka from Soul Eater. Then I looked all her VO roles up and had to reevaluate some things when I saw she also played Lust in FMA

Have you heard Macaroni Samsonite?

"...RIGHT HERE."

Child - where are all the pigs, daddy? Vegetarian - in the zoo. More mushroom risotto?

"Well..you sit on a horse. These things happen" It would have been really funny if he was drinking his dead people tea XD Cab with humor.

I completely agree.

Suddenly my name is much less ironic.

Also firbolgs have the racial trait of being understood by plants an animals, though firbolgs do not inherently understand in return. So for Cad growing up mostly only with his family who are clerics of the wild mother, talking to plants is likely something his whole family do regularly

@@Desdemona-XI Imagine sneaking a cookie or smth and your mom's monstera plant snitches on you.

A fact almost forgotten by the fan base...

But when i look at level 10 height chart, it seems like yasha is taller... And I got confused 🤣

People act like Yasha is monstrously huge when she's really like 6 feet tall, which is how tall I am 😂 Does great things for my self image issues

@@haley9976 i honestly imagine yasha to be like Zarya from overwatch

@@haley9976 Barbarians: They're either tiny balls of rage or giant, looming colossi.

With his consent of course

I wish they had kept Kiri

@@TheCart54321 yea and she fighting to survive like jesters weasel, no thank you

He can talk to them. They can’t respond without using a spell.

@@derekeastman7771 He wants them to hear him as he devours them. There screams mean little to him so he doesn't bother.

@@derekeastman7771 Everyone can talk to plants and not get talked back at. The Firbolg simply believe they're better at it for some reason.

Plants can understand what Firbolgs say, but the communication is one-way only. Outside of magic trees or something, it’s not a very useful ability. As written, it’s not even clear how Fribolgs even figured out plants understand them.

Oh my got cad is the bbeg

He’s apparently capable of accessing ‘’memories’’ from before the spell was cast, so his personality could presumably be brought back at every casting of the spell. Even if we assume he is unconscious in the meantime, it is functionally the same as him being alive, since he will retroactively receive the memories of the time he wasn’t under the spell.

Our God has risen

Yup. Firbolgs have a racial ability to talk and be understood by all animals and plants. He cant understand them back without a spell but yes he's actually talking to them intentionally and respectfully

Yeah. It's subtlety done, so it feels more like a natural reward for well thought out use of an underused spell to gain information. Some of it probably does connect into matt maybe not remembering the details of the spell, (a dm should not be expected to know everyone's spells effects by heart, after all) But leaning into the scene is just a smart and good guy dm move. Makes you want to try things more, to feel like you're likely to be rewarded for using your abilities rather than scowled at for coming out with something that the DM Hadnt planned for and subverting his mystery. Matts willingness to let his players pick a direction and run with it is one of the key traits that make him such a good DM.

Little details :) I'm glad it work!

To be fair, I guess some plants would be dead by the time it got to your plate? Like if you cook a vegetable, surely it’s dead by then... but if you pick an apple off a tree, surely it’s the tree that’s alive and not the apple. So are you like, pulling a limb off and eating it in front of the poor tree? 😶

Okay, but those plants still have to be cooked alive, right? Like, you do sometimes boil crayfish or lobster or something alive, but it's nicer to the animal to kill it before doing that, like by freezing it or something. I think when a plant fruits, because there's seeds in it what you're actually doing is eating either a baby or a fetus, particularly with apple trees because they need a male and a female tree near one another before they fruit. So no, you're not eating a limb, you're eating its baby.

@@SirJonathonDanielGregorySrVthe I don't think that makes it any better

@@SirJonathonDanielGregorySrVthe I'm pretty sure most vegetables aren't necessarily alive once they get picked from where they were. Once their roots are destroyed i'm pretty sure they die (since it would be the equivalent of destroying a person's veins...you can't really live long without those) and what we have left is a corpse that is slowly decomposing (except like maybe carrots and potatoes that seem to be able to re-root themselves {exp from my own fridge...don't wait too long or they do that lol} Fruits are more like sperm XD they fall off the plant and with luck they implant themselves into the ground ol' mother earth ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) In the world of D&D we're all monsters no matter what we do or don't eat XD

@@secondrateseth8360 apples house seeds so I guess eating fruit is like eating a chicken egg. But veggies, some aren't dead after they are picked. Like potatoes and root veggies can keep growing or clone themselves if put back in the ground. plants are strange.