Critical Role - Grog Gets Craven Edge 

To this day one of the funniest lines ever

Somehow he plays a lot of characters that can't read

@@Unethical.Dodgson its easier to roleplay different characters if you have a traight that is the same among them all. Travis likes to play dumb characters that can't read. Makes it more fun for him

Matt is quite talented. I am sure this setting is somewhere there...

The best moment.

it kills me everytime 🤣🤣🤣

*sigh* "My new wielder is an idiot..."

Can I call you bacon?.... 😅🤣

"Hey Percy, are all shadow people bad?!"

But Travis is a button pusher. If there's a big, shiny, blinking red button in the same room as him, he's gonna saunter over and push it.

Craven Edge: I'm obviously evil, want to agree to something that's clearly a bad idea? Travis: *stayincharacterstayincharacterstayincharacter* SURE

When you only have one thought every thirty seconds or so, it's easy enough to emote them properly.

Pretty much. He said nope almost immediatly, but he didn't hand the sword for almost a week, even thinking to destroy it. S1E36, aroud 45:00

That's even funnier considering he said at a panel once that he wanted his XBOX live handle to be "RapedBacon", as a play on his last name. He was denied, of course. "Because nobody likes being raped."

Or Craven Bacon

it wouldve been cravin bacon

Pretty sure grog said "I ain't craven bacon no more" as they tossed the sword into another dimension

@@RNGStrategist don't forget to link yourself, man ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_XfmkO3UdGg.html

Really? He's hilarious in-game and from what he says on a conceptual level, but I haven't noticed him make any actions on camera the way Travis does; could be wrong. I will watch him closely from now on.

do you even pay attention to the bottom of Sams mug

I think both Travis and Sam are very funny, but even more so when they are both doing impromptu skits together.

Travis and Sam in the tavern of Vasselheim, with the 2 unconscious guards was amazing! You can see Travis saw his moment and he was like "Yep I'm running with this"

Sam + Travis are the best duo.

MegaZalmon YES! Someone else that makes Elric references! Grog is secretly an aspect of the Eternal Champion

Colin Branch also dangerously soul stealing

Yeah till it killed him

@@Mr0Anonymous0 So basically the Stormbringer?

They were distracted by a bunch of giant dragons shortly after, and Grog did a better job or keeping his sentient weapon low-key then Percy did, the party blamed some of his early weirdness on the Skull they found instead of the sword, and then the first person he told about the voice was Scanlan, who largely didn't give a shit as long as grog didn't attack party members..so a bunch of factors, mostly though it was just hard to tell the difference between regular Grog, and Possibly-Posessed Grog

@@agentchaos9332 and funnily enough, Fjord would have done the same exact thing and he would have done it better than Grog had he not vomit seawater for the party to witness and clock the dark pact right away.

Silver2233 Well, he did die, didn't he? My memory is a bit foggy, but i think they were quick with reviving him

@@krulen12 Yeah, I just watched the episode recently and he definitely died. But they were quick to use (I think) revivify on him.

@@benduker Yeah, then it seems like we might be right since we are both remembering the same thing :)

Colby Nelson yup, :) just finished it

Sadly I've been spoiled by the comments at the Dropbox description that [POTENTIAL SPOILER] Grog used the ability to get his strength up to 25 and fails the saving throw.. :( But I've seen him play as Grog in a standalone episode where Grog DMs in-game. Something with flagons and whatnot. Any chance you could soothe this potential disastrous outlook for me without spoiling too much?

Jake Gordy I mean it’s clear Matt was Cravin’ Edge when he wrote this!

Arctic you're gonna like some characters more than others but once you watch enough to get invested youll be hooked for hundreds of hours like the rest of us

Skip to episode 27 ish

As soon as he kept it in season 1 I thought " here we go" with a big grin on my face

yes

Welcome to Critical Role - Health warning there are over 1000 hours of content that helped make the show you watched, its addictive and could inhibit your life for the next few months:)

Fun fact: their second d&d campaign will get another tv series :)

Yeah, it's a D&D live stream that airs on Twitch every Thursday night. Legend of Vox Machina is an adaptation of their first campaign (of which this clip is from). The recently announced show Mighty Nein will do the same but for their second campaign, set 20 years later and in a different continent but in the same world as Vox Machina. As far as the livestreams go, they're currently on their third campaign, about a year and a quarter in so far. If you like Vox Machina and want to see where it came from and slightly different events (as the animated series is streamlined with the benefit of hindsight and needing to fit everything into the shorter episodes), definitely check them out. The entire series is available on RU-vid, just look up "Critical Role" and there are playlists for each campaign.

That's not actually how Hexblades work. You can of course reflavor it to whatever fits your game, but RAW you don't make the pact with the weapon itself, you make a pact with a being from the Shadowfell that has made various dark weapons, and sends you on a quest to recover/create them, or something along those lines.

not really.....

he gave grog a sentient blood drinking sword without telling him

Well to be fair, they didn't know it would be detrimental to Grog himself. Also, Grog could have refused. (Although ofc getting a sword offered to him that says it can carve up its enemies is not something Grog would refuse). But yeah Percy isn't the best person.

Well Grog isn't that dumb, I mean the "language" given off by the sword should have raised flags to Grog to begin with, it did threaten him about cutting his hand. Hard to blame Percy entirely for this.

Also, this was Sylas Briarwood's signature weapon. Percy's definitely smart enough to realize that it's bad news.

Craven

Looks like they’re setting that up for Season 2.

what about Bacon Edge?

The Critical Role fandom wikia has all the information Matt released for it. Article "Craven Edge".

Yes if you have 400 hours spare, try this playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i-p9lWIhcLQ.html

episode 36, winter's crest in whitestone about 52 minutes in

Guess what?

@@belindaluna2067 i know i freaked! First thing i said was oh hey hi Craven! Watching it eat Grogs blood was pure joy.

Episode 36 of campaign 1, "Winter's Crest in Whitestone" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EikRMYRf5-Y.html)

Magic item stat blocks. That's how they managed and traded items before they started using D&D Beyond.

That's a good question I don't know, I will try to find out

Found it - Dragon slaying longsword:) criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Grog_Strongjaw

Jack McNerney prolly Vax. It's always Vax.

Same reason there’s a Spider-Man villain named “Kraven the Hunter”. It sounds impressive until you realize what the word ‘craven’ means.

lordofduct it's an anagram for Vecna Greed

It's an edge that cuts the craven.

A blade that destroys cowards

Mr. David and then the realization came once you started playing right?

Mr. David Lol female who play role playing games are a myth! They are only girlfriends and wives who want to keep track of their significant other! It’s all lies, no pretty woman would ever want to play table top games like dungeons and dragons! (Slight sarcasm)

I know this comment is 3 years old, but that's fucking creepy dude. I don't care if you were joking; its not funny. If there's a "pretty girl" at the table, she's there to play some D&D and have fun, not get hit on. She has to deal with that BS in the real world enough as it is, leave her and other's alone.