Critical Role's Most Supportive Guest Player? Vox Machina, Ep. 55 | Critical Role Demystified

Подписаться 45 тыс.

Просмотров 38 тыс.

50% 1

Vox Machina runs down the ancient black dragon Umbrasyl, and Matt Mercer introduces a guest star who will help his players feel like heroes!
CW: Strong language
Chapters:
00:00 - Lesson: Communication is Key
07:57 - Lesson: Answering the Players’ Prayers
19:13 - Recap: Keyleth + Meteor = Keyteor
21:38 - Lesson: What Makes Shale a Great Guest PC
26:35 - Recap: Dragon Fight!
32:51 - Lesson: Giving Your Guest Player Closure
37:14 -Lesson: Foreshadowing the Next Story Arc
40:37 - Outro
You can watch the full episode here:
Episode 55 - Umbrasyl
• Umbrasyl | Critical Ro...
Recommended Reading
Why Don't the Chase Rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide Work?
• Why Don't the Chase Ru...
The Pyre Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Five Armies Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Stormfront Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Decline Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Dark Fog Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Black Vortex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Heavy Heart Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Lost Frontier Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #rpg #wizardsofthecoast
Join this channel to get access to perks: / @supergeekmike
PATREON: / supergeekmike
DISCORD: / discord
TWITCH: / supergeekmike
NEWSLETTER: www.supergeekmike.com/newsletter
____________________________________
BABY WISHLIST: shorturl.at/gjnx6
WEBSITE/BLOG: www.supergeekmike.com/
WISHLIST: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls...
NON-AMAZON PRODUCTS WISHLIST: throne.me/supergeekmike/wishlist
KOFI: ko-fi.com/supergeekmike
Address for Packages:
Mike Christensen
100 W. High St., #1326
Moorpark, CA 93021
- PLEASE don't address things to "SupergeekMike"; I need to show I.D. when I pick up packages, and that isn't the name on my driver's license
Address for Letters:
Mike Christensen
P.O. Box 1326
Moorpark, CA 93020
TWITTER: / supergeekmike
INSTAGRAM: / supergeekmike
TIKTOK: / supergeekmike
____________________________________
More Links, including my Lonely Flans: www.supergeekmike.com/links

Развлечения

Опубликовано:

15 май 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 148

@SupergeekMike 20 дней назад

Who is your favorite Critical Role guest star?

@connormonk7079 20 дней назад

Aimee Carrero or Robbie Daymond, its a toss up.

@Koobly 20 дней назад

If we are counting the non-main campaigns, I really liked Lou Wilson in calamity. I think having him and Robbie at the same table would be legendary.

@thor30013 19 дней назад

Wil Wheaton. I know he only got the one episode, but I liked how he managed to have fun in spite of his poor dice rolls.

@20.sided.mayhem 18 дней назад

Robbie Damon and TJ Storm. Gods both are amazing in such different ways ❤

@charlesbryant5897 11 дней назад

Jon Heder, hands down

@joeymcmanus3333 20 дней назад

Underrated comment from Shale when they ask if her staff has a name and she says "only men do that"

@stingerjohnny9951 20 дней назад

*Arya has left the Chat*

@lokilucario 19 дней назад

Big game of thrones vibe lol

@jenny_of_oldstones3523 17 дней назад

Chris Perkins listens to his wife... I love the end of this very "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" between Shale & Zanror beautiful RP!!!

@alexpietsch7997 20 дней назад

My sister and I are both chronically anxious, so when we start spiraling in a doomsday scenario we'll look at each other and quote Shale "Focus on the dragon!" On my wedding day my MIL was a monster during preparation. My wife was fully in tears going to get ready. I'm up in my prep room freaking out and my sister comes up to me "Mom and Dad won't kick me out and I could care less what (my in laws) think of me. For one day of your life you just focus on getting married, I'll take care of the dragon"

@DannyMakesVideosIGuess 20 дней назад

That's awesome.

@zippomage 19 дней назад

daaaawwwwww

@optimus2200 5 дней назад

a bad ass dragon slayer that sister of yours

@trajektoria 20 дней назад

This is perhaps random, but thank you for providing subtitles for your videos. It helps a lot people who are hard of hearing, have trouble processing speech or who are still learning English. Much appreciated. It's always great when a person who talks about accessibility actually puts their money where their mouth is.

@SupergeekMike 20 дней назад

I’m so glad they help! ☺️

@corypacheco4107 20 дней назад

@SupergeekMike I just want to say I am also so grateful for the captions, I'm hearing impaired, I can hear volume fine but I have trouble hearing annunciation. (If your curious what I hear a majority of the time college humor made a video a few years ago called "sorry, what'd you say again" that does a great job showing how I hear people in a humorous way) but it's always really hard for me to follow along with what someone is saying without captions.

@roguejoe 20 дней назад

@@SupergeekMike I also like them because I like chips too much.

@BetaBRSRKR 20 дней назад

I love that Chris tucked his arm in his shirt at first. I didn't know much about Chris Perkins at the time but I could tell he was a DM with a rare chance to actually play. I feel like a lot of forever DMs end up elevating the party when they get a chance to play.

@WilliamSlayer 20 дней назад

Us Forever DMs try our hardest on both sides of the screen for sure...glad you noticed that too! 😅

@ellabartal4652 20 дней назад

This is the legendary origin of "Guiding Bolt Right Up The Butt™©®"!!!! This fight is kind of a slog, but the kill is incredible.

@svearaldblood-anvil8403 20 дней назад

I absolutely love Shale! She was so funny and Chris Perkins is a legend. The old magic bit might be my favourite one in C1

@GradualGhost 20 дней назад

Keyteor totally laid the groundwork for the goldfish. I will die on this hill.

@stingerjohnny9951 20 дней назад

Which then lead to Beauregard

@braydenchadwick9836 20 дней назад

Literally any elemental form would’ve saved her is the funniest part, 2 fly, and 2 can merge into the two different things she’s diving into I now realize she had no reserve wildshapes, but a fire elemental if she’d been one at the start has the 1 inch squeeze feature and can fly, not too bad to have in intestines in a flying thing like the original plan and if it went bad like it had, she could at least had an out All of this being said, I absolutely love Marisha and it’s hilarious how much d&d makes your brain not work 😂

@irishwarlock 20 дней назад

Gotta love Perkins as a CR guest, definitely in my top 5 (although I am counting Shale and Spurt together)

@wumbojet 20 дней назад

Spurt is the best critical role character ever conceived

@dolphin64575 20 дней назад

11 days!

@GrimnirTheWhite 20 дней назад

The words "We're gods" come to mind as Keyleth Meteors to the ground

@stingerjohnny9951 20 дней назад

Pride cometh before the very…VERY steep fall.

@SomethingWellesian 19 дней назад

@@stingerjohnny9951Pride cometh before the leap?

@bristowski 20 дней назад

This is a good channel. This is a good series. I like Mike.

@Kuribohcoast 20 дней назад

Long Live the Keyteor

@golbez1583 20 дней назад

21:21 “Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer”

@jenny_of_oldstones3523 20 дней назад

❤🎶Gonna GUIDING BOLT HIM RIGHT UP DA BUTT🎶 An old Taldore classic heard as far as Wildmount & Marquette!!

@wolfox7776 20 дней назад

The absolute horror on Matt's face when Sam says he wants to "fist the wound" is what makes this fight worth watching again. And again. And again.

@DannyMakesVideosIGuess 20 дней назад

I completely forgot about Shale! Another reason why this recap series is so great, as I don't have as much time anymore as I did when I binged Campaign 1 I can't justify rewatching it.

@telarr9164 20 дней назад

The Jorel damage scene definitely plantts the seed of the goldfish plan! I'd forgotten about this 😂

@cameroncrouch5843 20 дней назад

I love the focus on Chris here. As a DM, I know I always struggle cuz I want to give my guest players the cool final hit. I mean, they are here for only a session, so I want them to feel awesome. But I forget that it is ok for a guest character to just elevate the party

@OfficialPieGuy 20 дней назад

New Critical Role Desmystified = Instant Watch + Geralt is Saved 🙌I have only seen Chris Perkins as a Guest in Campaign 1 but from what I've heard of Campaign 2 I appreciate how in both Campaigns he comes in as humor, hype the main cast up and then dip which isn't anything against the bigger guests who do more or have larger impact but to come in for however little he does and yet still does so much without being considered like a "main" guest is really amazing.

@DarcOne13 20 дней назад

His campaign 2 appearance was the shortest guest appearance on record until Echoes of the Solstice. It was *great*.

@k1tkat-kate 20 дней назад

4:37 - Mike, I need to hold you accountable for the ABSOLUTE CHOKING HAZARD THIS IS!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Scanlan might not have made it out, but I definitely took damage on that one... (Sweet tea burns if you choke on it you guys, just so you know🙊)

@hunterstrunk7516 20 дней назад

Oh hey I just finished binging the last 20 episodes on your channel today

@stingerjohnny9951 20 дней назад

Almost as much as binging two CR episodes 😜

@dwdillydally 20 дней назад

hardcore!

@hannahnethercott8390 20 дней назад

I'm a DM in training and I've recently found this series and I have to say I am super super grateful for this series of videos. Now, the leveling during a short rest, during a long rest, or in the middle of an adventure is something a little tricky and it's going to be different for every DM. Cause personally if I was the one DM'ing and my player could justify leveling up in the middle of a combat I might allow it because what Liam did and justified is really fricking cool (in my personal opinion). To expand what I would probably do is let them multiclass (or level up) but not take any of the class "specialties" so if they multiclassed into a Druid, at the most I could see myself allowing is the spellcasting for like one or two cantrips but make anything higher than that something they have to do on a short or long rest. Paladin, Cleric, or Warlock is easier because it's easier to justify with "Oh I call out to the God/Goddess/Patron (whatever)" and I would probably turn into something of a "Blessing" from the God or whatever. That was long, I apologize. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next videos! :)

@tonyzacker8946 20 дней назад

Yet another great episode of CR-Demystified! I love Ep. 55 of the Vox Machina Campaign. Especially Shale's quote to Zanror, goning along the lines of "Hey, a dragon got killed. This is a good day!". I don't know, I just think, this is pretty profound advice.

@tonysladky8925 20 дней назад

I think this might have been the one and only Campaign 1 episode I watched live.

@EmilyGamerGirl 20 дней назад

always love these! Can't wait for more!

@BluejayJunior 15 дней назад

"Broods through the air." That comment had me cracking up!

@chippymann7600 20 дней назад

The way I'm currently running my game is that the players reach "level up thresholds" where they have enough xp or story progress to level up, but to properly advance past the threshold they must take some amount of downtime. This allows for them to come up with training montages for their characters, and also add in other smaller details of character growth without needing a full scene. Though I would only recommend this approach for adventures that allow for 5-10 day gaps in the story.

@SLorraineE 20 дней назад

It's so fun to watch this while being current with campaign 3 and seeing how they've gron iver the years. The set, the video quality, and the players have all grown so much!

@PhosphorusWhite 20 дней назад

See I use milestone leveling because the hassle of rebalancing things with a mid session level up is wild, I always wait till the party accomplishes something then tell them at the end of the session they have leveled up. It can feel a little unfair sometimes for them to do something cool and not immediately get more powerful but I think it really balances itself out in the long run to just give them the level at the end of a session instead of in the middle.

@michaelrussell1672 20 дней назад

Mike! Mike! Mike! Come on everyone! MIKE! MIKE! MIKE!

@juanheloreloaded 19 дней назад

The battle from the inside was super interesting for😊 me.

@OldManGamgee 16 дней назад

Hahaha! Pike's Holy enema! Great phrasing.

@dsoegijono 7 дней назад

"And Vax broods through the air" made me laugh

@dannylawley765 20 дней назад

leveling up in the middle of combat feels either too video game-y or sometimes animesque, in a way that isnt my preferred style. however, vax emerging from the dragon accepting his allegiance to the raven queen is a great moment

@johnnye87 20 дней назад

I'd go so far as to make a homebrew rule where if you time a pivotal moment of true character development for right when you have the XP to level up, you get to do it then and there. No new spells, spell slots or HP but you can use new abilities. Either the timing is totally serendipitous (as was the case here) in which case it's fun to celebrate that, or else the player is deliberately delaying their level up in order to have a cool moment, in which case it's fun to reward that.

@TectonicImprov 16 дней назад

Vax revealing his level in paladin is one of my favorite moments in the show. I'm a huge fan of paladin redemption arcs (one of the first games I ever saw was Final Fantasy IV lol) so to see Vax break out a divine smite was super cool.

@morganer5378 20 дней назад

It's funny to see little details they have change for LOVM season 2: spoilers Vax got his wings after falling from Umbrasyl Scanlan who is the one reluctant to go fight a dragon in his lair etc

@futurecaredesign 20 дней назад

Excited to hear your thoughts on this one. I thought Perkins was a very laid back guest.

@gorax8784 20 дней назад

Dang I remember when I was just starting watching critical role like in january maybe and I started from episode 30 I believe due to the better quality and found your channel, I would watch your demystified vids from the first 30 episodes just to know what happened back then and later I would first watch the episode and then watch your demystified of that episode. Now I'm on episode 61 so a little bit ahead of you (A little bit lol with a vid every two weeks I'm almost 3 months ahead) and it's such a shame you don't make these videos weekly yet, I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later but damn I just can't wait for that moment to happen

@daltonemerson1875 20 дней назад

As the DM for my groups, I prefer to wait for a rest to have characters level up, but I have allowed for immediate level up in situations when the drama of the situation benefitted from it. Life Cleric in my party hit level 5 after beating a monster I threw at them and was able to save several allies who had died in the battle by using revivify.

@smoogieboogie1694 19 дней назад

It's crazy how far Keyleth falls in this episode. I sure hope she doesn't end up making a habit of it. That would be crazy.

@an8strengthkobold360 19 дней назад

He gave it the standard black dragon lair action which are intended for a swampy lair (which they fit into much better then a cave).

@blkriku 20 дней назад

19:15 I'm just now realizing this is the foreshadow to the goldfish incident and suddenly it all makes sense XD

@daytonjob5519 20 дней назад

My car just got on fire, but that's not gonna stop me from watching the new ep

@Wanderinpaladin 20 дней назад

My group calls their maneuver "6 seconds of death". It harkens back to Pathfinder and they were sneaking around in an invisibility 10' radius they'd pop visible and boss or guards would be dead in one round. They did that twice, but never successfully pulled it off, but if a fight lasts one round they still call it out.

@unboundsoul3582 20 дней назад

19:03 "Circling around to"? Like... Like a flock of ravens, mayhaps?

@RedCoyote 20 дней назад

With the question of when to level up, I think it's a more complex answer. When my DM and I played a two person run of The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, we had two level 4 characters, and levelling up (because sometimes they'd get enough exp in the middle of a room) unlocked at that moment but wouldn't refresh resources/hp. So like, the warlock would get more spells, but if she used a spell slot before that level up, she's still down a spell slot till a rest. For that temple run it was very needed; they were two lvl 4 characters in a temple that expected a group of lvl 5-7, and by the end they were level 7 nearing level 8 lol. As for our main campaign, our milestone leveling is done with an in-game week of rest because our campaign is a sort of Monster of the Week set-up, and taking a some vacation after a few jobs is healthy.

@jenny_of_oldstones3523 20 дней назад

"Oooooooold Magic" 😂😂😂😂😂

@tiredtortoise3396 20 дней назад

For chase sequences, the best method I have found is Side Initiative - the chased take a simultaneous turn, then the chasers take a simultaneous turn. It is far from perfect, but tends to work better than other methods I have tried, such as having all normal movement happen at the top of the round. On an unrelated note, due to the music in the background of the first section of this video, half of my brain is just playing the cooking gag scene from episode 19 of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device on loop. As for the level up question, here is how it works in my settings: After a milestone, the party is considered in a position to level up. They can then spend a number of days equal to that new level training for it (e.g. 5 days for level 5), or if a party member achieves something particularly characterful after reaching the milestone but before levelling up, they instantly gain the level, regain hit points, and get some of their class abilities (for example, getting new spell slots but not new prepared spells). Some of the ways the party members have done this: - A Beast Barbarian/Fighter ran up a wall, leapt off, grabbed onto her hovering (Swarmkeeper Ranger) evil twin, dragged her down to the ground and tore her throat out, dealing over 80 damage with crits and Action Surge. - A Warforged Tempest Cleric with a new personalised magic item scoring a critical hit with it at disadvantage against a demon. - A dragon-hating Aasimar Battlemaster Fighter slaying a wyvern with a very reckless aerial assault that left him on single-digit hit points. - A character sacrificing their life to get the party through a cursed room that could have done any number of awful things to them, with the party narrowly succeeding in saving his soul.

@billberndtson 20 дней назад

Fun Fact; Yev Pusin from Backblaze played Shale in "Vox Machina; An Exandrian Musical" by the Cantata Pansophical. 😃

@dolphin64575 20 дней назад

You're going to make me relisten... So glad to know he was involved ❤

@billberndtson 20 дней назад

@@dolphin64575 Even 6 years later I still listen to it - the fact that they made it at all, let alone how f*cking good it is, signaled to me that CR had a foundation from which they could launch any vehicle. They have a lot more music, too - The Exandrian Mixtape containing "Congratulations," "The Taryon Darrington Song," and Caleb's version of "Burn," plus the original singles like "In the Cobalt Soul," "I Wear the Mask," and Tiberius' "Vorugal" particularly move me. I love those creative geniuses at CPan almost as much as the gang at CR. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

@WesTheMesMorgan 20 дней назад

To your question about leveling up. I usually say you can have access to your hip points whenever. But to gain abilities spells and such, you have to complete a long rest.

@trealosgaming3345 20 дней назад

I mean in a Mines of Phandelver campaign the party I was in had a very effective plan for opening doors. It was dubbed FBI open up. Cleric would unlock or open the door, Ranger/cleric(me) would be first attack where I tend to deal massive damage, Monk/rogue would follow up to clean up those that survived, and Barlock would occasionally have a straggler to finish.

@robotmastercutman 20 дней назад

Regarding when is a good time to level up during a session: I've only DMed one-shots where leveling up was a non-factor (that may change soon), but being a player, it always feels weird to level up without a long rest involved. Adding new stuff onto a character sheet that's ragged from a day of adventuring can complicate things, whereas ending a long rest with a level up means that everything is topped off across the board.

@te1381 20 дней назад

I used to make my player wait for a long rest to level up, but I recently changed that and just give them the level at the appropriate time now. They get all abilities and spells gained but do not recover spent resources or health as part of the level up. It seems to work fine.

@guamae 20 дней назад

I ran a semester of 7th Sea, and I thought it was a really great system for Fantastical Swashbuckling!

@TheQwaser13 20 дней назад

i didnt know that Chris was a guest in C1 (i only watched C2 and most of C3) and i had to pause this video to go watch the glory that is Spurt

@simoncrawley1152 17 дней назад

In regards to level up. I use milestone so I would tend to give them the level up at the end of the session. If that happens to be mid encounter I would just let them fully reset with a lvl up. Will give the players more things to do and I’m happy to increase the CR on my encounter

@sparklefulpaladin 20 дней назад

Shale is great and she's one of my favorite guest characters of all time (I've seen pretty much all of the three main campaigns). There's another in c2 who is both a badass and, in my opinion, makes the cast feel like badasses, as well... and when you get to c2, I'd love to hear your take on him, as well!

@Lurklen 20 дней назад

I'd argue, I don't even think that the eagles could even carry the rest of the party. But I agree, placing both groups on the table is what I would do. I might also run it as a chase (but not exactly using the rules as those are...difficult) and have Umbrasyl be pulling some aerial tricks that keeps things dynamic. I also go back and forth on levelling up. I grant xp for completed arcs and kills, and usually require a long rest, but sometimes it just fits a moment to have everyone level up right then. I also do milestone in some games, and then it's not relevant. My general rule though is xp until level 10, and then milestone from then on.

@lacrosseman02 20 дней назад

9:55 I've had different DMs do this bizarrely. I had a DM have us level up as we were rolling initiative because he forgot, and I have had a DM forget to level us up for like 6 months lol. In defense of the 2nd DM, we had been adventuring in and around the same city for that whole time, so if we had gotten like 5-6 levels in that one city, we'd quickly overpower everything he had planned and that wouldn't have been fun either.

@AdellRedwinters 19 дней назад

Technically with legendary actions, I think the dragon could put some distance between it self and the players by using its “wing attack” every round. That would give the dragon a fly speed an extra 40 feet of movement for a total of 120 feet! Add in a dash for a total of 200 feet, and yeah if the dragon was focused purely on escaping, it would escape.

@TheMikeLyons 19 дней назад

Re: the disadvantage inside Umbrasyl issue: I totally respect that Vax can't move around. On the other hand, Umbrasyl can't see him, and therefore he gets advantage on all his attacks... Advantage and Disadvantage cancel each other out, so he "should" have been rolling straight (RAW).

@vinigmoura 20 дней назад

I think Mat was nice to even allow Vex to have the chance to cause some damage in the first place. The insides of the dragon (at least as I understand he was in this situation) was not like Majin Bonn's inwars, he was veeeeeery tightly squeezed, almost couldnt move at all...

@dolphin64575 20 дней назад

*Vax?

@vinigmoura 20 дней назад

@@dolphin64575 Yep!! hehe

@Takashidomo 10 дней назад

31:26 I agree that lair actions were uninspired, but he is using the standard black dragon lair actions from the monster manual. Is this the first dragon lair fight that Matt has run in 5e?

@squidlivers5677 20 дней назад

My party tried has gotten very egotistical as of late and with there consent I am sending them against an ancient black dragon (at level 9) this was perfect timing

@tenkiforecast 18 дней назад

"Okay, well, the snake plan didn't work..." "Alright." "I would like to cast...Bigby's hand." "Okay, you wave your somatic components and manifest the hand inside the dragon." "Alright. *draws breath* I would like...to FIST the WOUND." *Matt, look of absolute horror and disgust while the entire table dies laughing* "Just, jam it, find a finger and go like EEEEEEERRRRRRR" ... "This wound will never heal." "Yeah, uh...nope. nope..." It's both one of the funniest and most depraved moments of Critical Role.

@tbcmallett 20 дней назад

The third guest player goal is simply a chance to play a tabletop game, which is how I ended up joining my current group after two years of searching.

@smoogieboogie1694 19 дней назад

Also since my other comment is a joke, I want to say that I prefer how this episode had Grog kill Umbrasyl rather than Scanlan getting the kill in the tv show. It felt like the bombastic conclusion of the Grog arc we'd been going through, and it was especially great how Shale lied about killing Umbrasyl being Grog's destiny only for her to be right. Also Scanlan being the first to kill one of the dragons casts a bit of a wrench into *his* later arc about feeling useless.

@bryanduncan6954 20 дней назад

I played 7 seas with its creator, John Wick, once… fantastic game, fantastic GM.

@bradygroves988 19 дней назад

I'm similar when it comes to ruling on incidental damage. IMO Hit Points represent intentionally fatal attacks. This means that unless the INTENT of the hit is to kill in incapacitate, no HP damage is done. In "ball tag" i might rule that you need to make a CON save to see if you can stay upright. Or on a slap across the face I may ask for a WIS save and ask the player to tale that roll into account to determine how their character might react. But either way, no one takes HP damage unless "Serious Bodily Harm" is intended.

@kylebeardsley6200 20 дней назад

Leveling up is tricky for me, because it involves increasing your max hit points and spell slots, so the question of "do I get all my hit points back if I level up during the adventuring day" makes it tricky to think about how much danger I can throw at the party. I do milestone leveling in the dungeon crawl campaign I'm running, so I prefer to wait until the part is at a long rest before I'll give them the level-up, but that isn't always feasible if they just took a long rest before hitting the new milestone. Ultimately it's a judgement call, but that's just me.

@OceanusHelios 20 дней назад

Two things can happen in a chase scene and only two things. There is gap between the one chased and the ones chasing. That gap either expands or it contracts. How do you simulate this? You could have two D20s. Dm rolls one and the Player rolls one. If one die is higher that means the gap is smaller, or greater depending on who rolled it. Make an adjustment, advance time, and roll again. Modifiers include the base speed. Or you could just handle it like combat, in a way, only the descriptions are different. Instead of hit points representing damage, the HP that is whittled down...or something equivalent to HP could be the gap between the chaser and the chased.

@Treebohr 20 дней назад

In my current game, the party has to go back to town and spend a week resting and training in order to level up.

@GeekMasterGames 19 дней назад

I allow PCs to level up between sessions, even if it's as a battle is changing like the example here

@ItsScottish 20 дней назад

Got 4 games and most of them are tour standard "you get more powerful after that" In my 4th game the players need to be "safe" to level up - like a short rest- and to Multiclass they need to be in a city/town to speak to that type of person, have been using downtime to research that type of thing, or have a party member who can "train" them

@savnana3605 20 дней назад

I think chase scenes are FANTASTIC at low levels, but the moment things like dimension door are in play, chase scenes become near impossible to govern fairly.

@GAdmThrawn 17 дней назад

In my campaign, it is milestone leveling. I tend to wait until a plot point has finished either for the main story or for a character moment such as a side quest that took longer than intended. Once everyone is back and taking a rest or downtime then I will give them that time to level up. None of my players' characters are religious. Actually, scratch that, one is a demigod but he acts like one as long as it benefits him. This is due to his upbringing in a part of the world where there aren't a whole lot, if any, worshippers of his godly parent. But they haven't really looked into their parentage or where they came from, so I didn't have an opportunity to rp as a god. 19:59 I forgot about this moment. Well, now we know how the idea of keyfish started.

@alchemicpink2392 3 дня назад

When it comes to leveling up I require that my players long rest. And I have one player who really bristles against that which makes me regret the exp route, on the other hand they're the type to get mad at milestone leveling taking too long. (Otherwise they're completely fine as a player, this only came up twice when they smelt a boss battle after reaching the exp threshhold) Now, if I were running a slower game in general I would probably use really old school leveling up mechanics where a level gain involves actually learning, putting into practice and finetuning the things they get from the level up (i.e. Wizard gets time to further their grasp on the weave, gaining additional spell slots while the fighter discovers their internal Athlete's Go-Button to learn Action Surge.) So it really depends on the game, my personal recommendation: Don't be afraid of a Second Session 0. You can change up how it works and it doesn't hurt your game to take time out of a session or to ask for people to come in half an hour earlier to go over changes to how things work.

@wesleykushner8028 20 дней назад

I let them level up when they have the xp or milestone without a rest needed but it wouldn't be in the middle of an ongoing encounter. That's a little intense.

@RottenRogerDM 16 дней назад

Short Rest at least but generally long rest to level up.

@Spark_Chaser 20 дней назад

A lot of the issue with the Lair actions is this isn't really the dragon's home terrain. Black dragons are swamp stompers, not mountaineers.

@SupergeekMike 20 дней назад

That’s a good point!

@jenny_of_oldstones3523 20 дней назад

It was so hilariously funny.

@dominicpizano887 20 дней назад

Don’t earth elementals have resistance to non magical bludgeoning damage aka falling damage? I don’t know if that’s a rule or something so just wanted to double check

@Lngbrdninjamasta 20 дней назад

I love this channel ❤🎉

@janus2773 20 дней назад

i don't see a reason to disallow leveling up, even during a fight as long as there is enough time between sessions for the players to update their sheets. one could say "maybe the players would metagame and pick specific options that would help in that fight!", but why not run with it? if a character develops a fitting power in a moment of need, i think that can be kinda epic. in my game my players fought a druid who shape shifted into elementals a bunch and he really did a number on them, but they did very well and played smart. so when the druid did escape as his wildshapes ran out, i gave my players the level up they usually would have gotten after the boss fight, and the next session they ended the fight rather easily.

@TheMineyist 20 дней назад

OOOO YEAH DEMISTIFY ME BROTHER!

@sc4everrocks 20 дней назад

I find whether or not players want to engage in a chase within a 5E ruleset is very dependent on the group itself. I think it's dangerous to say that every group will want to engage in a chase as it sets negative expectations for newer Game Masters and players. In my anecdotal experience, the large majority of the time my players didn't want to interact with a chase, instead preferring to just roll initiative and treat it like a combat encounter instead. In most cases one group is at a disadvantage in a chase and will likely be caught and end up in combat anyways or is fast or stealthy enough to get away. Meaning that we could have a situation similar to this one in Critical Role when the group should be able to get free damage on a fleeing combatant but the Game Master is reticent to allow that and the fiction that has been set up in previous sections may conflict with that. Still appreciate and love all your videos and everything Critical Role does and continues to do but I did want to chime in on the comments.

@BigKlingy 20 дней назад

I'll always remember this episode, because I left a comment on the video that got a lot of likes. Scanlan bites Umbrasyl from the inside in his snake form and does 1 damage. "It'd be amazing if that was the HDYWTDT."

@JoeGrzzly 20 дней назад

Never thought about the fact that Shale was Vecna coded. You think that was intentional by Perkins?

@roninbelle804 20 дней назад

❤

@MrSilvUr 20 дней назад

How does the "unseen attacker" advantage work for being inside the target? Honestly, there are a number of places where it seems like "unseen attacker" could come up, but it isn't talked about...

@sagesaria 20 дней назад

Holy enema, Batman! (I had to, I'm sorry)

@Dunybrook 20 дней назад

It's always very hard to play ancient dragons properly. Generally, I think they are too smart to face a party attacking them in their lair alone without lots of minions around to even the odds.

@l0stndamned 20 дней назад

I wish they'd gone with a more game-accurate death for the dragon than what we got in the cartoon.

@mkang8782 20 дней назад

I appreciated both of Perkins' guest appearances, though his C2 is definitely the most memorable (for me, at least). As to when I allow players to level up: it's varied throughout the years, but, it's typically been after a long rest is completed. It is a topic discussed during Session Zero, and I leave myself open to options.

@toddrohrer8680 20 дней назад

I think Matt was being very easy on them

@joeb3688 20 дней назад

Short Rest Hp for level, Long rest full level.

@Keovar 20 дней назад

15:20 - Reminds me of "Flowers for Algernon". For a brief time, Grog was smart enough to see what he's been missing - and to know that night will fall once more. The Immovable Rod idea reminds me of the 5th novel of the Critical Failures series. Despite the series name, the plan worked much better for the Critical Failures crew. Content Warning: To say that the humor in Critical Failures is rude would be a significant understatement. Many of the characters (particularly Denis/e) are intentionally unlikable.

@ShyyGaladriel 20 дней назад

I was just thinking of Flowers for Algernon too.

@aquawoelfly 19 дней назад

I like the cobalt that lasted..... 10mins? He can guide us in the cave.. how far have you traveled? Over there Uh.... How long to cobolts live? 11 days How old are you 11 days We are going to make this the best day of his life! Oh look orcs that like smashing cobalts [smash] .... Or his last....

@sherbert1321 20 дней назад

They use xp level up in campaign 1??

@nickbrown638 20 дней назад

They did, you can actually see during the Briarwood’s arc Vax and Scanlan level up to 12 around the same time. (or maybe I’m misremembering lol)

@Kuribohcoast 20 дней назад

They sure do!

@Reaper_Lord 20 дней назад

I’ve been watching this series along side the Vods, up to the point the animated show has reached. Unfortunately with the series 3 delay, we’re almost caught up. Gonna be hard to stop watching until season 3, this series is excellent

@SupergeekMike 6 дней назад

Actually, the next arc is the Feywild, which was adapted as the Fey subplot in season 2, so you still have a little time!