Matt rolling as a DM: I hold the power of the universe at my fingertips and everything shall fall Matt rolling as a player: I've forgotten how to breathe and I don't remember anything from an hour ago
Honestly yes. I use him as an examble for my barbarian character who is very enthusiastic about doing thinking stuff, but really doesn't have the stats to back it up. Like Matt said during the campaign wrapup, it's a lot of fun to roll poorly, because it's everyone else who will have to deal with it.
He's been friend with Sam Regal a long time. (I love them too bc they are the best RP moments. I beat the shit out of my friend last night bc of a Nat 1 and a sadistic (loving) DM)
@@Superawesomevids549 I've had to do the same thing with a merc character I'm playing. Made him a kid with no world experience, the barest amount of combat training, and unflappable (unfounded) confidence.
@@odd435 I get super lucky with my rolls too, I managed to kill an enemy that nearly killed the other party members in one turn, I had my turn last so they had bad luck and then the enemy had amazing luck, I survived the enemy’s attack due to my big ass shield and then just one shot them with a nat 20 +4 shield bash because I had insanely high strength and the enemy was a dwarf that hit the ceiling when I bashed them It was a homebrew btw and the fight was my party members attempting to gain my full freedom because it was my introduction to the party, I was freed because the rogue got lucky with their stealth but after I was free the dwarf was alerted
@@ErinBookNut I think that's more in reference to their friend Gil (who I assume has made the cast custom dice sets) since I think Marisha jokingly called him out during the Darrington Brigade One Shot
I'm pretty sure he went into the game intending to play a dumb character anyway, because he KNOWS the stuff behind Exandria more than the others so it seems perfect for his character
@@johnallegood4469 hell even his short time with the cast of dimension 20 showed his curse carries no matter if its his campaign or not, but he owns it just as hard there. hes just a very "yup alright lets go with it" player lol
@@Drraagh yeah i mean a low roll while disappointing can be a great way to exemplify a part of a character, or bring out a moment for them that would be as emotionally resonating and deeply grand in the scheme of their over arching story as a success could have been. i believe the concept of a player taking their losses, especially their greatest ones, and turning them into a strong character moment, or a great session moment weather for drama, emotion, or humor is a great fun thing. take the now iconic beanbag toss moment from campaign 2. that shit would not have nearly been as memorable if it werent for an insane triple nat 1 combo spree
See one of the unknown side effects is it only affects players and can travel through them, Matt was never an actual player often so the curse just built up over time
@@negate3 this one also has the GM's curse and did indeed play a wild magic surge sorcerer with the spell sniper feat. 100/10 would do again the chaos was glorious.
At a certain point, you learn to lean into the DM’s curse. It reminds me of Wheaton’s character in campaign 1, who he played as cool and serious, only for yakety sax to play every time he tried to do anything. Matt takes it much more gracefully, poor lad.
The Wheaton curse is just something else entirely. You really have to see it to believe it. I loved watching Matt's terrible rolls in this and in dimension 20's Escape from the Bloodkeep but he is just on another level.
To be fair, Wil Wheaton has been cursed for a lot longer. He warned everyone on CritRole before he came on the show. He's been beating math for 20 years. It's hard to stay positive after that much failure.
Yeah, as mentioned by the others, the Wheaton curse is entirely separate from the DM's curse. Wil Wheaton rolls super poorly consistently, no matter what game or what role he has in that game. Take Paranoia for example: he rolled high numbers while succeeding is done by rolling low. If you were to ask him to scatter his entire dice collection on the floor in exchange for a million dollars if he rolls at least one 17, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't manage to roll a single 17. And that's saying something when you consider how large his collection is.
Granted I've mostly seen the compilations and not the actual games, but Wheaton looked pretty positive in them . Like, he just expects it's going to fail kind of positive not happy it's happening, but still, for that long that's pretty good
@@warwerewolf777 I don't think it would because even though my dice love to roll loy for like dnd if I playing a roll-under system they roll high every time Curse is curse
I love that you include a montage of Aabriya's reactions! When you have to treat double digits as a success, you know your player is dice-cursed. Matt should never have hugged Wil Wheaton. "Whenever I play a player, my rolling's always shit!" -Matthew Mercer
One of my favorite parts of Aabria’s DMing is the way she handles low rolls like this - her “they’re so sparkly, continue” on the arcana check was just 👌 perfect. Also as a fellow forever DM, I feel this pain - props to Matt for showing proper dice loyalty.
@@alisonlazarus4625 Yeah, it's really this. Playing a dumb character meant that he COULDN'T metagame with all his knowledge of Exandria, and the dice were clearly conspiring with him.
Matt is a great example of how to fail forward and lean into the dice telling the story. He kept getting AN inspiration because he kept rolling with it.
To be fair, didn't the cast (aka Liam and Travis) make Wil Wheaton secretly touch Matt Mercer with the intent to pass a bit of the curse to Matt back during Campaign 1? Maybe the effects kicked in late? 😂
He was equally unlucky when he played in Brian Foster’s Undeadwood. So unlucky, that he wanted no applause from the town after a victory because he never hit anything the entire battle.
Matt would make a great divination wizard. He understands the game very well so handling wizard spells will be fine even at high level and with the portent feature he can inflict a portion of his low rolls onto his enemies.
They need to have an Opposite Day during the campaign... then either Matt's low rolls will equal highs, or he'll end up rolling high numbers and still fail lmao! Ooo! And we should have a game with Matt and Will... see which one's REALLY got the curse haha.
@@davidcopplestone6266 appropriately titled the will Wheaton curse. I just watched it again the other day. It was hilarious watching everyone's faces as they slowly die and he just owns the chaos
This reminds me of a character who somehow, through whatever miracle the dice had in mind, rolled a nat 1 on almost every perception check he made, especially ones relating to finding strange things. This meant he almost always ended a check with “Damn, that’s a nice wall right there.”
Am I the only one who think our one of favorite DM Matt ‘stack’ his luck for C3? lol Also, Amiee: Roll two nat 20s in rows deceiving adult muscular halfling man as a tiny girl Nancy
I made a comment on one of the Exandria Unlimited videos but I must say it again for this. I am CONVINCED that when Wil Wheaton touched Matt before the ending of Season 1 of CR, he gave Matt the player instance of the curse, not the DM one. This is why we see it now after all these years.
Matt eather needs new dice or Wil Wheaton has some explaining to do. (Or Gilmore dice refuse to remain as a player, they only accept the high, respectfull role of the dm!)
With how consistently low he rolls (as a player), he should really consider playing a cleric and just *constantly* try at divine intervention. And just for extra flavor make it an atheist cleric so every time these miracles happen he has to justify why it *was **_NOT_* his supposed patron deity's intervention.😂
You know, I'm reading the comments comparing Matt to Wheaton , but if I recall, Wheaton actually rolls worse. I can't recall him rolling more than 1s or 2s. Maybe a 3 once.
you know...i'm having flashbacks to the video of when Wil Wheaton touched Matt's Dice and hugged him before a session...did... did the curse have longer lasting effects than originally surmised?
Oh, it's just me rolling for anything in DnD! Some tales of me being a bad roller: I stunned everyone into silence at a 2 player campaign when my character failed all death saves with a 6 and a nat 1... on session 2. First time I revealed a different side to our GM, we really learnt a lot that day. My other character had gone through being drained of blood by blood magic, paralysed and swapped places with an enemy, the barbarian rolled maximum damage and cut him in half, had to make a deal with the grim reaper to not die on session 3, after that entire experience he got seduced by a succubus in his most vulnerable moment and robbed for all his money, and was dipped in lava.
THANK YOU!! I hoped someone make a video about it! Matt rolling like shit as a player is ridiculously funny. And I LOVE how he plays it off. I think I have never seen someone rolling a nat1 in such a short time EVER
The editing style is amazing here. We don't need to know which roll corresponded to which consequence XD and also I love the breaking up of longer bits but they're still totally track-able.
YAS I hoped someone would compile all his shit roles into on video. And he is the BEST sport about, I love his acting choices based on the bad roles. The whole chase scene in ep 6 for example!
