Race to the Tower | Critical Role: VOX MACHINA | Episode 102 

FoolishAnonymous with a broken Doty at his side.

I cried

i laughed in response to with a broken doty

After watching the end of this campaign, this is not the saddest thing Sam has said. The saddest thing he's said is "Nine."

DMN YOU! My heart cant handle that!

hahahaha that was such a great moment

Followed by Disintegrate played in the wrong way >_

@@cyclonicoverride4337 What do you mean?

They should’ve known that they were walking into a high level necromancers place both spells were on the table

@@asedwadsa You don't take half damage if you succeed the saving throw for disintegrate, you take 0. And disintegrate is a Dex Saving throw, not a constitution one.

He went so easy on the players, it doesn't make sense

@@rittov320 As a DM your job isn't to kill your party, it's to tell a story. Play how you like.

@@rittov320 I mean he killed two of them and even pulled out a Power Word Kill, sure he wasn't trying to TPK but he let them walk into a meat grinder.

@@timr6318 He didn't let anybody, they did it themselves. He basically warned them off as best he could without giving everything away.

@@Ailieorz When was this warning? Sincerely, I didn't hear anything that signaled a warning to me.

When did the characters get the necklaces?

@@chandlerw373 Tarry had them made or made them himself in the year of downtime, I believe. Basically, they are hear rate monitors that activate whenever someone goes down.

@@chandlerw373 Keyleth had them made to celebrate her completing her Aramente

@@fleacosmos66 Actually they were made well before that, she just gave them out when that happened.

This happens @ 3:53:44 for those who are interested.

McB12329 haha!

They don’t fear the Oxford comma, it seems.

Most people don't fear unnecessary things.

🤣🍃🌬🖤

This is 2 years too late but still: Nice King Killer Chronicles reference!

You're like the David Attenborough of D&D.

Ha & You're the Luminous orange sunglasses of the comments

My players always get scared when I stand up. It's fun to watch their faces as I start to get out of my chair :P

Can confirm. Had a game once with like, 11-12 players and one DM. She stood the whole time, and she must have rolled 15 nat20s the whole session. Sucked that nearly most of these were attacks against one level 1 character, so e got very discouraged by the end, so he just let his character die and went to go lay down on a beanbag. We blamed the power of the Teemo hat that she was wearing.

In some groups, it's more dangerous because they may fall on the table and break it. I don't mean the "Fat DM nerd" stereotype, I just mean it certainly exists somewhere, and made a joke about it.

Lol

Hey guys, what's up? Mind if I drop in and drop this 7th level fireball. Also delilah is coming later.

This concept makes me happy because all I can think is that is the same visual as a family thanksgiving with the one person no one knows/likes, except more nerdy

Something about that sounds like Darth Vader in Cloud City

@@jonathankowatch6947 She's his +1

Extremely underrated pun

And this one@Harry Chisholm

Oh my god

HOLY SHIT UNDERRATED COMMENT I'M DYING

I like this

This is likely my favorite "mechanics" moment of all the episodes I have watched so far in terms of sheer --- expertise. That's what this is: Sam's not proficient at this moment, he has expertise in playing this character - and it is so counter to the expressed reasons Scanlan left in the first place; he saved everybody - even going against a little peer pressure. Impressive. (And the defiance on that face! Freakin' checkmate - well, ok, if a checkmate during a tactical retreat is possible, lol.)

Sam looking at Matt in expectancy, because he knows his DM very well...is wonderful to watch!

Always satisfying when Tal gets humbled into realizing he isn't the smartest in the room because he oftentimes comes off as though he thinks he is. Recycling quotes from movies and novels doesn't equate to intelligence

​@@padenbang7375 glad that you know him personally...

@@padenbang7375 one day youll look back at this comment and be embarrased, and I hope that day is soon

Taryon would have been so helpful during their Shadowfell trip

I hope this gets animated

timestamp?

@@brandon6485 3:53:40

At first I thought Sam was making a joke about him having to reconstruct Doty, but then I realized those damn necklaces pinging again and again with each death. Same fear Pike must've felt when they were fighting in Dis.

Time stap?

When is this?

Raven Queen 3:54:33 nvm I found it for you

Heavy is the head that ...sits behind the screen.

Travis is the ultimate Big Brother, his love is so pure

"Life needs things to live, death can't exist without life, so if we do all we can to not live, we can stop death!" -Vox Machina, in general.

Percy “I have a plan” literally does not have a plan

At this moment I thought: "Of course terrible shit will stop happening because you all are going to die"

​@@retro_dystopian963Attack IS a plan, come now Tony Stark was very clear about this lol

During that entire scene i was just saying "Vax is such a bi-disaster"

That was adorable. A delightful little moment in this trashfire of an episode

@@xxliew I wouldn't call it that.

Which was itself a callback to Pike giving Taryon sex advice in the tavern.

I laughed.

nice.

Well played :)

ahahahaa

lmao

Gotta do something with that finger. 😉

Exactly

The most powerful innate ability in DnD: the power to confuse any being with words.

@@therods9645 if you can't blind them with your brilliance baffle them with your bullshit

@@jodah_eternal and your aliteration!

When he actually uses it. "7th level fireball... *silence* ... Power Word: Kill and Vex dies... *crickets* ... Disintegrate and Vax dies ... *nothing* "Wait Matt, can I retroactively Counterspell that?" Matt is probably the most merciful DM in existence.

Sam is amazing

Taliesin was saying "this is it" but Sam was so right

...you think THIS counterspell is good? Boy, do I have news for you...

I'm kinda amazed nobody else knew except Travis. I immediately thought of that.

@@Yutah1981 If Liam/Vax had still been alive he might have been paying attention, but that level of detail is honestly only something Travis and Sam catch on to usually. Laura and Liam are right behind them but Travis and Sam really do play - especially in C1 - at a different level.

@@JDOTczar TBH, I don't have this impression, it's pretty subjective

That or it's a shopping episode 😁

Times when Travis drops the grog voice: when there’s a serious risk of TPK When his wife’s pet bear is about to die

@@lonely1951 Travis is a smart man. He knows the only thing more deadly than Vecna is Laura Bailey if Trinket dies.

@@mawile8329 If you think about it, trinket didn’t get touched for literally the entire fight.

To be fair, the twins die literally all the time. Always those two. But has pike, on screen? I don’t remember

@@idontcheckmynotifsdontboth7753 she died pre stream once and theres a long running fan theory that Matt designed the Plate of the Dawn Martyr in such a way that Pike would never die again barring a TPK, which on CR is next to impossible to ever happen by design.

#1 rule of warfare: NEVER mess with the medic.

Vecna just got a little taste of his worst enemy. This counterspell was nothing compared to the one that sealed his doom

Imagine how things might have gone if Sam knew how well Glibness works with Counterspell as a Bard...

@@higglybiggly1174 ok, this hyped me even more to watch the last fight

@@Zombiewithabowtiewow ye and its not concentration. Auto-counterspelled regardless of spellevel

This.... I need this

Damn I wanna see that fan art..

YES.

Let's be honest he would have destoryed them

He's got like a million hit points and 3 attacks in one turn. 9 Gloomstalkers? Grog would have been the Gloomstalker extinction event. But yes, need this fan art. Damn if only I could draw well

Pro tip!

You can't disintegrate someone who is immune to force damage.

I'm dead lmao

@@sofialaya596 I'm a little late here, but so is Vax

DarkEspeon frick you 🙃🙃🙃

Wowww! Bravo!!

🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Hey there, Delilah, I know magic's really hard, 🎵 But just believe me girl some day I'll break your soul, your mind, your heart, 🎵 Then I'll kill you all, 🎵 Down to The Nine Hells you will fall, 🎵 I'll send you all, 🎵 Hey there, Delilah, you're a cultist and a freak, 🎵 If by some means it were up to me, you wouldn't last a week, 🎵 You filthy wh*re, 🎵 And now it is, so breathe no more, 🎵 No, breathe no more, 🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Another bout? We've come this far, 🎵 And yet your mind runs slow like tar, 🎵 You'd think you'd learned your lesson here today, 🎵 You truly wish to walk this route, 🎵 My friends are here, let's duke it out, 🎵 You'll never again see the light of day, 🎵 Delilah, I can promise you, 🎵 That by the time that we are through 🎵 Your wretched face shall never look the same, 🎵 Your folly's blame, 🎵 Hey there, Delilah, turn to good 🎵 You'll go down in hist'ry, 🎵 But if you don't agree you should know, 🎵 We're poised to kill you quickly, 🎵 Close your eyes, 🎵 Your choices are good or demise, 🎵 Say your goodbyes... 🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Oh, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 No, no casting spells for thee, 🎵 Casting spells for thee... 🎵Oh, whoa, whoa, 🎵Oh, whoa, oh, 🎵Oh, Oh...

👏👏👏

Bra fucking vo

​@@James_Irish So, how's that later date coming along?

this is hilariously true

Well, one's a fight, and one's a one-sided massacre. Of course the latter's going to go faster. xD

I swear if I had heard the words "and you are grappled" in that episode one more damned time, I would have exploded in purple goop. Damned Krakens. Too many arms and not enough soft spots lmao.

Yeah plus with 1000% less alcohol 😬

I still found it annoying as I listened to Marisha babble incoherently round after round

Darth Vader its even more impressive when you think of how badly scanlan fucks with vecna in the final fight he truly learned from this fight and had counter plans for almost all of vecnas BS.

This comment is better coming from Lord Vader

@@jcoonie2 Please try not to spoil future episodes. I'm still watching through these and I know I'm not the only one

@@the.seagull.35 you do not get to cry about spoilers years later, if you dont want spoilers dont read the comments

@@smilingbear7430 Don't tell me what I can and can't cry about!! Nah you're probably right though.

A nuke that couldn't level a small tree.

I mean ... a regular 3rd-level Fireball is already 8d6. A 7th-level Fireball is 12d6. That's only about a 50% increase in damage. An average roll of 12d6 is only about 42 damage. Ancient Dragon breaths are way more deadly.

LMAO

Idofphoenix That’s very common of Critical Role, they cast spells at higher levels super often. Upcasting Cure Wounds at level 4 is really not worth it

For a nuke, it's not that devastating lmao

Well, there was a tiny chance if they had speedier methods of travel that they could've somehow tried to stop the ritual.

Normally it's "How do you want to do this?", but this time, silently he was thinking "Why do you want to do this?"

Is it bad that I want to hear Liam yell "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!"

He did pull his punches Sam had ample time c To counter disintegrate and did even ask until after the action resolved. He should not have been given that counter

He made so many errors in the playthrough. Screwed up on so many rules, watch it again.

Grog will protect his Monstah at all costs.

As someone who listens while driving, I've not seen this happen so fix him hits harder

4:25:15 The number 1 take away is how AWESOME Sam is. The players may not admit it, but those of us really paying attention know.

58:45 especially with his clever mug stickers

Sometimes when Scanlan and Vex interacts they might make you think that they're (Sam and Laura) not that close of friends IRL, but at times like these, you can clearly see that they are real good friends and really good actors as well

Him playing fjord makes this comment shine his combat and plays he commits to in campaign 2 shows how smart of a player he is

The you remember that this fight took all of maybe 30+ seconds? That really isn't much time.

They where underleveled, as with the attack of the chroma conclave Matt expected them to withdraw and regroup.

@@Ginric99 They should've stopped the ritual

Damm... you got me tear eyed

damn this made me cry all over again

"Best five years of my life" made me cry. I turned to comment to my husband how heartbreaking that line was and just started *crying*

😭

and Laura got so upset when he did that! It was heartbreaking.

I love every time someone's died they just clean up and head out it really makes the death show

Deserve it. Should all have been dead for dumbly waltzing into vecna

Hehehe

Time stamp?

@@ravenqueen4873 3:54:30

Grog will forever protect his Monstah.

Tary is just Sam's inner child speaking

After the final episode everyone should check the Coalville video on Sam and the final fight it's a really good analysis obviously spoilers for the last episides

Yup, Sam is way smarter.

@@Hoovt I don't think everyone truly got how much he thought it out. he was the first to remember Pikes armors ability meaning he knew he didn't have to worry about her dying so he didn't even try to counter spell the disintegration Again with the flame bolt he knew grog would pick her up

4:18:38 Sam is my favorite player by far because, in spite of and including him playing "amusing" characters, he is on top of the game. He knows better than to listen to "overly emotional" Talesin! 4:20:02 Look at Sam! He's staring right at Matt, waiting for Vechna to counter spell so he can drop his 7th level counter spell!!! He has saved VM from countless disasters because, while playing scampy Scanlan, Sam thinks several moves ahead!

bananafish58 overthinking and over planning is a thing and I do it a lot. Scanlan actually remembers what the other’s abilities are so he plans better. He also knows how they’re gonna react. The 8th level spell he did not end up using from the Thordak fight was also a sign he was preparing for shit to go reaaaally south.

Taliesin is king of “I have a plan” and just making shit up on the fly and praying it works out and then attempting to act like he knew every move that was going to be made

I definitely missed Matt being able to stand up like he did in the K'Varn arc. So glad it's finally back.

It's not just Matt being able to stand, the smaller size of the same table and the fact that the battle map is now in the center of all of them makes them al act more dynamically. You see Travis stand up and lean often and Marisha getting up and walking in anxiousness just adds to the tension more than the face pulling and outcries. Getting the table from Wyrmwood has really upped the quality of Critical Role, making it feel more like they are actually playing the game at home and making it feel more natural and less production show like.

He used his dad voice.

He sounded like the Russian government with the stupid attempt at censorship. Everyone knows the True Resurrection spell. It's the most surefire way to get someone back to life, it's probably the second most well known 9th level spell behind Wish.

"what do you mean?" And she just stares at him with what looks like a combination of confusion and disbelief, it broke my heart 😭

Whell... Counter spell....... Also the meat man can have shape chainge or any spell from any class..... Cuss bard Like he chod cast blade of disaster...... Insted of true polymorph.

@@snakeinabox7220 blade of diaster didn't even exist back then.

According to what he said on last night's Talks Machina, he has the *most* fun when things go to shit! :D

eightyfour I believe it

I'm all about Sam and Travis's shit-eating grins when things are going completely off the rails wrong.

He understands that the goal isn’t to win, is to fight and tell the story.

@@Sanyaenyenwa It shows, and I love him for it :D

I'm so sad he only said that twice and it never became a catchphrase.

I say this as the highest compliment: Eff you. That line still hurts in 2020.

@@Caitydid561 and 2022

@@SmithASB2024

You could see it coming, since he told Taliesin earlier that he wouldn't counterspell that fire spell against Pike, because he still needed it this round. I especially enjoyed watching Sam wait and pounce because of that.

Talesin even realizes it as they are starting to plane shift and says something like "roll the dice good job" and laughs

And Sam was still one step ahead, he knew he wont even have to roll. Which is pretty amazing considering he is the newbie and he was ahead of fucking everybody by like 2 moves.

Not just Travis, Laura noticed it as well judging from her reaction! I wish people gave Laura more credit - she picks up on things just as fast as Sam but the comments are always full of people gushing over the men :/

@@xxliew after the cupcake, I don't think we can ignore her any more.

does anyone have the timestamp for this? i feel like i missed it and can't find it😭

In this campaign it's house-ruled that short rests take 15-30 minutes instead of a full hour, but yeah I noticed that too and it was pretty funny

@@SoloStudiosOfficial still another 30 mins could have seriously helped. Ah well

@@SoloStudiosOfficial Oohh that explaina it, I was so confused by that logic

GRANDScanlan!

get down with the quickness

This is the episode that really show why VM want Scanlan back not only as a member of the group but how is usually the true MVP of the group. I like Trayon but Scanlan is so much better to have in the group than him.

Alex Omega WHEN he is lucky, this is a luck game, not skill, because there is none in rolls

Xeno ze Serpent Still the best

Rubikx Few turns, for sure. I think the biggest roll was a few episodes back. When Keyleth’s turn came in the halls of the 9 Hells prison and she had to make a death saving throw with 2 failed, Matt told them that a failed save would have been a TPK. Some intense moments in the late stages of Vox Machina’s campaign.

That was absolutely chilling. It's incredible how while everyone else thought they still had a fighting chance, Matt could already see the outcome of the battle and knew that "if Percy doesn't start moving towards Keyleth NOW you are all going to die".

Seriously this moment is how you know Mercer has mercy - a less lenient DM would've let the party burn without any hints whatsoever.

@@xxliew Lord have Mercer

​@@Kamoflage7yeah, that was intense. And then after when Marisha is asking if anyone needs healed, Laura loses it a bit and says 'heal your fucking self!"lmao. They didn't know how close they were to being stuck in a prison in the 9 hells, and when they did they immediately went into panic mode.

This is another reminder of why I dont read the comments before the end

@@dakotafwebster8062 i have a question cus a lot of people say that or complain about spoilers. What do people expect the comments to be about if not what happens during the episods

@@Zalied valid question but I get stoned and forget sometimes hence the comment

@@dakotafwebster8062 lol fair fair.

@@dakotafwebster8062 this is the best reply in the CR comment section ever lmao

No that's not fair! You can't make that funny!...and you did somehow. lol

I read this in it’s original referenced format.

I found this through the fan made animations so that ship has sailed for me but it is cool that they did that.

Yep, that was on point

👏👏👏

Duuuude thanks! It was impossible to find without a million spoilers 😬

Thanks! Glad I’m not the only one watching for the first time in 2022.

Bump

BUMP GOD BLESS YOU

Good job! Always wish there was a way for one of us (people that endlessly rewatch old episodes & newcomers) to pin solid posts like this. Edit: You might consider changing the very ends description or such. Probably a little too detailed / spoilery, unlike the rest of your list.

Without Sam, this show wouldn't exist.

@@aliince9372 100% agree 🖤 love Sam

He was trying so hard to elevate the mood.

Time?

@@lukehicks6722 4:25:10

eerily similar, for anyone who is curious. it happens at 3:47:19 of the linked episode.... "Race to the Ziggurat" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2AqLu-u-GcY.html" The way Delilah is described to react to Silas' disintegration is almost exactly like how Keyleth reacts to Vax, I really think Keyleth having an eerie repeat of Delilah's life choices following their loved ones' deaths could've been a really cool plot element.

@@sydney4814 Oh God, I almost forgot about Kiki's "lamest one-liner ever".

@@sydney4814 Not to mention the parallel between both episodes' names: "Race to the *"

@@deimon451 I somehow didn't even register that! I guess Mercer thought the same too :)

Got me thinking of another eerie parallel this one between delilah and vax: both made a deal to dedicate their life to a cause in order to save someone they love from death and they both died because of that.

Is it just me or is that mask he wears in the intro very similar to the ravenqueen's face... plus that line Matt mentioned "pulling the strings of fate" last time the RQ had a major part...

Meh, I don't blame them - time is arbitrary in this type of make believe game. Ultimately the call was basically whatever Matt felt like.

@@8684LYFE *Whoooosh* lol

I have a plan You have a plan?! Well I have parts of a plan How much? Like 12% of a plan

@@isaac8734 Oh yes. XD

Also, Pike and Keyleth’s earthquakes should’ve only done 100 damage each.

Your experience with Pokemon is not enough. It's only a 30% chance per turn.

@@HenriqueErzinger Unless it's your pokemon that is confused and not the other trainer's, in which case it is a 100% chance per turn.

@@jtroxler8 no, the earthquakes didn't extend to the top of the tower, hence why it stayed floating

@@jtroxler8 no, actually read the spell. The damage happens every turn for the entire duration.

The absolute feeling of horror realizing you all made a horrific mistake

+onlyinthe fandom, yeah it was pretty bad. Their prep was kind of abysmal though.

dalanology Super in agreement with you, but do feel like the fight was heavily stacked against them. Matt posted on Reddit to say that if they'd waited then the city might have gone by the time they got there, then theyd have no idea what happened. They always suck at planning though, seems like all they do is just go in and wing it completely lol

+onlyinthe fandom, oh totally! Not only that, but--and I realize they're searching info on the master of secrets, their research on the subject has come up with almost nothing. They're mostly level 18, but it still seems a bit unreasonable that they're fighting Vecna, a character I'm not even sure has 5e stats anywhere. A wisdom DC of 24? Jesus Christ... these players, who I love, are not more clever or clear on game rules than a step above casual, at best. So, I don't know why I expected anything more when it was clear Venca was on the scene.

dalanology I know right! I have never played d&d but still feel like I know more than them sometimes? How many times Im shouting at the screen like 'you cant use a 4th level spell as a bonus action!!' is too many. Also the wisdom stat of 24 was absolutely brutal, Im not even sure if Grog or Scanlan have anything to add on to a wisdom save, they would have to roll a nat 20 to get out of that paralysis. Im hoping that this encounter means that theyll actually plan stuff some more and not just rely on another player to come up with a tactic in the middle of it. This was seriously nearly a tpk, theyre lucky that Keyleth didnt get targeted because they would have all died without plane shift.

Based on Matts posts on Reddit, this was very much a no-win fight. It was either going to be an assbeating worse than Raishan round 1, or Veckna would've bailed out if he was losing. He wasn't losing this fight. Not even close.

100% correct. When I stand for my players (as a DM) it universally imo means "it's about to go down"

I try and stand as a general rule, much like I try and roll dice for no reason what so ever :)

@@almogmagar standing means we're about to throw some hands.

Even Taliesin made signs, after Sam saved their collective asses with the counter-counter-spell, acknowledging that Sam had been right all along. Taliesin is usually pretty effective in fights, but he can go from effective to unhinged in the blink of an eye xD

@@JukkaliMx he’s someone of normal intelligence trying to play a character of really high intelligence. I don’t mean that as an insult, it’s just what I’ve noticed, especially compared to Sam & Travis who are both intelligent players playing dumb characters

@@justadummy8076 That is very true, it's very noticeable when Taliesin is trying hard to make Percy say intelligent and witty things in a conversation, and just ends up spouting platitudes.

yall are going hard on Talisen here. Man saw an opening and called it out, was confused for a second, and didn't complain. Sam didnt even get upset or anything. And it's not like they had anything to save their resources for when Vecna was disintegrating them left and right. He just forgot Plane Shift's vulnerability for a sec, thats all. And remember, a Fire Bolt from VECNA is at least 4d10, maybe add a modifier. It's not a piddly widdly Level 1 cantrip, and even with her fire resistance, Pike woulda felt that

@@henrymartinvo Pike had 15hp at that point. So he would've needed to roll 30 damage on a 4d10 to get her to zero through her fire resistance, so highly unlikely und certainly not worth your counterspell. But even if downed, Keyleth simply could've cast a lvl1 heling word to get her back to consciousness and then use Plane Shift as planned. And it's also not true that they didn't have anything to save their resources for given Vecna had at least another lvl7 spell slot left which means another disintegrate which is so much more of a problem than fire bolt. And just imagine the range of problematic lvl 3-5 spells he could whip out that would be more of an issue than an unconcsious Pike? Banishment is lvl4 and the Death Knight could've just re-cast it on Keyleth with her low CHA or Grog again. What then?

dude... now you made me feel old and even more sad... (Rest in peace Robin Williams)

Aww! Nice reference!😎

It was a brilliant plan. Going into battle with legendary casters with a beholder - a mobile, passive-effect 150foot cone of antimagic - was perfect. It’s just that Matt screwed them over when he didn’t actually read the description of a beholder, even though they announced the strategy before the battle.

Every time......... Freaking counterspell.....

You poor soul.

revenant

Gamingwiz135 Matt has clarified on Reddit that he would never ban True Ressurection, as many incorrectly assumed. He explained that the discussion would be with the players and the deceased to help them map out their options. Hope this dispells any confusion.

Got a link, perhaps?

I figured, i just thought the tone was funny.

4:24:10

gabthegreat01 yeah but you still have to try. There’s no leaving and grinding exp somewhere else. If they didn’t fight here they would have been in a worse situation later on.

Except they didn't do that badly, if they had thrown on some freedom of movement and Scanlan had been allowed to get Vecna in his eye cone, they probably would have won.

@@agilemind6241 vecna wouldn't die since he's a lich. They reform at their phylactery if you destroy their body.

PotatoSack Studios But it would at least have bought them some time

@@pallasproserpina4118 1d10 days.

Same, sitting here like wait there's 20 episodes. Is this the vecna start, is this the vax one ?? What what what Mrs wondering why im freaking out

Same here, I figured Vecna was at the top of the tower (or would be at the end of the ritual), but I didn't think we'd see him for like another five episodes..... I know Liam doesn't have a second character this campaign so? What's happening omg

Sam isn't the touchy-feely type.

@@d4n4nable Until you get him and Laura next to each other. That pair is both the best, and the definition of chaotic-chaotic (I know that probably isn't a thing, but it makes sense).

Sam can be touchy-feely with certain people like Jon Heder of Laura, but I don't think he doesn't "need" to be so as some of the others do.

'Grog has Pike. Vax has Keyleth. Vex has Percy. But Scanlan has nobody.' I mean, I know that in real life it's just circumstance, but it's still a weird parallel to note, you know?

What are you talking about ? Taryon has his necklace to clutch onto

Rob Wong Juice Machina

Plan C(ompleted): Slayer's Cake

To be fair, the undead are shown to be a bunch of idiots, so it may have worked if it weren’t for those meddling flying stuffed bats, and veccna too

Nah, he was playing him about right.

@@dontme6996 I think what the OP meant was that this specific version of vecna was weaker that the Lore accurate vecna

Also, he wasn’t created by Gygax he was created by Brian Blume…

@@nanotfound1042 maybe at this point but by the time he's ascended it would be about the same right?

@@Ziaotic well i haven't watched the fight with ascended vecna but if I recall he wasn't a god fully right? He was only like really close to being one and it was that fight that stopped him from becoming a full one