Sam and Aabria Send The Cast Into a Laughing Fit | Critical Moments EXU Calamity 

d20s The Unsleeping city has some great ones

@@Tensen01 I WAS just about to say

@@Tensen01 When it opened with a sentient lion door knocker and an Ex-Husband, I was low key thrown off that it wasn't Lou answering as Kingston. XD

@@UchihaKat Kingston Brown from Uptown Exandria!

@@Tensen01 Anytime Ally Beardsley is involved you can bet your bottom dollar they'll need an estranged couple RP. Also, let's not forget Matt's own one-man divorced-couple RP in C3, that was pretty tight too.

Travis is in a different movie entirely.

I mean look at those nails

2:12 for anyone who wants to hear Travis say it

Makes people sound abusive.

saying ANYTHING while on that side of the table would be booping the bear on the snout

Uh, I think we're forgetting Brennan "Misty Moore! She has wanted to fuck you for years!" Lee "Lazuli I loved, and this is just politics " Mulligan

I need to know the context of this so badly-

@@Amirahnations it’s a quote from lou’s character kingston in a dimension 20 season called unsleeping city :)

SHE‘S A GODDAMN CENTAUR!!!

If I remember the tale correctly, Sam pitched the idea of being someone's ex and Aabria jumped at the chance.

Not even a "Lets get married then be divorced" just a "Lets get divorced." & she's just like "I'll allow it."

@@postulaterif I recall her recounting she said “PICK ME! ME! I WANT THIS!” or something to that effect.

Watch their Elder Scroll One-shots

At the end of the day, this is a business now. So things that do really well will likely be continued in some form or another. But even as nerdy fans of the game and players, the cast will also probably be just as hooked as we are and will want to explore this stuff further. This particular party of characters may only get four episodes, but there will almost certainly be more off-shoots to explore. Hell, this group may even get a kind of sequel mini-series like Kymal was, depending on how the story plays out in these four episodes.

@@jeremyrosal6049 It's a business, but I think they still will push things that they enjoy. Original Flavor EXU was notoriously divisive and has much lower stream and VOD numbers than either mainline CR campaigns or even other one-shots run by other DMs, but they still continued the Crownkeeper story with EXU Kymal. I know for a fact I'm one of the few people who enjoy that mini-series during live streams, with plenty of people just complaining or hyper-focusing on rules interpretations.

​@@romxxii I swear, if they disconnected the thing from D&D completely, and said, "It's a home brew rules set." or something like that, it would make the toxicity so much less prevalent. The "Um, ahkchuleee!!!!" crowd are the worst. They try to suck the joy right out of everything the show does. I get that you're trying to impress other people with your knowledge of the game and its rules, that you want to keep the players and DM honest, and/or at times, try to use the rules to pick apart the story but try to do that without being insufferable. (Not YOU romxxii, just to be clear but YOU the people who do that.) It is ultimately the DM's game, the player's consent for the DM to make the game his, and none of you get a say in how any of it works. You're not there, you don't matter, and you can leave if you're unhappy. Either A) Enjoy things or B) Don't. You can also C) Talk about the things you found fault with, in relation to the show and the game's regular rules, in such a way that doesn't annoy literally everyone, informs those who might honestly want to know so they don't play/DM it wrong, and then still seem like a decent human being. There are other options, obviously, but they end with, "And have everyone roll their eyes at you, then ignore everything else you have to say, and hate you forever..."

​@@fictionmyth I think even if they started the show with "Welcome to Critical Role, the show where a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors sit around and play a legally distinct ruleset loosely based on 5E SRD" you'd still get idiots in chat complaining about their misuse of a spell or something.

I'm here bi weeping.

over here gay sobbing

Wtf is wrong with you people?

@@jaimeruiz7837 I'm nonbinary bawling.

not gonna lie: I feared for eeeeveryone's life at that table, in that "unadulterated" moment. Aabria is such a GOOD performer!

“Diamond and Steel” is such a perfect representation of Loquacious and Laerryn

Aabria is determined to _not_ die to the Calamity, which is why she's playing an Abjuration Wizard with high Con and Eldritch Adept > Armor of Shadows. Free Mage Armor that restores HP every casting, can theoretically just sit in a corner and do nothing but cast Mage Armor until HP is fully restored.

Yes and they'll die holding each other as Sam reminds her of the good times.

@@romxxii ah yes, very useful when the city comes crashing down to the earth, and the DM rolls 200D10 bludgeoning damage

@@cancerino666 They are going to land in the next episode.

Going off on a limb here, but I would say this comment aged rather well, wouldn't you?

Narcissism I think so too

@@sammyiel9626 someone who requires a lot of attention and someone who’s not In a place to give it

@@edanridge3023 sure but also Sam said "best behavior" or something like that. It's sad to think they still love eachother but can't be together bc of their life choices

She's obsessed with her work and he's obsessed with himself

Watching Lou in any campaign is such a good time.

"I WAS faithful! I AM faithful! I would have CONTINUED to be faithful!" Lives rent free in my head forever

@@left8277 what is this from?? please i must know

@@mothdown Dimension 20: the Unlseeping City S1!!

quite literally twirling his hair 🥺

sam's ability to talk his way out of an deadly encounter is just pure magic.

What did Lou say in the wrap up episode? Something like "You can't rock up to the table with a bard when you're sharing a table with the bard-est bard to have ever barded"? Lol

I'm hoping that maybe they did a collaboration thing where, since Starstruck Odyssey just ended on Dimension20 and this ExU: The Calamity is 4 episodes long, they are having a: be on our show for 4 episodes and we'll be on your show for 4 episodes. Love every DM main at both tables styles and have wanted them all to collaborate at the same time for so long. My dream is that the Criticalrole cast gets a short 4 episode season in The Unsleeping City, but thats probably a pipe dream.

Him, Emily, and ally would bring complete and total chaos.

Yeah, Laerryn went "You have my conpletely unadultered attention right now" and he answered that whitout missing a beat lol

@@alcero1514 it was glorious

It was a beautiful one-two punch of precision snipes that, sadly, I don't think made it into this video: Laerryn: "You have my ... _unadulterated_ attention right now." Loquacious: "Well that would be the first time that's ever happened."

I believe it was actually a fire bolt

fireball would be a BIT much.

throughout EXU, she's shown she's got two emotions: angry frustration and befuddled confusion. that's about it.

@@junkname9983 it is increadably funny to me to see the difference between her dm vibes and how she comes across as a player here

Also the one where Cerrit and Laeran was asking Quay about Bolo

Only in a realm reborn

@@Exman33x9001 No, I thought he got plastic surgery and changed his name temporarily~ (I am very aware they changed voice actors after ARR. I mean.. Kind of obvious. xD ) But yeah pleasant surprise on my end.

wait what? really?

@@CaioVictor20101 Yup! I dont know why it took me this long to realize it and ive been watching their videos for a good few months now ahahaha

Wait till you find out Taliesen was Thancred

It really does... this is just pain...

1:02:17 in ep 1 :)

Sam

sam mentions in the wrap-up (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EYK4_eRSSb4.html) that he wanted to be divorced, and Aabria jumped at the oportunity of being the ex-wife

Ahhh yes, because black people are such rage machines? Is that what you're saying? They have to hold in their "physical tendencies" more than any other race? Race has nothing to do with her expressions and I pity you for thinking that way.

I thought she was just a good actress

What does being black have to do with long nails? Just about anyone can play D&D. The most important part is is that everyone is having fun.

As a girl of black heritage, what does being black have anything to do with anything you just said?

ooooh i love seeing three stupid ass replies in this yesss start the drama!

How is it making fun of Matt??

"critical role has been in a downward spiral" "I believe the show will reach its peak sometime this year or the next" ?

There’s a lot more to DND than just epic fantasy and adventure, it’s one aspect sure but it should not be the only focus. Critical role isn’t on a decline, it’s numbers are only growing as it becomes more mainstream (The Legend of Vox Machina), and so your opinion doesn’t reflect the truth of the situation. And are you telling me that you watched the fist episode of EXU calamity and couldn’t find any of the “wonder/amusement” there was in campaign 1?! It’s the first episode for Christ’s sake, I’m not sure why you expected there to be adventure to rival C1. But hey if you have fallen out of love with Critical role that’s fine, but no need to share that negativity with the rest of us who are enjoying critical role as it is :)

Dude, D&D (and really, all TTRPGs) is a *roleplaying game.* Roleplaying is acting. The game is about improv. Sure, you can have fantasy and adventure and kill stuff and loot bodies and level up, but you can do all those things in an RPG video game as well. What makes TTRPGs different is that each player gets to embody their character and *act* on the spot. And that's doubly true when professional actors are playing a game for an audience. If you want a home game that's all about killing stuff, you can play that yourself. When you watch a professional actual play like this or D20 or Battle for Beyond, etc., you should realize it's more like Whose Line Is It Anyway with more drama, the points do matter, and the only game is "Dice or Death".

@@BenSmith-oq8pj This was actually the first time i'd come across the fabled toxic community lol. The main subreddit does a great job of hiding these folks.

Was there not enough wonder & adventure in even just the first 15 to 30 minutes of the episode, where we saw: - A battle of two gods - A boy fishing in a well of endless stars - A griffon with a body made of outer space matter - A flying city where there are fewer ordinary things than there are magical ones - Incredibly complex automatons that are so common in this universe they are used as public transport?

My guy you uploaded a monologue of THE JOKER on your channel-- THAT YOU RECORDED YOURSELF. There is literally nothing more cringier on this planet than that wdym

@@TurntReynolds He's still right though... all you're saying is 'it takes one to know one'.

@@Fenristhegreat Did you add "the great" to your username in hopes that one day you might be able to delude yourself into thinking you're great? How's that working out for you so far, do you feel great?

@@TurntReynolds Blimey, nerve touched it would appear... I'm sorry I upset you. I'm sure Aabria deeply appreciates your defence of her roleplaying ability, or lack thereof. I truly hope things pick up for you from here. Best wishes.

@@Fenristhegreat what a great response, I see where the name comes from

Did you watch the same video I did????????

I agree, but in fairness to Aabria, Sam is incredible at RP and comedy, so much so that he outshines even the regular cast (with the exception of Travis)

I believe she played her character perfectly