San Diego Comic-Con 2022 - Critical Role Q&A Panel 

Laura reasoning that Trinket lives hundreds of years was like watching a kid find out their pet dog didn't go to a big farm upstate.

I loved Marisha’s “Someone dressed as my dead rat!” 😆

Host: "Please direct your question to a single cast member." Audience: "No."

Travis's football based one shot: Exandria Unlimited: Remember the Primordials

“Does Essek know where you are?” BLESS TRAVIS.

"Someone dressed as my dead rat" Never change Marisha Ray.

i was the person who asked liam about caleb’s trauma and his response to it. i have so much love for this community and these characters and this cast of humans

Travis' new one-shot: The Callous Drowboys

As someone who has no interest or understanding of football and much less of American Football, my favorite part of the whole panel was the sheer DELIGHT Travis spoke with when listing out which party members would be on his team

Laura: Is Chetney in Cowboys colors? Travis: _in his head_ He is now.

Seeing Matt comfort Liam is just so damn sweet.

Appreciate how brave Liam was to open up and talk about how Caleb came from a private part of his life. Sending good vibes

Taliesin being critical of his writing and admitting it'll end up on a USB is the most relatable thing I have ever seen.

Lots of people talking about how Ashley didn't get asked anything. If it makes you feel better, at 6:28 the reason she got so excited was because she saw someone cosplayed as her character Damian Vadoma from the Darrington Brigade one-shot! (It was me, I was cosplaying. Absolutely lost my mind when she looked at me and got excited.) I wanted to ask a question but I have heart issues and was worried I was going to pass out if I did. Extreme? Yes. But SDCC was a lot of excitement and exhaustion for me.

I’m the Laudna cosplayer. I didn’t expect my question to flow so well with Katt’s, but Liam’s responses really portray the beauty in storytelling and how DND is healing, which is what I was so keen to express in the first place. I’m so thankful I had the opportunity to represent the Critter community and talk to the storytellers who mean so much to us, and pour their hearts into their characters. I was nervous as hell (and as a result, didn’t quite remember what he said until I watched it back, haha) I’m so glad that these incredible storytellers are my idols. Until next time…

Laura: “Did you put Chetney in Cowboys colors‽” Travis: *slow grin* I actually died. XD

46:37 I'm glad Travis really took to my dumb question. Hopefully we get that oneshot.

"Do you have any NPCs that didn't see the light of day?" flashback back to a goblin who's character sheet was ripped in half when Liam murdered it in one shot.

Caleb destroying the time machine after literally 140.9 episodes of his main goal being to go back in time will never not bring me to tears. What an absolute incredible bit of storytelling.

i feel like the general theme of this should be "Warning, anything you say or do can and will be used to fuel a one shot in the future"

Timestamps for the questions (Let me know if I missed anything else important) 3:30 cast introductions 5:20 Release of TLoVM, what was it like? 7:40 Has there ever been a scene for any one you, that you really wanted to play out, but it just didn't happen? 8:48 How much of the c1 references in c3 came up because the cast was really missing c1 and how much was because you guys were working on "legend of vox machina" while planning for c3? 10:45 How was it to play in the calamity timeline opposed to the normal timeline? 12:01 For Taliesin: On between the sheets Taliesin mentioned that Percy was a script he wrote. How does it feel that it now kinda came to fruition? (12:50 Caleb wasn't supposed to time travel and why didn't he bring Essek) 13:40 For Matt: As a forever dm do you have any npcs that didn't see the light of day even though you really wanted to? 15:15 For Liam: When it comes to Caleb, his past and his trauma, what thought processes and ideas went into how Caleb would react to his trauma when faced with it? 18:02 If you would ever take CR to live action, who would you cast for your characters? 21:27 Are there any npcs from previous campaigns that you would like your c3 character to meet? 22:20 What would Trinket think of Mister? 23:44 Is there any point in your life where you felt like a DM like Matt was ruling over your life? 24:48 For Liam: What is one of those profound moments of campaign 2 that still resonates with you? 27:11 Who enjoys the custom character class creation more? Taliesin or Matt? 28:52 For Travis: Which DM scared him better? 30:13 For Taliesin: What is your favourite design element you have added to any of your character? 31:15 For Taliesin: What would Molly's reaction to Veth's backstory have been like? 33:40 For Travis: What was your favourite part of playing Grog? 35:11 For Matt & Marisha: Patia knew the rq when she was mortal. What is it like seeing the world change and evolve especially with a god that was mortal? 38:20 For good or bad, what were the most memorable ad bits for you? 41:32 For Matt: How do you deal with giving someone not balanced spell items? 43:35 For Laura: Imogen is kinda the heel a lot? How does that feel to be a part of those jokes? 45:05 What are some of the things the cast yells and shouts at Matt during the opening sequence? 46:40 For Travis: If you were to replace the offense of the Dallas cowboys with members of vox machina & the mighty nein. Who would make the starting lineup? 48:21 For Taliesin: After Molly got resurrected, did Taliesin decide on Kingsley to make it easier for the rest to deal with Molly's death? 50:30 For Matt: Any tips for having the players figure situations out by themselves? Show vs. tell 52:40 For Matt: If you were to have a loaded 20 sided die, that always rolled a 20 and gave it to Will Wheaton. What would happen? 53:35 Of all the characters you played in Exandria, who is your favourite? 54:50 With calamity... Are there other parts in the history of Exandria that you would be interested in exploring? Don't forget to love each other

Always forget the absolute giant of a man that Travis actually is. Edit: Let me clarify, I know he is 6'3 or 4. I just forgot how small everyone else is because we rarely get to see them all standing together in a line. It makes him look significantly larger.

The question about what Molly would have thought of Nott’s revelations had me thinking of something: Caduceus came along at exactly the right moment. Molly was symbolic of the fractured and broken nature of the members of the group at the time; Cad was symbolic of their healing into whole individuals, and in fact facilitated it in so many ways.

Wow, I looked and sounded like such a nervous dingus :'D I asked about Molly/ Kingsley. I wish I had time to thank Liam and Talisien for how they handled the subject of death, grief, and mourning, as it helped me through the loss of my parents. I think the graveside scene happened at 5am (my local time) right before my family was going to intern my parents' ashes together, and it helped me find so much peace.

poor Ashley - nothing changes, she never gets asked a question - even though she's right at the heart of the campaign 3 story as Fearne. Fantastic panel though, especially with Liam and the heart-warming support he gets from the cast and Critters about his life experiences played out through Caleb

As for live action casting, Eva Green as Laudna is just a no brainer

This was legit the most efficient panel I think I ever have watched them do, I bet if you compared this one to their past panels they answered the most questions in a single hour in this one. I think it might be because the people asking the questions aren’t prefacing their questions with several minutes of commentary. Man I wish there was more panel. I missed these so much. I love listening to their answers.

A shame Sam wasn't there to see people cosplaying as his Ad characters!

I was the red/glowing staff Keyleth (and the modern Jester who asked about Sam’s habit of playing short characters with secret children in 2019) and gosh was it good to do this again ❤️ …also thank goodness for the playback because I missed so much bc of nerves 😅

Liam being so raw and honest to Katt's question made me tear up. I am a rape victim and my trauma has plagued me for so long, I am just now beginning to transform and rise up from my own ashes. I can't handle needles, so I can't do a permanent tattoo, so I do airbrush of a lot of phoenixes and lotus flowers.

It was such an honor to be there and to be able to ask a question! Getting to meet and take pics with other cosplaying critters has been the highlight of my year so far (I was the Raven Queen)

With Critical Role/Vox Machina, Stranger Things, & D&D: Honor Among Theives, it is truly a good time for D&D in media

In regards to Jordan's question: Just imagine: Dwayne "The Grog" Johnson

If Laura Bailey said “You really do” in response to another saying I had a beautiful voice, I could die happy

“Please ask one question to one cast member” lol so many people asked to the whole group, but still very efficiently run, despite that!

Travis you MUST now do that football one shot, everyone needs it. Plus you get to call it the Critical bowl. So come on now sir, PLEASE!

Petition to request Travis' American Football One Shot.

Poor Ashley didn't get to talk the entire time. More questions for the ladies, people!

damn, Domhnall Gleeson would be a fantastic casting for Caleb

Three things I learned from seeing them in-person: The entire cast is HOT, They truly love what they do, We packed that goddamn ballroom. (I'm the white shirt left/up from the speakers)

im bummed no one asks Ashley anything :( she's said a total of 5 words this whole panel

you can tell Christian is a true fan with that opening speech, he was so genuinely nice and he has nothing to do with the company, this is his first thing ever with CR

I hear Sam didn't make the panel because he couldn't get his ornamental codpiece past security

I love how well the critters know the cast: Travis, talk about FOOTBALL Matt, talk about DMING Liam, talk about TRAUMA

I love these, but I sometimes wish they would pre-screen the questions to try and balance so each cast gets roughly same attention.

I really wanted everyone to finish answering the second to last question 😭😭😭😭

Weird without Sam... also weird without Brian but I'll take it. Christian did a great job!

When this panel becomes a therapy session for Liam. Who else cried because I sobbed! Beautiful work Liam

I love learning when a celebrity is a critter.

Travis ever so humble. What an awesome man!

I don't know how the panels work at SDCC or other conventions (I'm not from the USA), but I hope that for future panels the questions will be a little more balanced between the members of the cast. It's unfortunate that Laura, Marisha and Ashley had so few opportunities to talk.

For Live Action: Ana De Armas as Jester Kate Beckinsale as Vex.

17min to make Matt (and all of us) cry. ❤️ You Liam.

Laura realizing that Trinket would be probably dead by the time of C3 is hilarious and also heartbreaking. HAHAHA

The fact that none of them mentioned You've got Gale as the greatest sam bit

15:47 I really needed to hear this today. Thank you Liam

I feel bad that no one really had a question for Ashley directly :/

I was way on the right in a Gilmore cosplay and I had such a great time at SDCC that day. Got to chat with some critters, got an autograph from Robbie Daymond, said hi to Todd Kenreck (who happened to be seated a couple rows ahead of me), and got to see a wonderful panel with wonder people both on stage and in the audience. It was such a great experience and I’m so glad that I was able to make it to SDCC this year. Here’s hoping I can have more like that again and that more critters can as well!

It looked like they were cosplaying a bunch of delinquent teenagers from the 90s and Laura was their lawyer.

I usually don't like watching taped panels cause it reminds me too much of my own issues with public speaking, but this was great. Good job everyone that asked a question, y'all nailed it! I was fascinated by each of your questions, and 2 of you made me cry.

My headcanon is that Vex has hired a wizard to perform the Clone spell on Trinket, and repeats the spell every time he dies/is cloned, to make sure he's immortal for at least as long as Vex lives and can keep hiring that wizard.

The question to Liam. And his emotions to the answer. Just had me in tears because obviously he didn't want to talk about it but it was about his past and his parents and the way he rpd in gma was he wanted to go back an change it bit he didn't he chose to burn it all and move one.

“Did u put chet in cowboy colours” …………….. “don’t worry about it”

Thank you cast members and I feel you Liam. Never forget who you are.

God fucking damn it Liam made me cry. I love that loveable bastard.

Oh, how I've missed these panels^^! Glad to find this in the old sub box^^

26:27 Talking about NPCs as friends too, Laura to Matt: "I still think of you as my mom."

i havent found timestamps for questions so i made some for myself! (i did paraphrase questions btw) 7:39 - has there been a scene you couldn't play out in game? 8:43 - how many C1 references in C3 has been you missing C1, and how many were from the fact that you were making Legend of Vox Machina at the same time? 11:38 - Taliesin, since percy was originally a script, how does it feel to have him become something bigger? 13:03 - Matt, did you have any NPC you wanted to share but couldn't? 14:55 - Liam, what was the thought process in how Caleb would react to his trauma? 18:00 - If CR became live action, which actors/actresses would you want to play which characters? 21:21 - Any C1 or C2 NPC you want your C3 character to meet? 23:42 - Any time you felt like a DM like Matt was ruling over your life? 24:43 - Liam, does any C2 moment resonate with you? 27:09 - Who enjoys custom class creation more, Taliesin or Matt? 28:55 - Travis, which DM has scared you better? 30:12 - Taliesen, whats your favorite design element of a character youve made? (love the yasha cosplay btw) 31:15 - Taliesen, how would Molly react to Veth's backstory? 33:25 - Travis, what was your favorite part about playing grog? 35:11 - Matt and Marisha, what was it like seeing The Raven Queen evolve over time? 38:18 - Memorable Sam add bits? 41:32 - Matt, how do you deal with giving op weapons at a low level? 43:31 - Laura, how does it feel now that Imogen is the one being picked on often? 45:03 - Matt, what does everyone shout at you to try and break you before an episode starts? 46:38 - Travis, which characters would be the Dallas Cowboys starting lineup? 48:20 - Taliesin, was Kingsley a way for everyone to accept Molly's death more? 50:30 - Matt, any tips for letting players figuring out things for themselves? 52:39 - Matt, what would happen if you have Will Wheaton an always-nat-20 die? 53:36 - Whats your favorite character youve played or resonated with the most? 54:42 - Are there other parts of Exandrias history you want to explore?

Not me crying at work over Critical Role's panel at Comic Con! I love that they are back in person meeting Critters! 😂😂😂

I died laughing when Laura looks at Matt to assure him with "They're visible...." after Liams comment XD 26:20

Thank you for uploading this I've been wondering what it was like for the past 2 days

“Doesn’t he live as long as Vex lives, based on stuff?” Queue the pain on Laura’s face and in all our hearts.

What a wonderful, sweet panel. Everyone was so happy and excited and nervous. Love to see people supporting each other. Also, the cosplays were top notch! The Matt Mercer cosplay was my favorite, spot on.

I’m so glad I found Critical Roll, it’s been so amazing watching for the past year and being inspired by Travis to start voice acting. They do so much for me and everyone here and I can’t wait to see more!

these guys deserve every ounce of the success they've had. such a beautiful and loving group of people.

Liam talking about how Caleb's arc ended up unexpectedly being about acceptance reminded me so much of my own feelings when playing Outer Wilds. I hope he plays it at some point if he hasn't

Thank you for having the camera on the questions because those costumes all deserve the spotlight Also I would absolutely fan cast Michael Dameski as Orym. That guy defies gravity

shoutout to all these amazing cosplays and the time and love put into them!

This was the most wholesome video. I love the cast, and I love all the critters. You can really feel the amount of love in this video. All the cosplays were so good!

I was having a truly rough day until I heard Liam speak about acceptance. Thanks for being awesome.

Oh my goodness, this would have been incredible to see live.

I like how every one of them are dressed like they're going to a different event

Lovely to see them back out in public. Such a wonderful atmosphere!

Really hope we get to read some of Taliesin's writings some day, in some form.

Thank you so much for uploading this for us who couldn't be there. Love it. ❤️

Loved that last question and all the answers! Exciting future timelines 👀

Bro. I love critical panels so much. I missed these a lot.

I love how you all look so supportive of each other just by looks and touch!

Shoutout to all the people brave enough to walk forward and ask their wonderful questions! My heart would explode.

This was amazing to see! I wish I could be there for real!

55:40 Oh boy, I hope Matt is prepared to introduce the Industrial Revolution and its consequences into Exandria if he really does decide to time jump.

I really needed this break today, If only for an hour. It's so nice to be a Critter

Liam, if you every get a chance to read this, that was an excellent answer, you did wonderful, and that was a very tough question that I'm sure loads of people were glad to hear the answer to. Not a lot of people will understand the difficulty of that question, but for those who do, we salute you, sir. I'm sure, after watching that whole campaign, with what I saw from Widogast, there must have been some hardships, glad you're not defeated from them, though. Thanks for being such an inspiration.

Amazing panel! I really hope I get to see you guys live some day, keep being such amazing people and creating such amazing stories!!!!

Oh, how I have missed CR panels. Still devoutly hoping to see you all up here in Seattle for PAX or ECCC in the near future!

Butts, Beer and Chopping Heads - The Autobiography of Grog

This was an amazing panel! Amazing questions! Love all of you 💞

Holy shit, I'm so grateful that this was posted! I've had so much fun watching this. :) Huge fan of the series and of the cast.

Laudna needs to meet Keyleth. Or anyone from VM. That would be insane…

I'm impressed with Travis CEO. You can really hear him selling the product. This is not a backhanded compliment. I'm just saying he loves the high quality entertainment he and his friends are producing and he's working to make sure it thrives.