The Legend of Vox Machina Episode 1 & 2 Group Reaction 

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The bisexual nightmare

The sexiest villians ever.

*spoilers for campaign two* Lucien too lmao, I mean part of that is on Taliesin but I mean... Matt didn't have to go that *cough* hard with him.

Let’s not forget about Gannondaof from ‘Tears of the Kingdom’!

Reminds me of the Avatar The Last Airbender roleplaying game. They were going for a 50K $ budget with their Kickstarter over thirty days. I found it halfway through day 2 and it had something like 620K. By the end they ended up with a Kickstarter of 9.5 MILLION $. And that is for a franchise that hasn't had a new series in over a decade.

ngl money wise how the show gonna adapt after the ogl 1.0 fiasco wizards of the coast did. considering after that incident back in jan cr is trying to ditch away dnd brand and terminology. the show however its development got those dnd stuff in it. wonder how they gonna address that in later seasons. i assume mighty nein animated probably is where they will kill off any dnd terminology and fully use new names to get out of the ogl issues. to sorta stupid if reading this and wonder "wait wtf happened to dnd?" if dont know here is the gist. TL/DR: look up a video on it, rec mythkeeper video on the ogl fiasco and better explain things in detail if interested to know wth is going on with the dnd brand and/or the tabletop rpg scene now with how much changed since jan 2023. in easier terms how bad is the ogl 1.0 fiasco: as a react channel you know the name finebros right? if not look up what they try to do with trademarking react and going after channels doing that too. it got that bad and in response they @#$!ed up and tiny react channels got known and reaction business is what it is now. - jan 2023 ogl 1.0 wizards of the coast (owner of dnd) try to revoke the license that is the ogl made since 2000 during dnd 3/3.5e years. license allows creators to use the dnd brand to make stuff out of mainly at time 3rd party material for races, spells, worlds and such. big one that benefited from this is paizo who later made pathfinder with currently 2nd edition is dnd closest competitor now with slowly dragonbane by free league is crawling up that hill too. all 3 uses the classic dice (d4/6/8/10/12/20) with roots to ogl. - so to prevent future competitors be big or small benefit off of the license they try to revoke it and demand ppl that uses the planned (now scrapped) ogl 2.0 have to owe money to wotc. first wave of anger is 3rd party ppl that makes dnd 5e material which is dominating on how much creation there is. then came content creators when reading that depending on how much they made using dnd on any site ALL TOGETHER income they need to owe back to wotc. so youtube, patreon, twitch, ffs even twitter and such if make a cent off dnd using those sites and add all together then they must pay wotc. other stuff from quality control of books been a mess with the big one is spelljammers on ship combat is useless and also the race history for the monkey species... you get idea what went down. - also reason is they want to make onednd/6e but known issue in ttrpg communities is ppl will latch onto past editions due to time and money invest. so wotc plan to urge ppl to jump over is revoke ogl so made 3rd party stuff mostly void and threaten other rpgs that use it in hopes of they slow down making stuff or get rid of that rpg. that and in 2022 they bought dndbeyond (a site/app that helps organize dnd stuff) and begun development of their exclusive dnd only vtt (virtual tabletop, oh and it got beta testing recently... it doesnt sound good at all.) which cost alot of money for both of those. wotc needs to make bunch of money fast and they hoped ogl revoke is their gold ticket... nope! - ppl revolted against wotc with boycotts. dndbeyond lost about 30% of their subs which each sub is i believe 10 bucks so imagine the amount of money gone from there. this boycott also partially went into the dnd movie on ppl dont see it and if you know the film box office well it worked plus timing with two other major films around it. to add the revoke failed due to how the license is design. ryan dancey one of the architects of ogl 1.0 when used to work for wotc back then specifically made it that it cant be revoked. note: he did present it to exec, he confirms in itnerviews the execs at time skimmed it, sign it and done. so yeah aka wotc back then planted a timecapsule to @#$! them 23 years later. - now to the CR part. in response to get out of ogl 1.0 issues you got kobold press (dnd 5e biggest 3rd party publisher), critical roll and even paizo stepping away from the ogl 1.0. first two are making their own rpg systems and paizo is making their own license. on top of that months later paizo announced pathfinder 2e remaster which basically kills off any old dnd terms and framework (magic missile, attack of opputunity, core stat numbers, species names like drow and such) with updated rules and releasing next month. critical roll then is making two of their own systems and slowly phasing out dnd from their shows and plan to bury it for good when they can. plus slowly aid other systems to get noticed like the legend of zelda one shot that uses powered by the apocalypse rules. how that big deal? cause they have to present that pitch and system to NINTENDO for APPROVAL. a massive company approves a product that isnt dnd rules. that is a huge deal. - other stuff related to ppl disliking wotc and judge the brand is the creator summit for dnd became a disaster when dnd reps try to avoid specific questions from creators or answers given gave massive concerns. not dnd related but magic the gathering (also wotc owned) someone got a set early, leaked it without realizing its not the right set, wotc chief of security hired the pinkertons (if know red dead 2, yep same ones! yep still around sadly. oh and chief of security for wotc used to work for them... yep!) go to his home to threaten the guy with his wife and kid present and take the cards away. not long ago for dnd newest book for giants contained ai art. and yes this got a physical release. - so yeah 2023 and for sure 2024 aint good for wotc and the dnd brand is poisoned, prior to ogl it was 90/10 on ttrpg players playing dnd and its not 70/30 which is big on ppl leaving that system and brand for other trpgs. in response ogl and seeing ppl aint tied to using dnd rules and terminology companies are pushing out new products and there been more tabletop rpgs based on video games. fallout ttrpg is getting popular fast and recently final fantasy 14 is getting a tabletop rpg too. rpgs that still stuck to using dnd rule terms like the recently marvel tabletop rpg flopped with bad reception on how rules are designed. going back to critical roll they are staying on that track to get rid of dnd from their shows whenever they can with most likely it will happen in 2024 or 2025.

​@@dungeonmaster16Most dnd stuff has already been stripped from the Vox show without major impact though. They don't use names of gods, spells, monsters etc, they skip over fundamental mechanics like spell slots/levels. What do you think would be taken further from M9 to make a big deal of it?

@@dungeonmaster16 Matt already removed anything copyrightable by either WotC or Paizo way back when he published the Tal'Dorei guide through Green Ronin Publishing in 2017. Stripping the gods of proper names and replacing them with titles (Pelor -> DawnFather, Sarenrae -> Everlight, etc) and changing a few spell names (the spells aren't even really named in this show). So it's a problem they already took care of before it became a problem. The only monsters that WotC has copyright to are the Illithids (which the show skips past) and the Beholder (which they'll alter enough to avoid copyright claims).

Man, I really respect that .887 of a person. Even without being a fully actualised human being they still cared enough to support their favorite creators

I still have my Trinket plushie from the Kickstarter rewards

@@JayJayM57 they made 6 different videos on how the show was made, you might like it. Each vid showing a different area of how it was made.

@@sirhobo5987 same!

Did they do a KS for Mighty nein as well or did amazon just say yes to that project from the get-go?

Thus, "gorging yourself".

Also, neck jewelry is called a "gorget" I believe

That and you know, dragons wouldn't like anyone knowing their weakness. Wouldn't be surprised if the authors used ancient words simply to prevent any dragon of destroying the book.

I know this is meant to mean the voice actress but all I can imagine is a Delilah Briarwood impression from Azula’s voice

@@royalrosepetal Happy I met the VA. I know her from Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, and Baldurs Gate 2!

The girl is Liam's daughter, the boy is Sam's son

@@TriXJester & @LoryK98 Thank you both!

And then they killed them. Bummer.

@@haku8135 its ok, later in the season they get to voice more people who die. I think Liam's daughter has died a few times over the two seasons

Especially Gilmore!

In default dnd only Metallic dragons can. Normally chromatic ones, like the blue one in this, cannot.

​@@jasonutty52That's what homebrew is for

True, and it was HILARIOUS

Doors are perhaps one of the most persistent enemy of Critical Role in general, always playing hardball when they least suspect it or want a dramatic exit

Its the ultimate enemy for them in the honest trailers where it shows a series of doors giving them trouble.

"Fucking doors, am I right?" Vox Machina at any moment xD

@@DeathKitta and chairs....never trust the chair

I always find it funny that it is also the 5 colors of mana for "Magic: The Gathering", another successfull franchise of Wizards of the Coast. So whenever I see this dragon rug, I have to think of the mana wheeel.

Actually it's a reference to *spoilers*

Which is also a reference to the 5 Evil-aligned Chromatic Dragons

@@mariusroth4966 Red, green, blue, white, black. What unusual colors that rarely ever get used for anything. Truly this is the most remarkable of coincidences.

No connection to tiamat

I know him first from Darksiders and Marvel Heroes Online.

Also Yasuo from league of legends

Gotta keep that engagement up and support the show so we get all the seasons we need!!

Yall don’t roll for sandwich integrity?

they weren't streamed. it was just a home game. Taliesin wasn't even playing Percy and Ashley hadn't joined. but the rest of this is all correct

The show condensed and cut out and condensed a ton from this point in the campaign, but, yeah, basically.

In the original it was mostly saving the royal family from demons that got them recognition, that was a much longer and complex plot so its had to be cut down to just the dragon.

Everyone gets so caught up with playing the game "the right way," that they forget it's just a game. If everyone is having fun, it doesn't matter if you're breaking the rules or messing things up. Just play however you want to play, and you can't be wrong.

Scanlan*

Yeah, Im about 30 odd eps into the live show.

Not so sure the dolphin thing works at all. Annoying, repetitive, but also inconsistent. Worst of all possible worlds really.

@@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude I don't think it's bad. If they will scatter it more throughout the video and not every bleep it would be fine.

@@Mettrop_2nd I quickly got over it, sure. It's already scattered a bit, tripled up in places, nonexistent in others. This show is going to be an ongoing issue with this, and I guess if you have to do it at all, a quick mute is probably more viewable to a wider audience.

Or switch it up a bit. Lots of sounds to choose from!

@@rekkariley652 perhaps something from the show, Trinket comes to mind.

Facts

Happy birthday!

​@@HillwisekidThanks :3

Facts

Hard to believe they got the million they needed in less than two hours

@@SilverScribe85 bro it was like walking into a millennial class room and singing “I wanna be the very best” and waiting to see how many people finished it.

@@fobbles_ I don't quite understand that analogy

Heck ya

You mean ELLIE, killer of Infected!

@@JnEricsonx who?

@@Samgreen90 Ashley Johnson, Pike, voices Ellie in The Last of Us games. Khary Payton has shown up on Critical Role as well.

@@JnEricsonx never played it, never saw it, didn't know about it.

@@Samgreen90 Epic games.