The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2 Episode 1 & 2 Group Reaction 

Just a small fact: dragon breath type depends on the color of the dragon. Brimsythe from season 1 was blue dragon who had lightning breath. Vorugal the white dragon has ice, Umbrasyl the black dragon has acid, Raishan the green dragon has poison and Thordak the red dragon has fire

In the original Critical Role, this was the WILDEST thing, because Matthew Mercer was willing to tear down an entire city and disrupt the setting for the plot, which was both impressive and terrifying. We had no idea how it would continue from there

FYI the acid dragon and the poison dragon are two separate dragons, one is green and the other is black

Grog's axe breaking in the show was them realizing they were outmatched in the campaign. Grog rolls a 20+ to hit and it misses. It was a serious "oh shit" moment for them.

RIP a legend, Lance Reddick is one of my favourite voices and his passing was only about a month or so after the second season finished premiering. Absolutely dominated as Thordak for this season, I look forward to seeing who has the honour of succeeding his role

I for one am 100% onboard with Sorta Stupid D&D!

The 4 dragons that showed up are all ancient dragons, the blue dragon from season 1 was only a young adult... the 4 being Green- Poison, Black- Acid, White- Ice, and Red- Fire, the thing with dragons is the older they get the more powerful they become, so these new ones are a PROBLEM PROBLEM.

Umbrasyl - the black dragon- is voiced by Matthew Mercer (also voiced Sylas Briarwood), Vorugal - the white dragon- is voiced by Liam O'Brien, who also voices Vax.

RIP Lance Reddick. Such an incredible opening episode.

One fateful December, Matthew Mercer received 4 dragon miniatures for Christmas. The rest is history

Black dragons are the ones that scare me the most. Not only are they canonically the most evil dragons, acid has always made me very squeamish.

The BTS stuff the animators talk about how they took the 3D dragons and applied so much hand-painted accents and details. That's why they look so much better. They also went way into more sophisticate lighting and atmospherics (like the embers, snowflakes and ashes flying through the air), all of which are hand-painted. The animation is so much better this season. Season 3 should come out early next year some time, and Campaign 2, The Mighty Nein, is already at storyboards. Sam Riegel, (scanlon) has said that he'd like to see at least one more season (4) if not 5 altogether to finish out the major arcs in Vox Machina.

Just so you know the acid dragon and the gas dragon are two diffrent dragon the acid one is a małe called Umbrasyll and the gas one is a female called Raishan

When Grog's axe broke in the show it's because Travis rolled a 19 in the campaign and his attack missed. The whole party was shook, but Travis's expression was a memeable moment. "19 _misses_ ?"

Thordak the Cinder King Had a very shiny gem And if you ever saw him Run the fuck away from him One of my favorite Scanlan songs from the campaign

To give you a prospective: the Blue Dragon form season 1 was somewhere between a young and an adult dragon, and an Adult Dragon is already Final Boss material for most campaign. The four that showed up are all Ancient Dragons, these are being that can challenge gods an WIN.

Victor is one of the best side characters.

5:24 Interesting thing about this in the stream, when Grog attacked they rolled a 19 to hit, and was genuinely surprised when Matt said it missed

I'm halfway through the Mighty Nein campaign and that series is gonna be epic. So happy they're making it into a show

Episode 40 for campaign 1 if anyone is curious on this whole event. Was spectacular watching the first time and still gives me goosebumps

Grog saying BIDET has become a community joke, at the start of each live stream, all the Critters in the twitch chat will say "BIDET from (insert home area)!" It's the best!

I will also add in that they almost killed Gilmore during this invasion. In the live show, they had the option to either loot, kill bandits that were looting the store, or find Gilmore. The choice to look for Gil saved him

1:05 yep the Mighty nein can’t wait for that one

There were a few meme references in these episodes. Grog coming out of the tavern and gesturing at the butterfly is the "Is this a bird?" meme, and the profit meme.

RIP Lance Reddick. The voice of Thordak the Cinder King...

While he doesn't appear again this season, Victor is far from dead...he just might be missing something the next time we see him...

Bidet Critters and Sorta Stupid Crew! Now you know the Critter greeting. Also, take into consideration that Matt Mercer spent years with them in their home game building them up as heroes of Emon.. .then as soon as they have any success... He destroyed EVERYTHING. The whole capitol he created with painstaking detail.. rendered asunder for the good of the narrative. This is what makes this story "the greatest story ever told"

There was a bunch of stuff in the campaign that made the arrival of the Chroma Conclave even more buck-wild than it is here. First is the fact that it happened much later in their story. The first season of the show picks up basically 3 years into the campaign (between their home game and the early stuff of the live stream). They were much more integrated and attached to Emon as a setting, it was their home. Seeing it destroyed was devastating for the players. The second, even more wild thing is that the players convinced themselves at first that the dragons attacking was Vox Machina’s fault. That was never Matt’s intention with the story he was telling. But the players had re-raided the lair of the dragon from season one out of pure greed, and in the early fog of war they were heartbroken because they thought the dragons attacked out of retaliation for that.

A Sorta Stupid One shot D&D campaign goes hard

There is no way /NO WAY/ Victor the black powder merchant died in that blast. Dude's too popular. He *has* to come back.

Gentlemen, welcome to the Chroma Conclave arc.

YYYEEEEESSSS SEASON TWO!!! Season one was such a masterpiece everyone was worried how the second would compare and somehow it’s even better! I CANNOT WAIT for you guys to get to The Killbox! By far the greatest episode of Vox Machina to date!

6:55 you mention them being serious DnD players, but for the players behind Scanlan, Grog, Pike, and Vex, this was their first campaign! Matt Mercer just wanted to shake things up and throw them into an armageddon about 40 episodes in :)

Re: The Grog fight. That’s what happens when you put a level 12 Barbarian up against a level 20 Monk. 😂

"Let us know if you want Sorta Stupid D&D" I would love nothing more

Others have already explained the other type of dragons (color and damage type), but also, Brimscythe from season 1 was a Young to Adult dragon. Dragons get stronger the older they are, and the four that attacked Emon are all Ancient dragons. They are way stronger than Brimscythe was. Dragons go from Wyrmling (0-5 years), Young (6-100), Adult (101-800), Ancient (801-1200), then Greatwyrm (1201+ and some other requirements). Just to give some context on why this is an even bigger deal than just it being four dragons.

One Dragon was bad enough, but now there are four as we enter the arc of the Chroma Conclave. Each Dragon's colour identifies its power; Umbrasyl is the acidic black dragon (voiced by the DM, Matthew Mercer) the Hope Devourer, Raishan is the toxic green dragon (voiced by Cree Summer) the Diseased Deceiver, Vorugal is the white ice dragon (voiced by Vax's player and VA, Liam O'Brien) the Frigid Doom and Thordak is the red dragon of fire (voiced by Lance Reddick) the Cinder King. Their destruction of Emon set the tone of how powerful they are compared to Vox Machina, who could only be put in an escape situation as the dragons - who in Exandria were one of the first beings of existence - claimed the city. Thordak was in fact hinted in the early campaign, and a bit in Season 1 talking about the red dragon, the show didn't cover it but a great shadow in the Fire Plane the group hid from was the dragon, so on the table it was a 'is that what that was?' moment. Oh trust me, they were shitting themselves, not all on the table are as experienced as you'd expect. The bar was set to be high when Grog's player Travis rolled 19 to attack, and missed, 22 barely hit. Trinket was frozen to unconsciousness and they only survived the assault on Greyskull because Thordak ordered Vorugal away, only 25 refugees survived the night. Of course more stuff happened, Percy and Grog fought over a wishing skull, Gilmore's was being looted, stuff like that the show trimmed off to make the story more linear. Keyleth's spell 'Pass through Trees' does come in handy for the escape, but it means now the group have to seek out a means to defeat the Conclave, which leads them to Religious hub Vassalheim...who are kinda dicks ngl they're often about not helping more than they are with helping. Still it leads them to one of the twins' old clubs, the Clasp, and Grog faces a dawn marshal of one of the gods, Kord, the Stormlord. We have word of what tools we need though, the Vestiges of Divergence, weapons of godly champions during the Calamity (a war between gods hundreds of years ago). The Black Powder dealer is one of Matt Mercer's more famous NPCs in Critical Role as well, he put his all into the performance, bit more bargaining involved than what was in the show of course. Still, you'll find this arc to have more expressed focus on Vax, similarly to how the last season focused more on Percy, something is seen among all the death, but only for his eyes.

5:08 this is from se1 ep2 5:22 if you want to see a quick vid of the gravity of this moment you can look up “19 misses”. 6:33 they did a great job of animating the overwhelming power of this attack. The helplessness everyone felt. 22:25 lol. Nope. Not having a bidet. 27:26 Matt (the DM) playing victor in the campaign was so hilarious. Love this npc Great reaction. Looking forward to your reaction to ep3.

If you really want to see these moments as they occurred TP Burrow has clipped them spoiler free for comparison, I’d also recommend Arsequeef (these guys are both on here and the other socials too I’m just crap at linking!😅) and as always don’t be afraid to ask questions, critters love bringing new peeps into the fold! Bidet!! 😁

Campaign 2 The Mighty Nein is getting it's own animation series. It's still in the early phases with story boards, but they are actively busy with it. Migthy Nein = best campaign.

I honestly can't wait for the next show to premiere. As much as I've been enjoying watching Vox Machina, what drew me into Critical Role was the Mighty Nein. I cannot wait to bust a gut when the Harvest Close Festival games get animated! And that's not even getting into the Cupcake... Edit: Just realized Grog basically did the "Is This A Pigeon?" meme pose when the butterfly showed up. Knowing the cast of this show, I'm calling that an easter egg, 'cause there's no way that was on accident with these nerdy-ass voice actors

Just an fyi, there is also a maturity hierarchy to dragons. Wyrmling < Young < Adult < Ancient. The Blue one they took out was only an Adult. These are all at least Ancient. Thordak is like a Mythical Uber Dragon.

Victor was one of Matt's more unhinged NPCs and a fan favorite.

So many incredible moments to kick off the start of season 2 but one that I think is criminally underrated is “Strike me and you will learn what you lack”. Such a killer line

The Mighty Nein is actually considered to be a more popular campaign than Vox Machina. It starts off with the characters meeting for the first time. The character dynamics and development into a found family is the best I've ever seen in any media. Not to mention that they just brought them back for a liveshow oneshot that takes place DURING campaign 3. I only hope that they get greenlit for Bells Hells once its over because that'd just make a perfect trilogy with everything thats been happening in the current campaign.

Earthbreaker Groon is voiced by Ike Amadi, who also voiced Javik in Mass Effect 3

I can't wait for your reactions to the rest of this season! They really stepped it up in every way and its a wild ride

(At 6:18) If you're talking about the one with David Tennent, then it was probably lightning.

I would KILL for a dnd campaign by you guys!!

Do yourselves a massive favor and look up the short clip of Matt Mercer's cosplay of Victor, the black Powder Dealer.

(At 5:50) Great! NOW we got dragons that can "spit" acid!

This moment in the game went just as hard. It happened at the end of the session. Everyone thought it was wrapping up and the session was ending, then Matt describes these 4 huge dragons flying in and tells them to roll initiative, and everyone was like “are you fucking kidding?”

FYI the acid dragon is voice by the man himself, Mathew Mercer

Fun bit of info. When they got Lance Reddick to play Thordack they did with him having one stipulation. They had to tell him where the story was going

(At 4:14) Did y'all forget David Tennant was a dragon?

THAT Thordak scene inspired my RU-vid name

9:08 I'm guessing the intact chest is a reference to the livestream. Matt (the DM) was secretly making death saving throws for GIlmore when they showed up...if they had looked for items or loot first, he likely would have died. But they focused on saving him and got there in time.

The thing osisu was touching on for Keyleth was that she’s the only full elf in the party, and a young one. Full elves live to be around 750 years old. The only ones who can get even close are the gnomes pike and scanlan who can get to about 350. The twins are half elves so they’ve got a solid 150, everyone else will cap at 100 if they’re lucky. On top of that she’s a Druid. When you become arch Druid, which is what she’s training for, she will age at 1/10th the rate. Meaning she caps put at around 7500 year old life span. She will outlive civilizations.

I just love how high level monks are always at their peak even if they have 99 years old... and they one day just suddenly die because their lifespan don't change.

It only gets better from here...the intro didn't change from season one, but by the end of the season you may find some new meaning in it...unlike last season which focused mainly on Percy, everyone gets a bit of the spotlight this season...

Victor in the show is still alive at the end of the first campaing.

Notice how in this episode, Vox Machina tries doing everything they successfully did against Brimscythe at the start of season 1, but literally none of it works against these ones because they're just *that* much more powerful. (Brimscythe was a young/adult dragon, while these are *ancient.*) More specifically: 1. Grog, their strongest fighter, rages and strikes their weak spot at the base of the neck, and while it killed Brimscythe, these are so tough that *his axe* breaks instead and the dragon is totally unharmed. 2. They try illusions to fool them, but ancient dragons have detect magic and can see through illusions. 3. They try magic, but these are powerful magic users themselves and are fully capable of casting Dispel Magic. 4. They fought Brimscythe inside a cave where his mobility was hindered, but as Thordak demonstrates, these ones are so powerful they could just break through a mountain even if you manage to corner them inside one.

When the dm says now go kill godzilla and his friends 😂

1:22 i unironically want that

He's fine. Victor's fine. It's okay. He explodes a lot.

Funny you should say they are experienced DnD players, cause when this happened the majority of the table was still relatively new to DnD, one or 2 had prior experience but this was the first real campaign for like 6/8 of them?

Grogs hit where broke his axe is the animated version of 19 misses

Funnily enough the dragons wouldn’t even phase Bill, Collector, and full calamity trio. The show is just so much more violent that it makes the dragons feel stronger.

Can't wait for the next one, this is genuinely one of my favorite shows in a long time, up there with Edgerunners without a doubt. One of the few highlights of the week.

Once Grog started saying "Bidet", the twitch stream chat all greet each other with "bidet from Florida" " bidet from Washington" So Bidet Billies!

Dragons get more powerful as they age. Blue dragon from S1E1+2 was a young adult roughly 100 years old, these four fuckers are ancient meaning 800+

The thing I pray for constantly is that Critical Role will do an Animated EXU: Calamity. That prequel campaign was so fire 🔥 (pun intended.) Literally my Roman Empire. I'm excited we're getting Mighty Nein, but I will actually weep tears of joy if they ever announce Calamity.

Referring to Victor, “ I guess he isn’t going to be a recurring character.” Ha.. hahahah…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA

I kinda hate how they portrayed the council of Vasselheim. Here they're like "Oh wow, that sucks. Well, fuck off now." while in the actual campaign their motivation makes more sense. They considered helping, but sending forces out would leave the city vulnerable. And being the oldest city and archive of knowledge in the world, they couldn't afford that. So they started preparing while Vox Machina were gathering allies.

Aaaaand you just met Viktor. Hands down one of Matt Mercer's best NPCs of all time.

Welcome to season 2 boys!

RIP Lance Reddick & Ray Stevenson. Both did an amazing job in two amazing rolls and didn't get to finish. 😢

Matt Mercer said that around 75k to 80k people died in this attack.

3:37 - Oh, you have no idea. 11:39 - There ya go.

The harsh fact about Keyleth is real dark. High level Druids gain the ability to automatically slow their aging to a crawl, every 10 years that pass, they only age 1 year. So if Keyleth keeps faffing about with her duties, everyone she knows and loves won't be around to see her eventually succeed.

Just to put into perespective brymscythe (the blue dragon in season one) wasn't even an adult, these four are all ancients dragons, significantly older, bigger, and stronger

Victor is a legend amongst NPCs

It's a little hard to keep track of which dragon is which so here's the breakdown of that: Brimscythe was the Blue Dragon (Lighning Breath) Thordak is the Red Dragon (Fire Breath) Raishan is the Green Dragon (Poison Gas Breath) Vorugal is the White Dragon (Ice Breath) Umbrasyl is the Black Dragon (Acid Breath)

Either Sorta Stupid DnD or Sorta Stupid Baldur's Gate playthrough.

Yeah you dont fuck with dragons, especially if they are thousands years old as they get stronger with age. The dragons we seen till now all strangely belong to a faction, The Chroma Conclave, and are: Brimscythe - blue dragon in season 1 with lighting breath, was the youngest Vourgal - white dragon - breathes ice Umbrasyl - black dragon - breathes acid Raishan - green dragon - breathes poison Thordak- red dragon - breathes fire Another thing about dragons that you noticed is the glowing eyes - which was probably them using magic. As if being a dragon not powerful enough, dragons are also capable of learning some spellcasting and they often do.

SO excited you're finally here! :D looking forward to this.

Don't tease us with the idea of Sorta Stupid D&D. That would be a fucking riot!!!

Dragons in dnd are very inteligent. The older the larger the more powerful and inteligent. They can posses magic and take human form. Their power literally changes their home/lair to their own element. In the first season it was the gold conducting electricity. The chromatic coloured ones are evil. red - fire, black - acid, green - poison, blue - lighting and white - ice.

Answer to a question in your video, dragons gain the ability to turn into humans at a certain age. They aren't humans that turn into dragons. Dragons have a shape change ability once they are a certain age (800-1000+ years). D&D wizards of the coast confirms this for metallic dragons (silver, gold, bronze, etc.) and from VM we know Matt also did this for some of the chromatic dragons of the chroma conclave with Thordak, Raishan, and Brimsythe.

i think the blue dragon in the first season is a regular dragon, and these 4 dragons are ancient dragons. That's why Grogs axe could not even harm them and they have the ability to see threw magic or negate magic used against them. Most dragons are evil in D&D, there are good ones but evil cults and evil dragons hunt the good one down and work to bring back there dragon god Tiamat a 5 or more headed dragon

Bidet, all! I've really been enjoying your reactions: I love listening to them while I work, and have gone through so many that I just listen to the audio while I work, I know where you are in the series based on the audio. There are recently some really silent spots, though, with neither commentary--I know you all are super-engrossed, I get that!--nor show audio, which makes it difficult to follow. I know you probably edit due to DMCA worries, but you're doing a great job with chopping up and covering video, they're totally cool as long as you're not just straight-up playing the whole show (although I've seen that, too.) On to Episodes 3 and 4, I can't WAIT to see your reactions to them!

1:22 YES we do want sorta stupid dnd! That would be awesome! This are the people who agree👇 7:00 like imagine them playing an actuall campaign , ruff's amazement as he discovered the acid dragon was pure gold. I need them to play

I never watched anything beside the show itself, when the sphynx mentioned keyleth fears, does she mean it literally? like Keyleth will live waaay longer than others through age, cause I don't think it was fears about the dragons or being killed, it seemed like keyleth knows from the start that she will live longer but doesn't want to accept it

Dragons tend to be smarter than most humans thats why they can talk

I wouldn't say it's a dick D&D Move Boomy. It's fun as a DM, or so I've heard, to build up a world in one campaign, then in the next destroy it :D *evil, malevolent laughter*

Just an fyi when they played this campaign it was the first for a lot of them lol

amusingly the lightning (blue) Dragon at the beginning was a young dragon, these are Ancient's.

6:55 oh don't worry, they were shitting themselves plenty😂😅 Look up 'Critical Role 19 misses' to see the moment that inspired that bit where Grog completely biffed trying to attack the poison dragon.

Yeah I’m actually really interested in a sorta stupid D&D game

personally, I would love to watch you guys play dnd