The lost Critical Role vine compilation 

They must be preserved.

*angelic music*

Music swells…”the adventure begins…”

The VERY ancient texts! Older than tiiiiiiime itselffffff

@@greggatesjr1301 *Matt Mercer Intensifies*

Still would though...

@@jaffaesque you know it

Yeah he looks like the lead singer of Breaking Benjamin.

Some men age like wine... sweet sweet wine.

Honestly Travis is a damn handsome man. Only time anyone else in the crew wins over him is Matt with a beard. Like, Campaign 2 finale beard

This campaign needs...MORE BIG SIIIIIIPS!

It's his natural state

He still remembers when it was an aphrodisiac.

Lol 😆 coffee

That hair tho 😁

Taliesin must have told him how to do that. ;)

@@faranior *dear god you're right*

His teeth got bigger

Marisha too. Everyone else looks like baby versions of themselves 😂

awww this is so sweet

Well, that's exactly what they are.

It probably feels like that because that's exactly what it is.

I love how this feels like a reply to a RU-vid comment

@@SkoloT well yeah that's exactly what this is

I love how there's little to no difference between how these videos and the live games feel.

Read this comment as it happened in the video. Perfecting timing

I'm so glad someone else found that as funny as I did

3:14 as Orym's favourite. A pie.

I think that scene and the scene beforehand were meant to foreshadow the Chroma Conclave

Or was it that David Tennant embodied Matt Mercer? ACTING INCEPTION

Matt commits even when he is playing a squirrel

@@Asgardian30 yes, Brimschyte was the youngest member of the Conclave.

@@Pedro-tl7jg or crabgrass! He’s so good

yes he seemed like an even more dynamic DM . didn,'t realise how much the camera holds his potential to a certain limit.

This is when they were babies. He's too old now. Bad hip. :P

@@chadwickerman darn, I just hope Matt doesn't feel restricted

They really need someone to animate the entire campaigns lol millions of views

The thing is, they aren't in a living room anymore. They are in a full-blown studio, so there are pretty large restrictions on what the cameras may and may not see. Implementing a 'Matt camera' would make it difficult not to accidentally show the studio gear, crew, or anything 'backstage', which would range from somewhat unprofessional to downright problematic. As much as I would love him to fully embrace his characters, it is simply not feasible in a studio setting like this, not without being detrimental in other aspects (one thing they REALLY cherish is how they can sit at the same table, close to each other, which they couldn't for a good while after starting the show)

6:10

I want to know the context SO BAD

He's always been no mercy percy

Only he isn't Percy yet, his original character was apparently very... Insane, almost too much for the live shows and so he changed him of his own volition

It's a totally Percy move.

@@kingcoheed1208 Nah they had plenty of adventures with Percy before the live show.

Talesins original character was a dragborn. Blue paladin I believe. However that was very short lived. Possibly only that first birthday game one off. The had lots of adventures pre stream with Percy. And they made reference to Percy being a bit crazy, that he lost himself, both in the original intro and a mention by the characters that when they first met him he was in prison and very different. But his character had already grown in time that they gamed before live streaming.

@@Logan_Baron White, I think. He had ice breath.

👿☕

i feel so seen

Beardless Travis is way scarier

Yeah it basically just goes "we're going to the underdark, hold on to your ass cause this shits gonna get crazy"

Also the fact that Matt basically got them all into DnD, at least fully into it, so they were still kinda shakey and getting their footing when they were on stream, hence weird character choices and moments

@@antonymilne1346 Plus they had just switched game systems for the stream. Pre-stream, they were using Pathfinder rules. When they started streaming, they switched to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. So they were still learning the D&D 5e rules during the first campaign (and sometimes they still forget the rules, Matt included). Percy had to be completely redesigned with homebrew rules by Matt because the D&D 5e fighter subclasses did not include the gunslinger, which was Percy's fighter subclass in Pathfinder. Many of the characters' abilities changed, and some spells got altered, added or removed because of the differences in spell rules and class spell lists in D&D vs. Pathfinder.

@@ESRDWarrior1 point of order: gunslinger in Pathfinder is not a fighter subclass. It is its own class entirely and has some unique mechanics.

@@antonymilne1346 Taliesin and Matt were the only Rpg players, Marisha had already seen some sessions and Liam played as a kid (and/or teen), all the rest played for the first time on Liam's birthday and only then they started playing on a monthly basis... the rest is history.

I'm curious as to what he did 🤔

@@Donnerjkks He shit the bed quite thoroughly. Drugs, ego, and revealing himself to be a scumbag.

wait, i dont know who?

@@Donnerjkks He was really annoying and toxic in Episode 27 of C1, and generally had "main character" vibes while playing for episodes after their fight with the beholder

@@djsndifn there was also some behind the scenes stuff too. That may or may not be true. Drug use and abuse I believe

He sometimes stands up but cant run around

you'd have to imagine he misses it, they all probably do. as much as a blessing CR has been, and as lucky as we've all been for it to exist, you always gotta miss the simpler times,

he has really bad body dysmorphia and probably hated the dance segments more than anything ... happy to stay behind the GM screen ...@@willnelson9906

Gods it took me a solid 3 seconds to realize that was travis

He was actually in the movie Secondhand Lions, he was one of the punks in the bar that get beat up by Robert Duval's character, and he really did get beat up by Duval, who then apparently paid him a few hundred dollars when he found out Travis wasn't actually one of the stunt guys. 😂

@@LordOwenLongstrider second hand lions is one of my all time favorite movies. This makes me so happy

@@LordOwenLongstrider no way!!! Oh my god, I have to watch this movie again, thanks!

He probably did that in the beginning as most of them were learning rules and figuring out what their characters could do. Nowadays everyone is pretty familiar with the game so it isn't necessary, it would really only serve to make the players feel like they have less freedom.

Gay Ben Franklin foreshadowing

@@Arkay24 *Just Ben Franklin xD

It's always magnificent

​@@eartheclipse8Where's the difference?

Though to be fair they were professional voice actors even then. But I get what you mean.

I haven’t understood what’s happening in a single one yet.

I LOVED those at the start of C1

I love that they get to have such fancy heroforge sets, but those hand drawn maps hold a special place in our hearts.

Every member of the cast worth their weight in gold stayed.

@@Mike-os3pt oh for sure. Not upset that Orion is gone.

It was a hell of an impressive run even before it became a stream!

For sure. It feels nostalgic in a way and strangely comforting to watch. Like old family videos

I myself is currently running a campaign and using Pathfinder 1st Ed . But we still say DnD.

They used to play 4E, before switching to PF, and then 5E when they started streaming.

just learned this moment that pathfinder wasn’t just a weirdly-named official version of d&d. like in my head it went d&d, ad&d, 3e, pathfinder, 4e, 5e.

@@Very_Okay 4E came out and the response was that it was terrible, and people would rather stay on 3.5, and the company Paizo took the opportunity and created Pathfinder by altering 3.5, which was hugely successful and lead to Pathfinder being the main competition to DnD.

I've known most groups to never say they play Pathfinder. They usually said they play D&D using Pathfinder rules. Just as if you would say that you play D&D with 3rd edition rules.

Alas this is life, all we can do now is hope he get better and do more good than harm in the future, learning from his mistakes too.

What happened

@@averywoods4116 It's complicated and the community, twitch chat, and reddit moderators don't want it discussed. Ultimately Orion had anger issues/mental health issues/addiction etc. (the details are unclear and change with each retelling), and was supposedly sexually inappropriate towards Laura (crass language) on set as apparently is seen in one of the sessions (With Travis visbily upset, forget wich session), hostile towards fans on social media, and ultimately a falling out behind the scenes.

Without condoning anything Orion's done, I pity the poor bastard. This community and this group could have been a safe haven for him to get better in. Instead... well. He had to go a different way.

@@AFutureDarkly The meta gaming god >.>

That scream always brings me such joy

OR DID THEY. Look at those character sheets. It's pathfinder

@@902386 To-may-to, to-mah-to. Especially Pathfinder 1e that was a tweaked 3.5 D&D

Eldritch beings like Taliesin and Brennan subsist off of copious amounts of coffee.

Hope you get your Party back together!

Just a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors... 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Yeah, many people seem to miss it but that's really the core of the show. It's not just that they are voice actors or great players, it really comes down to the fact that they're all close friends and they're having a lot of fun playing together.

I really want to know more about it

Same. I feel a lot of comfort watching these videos. And I think that's why the love TTRPG elements of Critical Role resonate so much with me

Same. 🥺 I desperately want to play D&D around a table and make good friends through adventuring but alas, social anxiety lol

Me too. My favorite moments in the show are the bits where you see flashes of their irl friendships. Sam and Travis "fighting" over sportsball. The time Marisha was with Taliesin when he got a pair of lederhosen. Liam and Taliesin geeking out over Secret Garden the Musical. The small, in between moments that remind you that these people have known and loved each other for so long.

Same, Aspergers and social anxiety sucks. At least I can't miss something I'll never have.

As much as I am immensely happy for their growth and achievements, and all their successes, and their new polished studio and such, I do miss the more loose times. Eating full meals at the tables cluttered with all their stuff, squeezing in between the others on the bench when they were late or came back from break. Matt getting up to whisper. The BTS camera shenanigans during breaks. The dance parties.

I was really hoping that, with their expansion into side gaming videos, they'd have a dance party. I can understand why it may be hard to make happen, but I still wish.

He voiced Thor for 10 years.

He may not have been Percy yet, he had another character before they started streaming

@@emmamassick9484 for one game

@@TempestLM I thought it was for a while

@@TempestLM but I don’t know him lol nor am I that versed in pre-stream critical role ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@emmamassick9484 Sorry I don't have a reference to it, but at one point Taliesin mentioned he was glad he didn't have to do that original character's voice anymore because it was hard on the throat and he did a brief demo and it was guttural and raspy and monster-like.