Volcano of Violence [Full Episode] | Escape From the Bloodkeep Episode 2 

As a reminder, we're releasing the ENTIRETY of Escape from the Bloodkeep to RU-vid for free over the next few weeks, leading up to the launch of our newest campaign, A CROWN OF CANDY (trailer here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zOnnqKPh5RY.html). If you haven't seen Bloodkeep or only seen parts of it, check in each Saturday for a new full episode!

Mike Trap: "I'm worried this might be a waste of my turn, but..." *summons The Giant Monster*

i love how in fantasy high, they put Ally, who had never played before, next to Murph, an experienced DM, and then did the same with Rekha and Matt. Its nice seeing these guys help out new players :)

The fact that the damn hobbit is the strongest npc in here is such comedic gold

Brennan watching as all of his most powerful, likely story relevant NPCs get hurled into lava one after another: *nervous laughter*

Trapp’s fully deadpan face as he asks “Would you say this affects her concentration?” after Casara plumets through a rickety walkway from 40 feet up into lava. That’s my life and soul tbh

I adore when Matt, witnessing the beautifully lunacy happening in front of his eyes, excitedly declares, "I. Love. Dungeons. And. Dragons!"

That halfling is to Leyland what tables are to fabian

Markus only jumped on an eagle for 6 seconds, came back and everything is in absolute disarray

I believe brennan said in a podcast that hamhead had the stats of a storm giant, so I mean kudos to Leiland for soloing a storm giant for most of the fight lol.

"I AM KING OF THE VINGURI. I WILL SLAY THIS TINY, WRETCHED, GARDENER ALL ON MY OWN! FOCUS ON THE FUCKING KING OF MEN!" Matt made us all love a parallel version of the Witch-King and I am here for it.

i didn't expect them to just wipe out the entire cast of lord of the rings in their first fight.

Brennan: "I'm gonna say that summoning this thing is your action." Mike: "Sure. That seems fair!" :D

Part of the reason why the Eagles couldn't take the hobbits into Mordor was because, as sentient and intelligent creatures, they themselves would potentially be corrupted by the ring. Funny that here, the Eagles are also corruptible , just by different means. Gold nests and such.

I love the percentage of this that is, genuinely, just Brennan absolutely roasting Frodo.

Leiland deserves more. Just more, he's trying so hard.

“Would you say this affects her concentration?” Trapp you comedic genius

"I think this will be a waste of a turn but I think it'll be fun" proceeds to summon an eldritch nightmare

I love that efink is still absolutely soaked when inside a volcano

The best thing about Brennan is his incredible ability to say "yes AND" in every occasion. He makes the players so good and everyone has fun!

Imagine if Mike forgot that the Lavamog was here and Brennan never got to bring that bad boy out

I love how Matt describes his own spells, which is usually what he does as a DM for the other players. He just can't shake it off. XD

Lilith: * Does the most incredible amount of damage and takes down one of the most powerful NPCs in the table * Brenan: "Welp Lilith, that´s your *BONUS ACTION*"

Someone give the set guys a raise. Jesus Christ Bananas. Also, poor Leiland, and even more, poor Brennan.

I love how in interviews Ify says that he remembered about the Lavamog and didn't want to metagame by reminding Trapp. Watching this back, you can actually see Ify laugh when Trapp says "it might waste a turn", and start nodding when Trapp says "They said" before he specifies what he's asking about. The effort it must have taken not to metagame for If deserves some commendation

Either Brennan hates Lord of the Rings with every bone in his body or he loves it more than life itself. Either way, his parody of it is perfect

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing 1:15 Recap Ends 2:45 Minis 3:35 Be sure to put collars on your Scream Beasts 5:00 Learning new words 9:05 What is a wall? 9:55 Galfast Hamhead 11:00 Tellmere the Calm 12:05 Watch your step 16:10 Hamhead can carry 17:25 Longfoot is not the hero 19:50 Leland does a good thing 21:30 But he couldn’t find the crown 24:45 Cassara is intimidating 27:25 Leland has the halflings 29:50 Too calm to be sad 33:15 J’er’em’ih takes the hit 37:20 Sokhbarr wastes a turn 42:25 Monster speech 44:50 Not a waste 47:55 Percival 52:30 Ending an immortal life 53:50 Efink deserves worse 55:00 Galfast beats Leland with a pan 56:10 I miss Ruckland 58:15 Someone help Leland 1:03:50 Maggie’s chain whip 1:06:00 Tellmere is a prick 1:08:40 Gogmauth’s answering machine 1:18:10 Percival vs. Markus 1:19:40 Markus mounts an eagle 1:21:40 Markus negotiates with an eagle 1:23:25 A gold nest 1:27:45 Percival’s final moments 1:29:15 Hamhead is an anti-monarchist 1:31:35 Tellmere’s doom 1:32:45 Brennan needs to ask for dice 1:34:20 Leland is ready to kill the king 1:36:30 Gravity reversal 1:39:15 Be careful Leland 1:42:20 Sokhbarr represents gross nature 1:43:45 The entire turn in which Maggie charges Cassara 1:52:20 A summary of the turn 1:54:25 Secret healing 1:55:15 Corrupting Percival 2:00:10 J’er’em’ih attacks 2:01:45 Getting Percival to act 2:02:55 Markus is back 2:05:45 Giving Leland the win 2:08:25 Stalker roleplay 2:10:45 John Feathers negotiates 2:12:05 Episode Ends Hi. I do this kind of thing for Critical Role, and I love Dimension 20, and Escape in particular, so I thought I’d try to timestamp the full side quest. Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. HOOT GROWL!

I love all these characters, but the wine mom-spider queen is the best character.

Amy: "hmm, what's a wall"? Brennan: "lol, It's like a sideways floor". Mike:"- or a sideways ceiling"! Matt's brain: what on God's green earth is a ceiling?!

I love that Markus took credit for Leiland’s spell at the beginning, and then later when Markus is about to take Leiland’s other big moment, he lets Leiland take the credit

This is my first watch, and Matt/Leiland screaming "FOCUS ON THE FUCKING KING OF MEN!" at Ify/Markus while getting thrashed by a halfling with a frying pan is killing me. This is what D&D should be. I need to start slowly incorporating more comedy into my campaign...

Okay so Efink just... Wooing her husband to the dark side is some good shit

Brennan calling not- Frodo “petty bourgeoise” is making my day lol

Fantasy High first fight. Teenagers struggle to fight corn, fail hopping on tables and two die. Bloodkeep first fight. Powerful lords absolutely decimate an army of elves while playing around with their bodies while an Overlord prince struggles to fight a halfling....

I love that Brennens mini box says 'Goodies' with a little smiley face :)

Brennan handles this whole encounter amazingly. It's hard enough keeping track of six 14th-ish-level players and even a single monster, and Brennan manages an encounter of two large groups with spellcasters on both sides _and_ a huge monster and does it all almost seamlessly.

Drinking game idea: take a shot every time Brennan says "hell yeah."

I would just like to congratulate the Dimension 20 team on the little cutscenes with the minis as we listen to Brennan's narration. Gives a lot of spice to the battle. Superbly done once again, guys

"wow...that's desperately sad...let's continue fighting." DAMN IT MAN! 😆😆😆

2:05:04 I love how the camera zooms in on Matt's face as he watch some one else easily kills an npc he 's been fighting for the entire encounter.

No joke love how he set up the combat and said, “So before this happens, do you guys want to take any action before combat as you guys had barely any time before to react to the room” Really gives a sense of fair play and allowing players to gain info. Gonna do this now in my games so it seems fair for players.

I love how Rekha is thinking outside the box and trying thing that after a while you dont even bother with anymore. New people playing the game are always the most creative when it come to solving problems in dnd imo.

This Fight: ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE

I absolutely love that at 5:00 Brennan delivers "the hole where da lava come out" with the EXACT same energy as "running through my mind palace, pulling books off of shelves, until I finally reach one that just says "what noise a fox make"" from the sound effects game changer episode. Man, he's the best

Gog-moth’s answering machine with Maggie jumping in to help was just fantastic. God I love improv actors.

I just want to take a moment to appreciate how Brennan and the production team had a gigantic lavamog mini ready to go just on the off-chance Trapp tried to summon it.

I love that Ify just straight up changed Matt’s character’s name to Leiland and everyone just rolled with it 😂

J'er'em'ih is a treasure and must be protected at all cost

Only in DnD can you negotiate an Eagle to become your steed mid-battle where said Eagle wants a golden nest

Something I like about Brennan as DM is the enthusiasm with which he responds to player actions. He always praises his players' good hits and creative thinking, and always winces when a player gets a bad roll or gets whacked really hard. It really shows how invested he is in everyone's experience with the game.

Justice for Leiland who did nothing wrong and decimated a bunch of elves in one move

I love the fact Rekha isn't very experienced with the game. Because she's asking the questions I am, the more she learns the faster I learn.

I hope one day I can make a girl's face light up the way Erika's did when she saw herself as a spider figurine.

They entered with 7 members, and left with an unconscious buff women, an old forest king dude, and a sentient eagle

I’m still upset this episode wasn’t named “Conflict in the Caldera” but it’s great either way

I was really worried that Brennan was going to make Hamhead, an analogue of the greatest hero in all of fiction, into a huge dork. Her being so utterly hench is my favourite thing in D20.

Brennan: "Lilith that's your BONUS action!" (After successfully making Brennan roll more damage dice than ever before...)

Talmier is definitely an ancestor of Galier, if you showed him a cup of yogurt, he'd go into a century of meditation on analyzing the taste and texture.

I appreciate that its very clear that Rekha is still kinda new to this game and they sat her next to a VERY experienced player in Matt to help her out whenever she needs. Plus all her questions are totally valid and I too would ask those.

A game ruled by the "Rule of Cool"

Best dying words ever: "I hate this mountain." as he hits the lava.

Brennan: this may be the most damage dice i’ve ever rolled maybe playing dnd Matt: *silently thinking about the goldfish*

I'm 90% sure Jeremy is a spore creation

“Mom can we get some Lord of the Rings??” “We have LOTR at home!” *the lotr at home* :

58:10 When Matt screamed "Focus on the fucking King of Men" I lost it

That Maggie play against beige whatever was INSANE! A truly amazing barbarian that is an example of what all barbarian players should aspire to. When bad magic people are a bit too much to handle, FUCKING THROW THEM INTO LAVA

Two births and a pregnancy announcement. What an episode!

They laugh, but I think Matt did the most damage all together.

Giant Eagle: "I want a gold nest." St. Vincent into his sending stone: "Can we get this Eagle guy a gold nest?" Olv Pickering on the other end of the line: "Ahaha, I don't know what that is--but we can." =D

I JUST realized that this was essentially just Lord of the Rings

If any of you are curious Hamhead has the stats of a storm giant

I love how Trap summoned a lava monster that eats a king. Lilith reversed gravity and webbed elves into lava. Meanwhile Matt is an anticlimactic duel against a halfling…. Who’s wielding a frying pan XD

This is basically the “Ember Island Players” version of Lord of the Rings and it’s quite excellent.

I love how Erika always dresses like her character

I hate to see the “totally not Fellowship” getting punked, but I love this stream

As usual, even in a different reality Samwise is carrying this freaking quest and team😂🤣

Markus: Sexy eagle ladies! Fig: Sexy rat lady!

First time in the history of dnd, where the dm talking about how he dosent have enough dice for a damage roll, that the party isint terrified.

Leyland is reminding me of Fjord with how much his ego is constantly being bruised lol. Those poor men both deserve better.

I love the true king of men’s voice. He sounds and carries himself exactly like an old cowboy in Wyoming I know who’s probably spent 80 years of his life sleeping in the wilderness.

Can we all just appreciate the amount of custom work building the setting maps, minis, and doing the painting?

I love the sam spoof, the idea of a brawny gardener hobbit smacking dark lords with pans seems canon to me.

I desperately want to see this entire fight scene animated from 2 hours to 10 minutes of madness.

Brennan every 6 seconds: Hell yeah. Incredible. Insane.

“I’m the king of Tiriath. I lived in the woods for 80 years. I was a ranger, and I know how to make a lean-to. My dad-in-law made this sword. It was brkn’, but now it’s wrkn’ again.” “I gotcha.” - Percival, son of Paraval

"Rather, you are going to use a combination of jumping off of claws and a gravity-dimentional shift, uh, to...jump up to try and hit this flying angel wizard. D & D!" 1:45:51

"You now have a balloon elf." Only in DND!

2:05:04 (spoilers) Matt's look of betrayal absolutely KILLS me.

So much shade being thrown at "Frodo" in this encounter

When the Lavamog comes out of the colderra: Everyone: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! Sokhbarr: 38:23

Brennan: fails to make an appropriately difficult level 1 encounter for fantasy high Also Brennan: starts his players at a high level

“FOCUS ON THE F*CKING KING OF MEN” took me tf out 😂😂

How did it take me all the way to "his gardener and friend" to get the LOTR reference

A sky pirate hustling with a giant eagle over a volcano is something that only dungeons and dragons can provide.

I'm am never gonna forget "A wall is like a...sideways floor"

This series is hilarious and I can't believe I'm just now learning of it. Brennan is great and I would love to see him guest star on Critical Role and cut loose as a player. Even if he just brings Percival/Stalker, I think he'd fit in great with the M9. Imagine the conversations he and Caduceus could have.

"I want a gold nest" Easily one of the best lines i've heard in online D&D content :D

18:45 - He can only do it once, but _man_ is that one hell of an opening move.

Already watched this a million times... just stopping by for Trapp's 'wasted turn'.

Poor Leiland deserves so much more than this, he’s trying his best