Something to note! If you’re wondering why Keyleth’s ice spell was so powerful/so dramatized, according to critrolestats, it was the most damage done in a single turn in at the time in the campaign! In the words of every dm ever “Druids, man…”
🤔 Where's that from? Keyleth in that episode used Ice Storm against the zombie horde, 2d8 bludgeoning and 4d6 cold. And she only rolled 7 and 8, a measly 15 total. No way that got on any highest damage lists.
@@Crazy-pl1lo Episode 31: Gunpowder Plot (part 2). Time for Keyleths ice storm is 53:14. If you're wanting the full episode just go to part one first obviously, problems with recording back in the day split up some episodes.
@@hhylobates4098 thank you so much! I wasn't expecting a reply as fast as that! This fan base really is the best out there thank you again I really appreciate it!
again, i think that delilahs misty step was actually the spell far step. She teleported a lot farther than 30 feet (far step has a range of 60 feet) and she teleported multiple times in quick succession while also casting other spells (far step allows you to do it every turn as a bonus action without restricting your ability to cast other spells).
It could be honestly by how high the building was it may have been beyond 30ft so far step could be a better choice. Thank you so much for the informative comment I wasn't aware of the far step spell.
I always assumed with Prof. Anders is he’s not a caster but that silver tongue is a powerful magic item that gives him the ability to use those spells.
I can see where your coming from with that but fun fact in the original series he never had the silver tongue it was added for the animation. Thank you so much for the comment I love hearing others point of view on this series and I hope we get even more hidden stuff to explore in season 2.
@@SweetLitzLM considering if would be any roll of deception or persuation can be no lower than a 10 with this, it's possible Matt used this and didnt announce that he used silver tongue
I think the Hex one works with Percy because in the original Streams Percy cast Hex on everything and it was very rare that a turn of combat would go by without Percy making sure hex was up.
I agree with artistic liberties on dominate person since the spell can only affect one creature and upcasts for longer duration. I appreciate that he didn't use dominate until after the suits were downed since both take concentration. I like the hex idea since it provides extra damage on a hit and his shots tend to be more destructive when his eyes turn.
In the original stream the animated armors were not activated via a spell, but are independent and continued attacking even after his death. Here they were taken care of beforehand so I don't know.
i barely know anything about DND, but i was surprised to learn that mrs. briarwood was a regular ol' wizard class. her visual style was so specific that i thought she might have been a necromancer or something. one of the things that keep me away from trying DND is that, as a beginner, all the combat rules feel really restrictive when i just want to play around with specific character design i have in mind. CR/VM getting creative with how spells and actions are expressed narratively is exactly what i like to see in roleplay games.
@@58209 I mean you can reflavour and mess around with things as much as you want really, so long as the DM is cool with it. You can be as creative as you like.
When Delilah casted counterspell and reflected the attack, it could have also been her casting counterspell as her reaction and then casting a similar blast spell at that caster immediately after, reflavored as a "counter attack".
7:25 Two things: 1) Imprisonment is a 9th level spell, plus it does not trap the players in such a way (it can entomb them beneath the earth, chain them, lock them in a maze, or put them to sleep, plus it only works on one creature, not a radius that can trap creatures). 2) This spell is most likely akin to the 7th level spell Forcecage, which acts exactly like in the show. The only caveat is that Forcecage is invisible, but it's hard to animate invisible things effectively and stylishly (as seen with the Unseen Servant).
I do think it could be Wall of Force or Resilient Sphere. For it to be Forcecage, Gilmore would have to spend 1,5k on ruby dust. Also, Forcecage is not a concentration spell, so Gilmore would not be able to free the party at his will once the spell is cast.
correction, the massive light spell that keyleth casts is sunbeam. the spell 'daylight' is, oddly, not actually sunlight. whereas the sunbeam spell actually DOES emite sunlight, as a concentration spell. and it DOES allow the caster to fire beams of sunlight on their turn, which we see keyleth do later.
17:39 I like this idea. Hex mainly grants you greater damage on a hit. So to a gunslinger, this can be repurposed into an inhuman hawkeye mode to deal crippling damage
I mean Percy did have Hex though, he used it regularly, even using it in the Search for Grog one-shot in order to completely obliterate the record for highest damage from a single attack, dealing 156 points of damage with one attack.
"hey did you know that Pike's player (Ashley Johnson) missed sessions due to filming a show. She would come in and out, and the astral projection was how that was explained mechanically. Just letting you know because the other 800 comments on ever single video might not have pointed that out, thanks!" These have been cool, especially loved the spells you pointed out with Gilmore.
Yes I did know that's why Ashley couldn't make it lol but I'm glad she's around more for campaign three Fearne is just so funny and Gilmore was such a fun character to work on his such a great NPC. Thank you for the fun comment.
I agree with your assessment of Astral Projection being the reason and spell used to get Pike into the Briarwood fight. However I would add that I believe the Projection and reason for the power uptick is this whole entire sequence was due to a spell cast by Pike in the Temple which I believe to be Divine Intervention...this is why it is the Everlight's energy and power level being used instead of her own.
I totally agree Pike was being juiced by the Everlight and all the spells she used in this moment are stronger then what they should have be. Thank you for the comment.
@@justnoob8141 yeah the base cleric was the only class to get revivify for a while, lore bards could it via magical secrets and celestial warlocks have it as their patron spell.
She uses someting similar to revivify to bring percy back since pike's failed but i think that was raise dead or resurrection since it was the next day
Tasha's Cauldron of everything gave Druids access to cone of cold, but this book came out 3 years after campaign 1 ended for Critical Role. But if we look into Pathfinder spells, Druids there can learn Cone of Cold and since this was originally a Pathfinder game (as you pointed it) it is likely that Matt Mercer allowed for spell lists to be expanded as a result.
Solid point I didn't look into spells that where in DnD to see what there pathfinder counterpart was like and that could explain a lot. Thank you for the great information it's very helpful.
In pathfinder it does, and as pointed Vox Machina had a lot of homebrew to not destroy the table during transition of systems. Fighting against Vampires was probably part of the game since the PF era, and Matt didnt want / didnt remember to change the encounter and take into acount the spell he took for granted during the Boss Fight wouldnt work anymore.
@@miguelangelus959 Dawn does radiant damage to all creatures nearby, though, so I don't think they'd have done it like that. It could have been Sunbeam but held instead of fired - which could be possible if your DM agrees to it.
Pike most likely didn't heal the group with prayer of healing instead it would be mass cure wounds a 5th level which has a after time frame rather then 10 minutes it is just one action also considering she healed 7 people instead of 6 she most likely hit one of them with a healing word using spell driver a matt mercer original feat which allows you to cast both a bonus action and regular action spell in one turn while not official wotc stuff this is matts world so we'll let it slide.
In campaign 1, it didn't require a feat to cast a non-cantrip in the same turn as a bonus action spell, everyone could do it. At some point after the double-fireball incident, Matt limited it to one of the spells being lvl2 or lower. But yes, Mass Cure Wounds was a spell Pike regularly had prepared, and its 1 Action cast time fits the narrative. Good call. Probably they just allowed it to affect 7 targets, not intending one of them to be a separate cast of Healing Word, taking artistic liberty with adapting 5e spells to the screen because that mechanical limit isn't narratively interesting. On screen, Pike heals the party with a spell, done. Spreading the same pool of healing across 1 extra target (meaning less healing for each target) would be basically fine in terms of game balance, too.
I could've sworn Pike used Guiding Bolt (without the advantage effect) and maybe sacred flame during the Briarwood fight. Both visually in her radiant style of magic. I may be mistaken though.
The final attack she did on Sylas before running to help Scanlan looked a lot more like flames than bolts or beams. It looked a much more impressive that a simple cantrip, but we saw she got a lot of extra power in her astral form.
@@hhylobates4098 On the stream, Pike used Flame Strike (5th) as one of her go-to combat spells. 4d6 each of Radiant and Fire damage in a 20ft AoE, but for animation they might have narrowed it. But I don't remember the animations in LoVM well enough to say if that's what she did.
@@Peter_Cordes Flame Strike is definitely what she used as she was arriving at the sun treee, the spell that carved the giant in half and killed the surrounding Undead.
It really helped honestly having a extra pair of eyes to spot things I was to close to at the time to see is really helpful and its a big game that I couldn't hope to have completely memorize so having everyone bring their knowledge and experience is just the best. Thank you so much for the great feedback.
11:04 Also it’s Ice Storm because this is a reference to a high-tension moment when Keyleth insisted on staying to help the townsfolk by casting Ice Storm. The animated show interestingly enough made the decision less… controversial than the original’s.
I kinda think Scanlan used bigbys imposing hand and not shield, but I could see it both ways. And you missed a prestidigitation from Gilmore when he cleans himself up for Vax😂
I know they said it would be a 12 episode run and every moment was pure gold, but I would have loved it even more if the animated series would continue.
@@AndrewJW But during the last watch party they said they didn't have any kind of timeline for a season two yet. 🤷♀So yes, theoretically there'll be one, but we don't know details.
both cone of cold and revivify are available to druids, although they were not at the time of the stream, this changed by the time the series started to be produced. I agree that they are probably ice storm and cure wounds. Another point is: Shield is not a bard spell and was never one of scanlan's magical secrets
When it comes to fluctuations of spells like when it seems more powerful than usual i usually chock that up to the damage die rolls, rolling really high doing more damage just makes any spell look more powerful
Something I noticed, Vax uses the Flame Arrows spell in the first episode on the first encounter with the dragon although it may be spiritual weapon/magical weapon casted by Pike
Anders could be a whisper College bard as he does seem to have Abilitys and it would fit narratively as whisper College bards have the 3rd level Ability Word of terror which he could be trying to use on Percival before getting shot. And the 14th level Ability Shadow lore that charms a creature something that he also could have been trying to do in that scene.
Interesting point the wiki doesn't have his subclass listed so I didn't delve to deep into but you could be right. Thank you for sharing its a very good possibility.
That fire-breathing feat by Scanlon was more like the wizard spell burning hands. One level lower than dragon's breath with the same 3d6 damage and hamstrung by the fire only weakness that potion displayed. I know because I'm currently playing a 7th level wizard in a 5e Eberron campaign and have both on my spell list. Also, not sure if this just a house rule for my DM's table but he's said that I can sacrifice a spell scroll instead of a spell slot if I'm unable to cast the spell otherwise, including having a teleport scroll in my back pocket as a quick evaluation method to get my entire 5 player party out of some fights. I'm thinking that Gilmore bartered his way into having a supply of a half dozen of those imprisonment scrolls, sacrifice one to store the spell in the mentioned glyph of warding, meaning all he'd need is any material components listed in the imprisonment spell.
Great point about the scroll it very possible for Gilmore to have a magic item like that to account for any spell he could need. Interesting point about the burning hands but the Scanbo episode was heavily pulled from the original stream which makes it the easiest one to figure out what spells are being used. I checked Episode 31 of the original stream to confirm and it is a Potion of Fire Breath which I think I called Dragon's Breath which is my bad. I use player slang sometimes when I should be using mechanical terms which is not helpful for the video. Thank you for the comment I hope I answered/cleared up my reasoning for the spell in the video. Also thank you for the insight into magic items I don't use scrolls often so I may have overlooked this.
The entrapment could be Resilient Sphere, though the sphere being made a different shape. Also, I think its worth mentioning that Druids now have Revivify as of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, but at the time of this arc in the campaign that book had not come out yet.
4:10 i thought it was thaumaturgy due to the wording in it of "You create an instantaneous sound that originates from a point of your choice within range, such as a rumble of thunder, the cry of a raven, or ominous whispers." range of 30ft
I doubt the glyph was for imprisonment, that'd be pretty overkill for some theives. It was probably something more akin to forcecage or resilient sphere.
I think we can actually conclude that Percy was using hex because you'll notice that people he shoots while his eyes are black like that take SIGNIFICANTLY more damage than normal with parts of their body exploding off of them from a single shot of the pepperbox that normally leave very normal bullet wounds.
Little late, but Revivify is actually a druid spell, it was added to their spell list in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, which is logical, given they get other revivification magic.
the spell keyleth casts that you said is daylight is actually Dawn as the daylight spell doesnt say that it produces sunlight for the purposes of vampire resistance, and dawn does say that, as for the range thats probably just an artistic license thing
love the vid and all the effort to create it, just one recommendation, do a couple takes. if you mix up your words its okay to record again. your statements are pretty broken up so it wouldn't be noticed if you gave it a couple tries.
If Anders cast a spell why did his tongue continue to jump around. Was that just narrative fun or was a magic item involved. Also could since he was talking about the Briarwoods giving him gifts could the armor actually be Golems made for him.
That was actually in the series, if you don't want spoilers stop reading here. . . . . . . . . . . I don't fully remember but I believe it's one of the whispered ones body parts. They also encounter the eye of the whispered one later in the campaign
@@AndrewJW The tongue was a completely original idea for the show, the Whispered One’s artifacts are his eye and hand. The tongue did act much the same as the eye did trying to escape Vox Machina.
@@FenDweller13 Well, his eye, his hand, at least 4 of his fiingers, a piece of his scalpe, either a foot or a toe, and a pies of chest skin....but not a head. never a head.
@@zachmartin5876 My best guess is Delilah enchanted his tongue in one way or another in order to increase his own magical abilities and it had the odd side effect of bringing the tongue itself to life.
Great list! I was very amused by you getting your Vex's and Vax's mixed up though. (Also, "There spells" should be "Their spells" Their is possessive. There is a location.)
Percy's demon eyes can only be Hex since he did commonly use that in the first campaign and when he did Orthaxs influence showed .ore prominently(until he was removed)
In order for a glyph of warding to store a level 9 spell (imprisonment), it would also need to be ninth level. And one can't cast 2 level 9 spells in a row without some sort of spell storage Its most likely wall of force; they are contained within a spherical floating indestructible containment spell.
9:42 I too originally thought that this spell could have been Revivify... but after a second thought maybe it was the Reincarnate spell? The spell's flavor says that the spell forms another body for the soul to inhabit... but taking into account that Cassandra's body was not badly injured other than a carotid severance leading to bleedout, maybe it was as simple as adding the cost component to the body to close the wound and then as a DM auto-selecting human as the race of the reincarnation, no fuss, no muss. Then again, Achim's razor, right? A simple Cure Wounds to make the moment even more dramatic, as you said!
16:02. Delilah attacks Vex, not Keyleth, with Finger of Death just like she does in the stream. The difference is, in the animated series, Keyleth jumps in the way to save Vex, in the stream, she doesn't.
I thought Delilah was a Warlock and that her casting Witch Bolt was actually her casting Eldritch Blast, but it looks like I was wrong... In the animated series, I think Witch Bolt and Eldritch Blast would have a very similar, practically indistinguishable, appearance... Unless the Warlock casting Eldritch Blast was a Celestial subclass, then I imagine that rather than their Eldritch Blast having a black lightning look to it, it would look white or light blue...
Except for the fact that eldritch blast is the equivalent of a bullet (cast, flys to target and hits) whereas witch bolt is a beam that attaches to the target (because you can just auto deal more damage on subsequent turns, as long as they stay within range)
@@OtakuMan05 I think they mean that eldritch blast will disappear after hitting the target (like a bullet), while witchbolt will continue to attack the target as long as concentration is maintained (so a continous beam)
I know im a little late to the party but i think pike casted heal at 1:25 not cure wounds. The way she was very drained after that indicates to me she used a very high level spell
Its total possible it's cool how there's some many good choices and seeing a spell animated can give us all kinds of great ideas for how to describe and image it in our home games. Thanks for the good call out you could be right.
I believe it was a healing word as he cast it from range and its a known spell on his spell list but there are many good suggestions out there if you disagree. Thank you for the Question.
Anybody can have eldritch blast using feats. Due to the frequency she uses it with it seems more likely that it's eldritch blast, but yes it kinda looks like it could be witch bolt
Are you talking about when she lit up the arrow for her? I think that was actually holy weapon, a spell that grants extra radiant damage on weapon attacks.
In Tasha’s, the Druid spell list was expended to include Revivify. While in-game was before Tasha’s, I’d still bet Keyleth cast it and not Cure Wounds in the show.
Yes, but he didn't pick up the spell until much later. After tiberius left the show because when tiberius was in the party he would frequently use counterspell
...Druids do get access to Revivify though as of Tasha's. they don't have Raise Dead, they get Reincarnation instead. ...*and* they have access to Cone of Cold as of the same book, though granted Tasha's wasn't available at the time.
As someone who has only seen the animated show, I'd like to make a note/question on the Briarwoods. Delilah seems to show multiple inclinations towards being a Warlock, but mechanically is closer to a wizard?
She's 100% Wizard, subclass necromancer. She's an acolyte of Vecna, but doesn't AFAIK gain her power from him. (I'm caught up on all 3 campaigns, and the one-shots).
In the campaign, she was just a high level wizard. She was a powerful wizard before she ever interacted with the Whispered One and the only major thing he actually gave her was the ability to brig back Sylas as a vampire after his death iirc
Ok...as a person who's played D&D for literal decades from 3.5 to pathfinder, to 5e, and even a little bit of 4th I have to say well done but for a few things. 1) I think the spell Keylith cast upon Cassandra was HEAL and not Cure wounds, a 6th level spell that is within her power to perform, and would explain the far more dramatic visuals. 2) Cone of Cold it IS available to Druids. 3) I believe the spell Gilmore most likely used with the Glyph of Warding was Forcecage, which can form a perfectly enclosed area...at least in previous edditions
Thank you so much I try to do my best with these video as I have only played 5th and a little bit of 3.5. having to look into multiple editions and multiple games even can be time consuming and its easy to over look things I'm unfamiliar with but thanks to awesome comments like yours really helps me learn more about the game and the show. Thank you for the helpful comment.
Very true but since they ported their game over from pathfinder I choose to list it as pathfinder but you are correct it is a 3.5e spell. Thank you for the comment I really appreciate it.
Based on what they had at the time of stream, druids did *not* have Revivify or Cone of Cold, as those spells were added in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, which was post campaign 1. It was in fact cure wounds and Ice Storm she cast. She wasn't actually dead in stream, on top of the fact if it were Revivify it would have taken a lot more to bring her back, due to Matt's rulings for revival spells. Also, the components are completely wrong, there was no diamond there. Although Cure Wounds doesn't have any component's, generally in the show they may have modified that for Keyleth's casting as she's not great with healing spells in the show. With Ice Storm, it was recreating the scene in which Keyleth managed to set a record for most damage dealt in a single turn, by casting Ice Storm. She hit *a lot* of undead with it dealing over 150 damage in a single cast.
Honestly she was the hardest one to figure out as a lot of what she did was artistically designed as vines and she did do quite a lot with them. Yes I would agree some of it was Plant Growth while other moments were examples of Grasping Vine, Entangle. Thank you for the question I totally agree with you Plant Growth is a good choice the only other option for the bridge I can think of is a artistically reskinned Move Earth possible but I'm not sure.
When this game was original played on stream the Druid Subclass Wildfire did not exist yet which meant Druid's did not have the ability to cast Revivify. Plus Keyleth is a Moon Druid so even if it did exist she still couldn't use Revivify. However this scene is heavy altered from the original as Cassandra never had her throat cut it was an illusion and Percy never saw it happen Vax was the one to run into the room. With some many changes to the scene I left this spell questioned in the video as they could have changed it give her Revivify for this moment since druids can now cast it. Sorry for any confusion a lot of people have ask about this statement but some of my guidelines for figuring out these spells was only material from when the stream happened. Thank you for the question hope I cleared this up for you.
Hand of God a simple breakfast should be a simple breakfast you can have anything after that but dammit like a few moments of peace come on now we’ve all played DND but just at least have that
If I recall it was some sort of vine that grab the boulder correct me if I'm wrong. The vine spells were hard to tell because their is a few spells that use vines in similar ways and with a person flavoring their spell description it makes it very hard to tell. Keyleth's vine spells were the hardest in the series to determine next was the random energy blasts done by Delilah so I left a lot of them out. If anyone from the community has a suggestion I would love to hear them cause their is a lot of info in both 5e and pathfinder to go over and their are a lot of experienced players out their that will see it from a different view then me and be able to figure it out easily. Sorry for not knowing the answer but I hope someone else from the community joins the comments and does know. Thank you for your question.
@@sadknight2826 Grasping Vine (4th) was one of Keyleth's signature spells in campaign 1 on the stream. RAW it can only target creatures and doesn't hold on after moving the target, but Matt sometimes allowed creative uses.
