Villains Gallery: Underdark and Trial of the Take

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Villains Gallery: Underdark and Trial of the Take

Thanks to @brinmataujall for this art piece!

We had an anonymous critter request a while back for us to create a list of villains and information about their intentions and deeds. There have been a lot of big bads over the course of 99 episodes, so many that we can't do them justice in one post. We're breaking them up by story arc, starting with the Underdark and Trial of the Take villains.

Underdark

Duergar General

  • Duergar fighter
  • Led troops at the duergar warcamp
  • Wielded the Firebrand Warhammer
    • Taken after his death by Grog
  • Killed by Clarota

King Murghol

  • Duergar fighter
  • Ruler of the duergar- married to Queen Ulara
  • Served K’varn the Mad
  • Captured and tortured Kima of Vord
  • Killed by Scanlan in his own throne room

Queen Ulara

  • Duergar arcane caster
  • Ruler of the duergar- married to King Murghol
  • Served K’varn the Mad
  • Captured and tortured Kima of Vord
  • Escaped the throne room with Grog, was eventually caught by VM
  • Banished by Scanlan before returning to be interrogated, killed by K’varn the Mad in the course of this interrogation
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Monster Analysis: Black Pudding and Hook Horrors

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Monster Analysis: Black Pudding and Hook Horrors

In our attempt to finally catch up on analyzing all encounters in the history of the show, today we’re going to roll back to when the party was level 9!

Black Pudding

  • First Appearance: 05 The Trick About Falling
  • Armor Class 7
  • Speed 20 ft, climb 20 ft
  • Blindsight 60 ft, Passive 11
  • Immune to acid, cold, lightning, and slashing damage
  • Reaction: splits into two with half health if receives slashing or lightning damage
  • Immune to blind, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, fright, and prone
  • Suggested Average, Max HP: 85, 130
  • 360 damage received across all puddings

The chatroom selected selected the ooze as one of several creatures presented by Matt to throw at the party. Black puddings are the most corrosive and dangerous of the ooze family. Like all oozes, they hunt for organic meals with regard for their appetite over their safety. The ooze in this case appears to have had some part of K'Varn's experiments. The poor ogres charged with transporting it were merely catalysts for this battle, allowing the party to "open Pandora's box."

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Character Causes Battle

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Pyrot3ch-nick asked: How many times has VM gone into combat due to one or two characters’ actions?

To answer that, we’ll have to be a little myopic. Often Vox Machina’s intention was to battle in the first place, but it was one or two characters’ actions that set the battle in motion. Updated to Episode 94.

Total: 21

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Vax and Grog’s Pranks

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“He started it!” “AND I’M GOING TO FINISH IT.” “Nuh uh!” “Uh huh!” 

Grog pranks Vax: 7
Vax pranks Grog: 11

Thanks to agent-of-chaotic-order, @BabbaForrest, @EBalensuela, @GraphixDave, holpike, i-encourage-violence, icecream-s-coops, and @SilentEnGee for their help compiling this list!

Updated through Episode 61.

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Sibling Rivalry

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Anonymous asked: How many times have Laura and Liam smacked, hit, or shoved each other on the stream?

Thanks to @BabbaForrest, @EBalensuela, Henry Mills, holpike, i-encourage-violence, icecream-s-coops, @jeritchie3, and @SilentEnGee for their help compiling this list!

Updated through Episode 60.

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Quick Answers 13

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I’ve heard Pike’s infamous mic bump during the episode “Denouement” mentioned multiple times. When exactly did this happen?

Ep35, p2. 0:36:10

Wondering how stats were generated for the party? Was it “roll 4d6 drop 1, assign numbers” or something? I’m getting a 5e group together and am curious; it’s sometimes hard to get decent stats out of some of the roll methods. Thanks!

Matt confirmed on Reddit that they roll 4d6, drop 1, arrange, and reroll them all if they don’t add up to at least 70.

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Percy the Tinkerer

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Anonymous asked: Is there a list of all the items Percy has crafted? Stuff like his weapons, the various arrows to Vex, etc.?

There is now!

  • Ammo for Bad News, Pepperbox, and Pistol (Various)
  • Arrows for Vex:
    • Trapping (Ep04, 1:07:38)
    • Exploding Arrows (Ep05, 1:17:43; Ep15, 0:53:03, 0:53:21)
    • Grappling Hook (Ep15, 0:45:12)
    • Exploding Arrow* (Ep15, 0:53:30)
    • Parchment Delivery Arrow? (Ep28, 2:52:22)
    • Siege (Ep45, 1:00:49)
  • Frag Grenade (Ep18, 0:16:19)
  • Diplomacy Glove (Ep24, 2:39:15)
  • Smoke Bomb? (Ep27, 1:56:50)
  • Gunpowder-treated parchment (Ep28, 2:18:20)
  • Hand Mortar Launcher Attachment:
    • Attached to Pistol (Ep37, 0:15:21)
    • Removed (Ep39, 3:02:12)
    • Attached to Boot (Ep42, 3:20:08)
  • Infuser-like object (Ep48, 1:38:15)
  • Tether for the broom (Ep50, 1:11:02)
  • Broom Seat Prototype (Ep50, 2:12:00)

In-Party Conflict

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Anonymous Asked: I'm kind of curious if you guys know how many times the members of Vox Machina have attacked each other intentionally - like for example Scanlan punching Percy in the stockade, or Grog attacking Percy for the skull?

For the purposes of this answer, we aren’t including attacks that are intended for other creatures-like Area of Effect spells where a party member wasn’t the target- or if the damage dealt to a party member was unintentional.

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Pike Stealth

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Anonymous asked: Could you please give us a list of all the times that pike rolled for stealth. With and without Pass Without a Trace.

Here you go!  In the future, you can go to our All Rolls table to look up roll-related questions and get your answers a little quicker. Updated to Episode 49.

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Monster Analysis: Ogres

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  • First Appearance: 01 Arrival in Kraghammer
  • Armor Class 11
  • Speed 40 ft
  • Darkvision 60 ft
  • Average, Max HP: 59, 91

Ogres are pretty dumb. Their greed and tribe-like behavior can be used to convinced to fight with other monsters, from goblins, orcs, and giants (the last who ogres basically worship). However, someone who may consider themself especially clever would be wise to not to overplay their hand confusing an ogre, as ogres are also prone to lose their temper with the slightest provocation.

Funny enough, over the course of Critical Role, ogres have been shown to be fodder for bigger and badder things, particularly in the Underdark. There’s always a bigger fish, right?

  • Ep01 (2:24:34) Vox Machina quickly dispatched two ogres as they were fleeing for the lives from the Naga abomination. 
  • Ep03 (1:52:08) One ogre joined the trolls over the edge of the cliff, shortly thereafter becoming an aboleth snack. 
  • Ep05 (1:53:47) Two ogres, transporting a contained Black Pudding, are taken down hard by the party, shortly before their cargo makes its presence known.
  • Ep18 (1:46:17) The half-ogre is first creatures taken down of the orc band (by a maniacal, critting-like-crazy pajama-flap Percy). This is followed by the orcs stating they would not care to face Rimefang. Vox Machina does not give them the option, anyway.

Now, if only if I could get Smash Mouth out of my head after writing this…

Critmas Episodes

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anonymous asks: Hi, quick question, what episodes are critmas episodes and at what time do they start?

According to our Running Times table, Critmases occurred on:

On a related note, we’re quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of Critical Role, as well as the nearest Critmas to it. We’re attempting to catalogue as many gifts as we can before that happens, but, it’s a sizable project in so short a time. If you’d like to volunteer to log through an episode of Critmas (or more!), shoot us an ask or an email, and we’ll set you up. Thanks!

Rat Queens Mentions

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@Marisha_Ray asks: I unabashedly need a favor from @CritRoleStats: How many times have we mentioned Rat Queens on #CriticalRole? You will forever have my <3

You’ve got ours, Marisha!  Critters, if you haven’t checked out Rat Queens yet, get on it.

She also asked using CRStats Rule 2:

Mighty @critrolestats,
Reveal our redundancies.
We’re Rat Queens obsessed.

05 The Trick About Falling

  • (0:15:26) Ashley wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

17 Hubris

  • (0:06:40) Laura wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

22 AraMente to Pyrah

  • (0:44:00) Ashley wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

24 The Feast

  • (0:03:42) Liam wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode.

30 Stoke the Flames

  • (0:04:44) Laura: We’re dressed as Rat Queens.  Marisha: We’re Rat Queens, I’m Violet.  Laura: I’m Hannah.  You should check it out, it’s an awesome comic book.  I’m conjuring up a little *flips bird* f*** you.  Marisha: And, what does Violet say? We’re going to put the kickass back in team. Yeah. Rat Queens!

33 Reunions

  • (p1. 0:02:33) Liam: We got a big, fat care package from Kurtis Wiebe he’s the writer of Rat Queens (Laura: YEAHHHHHHHHH!), so we have a collected volume…some t-shirts…obviously we love some Rat Queens.

42 Dangerous Dealings

  • (0:02:44) Liam: This is an impromptu announcement. Kurtis Wiebe just announced on the twitters-Kurtis Wiebe is the writer for the comic book Rat Queens.  Sam: Woo hoo!  Laura: Amazing!  Liam: We all are addicted to it. He works with Tess Fowler, who’s the artist right now, and, basically, they’re outfit and our outfit are in love. And, Kurtis kind of announced on twitter today that he’s going to be shoving Vox Machina in there some way, some how.

Special Q&A

  • Marisha wears a Rat Queens shirt throughout the episode