Spell Cards

Anonymous asked: Where did you find the spell cards at the end of the character sheets?

They were created in Photoshop for us by the illustrious @fmacanadaguy.

Feats

Anonymous asked: Could we get a list of the feats that we know Vox Machina has taken?

• Grog: Great Weapon Master, Tough, Mobile
• Scanlan: War Caster, Tough
• Percy: Sharpshooter, Magic Initiate
• Keyleth: Skilled
• Vex’ahlia: Observant
• Vax’ildan: Dual Wield, Lucky, Sharpshooter

Crit Role Stats does Science: Pencil Edition

Last night, the CRS team watched the new Loot Crate video. After commenting on how much forearm strength would be required to hang on to a mechanical gryphon, the discussion eventually led to one Travis Willingham and how much strength one would need to apply to bend a mechanical pencil.

After failing to bend our own pencils in this manner, the conversation eventually led to the following setup:

To test, we got a bucket, a bunch of weights, a gap between tables, and a handful of various wooden and mechanical pencils of various brands. Viewers of the Periscope witnessed as I then balanced the bucket over each of these pencils with various weights (starting WAY too high at first) until we found that approximately 18 lbs adequately bent (not snapped) a BIC mechanical pencil (the same brand we believe Travis used).

After the conclusion of the test, we realized that we had calculated torque (18 pound-inches) instead force. With each pencil 6 inches long, the gap between tables at 3.25 inches, and the weights placed at exactly halfway (1.625 inches), we calculate that the bucket of weights exerted approximately 11 lbs of force, or about 49 Newtons. It’s likely that he generated a little bit more than that, too, in order to do so with one hand so quickly. (Personal experience says that that is still really hard to do, even driven from the anger of beard checks.)

Taliesin Nat 20s

Anonymous asked: Could you find the number of times Taliesin Jaffe has rolled a natural 20 since the beginning of the new year as opposed to the number of times he has rolled a Nat20 before that? Thank you, love your blog to bits!

Sure, that’s easy enough!

Taliesin rolled 38 natural 20s up through the Winter’s Crest episode. Since the new year, he’s rolled 6 more in the regular Thursday games, plus one as the goblin monk Mezek when he decapitated that poor bard, for a total of 7.

First Broken Glass

Anonymous asked: In the 50th episode, when Laura corrects Matt about Cornelius's (sp?) chopping of firewood, Taliesin mentions that it is the "first one" in 50 episodes. Was he referring perhaps to her first time correcting Matt, or the first time they'd caught Matt in a contradiction, or something else I can't think of?

Taliesin said that in reference to the glass that Liam knocked over (1:38:23) and broke after cracking up at Laura calling out Matt.

Languages of Vox Machina

the-pseudo-alice asked: What languages do the PC's speak?

You can find all the languages each character speaks on their character sheets. However, this is a fairly common question, so, for reference:

• Vax’ildan: Common, Elvish, Abyssal, Thieves Cant
• Vex’ahlia: Common, Undercommon, Elvish, Abyssal, Draconic, Thieves Cant
• Pike: Common, Undercommon, Gnomish, Dwarvish
• Grog: Common, Giant, Dwarvish
• Scanlan: Common, Gnomish
• Keyleth: Common, Elvish, Sylvan, Primordial, Druidic
• Percy: Common, Elvish, Celestial
• Tiberius: Common, Draconic, Dwarvish

Skirmisher Stealth

Anonymous asked: does vex have two lvls in rogue because shes been using a bonus action to hide

Still just one level, so she doesn’t have Cunning Action yet. She’s been using Skirmisher Stealth, the ability she learned from Seeker Asum before the trek to Whitestone: If you are hidden at the beginning of your turn, you may use a bonus action at the end of your turn to hide.

Pubs of Tal'Dorei

Anonymous asked: what pub/bars have vox machina visited im looking into making hanging signs from the store fronts for them

Cheers!

Emon:

• The Laughing Lamia
• Diamond Nest Tavern
• Howarth’s (Textiles and Beer)

Vasselheim:

• Bellows’ Respite Inn (Pub next to the Crucible)
• Midnight Breath Pub (Dagon the Dragon-seer’s pub)
• Velvet Cabaret (High-end club)

Kraghammer:

• Iron Hearth Tavern
• Firebrook Inn (where Kima stayed)

Whitestone:

• The Journey’s End

Stillben:

• The Sunset Stride

Media References and Puns of Episode 50: Best Laid Plans...

Can we get art of the Dread Pirate Stonejaw Strongjaw storming the gate of Westruun?

Media References:

• (0:24:43) Travis: Would you like to become young again? […] Now a warning.  NOW a warning? (Death Becomes Her) Thanks to an anonymous critter!
• (1:38:40) Marisha: It’s like that scene in the second Matrix! (The Matrix Reloaded)
• (2:28:27) Liam: That’s like George Foreman. […] This is George Foreman, this is also George Foreman, these three guys are also George Foreman
• (2:29:59) Sam: I would be the Dwead Piwate Wobewts!   Matt: There will be no suvivows!  Laura: Anybody want a peanut? (The Princess Bride)  
• (2:30:57) Liam: Maybe they’d think it was perspective f***ery like in Lord of the Rings.
• (2:36:31) Sam: I can make the illusion of a head talking, “Wizard of Oz” style. Thanks to @IsYitzack!
• (2:47:28) Matt: Journey to the Center of Westruun. (Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne) 

Puns:

• (1:04:54) Grog: Yeah, I’m not Craven/cravin’ bacon any more!