Quick Answers 55

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Your Tumblr blog has an archive, but can we get one for your main site?
Ask and you shall receive.

Do you have a list of all the deities mentioned in Critical Role, or the blessings each party member has received so far?
Yes and yes!

The deities of Exandria as named on the stream, as well as who is tied to them and what we know about them, can be found here. (This list only partially contains the deities listed in the campaign guide, as not all have been introduced yet.)

We also will be keeping Vox Machina’s blessings right here. (And on a similar vein, we still have what we know about the Vestiges acquired.)

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All Rolls Statistics, Episode 100 Update

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All Rolls Statistics, Episode 100 Update

Episode 100 makes a fine checkpoint to see how many total d20 rolls and crits we’re at in the series. Let’s start with what each member contributes to the d20 total, individually:

All Rolls

There have been 8987 player d20 rolls, including guest players, since the start of the stream. Of these, the current members of Vox Machina have contributed 8477 rolls. Vax leads the way here, with 1711 total d20 rolls over 100 episodes (20.2%), likely because he is constantly stealthing and checking for traps, not to mention his signature “dagger dagger dagger.” Grog’s Reckless Attacks have pushed him into second at 1587 (18.7%), and Vex is third at 1504 (17.7%). Pike and Tary trail largely because of a much lower number of episode appearances, and Keyleth and Scanlan tend to roll fewer d20s simply because most of their attacks tend to be spells that rely on saving throws rather than an attack roll. In addition, none of these characters are typically taking point on any dungeon-crawling.

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Maximum Damage Update

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Maximum Damage Update

Thanks to @rilaisseth for this art piece!

Now that we’ve hit 100 episodes and most everyone is at level 17, we figured it was time for an update of one of our favorite stats: Max Damages. As usual, this is the maximum damage each character can deal to a single target in a single turn, assuming they roll the highest number on every die and crit whenever possible. Using spells or effects cast in a previous turn is allowed, but we’re not taking environmental hazards (like lava or acid) or conditions (like storms) into account. We also assume that the target has no special vulnerabilities, and if there is a save, the target fails. For the sake of everyone’s sanity, we’re not allowing spells like Conjure Animals, because that gets game-breaking and complicated rather quickly. Otherwise, we follow Critical Role’s homebrewed spellcasting rules, which allows two spells to be cast in a turn, as long as one is 2nd level or lower (this doesn’t prevent the casting of a high level spell in a previous round to be used as a bonus action with another high level spell cast as an action). We’re including both Taryon and Scanlan here, but it’s possible that both characters have things that we don’t know about, especially since we’re not even close to confirming Scanlan’s full level 17 spell list (he potentially has access to every 9th level spell in the game right now, which is a little bit terrifying).

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Battle Royale 3 Stats Roundup

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Phillipp asks: I would be interested in a crosstable "damage done to"/"damage taken from" for the latest Battle Royal. Are you guys working on something like that?

We just did! You can find the full sheet here, but we’ve summarized some highlights below. Note that the damage on the sheet does not count any damage ignored due to resistances, but does include overkill damage when it was stated. This does include the damage Grog ignored via Relentless Rage, and the damage Percy took when he fell and failed his first death save, but not any damage that wasn’t explicitly stated (i.e. Grog’s finishing autocrits on Percy and Keyleth). It also does not include any healing.
 

  • There was a total of 1664 points of damage dealt out in the most recent Battle Royale by players, the environment, and the Raven’s Slumber.
  • Grog dealt nearly half this damage, at about 46%. 
  • Keyleth took a full quarter of the total damage, at about 25%. Grog was just behind her at 22%.
  • The lair dealt exactly 50 points of damage, or 3% of the full total. This was more than the damage dealt by Doty, Trinket, Grog’s goliath knight, and the Raven’s Slumber combined.
  • Trinket dealt no damage.
  • The Raven’s Slumber took the most damage dealt by a single player to a single target at 280 (about 17% of the total damage dealt). This also was the most damage dealt in a single round by a single player.
  • Taryon only dealt 77 points of damage to Grog. Percy and Keyleth both dealt more damage to him, at 82 and 126, respectively.
  • Grog dealt the most damage to Keyleth, at a whopping 195 points. Vex came in second at 93, over 100 points less.
  • Taryon’s little camping routine means that he dealt a relatively low portion of the damage at 173 points (10% of the total), but Grog still managed to deal just over 100 points of damage to him. He took a total of 110, 9 of those dealt to himself when he used the Bead of Force on himself.
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Media References and Puns of Episode 96: Family Matters

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Media References and Puns of Episode 96: Family Matters

Thanks to Chris Gutierrez (@bullyart07) for this art piece!

Ogden: Pike, you have been saved from a family line of terrible curses!

Ogden, you keep using that word. We do not think it means what you think it means.

Puns

  • (0:03:50) Marisha: I still want to make Sportsball, but you won’t let me! I want to make it with you!  Laura: Don’t say you want to make it with my husband.
  • (0:53:30) Vex: Was he kind of a dick?  Wilhand: A what?  Keyleth: Oh! A penis!
  • (2:21:25) Vex: ... some really terrible gods. Some good gods. Travis: Good god!
  • (2:40:02) Grog: Do you want to go see another cleric and see if you even need to exorcise or not?
  • (2:44:42) Grog: I do love probing.
  • (2:50:19) Keyleth: You don’t look shady.
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Media References and Puns of Liam's Quest: Full Circle

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When your inner child is brought to the forefront and is facing down the end of all things, there is only one thing you can do to power through: reference EVERYTHING. (Seriously, we caught 94 references this week.)

Puns

  • (1:27:05) Laura: There’s nothing metal?  Sam: Just Ashley.
  • (3:44:40) Liam, but it doesn’t say ‘Exit,’ you didn’t see it until now, it says ‘Come.’  Sam: *gasp* I come in my pants.
  • (3:50:04) Sam: Mad Matt Mercer.
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Fey Creatures

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Anonymous asked: I'm new to DnD. In regards to the lycans and pixies and other creatures of the Fey Wild, are they exclusive to the Fey Wild (i.e. they're not found in the Material Plane due to the core books) or is that part of the DM's choice, this case being Matt?

Fey creatures like satyrs, pixies, and hags are certainly more prolific in the their namesake plane, but that by no means excludes them from the Material Plane. Indeed, while Garmelie warned the party of the hag Wodenna’s hut, Trysta and Forsythia made deals with Tiberius and Vax respectively on the Material Plane. Given the “natural” disposition of fey creatures, it would not be unreasonable for more to be encountered in the wilds of Exandria, should the party find reason to travel out there.

Lycanthropes, on the other hand, can be found just as prolifically on the Material Plane as they can be found in its echoes (i.e., the Feywild and the Shadowfell). The curse of the lycan is by no means limited by plane. Many werebeasts integrate themselves in cities undetected, turning when it conveniences them if they’ve accepted the curse, or when the moon is full if they haven’t.

For more information on the Feywild, check out our article here, or the article Geek & Sundry posted here.

Pike's Subrace

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didthething asked: Do we know Pike's subrace? In the recent livestream on teamcoco's twitch channel, at around 22:40 on the vod, Ashley mentions how the Trickfoot family is descended from Deep Gnomes.

You are correct! She’s stated in both the intro videos from early in the show’s history and in multiple interviews that Pike is a Deep Gnome. We also know that she speaks Undercommon, which would be featured with her subrace. The full 5e stats can be found in the Elemental Evil companion guide (p5); the Pathfinder version can be found here. (Pike might not have ashy skin, but the other traits still apply!)