Vox Machina Table-to-Screen Season 1 Reaction
Added 2024-09-03 20:00:05 +0000 UTCOur initial reaction to Vox Machina's Table-to-Screen adaptation: It was incredible to see the iconic moments from the livestream brought to life in the show! We've never seen such creativity and role-playing portrayed like this before. We ready for Season 2!! 🫨😍
What was your favorite Table to Screen moment?
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Milo Goodbarrel sounds dope af.
Meesh and Dee
2024-09-09 20:31:43 +0000 UTCThere's one more campaign video you should seriously consider watching, even if you don't react to it. Liam shot it as they played, when it was just a fun home game and the idea of streaming it online had never occurred to anybody. So they're just friends, goofing around and rolling dice. The characters are in a tower, on a platform lift, and the tower is about to collapse so - well, you'll see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-M5NH9PGi4
Andy Darley
2024-09-05 16:33:33 +0000 UTCAnd, like, nobody -- not even Matt -- can prepare four hours of dialogue every week. He's got general notes, but certainly not every detail planned. He's just that good.
Louis Wasserman
2024-09-04 23:12:58 +0000 UTCMatt has general notes of what he's expecting to happen, maybe even some speeches and bits of lines, but when players improvise something he doesn't expect, Matt has to improvise right back at them -- and he's ludicrously good at it.
Louis Wasserman
2024-09-04 22:56:20 +0000 UTCAnd since you seem to enjoy Percy and his VA a lot - a LOT of his one liners were improvised dialogue from the game. Your soul is forfeit. Your face was the one I saw when murder entered my heart. You are, at the moment, the luckiest person in Whitestone. Because your name is at the bottom of my list. You were the one I was least looking forward to.
cobaltbeau
2024-09-04 19:32:40 +0000 UTCThis is so much fun to watch! I hope you’re enjoying it too and I can’t wait for season 2/3!
BigBoat
2024-09-04 07:35:57 +0000 UTCA bit of info on how the game works: players will describe actions they'd like to take (like "I'd like to approach that guard", or "I'd like to climb that tree"). If the action they want isn't a guaranteed success, the DM might ask for a d20 (a 20 sided die, as opposed to the one you're likely most familiar with, a d6) and that roll is modified by the characters stats and skills. Vax, for example, is very skilled at lockpicking, and is more likely to succeed at opening a door than Scanlan would be, but Scanlan is extremely persuasive and would be able to charm information out of passersby (without needing to use magic). Combat itself is much more structured, but the long and short is that each character (ally or enemy) are placed in a turn order, and everyone takes their action (moving & most often casting a spell or attacking one or more times with a weapon) before proceeding to the next character.
cobaltbeau
2024-09-04 06:27:57 +0000 UTChttps://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules This should link to the updated rules. This will give you the basics of dnd.
Matthew Rudolph
2024-09-04 04:14:22 +0000 UTCWait wait wait, you're friends with Gina Darling? LFG! Loved this reaction
Bobby Gingerbeard
2024-09-03 22:52:46 +0000 UTCCritical Role is showing one of many ways of how to roleplay. They're actors, so they're used to speaking in-character and improvising. However, a lot of people who play aren't comfortable with that and just explain what their character does instead of acting it out. Both ways are perfectly valid. Having fun is what matters. As far as when dice are rolled, I've heard it described as "roll dice when the universe might say 'No'."
James Hardin
2024-09-03 22:20:47 +0000 UTCI think both of you will have fun playing! I got introduced to D&D because a coworker invited me to play. I reluctantly accepted the invitation to be polite, but I ended up having a blast! It took a few minutes for me to warm up to the idea of role-playing, and I thought it was so silly at first. But my coworker was a great narrator and actor, and soon enough, I was Milo Goodbarrel, a halfling monk investigating the robberies that were happening all over the city. After watching your reactions, I think you'd have fun playing off each other! To answer your question, yes, a DM will have very detailed notes of each character, monster, and setting. At the same time, the players may decide to go in a completely different direction, and the DM will have to make some stuff up on the fly. Also, many actions succeed or fail based on a roll of a 20-sided die (d20). It can determine whether your attack hits an enemy, if you rizz up a girl at the bar, or if you are able to sneak past a guard. You may have heard them exclaim, "I rolled a natural 20!" Rolling a 20 is an automatic success in whatever you're trying to do. Conversely, a natural 1 is an automatic failure. These are also known as a Critical Roll.
Tapiocca
2024-09-03 21:53:21 +0000 UTCYou would probably do fine after a few sessions of playing a game. It is a skill, and the Critical Role folks are all professional actors, writers, and directors, so they absolutely KILL it. Most of us aren't as proficient at that part. Or at least not as consistently.
Rusty Childers
2024-09-03 21:31:20 +0000 UTCI'm so excited for you to watch Season 2. It takes everything up a notch from a fabulous Season 1.
Rusty Childers
2024-09-03 21:27:21 +0000 UTC
