The Legend of Vox Machina (Spoilers)

[Stalker0]

So watched the first three epsiodes. I've never watched critical role, so really don't know anything about the crew, so took this as a complete newbie.

I liked it, decent animation, dragon fight was solid, I'm liking Percy's characterization in the third episode, I'm eager for more!

 

[Vael]

Also a newcomer, couldn't get into CR streams, but quite enjoyed the show

 

[Aeson]

I watched the first one. Too much . Do find the characters interesting. David Tennant's over the top Scottish accent was amusing. Solid voice work all around. The druid's reaction to the dragon was different. Was it dragon fear or a characteristic? It's an in game thing, but in games I've been in it was rarely used.

Questions:
The bard and druid couldn't attempt to heal the boy? What kind of cleric can't do a blessing?

What was the bartender? A werebull? A female voice but a masculine build?

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

I watched the first one. Too much . Do find the characters interesting. David Tennant's over the top Scottish accent was amusing. Solid voice work all around. The druid's reaction to the dragon was different. Was it dragon fear or a characteristic? It's an in game thing, but in games I've been in it was rarely used.

Questions:
The bard and druid couldn't attempt to heal the boy? What kind of cleric can't do a blessing?

What was the bartender? A werebull? A female voice but a masculine build?

Looking Pike up on the wiki, I'm going to guess the cleric that can't do a blessing bit is partly because she's more of a battle cleric (looking at her character sheet on critrolestats.com even shows her background as Sailor). As I write this, I think about the typical spells the players I know ready, and I don't think a long-term blessing for a house is on there.

And as far as Scanlan and Keyleth not being able to heal the boy - at the table, I'm sure mechanically they could have, but for a narrative reason you need the boy to die to really put a personal cost on a bunch of mercs who don't really like each other and pull themselves together

 

[Aeson]

This is a retelling of one of their games? I'm not that knowledgeable of Critical Role and thought it might be original story for the anime.

 

[MarkB]

And as far as Scanlan and Keyleth not being able to heal the boy - at the table, I'm sure mechanically they could have, but for a narrative reason you need the boy to die to really put a personal cost on a bunch of mercs who don't really like each other and pull themselves together

It's also entirely possible that neither Vex nor Scanlan have actually learned healing spells.

EDIT: Keyleth not so much, but she might not have memorised them, or could easily also have been tapped for spell slots.

 

[MarkB]

This is a retelling of one of their games? I'm not that knowledgeable of Critical Role and thought it might be original story for the anime.

I believe episodes 1 and 2 are an original story. Episode 3 onwards are one of the main plot arcs from the first Critical Role tabletop campaign.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

I think one thing that works great for this series is... someone pointed out how good the voice acting is. The players in the campaign are voice actors professionally - it's mindboggling when you look them up on IMDB and see what all they've been in, either as actors or as voice actors. I think that works because they professionally know how to play the characters, and since they did about 440 hours on Campaign 1 as those characters, they really have a grasp of who they are.

 

[Vael]

I think I'd expect rule of drama to supercede what they may or may not have on their character sheets

 

[billd91]

This is a retelling of one of their games? I'm not that knowledgeable of Critical Role and thought it might be original story for the anime.

It’s an adaptation of the original story - so some stuff will be given more emphasis, others downplayed, links between themes adjusted for the different storytelling medium, etc. But the general gist and characterizations will be preserved.
The first two episodes cover events before they started playing on the web/podcast.