The Legend of Vox Machina (Spoilers)
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Ryujin
Legend
"Greatest sage"
Ondath
Hero
As someone who watched the entirety of the Chroma Conclave arc, I have to say that Season 2 got me really excited. They're clearly more comfortable deviating from the streamed game when it serves the story. I was rather tepid on the season because I thought I knew all the upcoming twists and turns, but the changes mean the season can surprise me as well!
Now that they also announced a Mighty Nein series, I wonder if they'll bother adapting C1's final arc, or if they'll switch to MN immediately for Season 3.
Spicing the Kamalijori encounter with the Umbrasyl ambush was a nice twist, and now I have no idea what's going to happen next as none of this happened in the game! Though I have to admit, when it's all laid out like this, I feel like the stream's Chroma Conclave arc had too many balls to juggle:
- The MacGuffin fetch quest of getting all the Vestiges
- The fights with each dragon
- Grog's tribe
- Grog's secrecy with Craven Edge and his duel with Earthbreaker Groon
- Ripley
- Scanlan's continuous neglect by others (I'm sure that won't lead anywhere interesting...)
Now that they also announced a Mighty Nein series, I wonder if they'll bother adapting C1's final arc, or if they'll switch to MN immediately for Season 3.
MarkB
Legend
I see no reason why they wouldn't continue both series concurrently.
Ondath
Hero
Ah, so the Conclave is spread over 2 seasons? That makes so much more sense.
Ryujin
Legend
Kind of struck me as a rebranded Beholder, but I haven't watched the stream.
Aeson
I learned nerd for this.
I wanted to say roper, but they don't turn things to stone.
Ondath
Hero
In the original campaign, they fought a Beholder at that point, and the fishmen were kuo-toa. Critical Role has been very careful to avoid using D&D-isms in their show to keep their IP separate.
Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
They called the fishman in the lake "adaro." I think they are from Pathfinder but Open Game Content.
Edited to add: Adaro is from myths and legends around the Solomon Islands.
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Hussar
Legend
Y’know I kinda wondered about that. After all, nothing in the stream references Dnd at all I think. Obviously deliberately.
Ondath
Hero
Yup. I noticed this in the first season when they completely removed any traces of Vancian casting (Pike occasionally says she's tapped out at narratively inopportune moments, but that's it).
Clearly it was a prescient move.
Named an "Onlooker" according to the Watch Party Q&A
Whizbang Dustyboots
100% that gnome
Honestly, these might be the most impressive dragons on TV or in movies to date. Only Smaug can really play in their league.
Ryujin
Legend
I was expecting Vicious Mockery, or the like, so really enjoyed the way they went.That sphinx. OMG! I may have popped a tent. "Wound me." Holy moly. The whole thing was beautifully rendered. I need a miniature of the dragons and the sphinxes. There was some epic level bardness going on in that scene.
Whizbang Dustyboots
100% that gnome
Yeah, I didn't have the heart to tell my wife that these sphinxes were way cooler than the D&D default ones.That sphinx. OMG! I may have popped a tent. "Wound me." Holy moly. The whole thing was beautifully rendered. I need a miniature of the dragons and the sphinxes. There was some epic level bardness going on in that scene.
Benjamin Olson
Hero
Well having Mythcarver fall into enemy claws, and being the MacGuffin of MacGuffin-finding, was a major narrative improvement, given that it's the vestige which, in the stream, became mostly irrelevant because Scanlan's player was just not really interested in using a sword.
I don't particularly remember what all the vestiges were, because of course each player got one, but the Bow and the Gauntlets are the (remaining) ones where I actually remember the plot arcs involved in questing after them, so it seems like a good choice to highlight those, if they are paring down the MacGuffin list.
They seem to have already folded the abilities of Whisper the teleporting dagger into Vax's other, far more story-important vestige, which makes a lot of story sense.
I don't particularly remember what all the vestiges were, because of course each player got one, but the Bow and the Gauntlets are the (remaining) ones where I actually remember the plot arcs involved in questing after them, so it seems like a good choice to highlight those, if they are paring down the MacGuffin list.
They seem to have already folded the abilities of Whisper the teleporting dagger into Vax's other, far more story-important vestige, which makes a lot of story sense.
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