Matt Mercer Builds Vox Machina In Deadfire

[Music] hello there my name is Matthew Mercer I am the dungeon master critical role I'm a voice actor in video games in places such as that and like the game were playing today I don't know I'm doing this accent because why not so yeah welcome this is we're taking our into this as since the game has released there been a few questions about the creation of box machina so for those of you who don't know pillars of eternity or in pillars of eternity to a fantastic series of ice master isometric RPGs for PC and the those revenues coming out later this year for console as well there are wonderful sweeping stories some of my favorites of mountain in recent years and I've had the pleasure of voicing two of the characters in the game both add arendelle off both very dear to me but we were super excited when not only did obsidian reach out to want to cast the rest of our group of voice actors who play a critical role with me but also to have an opportunity for us to voice our characters from the first campaign and critical role and have that as a free DLC for the game so you yourself can recreate Vox machina in pillars of eternity too to play alongside you through all you crazy adventures so because of that some folks the community have asked either they played the game or they haven't played yet and are curious how do you actually make them in the game how how are easier how hard is it well let's go ahead and show you I'm gonna go ahead and give my interpretations of the characters customization and such and play through the silliness of what it would mean to to bring them into your own adventure here in the dead fire so I have a nondescript random character here that was kind of my lead character once you play through a bit of the game's opening narrative and it takes you a while to get to your first real town but once you get to a town that has an inn or a tavern of some kind you can begin to recruit adventurers so in the game you meet people that are part of the story that are essentially story characters that have their own intertwining quest lines and quippy dialogue and reactions to your main character in the choices they make they may stay or leave or have confrontation and those like the characters like a dare and a lot that I voice in the game but you can create any adventure and custom customize them to your heart's content by going to these ends and hiring an adventurer recruiting them so for an example I'll go ahead take my guy over here to the bar talk to this fella still kicking hey I am still picking at B you can say here let me see what you have bring you to the various choices he has which includes purchasing from his inventory of items or renting beds for the evening he currently does any rooms for rent it looks like here but right here this tab you see says recruit adventurers and here you can recruit them of any level up to one level below your main characters so for this save in particular provided by the wonderful folks obsidian it is a third level adventure meaning that you can only really summon a second level or lower adventure in my home game in which I'm max level you can hire an adventurer of level 19 or lowest 19 characters level 20 because I've played way too much of the game so that's kind of the scale as you play through the game so you can still recruit an adventurer much later in the game and they'd still be pretty close to the power level to be useful once they jump into your party so you can get bucks machina your party as early or as late as you want so for an example here we'll go ahead and recruit one of these guys here hire at level 2 for 500 copper and now I get to choose let me see what would be a good a good starting member of the team let's go ahead let's start with keyless why not so we'll go with female here I get to choose from different race choices here you have the the I'm not how Alma who were the more and of island-based race that dominate a lot of the that did fire in this game you have the dwarves elfs God likes which are crazy awesome looking humans and Orleans tiny little Orleans for kilts we'll go and start with an elf and looking the different of you have pale elf or wood elf I think wood elf is definitely much more of a visual style for keyless and all these have their various bonuses to statistics but we're not gonna pay attention to min maxing what is the best character more just the most themed matically correct for the purposes of making box machina you can totally customize them in the game to make them as powerful as you want to you can make an amazing Kela that is instead of giant barbarian if you want to you can make a grog that is a epic spell caster but for today we're gonna go in themed with the characters and do the best we can to kind of recreate elements of them so we'll choose that we'll go single class since that was the way keyless went and oh look at that they have a druids druids have both spells ending and transform enemies it's much like in D&D which makes it a pretty easy transition there we'll go next on that and there are various choices you can make there's the animist who they're most common when they have no real penalties or bonuses they do get some levels all the different choices give them basic spells that they have their disposal Oh to each spell level which is what's listed their fury which means they're more of a wild spirit of nature more bonuses in animal form they can make fury shape-shift into a storm blight which means they can become elementals which is kind of kill us s there's left giver which is more of the healer and there's the shifter where they can switch to any of the shape-shifting animals more of a shape-shifting focused character well since she was circle of the moon we'll go ahead and go with that and then you pick one of her initial abilities here we'll say dancing bolts since you like to call lightning so much more of a lightning based ability there's tanglefoot which more of an entangled pen bility or [Music] nature's vigor is a healing but we'll go for this will say go sunbeams and she used that quite a few times in the campaign why not then you can put your points wherever you'd like to now the statistics in this game don't correlate directly to D and E so don't feel like you're you have to adhere to what matches the D&D spread like for druids in this there's no wisdom looks like intellect and resolve our gold star the most useful for the juried class so if you still want gonna be as useful in the game you go ahead want to pump up that inflect and resolve somewhat well put him up to there we'll put a couple in might why not if you don't think she's very dexterous per se you could actually remove points to put it into other things I'll go with that so we'll put that is just a basic spread for now moving on next you choose worships from given the fact that she's more of a natural based you know a Shari druid let's go ahead and say the living lands why not for its diversity of plant and animal life weather is unpredictable ecosystems very sure well going back gives an additional might to and she would be lets say and explores she's in the process of going through her autumn enter got a work out fine she's weapons available magical and woman she's war uh we got that if we've got corpse temple say quarter staff aboard out that's a club there well there we got to headed there we go that's quarter staff will take that and the hell of it we'll just give her a rag because it's range then it's fun now we get to pick the portrait so scrolling down if you've gotten the game and you've downloaded the vox machina portraits set here you'll be able to find her down towards the bottom there we go good old Kela looking somewhat shy as per the usual unsure of her decisions in the weight of the future voice of the tent of The Tempest responsibilities weighing upon her we get to move to the customization of the colors so cloth color Sears teams sends me more greens so we'll go she kind of like the dark green of the robe she's currently wearing we can go with either a lighter green for the scarf or the secondary color there if you want to stay kind of in with her early healeth outfit or if he wanted to go for a later version her voiced The Tempest with more of the darker Reds and Auburn and orange almost a autumn look you can go with that they're more an orangish clothes there but let's go green with this why not we'll go with the old school old school Kela sure that'll work skin tone you can go through a variation here she's she lives up in the mountains with her trying to be a shower I'd say Chicago has a little more skin torte in there we'll put that to just match the portrait right there and then the hair color see as red as we can get on this one will give a there we go like a nice nice deeper red tint and then as far as eyes go I think she's got green eyes put that air head wise there are multiple faces to pick from for keyless I think that one might be the most accurate to that and then we get to choose her hair now as far as the hairstyles go let's see what would be matching the most to early Kela this she hasn't quite cut her hair yet that could be doable I don't want to go a little longer especially in those early points so we'll stick as far as the longer hair custom options go I'll go with that now you can choose the voice pack so there you go so now whenever you play through the game at certain points and the characters are given commands or when combat gets dangerous or they complete combat or kill a creature there are these props and now all your characters prompts will be Kela this voice once that's chosen go for the pose then we have the average the heroic the hunched creep you pose a little roguish a little sassy little stoic or the sullen or as I call the VAX pose we'll get to that later I'll say for her average she's you know unsure of herself but not hunched unsure of herself so we'll just go with an average for her so now we'll give her cute now what I do Matt you're dumb figure I mess something up out of the gate that's what I do that's okay it's easy enough to fix killeth next there we go there's our druid made boom and because she's level two we get to level or up which is pretty fun so now we get to choose her active skills well knowing Kela let's give her a point in Tet alchemy she knows them plants she's definitely not necessarily the most athletic nor the mechanics or sleight-of-hand passive skills not streetwise by any means definitely not intimidate others personal insight that seems to fit her territory and then we get to choose another ability here so this how the ability tree is working the game at so you level up every two levels from the casters you get to choose another level of spells so see nine levels of spells so don't can even get that until you hit nineteenth level which it says right there and then every level you get usually an ability to put into that section and if you unlock a new tier I recall you get to spend two points but you can spend either an abilities or passive abilities which can give you benefits so as you level up Keela if you can buff up her creature forms by giving her a wild strike shock or wild strike burn which actually is in canon with our first campaign because she had taken the ash orb and given herself fire bonuses to her melee attacks in her animal form so you can even customize that aspect of it which I think it's pretty cool so for now we'll just go go dancing bolts why not lighting is fun and with that we have a second level healeth to it right there ready to go stop talking I'm trying to show off the Cure we just made Oh taverns they're noisy alright well that's our keyless let's go ahead and go to crude adventure a second level adventure be a fun one now let's go let's go Scanlan yeah let's go Orlan here now I first look the Orleans which are the tinier races of the game you're like oh it's a furry creature there are some ways you can offset the visual and thankfully when they're small enough on the screen you don't really notice if you do the right build at least for what I have found in my playthrough so go ahead and pick the art though or limiting the two you have the wild Orlan which is very furry or the hearth Orlin I kind of prefer the hearth because the it's a little smoother it's a little easier to make it pass for a more humanoid gnome like entity so with that Verna goes single class just like he did and let us say chanter which is essentially the bard type class in the pillars of eternity universe gives them more skills and knowledge ideas you see over here as well as people to use phrases and chants as a way to alter the battle their support kind of crowd control class really different weird and a lot of fun they actually you build up chants and you can construct phrases that when you build up enough you can spend them on new abilities it's it's pretty cool I haven't quite seen a class work like this in any other RPG which is fun so we've got the no subclass you've got the beckoner which is they can summon invocations can summon twice the number of creatures more a summoner type in that quite Scanlan's deal the scald which is more of a combat critically weapon based one or the Troubadour which it's phrases linger for increased time period which is good it's as they gain brisk recitation modal that increases the rate that there were phrases elapsed whatever who's the linger the game volume volume it down a little bit oh yeah we can do that gotcha good point to that let me go ahead and pull up here we go no worries I see if I can America T y'all come right back to this actually so I can get to the menu here and change the audio for you guys thanks for the heads up on that so we'll go to sound music volume lowers voice volume there we go boys volume is already at max so I just have to increase the input on that but the music volume is much lower than it was before easy enough still kicking a guy wants more slim pickings until this all right let's reroute this hello Mel olan olan single flies chanter alright here we are so may the Troubadour I think just going no subclass for him just straight straight kind of barred if you will I think works well and has never here it's like a to choose the invitations these are the different things that he continues to or I believe these are the ones that can be put here something in effect you'll see what I mean here in a second well so thrice she was wrong than thrice just the Avengers that sounds like fun and then for phrases dull the edge blonde at the point choose those two there now here we have points left you go and put intellect to resolve is this clever fella put some resolve scanner shoots gallon is pretty hearty not very perceptive he took a toughness feat in the game so we'll go with that sure him we'll go ahead and put him will say okay Leah seems to matter cool right colonists dissident drifter mercenary merchant slave let's go with our case now as far as his weapons go since he's a chanter it's generally not gonna be right in the fray and unless you wanted to take the sculpt style so I'd probably give him more of a wand to use which he needs to be befitting of Scanlan and since at one point he did use a blade I'll go ahead and give him a standard long sword a sword or half sword there we go now we'll go ahead and choose the Scanlon portrait which is a little ways up there you go look at that handsome devil and some [ __ ] all right so we'll go from there two colors primary colors oh we gotta go there we go got some some vibrant colors there goats like the earlier designs as though he's have generally been kind of purples and Pink's early then it's fine for his skin tone oh this is where it gets kind of interesting for the Orlan because you can go this color scheme which still has kind of a natural flesh feel to it and depending on on if you go there like that that works at a distance when you're loosing the character kind of small on the screen aside from the ears which aren't too distracting it still gives the idea of a more human that character so it it works on the smaller screen which you'll see here in a moment hair wise I think we're gonna stick with the darker Brown that colorization works eyes let's leave them those baby blues yeah now for the head oh yeah there's the different furred types we're gonna stick with that initial kind of beautiful almost clean-shaven looking face by comparison hair wise we've got a few options here that's more for the the shorter bit I kind of like him a little longer let's see here I think kind of the the first design we had was kind of my favorite that one was there we go yeah I think that one works the best for Scanlon seems to work fine you can my disagreement you can also customize it your own way and your own again voice y-you didn't see anything you need me don't you I've always said I'm a leading man it's pretty great so now that we've chosen the voice sets we can pick the pose for them heroic for Scanlon hunched roguish sassy I'm feeling sassy for him yeah we're gonna go sassy at forward lean I think works definitely this Kalin's favor so with that scale in short heart tripod I'm apparently drunk today my apologies so with that creation there we go next and of a bard is Creed so now for his abilities here we're gonna throw a little a little art cut a little more comma in there and then for him we're gonna say Bluff he's a bluffer all the way perfect and now here are the active abilities and the passive abilities the passive abilities here there we go so friendly or I'm bulbs area so what you'll see here and I'll show you how these work when you choose these different passive abilities will pick one take whatever that is sure it's an example here's the cool thing about the chanters you have the invocations and you can see it uses phrases you build phrases by prepared chance so you can go to the chance here and shows you the area it's around it or you can edit them so you only know one phrase so right now when you have this chant prepared it'll just keep playing this chant over and over again and each time it passes through the chant it'll increase how many of the invocation types which are called the phrases it'll build phrases up and then once you have enough phrases you can use those active abilities to do an attack or a special ability and this game when you start combat usually start with a certain level based on your level that lets you kind of immediately do a be a big impact which is cool but as you get higher level you haven't owned a bunch of phrases and you can completely customize them and rearrange them to create your own chants that have area effects around you and enhance you or your party or hurt enemies and hinder them and then you just choose and can change which Kent which chance you're prepared and continue to go around the battle building up phrases until you eventually can use one of these abilities to attack somebody with what looks to be lighting damage and or this one which does damage with water and and penetrates and means armor it's pretty fun so that is yes Scanlan yes Scanlan love your buddy go toss go kicking a alright slim pickings until the support it's good recruiting another one here let's go let's do let's do backs so also going with elf here for the half elf feel like we did with keyless I think of it - what else is still kind of the means wealthy class here cuz it's fun probably not the most effective multi class in the game but we'll go for it why not we'll go Ranger for her types we have no subclass we have ghost heart which summon spirits - surfer and got so much sharpshooter which is pretty pretty good with ranged combat in the stalker they're in their companion game bonuses that kind of seems a little more her style is at Beastmaster and we'll go with that and we'll say she gets a bear companions you can do that and we'll go with March Break for hunters mark because that makes sense entirely for the second class because she learned from her brother will go rogue and she went assassin with him so we'll go with that once again probably not a great combination for the balance of the game but like I said we're going to medic here we'll give her a crippling strike on that animal companion I mean there's only one name you can use here three good we'll go ahead and buff up her perception he's always been a very perceptive one as well as her might dirty in there cuz that make sense for her let's go ahead and buff down her Constitution she wasn't she wasn't a bag of hit points really and we'll put that Tori intellect there we go it's a pretty decent spread for her moving next we'll go ahead and put her in let's say a plane is there sure give her some resolve and she would be hunter and having lived in the wilds with her brother trying to survive and with that we have either the options of a hunting bow or the war bow so the war bow seems just thirteen to nineteen damage and hunting bows Oh 14:24 Dame hunting boat seems a lot larger we're gonna go with the hunting bow and then as a secondary weapon there's a backup she never really used the secondary weapon so we'll just give her a dagger because why not make sense with her brother's influence so we'll go ahead and pick her portrait right over there beautiful for her cloth colors to stick with that kind of code we'll give her like the the light kind of almost like a teal blue color that worked for her and they can't see we can go a little more teal with that even there we go that'll work and for the other we'll go with like a dark brown me a darker Brown I'm sure those would work better hide that one that'll work skin tone will also go pre that works out well for her she probably a little more Sun than the rest of them hair wise we're gonna go dark and dirty Nautica try and offset that a little bit wasn't look quite as pitch-black real Idol kind of a lighter color for that there may be old ago they start for that and put a little bit of it I think it looks better if we go the secondary as the pure dark and then retina maybe [Music] maybe there could work that looks not too bad alright correct me if I'm wrong you have to look at the confirmation from Laura it's been a little while since we've been in the first campaign so excuse me if I remember all the specific eye coloring for the head on this one was it hazel thank you gonna go sure we'll go with that that's hazel there we go for the head we give her a little bit of a variation there that might look more for it's accurate as we can get for the portrait there and for the hair styling I mean we gotta give her the side braid that's the specs all the way so with that we're gonna move on to her voice and can choose index Elia I'm sorry you guys hearing the voice on that end I wonder if perhaps the boys got turned on with the audio well we'll check in a little bit could you can always change that once you've chosen them which we'll do in a second so for this we'll say for her pose we'll go roguish roguish it works well for her next on that there we go my turn there she is you can go to her push me if he doesn't wanted to hear well fast we can go to her yeah I want to go instead - over there I'm here for you my turn mm-hmm my turn how can I help how can I help my turn oh they were going to it my turn it was going to the shop for this particular appearance but there you go you get the gist of it now we have steve xle a voice that set in there so in love what up real fast i get you give her some stealth she's pretty good at that it was kind of her thing and for her i would say she's pretty good at bluffing - pretty soon - diplomacy as well insight wasn't too bad survival give her some survival she was on her why not and since we have a more ability for the class let's go and make drinking a little more powerful so let's go with [Music] C let's go this resilient companion because I think L can agree that trinket needed it and with that we have Excel I complete it now who wanted to we could throw some armor on these guys here I saved some aside for some possible options let's go ahead and go is let's put this over here and maybe some let's see every guy's looking then we can go ahead and give her bow in the back there we go but not a lot Tube data looks like that we can go ahead and throw a cape on her as well if we'd like to let's go with a gray Kate orange Cape red cape this time Turner Clark there we go that's pretty cool for Scanlon let's go ahead and see how he looks with hmm dear wooden clothing oh that's what he's wearing that makes it easy enough perfect look at that that's a scale and through and through the kilos looking pretty pretty rub cassimy can work out I don't know how this is gonna look on her but I'm curious to see does he want to give her antlers maybe a little bit intense for Cupid but hey at least I mean the distance you can give her her like super 20th level crazy antlers that's pretty fun alrighty and then now let's go ahead and still kick what kind of our party it's slim pickings yeah we are taking level adventurer you just did let's go ahead and move on to a Percival so let's go ahead and start with human I was gonna folksy meadow folk since he's kind of Li a white stone northerner we'll go with single class on this now there are different ways you could build him of course I'm gonna go with a fighter since that's what it wasn't a game as far as picking it we have no subclass we have the black jacket which means he start with an additional proficiency set but has reduced recovery time when switching weapons we have two devoted which means he selects a single proficiency weapon of their choice and is much better with that weapon but is penalized with older weapons an unbroken fighter which they're much better at a like a tanky type I'm gonna go to vote for him since you know firearms are kind of this thing with that we'll go ahead and give if knocked down or discipline barrage let's go knock down and shoot people off their feet so for him we're gonna go ahead and put a bunch in resolve though he's not a tanky guy so I guess we don't need it so bad that's more deflection in the will let's give him a lot of nitin Constitution it's more about a damage dealer than anything else to think more Percy style I'm sure that'll work as far as history goes and put them in a tier which is more of an older and pyre feel because more resolved aristocrat all the way that's what it would be and as far as the weapons go let's give him a octopus big old bad news type weapon that'll be fun now we go ahead and find his portrait up here there we have smoldering Percival now first color is primary colors here let's go with let's say a have a nice vibrant blue that'll work and then four is off colors it's good there you are we had to go without a gray or a white interior there or we can give him more of a I should the gray works pretty well let's go with that we can always change the colors later the because you pick here any a lot of the choices you make here aside from like a facial features you can generally adjust those might be able to still adjust those down the road is a double check might be the case didn't have too many play that too much when I played through here wise I mean we're going Percy here so that's pretty white let me see if I can give a little texture there that's not too bad a little bit of the gray undertone see if it gets better if it's too dark that's not too bad not too bad for a Percival given what we got here and I supposed to go with that icy steely blue perfect voice here we go shall we begin I won't be gone long that's your service I will do my utmost to keep you all from embarrassing yourselves yeah well if you insist there's our Percival pose wise for him not heroic not hunched not roguish sassy stoic or sullen poor leave him in an average just kind of a plane to go shy didn't get enough space in there I don't think so there a space between D and Rolo [Music] there is a space okay I've seen it both ways and counsels not here to confirm his name is too long I blame it on him all right we'll go next with that there we go we have our first level fighter we can go ahead and live with him hop he's all diplomacy I mean kind of it inside joke but you get the deal and mechanics it's all about explosives explosives have work to know if we can go ahead and get mechanics for now and then explosives as well both of those would work as he levels up we can put a puppet in each and then as far as abilities go here fast runner yeah arms bear does need additional weapons set nobody's not mystical trains we're gonna give him the disciplined barrage ability there we go and with that we can go ahead and go to Percival and we can give him you got a weapon already over here that we can find him in the weapon set let's go to be looks there armor and shields no guns available human the guys still kicking hey it's slim pickings into no legendary hockey this only this guy doesn't sell this but kind of a hack mode so I can show you stuff that works out fine yeah no that's a personal weapon right there now as far as his attire we want him to be a little more rustic Radek that's kind of perfect I might turn that a secondary color to even also blue well no that's being gold the gold trim are they sure look at that aristocratic Percy looking all fancy a little bit alrighty so with dad though I should have make them a little paler being from the north that'll work that is the first four of this set you can do so now let's move on to the rest of these still kicking a well it's slim pickings until let's go and I or another adventurer I'm up let's go ahead and make ourselves a pike so we're going to Orlan again just like we did the Scanlon hearth Orlin same scenario single class so the priests in this game act is the cleric types so we'll start with that subclass see we have embarrassed which is more if they got him death indoors not quite our style if athis it's kind of light Redemption hoping rebirth that is about as close to sarin rays you can get the ever light we're gonna go with Anthes which is ironic given the circumstances of the game it makes it really interesting for her let's go ahead let's see restore she's a healer now for her we'll go ahead and pump ups and intellect and resolve give her a little bit of Mike she's a monster and then for here I mean know were you from these ultimately don't affect her character so much but they do give us some benefits to stats and can adjust and affect some of the the choices that certain killers can have dialogue trees in the game of interaction and then pcs more important for your main character but it can involve other characters in the game we'll go ahead and say what sapphire archipelago she was a sailor right she went on ships and stuff sure well go is that her not really for the clergy will say say mercenary why not I mean she you know went on a ship for a while and saw the world that's more of a drifter skipper drifter that's fun as far as goes here we'll give her a shield nice medium shield and one more type would be the mace that seems her style now let's go ahead and find her delightful picture yeah she is there's a note to like every character can use every weapon in the game in this game when you select those proficiencies you just get an additional mode with that weapon that gives you other benefits that you can turn on and off it's kind of a passive ability so don't feel like because you chose one of those when you build your character they can't use the other items it just means they have a better option with that weapon situationally should you choose to use it anyway so choosing the portrait for her there now for her cloth colors let's go with like a light a light blue and a silver tint that works well for her skin similar scenario I want to give her that kind of almost skin tone fur to her or Orlan fur for her hair we want to go fairly light because of the classic kind of Pyke tint there let's see if that works now I want to keep it a little lighter than that so I'll bring this down that'll work well for her eyes I think she has a good deep set blued we have a confirmation i'm on pikes eye color I think it splits it we'll leave it there Thank You Danny and for the forget that's add some rough pike I think well I think we'll just go with the happier smile here one as far as her hair is concerned let's see what kind of styles we have to go with here that was pretty cute looking for Mohawk pikes pretty rad let's see here we go side longer hair I kind of like the crazy for is that's fun I think for her not too bad comparatively much then we don't have any buns there look Oh with that because it's still tied back kind of swoop to the side sure that'll work I'll go with that one now we get to Pikes voice I'll find a safe path yes I promise to lead with mercy patience and compassion Ashley Johnson I mean how could you not go charging into battle and feel confident with that at your back so with that we go ahead and pick that voice and go for the pose now she's a monster she has to be heroic there it is trick foot next good that we have our Pike so let's go ahead and swap out Kela hey you ever need a good druid on your side just come to me because you know I can I can ask around we had a lot of fun recording these lines and the people that have city and they had critters there who wrote the scripts for us originally and then we did some back-and-forth with some ideas and minor adjustments needed a they actually had a pretty good grasp of the personalities a little on to record these lines and you can hear it a lot of the reads alright so we're throwing Pike in there let's go ahead and clear out the rest of the group here as well we have Scanlon yeah we'll come back you know we'll do it on I don't keep a case basis just to get there something else to say except always fun all right so for pike we'll go ahead and go with let's say athletics there's a monster and then for this we'll say religion it make sense for her being a religious type and as far as her next ability goes let's go ahead and give her holy power or no it's gonna listen how about that let's see make sense for her and with that we have a blanket right foot mind you that need to have some better equipment on this regards let's go ahead and throw on her let's see from our why is some plate armor there we go that's pretty badass looking it's gonna give her a decent shield let's go right there and then for him see if she's a no mesas and the set up here as we go ahead and buy one real fast okay okay it's slim pickings until this weapons oh there's a maysa exceptional mate give it to me and with that put a mace in her slot and that is a ready to go pike trick foot a little bit all right so moving on Joe getting killed it's slim pickings put another adventurer all right so I think back Soldotna let's get to him going back up to the elf here probably a girl looking guy there will still go with the wood elf I think for him his build will multi-class here because why not we'll go with a rogue for the first set assassin of course once again these are not optimally built these are just for thematic for the purposes of the demonstration but you can optimally build them to be pretty nasty the assassination robe the VAX is in my home game is pretty brutal I will go ahead to crippling strike for him and then for the Paladin side the Holy Slayer let's go we have the bleak walkers which for the merciless and cruelty that's so much maybe founders the guards at Rosie Nome gold pack Knights psalm reverence for the sanctity of contracts kind Wayfarers miserable travelers shield bearers i'm says honesty and diplomacy over cruelty and aggression [ __ ] let's go to the bleak walkers why not it sworn enemy actually that does fit pretty decently so we'll go with that it's one at me bone let's go ahead might give him some my intellect perception will uh awesome not a very constitution heavy character give me some resolve why not for him we'll also I feel like we I think I made it VAX from all of a Lea Lea Lea will go with that sure I might even happen it's fine you understand he will say was more of what's a drifter makes sense sure daggers I think it he's a dagger dude we choose one a weapon type let's go ahead and say stiletto cuz it still get him in the dagger realm that works for me now we find its portrait up here move over to that awesome vassal Dan kind of cocky expression I love it I'm moving on to his colors now primary/secondary black maybe gray cuz VAX for a skin tone I open a little pale over there and match the skin for the portrait operas hair not bad we'll go a little darker since he and his sister have the super dark hair maybe bring that up a bit there it's not too bad for very dark hair coloring and for backs his eyes do we have a confirmation on what that is Danny also hazel look at that hazel and hazel it's like the twins or something it's weird for the head why is this one let's go let's go with that one a little bit of the softer features there as opposed to be more tense sure we'll go with that and then here that's actually kind of perfect for I'm really looking at the portrait I don't think we have any other hairstyles in here that are close to matching that well that's pretty fun to look at Super Saiyan yeah we'll stick with that one I like it here we go Smoove over two backs well done let's get started I am your eyes and yes yes you seriously want me to lead this one's for chilli perfect and would that we go to the pose heroic hunched hug quite roguish sassy stoic yeah I'll go with that that's late campaign backs so we'll go ahead and put them in there already there we go that is a delta vex now we'll go ahead and take up I get it the party needs to infiltrate a cult of really ugly people and you don't want me blowing your cover Thank You scanning into em so go ahead and recruit him their proper equipment there as well let's see let's go ahead and toss him oh nice and dark with the gloves - yeah it's perfect and as far as weapons go in his regard let's go ahead and daggers in this head it looks like unfortunately so we will go and buy one still kicking guys dagger dagger dagger set up weapons set up here stiletto sword this mean blade there we go legendary dagger that's by sectional 1/2 we got the money cuz this is a hack thief nobody would have access to quite that good a weapon into this level pebble do so because you can dual wield in this there is chillin with his dual daggers for daga daga daga daga daga daga daga territory there we have we have a little finish to back so then they actually learn with his sister over there ready to go both looking pretty awesome I think and of course if you haven't noticed there is trinket sitting down in a bar nobody gives a [ __ ] because it's a video game right now they'd all be crapping their pants there we go and what we'll do so we'll do a little outdoor showing of these guys once we're done and if we have time we might throw - from combat just to hear what the craziness sounds like but we're not done yet you got two more to make that's all back let's go ahead level you up real fast buddy getting stealth is a necessity and then from there let's give you streetwise doesn't make sense as far as your abilities here you can just team powder or rogue in this endeavor I think I'm just bare attribution when suffering damage gaze let's go to the debt let's go with rogue and we're gonna go ahead and put in some backstab yeah that works and next already there is a buddy cooking a it's sort of made until let's go ahead and throw the next adventure now let's put together a grog there are a few options here you can go human if you want to and just make them a big human dude with a beard if you want to go full beard which is pretty great unfortunately the Amala don't have beards in the game so you can use your imagination a little bit but I think they are the best build for grog personally because they're the tallest of the bulkiest and honestly they're their skin markings can kind of resemble the tattoos and you'll see what I mean so I'm gonna start with this for grog we're gonna go with a coastal or Island we'll go with the island it's a little easier to make him what he is let's go with a multi-class this is later level stuff so we'll start with a barbarian it's pretty great Berserker I mean we have to that's Academy gets its frenzy directly after it and we're go ahead and get Miss frenzy it's right there it's right there in the build I mean it's almost too easy to build these people in this game it's kind of ridiculous and I realized that when I was making them and then for the secondary class because he then take good bin did take fighter will go and take fighter there and we'll just make them let's see blackjack in know multiple subclasses Street Fighter get into benefit there in the knockdown and alright all the way and Constitution all the way and intellect is that who put him in up five I will give him some resolve for his defenses he's pretty defensive guy but that'll put him in a pretty decent might Constitution resolve scenario there he's gonna be from the plains was a wandering and as part of that there for a scholar he wishes he'd be a drifter no hunter hunter where he's from definitely alright so as far as weapons go to good levels going to handed on this so we're gonna go great sword and let's go Morningstar vehicle two-handed mace thing which we fun too those would be good stuff to think going to his portrait which is right there big old angry grog cloth colors here let's see we can go is kind of has like a like I'm a medium brown like a dark red-brown kind of a field times it's one matter too much in the way I want to build his his armor sets after this but you'll see what I mean we can always adjust this a little later we'll go is like a like a darker gray that'll work skin you want to go hey and secondary for the tattoos yeah want to go dark on that that allows us to kind of get the the markings there which is kind of fun hair really none so doesn't matter what we put here because eventually we're going to get rid of it and then eyes for grog do we have an eye confirmation from Danny I just like they're only on the spot I'll put him at Brown sure all right so for hair bog there we go and then for his the color is actually the secondary hair called the second is it eyebrows there we go that'll work well and then we get to find his voice should kind of course and see if there's better kind of there we go it's not quite as the yellow tint it's a little more of a gray we've got a work better for him there might be a little little dark for me that'll work all right moving on the voice this is my favorite part Swift and silent as a really Swift and silent thing everybody shut up I'm sneaking so pretty awesome and moving on to his pose oh he's gonna have to be heroic or stoic oh yeah Stoke with arms crossed is pretty fun too and it's unique against the other part members which is good so Erin will say Rob hmm oh man I can't spell today all right there we go Grogg strong confirmed and we'll go ahead and get rid of vex LA for this I think you tonight I can make our own way that oh that I not they accidentally not recruit I'm still kicking hey what everything I do we can just go into there and we'll go to pick Croghan perfect and then for grog let's get somebody a nice great source that we can throw in his repertoire cuz you want to give him something really big and dangerous look at the blades for hammers bows maces pistols a stock great sword Ernest void wheel house seems pretty cool give him that sure just cuz it can give it to grog yeah big old store in the back I did pull apart some attire this was how I did my grog build at home then all outfits are gonna be a you know designed for well actually put a cloak on him I should do that that's his sister there we go now we're talking that's some backs of that stuff right there and pike actually could all use one - she would just do there we go she's got a nice little cloak there so for grog technically as a fighter you want to give him like heavy looking armor and the grog that I have in the game for utility for a brief time I had them a pretty heavy armor but if you want to go for like more of an accurate representation of grog I recommend the dancers outfit because I mean now he just looks dangerous and awesome and I mean I saw the pants right so we'll leave them at that I think that'll be a good good take on them all right - grog still kicking and go ahead and it's slim pickings that make our final and most glorious member of the team let's go to high adventure there - male human go is savanna folk for him single class because there isn't a distinguished distinguish between wizard or sorcerer in this we'll go to the wizard for our good friend Gilmore so we'll choose that conjurer and chanter evoker illusionist transputer let's go with no subclass he's just a master of all trades so now we get to pick his initial spells with him let's go ahead and go with the classic fan of flames my two eyes puff up his might a bit he say he was a mighty gentleman well it's quite smart very perceptive so we'll leave him at that he'd be from let's say savior and give him he's a merchant through and through am i right weapon wise let's go ahead and give him a scepter and once it seems to be in his wheelhouse and now for the portrait the portrait is up there look at that handsome [ __ ] so now colors wise it's cuz its cloth colors we're gonna go some vibrant purple and some nice gold or golden trim I think could work well you only see their pants at the moment for this hair we're gonna go dark you see that's a better set we're going for there then for his eyes I go with a more of a bluish color there for his head although I need to be a smooth handsome face and for his hair let's see we have options it's not too bad that's not too bad it's a little shaggy err some cool designs over here too I kind of like that because it's got a little bits of gold on the sides brains I'll get that one's fun oh man and the facial hair Wives let's give them a little more pens to goatee a little too much beard on that one oh there we go isn't quite at the point on it but I think it gets the the mustache and and kind of a tough to be in there the idea I like that alrighty let's go ahead and move on to voice actually four colors of skin tie maybe a little darker I think actually that's good there yeah yeah a handsome boy all right over to voice and we have let's put an end to this don't be seen well that's a tall order I'm right here if this party is now officially sponsored by kill mores glorious Goods yeah I'm right beside you don't be seen oh that's a tall order and there you have it a majestic man for him and average heroic hunched roguish sassy Oh sassy all the way that's no boy and with that it's created ah let's see here when that we have Oliver made Percy take a step out buddy just as well I was beginning to miss white stone so we go ahead and oh we have a level of grog either we should've done that grog we'll go ahead and give him s lettuce to make sense and then for the ability here all intimidate all the way boom and for this we'll go ahead and give him the abilities as a barbarian I know but it's it's a it's hard to do it's early grog it's it's it's pre pre built the Dwarven kind grog so it's still not out of cannon say what you want to all right before him we'll go barbarian we'll give him his barbaric yell ability sure for Gilmore Arcana definitely and there's quite a few of these he'd know but hide uh that's given diplomacy it's quite diplomatic gentlemen as far as his ability to go let's give him a few spells to pick from here joking touch slicker Oh minor missiles it's a classic why would you not and when daddy goes next and Gilmore is let's see what we can dress Gilmore in white find leather armor let's see as far as the outfits go I'll be father miscreants leathers know something a little that's to colored or something gets it gets across the the the the joy of his presentation of his of his color palette let's try prints be color oh that's not too bad actually that's pretty great I kind of love it okay yeah that's going down his life slow like a keyhole for the chest to he told they wear that I love it and let's give him some boots this was apparently are not showing up there our boots oh there oh this isn't it would smell fit sure he's rebooting it why not and so on that degree we now have made all of oxmonkey let's take him out into the light shall we or at least this first set so you can see what they look like in all their glory so we head out ma che harbour hopefully it's daytime if it isn't well wait a second God there we go and there we have it we have our supporter badass grog and ready to kick some butt we have our little Pike right next to him size difference is pretty much accurate I think of our backs hold on next to him we have our delightful gilmore looking quite fantastic so that's our first set let me go ahead and plug the other half and then we'll see if we have time to throw in a couple battles and those are play-doh oh it's slim pickings I know just remember you never have to go it alone no pike it's freakin aquiline Scanlon Percy and let's go up a Percy and Becks next to each other already let's go ahead and take them out no way down the Sun folks all righty with that we have I insist first of all looking fantabulous we have keyless backing them up on that end we have Scanlon approaching from this side and now we have next Percy is lady and turning to Luke were kind of fantastic in combat capability let's go ahead and give them a sword for the heck of it let's go and throw them into combat why not so Lansing off at this side we're all the way if you press F in this game I came here on the first ship fresh fish will make her way out of what an RJ there's a bookshop let's go ahead and leave on foot see if there's a place in the vicinity to get into trouble all right yes is really really new in the game let's try and sneak closer to observe these pilgrims are on the path and I recall if you approach openly they might be cool people I'm trying to show you what combat looks like so you know what let's be dicks and ambush and a stack up you creep forward drawing your weapon all right there are these people here let's go ahead now we go ahead and have keyless kill let's go ahead and cast a spell let's do Sun beam on those two fellas Scanlan let's go ahead and bring you over here to cast her eyes she was wrong oh that's a the closer up idea but that one all right we'll go ahead and it's CamLAN up in the frase we can hit some of these folks with his blast first of all go ahead and draw your gun and we'll get a discipline barrage on that dawn stall herald right there don't Don star-herald and then let's go ahead and put hunter's mark on that dose I have there [Music] but it was enough to win the day so there we go you got ourselves a little bit of a little bit of a scuffle there from those four let's go and bring in the other half so we'll go ahead and load and do a and uh autosave and port Maj a load that real fast we can bring you back to the same encounter and show you some of the the other half of our build in combat all right so bring these guys over here the Krakens eye so it's pretty fun when you go into stealth mode and such you can go ahead and have different characters in different comments it's like for instance Aquila can do Scanlan perhaps Washington bar vachs perky I won't be gone long this has got nothing on me already they're already competition between the brethren drink it is it bear I don't know you spec salad I didn't do voiceover drinking because it's just a bear alright section here let's go ahead slim pickings until this infection at this point and let's see we've heard those two let's do Gilmore Pike grog and the backs of that and with that let us bring them Stefan yeah Grogg uno punchy everybody shut up I'm sneaking that wasn't so hard [Music] yes super still super tributing me to hear those voices and those characters in this game like it's been genuinely very surreal for me to play through with Makemake nuts alright now we'll jump over outside of port majide and once again ambush these poor pilgrim travelers that I'm pretty sure you can choose to help them out but we're not trying to show how to help people we're showing combat what to do go back to you Lynette sport sneak closer to observe ambush attack all right so now grog go ahead and attack yeah max will Dan go ahead and crippling strike that a priest Pike go ahead and cast some beam on that one and glorious Gilmore let's go ahead and cast a missiles on that one the farmhand oh they're already dead well that was a strong party that was thinking in composition but they annihilated this poor peasants but there you have it there's our friendly Vox machina band in pillars of eternity - my build at least you can customize to your heart's content that's not an issue by any means but I hope this has been helpful for those who haven't seen them in the game or how the building process works and this build was like I said just based off of kind of some flippant ideas I was trying to think of in Canon but there are many different ways to build them we recorded lines for all the different class spectrums so you can build like I said a wizard grog and he has spell casting lines and comments about how weird it is to have spells so it's it's pretty fun and there's a lot of variety in there but ultimately if you haven't had the chance to play it and you decide to I hope you enjoy it's everywhere in obsidian worked very hard on this we were sad to be part of it and as a huge fan of the Poe's fraternity series even before I was even a part of it this has been a huge honor I know they have a bunch of upcoming DLC there's a whole new adventure path coming up soon and more down the lines to keep an eye out for that and for those who don't play PC but have console keep an eye out for the releases later this year super stoked for that as well so anyway I'm gonna go ahead and get back home I get some food I believe this brings us to the end of our stream the time being so thank you for hanging out I look forward to the the viewing of the our talks machina show tonight is going to be a display of our comic-con panel so look forward to that up here in a little under an hour at a gig in sundries twitch twitch TV slash geek and sundry or here at twitch.tv slash critical role so anyway have a wonderful evening much love and is it Thursday yet good night you

Channel: Critical Role

Views: 286,912

Keywords: Critical Role, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, RPG, How To, Matthew Mercer, Matt Mercer, Pillars of Eternity, POE, Pillars of Eternity II, Pillars of Eternity 2, Deadfire, Vox Machina, Pillars of Eternity 2 Gameplay, Gameplay, Character Creation, Obsidian, Obsidian Entertainment, Mercer, Voice Acting, Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Deadfire Builds, Beast of Winter

Id: 6xVaOfQc4io

Length: 70min 49sec (4249 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 26 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Matt's quietly smarmy facial expressions while listening to the Gilmore clips around 57 mins are hilarious

[u/VanceKelley]

This makes me want to go back and rewatch the 4 lost episodes of C1, 116-119!

That was the arc where they retroactively played the quest to the outer planes to get Grog's soul back after he was trapped by The Void, IIRC. Pike had so many clutch saves in those battles, she was MVP for sure.

[u/S-Flo]

Awesome video. IMHO Matt should have gone Black Jacket for Percy's Fighter subclass though, since it synergises much better with how flintlock firearms behave in Pillars of Eternity II.

The bonus weapon slot and reduced weapon swap penalty allow you to rapidly swap from weapon to weapon, which lets you open fights by firing each firearm you're carrying once and do a ton of burst damage while the subclass's disadvantage (loss of Constant Recovery) isn't a huge deal at all for a Fighter that's not actually tanking hits.

[u/kaysn]

Is it just me or YT's default view got bigger?

[u/KeathleyWR]

More lp's/VG related streams from the CR cast please! This was great!