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** In the middle of Campaign 3, Mercer made a dice roll to determine if a ritual used to bring someone back to life would work, since one of his homebrew rules is that resurrection spells have a chance to fail. The ritual ended up succeeding when Matt rolled a 16, which he took a picture of with his smartphone's camera to make sure no one could dispute his roll, and to prove that he didn't the target back because he felt like it.

--->'''Matt:''' I fucking love this game.

** At the end of Campaign 2, he rolled two crucial rolls in full view of both the table and the camera. The camera even cut to the die rolling across the table both times, all to prove Matt wasn't making anything up or fudging the rolls. [[spoiler:Matt rolled on the table twice for Mollymauk's resurrection ritual. The first roll was a 1, which failed. After Caduceus used Divine Intervention to force a re-roll with a lower DC, the second roll was a 12, which succeeded.]]

** Many locations and items are covered in "sigils", which he didn't even pronounce correctly until the audience got on his case about it.

* RuleOfCool: Matt has stated this is one of the fundamental principles in his approach to DMing, and that if a rule is keeping a player from enjoying the game, he'd rather find a way to work around the rule then strictly enforce it.

** In the FinalBattle against Vecna during Campaign 1, Matt rolled very badly on Vecna's attempt to resist the party's trying to imprison him. He made a point of taking a picture of his die roll during the stream to show he wasn't just giving the party the victory.
** At the end of Campaign 2, he rolled two crucial rolls in full view of both the table and the camera. The camera even cut to the die rolling across the table both times, all to prove Matt wasn't making anything up or fudging the rolls. [[spoiler:Matt rolled on the table twice for Mollymauk's resurrection rolls so his players could see that he wasn't fudging anything. The first roll was a 1, which failed; after Caduceus used Divine Intervention to force a re-roll, the second one was a 12, which succeeded.]]
** In the middle of Campaign 3, Mercer made a dice roll to determine if a ritual used to bring someone back to life would work, since one of his homebrew rules is that resurrection spells have a chance to fail. The ritual ended up succeeding when Matt rolled a 16, which he took a picture of with his smartphone's camera to make sure no one could disprove he didn't just bring the target back because he felt like it.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: He reacts this way a few times, especially when he rolls badly at key moments.
** He was momentarily shocked when Keyleth's attempt to [[spoiler:feeblemind Raishan]] succeeded.

** When an NPC ally he was controlling struck the final blow on a major villain, Matt was briefly stunned at what just happened. He then had an OhCrap moment as he realized he was going to have to apply his CatchPhrase to himself. The players, of course, teased him mercilessly.
** Matt was ''floored'' when [[spoiler:the Mighty Nein were about to be arrested by the Bright Queen in episode #56 in the Wildemount campaign and Caleb gave her the Dodecahedron the party had been carrying for several months.]] He said he'd anticipated a few different paths the players might take, but he never expected this. He mentioned how glad he was that there wouldn't be a session next week, since he'd have to really think about how this would impact the campaign.

** At the end of Campaign 2, he rolled two crucial rolls in full view of both the table and the camera. The camera even cut to the die rolling across the table both times, all to prove Matt wasn't making anything up or fudging the rolls. [[spoiler:Matt rolled on the table twice for Mollymauk's resurrection rolls so his players could see that he wasn't fudging anything. The first roll was a 1; after Caduceus used Divine Intervention to force a re-roll, the second one was a 12.]]

* DistaffCounterpart: She is this for Matt, acting as DM while he moves to the other side of the table.

* NotSoAboveItAll: It's part of his job to keep Vox Machina/the Mighty Nein relatively on track, but he's not above making jokes (like claiming "fish" is a type of arcane damage) and he occasionally encourages their wackier scenarios. For example:

The Dungeon Master for ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleExandriaUnlimited'': ''Calamity''.

* KillerGameMaster: Not 'entirely' his fault, since the DoomedByCanon nature of the story he's telling means that the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Calamity]] was always going to happen... Doesn't change the fact that he's clearly [[ComedicSociopathy enjoying the hell]] out of tormenting the players though.
* MoodWhiplash: He has a habit of injecting comedy into the worst moments. His first example is telling a stressed-out table that they hear explosions, only to immediately reveal that they are fireworks instead of dangerous StuffBlowingUp.

* SuddenlyShouting: He weaponizes yelling for dramatic effect, particularly while playing as [[BigRedDevil Asmodeus.]]