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The rest of S1 will adapt the Briarwood story arc from the first campaign, incorporating a few other classic story arcs as well. The first two episodes will tell a new story featuring the seven Vox Machina team members, set before the events of the first streaming campaign. From a sinister necromancer to a powerful curse, the group confronts a variety of obstacles that not only test their skills, but also the strength of their bond. In a desperate attempt to pay off their mounting bar tab, these unlikely heroes end up on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces. (Apparently, Acaba had a falling out with the rest of the Critical Role crew early in the first streaming campaign and left the game.) Mercer plays Sylas Briarwood Ashley Johnson plays a gnomic cleric named Pike Trickfoot Travis Willingham plays goliath barbarian Grog Strongjaw Laura Bailey plays half-elf ranger Vex Liam O'Brien plays half-elf rogue Vax Taliesin Jaffe plays human gunslinger Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III ("Percy" for short) Marisha Ray plays half-elf druid Keyleth of the Air Ashari and Sam Riegel plays the gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt.īased on the beloved characters and adventures of Critical Role’s first livestreamed tabletop role-playing game (RPG) campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina is an animated fantasy-adventure series for adults that follows Vox Machina, a band of misfits with a fondness for boozing and brawling. The pandemic delayed the series premiere, which was originally slated for June 2020, but the show is now ready to make its debut later this month.Īll of the original cast members will reprise their characters for the series, except for Orion Acaba's character Tiberius.

The studio commissioned two additional season 1 episodes and renewed the series for a second season of another 12 episodes. That's the kind of money that catches Hollywood's attention, and Prime Video soon acquired the streaming rights to The Legend of Vox Machina.

They hoped to raise $750,000 and surpassed that goal within an hour of launch, raising more than $4.3 million and breezing past all their stretch goals by the end of the first day. Add in VOD and YouTube, and most episodes garner around 1 million views each week, making Critical Role a bona fide media mini-empire.Īfter failing to pique Hollywood's interest in creating an animated series based on their campaigns, the Critical Role actors decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign to make their own 22-minute animation-essentially a prequel covering the events of the streaming portion of the campaign.

Episodes typically run for three to five hours, and between 30,000 to 40,000 people watch live each week. The web series Critical Role was born.Įventually, the folks at Critical Role formed their own production company and split from Geek & Sundry in February 2019, streaming new shows on their Twitch and YouTube channels and launching a spin-off comic book. (Day herself played a guest role as a human wizard named Lyra.) Voice actor Matthew Mercer served as Dungeon Master, and the campaigns took place in a fictional world he created called Exandria. A group of professional voice actors used to get together to play Dungeons & Dragons, and when actress Felicia Day ( Eureka, The Guild) heard about the game, she invited the actors to play in a livestreamed format for her YouTube channel, Geek & Sundry. The series has an inspiring origin story. Rowdy misfits-turned-mercenaries become unlikely heroes in the red-band trailer for The Legend of Vox Machina, a new adult animated fantasy series coming to Prime Video. The Legend of Vox Machina is based on the hugely popular livestreamed Dungeon & Dragons-based web series Critical Role.