![]() ![]() The Legend of Vox Machina, streaming January 28 on Amazon Prime Video, adapts the “Briarwood Arc” story of Critical Role, which was first played over sessions of Dungeons & Dragons on Twitch in 2015. “It came down to all of us sitting in a room, with all the major story bits on whiteboard and in long documents, going over which parts we feel are important, which parts we feel are important to us, and condensing it the best we can within the limits we have.” “It was tough,” says Matthew Mercer, Critical Role’s chief creative officer and frequent “Dungeon Master.” As Critical Role’s cast and founding members tell Inverse, it was a matter of knowing what should make it to screens and what should quite literally stay at the table. Amazon then picked up the project and expanded it from a special to two 12-episodes seasons.īut creating a season of TV based on over 30 sessions of Dungeons & Dragons is no easy task. ![]() The Legend of Vox Machina began as a single animated special funded by a Kickstarter campaign in 2019 that raised $11.3 million. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SCI-FI MOVIE? Tell us now for a chance to get paid to write an article for Inverse. Seven years after the group first rolled dice for an audience of a few hundred people, Critical Role arrives on Amazon Prime Video with The Legend of Vox Machina, an animated adaptation of their “Briarwood Arc,” so named after its villains of socialite vampires. Originating as a casual game of Dungeons & Dragons played by a tight-knit circle of cartoon and video game voice actors, Critical Role has lived up to the internet’s promise of DIY success since launched o Twitch in 2015. It’s been a long journey for Critical Role. ![]()
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