'Critical Role' fans shell out more than $1.9 million to fund Kickstarter campaign for animated Dungeons & Dragons special
The folks behind web series"Critical Role" wanted to raise $750,000 to finance an animated Dungeons and Dragons digital special.
"Critical Role" is a weekly live-streamed Dungeons and Dragons game featuring voice actors from TV shows"Avengers Assemble,""Spider-Man" and"Transformers" as well as video games"Overwatch,""The Last of Us" and"Fallout," among others. On Monday, the group launched a Kickstarter campaign to create an animated series based on the first"Critical Role" Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Within an hour of the its launch around 1 p.m. Monday, the campaign raised more than $1 million in funding and is still gaining steam. As of 4 p.m., the campaign more than $1.9 million from north of 14,000 backers.
"Critical Role" smashed through its initial monetary goal and is now offering"stretch goals" to its backers. Stretch goals are monetary benchmarks that, when surpassed, give backers more rewards, like merchandise, art or downloadable content.
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