'Critical Role' fans shell out more than $4 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 livestreamed Dungeons and Dragons game played by 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 its launch around 1 p.m. Monday, it raised more than $1 million in funding and is still gaining steam.
The series, having been successfully backed, will be produced by Titmouse, the production company behind Netflix's"Big Mouth," and it will be written by Jennifer Muro .
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