What started with a group of voice actors playing Dungeons & Dragons in an apartment has become an R-rated fantasy adventure series from Amazon Prime Video
There is a term for the perfect roll of the dice in Dungeons & Dragons; it’s called a Natural 20, which gives the player the maximum possible value on a 20-sided die to make a move, attack an enemy, or cast a spell. When the group of friends behind the web series Critical Role–aptly named after this particular throw–rolled the dice on their business, they undeniably hit that Natural 20.
That night laid the foundation for Critical Role. “It's where we all connected and where all of our lives took a complete turn in the best way,” Johnson says. Those eight friends–Johnson, Mercer, Ray, Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, and Liam O’Brien–soon found themselves as the founders and stars of the most popular D&D streaming show.
“Our show is a lot to explain,” Ray admits with a laugh. “There’s a lot of layers to it, and we learned that really quickly the more we pitched it.” There were countless barriers the Critical Role team faced, Ray says, including having to explain tabletop RPGs and the concept of streaming on Twitch. And when it came to adapting the stories to an animated series, many people had trouble wrapping their heads around the concept.
, making the Vox Machina special one of the most funded Film & Video projects in Kickstarter’s history. The funds made it possible for the project to expand out of just a single 22-minute special into a 10-episode series.When the Kickstarter ended after 45 days, the Critters–the loving name for Critical Role’s vast fanbase–had raised $11.3 million, making the Vox Machina special one of the most funded Film & Video projects in Kickstarter’s history.
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