The Legend of Vox Machina centers on a group of ragtag adventurers: half-elf twins Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlia (O’Brien and Bailey), the gnome bard Scanlan (Riegel), the human gunslinger Percy (Jaafe), the barbarian Grog (Willingham), the half-elf druid Keyleth (Ray), the gnome cleric Pike (Johnson).
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The animated special, in tandem, grew to become an animated series which Amazon picked up and greenlit two seasons of, expanding the original episode count from 10 to 14 - 24 episodes of television overall. Within literal minutes, the team had blown past their initial goal, going on to raise more than $10 million dollars and becoming the fifth most-successful Kickstarter campaign ever. In 2018, having gained immense popularity in both the pop culture world and gaming world, Critical Role spun off into their own company, becoming their own multimedia corporation composed of original shows, a YouTube and Twitch channel, and an entire brand based around “a group of nerdy-ass voice actors who sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons.” When the company launched a Kickstarter in 2019, they anticipated reaching a modest amount of $750,000 - what would allow them to create a 22-minute animated special based on their first Vox Machina campaign. He was and the rest, as they say, is history - history that turned into a weekly streamed role-playing show that currently airs every Thursday night with hundreds of devoted fans watching along. Primarily a YouTube and Twitch channel, Geek & Sundry had been acquired by Legendary Entertainment and Day thought that Mercer could try streaming their home game on Twitch for interested viewers - if he was willing. A few years in, connections led Mercer to Felicia Day who at the time was running the multimedia production company Geek & Sundry.
The origin of the group came from something simple: a living room Dungeons & Dragons game. Currently in its recently-launched third campaign (Vox Machina was the first, The Mighty Nein was the second), Critical Role features friends and voice actors Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Sam Riegel, Liam O’Brien, Taliesin Jaafe, and Matthew Mercer.
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