(It topped that in less than an hour.)Īfter Critical Role broke the Kickstarter record last month, Sam Riegel, cast member and executive producer on the series, told Variety, “We’re going to make this the best goddamn cartoon anyone has ever seen.”įans who pledge Critical Role’s “Vox Machina” campaign are promised a range of rewards depending on funding level, including downloads of the “Your Turn to Roll” theme song, production art prints, a dice set, playing cards, stickers, character pins, and a plushy of Trinket the bear.

So the crew turned to Kickstarter in the hopes of getting funding, with an initial goal of raising $750,000. Initially, the team pitched the idea to major streaming platforms and TV networks - but were rebuffed.

In addition to the full 10 episodes, Critical Role will produce a “one-shot” RPG by cast member Ashley Johnson (NBC’s “Blindspot”), who plays gnome cleric Pike Trickfoot in “Vox Machina.”Īlso, Critical Role is promising to present a “special battle royale” with some of their favorite guests from the Vox Machina campaign, including Felicia Day, Will Friedle, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Wil Wheaton, Noelle Stevenson and Patrick Rothfuss (schedules permitting).Ĭritical Role began working on the “Vox Machina” animation project in the spring of 2018. The next eight episodes will be an adaptation of the Briarwoods storyline, in which the Vox Machina crew avenge the murders of the rulers of the town of Whitestone at the hands of the evil Lord Sylas and Lady Delilah Briarwood. The first two episodes of “Vox Machina” will be an all-new story about the adventurers at D&D Level 7 on their first “grown-up” mission, set prior to the events of Critical Role’s first streamed show in 2015.

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