Dear Friend, day 6 of talking about some of my favorite shows. Today is one that I hurriedly re-watched after I watched the original source material spots again. Dear Friend, I must admit. I love Dungeon & Dragons. I play every week. It will come as no surprise that I am my groups Dungeon Master or Game Master (I prefer DM but I think I’m making the switch soon). I’ve spent about ten years or so working on my world and have been playing it for four years so far.

But enough about my world, let me get on with the my famous live play DND group of all time and how they got their animated show.

SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA AND CAMPAIGN ONE

I must first admit, I am not caught up on Critical Role and honestly you don’t need to be. I’ve worked numerous office jobs and managed to stay caught up a random periods in time but as of late I am not. ATOW the third campaign has been done for a few months. Regardless, the show only covers the few arcs of the original campaign. Of which I have not seen all of it. I do know the rough gist however. Let us move onto why I like it so much.

As an adaptation, it manages to cover a small section of the original source material very very well. Only covering the chroma conclave was certainly an interesting choice, given the BBEG of the first campaign. I wonder if there was copyright restriction regarding it perchance. All and all, a brilliant adaptation and the first of its kind truly.

The voice acting. (OMG.) I am such a fan of voice actors and really they steal the show. Everyone from Matthew Mercer and the core cast to the side characters covered by people like Kelly Hu and Sunil Malhotra. I’m especially big fans of Sam Riegel and Liam O’Brien as they voice a lot of my favorite characters in different media.

The art work and combat. I hate DND combat, I genuinely do. It’s slow, has a chance of killing stuff that I’ve worked hard on and relies entirely on dice rolls. That being said, the combat in this is nothing like the game. With an animation budget they’re able to pull off an extremely well polished show. The art work and animation is great and rivals other shows of this caliber.

Finally I’d like to talk about the Kickstarter. $11,385,449. Originally only shooting for one million, they broke past that in a number of hours. This and the Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter is what I look at for record setters like this.

Dear Friend, I hope you’re not to busy with you media homework. If you need to take a break on it( I know I do) feel free to come back to this and view these at a later date. I hope you are alright.