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(A third campaign recently launched, plus there've been a huge number of one-shots and standalone miniseries, so: Yeah.) If you're scoring at home, we're talking several weeks' worth of content, here, as individual Critical Role episodes tend to run three to four hours in length, and the two previous storylines (or campaigns) have run to 115 episodes and 141 episodes respectively.

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The Legend of Vox Machina is based on one of the campaigns that took place on the web series Critical Role. If anything, that only helps it bring the source material to life, as the special effects budget of animation is effectively unlimited - no iffy CGI dragons, rubber costumes or one-dimensional greenscreen vistas here.įor the uninitiated: In Dungeons & Dragons, players work with a Dungeon Master - a kind of all-knowing storyteller/referee - to craft storylines about the characters they're playing, which are called campaigns. It's not that fact that The Legend of Vox Machina is an animated series that sets it apart from the other fantasy shows listed above. But the nature of what's been tossed over the side is wholly different in nature as a result, anyone unfamiliar with the source material won't notice what they're missing. (The characters on Game of Thrones, for example, crossed vast oceans and endless deserts like they were hopping in a cab from the East Village to Hell's Kitchen.) Which is unfortunate, because of course it's exactly those layers of historical detail that fundamentally shape the world in question, and its inhabitants.Īmazon's funny, violent and well-realized The Legend of Vox Machina, based on the popular web series Critical Role, is no different - a lot of things gets lost in translation. But they've got a point: Television adaptations must prioritize plot over established, painstakingly wrought characterization, interiority and even geography.

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Critical Role has offered a series of live actual-play sessions simulcast in movie theaters for years now.Pop Culture Happy Hour 'Peacemaker' takes aim at a broad, stationary target - with machine gunsįans of the source material inevitably grouse about the elements that get lost in the shuffle, because that's what fans do. If a movie deal comes through, it also won’t be its first time in theaters. There are also multiple comic books from Dark Horse and several novelizations. Wizards of the Coast published a book on its setting in 2020 titled Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. This is not the first time that The Mighty Nein has had an expression other than the original actual-play series. Fans should expect to hear the voice talents of all their favorite cast members, including Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham. “ Mighty Nein follows a group of criminals and misfits,” Amazon said in a news release, “who are the only ones that can prevent the kingdom from plunging into chaos when an arcane artifact capable of reshaping reality falls into the wrong hands.”Īn interesting twist here is that Critical Role will handle its own production through a company called Metapigeon, which is an in-joke about out-of-character table talk that fans of the series will surely recognize.

It tells the story of a group of less-than-upright would-be heroes - Caleb Widogast, Veth “Nott the Brave” Brenatto, Jester Lavorre, Fjord, Beauregard Lionett, Mollymauk Tealeaf, and Yasha Nydoorin, among others. The Mighty Nein is the name of the adventuring party in Critical Role’s second Dungeons & Dragons actual-play series, which ran for 141 episodes on Twitch and YouTube from January 2018 to June 2021, totaling roughly 560 hours of streaming content.

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And that’s not all: Amazon has also locked in a multiyear exclusive TV and first-look film deal. That’s the same team behind The Legend of Vox Machina, now in its second season, and the Mighty Nein series will also feature work by the same animation studio that handles The Legend of Vox Machina, Titmouse.

The announcement, made Wednesday, heralds a second TV show based on the escapades of the Critical Role actual-play troupe. The Mighty Nein is on the way to Amazon Prime Video in a new animated series.