Critical Role

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 47 - The first episode of 2019 kicks off in fashion: Matt has grown a beard.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 48 - After surviving Sam's infomercial, the gang are back on dry land and reunions are made.

[James]

Didn't realize Laura Bailey was in this until I was getting an image for it in our "Best of 2018" article. May have to start watching...

[Dan]

She's oodles of fun to watch play, particularly when she's messing around with hubby Travis.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 49 - Sam gets super dramatic almost from the start and Liam's not far behind.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 50 - The gang go underground and meet some interesting characters.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 51 - What better way to spend Valentine's Day than to play D&D!

[Dan]

So this morning, ahead of tonight's broadcast, Travis posted through the Critical Role Twitter this cryptic image:

(Lemme know if you can't see it)


Very quickly, fans were able to decipher the message as "Help Us Animate Vox Machina". During the pre-game announcements, Travis confirmed that a Kickstarter campaign will be launched on March 4 for the development of a Critical Role animated program featuring the first campaign characters of Vox Machina.

[Dan]

The special live one-shot that I attended a few weeks back. Spoilers to those who haven't gone through Campaign 1.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 52 - The Mighty Nein meet some colorful characters in Assarius, the City of Beasts.

[Dan]

The Kickstarter campaign for the heavily desired Critical Role animated project, The Legend of Vox Machina, launched this morning.

Link to Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cr ... nimated-s/



Fully funded and surpassed $1 million within an hour.

Surpassed $2 million within four hours.

Surpassed $3 million after seven hours.

This baby is smashing Kickstarter records and the day hasn't even ended, the April 18 closing date still a long ways away.

So much so that media outlets are picking up on it. CNBC, Variety (which I used for the front page post), and Fortune.

So yeah, I'm psyched.

[Randall]

So, someone else besides Dan DOES care about Critical Role.

Believe the hype, I guess!

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 53 - The Mighty Nein have more fun in the City of Beasts.

[Dan]

So yeah, the Critical Role animated project as polymorphed from one 22-minute special into a series with six 22-minute episodes currently funded. All that had to be done was become the most funded TV/Film campaign on Kickstarter, beating the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival's $5.76 million mark. And it's only been 3 days into a 45 day campaign.

New goal is to now fund up to ten episodes.

[Dan]

Campaign 2, Episode 54 - The Mighty Nein meet an acquaintance of Beau's and maybe make a friend out of another bugbear?