The show is based on a D&D 5e campaign by a group of voice actors. The campaign provided the source material for the animated series, a record-breaking Kickstarter bought the first several episodes and got Amazon interested. There are a million fun facts about this show and Critical Role, but I'll share this one: we fans who call ourselves "Critters" love when new people become one of us!
Legitimately one of my favorite shows of the decade, and not just because I watched the original D&D game it was based on. As other commenters noted, it gets better as it goes on so far- the story really starts hitting on ep 3 of season 1 (but eps 1 and 2 are great introductions to the group I think for people not already familiar with them) and just keeps on getting more intense, and their animation budget also just kept getting better. If you like comic books, there's a Vox Machina comic that is on stories from before the D&D game started being shown on RUclips and before Season 1 of the show begins.... though the show has to alter and tighten up some story stuff because the original game was thousands of hours of play, it always stays true to the most important bits.
FTYI, "Vox Machina" is the name of the whole squad. The lore of it is crazy. It's from Critical Role, which is a Twitch live-stream of a D&D game played by a group of voice actors from anime and video games. They just wanted to do a one-episode animated special of their characters' story, but streaming services wouldn't pay for it. So they went to Kickstarter and asked for $750K to do it up right by using their contacts in the animation world. They got that much in less than an hour. By the end of the first day, they had raised $3 million dollars. By the end of the Kickstarter period, they had raised $11 million dollars. Basically enough to fund a whole season of a show all by themselves.
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Grog got his beard before Kratos did.
I can only recommend you watch this show. It's a big soup of high stakes action, heart, and dirty humour.
The show is based on a D&D 5e campaign by a group of voice actors. The campaign provided the source material for the animated series, a record-breaking Kickstarter bought the first several episodes and got Amazon interested. There are a million fun facts about this show and Critical Role, but I'll share this one: we fans who call ourselves "Critters" love when new people become one of us!
That 🔥 I just said this reminded me of D&D thanks for the insightful lore.
Legitimately one of my favorite shows of the decade, and not just because I watched the original D&D game it was based on. As other commenters noted, it gets better as it goes on so far- the story really starts hitting on ep 3 of season 1 (but eps 1 and 2 are great introductions to the group I think for people not already familiar with them) and just keeps on getting more intense, and their animation budget also just kept getting better. If you like comic books, there's a Vox Machina comic that is on stories from before the D&D game started being shown on RUclips and before Season 1 of the show begins.... though the show has to alter and tighten up some story stuff because the original game was thousands of hours of play, it always stays true to the most important bits.
I'm definitely gonna check this out
FTYI, "Vox Machina" is the name of the whole squad.
The lore of it is crazy. It's from Critical Role, which is a Twitch live-stream of a D&D game played by a group of voice actors from anime and video games. They just wanted to do a one-episode animated special of their characters' story, but streaming services wouldn't pay for it. So they went to Kickstarter and asked for $750K to do it up right by using their contacts in the animation world. They got that much in less than an hour. By the end of the first day, they had raised $3 million dollars. By the end of the Kickstarter period, they had raised $11 million dollars. Basically enough to fund a whole season of a show all by themselves.
oh ok thanks for letting me know
The seasons get progressively better. Season one was great, season 2 was brilliant and season 3 is shaping up to be literal fire.
thanks for letting me know