The chaotic humor is more reminiscent of the wacky narratives that emerge from collaborative storytelling-like in a D&D campaign-than scripted, intentional storytelling. The cussing, sex jokes, and over-the-top violence gives the show a campy feeling that may make viewers feel like it’s more fan-service for the podcast audience than a story that stands on its own. If you took the crass language and humor of Deadpool, mixed it with a cast of a-holes like the Guardians of the Galaxy, and set it in a Dungeons & Dragons style world, that’s roughly the tone of the first two episodes. It turns out that the monster is a super-powerful dragon and Vox Machina is clearly out of their league-but despite their reward-centric attitude, they know they can’t just let the people of Tal’Dorei suffer and die if they can do something about it. When the group sees a posting about a huge reward for identifying a monster plaguing Tal’Dorei, they take on the quest for the promise of a cash reward. (Matthew Mercer, the original campaign’s DM, serves as the narrator and performs several smaller roles within the story.) Viewers are introduced to dour Percy, a human gunslinger Vax and Vex, half-elf twins who are a rogue and ranger respectively Keyleth, a timid half-elf druid Grog, a not-too-bright goliath barbarian Pike, a troubled gnome cleric and Scanlan, a sex-preoccupied gnome bard.
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But what about viewers who’d never listened to the extensive campaign? They might find some value in the venture as well…after a few episodes.Īs the animated series starts, the heroes are a down on their luck band of adventurers, known as Vox Machina, who have a poor reputation and are better known for their drinking than for their heroics.
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Following a wildly successful, record breaking Kickstarter to fund an animated special, the Critical Role team expanded their initial idea from a short animated project to a full season, picked up by Amazon Prime Video.Ĭlearly, the fans of the podcast would follow the cast to the animated adaptation. But the popularity of podcasts like Adventure Zoneand Critical Role have revealed that with the right storytellers and cast, there’s a large audience eager to follow characters on their wacky adventures. There’s an old adage in tabletop roleplaying circles: no one is as interested in your character and campaign as you are. This article contains spoilers for the first six episodes of The Legend of Vox Machina.
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