“Now we get a chance to sort of rewrite history a little bit and do it the exact way that we want.” “We get to go back and correct our mistakes, the things we wish we could have done better in the livestream,” Riegel explained. While there is no rewind button in tabletop gaming, the cast of “The Legend of Vox Machina” gets a do-over. To ensure those moments felt coherent with the original story, the writing team worked closely with “Critical Role” dungeon master Matt Mercer.Įveryone who has ever played a tabletop role-playing game has experienced regret and inescapable thoughts about what they could have done differently after a session. The show even includes scenes and perspectives absent from “Critical Role,” like what the villains are up to when not fighting the heroes. Where the first season mostly focused on a single character, while keeping everyone else as a sort of B-story, the second season gives a lot more attention to the individual character arcs of each member of the titular Vox Machina. This is particularly true of Season 2 of “The Legend of Vox Machina,” which expands the scope of the story and introduces more threats, more locations, and more characters. Instead, the writers get creative, often shortening them or moving them to different points in the story. Of course, distilling over 400 hours into a dozen 25-minute episodes is a gargantuan task, so fitting in all the big moments is impossible. “We also look at quotes that are so well-known people tattoo them on their bodies, we know we absolutely have to get those in the show somehow,” Riegel said, laughing. These are the fan-favorite moments that made the livestream special, so at the start of every season, the cast gets together to list moments, dialogue, or even action movies they want to include, and the writers try to work them in. It’s the type of moment you never see on a big, live-action fantasy show, one that showcases the humor and its improvisational roots, like Grog having a conversation with his sword on the privy while Scanlan sings a song to set the mood or an extended sequence in Season 1 where three of the characters struggled to open a simple door. “Hitting those major beats and knowing that those are the ones that old fans and new fans are definitely going to need in their story helped us work backward.” “The Legend of Vox Machina” Courtesy of Prime VideoĮven if you’ve never watched “Critical Role,” it becomes rather clear watching “The Legend of Vox Machina” what moments are directly lifted from the livestream. As Kecskemety explained, the writers’ room pulls big moments from the “Critical Role” campaign being adapted and then works backward.
With over 400 hours to pull from, plotting a season of “Critical Role” takes serious coordination. That made for much more spontaneous storytelling.”
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“And most of what ended up in the show is from that last take, where the actors just got to play around and try to crack each other up. “We always do a few takes and in the last one we would say, ‘Just have fun with it,'” Riegel told IndieWire. According to executive producer, casting director and voice of Scanlan, Sam Riegel, the original cast of “Critical Role” - all of whom return to voice their characters - are given space to improv.
One way of capturing that sense of spontaneity was in the recording booth.
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But capturing that spontaneity and improvisation for an animated series is both a challenge and essential. No one from the cast, including the game master and worldbuilder, knew what would happen, regardless of how much prep time went into it. One of the reasons for the popularity of “Critical Role” was the chance to watch the formation of a complex story in real-time. ‘Star Wars: Visions’ Adds Classic Aardman Stop-Motion in Vol.
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