In a rather glowing profile published in the Washington Post about Critical Role's growing Dungeons & Dragons gaming empire, a snippet of new information has been released about The Legend of Vox Machina. Fans of the animated series will just have to wait until this fall to see more adventures from Critical Role's first team of adventurers.
We knew The Legend of Vox Machina was getting a third season in 2022, when Amazon MGM Studios (sigh, corporate mergers) greenlit further adaptations of Critical Role’s inaugural series alongside trailers for the yet-to-be-released second batch of episodes. Based on the titular party that launched Critical Role’s growing presence in live-streamed tabletop RPGs, The Legends of Vox Machina has already condensed 170 hours of actors rolling dice into a produced story with raucous, raunchy (and also dramatic) plots.
Fans have embraced two seasons packed with Grog, Keyleth, Pike, Scanlan Shorthalt, and the rest of Vox Machina with the same passion they show their live-action counterparts. It retains Critical Role's often irreverent sense of humor (something many kitchen table games can attest to) and its self-admitted penchant for swearing until you drop, as my grandmother would describe it.
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Others, like our own Alex Meehan, were less kind to the animated adaptation, pointing out its uneven tone that swung wildly between dick jokes and runaway-vehicle emotional gravity and a frenetic pace as if the directors were never sure they could meet their own 25-minute deadlines for episodes.
Critical Role CEO Travis Willingham confirmed the news of the third season On twitteradding a provocative “Guys, it’s so good…” to keep fans on the line for a handful more months. Yesterday was a busy day for creators and multimedia business owners. Critical Role launched a dedicated membership service, called Beacon, that will host ad-free videos from the main campaign and various other supporting programs behind a monthly subscription. YouTube and Twitch streams aren’t going away anytime soon, but the team is apparently eager to decouple its efforts from third-party streaming platforms.
Critical Role’s tabletop narrative recently hit a bit of a snag when Season 3’s main story (focusing on the misfit cast of Bell’s Hell) shifted midway into Aabria Iyengar’s ongoing campaign, Exandria Unlimited: Kymal. Fans felt the transition was messy and left them with narrative whiplash. Candela Obscura’s spooky fourth investigation season swung in the other direction, taking six hours to wrap up its finale.