Amazon picked up Critical Role’s first campaign, “The Legend of Vox Machina,” in 2019 after the role-playing crew smashed Kickstarter records by raising $11.3 million for an animated adaptation.

In 2025, Critical Role is one of the brightest lights in an increasingly popular medium: actual play.Using a game like D&D as the rules to provide an engine for an adventure, players and their DM ...