Matthew Mercer

Image: Darrington PressDarrington Press, in it’s first-ever State of the Press, announced multiple new projects and plans to attend GenCon 2023 via a YouTube video released today. Matthew Mercer, the longtime DM of Critical Role and chief creative officer, hosted the event alongside Mica Burton, an actress and actual play performer who has previously appeared on Critical Role. You can watch the full State of the Press below.Three new games were shown during the video. The first is a board game, Queen by Midnight, a…

Image: DropoutEvery season of Dropout’s Dimension 20 offers to shake things up in some kind of way. It’s what’s what made the show so fun to watch over the years, and now that the most recent season—season 15, Neverafter—has wrapped up, it’s once again time to shift to another setting, with the added bonus of Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer as the Game Master.Vox Machina is a Fan Forward ProjectThe Ravening War is a prequel to A Crown of Candy, the franchise’s fifth season from 2020. Crown’s pitch was “Candyland meets Game…

The Legend of Vox Machina has been so successful that it was no surprise when Prime Video announced a third season of Critical Role’s animated fantasy was in development—or when the streamer confirmed that the beloved TTRPG’s second campaign, The Mighty Nein, is now getting an adaptation of its own.Whereas audiences were introduced to the heroes of Vox Machina some time after their adventures had started, the Mighty Nein campaign grew in real time with Critical Role’s audience. Set 20 years after the events of the Vox…

Screenshot: NetflixThe world of Dragon Age is often rocked by monstrous invasions, magical and theistic conflicts, and other life-alteringevents. While the stakes seem high for it, it looks like the new animated series Absolution is going to take a leaf out of the pages of the excellent Dragon Age II, and do something a little smaller.In a new trailer released today, Netflix gave us our first proper good look at Dragon Age: Absolution. Set during an unknown point in the saga’s timeline, Absolution takes views into the…

Image: Titmouse Animation/Prime VideoWhen Critical Role’s first season of The Legend of Vox Machina premiered earlier this year, the heroes were going through the growing pains of being a recently formed adventuring party. By the time everything had wrapped up and the group was returning home after killing the Briarwoods, everyone had leveled up and the experience made them become a better team, if not a stronger family. But one successful quest was the first step to their larger story, a story which was put in motion…