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God, I'm watching Critical Role, been trying to catch up in c3 (like they released episode 70 on Friday and I'm at episode 34 now) and episode 33 and 34 made me cry so much. Oh my God. If y'all like DND, voice actors and have 11 days continous at regular speed to spare, then I recommend Critical Role. But it'll make you cry so much.
gif of Travis Willingham rolling a dice while yelling out "Fucking Mercer!" indicating Matthew Mercer who is the DM for Critical Role
So where do I start listening? Campaign 1 , then 2 and 3 and then all the extras?
It depends. Campaign 1 is REALLY rough, I think I only got up to episode 11. But C1 is rough because 1) they had a player in the game who isn't there now because of a lot of reasons (health and the way he was interacting with other players in the game and outside the game), and 2) visual and audio quality is bad because it was filmed like almost ten years ago. If you want to know the story of C1 but don't want to watch like 100+ episodes, there is The Legend of Vox Machina, there's currently 2 seasons but it's on Amazon Prime. But it's a pretty honest retelling of the campaign bar that one player and here and there, but the general gist and story beats are largely the same. A lot of people recommend starting C1 at about episode 24 iirc.
Campaign 2 and 3 are great to start from the start. They're currently on C3. Though towards the end of C2 they were affected by Covid, so usually they're rather close together, whereas for the Covid episodes where they could come back and film, they couldn't sit next to each other and most likely had their own little tables so on the screen it looks disjointed imho. But anyways, while C1, 2 and 3 are all set in the same world and some characters from previous campaigns do show up, you can jump in anywhere. Like if you want to watch C3, go for it.
If you want to get into the feel of Critical Role but want something a bit shorter, there's Exandria Unlimited, some of the characters from this goes over into C3. It isn't DM'd by Matthew Mercer, however, Aabria Iyengar is still a FANTASTIC DM. She was great. But yeah. I love Critical Role. Love these nerdy arse voice actors.
Sam's improv bard spells are fucking amazing.
Yeah, I wish I was that skilled when I played a bard.
Start with Campaign 2.