Part of the beauty of adaptations is that you can change things that no longer fit the story you want to tell. Tiberius doesn’t go with the others, which makes me wonder a bit about how close these stories will stay to the original game. Our story opens with the disappearance of Grog, and the rest of the party going off to find him. The party as currently constructed is half-elf rogue Vax’ildan (Liam O’Brien), his ranger sister Vex’alhia (Laura Bailey), fellow half-elf druid Keyleth (Marisha Ray), gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt (Sam Riegel), goliath barbarian Grog Strongjaw (Travis Willingham), dragonborn wizard Tiberius Stormwind (Orion Acaba) and Vex’alhia’s bear Trinket. Both of these are fan favorite characters, and were sorely missed in the first volume.Ĭritical Role: Vox Machina Origins #1 picks up shortly after the end of the first volume, with the organized party enjoying their newfound local renown. There were still two characters that the first arc did not introduce: Pike Trickfoot as played by Ashley Johnson, and Lord Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III as played by Taliesin Jaffe. That started changing with the first Dark Horse comic series, which showed us how several of the characters met and the first adventures they had together. This meant fans had to piece together parts of the history with questions to the cast, and snippets dropped here and there in the game. The player characters all already knew each other and were already ninth level characters, nearly halfway through the progression. One thing that stood out in the first Critical Role campaign is that rather than starting a brand new campaign, we jumped into the game in progress. The Critical Role crew has made D&D accessible, and have taught more people the joys of the game than anything else I can remember. A big part of that resurgence for D&D has been the success of a little home game turned Twitch stream with several voice actors. I have been a Dungeons & Dragons nerd almost as long as I’ve been a comics nerd, and its wonderful seeing them both have major pop culture resurgences in recent years. Jody Houser (script), Ariana Maher (letters), Matthew Mercer (story), Msassyk (colors), Olivia Samson (art), Fiona Staples (cover)
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