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In case you aren’t familiar with Critical Role, an actual-play stream (or podcast) is exactly what it says on the tin you watch (or listen to) players playing an actual game, detailed discussions of how rules work, fumbled rolls and all. With the rise of live-streaming, the actual-play show has gained a lot of prominence. I mean, presumably they did-there were books! Comics! The actual games themselves! That stuff was being made for somebody! It’s just that…I didn’t know any of those somebodies at the time. Lest you think this is about establishing credentials and gatekeeping: All of that time, the one major, major thing I always wished for was for other people to love these worlds and these adventures like I did.

When I wasn’t doing that I was reading Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels, or occasionally Ravenloft, or maybe Dark Sun…well, you get the idea.

#Vox machina comic book how to

I was a kid at the time, I had none of the core books, and so I didn’t actually know how to play as much as I spent hours and hours poring over lore and doing my best to reverse engineer NPC stat blocks in order to figure out what a character I made should have. I’ve been an ardent player of D&D specifically since the old second edition days, when I found a Greyhawk boxed set nearly complete in a used bookstore. I love it, and I have loved it for a long time.

Here’s my poorly-kept secret: when I’m not yelling on the internet about comics (or action figures), I am thinking at nearly all times about tabletop gaming. 1 and 2 Hunter Bonyun (Cover Artist), Matthew Colville (Writer), Jody Houser (Writer), Ariana Maher (Letterer), MSASSYK (Colorist), Matthew Mercer (Writer), Chris Northrop (Letterer, Colorist), Olivia Samson (Artist) Hey, uh…you guys like Critical Role? You know, that show with the voice actors and the Dungeons & Dragons? Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, vols.