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Like other people have said, he's had years to piece it together across two campaigns, but he also had publishing deals and a livestream show to help justify the professional level of effort he can put into it and it shows.
Late 2019 a group finally did it, and they'll be running characters in the new continent for the next campaign once we're back at the physical table together.
Jan 28, 2022 · The Legend of Vox Machina gives DM Matt Mercer a rare opportunity: The chance to perfect his D&D campaign. An interview with the cast of Critical Role’s Amazon animated series.
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In 2012, Liam O'Brien asked Matthew Mercer to run a D&D one-shot for his birthday. At the time, Matthew kept telling Liam about the D&D game he was running and often invited Liam to join. The game then became an ongoing Pathfindercampaign. When Matt created the campaign that eventually became Critical Role, he made up his own world, Exandria, and restructured some of the game system rules to allow for more flexibility in the storyline. He has been the Dungeon Master since the beginning of the...
Main campaigns
At the beginning of the series, Matt created custom battlemaps by drawing grids on paper. He eventually upgraded to three-dimensional maps, and spends time every week assembling battlemaps from the hundreds of pieces he has collected over the years. He hand-crafted some of the map elements, and has painted some minis by hand. During the show, Matt is responsible for the music, and with the new Campaign Threeset, the ambient lighting. In an open letter published a few days before the Campaign...
Player characters
See also: Player characters played by Matthew Mercer Although Matt is the Dungeon Master for the main campaigns of Critical Role, he occasionally gets to be a player for one-shots and miniseries. 1. Matthew Mercer, Human Bard ("Liam's Quest: Full Circle" (Sx16)) 2. Matthew Mercer, vampire ("Thursday by Night: Part 1" (Sx24)) 3. Trinket, bear ("Trinket's Honey Heist" (Sx27) and "Honey Heist 2:Electric Beargaloo" (Sx35)) 4. Reggie Burns, raccoon ("Crash Pandas: Too Trashed, Too Curious" (Sx37))...
Custom D&D materials
Matt created several custom supplementals for Dungeons & Dragons, 5th edition, some of which are available on the Dungeon Masters Guildor have been included in official Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks: 1. "Blood Hunter" classAlso available on D&D Beyond 2. "Lingering Soul" class 3. "College of the Maestro" (bard subclass) 4. "Gunslinger" (fighter subclass) 5. "Blood domain" (cleric subclass) 6. "Blood magic" (wizard subclass) 7. "Empathy Domain" (cleric subclass) 8. "Path of Fundamental Chaos"...
D&D sourcebooks
Matt has worked as a writer and game designer on several official D&D materials. 1. Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting 2. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount 3. Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep 4. Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn
Other actual play series
In addition to Critical Role, Matt served as the dungeon master for Geek & Sundry's CelebriD&D miniseries in 2017. He appeared as a player on twice on CollegeHumor's show Dimension 20: the first time as Leiland in Escape from the Bloodkeep, and the second time as Jack in Pirates of Leviathan. Brennan Lee Mulliganserved as Dungeon Master for both games. Matt also appeared as a DM or player on several other series, such as Force Grey, RealmSmith ,The Adventure Zone, and for Dimension 20's: The...
At a young age, Matt suffered from a stutter. His father, who also stuttered, got him a speech therapist who reduced the effects to the point that only certain words trigger it. He has revealed in multiple interviews that he suffers from body dysmorphic disorderand has always struggled with his physical appearance. As a freshman at high school, app...
He shares his middle name, Christopher, with Liam O'Brien.In the Critical Role Major Arcana Tarot Card Set, he (as the Dungeon Master) represents XXI - The World.Matt is the third known member of his family to play Dungeons & Dragons. His mother played with Darin De Paul (and he would play a continuation of his own character as a guest player in Critical Ro...Matt's NPCs are sometimes borrowed from or inspired by his player characters from other games. Two of these characters are Grimthorne and Eskil Ryndarien. It is possible that Trent Ikithonwas also...As someone that is currently running a campaign in Wildemount, I can say that my DM loves Matthew Mercer and just kinda understands he won’t be on par. He doesn’t get discouraged by this but instead uses Matthew as a way for him to grow and develop his story telling skills.
Nov 18, 2020 · In a new interview and book excerpt from The World of Critical Role, Matt Mercer talks about the challenge of being a Dungeon Master on the popular YouTube actual play series, and one time when...
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Oct 4, 2023 · The cast of veteran voice actors play the main characters who drive the plot forward in all three Critical Role campaigns, while the prolific DM Matthew Mercer plays everyone else. Mercer has created Critical Role 's fictional world, pantheon, and history.
