The folks behind longrunning Dungeons & Dragons net series essential Role are raising funds on Kickstarter to show the series’ hit 1st campaign into associate degree animated special.

The campaign, that went live this morning, had a goal of $750,000. It’s already raised $3.3 million at time of posting, with forty five days of funding to travel.

Critical Role started off as associate degree in progress work surface role-play campaign pass by voice actor Matt Mercer and made by Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry. It followed a bunch of heroes conjointly referred to as voice Machina. Characters within the game were vie by Mercer’s friends and fellow voice actors: Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, and Liam O’Brien. Mercer and friends 1st broadcast the series on YouTube, wherever they gathered 350,000 subscribers and designed an oversized cross-platform fanbase that saw essential Role become the No. one net series on Tumblr last year.

The voice Machina campaign spanned a hundred and fifteen episodes and 373 hours of gameplay, and led to Nov 2017. Nowadays, Mercer and also the gang (which split from Geek & Sundry last month to self-produce — perhaps as a result of Geek & Sundry was prepping to finish its streaming service Alpha) livestream episodes of a replacement campaign on YouTube and Twitch weekly.

But with Kickstarter, they’re revisiting the fan-favorite voice Machina characters. The fully-funded Kickstarter can support the creation of The Legend of voice Machina, a 22-minute adult animated special. It’s a prequel to the initial voice Machina campaign, and every one the initial voice actors can come back to present their characters life. (The special is additionally meant to be proof of conception for a possible full-fledged animated series following the heroes.)

The Legend of voice Machina are going to be written by Jennifer Muro (Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Spider-Man, Justice League: Action), and made by prime animation studio oscine bird, that has created shows for Netflix, Disney, Cartoon Network, and Amazon.

Some of the Kickstarter’s reward tiers have already oversubscribed out, however essential Role fans will still get work surface game dice sets (by pledging $100 or more), limited-edition pins ($400+), signed pilot scripts ($500+) and art prints ($750+), still as experiences like meetups with the solid ($20,000).

The Legend of voice Machina is thanks to premiere in fall 2020.