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The World of Critical Role

The History Behind the Epic Fantasy

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The World of Critical Role

By: Liz Marsham, Cast of Critical Role
Narrated by: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Felicia Day - introduction
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Dive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide.

From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. This audiobook chronicles how a circle of friends who all happen to be talented voice actors built the most-watched tabletop role-playing livestream of all time.

Discover richly written insights into the locations, characters and adventures featured in the hundreds of episodes across Critical Role's two campaigns, Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein. Go behind the scenes with exclusive interviews with Dungeon Master Matt Mercer and the entire Critical Role cast as they explore their characters' most triumphant moments and darkest hours. And celebrate the massive community of Critters who support and expand the show's world through a highlighted tour of the crafts, cosplay and art they create every day.

Featuring a foreword from Felicia Day and the inside story you won't find anywhere else, this audiobook is your indispensable guide to Critical Role.

The adventure begins!

©2020 Liz Marsham; Cast of Critical Role (P)2020 Penguin Audio Art Adventure

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Mary has an excellent talent for narrating in the voices of the Cast, I could hear them through her words. Nice overview of Critical Role, which brings back memories of watching episodes years ago.

Enjoyable narration

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Started listening to it to feel closer to a friend of mine who loved D&D. Never listened to the sessions before, so the amount of names was confusing at first, but the book is so well written that I got very into it. Gives you the essence of their games and community. Perhaps some things were a bit of a spoiler, but I am moving on to listening to their games anyway!

For new and old critters

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Mary Elizabeth did a wonderful job reading this. a couple of strange pronunciations sometimes (I swear thats not how you say Cadeusus), and a couple of errors (Percy and Vax got married?) but all in all her performance was 100% all the way through.

The book itself was full of wonderful information about both campaigns and even a long time fan like me learned so much. It was a wonderful companion for the long car journeys I had to make recently. Deffo recommended.

Lots of new trivia to learn and a great listen!

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good book about CR, just a little annoying, that Mary can't pronounce most of the names of people and city's especially the names of VM and M9 but good book otherwise 🙂👍

good story weird pronunciation of names

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fab listen , only thing is would have liked to have heard the actual cast saying their bits with it being the audio book , but apart from that was interesting look into the world of critical role and was nice to hear where all the cast came from .

fab listen

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Lovely narration. Fun facts about a well loved company.
Don't forget to love each other.

Thank you to the critters

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this book is such a good way to know the full story of critical role.

Take a chance and dive in.

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if you're a fan of CR, you'll love this. if you're not (yet) and you're aware of them, then I think you'll enjoy their positive look on life and the community thatbhas built up around them

loved it

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From cover to cover I’ve adored listening to this book, I’ve laughed, cried, and I’ve learnt things I didn’t know before about the cast and people I have loved watching for years and honestly I’m happy with that.

Don’t forget to love each other.

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I liked the chapters and the mix of examples from campaign 1 and 2. The handling of spoilers are excellent and leaves you able to enjoy the show even after listening to this

( there is glimpses and highlights of major and minor events that is peak D&D, also this is encouraging to listen to if you are afraid of DM- img or playing a character in a game of D&D, basically you have to prepare, fail, try again and just get into it, and let your character evolve, care for other people and make the best of it. It can be great for socially anxious people to learn to play or people, especially kids with different diagnoses, like Asbergers. A good DM can turn the game into a safe place to learn problem solving and working together without real life consequences)

the focus is on the people behind and the heart and soul of critical role. Great chemistry and generosity between cast and community while revealing the order of which shows stems from the main show, how they started.

I would recommend this for new and already existing fans of the show.

Great intro and refresher,

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