The Mighty Nein animated series is 'definitely more than halfway done', says Critical Role CEO—which'll make not one, but two famous D&D campaigns turned into TV

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If you've been experiencing as much second-hand envy as I have for the cast of Critical Role, a rather famous D&D livestream that's grown successful enough to have its own animated series, you've probably been getting even greener at the fact that it's about to have yet another series produced from a different campaign.

It's sort of the platonic ideal for anyone with a sufficiently advanced TTRPG game (and the accompanying brain worms) to imagine what their characters would look like rendered on the silver screen, but Critical Role's gone and done it twice. Fans have known that Mighty Nein, which adapts Critical Role's second campaign (which ran from 2018 to 2021 over the span of 141 episodes) has been in the works for some time now. Prime even put out a teaser for it back in July, which you can watch below.

Well, now we've got a status update, via a recent Polygon interview with Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, and Liam O'Brien, all of whom are prolific videogame voice actors and the original cast members of the campaign being adapted.

Willingham, (voice of Grog Strongjaw, soon to be the voice of Fjord, and also CEO of the Critical Role company) told the site: «We have written all of Season 1. The storyboards are all being locked, if they haven't been already. So it's off to our overseas studio. We're getting animation tests back and seeing things come back in colour. We've designed all the characters. The magical spells and effects are being considered. We're talking about music, and how it's going to be different from Vox.

»So it's definitely more than halfway done, and I think everybody's going to be really thrilled with the way it's turning out."

Honestly, I've always thought that a Mighty Nein adaptation would be more suited to TV. Being chronically TTRPG-brained, I did in fact watch the entire thing almost episode-by-episode as it came out—and I always found the vicious fantasy politicking, dramatic twists, and more complex ethics to be more of a draw. Less