The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

Amazon Studios has picked up the Critical Role animated series The Legend of Vox Machina for a fourth season. Amazon formally announced the pickup today, confirming that the show would continue past the current season. A fourth and fifth season of The Legend of Vox Machina was already in pre-production based on SAG-AFTRA contract database info, but this is the first public confirmation that future seasons are in the works. The announcement comes ahead of the release of the final episodes of Season 3, which release this evening in the US.

“We are beyond thrilled – and grateful – to continue the epic and wild adventures of Vex, Vax, Keyleth, Percy, Pike, Grog and everyone’s favorite character – Scanlan,” said executive producer Sam Riegel. “With each season, this show levels up, and we already have big plans to level up both our heroes and villains in Season Four.”

Amazon Studios is also developing a series based on The Mighty Nein, which is expected to be released in 2025.

 

[Oofta]

Agreed 100% on animated is the way to go. WOTC could make a Baldurs Gate 3 show and that has a pretty huge audience at this pointt. They already have the voice actors cast.

Maybe they could have a show where they help Karlach in Avernus find a why to fix her heart.

 

[Azzy]

Haven't gotten to Season 3 yet, but O gotta say Season 2 was a huge escalation, it was great.

I gotta say, I enjoyed season 3 as well.

 

[Parmandur]

I gotta say, I enjoyed season 3 as well.

Looking forward to it!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The adaptation of Fallout has worked in Amazon. Maybe they are "learning" how to produce teleseries.

And let's remember other companies also can create their own fantasy IPs.

 

[CleverNickName]

This must be driving WotC nuts, why us CR so much more successful at getting a D&D TV show then the folks who actually own D&D. 2 of them so far.

I mean...Critical Role boosts the profile of the tabletop gaming industry as a whole, and WotC/Hasbro owns the flagship product in that market. So they're probably crying all the way to the bank about it.

 

[SteveC]

This must be driving WotC nuts, why us CR so much more successful at getting a D&D TV show then the folks who actually own D&D. 2 of them so far.

I think it's not too hard to crack the code on why CR is more successful. You have some of the most talented voice actors around, and Matt Mercer as the DM. I haven't seen anyone working at WotC with those credentials. And beyond that, do they have anyone working there who writes the way the CR staff does? You have creative professionals making a great show. I think you'd have to hire a whole team for that. It's certainly not impossible, but you can't just put an average gaming group in front of a camera and expect it to be this level.

Although they could create a series of "gaming group nightmare" shows. I know I'd watch that!

 

[jayoungr]

Maybe Amazon could dare in the future to create their own IP from zero enjoying absolute control and creative freedom

They did it, and they ruined it.

Carnival Row broke my heart.

 

[Audiomancer]

This must be driving WotC nuts, why us CR so much more successful at getting a D&D TV show then the folks who actually own D&D. 2 of them so far.

Yeah. I mean… image that WOTC/Hasbro had an IP that featured a half-dozen characters, representing typical fantasy archetypes, and could create animated stories about their adventures.

I bet they’d try to feature them in game products and little digital freebies, to raise their profile, in the hopes of getting a studio to front the money to develop a cartoon series.

Crazy talk, I know…

 

[SteveC]

Yeah. I mean… image that WOTC/Hasbro had an IP that featured a half-dozen characters, representing typical fantasy archetypes, and could create animated stories about their adventures.

I know you were saying this to be funny, but in all honesty, this is the easy part. WotC doesn't have someone to write, produce, and act in the way that the CR staff does. That's the hard part. Matt is an exceptional DM, writer, and actor. That's not something easy to find.

Could WotC find people like that? Of course. But putting them together isn't easy. Making a successful multi-media property is hard to do. If I look at CR, they have attempted to do the rules and game side of the equation and ... how's that going?

 

[Blue]

Agreed 100% on animated is the way to go. WOTC could make a Baldurs Gate 3 show and that has a pretty huge audience at this pointt. They already have the voice actors cast.

I'm with you, I'd definitely watch it. But...

If you look in some of the, let's say less savory corners of the internet, there's a lot of hate for just about every character. Most of them can be very polarizing. So a show with all of them would have a lot of haters.