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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9761783" data-attributes="member: 11760">I would actually start with the Legend of Vox Machina cartoon, which boils Campaign 1 down to a more zippy pace.Critical Role episodes are, on average, four hours long and campaigns are each 100+ episodes. And these episodes take their time. There are whole episodes that are 99% shopping. One in Campaign 2 was about hiring NPCs to work in the group's tower HQ.The cartoon will give you a sense of the characters, the story, the tone, etc., much more quickly. You won't need to invest multiple four-hour chunks to figure out if Critical Role is for you. (Or you might decide that consuming it as a cartoon is more your speed.)The new campaign is apparently a fresh start, but it's a new-ish DM for Critical Role (Mulligan has done two important limited series runs, which were excellent, but were not the main campaign), a new format and includes a bunch of folks who have only been supporting players in the past. And Mercer, of course, is going to be a player, rather than a DM.It may be good, it may be bad, but it will for sure be different.</blockquote>