I don't know how to express this in a way that won't come off a little crazy and fanboy'ish. Nor is this really the right medium to communicate, probably. But it's what I've got.
Let me start by saying that the moment I started watching #criticalrole, I felt this strange wash of familiarity come over me, having been a Gamemaster (Dungeonmaster) since I was 11. But aside from the amazing place you've been able to take RPGs since the show began, as I learned more about each of the 7 of you, I have felt more and more like you're all shards of me if I was to break myself into 7 pieces.
I'm 41 this year, and have two kids, and because of that I feel a good deal of connection to Sam and Liam.
I played sports all through high school, and did my best to keep my RPGing--at least to the full level of nerd I actually was--on the down-low. And for that, I find a bit of myself like Travis.
Even Marisha, who in so many ways is the opposite of me, I find dance. Not dancing myself (though, my tektonic is pretty solid), but my wife, who co-owned a dance studio at the age of 18 with others, and I spent a lot of time around that dance life of those young girls. I see how crazy it is with the dance moms and the costuming--yeah, I get it.
With Taliesin, I have or have had a shared sense of fashion, even today.
And Matt? To me, Matt's like a brother from another mother. I don't remember not having something to draw with, be it a crayon or marker, pencil or chalk on the ground. I created the world of Armageddon and continued to build it with drawings and stories for decades, I made my own Armageddon RPG, which had a lot of foundations in DnD (though it took me years to actually finally play DnD itself). I went to animation school, and kind of went the opposite direction of Matt, not doing any acting, but did work on Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Eight Crazy Nights, and a few other animated pieces. I later wrote my first Armageddon novel, and then two other sci-fi books, Upgrader: ReEngineered, and Upgrader: Adaptation. And Critical Role got me back into DMing and I've been doing that again (and playing) a lot in the last few years as well.
And now we get to the purpose in all of this. I knew that the only way I could possibly get to interact with your side of the creative industry would be to take up Voice Acting. So I did.
In the past year I've done mostly fan dubs and web series. I got a part in the anime Free! Dive to the Future, and then Obi-Wan in a small Star Wars audio drama, and now a fandub of Justice League:War, voicing the role of Darkseid. I've got plenty to learn, but at least I know it's something I'm capable of.
And now I want to play DnD as a guest on Critical Role.
So this is my plea to you, the cast of #CriticalRole. You probably get asked odd things like this all the time, and of course you can't just have anyone on the show. But I hope this plea is something special, and different.
Let me start by saying that the moment I started watching #criticalrole, I felt this strange wash of familiarity come over me, having been a Gamemaster (Dungeonmaster) since I was 11. But aside from the amazing place you've been able to take RPGs since the show began, as I learned more about each of the 7 of you, I have felt more and more like you're all shards of me if I was to break myself into 7 pieces.
I'm 41 this year, and have two kids, and because of that I feel a good deal of connection to Sam and Liam.
I played sports all through high school, and did my best to keep my RPGing--at least to the full level of nerd I actually was--on the down-low. And for that, I find a bit of myself like Travis.
Even Marisha, who in so many ways is the opposite of me, I find dance. Not dancing myself (though, my tektonic is pretty solid), but my wife, who co-owned a dance studio at the age of 18 with others, and I spent a lot of time around that dance life of those young girls. I see how crazy it is with the dance moms and the costuming--yeah, I get it.
With Taliesin, I have or have had a shared sense of fashion, even today.
And Matt? To me, Matt's like a brother from another mother. I don't remember not having something to draw with, be it a crayon or marker, pencil or chalk on the ground. I created the world of Armageddon and continued to build it with drawings and stories for decades, I made my own Armageddon RPG, which had a lot of foundations in DnD (though it took me years to actually finally play DnD itself). I went to animation school, and kind of went the opposite direction of Matt, not doing any acting, but did work on Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Eight Crazy Nights, and a few other animated pieces. I later wrote my first Armageddon novel, and then two other sci-fi books, Upgrader: ReEngineered, and Upgrader: Adaptation. And Critical Role got me back into DMing and I've been doing that again (and playing) a lot in the last few years as well.
And now we get to the purpose in all of this. I knew that the only way I could possibly get to interact with your side of the creative industry would be to take up Voice Acting. So I did.
In the past year I've done mostly fan dubs and web series. I got a part in the anime Free! Dive to the Future, and then Obi-Wan in a small Star Wars audio drama, and now a fandub of Justice League:War, voicing the role of Darkseid. I've got plenty to learn, but at least I know it's something I'm capable of.
And now I want to play DnD as a guest on Critical Role.
So this is my plea to you, the cast of #CriticalRole. You probably get asked odd things like this all the time, and of course you can't just have anyone on the show. But I hope this plea is something special, and different.
