'Critical Role' secured nearly $2 million in funding for its animated Dungeons and Dragons special within one hour of launching its Kickstarter campaign.
The folks behind web series"Critical Role" wanted to raise $750,000 to finance an animated Dungeons and Dragons digital special.
"Critical Role" is a weekly livestreamed Dungeons and Dragons game played by voice actors from TV shows"Avengers Assemble,""Spider-Man" and"Transformers" as well as video games"Overwatch,""The Last of Us" and"Fallout," among others. On Monday, the group launched a Kickstarter campaign to create an animated series based on the first"Critical Role" Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Within an hour of its launch around 1 p.m. Monday, it raised more than $1 million in funding and is still gaining steam. As of 5 p.m., the campaign had raised more than $2.1 million from more than 16,000 backers.
"Critical Role" smashed through its initial monetary goal and is now offering"stretch goals" to its backers. Stretch goals are monetary benchmarks that, when surpassed, give backers more rewards, such as merchandise, art or downloadable content.
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