Adapting an impossible amount of content into a series (The Legend of Vox Machina)
What do you do if you have a crazy amount of material that you need to adapt into a medium with a limited amount of time and space? This is a question that all artists have had to face at some point. Whether it's adapting books like Wicked or Les Miserables into a two act musical, or condensing a book series like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games into feature length films, some content will inevitably be sacrificed or even changed to fit within a new medium. But what if you are faced with this dilemma on a bigger scale? This is what Critical Role had to face when adapting their first campaign to the screen. For a bit more context for those of you who may be unfamiliar CR, they are a group of prolific voice actors who play Dungeons and Dragons, a tabletop roleplaying game that often involves sessions over 4 hours long full of complicated lore that each player brings to a table. You can imagine it as a fantasy world building game, where each player contributes to the story and the bat...