The Legend of Vox Machina goes to hell in official trailer for season 3

The Legend of Vox Machina, based on a Dungeons & Dragons campaign live-streamed by the merry band of voice actors at Critical Role, is barreling into its third season. Turning Critical Role's campaign into an animated series was a natural choice; the voice actors get to do what they do best, and animation allows the story to go to all kinds of places it would be impossible to pull off in live-action. In season 3, out in October, the gang goes to hell! Watch the trailer above.

I'm not a Critical Role expert, so I'm not 100% sure if this is literally hell — there are plenty of infernal realms in the world of Dungeons & Dragons — or if it's just a fire-blasted escape. Last we checked in on the Vox Machina team, they were trying to take down the Chroma Conclave, a group of dragons terrorizing the land. Why shouldn't one of the dragons live in hell? It's hot down there.

The first two seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina have stayed pretty true to the original D&D campaigns, but stars Travis Willingham (Grog) and Sam Riegel (Scanlan) have teased that the show will go farther afield of the source material in season 3. Our characters will be going off the beaten path this season, and characters who weren't part of the original campaign will turn up on the show.

Sometimes, it can be annoying when an adaptation strays from the source material, but in this case the people doing the adapting also created the original work, and Vox Machina was never a normal adaptation in the first place. Who's to say what the rules are when you're adapting an off-the-cuff D&D campaign?

The team will continue this spirit into a new Critical Role based on the D&D campaign they streamed after the Vox Machina campaign was over: get ready for The Mighty Nein, coming out...eventually. As for The Legend of Vox Machina season 3, that premieres on Prime Video on October 3.

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