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How Critical Role’s fan community helps Matthew Mercer remember a decade of storytelling
Matthew Mercer credits Critical Role fan wikis, and Dani Carr, for keeping the lore straight.
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Are you one of the editors on the Critical Role Fandom Wiki? If you are, then you’re an invaluable Critter. Matthew Mercer has served as the Dungeon Master for Critical Role for a decade, which means he’s participated in lots of quests, met lots of interesting characters, and done a whole lot of worldbuilding. So, how does he remember it all?
“I don’t. Dani [Carr] helps me now,” Matthew Mercer says during a Critical Role spotlight panel at New York Comic Con 2022. “It’s what I love. I spent my entire life living in these worlds, and now I have an excuse in a way of bringing other people into it. So much of being a solitary weird creative is trying to find a way to get other people to engage with your passions.”
“I feel very grateful that I’ve found a way to bring such wonderful people into my own and bring other friends into it since that inception point and then invite you all into it, and then watch all of you create all your own shit and make incredible things and tell your own stories, and convince your friends to come and roll dice, and be weird about it. You know that’s been saving to me in my life, and to see so many of you take that permission and make it even greater on your own ways is everything to me.”
“So, while I don’t remember everything, I try my best. And fan wikis have been helpful. Since a lot of our stuff is improv, it’s like always, ‘Oh god, what did we even say? I don’t even remember the last hour because we were just making things up.’ We go back and thankfully a lot of people in the community put it down on the internet. And shoutout to Dani Carr, my right hand Alexandrian librarian. She’s amazing.”
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