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Playing Dungeons & Dragons, or any TTRPG for that matter, is rooted in improvisation. There's no script, after it all, so the more talented you are in working without one, the more fun you're likely to have. The same is true for the cast of Critical Role - all exceptional improvisers themselves - and that's about to become even more obvious when The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 drops. After all, it stars one of the most talented improvisers of our time: Who's Line is it Anyway's Wayne Brady.

Popverse's Trent Cannon got to speak with some of the OG Critical Role cast ahead of the next chapter of their Campaign 1 adaptation dropping, and a whole lot of the conversation revolved around Brady's character, Taryon Darrington. It was Sam Riegel, who originated the character at the Critical Role table, who brought up how much Brady's talent in working off-script affected this upcoming season.

"He took elements from [Campaign 1] that he thought that the fans would be expecting," Riegel explained, "His pompous attitude, his more formal way of speaking; his sort of vague, not British, mid-Atlantic sort of thing. Then he put his Wayne Brady spin on it. He improvised a lot of the dialogue that made it into the show. He added all of these little fun laughs and giggles and guffaws and sounds that really made the character come to life."

That's high praise from Taryon's creative daddy (don't google that), but as Riegel puts it, all of Brady's improvising is what brought the leader of the Darrington Brigade into his final form.

"By the end of recording the season," admitted Riegel, "I felt like he's more Taryon Darrington than I am at this point. I kind of want to call Sideshow Collectibles and have them reissue their Taryon Darington figure with this new design. I feel like this is the one. This is Taryon Prime now."

The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 comes to Prime Video June 3.

With two animated series on Prime Video, Campaign 4 in full swing, and so much more Exandrian lore to come, Critical Role is showing no signs of slowing down. That's why the adventuring party at Popverse are here to bring you everything we can from those nerdy-ass voice actors & Bo., including:

• Critical Role release schedule
• Critical Role's Campaign 4 characters ranked
• How to watch Critical Role in order
• Ways for you to relive the Critical Role panel from ECCC '26
• Taliesin Jaffe on playing Mollymauk Tealeaf for Campaign 2 vs. playing him for Prime Video
• Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (created originally for Vin Diesel)

...and much, much more. Roll initiative, player. Magic awaits.