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The Mighty Nein showrunner talks adapting Critical Role's live show: "We can't spend 4 hours shopping"

At NYCC 2025, The Mighty Nein showrunner Tasha Huo shares the challenges and gifts of turning a live D&D show into a series.

Critical Role Campaign 4 Laura Bailey — Image credit: Critical Role

Features by Jim McDermott, Contributing writer

Published on Sun Oct 12 2025

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The Mighty Nein animated series from Prime Video is an animated fantasy extravaganza spanning eight episodes - but it started as a campaign on Critical Role that ran more than 141 installments. That's a translation that caused some difficulty, according to series showrunner Tasha Huo.

While Huo was a huge fan of the original Critical Role campaign, at NYCC 2025 she admitted that adapting the material for an animated series had its challenges. “As anybody who has played D&D knows, characters wander like crazy,” she said. And Critical Role is no different: “They will literally spend four hours like, shopping." (They really did.)

"That is not an episode of television,” Huo said, laughing. A TV series, she explains, requires focus. “D&D is bonkers. It goes completely off the rails. The improv can take you to crazy places. For a TV show, you have to put in on the rails. You have to make sure it’s pointing at something and that the dialogue is not just funny and in voice but pushing the story along.”

That’s not to say that the whimsy of the campaign get written out, she noted. “Along the way all the fun stuff that was in the live show gets to join us on the path to story.”

The fact that the campaigners are also the actors is a massive added bonus. “You don’t usually get a cast who have lived in their characters as long as they have,” she explains. “When you go in to record, if it doesn’t feel right, you can say, ‘Let’s try something else.’ And they without question would say, “I’d probably say this, let me give you an option.’”

The Mighty Nein premieres on Prime Video November 19.

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