Matthew Mercer

Matthew Miller, known by stage name Matthew Mercer, (@matthewmercer) is a voice actor and the Dungeon Master for the show Critical Role.

Matt was the DM for a D&D game in high school in his freshman year.

When Matt created the game that eventually became Critical Role, he made up his own world of Exandria and restructured some of the game system rules to allow for more flexibility in the storyline. He has been Game Master since the beginning of the campaign two-and-a-half years before the web show started.

Prior to the stream, the group would meet every month to month-and-a-half for about eight hours. This was problematic, as many of the members would need to be reminded by Matt on elements of the storyline, how to play, etc.

When Matt told the other cast members about Geek & Sundry coming to him and talking about making Critical Role, the group's reactions were recorded for posterity.

In preparation for the stream, Matt converted the game over from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons, because Pathfinder combat is slower due to many various modifiers. D&D also has more name recognition. When converting their game, Matt had to create a custom Fighter's Martial Archetype for Taliesin Jaffe's character, Percy, as he is a gunslinger. They both sat down and took a full day to switch over the character and all of his stats and abilities.

When asked if he could be any player character in the game, Matt said Scanlan.