Matthew Mercer

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, he made up his own world and restructured some of the 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 8 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.

A video of Matt telling everyone else about Geek & Sundry coming to him and talking about making Critical Role can be found here.

In preparation for the Stream, Matt converted the game over from Pathfinder to Dungeons and Dragons because Pathfinder combat is slower due to many various modifiers. D&D also has more name recognition.

When converting over the game, Matt had to create a custom class 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.

Matt's signature phrase as Dungeon Master is "How do you want to do this?" Whenever somebody makes a boss kill.