Critical Role game master Matthew Mercer and Dropout’s “Dimension 20” host Brennan Lee Mulligan are at the top of a media machine their 10-year-old selves never dreamed would exist: playing D&D. That idea you just had, we’re gonna make that come true.’ That to me is what ambition is. Imagine, imagine a 10-year-old kid being like, ‘There’s a gap in the market, time to start playing Dungeons and Dragons. “I’ve seen conversations, or there have been discussions of how long this was plotted, about how Critical Role was all manufactured as an ultimate goal,” Mercer said. “We took a lesson from even Dropout to build our Beacon platform to help us decouple from relying on outside platforms.”Watch Variety‘s full sitdown interview between Mercer and Mulligan via the video above.