

But then, as anyone does when they play a character for a while, you start to like. And then, when we started playing on the stream for the second campaign, I gave her a voice and I gave her some character quirks and stuff and started building in like she's a kelpto, she's an alcoholic, which is good places to start.

And she didn't have a voice, she didn't really have any personality, I was just trying to like learn how rogues work. We played one session before the campaign started that was like a test out session, it only was like an hour long. Yeah, Nott has definitely evolved since we began. I wanted to get out of the comfort zone, you know? I made her a girl because girls are awesome and also just to get away from everything I had done before. So I landed on Nott the Brave who is about as far the other direction as you can get. I started exploring maybe having a skittish character or a nervous character and then I was just trying, again, like get away from the stuff we had done in the first campaign, so as far away from like confident, cocky Scanlan as I could get. that wasn't Vax really, like I didn't want to be a cool assassin, brooding, awesome rogue, so I wanted to do something a little different and something that could have some humor and character quirks and stuff.

And for the second campaign, I thought it was only fitting that he choose again so he said, "Why don't you do a goblin rogue?" So I did a goblin rogue but I wanted to find something that was. Well, for the first campaign, Liam suggested that I play as a gnome bard, and so Scanlan was born. Sam Riegel: Well, I currently play as Nott the Brave in our campaign two of Critical Role. Todd Kenreck: Today I'm talking to Sam Riegel about his character Nott, the jingle he sang and created for D&D Beyond as well as the animation, and why if Critical Role got an animated series, it would be full circle for the entire cast.
