My wife got into Vox Machina and Mighty Nein, and asked me if there are other shows 'like this'. I blew her mind with Record of Lodoss War.
I'm a TTRPG gamer for a large part of my life, starting with 3.5 edition D&D back when it was THE current version, alongside the 2e CRPGs such as Baldur's Gate. When 5e got popular, and I accepted it as something I might attend (if the DM is good) but rejected it as something I'm ever interested in DMing, it was a natural choice for me to 'downshift' to AD&D 2e instead as the edition best combining solid gameplay, and ease of entry for my players.
My wife is an occasional player, but mostly a periphery fan of D&D and D&D-based works. At some point, we had great fun watching the 2023 D&D movie, and from there she looked for other adaptations and found "Vox Machina", the series based on the "Critical Role" live game podcast. It, and the accompanying adaptation of the subsequent campaign from the same podcast, 'Mighty Nein', has been a great deal of fun to watch, and to do things you don't typically get to do watching a typical animated series — pointing out the players' individual style in their characters; noting the scenes visualising familiar D&D mechanics; telling apart twists which weren't put in place by any sort of plot convenience logic, but by gamers being gamers, or dice clearly dis/favouring them; and so on.
So she was wondering if there's been other series adapted from actual D&D plays, and I knew exactly what to show her. It took some careful set-up to pique her interest enough that she wouldn't lose it over Lodoss' tone and presentation being slower, less quirky and humorous, and more epic in the old-school sense, but eventually we went in knowing what to expect. She was greatly impressed to learn people following live campaigns, and adapting them to screen, was a thing in 1990!
So far we finished the OVA — as it, watched episodes 2-5, 1, and 6-8, to the finale of Grey Witch arc. Since OVA's latest episodes are non-canon and attempt to condense entire campaigns' worth of adventure into singular episodes at breakneck speed, and at least some of that will be covered in much greater detail by the anime (aka Chronicles of the Heroic Knight), we're not watching those. Instead, Chronicles of the Heroic Knight ep. 1 is next on the list (and even that creates a minor continuity snarl with a redo of Shiris and Orson's introduction).
My dear has been very appreciative we watched the OVA in chronological order (2-5 then 1, not starting with ep. 1), as she notes she'd lose track otherwise. She's been very invested in the mystery of the Grey Witch's motivations, and a bit dissatisfied there hasn't been more on her origins (IIRC there will be some more shown in the anime). She easily recognized Deedlit as the same 'cute druid waif who lowkey is the most capable member but seldom operates at full capacity' type as Doric and Keyleth, and found Deedlit's high confidence relative to the latter two commendable; and wishes we got to learn more of Woodchuck's backstory. She guessed Ghim's axe throw >!to get Karla off Leylia!< way in advance, as something the player would do, after his previous displays of expertise with that move. She also gushed all over Emperor Beld's design.
For some reason, the scene in ep. 1 with the gargoyles coming to life (the one where the shot has colouring changing within the same still linework) impressed her greatly, and convinced her the 18+ rating is warranted.
She did not mind the old-school sensibilities such as the less diverse racial cast and the lack of more modern-minded classes (Orson's possession-as-justification-for-berserker-rage isn't that different from modern-day warlocks anyway, though we're yet to dig teeth into that), and to the contrary, appreciated the gravity animation and narration treat magic with, especially Deedlit's, Slayn's and Karla's.
That's all so far, folks!