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The Legend of Vox Machina’s third season will deliver more animated Critical Role this fall
No, there’s no official trailer, yet.
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Critical Role’s new subscription service includes two exclusive shows and live event presale access
Beacon corrals all the Critters into one membership-based barn.
Opinion
Critical Role’s best Campaign 3 arc yet just stumbled with a clumsy crossover
A mid-stream twist left viewers confused and lessened the gut-punch of a recent plot point.
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Critical Role’s latest Candela Obscura finale is almost as long as marathoning the original Star Wars trilogy
It doesn’t quite top the Mighty Nein’s farewell, though.
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Critical Role’s investigative horror RPG Candela Obscura will perform live on stage for the first time in LA
VIP ticket holders will watch the crew create characters and for their occult Circle.
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Critical Role's official Vox Machina-inspired whiskey will let you turn D&D into Drinking & Drunkenness
Get a taste of the Sandkheg’s Hide.
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Critical Role RPG Daggerheart opens its public playtest, giving you the chance to try the D&D rival for free
Ahead of the beginner-friendly fantasy game’s release in 2025.
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You'll be able to play Critical Role's D&D rival Daggerheart soon, as the fantasy RPG gets a public playtest
Ahead of its full release in 2025.
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Critical Role celebrates Candela Obscura’s first anniversary with a fourth chapter and three new cast members.
Aimee Carrero, Imari Williams and Alexander Ward join the Circle of investigators fighting back a magical blight.
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"Actual play is a rare type of media where you feel empowered to create": Critical Role's Matthew Mercer on becoming a more relaxed DM and D&D going mainstream
"I’ve grown less and less worried about slipping up here and there."
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Critical Role's Matthew Mercer isn't worried about the RPG actual play bubble bursting
“I could see it push further into the mainstream.”
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Critical Role's Matthew Mercer would love to make a video game - if those stars align
“To leap into video games would be an incredible endeavor.”
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Critical Role prequel novel delves into the backstory of Bells Hells’ favourite undead warlock
Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn’t Break drops in 2024 and explores Laudna’s lost adventures.
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The audience at the table is Candela Obscura's biggest strength
Critical Role’s horror anthology has a cineliterate delivery that makes it more like watching a movie - even for those rolling the dice.
Opinion
Critical Role's live show nailed the rare pleasure of playing D&D at Level 20
Gods, gates and Gelidon.
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Buster Bluth and Veep’s Richard Splett will play D&D with Critical Role for charity
Actors Tony Hale and Sam Richardson take a seat at the roleplay table as part of Red Nose Day 2023.
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Critical Role studio’s horror tabletop RPG, Candela Obscura, will come out next month
Just missing the Halloween period.
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Critical Role’s Mighty Nein Origins series to conclude in 2024 with Beauregard and Caduceus’ backstories
Co-written by Matthew Mercer and the Critical Role cast.
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Dimension 20 announces a spate of D&D actual play live shows in the UK and Ireland
Confusing ticket sale system left fans believing shows sold out in a matter of seconds.
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Dimension 20 resumes production of RPG actual play series after SAG-AFTRA contract clarification
Dropout CEO Sam Reich gives Mulligan and co. the go-ahead to roll more dice on-camera.
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Candela Obscura’s second chapter, featuring Marisha Ray and Brennan Lee Mulligan, plans 5-hour cinema premiere
Fairelands, Pt. 2: Electric Spookaloo
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SAG-AFTRA strike won’t affect Critical Role, D20 but raises question over RPG shows' part in labour movements
The largest names in tabletop actual play voice support for workers’ rights even if their shows aren’t immediately affected.
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Critical Role announces return to UK for Mighty Nein reunion show and MCM London
The actual play stars’ first international show reconvenes fan-favourite characters one more time.
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Candela Obscura’s first mystery will be solving the horror RPG’s identity crisis
The first new tabletop RPG from Critical Role feels more like Diet Blades with a splash of Vaesen.
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Play the RPG behind Critical Role’s newest show with a free quickstart for Candela Obscura
The quickstart contains an introductory assignment and five pregenerated characters.
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Critical Role are playing a Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom RPG one-shot next week
Don’t worry: DM (and voice of Ganondorf) Matthew Mercer will steer clear of story spoilers.
Opinion
Is Critical Role’s Campaign 3 the end of Exandria?
Signs point to Campaign 3 being the last, at least with the Critical Role cast we’re used to.
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Critical Role’s new gothic horror series Candela Obscura uses first tabletop RPG built with Illuminated Worlds
Voices speaking from the other side... of the screen.
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Get an exclusive early look at the latest Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins graphic novel
Mollymauk Tealeaf takes to the stage.
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Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer revealed as next Dimension 20 DM
Roleplaying royalty collides (again).
Opinion
How Legend of Vox Machina turned 170 hours of epic D&D into two seasons of unmissable TV
The animated Critical Role series tells a tighter, character-centric tale in a fraction of the time.
Opinion
Critical Role’s Mighty Nein animated series could be great, if it’s nothing like The Legend of Vox Machina
Pray to the Wildmother.
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Critical Role’s Mighty Nein are coming to Amazon Prime’s television screens
Get ready to shout “fluffernutter!”
Opinion
Critical Role's latest twist could set the stage for Campaign 4 and beyond
Some lunar revelations may hint at what comes next.
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Tabletop RPG actual play allstars join forces on Worlds Beyond Number podcast
Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson and Erika Ishi form the core of the first campaign
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4 D&D actual plays you should watch after Critical Role
Discover your next can’t-miss campaign.
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Critical Role cookbook features recipes from throughout Exandria
Fancy some street meat or Slayer’s Cake?
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A Critical Role album based on the adventures of the Mighty Nein is available to stream
Have a hoedown at Hupperdook.
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The Mighty Nein return to Critical Role’s table for a two-part adventure available in theatres
Both special campaign sessions will run north of four-and-a-half hours.
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D&D documentary directed by Critical Role’s Joe Manganiello will use 400 hours of archival footage
With Wizards of the Coasts president producing, this second film will likely cleave closer to hagiography.
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The Legend of Vox Machina has been greenlit for a third season, drops a second season peek at NYCC
The Legend continues, again.
Opinion
5 things DMs should copy from D&D actual play shows like Critical Role and Dimension 20 (and 5 to avoid)
How to bring the amazing storytelling and memorable moments of your favourite series to game night.
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Who is Vecna? Everything you should know about the D&D, Stranger Things and Critical Role villain
Diving into one of Dungeons & Dragons’ biggest bads.
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Critical Role launches a record label to produce a fantasy ambiance soundtrack
Dragon-slaying tunes.
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Critical Role’s Marisha Ray collaborates with Heart creator on a game about familiars for Free RPG Day
Ray will host a one-shot actual play of A Familiar Problems with guests from Critical Role, Dimension 20 and RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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Critical Role and Stephen Colbert team-up again for Red Nose Day D&D event
With elements decided by donations.
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Critical Role studio reveals details about its new board game and RPG
Including first original game from Matthew Mercer.
Opinion
The Legend of Vox Machina is a poor substitute for the original Critical Role
Not exactly animated.
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Critical Role animated series gets new trailer, premiere airs later this month
The Legend of Vox Machina launches.
Opinion
As Critical Role has grown, my love for the show has died
This actual play is not actually for me.
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Aabria Iyengar achieves an RPG actual play hat trick by leading The Adventure Zone’s new mini-arc
Zone of Adventure: Imbalance sees the return of the McElroys’ initial cast of characters.
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Critical Role announces its first Dungeons & Dragons campaign book with Call of the Netherdeep
Way beyond Wildemount.
Interview
Anjali Bhimani, Exandria Unlimited’s Fy’ra Rai, talks D&D, roleplaying versus acting roles, and joining the Critical Role series
“I take roleplaying with me whenever I’m performing in any other medium.”
Interview
Studio head of Critical Role publisher, Darrington Press, talks Uk’otoa and “artist dad Liam O’Brien”
“The first [Darrington Press] product was important, it needed to be familiar to fans.”
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No, Critical Role won’t appear in Magic: The Gathering’s Dungeons & Dragons set
Card game’s multiverse, tabletop RPG’s Forgotten Realms and actual play series’ world of Wildemount are all separate, designers confirm.
Opinion
Critical Role’s Campaign 2 finale shows just how far the hit Dungeons & Dragons series has come
Forever throwing fluffernutters.
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Critical Role will explore the Mighty Nein’s origins in a new series of graphic novels
Like a backstory wiki, with pictures.
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D&D series Critical Role has launched a fundraising foundation
Non-for-profit organisation led by actor Ashley Johnson.
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Tabletop games made more money than ever before on Kickstarter last year
Two-thirds of tabletop projects reached their goal.
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Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer on world-building in D&D and creating Wildemount
Plus, whether he’d rather live in the homeland of Vox Machina or the Mighty Nein.
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Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount is the most worthwhile D&D 5E book yet, whether you’re a Critical Role fan or not
Im-Mercer yourself.
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Tabletop RPG releases 2020: 10 upcoming roleplaying games you should play this year
From the first Warhammer: Age of Sigmar RPG to Nordic horror and underground cities
