Critical Role
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Overview
Critical Role is a weekly actual play series that uses tabletop role-playing game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy worlds of Exandria, Aramán, and beyond, with sweeping narratives intricately woven through collaboration between Game Masters and players.
Crew
Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, Liam O'Brien, Travis Willingham
Seasons
Campaign 1: Vox Machina
115 Episodes
2015
Campaign One, or The Campaign of Vox Machina, is the first campaign of Critical Role. It follows a group of adventurers, Vox Machina, first in their adventures across the continent of Tal'Dorei and eventually the larger world of Exandria and other Planes of Existence.
Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein
141 Episodes
2018
Set in the magical world of Exandria, on the continent of Wildemount, Critical Role's Mighty Nein campaign is the story of a group of motley and chaotic adventurers who find themselves caught in the middle of a war between two nations.
Campaign 3: Bells Hells
121 Episodes
2021
Set in the magical world of Exandria, on the continent of Marquet, Critical Role's third campaign is the story of an eccentric band of adventurers who find themselves entangled in fey chaos within the city of Jrusar and embroiled in the ancient mysteries surrounding the red moon Ruidus.
Campaign 4
23 Episodes
2025
Hero to many. Enemy to some. When Thjazi Fang is marked for execution, various figures from across his remarkable life unite to uncover the truth behind his grim fate. In a land still suffering from the fallout of dead gods and living in the shadow of a tumultuous rebellion, these disparate people will come together across the fractured world of Aramán and connect in ways they never imagined. As hope and victory fade, a question hangs over Aramán. Without the Gods, what great deeds now fall to us? And who, or what, shall grab their crown for themselves?
Cast
Brennan Lee Mulligan
Game Master
Laura Bailey
Thimble
Luis Carazo
Azune Nayar
Robbie Daymond
Kattigan Vale
Aabria Iyengar
Thaisha Lloy
Taliesin Jaffe
Bolaire Lathalia
Ashley Johnson
Vaelus
Matthew Mercer
Sir Julien Davinos
Whitney Moore
Tyranny
Liam O'Brien
Halandil "Hal" Fang
Marisha Ray
Murray Mag'Nesson
Sam Riegel
Wicander "Wick" Halovar