Liam O'Brien
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How does Critical Role's Chetney Pock O'Pea die? Travis Willingham (kinda) answers
Willingham, who played Chetney in Critical Role Campaign 3, has a vision of the character's transiion between this world and the next. But we're not 100% sure he's serious
September 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Oh yeah, Critical Role's Sam Riegel has considered playing a Kobold... and making an all-Kobold game
The Legend of Vox Machina's own Scanlan Shorthalt is a fan of "playing smaller characters," as if you needed to know that
September 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Travis Willingham lends his advice on avoiding burnout
When you're as busy as Critical Role's Travis Willingham is, you discover a thing or two about how not to overreach. Now, The Legend of Vox Machina's own Grog is sharing what he's learned
September 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Who would play Critical Role's Wicander Halovar in a live-action Campaign 4 adaptation? Sam Riegel has an idea
No, there's no confirmed adaptation of Critical Role Campaign 4 on its way, much less a live-action one. But hey, you can't keep a professional imaginer from imagining, can you?
September 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey gives her "selfish" reason she'd want to see a Campaign 4 animated, not live-action
Both times a Critical Role campaign has been adapted for the screen, it's been animated. Laura Bailey reveals why she'd want that trend to continue
September 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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How does the Critical Role cast decide on an opening sequence for each campaign? Let Laura Bailey tell you
Why did Critical Role Campaign 1 begin with everyone in character cosplay, when Campaign 2 began with a retro tabletop ad? The cast will explain
September 02, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey recorded "almost the whole game" of Dispatch as Blonde Blazer before becoming Invisigal
Dispatch spent seven episodes trying to find its Invisigal before realizing it already had her.
August 31, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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What would Critical Role's Caleb Widogast do with one wish? Fix Scanlan Shorthalt's weird penis, apparently
Don't take it from us - Caleb's real-life avatar Liam O'Brien said as much in a recent Critical Role chat
August 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Of course Critical Role's Liam O'Brien has tried to put together Shakespeare readings - he even has a specific role in mind for Laura Bailey
To D&D, or not to D&D? That is the question Critical Role's Liam O'Brien says he and fellow castmates have considered before
August 15, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Liam O'Brien reveals the key to most great heist movies: The plan fails
Along with fellow Critical Role star Marisha Ray, O'Brien penned the Legend of Vox Machina season 4 episode De Rolo's Eleven
August 14, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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The Legend of Vox Machina's Marisha Ray & Liam O'Brien thought it would be so cool to write a heist. Then they got to De Rolo's Eleven
Writing The Legend of Vox Machina's season 4, episode 5 was harder than the Keyleth and Percy voice actors thought it was going to be
July 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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The Mighty Nein's Caleb Widogast & Essek Thelyss will stay together, says Liam O'Brien.... but may not say exclusive
Critical Role’s Liam O’Brien reveals a surprising new detail about Caleb and Essek’s future.
June 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Liam O’Brien wanted his new Critical Role character to be fantasy Faceman from The A-Team
There's a whole lot of Liam O'Brien's own past as a theater person in Critical Role Campaign 4's Halandil Fang. But there's some classic '80s TV in there as well
June 03, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role cast members Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien on how they're tackling "harder moments" in The Legend of Vox Machina season 4
There are some pretty harrowing events coming for Vex & Vax in the upcoming season of The Legend of Vox Machina. Bailey and O'Brien shared how they got into those as actors and, ironically, the benefits of such storytelling
May 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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The stars of Critical Role will never be ready to retire Vox Machina completely
The Critical Role cast might be willing to walk away from their Vox Machina characters "when we're dead." So hopefully not soon.
May 28, 2026
Trent Cannon
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Critical Role campaign 4's Wicander Halovar is going to die... or at least Sam Riegel thinks he will, so he already has a plan B
OG Critical Role star Riegel has serious doubts as to whether Wicander Halovar is going to make it through Brennan Lee Mulligan's Campaign 4. But he does have a back-up plan, should the worst happen
May 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role Campaign 4: Halandil Fang is Liam O'Brien's desperate attempt to break his sad boi streak
O'Brien, who played such traumatized characters as Vax, Caleb, & Orym in Critical Role's campaigns past, once heard that he didn't need tragedy to build a strong character. So he's testing that out
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Liam O'Brien refuses to create headcannon for Caleb & Essek's romance: "I don't want to limit the future"
We know that Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss get together at the end of Campaign 2, which is where we get the story of The Mighty Nein. But what happens next? Liam O'Brien doesn't want to narrow down the possibilities
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Yes, there is a Critical Role group chat (but we’ll never see it)
The Critical Role cast reveal that they have a chaotic text thread that they will never share
March 19, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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The Critical Role crew has 50 (!?!) secret projects in the works, and Liam O'Brien "can’t wait to not have them be secrets"
Liam O’Brien says that there are roughly 50 secret Critical Role projects and he can’t wait to share them
March 12, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role crew will return to Exandria someday, but says they have to take care of a few surprises first
Liam O’Brien says Critical Role has a few secret projects he can’t wait to share
March 09, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
The Critical Role game is still "sacred" to its stars: Matt Mercer responds to criticism that it's all business these days
The Critical Role cast say business hasn’t gotten in the way of them having fun every time they get together on Thursdays
February 23, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Critical Role’s Liam O’Brien loves playing as Orym, because there are lots of fun things you could do with a “short king”
Critical Role’s Liam O’Brien says it’s fun to play a “short king” like Orym because you can fun between enemies legs during a fight
February 04, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role's Liam O'Brien explains why The Mighty Nein begins by establishing the Caleb/Nott relationship
Many changes were made to bring Critical Role's Campaign 2 to life in the form of Prime Video's The Mighty Nein, one of which involved Caleb Widogast and Nott the Brave
January 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Are Critical Role campaigns 1 & 2 necessary viewing before Prime Video's Vox Machina & Mighty Nein? Marisha Ray says no, but Matt Mercer has a clarification
Speaking at New York Comic Con, the pair of Ray and Mercer wanted to let you know that Vox Machina & Mighty Nein are both for the newbies and for the hardcore Critters
October 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is giving Beauregard Lionett from Mighty Nein a deeper backstory for Prime Video series, according to star Marisha Ray
OG Critical Roler Ray was giving fans of her human monk Beau at New York Comic Con reason to get excited for Prime Video's animated adaptation of campaign 2, The Mighty Nein.
October 15, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role creator Matthew Mercer: The Mighty Nein being longer than Vox Machina means there will be more time to cry
Critical Role fans will get more time to spend with the titular heroes in Prime Video's The Mighty Nein, which means more time to fall in love with them. Which also means it's gonna be worse when shit goes south
October 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Is Critical Role teasing a massively popular Dungeons & Dragons villain for The Legend of Vox Machina season 4? Yes and no
At New York Comic Con 2025, the OG Critical Role cast couldn't stop talking about 'The Whispered One,' who lore-knowledgeable fans remember as a thinly-veiled Vecna. And before you ask, no, it's not the Stranger Things villain
October 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role animated series The Mighty Nein adds Lucy Liu as the Bright Queen, more cast revealed at NYCC '25
Liu joins Anjelica Huston, Nathan Fillion, T'Nia Miller, Felicia Day, Graham McTavish, and Ivanna Sakhno in Prime Video's latest Critical Role adaptation, The Mighty Nein
October 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role adds Wayne Brady as Taryon Darrington for Vox Machina season 4 (and more cast revealed, too!)
Brady will play campaign 1 breakout Darrington in the latest season of Critical Role's first Prime Video collab, alongside unnamed characters played by Kevin Michaerl Richardson, Tom Cardy
October 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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What happened to Critical Role's fan-favorite Cerrit Agrupnin after Exandria Unlimited: Calamity? Liam O'Brien has some ideas
Travis Willingham's character Cerrit was one of the breakout heroes from Critical Role's prequel liveplay series - now, castmate O'Brien has revealed his head canon for what happened next
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How tabletop RPG games help players discover their gender identity, as told by the Critical Role cast
The Critical Role cast discuss how tabletop gaming allows players to try out different gender identities and explore themselves
April 23, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Watch now!Watch the Critical Role cast talk about their upcoming plans and your favorite moments
Matt Mercer and the whole Critical Role gang love a live show - so we brought them to a comic con with thousands of fans
June 12, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch now!Watch the Critical Role panel from London's MCM Comic Con!
Gather 'round as the Critical Role crew talks about the stories, the jokes, and the fun at MCM in London
October 29, 2023
Chris Arrant
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Critical Role is coming to London for MCM Comic Con
Life needs things to live, and you're getting that as Critical Role is coming to this October's MCM Comic Con
September 15, 2023
Chris Arrant