Matt Mercer
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
Critical Role cast member (and monster expert) Alex Ward can see himself playing at least one of Brennan Lee Mulligan's creature creations, but reminds us that "humans are the worst monsters of all"
Ward, who is the actor behind some of the freakiest creatures to be on screen in recent memory, is bringing is monstrous expertise to Critical Role Campaign 4 as Occtis Tachonis
September 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Robbie Daymond wanted his Campaign 4 character to be the exact opposite of Bells Hells breakout Dorian Storm
Dorian Storm, who was played in both Hells Bells and Exandria Unlimited by Daymond, is the categorical opposite of what Campaign 4's Kattigan Vale will turn out to be
September 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Marisha Ray offers advice on cosplaying her Campaign 4 character - "Let it all hang out"
Ray, who will play Murray Mag'Nesson in the upcoming Critical Role Campaign 4, advises those inspired by her look to "let the sun hit them in all the places"
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
What do the Critical Role Campaign 4 characters smell like? Sam Riegel knows
Rumors from an unnamed source (kidding, it was Aabria Iyengar) suggested Riegel's Wiccander Halovar might smell like Davidoff Cool Water in Critical Role Campaign 4. Popverse investigated.
September 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Aabria Iyengar wants to calm your Campaign 4 fears over being overwhelmed by a "sheer tonnage of extraordinarily hot PCs"
Iyengar, who transforms into Thaisha Lloy for Critical Role's biggest campaign yet, understands that you're scared about the next adventure being simply too sexy. But being slightly scared of art, she says, is a great thing
September 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role star Laura Bailey knows that her Campaign 4 character resembles Jester Lavorre... but don't let that fool you; they couldn't be more different
"They are both cute," Bailey says of both her Campaign 4 character, Thimble, and her fan-favorite Mighty Nein character, Jester Lavorre. But apart from that, don't expect much similarity
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matt Mercer teases Campaign 4's new setting of Aramán - and how it differs from Exandria
Mercer, who will transition from GM to enigmatic player character Sir Julien Davinos in Critical Role's Campaign 4, says the differences between Exandria and Aramán lie in their history with the gods
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Critical Role cast has heard your speculation about the Campaign 4 factions... but no one's completely nailed them yet, says Marisha Ray
Ray, who plays Murray Mag'Nussen in the upcoming Critical Role campaign, urges fans not to "get too in the weeds of what someone's wardrobe looks like"
September 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role mastermind Matt Mercer has a surprise origin story - he never finished his first D&D campaign
The creator of Exandria has always had big ideas for his Dungeons & Dragons sessions. Too big, it turns out, for the first people Critical Role star Mercer ever played with
September 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Roll Hope, adventurer: Daggerheart's release date has been revealed
Fantasy TTRPG fans can get their hands on the Darrington Press-produced game May 20, 2025, provided they ordered from Darrington Press directly
February 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matthew Mercer is changing the game (literally) with the Daggerheart TTRPG. At PAX Unplugged 2024, he explained why
Probably the most anticipated game showcased at PAX U this year was Daggerheart, in part because Critical Role's own Matthew Mercer not only helped design it, but actually introduced it to an assembled crowd in Philadelphia.
December 13, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matt Mercer gave us the dark and dour deets on his Daggerheart campaign
When Critical Role's Matthew Mercer got to talking about the campaign he designed for 2025's Daggerheart TTRPG, he was all too happy to make us all less happy
December 07, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
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Square Enix brought Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to New York Comic Con, and Popverse is bringing it to you. Presented by DoorDash.
January 17, 2024
Chris Arrant