Taliesin Jaffe
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
In Critical Role Campaign 4, Azune Nayar never corrects mispronunciations of his name. That's on purpose, says Luis Carazo
Is Luis Carazo's Critical Role character ah-ZOO-nay or aH-zoo-nay? Part of Azune Nayar's personality is revealed by the fact that we don't know
September 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe opens up about Campaign 4's Bolaire Lathalia and the Panto Masks: "Family in the sense that that is what we have been written to be"
In regards to his personhood, Critical Role's Jaffe compared his Campaign 4 character to the titular characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
September 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe has read your theories on how Campaign 4's Panto Masks works - but no one has guessed correctly yet
Heads up - we're getting into some spoiler territory not just regarding Jaffe's Bolaire Lathalia, but Critical Role's Campaign 4 in general
September 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe shares Bolaire Lathalia's thoughts on Campaign 4's Thjazi Fang: "A Righteous Monster"
There comes a point when "someone has something they believe in so passionately," said Critical Role's Jaffe, who plays Bolaire Lathalia in Campaign 4, "that it is inevitable that you are going to become a monster"
September 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Luis Carazo wasn't finished with his Candela Obscura character, so some of him found his way into Campaign 4
Carazo, who portrayed Marion Collodi in Candela Obscura years before being cats in a Critical Role core campaign, says that his character is the culmination of years of exploration
September 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe knows what's going on between Campaign 4's Bolaire and Vaelus (and seems to enjoy that we don't)
Jaffe gets awful sly when speaking about the relationship between his and Ashley Johnson's Critical Role Campaign 4 characters
September 03, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
News
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
News
The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 fulfilled a lifelong dream for Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe
Jaffe has done a lot of things over his Critical Role career - but until this season of The Legend of Vox Machina, he's never been a very specific part of a fantasy heist
July 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Vox Machina Season 4 begins with Percy finally happy — but it won’t last, warns Taliesin Jaffe
According to Taliesin Jaffe, Percy struggles with his paranoid nature even when the going's good in the Legend of Vox Machina season 4
May 29, 2026
Trent Cannon
News
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
News
Critical Role's Weird Kids, starring Ashley Johnson & Taliesin Jaffe, returns this May!
Former child actors turned actual play legends Johnson & Jaffe are back for 24 all-new episodes of Weird Kids, streaming on Critical Role's Beacon.tv next month
April 16, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What does it take to create a good RPG character? “Trauma,” says Critical Role’s Taliesin Jaffe
The Critical Role cast discuss what it takes to develop a good campaign character
March 20, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
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
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
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
News
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