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Critical Role’s Travis Willingham says they have a ton of Exandria projects in the works
The world of Exandria will be expanded in television, film, video games, and more
March 12, 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 in outer space? Ashley Johnson has a pitch ready
Ashley Johnson thinks it would be interesting to do a Critical Role campaign from outer space (but acknowledges that they would need a blank check)
March 11, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role is reviving All Work No Play, with Marisha Ray teasing some "crazy ideas"
All Work No Play will return for another season, and the Critical Role crew promise some “crazy ideas”
March 11, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Sam Riegel wants to do a Muppet Babies-inspired show for Critical Role called Calamity Babies
Sam Riegel is looking to produce more family friendly content for Critical Role
March 10, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
“Smut transcends realms and time”: Why Tusk Love is the most enduring piece of Critical Role lore
The Critical Role cast want to publish an edition of Tusk Love in Orcish
March 09, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Watch Adventures in Exandria: Live with Critical Role with Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, & Matthew Mercer from Seattle's ECCC!
The Critical Role founding team of Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, & Matthew Mercer were at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and we made it our quest to film their panel
March 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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A Critical Role theme park, a new season of All Work No Play, and more: What the cast would do with a blank check
What would the Critical Role cast do with unlimited money? Make more shows and build an epic theme park
March 09, 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
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A Critical Role movie? Sam Riegel reveals a pitch is underway, and even hints it's during Calamity
The Critical Role cast are apparently trying to make an animated Calamity movie.
March 08, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role, The Boys, Ming-Na Wen & more - our most anticipated ECCC 2026 panels
Just like you, your favorite TV and gaming stars are getting ready to head to Emerald City Comic Con 2026; here are the panels Popverse won't be missing
March 03, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role & Prime Video reveal The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 release date, reveal the first image of Vecna... er, The Whispered One
Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 premieres this summer, and it's bringing with it a popular villain from Campaign 1. What's that character's name? Er, we don't want to get the lawyers involved
March 03, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role’s Sam Riegel reveals why the group has never broken up (and it makes total sense)
Critical Role’s Sam Riegel compares the cast to a rock band, and reveals how they avoid the infighting most bands do
March 03, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Watch the Critical Role, Jamie Campbell Bower, Amazing Digital Circus, and more ECCC 2026 panels now with a Popverse membership
Emerald City Comic Con 2026 Main Stage panels are available to Popverse members FIRST!
March 02, 2026
Chris Arrant
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TTRPGs are "an amazing test of life" & help people consider new perspectives, says Critical Role's Travis Willingham
Critical Role’s Travis Willingham says what we’re all thinking about tabletop roleplaying games.
March 02, 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
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Critical Role's Mighty Nein showrunner, Tasha Huo, on the challenges of adapting Naruto from manga to live action for Lionsgate
The Mighty Nein showrunner Huo said the biggest difficulty in adapting manga-then-anime Naruto was "to make it feel real and believable in the world of a live-action movie."
February 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role invites you to play as the cutest characters from The Legend of Vox Machina and Bells Hells with cozy card game A Familiar Find
Trinket the Bear, Little Mister, Pâté de Rolo - play as them all (and more!) with Critical Role's A Familiar Find, from Darrington Press
February 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Matt Mercer & Brennan Lee Mulligan got better at GMing thanks to Akira Kurosawa
Critical Role's new GM for Campaign 4 says there's a moment in Seven Samurai that teaches storytellers how to avoid the "soulless instinct to optimize." OG GM Mercer says it's a technique even used in shows like The Mighty Nein
February 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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How Critical Role's Daggerheart is a great place for the "nervous GM," according to Matt Mercer
What if you, as the GM, don't have something prepared for a scene your players want to explore? Critical Role's Matt Mercer says Daggerheart is structured to accommodate
February 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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The Mighty Nein forced Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe to play Mollymauk Tealeaf differently than in Campaign 2
OG Critical Role star Jaffe knows what's ahead for fan-favorite teafling Mollymauk in Prime Video's newest Exandrian adaptation - unlike when he first started playing him in 2018
February 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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HBO’s Baldur’s Gate TV show taps Chris Perkins of Critical Role’s Darrington Press as a consultant
Chris Perkins was Head of Story on D&D for years, but his current role with Critical Role means that no one from Wizards of the Coast seems to be directly involved in the series.
February 09, 2026
Trent Cannon
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Critical Role, Dimension 20, and other TTRPG shows are on a meteoric rise - and that makes Dropout's Jacob Wysocki "scared"
Fan favorite Dropout Super Saiyan Wysocki thinks "it's cool for something to have that wide of an appeal" but is nervous about what happens when more money comes into that space
February 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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The Dimension 20 cast knows how to piss off Critical Role GM Brennan Lee Mulligan - put Dropout's Ally Beardsley in the game
Ally Beardsley has been rules lawyering against Brennan Lee Mulligan since Dimension 20 campaign 1
February 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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
Features
Critical Role's Matthew Mercer argues cringe culture discourages authenticity (and I kinda agree with him)
Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer says the word “cringe” is overused, and it denigrates people for being their authentic selves
February 03, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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What is the Mercer effect? Let Critical Role Campaign 4 GM Brennan Lee Mulligan tell you
Brennan Lee Mulligan says Critical Role & the Mercer Effect gave an entire generation of GMs jobs.
February 02, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Critical Role cast think the Imodna relationship is toxic because there is no self-care
Critical Role’s Marisha Ray and Laura Bailey admit the Imogen Temult and Laudna relationship wasn’t entirely healthy
January 27, 2026
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Critical Role Campaign 4 newcomers head to Awesome Con 2026, signaling the franchise’s expansion beyond the original cast
Campaign 4's Whitney Moore, Alexander Ward, & Luis Carazo will be joined by Critical Role founders Sam Riegel and Taliesin Jaffe at Awesome Con 2026
January 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role star Laura Bailey says she once failed an audition that called for a “Laura Bailey type”
The cast of Critical Role often got asked to audition for roles modeled after them (and they don’t always get the part)
January 26, 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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Critical Role star Matt Mercer knows how to work Bart Simpson into a Dungeons & Dragons campaign
"Try as you might young Simpson," quips Critical Role cofounder and usual GM Matt Mercer in an interview with Nancy Cartwright, "I will have that cow and you can’t stop me."
January 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Why did Matt Mercer step away from GMing Critical Role Campaign 4? Let him reveal all
As a GM in a TTRPG, you've got to anticipate problems before you get to them. According to Critical Role cofounder Matt Mercer, who plays Campaign 4's Julien Davinos, that's good advice for a career in TTRPGs as well
January 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role's Whitney Moore knew John Carpenter's The Thing would work as burlesque - so she made it happen
And yes - Critical Role Campaign 4 fan-favorite Whitney Moore does work "mutant freak transformation" into her act based on Carpenter's seminal 1982 horror flick, the Thing
January 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role’s Whitney Moore didn’t expect Tyranny and Wicks to become such a duo
OG Critical Role cast member Sam Riegel could be considered the Sherlock to Moore's Watson - if Sherlock was a lot more religious and Watson was, well, a pink demon
January 02, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How Babs Tarr and a vibrator inspired Critical Role's new character Tyranny, according to Whitney Moore
Planning on cosplaying Moore's demonic Tyranny from Critical Role Campaign 4? You have DC artist Babs Tarr and a pink vibrator to thank
December 31, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is already planning for a future beyond its original cast
Critters were surprised when the Critical Role Campaign 4 cast was revealed to include six new players. But the way Ed Lopez and Ben Van Der Fluit tell it, they shouldn't be surprised if something like that happens again
December 31, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role have become hits in TV, comics, TTRPG, and live shows: next, they want to get into footwear
Having already partnered with Dark Horse to make comics and Prime Video to make TV, Critical Role's Ed Lopez and Ben Van Der Fluit have a boots-on-the-ground plan to make... er, boots
December 31, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role expected Daggerheart to do well, but they didn't expect it to do 2500% more than their projections
Critical Role's Daggerheart printed what they thought were a year's worth of campaign books in 2025. They lasted two weeks
December 31, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer has forgotten so much of his own lore, but fan wikis have been invaluable
Matthew Mercer credits Critical Role fan wikis, and Dani Carr, for keeping the lore straight.
December 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Critical Role Campaign 4 and Birdemic star Whitney Moore reflects on cult films, the overlap of horror and burlesque, and soup for breakfast
Whitney Moore, who Critical Role fans know as Tyranny in Campaign 4, knows why some movies are so bad they're good - "I do not believe that art is good or bad. I believe it is inspired or uninspired."
December 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
How Critical Role sparked what could be the first TTRPG community in Iraq
Over on the Critical Role Reddit, fans heard from the organizer of Boards & Beyond, "Iraq’s first dedicated tabletop RPG community"
December 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Mad Max and the power of friendship collide in Dimension 20: Gladlands - and there’s a dream come true for Critical Role GM Brennan Lee Mulligan, too
When GM Brennan Lee Mulligan was asked who he'd like to be in the next season of Dimension 20, he named two Dropout regulars - both of whom appear in the new Gladlands trailer
December 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role GM Matthew Mercer shared Exandrian secrets even the most die-hard Campaign 2 fan didn't know to help craft Prime Video series Mighty Nein
Any "live play only" Critical Role fans might want to reconsider watching The Mighty Nein, considering there's Exandrian lore we didn't learn about in Campaign 2
December 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role Campaign 4 has "contingency episodes" in case the story goes long, says Marisha Ray
Campaign 4's campaign through the dangerous realm of Aramán is already the show's largest in scale. And the Critical Role cast is prepared should it get even larger
December 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role GM Brennan Lee Mulligan says Jurassic Park played a role in Campaign 4's opening moments
Critical Role's Brennan Lee says that Steven Spielberg's dinosaur classic Jurassic Park teaches storytellers how to open with high stakes
December 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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You're not imagining it - Critical Role's Mighty Nein characters have more realistic proportions than The Legend of Vox Machina's
Original Critical Roler Sam Riegel says that the (slight) difference between Legend of Vox Machina's and Mighty Nein's visuals stems out of the tone of the show
December 03, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role just broke the rules of villain design in Daggerheart — now the whole table builds the dragon queen
Forlorn, the central antagonist of upcoming Daggerheart campaign Reign of the Weredragon, is a creation not just of the GM, but of the whole table. We asked Elise Rezendes, Rowan Hall, and Spenser Starke t explain more
November 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Daggerheart romantasy campaign With Love and Magic is coming “fast” as Critical Role tests a digital-first release strategy
After Critical Role's Matt Mercer announced it earlier this year, we've been waiting on details regarding Daggerheart's With Love and Magic campaign. And at PAX unplugged 2025, we got to ask for details from the developers
November 27, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role's Darrington Press turns limitation into invitation with new TTRPG - "If it doesn't fit on a card, it's not Daggerheart"
I'm quoting producer Elise Rezendes and lead codesigner Rowan Hall here - both of whom explained Daggerheart's less is more philosophy at PAX Unplugged this year
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Critical Role’s Daggerheart team explains what makes a great TTRPG adversary in new monster pack reveal
Specifically, we asked designers Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke, plus producer Elise Rezendes, what makes for the best beast. And it isn't the "tiny numbers" on their stats page
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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D&D icons are rebooting Acquisitions Incorporated with a fresh Daggerheart-powered adventure
Dungeons & Dragons titan Jeremy Crawford announced at PAX Unplugged '25 that the first real actual play show (arguably) is switching TTRPG systems to Critical Role's own Daggerheart
November 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role is giving us all a free RPG in 2026, as Darrington Press' Dying Spire comes to Free RPG Day next year
The Critical Role team is bringing more Daggerheart to Free RPG Day in 2026, continuing the story that began with Marisha Ray & Grant Howitt's one-page adventure, A Familiar Problem
November 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role is taking their love of John Constantine, Castlevania and more gothic horror into new Daggerheart campaign
An addition to Daggerheart's first expansion book, Hope & Fear, Dark Heart of Andaluria will tie together some of your favorite monster tropes into a hauntingly beautiful world, says co-designer Rowan Hall
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role has listened to your request, Daggerheart players: A GM fear tracker is coming in 2026
Keeping track of your players' Fear is going to get a lot easier if you're a Daggerheart GM, and it's all thanks to the fans who have been bugging Critical Role's Darrington Press about a special GM screen
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role is bringing its Delicious in Dungeon-style Daggerheart campaign to life in liveplay with Viva la Dirt League
Beast Feast, which Critical Role's Daggheart has described as a campaign similar to fantasy anime Delicious in Dungeon, is coming to Viva la Dirt League.
November 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Dispatch fans have uncovered the secret stat that determines Invisigal's ending in Episode 8
The hit game from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is full of important choices, but not everything that influences the ending happens during cutscenes in Dispatch.
November 18, 2025
Trent Cannon
News
If Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina is The Hobbit, says Marisha Ray, then Mighty Nein is Lord of the Rings
Prime Video's second Critical Role adaptation will be "a little bit darker" in tone, says Ray, who provides the voice for kickass monk Beauregard Lionett
November 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The superhero game Dispatch from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is even bigger a hit than they expected - selling 12 times faster than they could even hope
With stars from Breaking Bad and Critical Role in the cast and stellar animation, Dispatch is the superhero game we've been waiting for.
November 13, 2025
Trent Cannon
News
Spoilers!Critical Role creators were asked to pull back on the phallic imagery for the Mighty Nein Prime Video show
We get it - Prime Video has to go through the MPAA to produce Critical Role's Campaign 2 adaptation, The Mighty Nein. But if you think you're gonna stop Critters from being horny, I have news (and many, many subreddits) for you
November 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Dispatch season 2 could be on the way, after the AdHoc Studios and Critical Role hit exceeds sales expectations
After 1 million copies of Dispatch being sold, it looks like the former Telltale Games developers are wondering where to go with season 2, which is a good problem to have.
November 11, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
The Dispatch episodic release schedule makes the new game from AdHoc Studios and Critical Role even better, not worse [Gamify My Life]
Dispatch is a great superhero TV show and it needs to be enjoyed an hour at a time.
November 10, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
How I found the heart of Critical Role at New York Comic Con
In this enormous and accepting fantasy world that Critical Role has created, I found the messy human realities make these fantasy worlds fantastic.
November 10, 2025
Jim McDermott
News
Critical Role’s The Mighty Nein animated series is adding to what you remember from the campaign, including an all-new opening scene never explored before
Critical Role’s The Mighty Nein will be almost twice as long as a typical episode of Vox Machina
November 07, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Wayne Brady being cast in Critical Role’s The Mighty Nein is one of the best things to happen in his career, according to Wayne Brady
Wayne Brady had been a longtime fan of Critical Role before he was cast as Taryon Darrington in The Mighty Nein
November 07, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
Critical Role fans, remember - Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (now available in Daggerheart) was created specifically for Vin Diesel
Daggerheart players can now unleash the power of the Blood Hunter - so long as they also remember that Matt Mercer created it for a Critical Role special starring Vin Diesel
November 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Does Critical Role's Mighty Nein title sequence music sound familiar? It should - it's Welcome to Wildemount, released in 2022
Prime Video is using the most appropriate music they can to intro new Critical Role series The Mighty Nein, working a song written for Campaign 2 directly into the opening credits
November 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Original Critical Role GM Matt Mercer promises “really cool announcements” for Daggerheart at PAX Unplugged
What is Critical Role bringing to PAX Unplugged? Popverse will be there to let you know as soon as it drops.
November 04, 2025
Trent Cannon
News
Dispatch, the new game from Critical Role and former developers from Telltale Games, hits 1 million copies sold - before it is even fully released
Who among us hasn't dreamed of working as a superhero dispatcher surrounded by the stars of Breaking Bad and Critical Role?
November 04, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
Exandria, ho! Watch the cast of Vox Machina, Mighty Nein, and Critical Role - Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Liam O’Brien, Ashley Johnson, Taliesin Jaffe, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham - roll for adventure at NYCC 2025
The voices of Vex/Jester (Bailey), Keyleth/Beauregard (Ray), Vax/Caleb (O’Brien), Pike/Yasha (Johnson), Percy/Mallymauk (Jaffe), Scanlon/Nott (Riegel), and Grog/Fjord (Willingham) joined GM Matthew Mercer at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there filming
October 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Need a last-minute costume? Critical Role and Spirit Halloween have you covered
Just in time for Samhain, two of the most popular characters from Critical Role's Mighty Nein are getting the Spirit Halloween treatment. Hope you like dressing as a tiefling
October 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
After Critical Role & Dimension 20's sweeping success, DMing YouTubers The Dungeon Dudes predict the future of Dungeons & Dragons live play
Kelly McLaughlin and Monty Martin know a thing or two about TTRPG web series, which is one of the reasons they've helped build actual play/escape room hybrid Tales from Woodcreek
October 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role Campaign 4 exists because GM Brennan Lee Mulligan LOVES orcs
OK, maybe not *only* because Dimension 20 GM Mulligan loves orcs, but Aramán's history in Critical Role's fourth campaign has a lot to do with the most hated-upon fantasy race
October 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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 was the ultimate boyfriend test for the showrunner of the Mighty Nein animated series
At New York Comic Con, Mighty Nein showrunner Tasha Huo revealed her longtime passion for Critical Role.
October 13, 2025
Jim McDermott
Features
How 500+ hours of Critical Role liveplay was turned into the 8-episode Mighty Nein series, according to its showrunner
The Mighty Nein showrunner Tasha Huo shares the challenges and gifts of turning the live D&D show Critical Role into a series.
October 12, 2025
Jim McDermott
News
The Critical Role cast is changing how they play the game for Campaign 4
Critical Role Campaign 4 will feature a West Marches style campaign
October 12, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
Critical Role star Travis Willingham says The Mighty Nein is different from Vox Machina because the characters will be rougher
Critical Role’s Travis Willingham explains the difference between The Mighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina
October 11, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
Critical Role cast worried that animators would be too stressed by how many lands get explored by The Mighty Nein
Critical Role’s Travis Willingham says The Mighty Nein will explore lots of new and exciting places
October 10, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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
Frankenstein is coming to Netflix, but is he coming to Critical Role Campaign 4 too? Why fans think Alex Ward is resurrecting a rare D&D subclass
Don't know anything about reanimator artificers? That's OK, they're pretty out there in terms of Dungeons & Dragons subclasses. You might want to learn though, because Critical Role cast member Ward may be stitching together a plan...
September 17, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
News
Critical Role star Sam Riegel didn't know FCG's fate before the moment happened - but he did know it was "a good way to go"
Sam Riegel was planning on taking a break from Critical Role for health reasons, but he didn't know what was going to happen to FCG - until just before the big moment happened
September 15, 2025
Graeme McMillan
News
Yes, Critical Role star Sam Riegel is definitely planning some special t-shirt trolling for new GM Brennan Lee Mulligan
Sam Riegel already has some t-shirts made to troll new Critical Role GM Brennan Lee Mulligan, but he's open for Critters to help make more
September 12, 2025
Graeme McMillan
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on which of the D&D Monsters they'd choose to live as
Bailey and Willingham have done their share of flipping through the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual in their capacity as Critical Role founders - but which of the creatures therein spoke to them the most?
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham would play Dimension 20's wildest campaign: Never Stop Blowing Up
D20's Never Stop Blowing Up (led by Critical Role's campaign 4 GM Brennan Lee Mulligan) is a balls-to-the-wall parody of the action genre, and Bailey and Willingham know just which action movie types they'd play
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Critical Role's Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham on bringing Marvel's Mary Jane Watson & DC's Superman to life
Critical Role's Bailey, who brought Mary Jane to life in Insomniac's Spider-Man games, and Willingham, who brought Superman to life in Battle of the Supersons, explain how they embodied Marvel & DC's titanic characters
September 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt