Critical Role

Critical Role is Critical Role

an American
web series in
which a group
of professional
voice actors
play Dungeons
& Dragons. The
show started
streaming
partway
through the
Fantasy
cast's first
Genre Fantasy podcast[1]
campaign in
March 2015. Dungeons & Dragons
Campaign one Created by Matthew Mercer
ended in
Dungeons & Dragons 5th
October 2017 Based on
edition
after 115
episodes, and Matthew Mercer
campaign two, Ashley Johnson
which is still Travis Willingham
ongoing,
Laura Bailey
started in
Starring Liam O'Brien
January 2018. A Taliesin Jaffe
number of one- Marisha Ray
shots were Orion Acaba
aired in the
Sam Riegel
hiatus between
the two Theme music
Jason C. Miller
campaigns. composer

"Critical Role Theme Song"

The series is
broadcast on (Season 1)

Thursdays at "Critical Role Too"

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Twitch channel,
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Twitch (Season 2)
subscribers
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after the Kevin MacLeod
broadcast. The Justin E. Bell
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Colm McGuinness
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website and Country of United States
uploaded to origin

their YouTube Original

English
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Prior to the
COVID-19 Production
pandemic, the Production
Los Angeles, California
show had locations
broadcast live, Approximately 180–360
Running time
but has been minutes per episode
pre-recorded
Geek & Sundry (2015–2018)
since its return [2]
Production
for episode 100
companies Critical Role Productions LLC
of Campaign
(2018–present)[3]
Two.
Release
The cast own
the intellectual Original Twitch
property from network YouTube
the show, and
Original
the show also March 12, 2015
release
lends its name
Chronology
to the studio
owned by the Talks Machina
cast—Critical Critical Recap
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Productions. Handbooker Helper
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works based on
Website
the show have
been released, such as several comic books and two official
campaign setting guides.

Contents
1 Background
2 Critical Role company and studio
3 Format
4 Campaign structure
4.1 Campaign one
4.1.1 Pre-series history
4.1.2 On-stream campaign
4.1.3 Post-campaign
4.2 Campaign two
4.3 One-shots
5 Cast and characters
5.1 Main
5.2 Guests
6 Reception
6.1 Critical response
6.2 Accolades
7 Licensed works and related products
7.1 Animated series
7.2 Books
7.2.1 Art books
7.2.2 Campaign setting books
7.2.3 Other
7.3 Comics
7.3.1 Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins
7.3.2 Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins
7.3.3 Critical Role: The Tales of Exandria
7.4 Podcasts
8 Charity involvement
8.1 Critical Role Foundation
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Background
Critical Role is a creator-owned streaming show where the
cast play an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with
Matthew Mercer serving as the show's Dungeon Master for
the seven other cast members.[4]

The group's first campaign began two years prior to the start
of the series as a one-off, simplified Dungeons & Dragons
4th edition game for Liam O'Brien's birthday.[5][6] The
players enjoyed the game so much that they continued to
play it while switching to the Pathfinder ruleset.[7][8][9][10]
After Felicia Day heard about the private home game from
Ashley Johnson, she approached the group about playing it
in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry, which hosted
the show until February 2019.[8][10] In order to streamline
gameplay for the show, the game's characters were
converted from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons 5th
edition before the web series began airing on March 12,
2015.[11][12] There were initially eight cast member players;
Orion Acaba left the show after episode 27 of campaign one.
[13] His character, Tiberius, appeared in the first seven issues

of the prequel comic books: Critical Role: Vox Machina

Origins.

Critical Role company and studio

Main article: Critical Role Productions

The Critical Role company, Critical Role Productions LLC,

was incorporated in 2015.[14] As of 2019, Travis Willingham
serves as chief executive officer,[3] Matthew Mercer as chief
creative officer,[15] Marisha Ray as creative director,[16] Ed
Lopez as chief operating officer,[15] Rachel Romero as senior
vice president of marketing,[15] and Ben Van Der Fluit as vice
president of business development.[15]

In June 2018, Critical Role Productions launched its own

Twitch and YouTube channels, with cast member Marisha
Ray being announced as the creative director of the
franchise.[17] It also moved to their own studio space in 2018
and started putting out new shows on their own Twitch and
YouTube channels.[2][18][17][19] The sets for Critical Role and
Talks Machina moved from Legendary Digital Network's
studios to Critical Role's own studios in July 2018.[2] In
February 2019, Critical Role finalized its split from Geek &
Sundry and Legendary Digital Networks, with live broadcasts
of the company's shows and VODs airing exclusively on
Critical Role's channels.[20] Critical Role also took over
production responsibility for Critical Role and Talks Machina
after splitting from Legendary Digital Networks.[4][21] Some
"legacy episodes" (currently the entirety of Campaign 1, the
first 19 episodes of Campaign 2, as well as the
corresponding episodes of official discussion show Talks
Machina) remain available in Geek & Sundry's archives on
YouTube and Twitch,[20] though some older episodes of
Critical Role and Talks Machina are being deleted from the
Geek and Sundry channels and re-uploaded to the official
Critical Role channels since 2019 as part of an ongoing
migration of older content to the creator-owned channels.
[22]:0:45

Format
Critical Role is a mixture of a weekly show and a modern
gaming Twitch stream.[9] Each episode usually runs for three
to five (in some cases six) hours and is streamed live on
Critical Role's Twitch channel on almost every Thursday, with
possible breaks from the show being announced at least one
week prior to the broadcast.[23][24] The VOD is made
available for subscribers of Critical Role's Twitch channel
immediately after airing and before being uploaded to
Critical Role's YouTube channel the following Monday, where
it can be watched for free.[25][20]

Critical Role has played with a live theater audience nine

times.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]

A number of Critical Role's streams have also served as a

donation drive to support nonprofit organizations such as St
Jude, 826LA, Extra Life, and Doctors Without Borders.[35]

Campaign structure
Main article: List of Critical Role episodes

The Critical Role storyline occurs in campaigns that consist

of a series of story arcs, which are usually played over
multiple episodes. Between—or sometimes within—the major
story arcs, the characters rest, resupply, or go on side
quests. In addition, every player character has a backstory,
an unfinished part of their personal history that can be
relevant to the campaign from time to time. Sometimes,
major story arcs are intrinsically tied to a character's
backstory. While each campaign centers on a different party
of adventurers, both are set in Exandria, a world of Mercer's
creation.[36] As of January 2021, the cast of Critical Role are
playing through their second campaign.

Originally aired
Campaign Party Episodes
First aired Last aired

Vox
1 115 March 12, 2015 October 12, 2
Machina

The
2 Mighty 124 January 11, 2018 TBA
Nein

One-
various 35 February 25, 2016 February 20, 2
shots

Campaign one
Main article: Critical Role (campaign one)

Campaign one takes place primarily in Tal'Dorei, a continent

of Exandria. It follows the exploits of an adventuring party
known as Vox Machina, previously known as the Super
High-Intensity Team (or S.H.I.T.s), a rag-tag group of
mercenaries originally formed in the swamp town of Stilben.
[37]

Pre-series history

The Vox Machina campaign originated as the home game of

the cast, played from 2012 to 2017. In their adventures prior
to the start of the series, the group saved the family of
Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei III, ruler of Tal'Dorei and its capital
city of Emon. In appreciation, Uriel gave the group seats on
the city council, and provided them with a residence called
Greyskull Keep, which is located just outside the city.

While the early adventures were not formally recorded, some

shorter recordings have been released by the cast. This
includes audio from the first session of the campaign, which
was released as a segment in the third episode of the
podcast All Work No Play.[38] Additionally, O'Brien released a
recording of the magic carpet being discovered by the party.
[39] Episode 36, titled Winter's Crest in Whitestone, features

a summary of the pre-series history,[40] with artwork created

by Wendy Sullivan Green and voice-overs provided by the
cast.[41] The comic book, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins,
is an adaptation of the group's game before the show.[42]
The upcoming animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina,
will also include a canonic story that takes place within the
pre-stream time frame.[43]

On-stream campaign

The show begins in media res with the characters

regrouping in the city of Emon after approximately six
months apart and the streamed campaign picks up where
the cast's original home game left off. The first episode of
the show aired on March 12, 2015, and the campaign
concluded with its final episode on October 12, 2017.[11][44]
Campaign one was broadcast live on the Geek & Sundry
Twitch and YouTube channels between March 12, 2015, and
October 12, 2017, for a total of 115 episodes and six story
arcs.[25][13] Starting in November 2016, it was also broadcast
live on the Alpha streaming service from Legendary Digital
Networks. The show on Alpha had a unique overlay that
included "real-time character sheets, damage and heal
animations, and visualizations".[45]

After the animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina, was

picked up by Amazon and "Prime Video ordered an
additional 14 episodes, for a total of 24 episodes across two
seasons",[46] Critical Role announced that the animated
show would adapt the full Briarwood arc along with other
storylines from campaign one.[47]

Post-campaign

In 2019, over a year after the first campaign ended, Critical

Role produced three canonical one-shot games that feature
Vox Machina in the time frame after Vecna's banishment.
The first one-shot, Vox Machina: The Search for Grog, was
played at a live show in Los Angeles on January 19, 2019,[48]
then broadcast on Twitch on February 22, 2019, before
being released via YouTube and Twitch VOD on February 23,
2019.[49] It explored an event that took place in the final
episode of campaign one, but was not played out in detail
because it would have disrupted the ongoing epilogue. More
Vox Machina one-shots were unlocked as rewards and
stretch goals during the Kickstarter campaign for the Critical
Role animated series. The first of these was Vox Machina:
The Search for Bob,[50][51] a continuation of the events of
The Search for Grog. It aired on the Critical Role Twitch
channel on June 21, 2019, with the YouTube VOD being
made available on June 23, 2019.[52] Another Kickstarter
reward was Vox Machina's Summer Reunion at Dalen's
Closet, which aired on Twitch on August 29, 2019, with the
YouTube VOD becoming available for the public on
September 2, 2019. This one-shot takes place a year after
the events of The Search for Grog/Bob, as Percy and Vex
renew their wedding vows on a beach in Marquet, with all of
their friends and family present—as well as a few uninvited
"guests".[53]

Critical Role also played another canonical and Vox Machina-

related one-shot at a live show in 2019: The Adventures of
the Darrington Brigade, which was played at the Bass
Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, on November 23, 2019. It stars
Sam Riegel as Taryon Darrington, honorary member of Vox
Machina, who leads a group of new characters into their own
adventures. The story is set roughly a decade after
campaign one and a decade before campaign two. It aired
on the Critical Role Twitch channel on November 29, 2019,
with the YouTube VOD being made available on December 1,
2019.[54][55]

Campaign two

Main article: Critical Role (campaign two)

The second campaign began on January 11, 2018, and

follows the adventuring party known as The Mighty Nein.
The story is set on the continent of Wildemount, which was
briefly visited during the Vox Machina campaign. The Mighty
Nein campaign is set about 20 years after Vox Machina's
final battle against Vecna and takes place in a time where
tensions between two of Wildemount's mightiest nations are
very high.[56][57] A hiatus due to concerns around the
COVID-19 pandemic was in effect from March to July 2020,
after which the show returned in a non-live format adjusted
for social distancing.[58][59][60]

One-shots

Main article: List of Critical Role episodes § One-shots

Instead of an episode in the main storyline, the series

occasionally features a one-shot game—a self-contained
story that can be told within the time constraints of one
episode (or three to four hours of gameplay). A one-shot
could be described as the RPG equivalent to a short story.
Some of the Critical Role one-shots are canonical parts of
the storylines that play out in one of the campaigns, covering
events that occur outside the time frame of the respective
campaign, but still feature some of the campaign's main
characters. Other one-shots only have a tangential
relationship to the campaigns, as they are set in the world of
Exandria, but feature a different cast of characters, often in
smaller scale adventures that may or may not be canon.
There are also one-shots that have no connection with the
campaigns or the world of Exandria at all.[61][62][63][64]

Not all Critical Role one-shots use the Dungeons & Dragons
game system, as some are based on other RPG systems. In
many one-shots, other cast members take over the role of
Dungeon Master or game master (GM) from Mercer.[65][64]
The show aired several one-shots in the hiatus between
campaign one and campaign two.[65][66]

Some of Critical Role's one shots have been sponsored.

One-shot sponsors have included Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, and Chaosium for
running one-shots themed around Middle-earth: Shadow of
War, Hearthstone, and Call of Cthulhu respectively. In 2019,
a Critical Role one-shot was sponsored by Wendy's to
promote the Feast of Legends RPG system developed by the
company.[67] However, following a strong negative fan
response to the sponsor, the Critical Role team chose to take
down the VOD,[67] and announced via Twitter that they had
donated their sponsorship profits from the one-shot to the
Farm Worker Justice organization.[68]

Cast and characters

Since October 2015, Critical Role has consisted of eight
main cast members, all of whom are the original cast. The
show had a cast of nine for the first 27 episodes.[69] A
number of guest players have also appeared on the show
over the years.[70]

Main

The cast and their characters' names, races, and classes for
the two campaigns are listed below. When a player has taken
the option of multiclassing, the classes are listed in the order
taken by the player. An H is used to indicate a homebrew
class developed by Mercer.

Campaign 1: Vox Machina

Actor 2016 2019

2015 2017
(37– (one-
(1–36) (80–115)
79) shots)
Matthew
Dungeon Master (DM)
Mercer[71]
Ashley Pike Trickfoot
Johnson[71] (gnome cleric)
Laura Vex'ahlia "Vex" de Rolo (née Vessar)
Bailey[71] (half-elf ranger / rogue)
Lieve'tel
Toluse (elf
cleric; The
Search for
Liam Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar Grog)
O'Brien[71] (half-elf rogue / paladin / druid) Derrig
(half-elf
fighter;
Dalen's
Closet)

Marisha Keyleth of the Air Ashari

Ray[71] (half-elf druid)

Scanlan Shorthalt
(gnome bard; absent 86–98)
Taryon
Taryon Darrington
Sam Riegel[71] Darrington
 N/A (human (human
artificer; artificer;
85–102) Dalen's
Closet)

Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel

Taliesin
Klossowski de Rolo III
Jaffe[71]
(human gunslingerH)

Grog Strongjaw
(goliath barbarian / fighter)

Travis Sir
Willingham[71] Bertrand
N/A Bell
(human
fighter)
Tiberius
Stormwind
Orion
(dragonborn N/A
Acaba[69]
sorcerer; 1–
27[13])

Guests

Guests are an irregular occurrence on Critical Role and, in

most cases, only stay on the show for a one-off appearance
or a few consecutive episodes. Only a few guests (Mary
Elizabeth McGlynn, Will Friedle and Patrick Rothfuss in
campaign one, as well as Khary Payton in campaign two)
have appeared in non-consecutive episodes, with their
respective characters playing an active role in different parts
of the overall storyline. So far, Chris Perkins is the only guest
to have appeared in both campaigns, playing a different
character for each campaign.[70]

Campaign 1 Campaign 2
Actor
(2015–17) (2018–current)
Lyra
Felicia Day N/A
(human wizard)
Mary Elizabeth Zahra Hydris
N/A
McGlynn (tiefling warlock)
Thorbir Falbek
Wil Wheaton N/A
(dwarf fighter)
Kashaw Vesh
Will Friedle N/A
(human cleric)
Lillith Anioska Daturai
Kit Buss N/A
(tiefling wizard)
Garthok
Jason C. Miller N/A
(half-orc rogue)
Chris Gern Blanston
N/A
Hardwick (dragonborn wizard)
Shale Spurt
Chris Perkins
(goliath fighter) (kobold artificer)
Patrick Kerrek
N/A
Rothfuss (human paladin)
Tova
Noelle
(dwarf/werebear N/A
Stevenson
blood hunter)
Lionel "Chod"
 Jon Heder Gayheart N/A
(half-orc
bard/barbarian)
Ethrid "Sprigg"
Darin De Paul Brokenbranch N/A
(gnome rogue)
Arkhan the Cruel
Joe
(red dragonborn N/A
Manganiello
paladin/barbarian)
Shakäste
Khary Payton N/A
(human cleric)
Calianna
Mark Hulmes N/A (half-elf sorcerer, 1/10
black dragon)
Keg
Ashly Burch N/A
(dwarven fighter)
Sumalee Nila
N/A
Montano (firbolg druid)
Deborah Ann Twiggy
N/A
Woll (forest gnome rogue)
Reani
Mica Burton N/A
(aasimar druid)

Reception
As of January 2021, the first episode of campaign one has
been watched 15 million times on YouTube.[72]

Critical response
As of January 2016, each episode of the show has been
watched for more than a million minutes on Twitch, totaling
over 37 million minutes watched for the whole series.[7][73]
Additionally, the YouTube archived videos have over 115
million views.[74] By the time the 100th episode was
launched, the channel had amassed over 68 million views
overall,[75] reaching over 224 million views as of December
2020.[74] On January 11, 2018, the second campaign's first
episode peaked at 135 thousand viewers on Twitch and
YouTube, compared to the first campaign finale's 40,000
viewers.[citation needed]

In a January 2016 article, Polygon described Critical Role as

a "thoroughly modern" show with a business model that is
still developing.[7]

The show has caught the attention of the publishers of

Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast, who discussed
it at length on two occasions on their official D&D podcast,
along with cast members Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray,
Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey and former member Orion Acaba.
[76][77] In an interview with the online gaming magazine

Polygon, lead D&D designer Mike Mearls commented about

the show: "It was really cool, as a guy who works on
Dungeons & Dragons, to open up my Twitch app on my iPad
and see Dungeons & Dragons in the first row."[78]

Viewer responses to the show have been overwhelmingly

positive,[10] with many fans, nicknamed "Critters",[79]
creating content such as fanart, fan fiction, character-
inspired music, and fan-created merchandise for the show.
Fans also send in many gifts for the cast and crew, resulting
in occasional "Critmas" episodes during which the gifts are
opened and distributed.[80]

The cast of Critical Role are active participants on sci-

fi/comics convention circuits, and have appeared for panels
and signings at San Diego and New York Comic Cons.[8] For
the 2015 New York con, "critical rolls" were available from
one of the food vendors.[81]

Andy Wilson, for Bleeding Cool, highlighted Critical Role as

"the best show [he has] watched all year" in 2020. He wrote,
"I've said repeatedly that Critical Role is the future of
television, and specifically praising their response to COVID
that continued their show in a safe way where no one has
gotten sick. Let me pause there for a moment: no one has
gotten sick. They have been smart and responsible and safe.
[...] But even more important is what they did this year. They
are, weekly, one of the most-watched streams on Twitch. [...]
They gave fans something to look forward to every week– an
incredible feat given the endless monotony and despair of
socially distant quarantine life."[82]

Accolades
 Year Award Category Result Ref
Streamy
2016 Gaming Nominated [83]
Awards
Streamy
2018 Live Streamer Nominated [84]
Awards
Video Series &
Webby Won (Webby Award
2019 Channels – [15]
Awards & People's Voice)
Games
Shorty Won (Finalist &
2019 Games [85]
Awards Audience Honor)

Licensed works and related products

There are a number of spin-off shows and books, all of
which are produced by the Critical Role studio. Various third-
party, licensed works have also been released since Critical
Role began in 2015.

Animated series

On March 4, 2019, the cast launched a Kickstarter campaign

to raise funds for a 22-minute animation called Critical Role:
The Legend of Vox Machina Animated Special.[86] The
animated story will be set just before the streaming portion
of the campaign started—when the players were around
level seven—during a time when, canonically, there is an in-
game period of roughly six months when the (then eight)
members of Vox Machina were not all together at the same
time. The cast projected a cost of US$750,000 for a single
22-minute animated short, fulfilling the other campaign
rewards, and the fees associated with a crowdfunding
campaign. Not knowing how long this would take to raise,
the campaign length was set at 45 days.[87]

Within an hour of launch, however, the Kickstarter had

reached more than $1,000,000.[87] At the end of the first full
day, all of the announced stretch goals had been unlocked,
and the total had reached more than $4.3 million.[88] With
four 22-minute episodes funded in the first 24 hours,[88]
additional stretch goals were added, expanding the project
into an animated series. The first two episodes would cover
the pre-stream story arc. The subsequent episodes would
adapt the Briarwoods' arc, also from the Vox Machina
campaign. By March 18, 2019, eight 22-minute episodes had
been funded.[89] Finally, on April 4, 2019, the last published
stretch goal of $8.8 million was reached during the airing of
episode 57 of campaign two, pushing the total length of the
animated series to ten episodes. A "secret" $10M stretch
goal of Willingham being filmed going around a haunted
house was reached April 16.[90] The final total raised by the
Kickstarter when it closed on April 19, 2019, was $11.3M.[91]
When the campaign closed, it was one of the most quickly
funded in Kickstarter history, and was the most funded
Kickstarter for TV and film projects.[92][93] In June 2020, it
was announced that the Fall 2020 debut would be missed
due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[94] and a new release date
has yet to be made available.

The cast will reprise their respective Vox Machina roles, with
the exception of Orion Acaba.[95] The adult animated series
will be written by Jennifer Muro, and animated by Titmouse,
Inc.[87][96] The project is now slated for release in late 2020.
In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that
they had acquired the streaming rights to The Legend of Vox
Machina, and had commissioned 14 additional episodes (two
additional episodes for season 1 and a second season of 12
episodes).[97] An update posted to the Kickstarter campaign
assured backers they would have access to the first season.
[98][19]

Books

Art books

On August 18, 2017, at a live show in Indianapolis, a Critical

Role art book titled The Chronicles of Exandria Vol. I: The
Tale of Vox Machina was announced. It includes backstories
for Vox Machina and some of the non-player characters
(NPCs), and features artwork from the community. It was
released in November 2017.[99] The Chronicles of Exandria
Vol. II: The Legend of Vox Machina, a sequel to the first art
book, was released in November 2018.[100][101] The first
Mighty Nein art book, The Chronicles of Exandria: The
Mighty Nein, was published on March 31, 2020.[102][103]

Campaign setting books

On August 8, 2016, Green Ronin Publishing announced that

it had signed a licensing agreement with Geek & Sundry to
release a roleplaying game sourcebook series set in the
world of Exandria, written by Mercer and based on the
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition rules via the Wizards of the
Coast Open Game License.[104][105]:143 The announcement
was made by Chris Pramas, president of Green Ronin and
Ryan Copple, General Manager of Geek & Sundry, live on the
62nd episode, Uninviting Waters, at Gen Con 2016.[104] On
July 14, 2017, Green Ronin revealed the cover of the first
book by illustrator Aaron Riley on Twitter.[106] Only one book
was published with Green Ronin—Critical Role: Tal'Dorei
Campaign Setting—and it is set on the continent of Tal'Dorei
where most of Vox Machina's adventures take place.[107] The
hardback edition was released at Gen Con 2017 on August
17, 2017,[108] while the PDF version was released on July 17,
2017.[109][110]

On January 13, 2020, Wizards of the Coast and Critical Role

announced the launch of the second book: Explorer's Guide
to Wildemount.[111] The campaign sourcebook was released
on March 17, 2020.[112][113]

Other
On October 20, 2020, the coffee table book The World of
Critical Role: The History Behind the Epic Fantasy by Liz
Marsham was released.[114] In The New York Times Best
Seller list for November 8, 2020, the book was #9 in "Advice,
How-To & Miscellaneous". [115] James Grebey, for SyFy Wire,
wrote: "In addition to recounting Critical Role’s early days
(although not a full history — longtime Critters will probably
be unsurprised to know that controversial moments like
original castmember Orion Acaba’s exit are largely glossed
over), The World of Critical Role offers insights into why the
cast made their characters make certain decisions during
iconic moments from the campaigns, and it explains how the
real-life biographies of the cast influenced their character
creation."[116]

Comics

Geek & Sundry produced a six-panel series of webcomics

weekly from November to December 2015 that describes a
"Winter's Crest Festival" that occurred pre-series. The
webcomics were written by cast members Ray and Jaffe,
and feature artwork by Wendy Sullivan Green.[117]

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins

Main article: Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins

On July 22, 2017, at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, it was

announced that a comic book that covers the beginning of
Vox Machina pre-stream and pre-game would be published.
[118][119][120] It was published by Dark Horse Comics, written

by Matthew Colville, drawn by Olivia Samson (a long-time

member of the Critical Role community), and both colored
and lettered by Chris Northrop.[121][122][123][124] A trade
paperback Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Volume 1 was
announced on March 11, 2019, and then was released on
October 15, 2019.[102] Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins
Volume 2 was written by Jody Houser, drawn by Olivia
Samson, colored by MSASSYK, lettered by Ariana Maher,
and published by Dark Horse Comics. Issue one was
released digitally and in print on July 10, 2019.[125][42] The
six issues were collected as a trade paperback that released
on August 12, 2020.[126] In September 2020, it was
announced that the creative team of the second volume
would return for the third volume and that the first issue
would be released on December 9, 2020.[127]

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins

In November 2020, it was announced that a comic book

exploring the backstories of the main characters would be
published by Dark Horse Comics. Each issue will have a
different creative team: issue one will focus on Jester
Lavorre and will be written by Sam Maggs, with line art by
Hunter Severn Bonyun, and colors by Cathy Le; issue two will
focus on Caleb Widogast and will be written by Jody Houser,
with illustrations by Selina Espiritu, and color by Diana
Sousa. Issue one is scheduled to be released on June 16,
2021.[128]

Critical Role: The Tales of Exandria

In December 2020, it was announced that a comic anthology

exploring the side stories of NPCs would be published by
Dark Horse Comics. The first four issues will be written by
Darcy Van Poelgeest in consultation with Mercer, and
illustrated by fan artist CoupleofKooks with cover art by
Helen Mask. The first issue will concentrate on Leylas Kryn,
the Bright Queen of the Kryn Dynasty, and her eternal lover
Quana; the issue is scheduled to be released on March 17,
2021.[129][130]

Podcasts

On the 100th episode of Critical Role, the launch of the

Critical Role podcast was announced: an audio version of the
game sessions.[75][131] It is available on iTunes, Google Play
Music, and at the Geek & Sundry website.[132] The first
campaign's podcast episodes were released in batches of
10–15, between June 8, 2017,[75] and January 8, 2018.[133]
Since the start of the second campaign, the podcast
episodes have been released on the following Thursday.[134]
Charity involvement
On October 16, 2015, the Extra Life fundraiser episode
raised over $20,000 for the Children's Miracle Network
during the broadcast.[135] This charity episode included a
reappearance of the Critical Rejects, as well as three
members of the Critical Role cast: Liam O'Brien, Marisha
Ray, and Orion Acaba.

During the show, viewers are invited to donate money to

826LA, which is later provided in a lump sum to the charity.
[136] Donation amounts and messages appear live on the

stream, and on earlier episodes, a list of donors was read at

the end of each session. During Geek & Sundry's 2015 Extra
Life fundraiser, a special interactive episode was broadcast.
This episode alone brought in over $20,000 for the
Children's Miracle Network, and the event as a whole raised
over $76,000. In late November 2015, Geek & Sundry's
Twitch channel held a special Doctors Without Borders
fundraiser, with nearly half of the $10,000 goal being raised
during the four-hour Critical Role broadcast. In December
2015, the cast released an article on Geek & Sundry,
"Critter's Guide to Critmas", in response to the flood of gifts
they were receiving from fans, asking them to instead donate
to a variety of charities, with a different cast member
sponsoring each charity.[137]

In Spring 2018, the show held a charity drive for 826LA

which resulted in community members donating over
$50,000, with a matching amount given by one generous
community member. The drive resulted in some prizes being
unlocked for the community, such as discount codes for
D&D Beyond and Wyrmwood Gaming, a second "Fireside
Chat" with Mercer, and a second Honey Heist run by Ray.[79]

Critical Role Foundation

Main article: Critical Role Productions § Critical Role

Foundation

Critical Role Productions launched a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit

organization, Critical Role Foundation, in September 2020
with the mission statement: "To leave the world better than
we found it." CBR reported that "Critical Role Foundation will
partner with other organizations in the nonprofit sector that
share the same values as Critical Role and its community, in
addition to raising emergency relief funds to be put toward
immediate humanitarian aid as needed. Its inaugural
partnership will be with First Nations Development Institute,
which seeks to strengthen Native American economies and
communities. CRF aims to raise $50,000 for First Nations,
which will fund the Native Youth & Culture Fund for two
initiatives over the course of one year."[138]

See also
 HarmonQuest
The Adventure Zone
Fantasy podcast

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