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Critical Role (2015)

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Critical Role
ประเทศ
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ออกอากาศครั้งแรก
12 มีนาคม 2558
จำนวนตอน
418 ตอน (4 ซีซัน)
ความยาวต่อตอน
ประมาณ 237 นาที
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ตอนล่าสุด
EP38/41 (8 ตุลาคม 2569)
ตอนถัดไป
15 ตุลาคม 2569
ช่อง/แพลตฟอร์มต้นทาง
YouTube, Twitch, Alpha, Beacon
ผู้สร้าง
Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Sam Riegel, ลอร่า เบลีย์, Liam O'Brien, Travis Willingham
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8.2/10 (26 โหวต)

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Critical Role is a weekly actual play series that uses tabletop role-playing game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy worlds of Exandria, Aramán, and beyond, with sweeping narratives intricately woven through collaboration between Game Masters and players.

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  • Matthew MercerMatthew Mercerรับบท Game Master
  • ลอร่า เบลีย์ลอร่า เบลีย์รับบท Vex'ahlia Vessar
  • Taliesin JaffeTaliesin Jaffeรับบท Percival de Rolo
  • Ashley JohnsonAshley Johnsonรับบท Yasha Nydoorin
  • Travis WillinghamTravis Willinghamรับบท Fjord Stone
  • Liam O'BrienLiam O'Brienรับบท Orym, of the Air Ashari
  • Sam RiegelSam Riegelรับบท Scanlan Shorthalt / Taryon Darrington
  • Marisha RayMarisha Rayรับบท Beauregard "Beau" Lionett
  • Robbie DaymondRobbie Daymondรับบท Kattigan Vale
  • Aabria IyengarAabria Iyengarรับบท Thaisha Lloy
  • Brennan Lee MulliganBrennan Lee Mulliganรับบท Self
  • Luis CarazoLuis Carazoรับบท Azune Nayar

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Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 after 115 episodes, and campaign two started in January 2018 and ended in June 2021 after 141 episodes. A number of one-shots were aired in the hiatus between the two campaigns. After campaign two was completed, the spin-off limited series Exandria Unlimited aired from June 2021 to August 2021. The third campaign aired from October 21, 2021 to February 6, 2025 with 121 episodes. The fourth campaign premiered on October 2, 2025. The first three campaigns featured Matthew Mercer as the show's Dungeon Master and were set in the Exandria campaign setting; Brennan Lee Mulligan of Dimension 20 is the Game Master for the fourth campaign which is set in Mulligan's setting of Aramán.

The series is broadcast on Thursdays at 19:00 PT on the Critical Role Twitch and YouTube channels and the Beacon streaming service, with the video on demand (VOD) being available to Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch subscribers immediately after the broadcast on their respective platforms. The VODs are made available for the public on Critical Role's website and uploaded to their YouTube channel on the Monday after the live stream. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show had broadcast live, but has been pre-recorded since its return for episode 100 of campaign two.

The cast own the intellectual property from the show, and the show also lends its name to the studio owned by the cast—Critical Role Productions. The studio has produced Critical Role since 2018. A number of licensed works based on the show have been released, such as several comic books and two official campaign setting guides. The Legend of Vox Machina, the animated series based on the first campaign of Critical Role, premiered January 28, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video. The Mighty Nein, an animated series based on the second campaign, premiered on November 19, 2025.

Background

Critical Role is a creator-owned streaming show where the cast play an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign, initially with Matthew Mercer as the show's Dungeon Master for the player cast.

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. At the time O'Brien was acting as Mercer's voice director on Resident Evil 6. Mercer had been encouraging O'Brien for some time to join a game, but O'Brien had been declining up to that point due to his new child. He eventually agreed to do a game for his birthday, and the bulk of the cast were present at that first session. The players enjoyed the game so much that they continued to play it while switching to the Pathfinder ruleset. O'Brien spoke with Ashley Johnson while the two were working on The Last of Us, and invited her to the campaign's second session. The home-game ran for two years, with the cast meeting approximately once every six weeks and playing for up to 8 hours at a time.

After Felicia Day heard about the private home game from Johnson, she approached the group about playing it in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry. The version G&S pitched would have had the players switch over to a video game to resolve combat. Mercer was against this, preferring instead to continue to play at the tabletop as the group had been. The players also vowed to halt the show if it compromised their enjoyment of the game. Geek & Sundry would ultimately host the show until February 2019. 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. There were initially eight cast member players; Orion Acaba left the show after episode 27 of campaign one. His character, Tiberius, appeared in the first seven issues of the prequel comic series Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins.

Fans of the show are termed "Critters". The name was suggested by O'Brien during the Q&A session at the end of episode 10 of campaign one, which was popular with the chat at the time.

Critical Role company and studio

The Critical Role company, Critical Role Productions LLC, was incorporated in 2015. As of 2019, Travis Willingham is chief executive officer, Matthew Mercer is chief creative officer, Marisha Ray is creative director, Ed Lopez is chief operating officer, Rachel Romero is senior vice president of marketing, and Ben Van Der Fluit is vice president of business development.

In June 2018, Critical Role launched its own Twitch and YouTube channels, with cast member Marisha Ray announced as the creative director of the franchise. The company also moved to their own studio space in 2018 and started putting out new shows on their Twitch and YouTube channels. The sets for Critical Role and Talks Machina moved from Legendary Digital Network's studios to Critical Role's own studios in July 2018. In February 2019, Critical Role finalized its split from Geek & Sundry and Legendary Digital Networks, with live broadcasts of the company's shows and videos on demand (VODs) airing exclusively on Critical Role's channels. Critical Role also took over production responsibility for Critical Role and Talks Machina after splitting from Legendary Digital Networks. 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, 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.

On March 4, 2019, Critical Role launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a 22-minute animation called Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina Animated Special. The final total raised by the Kickstarter when it closed on April 19, 2019, was $11.3M turning the intended animated special into a ten-episode animated series. 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. 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). The project was originally slated for release in late 2020, however in June 2020, it was announced that the debut would be missed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Legend of Vox Machina premiered on January 28, 2022. Mighty Nein, an animated series based on the second campaign, was announced in January 2023 and later premiered on Amazon Prime Video.

A leak of Twitch data in October 2021 revealed that Critical Role is among the highest earners on Twitch; the company received a total direct payout of $9,626,712 between September 2019 and September 2021 from Twitch in gross income for subscriptions and ad revenue. BBC News commented that this list of payments is unlikely to "account for tax paid on income" and that "many, if not all, of these top streamers are effectively large-scale media operations, with their own employees and business expenses – so the numbers do not represent 'take-home pay' for those listed". Business Insider highlighted that "Critical Role has grown into a full-fledged media company. [...] Its LinkedIn page lists employees in roles including marketing, business development, photography, editing, and even one person responsible for keeping track of the lore, or details in its fantasy world".

Regarding the potential impact of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike on the show, Critical Role stated:

We fully support the strike and stand in solidarity with our fellow actors. Currently, our release schedule is not impacted by the strike, but we will continue to evaluate and take the necessary steps should it be impacted in the future.

Critical Role's fourth campaign premiered October 2, 2025. It features Brennan Lee Mulligan as the Dungeon Master and a new world "outside its usual Exandria setting". Rolling Stone stated that "the inclusion of Mulligan is huge, but not entirely surprising" given Mulligan's background as "a well-established Game Master" who created the "titanic success" Dimension 20 along with previous comments made by Mercer on eventually shifting "into a 'Professor X' role as a mentor to the next generation of storytellers rather than remaining the face of the brand in perpetuity". The fourth campaign features an expanded player cast – in addition to the original Critical Role cast returning as players, Luis Carazo, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Whitney Moore and Alexander Ward joined the main cast. After the campaign's initial episodes, the players were split into three groups with different narrative and game style interests in a West Marches-style structure.

Beacon

In May 2024, Critical Role Productions launched their boutique subscription streaming service Beacon with the Critical Role broadcast and VODs available to subscribers of the platform. They announced a new programming slate for Beacon including shows related to the main series – Critical Role Cooldown and Critical Role Abridged. Critical Role Cooldown, exclusively available on Beacon, is an immediate aftershow with the cast still at the table which airs after each episode of Critical Role and Critical Role Abridged, available for early access on the platform, which condenses and streamlines the Critical Role show to 60–90 minute episodes starting with Campaign Three. Cheryl Teh of Business Insider stated that "Beacon essentially gives people what they get with a Twitch subscription — instant access to VODs of their livestreams, but with some additional perks".

Format and broadcast

Critical Role is a mixture of a weekly show and a modern gaming Twitch stream. The show originally did a live broadcast but has been pre-recorded since Campaign Two Episode 100; the change occurred as a result of filming conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each episode usually runs for three to five hours and is streamed on Critical Role's Twitch and YouTube channels on almost every Thursday, with possible breaks from the show being announced ahead of time. 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. In February 2024, the option to access to the VOD immediately after airing on the YouTube channel was added for YouTube subscribers. In May 2024, Critical Role began to also broadcast on the studio's streaming service Beacon with VOD access immediately after airing for Beacon subscribers. These additional platforms did not impact the distribution on Twitch or the free YouTube VOD which is available after a delay.

Starting with the third campaign, the main campaign of Critical Role did not air new episodes on the last Thursday of every month; instead, other content by the studio aired in its time slot. In March 2026, during the fourth campaign, Critical Role announced that this schedule would not continue. Instead of a set monthly break, pauses would occur due to natural story progression or United States holidays.

Critical Role has included advertisements since October 2015 with sponsorships announced at the start of each episode that "usually also appear in the visual overlay of the show". Sam Riegel is typically the cast member who reads these advertisements. Academic Jan Švelch commented that "Riegel's comedic approach to sponsorship announcements, which often involves only loosely related skits, has become a running gag of Critical Role". He also highlighted that "the most prominent sponsorships include long-term collaborations with D&D Beyond, Wyrmwood (gaming tables and dice trays) and Dwarven Forge (miniature terrain)". Additionally, 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.

Filming and set design

Matt Jarvis, in the UK print magazine Tabletop Gaming, highlighted "what has changed significantly, even from Critical Role's beginnings, is its production values. The audio and video quality of the first few episodes [...] has since been polished by professional lighting, microphones and sets". The cast played at a shared table when it was still a home game, however, the first set at Geek & Sundry separated the cast onto three tables. The set, nicknamed "Felicia's Bedroom", had numerous issues including poor audio, cameras which blocked the player's eyelines and long distances between the tables. O'Brien has stated that it "felt like a child's diorama for a school project". The distance also made it challenging for the cast to see the battle maps. The show moved to another set early on, which featured a "stony, moodily-lit backdrop". A custom game table which allows the cast to sit together was added to the set in July 2017. It was designed by Wyrmwood so that the cast can "see each other and interact with each other" while they are filmed from multiple sides. Mercer is positioned behind a gamemaster's screen in the inset portion with space for his notes; in the center of the table, there is an area for the miniatures and maps used in combat. Critical Role was initially filmed at Geek & Sundry, but moved to its own studio in June 2018. From 2016 to 2019, Critical Role was also available on Legendary Digital's Alpha platform. The Alpha version featured a number of digital "enhancements" including "special real-time dynamic character sheets, damage and heal animations, and visualizations." This version is no longer accessible as Alpha was shut down in March 2019.

The show is filmed in a simultaneous multi-camera setup with two cameras at the players and a third at the Dungeon Master. The three camera feeds are "arranged in a single window" for the audience. Additionally, a "fourth 'Battle Cam' can be turned on when necessary, to show a close-up of the miniatures and models used for in-game combat". This composite approach was novel at the time and more commonly seen in e-sports. Prior to this, actual play shows were sometimes using wide-angle lenses in an attempt to include the full table. The composite format came to dominate the genre during the late 2010s. Em Friedman, for Polygon, commented that showing "all angles of a table, simultaneously, live" meant the reactions of the players became "a significant part of the audience experience, leading to some of the most memorable moments in the show".

The D&D Beyond sponsorship, starting with the premiere of Campaign Two, led to an immediate impact "in the physical space of the gaming table" as the players "now had tablet computers in front of them, allowing them to access their digital character sheets". However, "analog components" from player diaries to dice and dice trays have "remained on the table". Academic Robyn Hope, in an essay in the book Watch Us Roll (2021), highlighted how the simple livestream layout has been redesigned over time:At various times it also displayed sponsors, a live feed of the Twitch chat, the player's Twitter handles, and combat information. As the show progressed, however, this excess text was stripped away: now, the players are each labeled with the names, classes, and portraits of their characters, and aside from the mandatory block for sponsor advertisements, there is almost no other additional text. The physical set has also grow simpler. In early episodes, the players sat in front of a chalkboard and bookshelves; these were later replaced with a façade of stone, wood, and electric lanterns.

A new set, designed by professional amusement park designers Shaun Ellis and Polly Hodges, was built for the third campaign in 2021. The cast are no longer divided into socially distanced individual tables, but returned instead to a common table as had been the case prior to the pandemic. The Wyrmwood table was replaced with a new custom game table. The update also features "enhanced set designs, music, lighting and effects, along with improved sound (each actor will have an individual mic)." The Campaign Three set, which was called the "Tavern of Tales", was then replaced with a new set built for the fourth campaign in 2025. Ray explained that with the Campaign Four set they were able to "innovate and iterate" on what they learned from building the previous set in terms of effects and the "camera dimensions". In comparing the set design, Ray commented that Campaign Three's set was intended "to be a very blank space [...] a tavern that reflects your imagination" while the Campaign Four set "is a lot more grounded in [the setting of] Aramán" and the city of Dol-Makjar where the campaign begins.

Critical Role has played with a live theater audience fifteen times. The tenth live show was the first to take place internationally, occurring at the OVO Arena Wembley, in London. The third campaign's premiere in 2021 was simulcast live in Cinemark Theatres along with the regular Twitch and YouTube livestream. Similarly, the 17th episode of the third campaign was simulcast in Cinemark Theatres, Landmark Theatres, and Cinépolis alongside the regular livestream as part of their 7th anniversary celebration. As part of the show's tenth anniversary celebration in 2025, Critical Role did a live tour in cities across the United States and Australia. In May 2025, Critical Role announced a partnership with Fathom Events to air the remaining live tour shows in movie theaters shortly after each show was recorded. Variety reported, per Critical Role, it is "the company's largest-ever theatrical distribution agreement" with the four live shows being broadcast at "800 movie theaters". In July 2025, Critical Role announced their upcoming 2026 live tour – titled Echoes of Exandria – in cities across the United States and Europe.

Podcasts

On the 100th episode of Critical Role, the launch of the Critical Role podcast was announced: an audio version of the game sessions. It is available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, and at the Geek & Sundry website. The first campaign's podcast episodes were released in batches of 10–15, between June 8, 2017, and January 8, 2018. Academic Emily Friedman highlighted the length of the first campaign at "447 hours, 39 minutes". She noted that the podcast "is often recommended to new listeners" because it "can be listened to on accelerated speed" with the listener supplementing "their experience with strategic viewing of notable visual moments". Since the start of the second campaign, the podcast episodes have been released on the following Thursday. Starting in May 2024, the podcast is available same day to Beacon subscribers. In August 2025, it was announced that for the fourth campaign, the "podcast episodes will drop in two parts: the first one the week after the premiere, and the second on the following Tuesday".

Campaign structure

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, the campaigns are all set on the various continents of Exandria, a world Mercer created. In June 2021, the cast of Critical Role finished their second campaign. Their third campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.

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.

Pre-series history

The Vox Machina campaign originated as the home game of the cast, which was played at home from 2012 to 2015. 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. Additionally, O'Brien released a recording of the magic carpet being discovered by the party. Episode 36, titled Winter's Crest in Whitestone, features a summary of the pre-series history, with artwork created by Wendy Sullivan Green and voice-overs provided by the cast. The comic book, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, is an adaptation of the group's game before the show. The animated series adaptation, The Legend of Vox Machina, also adapts a canonic story that takes place within the pre-stream time frame.

On-stream campaign

The show begins in medias 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. 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. 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".

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