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Critical Role

Critical Role is a weekly live show in which voice actors play the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Led by Matthew Mercer, as the Dungeon Master, and featuring Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey and Sam Riegel the show airs first on Twitch before being uploaded to YouTube later.

Since 2018, Critical Role is the name of the studio co-owned by the cast and which has produced other shows and roleplaying supplements.

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #110

July 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s the latest from D&D, Cyberpunk Red, 13th Age, Call of Cthulhu, Critical Role and even of Chainmail, the game that became D&D.

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Piece together The Mighty Nein as The Op sells a 1,000 piece “Isharnai’s Hut” jigsaw

July 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

What do you gift a Critical Role fan who has almost all the goodies? Find one they don’t yet have?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, the op

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #104

June 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Two D&D leaks at once, maybe three if you count the accessories. Oh, maybe four if you count the photos from the movie. Then there’s the official Dark Tower RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, astral tabletop, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, Curriculum of Chaos, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil Hat Productions, Fantasy Grounds, gama, goodman games, Into the Mother Lands, Loke BattleMats, Modiphius Entertainment, onyx path publishing, osric, Pathfinder Society, Restoration Games, roll20, routinely itemised, starfinder, Synthicide, the op, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, trinity continuum, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, warlock, wizards of the coast

Critical Role confirms international release for Darrington Press’ Uk’otoa board game

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first game from Critical Role’s Darrington Press is a battle of life and death on the high Lucidian seas called Uk’otoa.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, critical role, darrington press, ivan van norman

The Op announces tree planting program

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Earth Day and The Op, makers of so many branded Monopoly games, the occasional branded Munchkin game, Telestrations and Blank Slate will now plant a tree for every board game sold from their site.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: charity, critical role, monopoly, Munchkin, the op

Comic Relief: Win days of D&D with a Critical Role guest star in Warwick Castle

February 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast’s owners Hasbro are providing goodies to Comic Relief so that competition winners can enjoy two epic nights of a Dungeons & Dragons experience in Warwick Castle.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: charity, critical role, Dungeons & Dragons

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #74

November 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In RPG news; it’s Friday the 13th, and there are quite a few big books about to be released; Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Cyberpunk Red to name two.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, beowulf, carbon 2185, castles & crusades, cawood publishing, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark places & demogorgons, darrington press, defenders of the new century, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, fandom tabletop, Fantasy Grounds, foundry, goodman games, hammerdog games, handiwork games, humblewood, ivan van norman, jonathan hicks, Keith Baker, kobold press, luke gygax, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, starfinder, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, the witcher, those dark places, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, World Anvil, world of darkness

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #72

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly roundup of RPG news from Wizards of the Coast, Chaosium, Cubicle 7, R. Talsorian Games, PEG, Paizo and the industry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battletech, beadle & grimm, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Claim the Sky, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, darrington press, Delta Green, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, entromancy, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, Fire Ruby Designs, First Responders, forsaken system player's guide, handiwork games, hasbro, Helmgast, humble bundle, Indie Press Revolution, invisible sun, John Carter of Mars, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, mindjammer press, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, nightpath publishing, Ogre, onyx path publishing, over arms, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Palladium Books, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, rp haven, s5s, Saturday Morning Scenarios, savage worlds, Scarred Lands, scion, Steve Jackson Games, talisman, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, The Esoterrorists, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warchief gaming, warhammer, warlock, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

Darrington Press: Critical Role launches RPG and tabletop games publishing company

October 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Mercer and the Critical Role team have launched their own tabletop games company Darrington Press today.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, darrington press, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71

October 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventure system, Arion Games, astate, beadle & grimm, Bruce Cordell, bundle of holding, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dnd beyond, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, Elder Scrolls, en publishing, fat dragon games, Free League Publishing, gama, halloween, handiwork games, idyll creations, Inkwell Ideas, king arthur pendragon, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, lynne hardy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rhianna pratchett, Rivers of London, roll20con, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, soulbound, stargrave, terminator, the grinning frog, the wildsea, vaesen, warhammer, wizards of the coast

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