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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.

D&D leak: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount cover revealed

January 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The cover illustration to Matthew Mercer’s Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount has been revealed by a Barnes & Noble’s listing ahead of Wizards of the Coast’s official announcement.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, Dungeons & Dragons, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Matthew Mercer, wizards of the coast

D&D leak: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount with Matthew Mercer

January 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wildemount is a continent on Exandria. That’s the setting of the hugely popular D&D live stream Critical Role.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, Dungeons & Dragons, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Matthew Mercer, wizards of the coast

Patrick Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders hits $500,000

December 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Support charities by bidding on rare geeky goodies such as the D&D Critical Role cards currently on ebay.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: charity, critical role, patrick rothfuss

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #21

November 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vampires taking over the world, over a million Dollars of dice and Wizards of the Coast charging a pretty penny for an infernal font… all for charity. It’s the RPG weekly news summary.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, routinely itemised, The One Ring, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Amazon picks up Critical Role’s animated ‘Legend of Vox Machina’

November 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amazon Prime gets the deal as an exclusive, picking up the project after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: amazon prime video, critical role, matt mercer, the legend of vox machina, titmouse

What is the Matt Mercer effect?

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Matt Mercer

It has become such a commonly used phrase that “Mercer Effect” entered the Urban Dictionary this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, matt mercer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #2

June 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What happened this week in the world of RPGs?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, Chris Perkins, critical role, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, frog god games, Green Ronin Publishing, humble bundle, mass effect, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, studio agate, threefold

$114 million projection for Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina as 5 backers snap up $10,000 pledge tiers

March 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina

This Kickstarter is a labour of love for the Critters, Critical Role’s fantastic community, as there isn’t a pledge tier that delivers the animation to backers.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: critical role, kickstarters, titmouse

Matt Colville’s new RPG live stream will avoid clashing with Critical Role

January 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

He plans to channel the YouTube community he’s build up over Twitch to watch the live campaign. However, the show will be uploaded to YouTube after the session wraps.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: critical role

Heartbroken Matthew Mercer replies to frustrated DM

December 31, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Matthew Mercer, the DM of the hugely popular Critical Role, admitted a comment left by a fellow DM on Reddit’s DM Academy left him feeling a little heartbroken.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, Matthew Mercer

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