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Critical Role has explained its “kill fee” policy, ensuring players continue receiving payment for several episodes after a character dies.
Critical Role’s Campaign 4 uses three separate tables, hidden information and the West Marches format to make every decision feel more consequential.
Matthew Mercer names eight defining Critical Role moments, from The Search for Grog and Jester’s cupcake to major twists in Bells Hells and Exandria.
Critical Role Campaign 4 has abandoned its expected table rotation, leaving viewers to track an unpredictable schedule across Seekers, Schemers and Soldiers.
Aiden Thomas’ Cemetery Boys: Espíritu follows Julian’s new supernatural mystery, with Critical Role newcomer Vico Ortiz narrating an exclusive chapter.
Marisha Ray discussed how Critical Role performers are paid when a character dies during Brennan Lee Mulligan’s campaign, separating fiction from production realities.
Critical Role’s six-part Daggerheart campaign ends with devastating sacrifices, a monstrous final battle and a hard-won sense of hope for its survivors.
A new Mighty Nein anthology uses Essek’s revised history to suggest that the animated Campaign 2 canon will guide Critical Role’s future stories.
Critical Role’s latest Mighty Nein anthology expands Campaign 2 through compelling stories about allies, enemies and overlooked characters across Exandria.
Critical Role Campaign 4 returns on 27 August. Here is a spoiler-filled recap of Arc 1, the three tables and their next destinations in Aramán.
Daggerheart’s first major expansion, Hope & Fear, adds four classes, supernatural transformations, new enemies and campaign settings on 25 August 2026.
Critical Role’s new Daggerheart miniseries, Reign of the Weredragon, brings a fairy-tale-inspired horror setting to the group’s expanding actual-play schedule.
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