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This morning, another form of entertainment shuttered its doors temporarily due to the coronavirus, as Critical Role is stepping back for a minute The show's production company sent out the notice below to their fans, letting them know that their weekly broadcasts would cease for the time being According to their own schedule, the only[...]

As Critical Role slowly expands to take over everything in sight, the next major partnership they have on the horizon is their own version of Munchkin The game, as you might suspect, will be taking characters, scenarios, treasures, and other goodies from Campaign Two of the show, centered around the crew in the Mighty Nein[...]

A little more than three months after Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina was given a two, 12-episode season order by Amazon Prime, fans are getting a behind-the-scenes tour of production on the animated series In what is promised to be the first in a series, the writers room is revealed as we get to[...]

Critical Role continues their expansion of media with a brand new book on the way through Penguin Random House called The World Of Critical Role The book will cover the show, the series, and more with an in-depth guide to everything they have created over the past five years The book is written by Liz Marsham[...]

The world of Critical Role is about to get some official Dungeons & Dragons placement as both parties have announced Explorer's Guide To Wildemount Since March 2015, the popular streaming show has been using D&D's assets combined with their own creations to bring you their own fantasy world and adventures every week It seems only[...]

You can sign up here or with the form at the bottom. So what's FOC'ing today? Back to usual business for 2020… The Critical Role HC Vol 1 Chronicles Of Ezandria: The Mighty Nein is $5 more than solicited at $44.99 but that won't put off any Critters. We also have the hardcover of Fight Club 3, the conclusion[...]

An interesting tidbit from social media before we head into Thanksgiving as fans of Critical Role are calling out a new skin in Fortnite as a ripoff Earlier today, Epic revealed a brand new skin available in their shop, posting the announcement on Twitter The skin is called the Autumn Queen Outfit and comes with[...]

With an "origin story" that's sure to spawn a new wave of hopeful Kickstarter campaigns, Amazon Prime has signed a first-look deal with media and content provider Critical Role To that end, the streaming service has given a greenlight for two, 12-episode seasons of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina-based on narratives and original[...]

The folks at Wendy's have launched their own tabletop RPG this week at NYCC called Feast Of Legends, in partnership with Critical Role and Fandom The PDF version of the adventure was loaded online, totally free for anyone to download, along with a physical version at the convention that included dice The game itself has[...]

Are you going? Any of these take your fancy? Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice! #1 Convention Exclusive (Christian Ward) $10.00 each Limit of 5 per person per day Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins II #1 Convention Exclusive (Babs Tarr) $10.00 each Limit of 5 per person per day Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Logo Pin $10.00 Limit of 5 per person per day Pin[...]

But what has gotten most of my attention has been Critical Role, as well as its former home on the Geek and Sundry channel, especially Tabletop An independent channel since earlier this year, Critical Role has made 2019 their breakout year. Somehow, given all of the stress and intense heat of summer, nothing has been as[...]

Finally, after a couple of weeks of promotion and waiting, the D&D session with Stephen Colbert and Matthew Mercer for Red Nose Day is live.

Dark Horse Comics came to Diamond's Retail Summit, held in Las Vegas this weekend, adding to the tally of comic book publishers pushing returnability for a number of their new titles, joining DC Comics and Boom in that endeavour. So that Tommy Gun Wizards — the first mainstream comic written by Eisner Award-winning artist Christian Ward[...]

Dark Horse has the comic book license to the web TV series Critical Role in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons It is also the name of the studio owned by the cast. The Critical Role storyline is nade uo of campiagns, story arcs and character backstory set in Exandria, a[...]

Red Nose Day is coming up this week on May 23rd, and for D&D fans you're going to get a special game featuring Stephen Colbert and Critical Role To be more specific, Matthew Mercer will be guiding Colbert through a mini one-on-one adventure in which people made donations to Red Nose Day and choose what[...]

Critical Role has just set a benchmark for whoever may try to climb the Kickstarter ladder in media fundraisers for the future This morning their campaign officially crossed the $10-million dollar marker, making them not just the single most profitable media campaign, but one of the most successful campaigns in Kickstarter history Up until this[...]

During this evening's episode of Critical Role on Twitch, the group's Kickstarter officially reached full funding at $8.8 million for their animated series The crew came back from the break to offer a toast to the community for their help and efforts, as they achieved full funding in just over 30 days with (as of[...]

As their Kickstarter currently sits at $8.5 million, Critical Role has decided to treat their fans to a surprise animatic video In reality, it's an April Fool's Joke that came out a couple of days ago, as they have a more Hanna Barbera era Scooby-Doo take on the series, but it serves as a nice[...]

Critical Role is on a run this week to seemingly break as many Kickstarter records as they can, and overnight they achieved another milestone At around 4am PST, their campaign reached $5.79 million becoming the all-time highest fundraising TV/film project on the website They beat the now former record holder, Mystery Science Theater 3000, started by[...]

The crew at Critical Role launched a Kickstarter today to help fund an animated special, and the show was funded in under an hour If you weren't already aware from watching the show attempt to break Twitter this morning, the D&D podcast of voice actors launched a campaign to do a one-off 30-minute episode of[...]

In a somewhat surprising move today, the popular D&D show Critical Role announced they were officially splitting from Geek & Sundry Starting this Thursday, February 21st, both the primary show as well as their talk show Talks Machina will move from the website and their Twitch channel over to their own official channel[...]

Critical Role will be bringing back (most of) the crew from Vox Machina for a one-night live show to fulfill a very specific one-shot episode "The Search for Grog" will take place on January 19th, 2018, at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, with tickets being sold between December 15th-16th to attend The show will feature[...]

First, Critical Role returned at the start of the year with an amazing new campaign with new characters Then, we find out he had a hand in crafting part of D&D's 2018 adventure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist Following that up in the Fall with McCree from Overwatch getting his own animated short at BlizzCon and the news the[...]

It celebrates the popularity of the game, references a few of the more popular podcasts like Critical Role and Adventure Zone, and it even shows much of the actual D&D books. Hell, a part of the comic is just Morty playing the game with some of Rick's geriatric friends, one of which looks suspiciously like George[...]

Critical Role's Matt Mercer has done a few voices for the cast of Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, and he will be returning for sequel Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire This time, however, he's bringing the rest of Critical Role with him The confirmation came to us thanks to the Critical Role PAX East panel yesterday. For those of you not in[...]

Yesterday we posted an interview with some of the members of Critical Role as they approach Episode 100 But today we have some quick news to add to that as the show will be getting a very special guest to cap off the event Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite, Blades Of Glory) will be joining the[...]

Critical Role is about to dive into a dungeon to achieve one of the most sought-after treasures of any online show: the fabled Episode 100 The Twitched-based Dungeons & Dragons web series led by Matthew Mercer and his group of nerdy and talented voice acting friends has gained much acclaim in the two years they've been campaigning[...]