Critical Role Strikes Out On Its Own On A New Adventure
June 20, 2018 by brennon
Matt Mercer, Marisha Ray and Travis Willingham took part in a special video this week as they talked about the future of Critical Role and a new beginning for them in a new studio!
The team, who has managed to bring a whole new crop of people into our weird geeky world, are going to be striving out on their own with a new Youtube Channel, Twitch Channel and more control of their creative content going forward.
This doesn't mean that you won't be able to watch them on Geek & Sundry, however. The show will still be shown as per usual on Thursdays over on the Geek & Sundry Twitch Channel and VODs will be uploaded on Mondays to the Youtube Channel. But, as things progress you will see new content appearing on their own channel...and I would imagine, eventually a switch over to their Twitch once things are settled.
All of the information on the change is included in the video above and over on the announcement piece HERE. It also came at the head of news about more control over the merchandise, like this new Mighty Nein T-Shirt which I now desperately need...
Critical Role has been an absolutely amazing watch for me and I explain how much I admire Matt and the rest of the crew for bringing their game and world to the masses to get more people interested in Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games at large.
If you have never watched their show before, you NEED to give it a go. Campaign One is over, but you can still watch all of it right now. Campaign Two has also very recently begun and it's just as stunning. I have laughed like crazy, and even actually cried (yes, actual tears) during some of the episodes because the characters have been so perfectly portrayed and the story woven expertly by Matt.
Honestly, yes I am gushing now...but I can't wait to see what the future holds for Critical Role.
Give them a watch!
"I can't wait to see what the future holds for Critical Role..."
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Happy about this – only recently got back into RPG (and D&D which I never thought would happen), and my GM put me onto Critical Role. Luckily, I started watching just as Campaign Two began, and it’s now a weekly regular activity for me (the role-playing is excellent, latest episode gets bogged down at one stage because all the characters are trying to find out the title of a book a barmaid/landlady is reading, with hilarious results).
With more control, I am really looking forward to where they can go with this.
Really need to get back into watching this; only up to episode 100ish of Campaign 1.
My current D&D group actually got together thanks to CR and I’m sure the same can be said for others’. 🙂
looks good.
Glad they are going out on their own. The best step you can make is to spread your own wings and take the leap of faith and see if you can make a go at it on your own. Seeing that they were the big draw and have been the main line of subs for twitch etc I hope they are able to move those twitch and youtube views over to their own venture.
Haven’t watched it in a long time but this is how I got my daughter and son into D&D, well, it also helped that I made them a battle pug they could summon from a charm to fight with them lol. We did a short campaign last year, must do it again soon.
Never seen an episode of it but I did see a video someone made about how perfect a GM Matt Mercer is so I’ll have to give this new campaign a chance.
He really is. It also helps that he’s a professional voice actor so he’s able to imbue the NPCs with a lot of character and gives each a distinctive voice.
I never watched this but I would just add in 35 years of role playing none of the GM’s we’ve had have never put on voices for NPC’s nor have the players. A few maybe tried but they gave up after 10 minutes or so
I always do the voices – love it haha. Really good way to get into character, for me at least. Although I get that it is different strokes for different folks.
I think it depends on your vocal range; my DM tries but his voices tend to sound a lot alike so sometimes when there’s two NPCs it can sound like one NPC talking to themself.