Critical Role
| Critical Role | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons |
| Created by | Matthew Mercer |
| Starring |
Ashley Johnson Laura Bailey Liam O'Brien Marisha Ray Matthew Mercer Sam Riegel Taliesin Jaffe Travis Willingham |
| Composer(s) |
Jason C. Miller Kevin MacLeod |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 88 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 180-300 minutes |
| Distributor | Geek & Sundry |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Twitch.tv Geek & Sundry |
| Original release | 12 March 2015 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Critical Role is an American web series produced by Geek & Sundry in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. The series is broadcast live on Thursdays on the Geek & Sundry Twitch.tv, with episodes later made available on Geek & Sundry's official website and YouTube channel.
Matthew Mercer serves as the show's Dungeon Master, running the ongoing campaign that is the basis for the show. The campaign began two years prior to the series as a one-time Pathfinder game at a birthday party for Liam O'Brien. The group enjoyed this initial game so much that they continued to play privately until they were approached by Felicia Day. In order to streamline gameplay for the live show, the game's characters were converted from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition before the web series began airing on 12 March 2015.
Critical Role is filmed with three cameras and is a mixture of a traditional weekly show and a modern gaming Twitch stream. Each episode runs from 3 to 5 hours, is streamed live, and is made available on Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel immediately afterward to their more than 30,000 subscribers.
A number of the streams have also served as a donation drive to support nonprofit organizations such as St Jude's, 826LA, Extra Life, and Doctors Without Borders.
The Critical Role storyline occurs in a campaign made up of a series of story arcs that are played over multiple episodes. Between the major story arcs, the characters rest, resupply, or go on side quests. In addition, each character has a backstory, an unfinished part of their history that enters into the campaign at irregular intervals.
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