Critical Role (web series)
| 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 |
| Theme music composer | Jason C. Miller |
| Opening theme | Critical Role Theme Song |
| Ending theme | Twin Elms |
| Composer(s) | Jason C. Miller Kevin MacLeod Justin Bell |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 115 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 180–300 minutes |
| Distributor | Geek & Sundry |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Twitch.tv Geek & Sundry YouTube |
| Original release | 12 March 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Talks Machina |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
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 at 19:00 (PT) on the Geek & Sundry Twitch.tv, with VODs made available on Geek & Sundry's official website and YouTube channel the following Monday.
Matthew Mercer serves as the show's Dungeon Master, running an ongoing campaign that is the basis for the show. The campaign began two years prior to the series as a one-time simplified Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition game for Liam O'Brien's birthday. The group enjoyed this initial game so much that they continued to play, switching to Pathfinder, and continuing their story as the Super High Intensity Team. Felicia Day had heard about their private home game from Ashley Johnson and approached the group about doing it on-stream with Geek & Sundry. 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 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 36,000 subscribers and to their YouTube channel the following Monday.
Critical Role has played with a live theater audience three times: the first in Episode 60: Heredity and Hats held on July 14, 2016 at the Landmark Theatre in LA; the second in Episode 62: Uninviting Waters held on August 6, 2016 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre; and the third in Episode 109: The Ominous March held on August 18, 2017 at the Old National Centre.
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