Critical Role
American Dungeons & Dragons web series
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| April 3 2025 | Wildemount Wildlings, a three-episode limited series spin-off of the main Critical Role series, premiered on Beacon. |
| 2025 | Critical Role's campaign three was recognized as an Honoree in the Webby Awards for Podcasts (Features) – Best Partnership or Collaboration category |
| 2025 | Critical Role announced a live tour celebrating their tenth anniversary, which will take place in cities across the United States and Australia. |
| March 25 2025 | Premiered Weird Kids, a video podcast talk show hosted by Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe, exclusively on Beacon. |
| 2025 | Campaign three of Critical Role continues to be active, with ongoing episodes and storytelling in the web series. |
| February 13 2025 | Exandria Unlimited: Divergence (third season) premiered, focusing on mortals rebuilding the world after the Calamity. Game mastered by Brennan Lee Mulligan. |
| February 6 2025 | The third campaign of Critical Role concluded after a multi-year narrative exploring the mysteries of Ruidus and the Ruby Vanguard's plot. |
| February 6 2025 | Campaign finale aired, which at over eight and a half hours became the longest episode in the series. |
| January 30 2025 | Critical Role aired a live non-canon one-shot featuring the Bells Hells as a charity fundraiser for wildfire recovery. |
| January 2025 | The show was placed on an unplanned hiatus due to California wildfires in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, interrupting the filming of the finale. |
| 2024 | Campaign three of Critical Role continues, with ongoing narrative and gameplay episodes documenting the adventures of the player characters. |
| November 2024 | The cast reprised their roles as Vox Machina in a concurrent arc focused on destroying the Malleus Key. |
| October 2024 | The cast reprised their roles as the Mighty Nein while simultaneously role-playing as the Bells Hells. |
| October 16 2024 | Narrative Telephone was rebooted in a monthly video format, initially releasing on Beacon with a YouTube release two weeks later. |
| October 9 2024 | Unend, an audio drama set decades after Midst and Moonward, premiered with weekly Wednesday episodes. |
| October 8 2024 | Prequel novel Critical Role: Bells Hells – What Doesn't Break by Cassandra Khaw was released, focusing on Laudna's backstory. |
| September 30 2024 | Tales From The Stinky Dragon's third campaign, titled Kanon, premiered on Beacon. |
| September 10 2024 | The second season of The Re-Slayer's Take podcast premiered, continuing the all-ages actual play series set in the Exandria universe. |
| August 2024 | Matthew Mercer began seeding the return of previous campaign parties within the third campaign's story arcs. |
| June 2024 | Sam Riegel returned to the show with a new character after cancer treatment. |
| May 2024 | The Washington Post reported a 125% increase in YouTube viewership since 2019, with the channel peaking at over 188 million views in the previous year. |
| May 2024 | Critical Role launched podcast episodes for the second campaign to be released on the same day as the stream, exclusively for Beacon subscribers. |
| May 2024 | Critical Role Productions launched Beacon, their subscription video on-demand streaming service. |
| May 2024 | Critical Role announced their new subscription streaming service Beacon, aimed at maintaining creative control and reducing reliance on third-party platforms. |
| May 2024 | Critical Role announced that Episode 98 would be filmed live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. |
| May 21 2024 | Fireside Chats, a monthly 'ask me anything' style talk show exclusively for Beacon subscribers, premiered. |
| May 20 2024 | The first season of The Re-Slayer's Take podcast premiered, featuring a new adventurer group set in Exandria with Jasmine Bhullar, Jasper William Cartwright, Caroline Lux, and Jasmine Chiong as cast members, and George Primavera and Nick Williams as Dungeon Masters. |
| April 2024 | Riegel's character FCG sacrificed themselves to save the Bells Hells in Episode 91. |
| April 2024 | Sam Riegel took a leave of absence from the show to receive cancer treatment following FCG's in-game death. |
| March 12 2024 | Critical Role ran a live playtest of Daggerheart on their Twitch and YouTube channels, coinciding with their ninth anniversary. |
| February 2024 | Critical Role added the option for YouTube subscribers to access video-on-demand (VOD) immediately after the live stream. |
| February 2024 | Critical Role announced the open beta playtest of Daggerheart, their new roleplaying game system, scheduled to begin on March 12, 2024. |
| 2023 | The third campaign of the Critical Role web series began airing, continuing the narrative storytelling and role-playing adventures of the cast. |
| December 2023 | Critical Role began assisting in the development of the video game Tales of Kenzera: Zau by Surgent Studios. |
| October 26 2023 | The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice shown in Cinemark and Cineplex Theatres. |
| October 25 2023 | The second post-campaign special, The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice, was recorded live at the OVO Arena Wembley with 12,000 tickets sold out in less than 6 minutes. |
| August 2023 | Critical Role released the cookbook Exquisite Exandria: The Official Cookbook of Critical Role. |
| July 2023 | Critical Role Productions removed almost all content featuring former host Foster from its channels. |
| March 2023 | Metapigeon, Critical Role's production banner, acquired the space-western science fiction podcast Midst, marking their first external intellectual property acquisition. |
| January 2023 | Amazon Prime Video announced an animated television adaptation of the campaign titled 'Mighty Nein', with multiple executive producers including Sam Riegel, Travis Willingham, and Tasha Huo. |
| January 5 2023 | Critical Role responds to the leaked Open Game License 1.1 draft, supporting the tabletop gaming community and independent creators. |
| 2022 | The Critical Role Foundation won two Shorty Impact Awards: Gold Honor in 'Best Fundraising Campaign' and Audience Honor in 'Best Influencer & Celebrity Partnership' for their Red Nose Day campaign with Stephen Colbert, which raised over $423,000 - a 252% increase from the 2019 campaign. |
| 2022 | Critical Role introduced a new aftershow called 4-Sided Dive. |
| 2022 | Darrington Press released the revised edition of the campaign sourcebook, titled Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, which reflects the twenty-year time progression between campaign one and campaign two. |
| 2022 | The novel 'Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien' was published, focusing on the campaign's tiefling antagonist Lucien. |
| December 1 2022 | Part Two of The Mighty Nein Reunited aired on Twitch and YouTube, simultaneously screened at Cinemark Theatres in the United States and South America. |
| November 17 2022 | Part One of The Mighty Nein Reunited aired on Twitch and YouTube, simultaneously screened at Cinemark Theatres in the United States and South America. |
| October 2022 | Critical Role announced a two-part special titled The Mighty Nein Reunited, with a canonical story set several months after the conclusion of the second campaign. |
| October 27 2022 | Critical Role began Campaign Three, titled 'Bells Hells', with a new adventuring party playing in the Exandria setting, livestreamed on Twitch and YouTube. |
| June 2022 | Critical Role launched Scanlan Shorthalt Music record label, releasing their first album Welcome to Tal'Dorei. |
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