Critical Role Productions
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| August 2025 | Announced a new podcast release strategy for the fourth campaign, with episodes to be released in two parts: first part the week after premiere, second part on the following Tuesday. |
| August 21 2025 | Critical Role announced the cast and campaign structure for their fourth campaign, revealing the expanded player lineup including Luis Carazo, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Whitney Moore, and Alexander Ward, alongside the original cast. They also confirmed the campaign would use the 2024 revision of D&D 5th Edition ruleset. |
| August 2025 | Critical Role announced that their fourth campaign will premiere on October 2, 2025, featuring Brennan Lee Mulligan as the Game Master in a new world outside of Exandria. |
| July 2025 | Critical Role announced their 2026 live tour 'Echoes of Exandria', which will take place in cities across the United States and Europe. |
| 2025 | Rolling Stone noted the lasting impact of Acaba's departure, with the cast declining to discuss the incident and the fan community maintaining strict boundaries around discussions of his exit. |
| May 29 2025 | Age of Umbra, an eight-part grimdark-themed actual play limited series, is scheduled to begin broadcasting weekly on Beacon and Critical Role's Twitch and YouTube channels. |
| May 22 2025 | Critical Role will broadcast the session zero for Age of Umbra, featuring character creation and worldbuilding. |
| May 2025 | Critical Role announced a partnership with Fathom Events to broadcast their live tour shows in approximately 800 movie theaters across the United States and Australia, marking their largest theatrical distribution agreement to date. |
| April 24 2025 | Thresher, a deep sea horror-themed actual play limited series, premiered its first part. |
| April 8 2025 | Critical Role: Der Katzenprinz & Other Zemnian Tales, a fairy-tale collection by Liam O'Brien, was released. |
| April 3 2025 | Wildemount Wildlings, a three-episode limited series spin-off of the main Critical Role series, premiered on Beacon. |
| 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. |
| February 2025 | The original eight-member cast configuration concludes, marking the end of an era for the show's primary lineup. |
| February 11 2025 | The Chronicles of Exandria: The Mighty Nein Part Two is scheduled for release, written by Dani Carr in collaboration with the Critical Role cast, from the perspective of NPC Iva Deshin. |
| February 6 2025 | Conclusion of Critical Role's third campaign. |
| November 2024 | The cast reprised their roles as Vox Machina in a concurrent arc focused on destroying the Malleus Key. |
| 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 | Critical Role: Bells Hells – What Doesn't Break prequel novel by Cassandra Khaw 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. |
| 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 Productions launched Beacon, their subscription video on-demand streaming service. |
| 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 announced their new subscription streaming service Beacon, aimed at maintaining creative control and reducing reliance on third-party platforms. |
| 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, an all-ages actual play podcast set in Exandria, began airing and ran until August 19, 2024. |
| April 2024 | Riegel's character FCG sacrificed themselves to save the Bells Hells in Episode 91. |
| 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 | Critical Role expressed full support for the SAG-AFTRA strike and stood in solidarity with actors. |
| 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 streamed over Twitch and YouTube. |
| August 2023 | Critical Role released Exquisite Exandria: The Official Cookbook, which became a bestseller in multiple lists. |
| 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 | Announcement of an animated television adaptation for the second campaign titled 'Mighty Nein' for Amazon Prime Video. |
| 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. |
| November 1 2022 | Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien prequel novel by Madeleine Roux released, focusing on Lucien's backstory. |
| June 2022 | Announcement of the prequel novel 'Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien' by Madeleine Roux. |
| June 2022 | Critical Role launches Scanlan Shorthalt Music record label, releasing their first album 'Welcome to Tal'Dorei'. |
| April 2022 | Signed a multi-year deal with SiriusXM, granting worldwide ad sales rights and enabling Stitcher to distribute the podcast across all podcast platforms. |
| January 28 2022 | 'The Legend of Vox Machina' animated series premiered on Amazon Prime Video, with its soundtrack also released digitally. |
| 2021 | A new set was designed by professional amusement park designers Shaun Ellis and Polly Hodges for the third campaign, featuring a return to a common table, enhanced set designs, improved lighting, effects, and individual microphones for each actor. |
| 2021 | The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities published an analysis of the Critical Role Wendy's sponsorship, discussing the community's reaction to the political implications of the collaboration. |
| 2021 | Critical Role Productions was nominated as a Finalist in the Games category at the Shorty Awards. |
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