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Critical Role

Critical Role is a weekly live show in which voice actors play the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Led by Matthew Mercer, as the Dungeon Master, and featuring Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey and Sam Riegel the show airs first on Twitch before being uploaded to YouTube later.

Since 2018, Critical Role is the name of the studio co-owned by the cast and which has produced other shows and roleplaying supplements.

Critical Role and Darrington Press tap an Eisner-nominated creator for the Syndicult RPG

March 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

My data doesn’t lie. It’s all anyone’s talking about right now.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, darrington press, Matthew Mercer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #140

February 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A leak or a D&D release on purpose? A musical D&D experience, a last chance to get the latest Judge Dredd RPG, a look at the horror RPG Red Giant and more RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, apotheosis, Chaosium, critical role, crow land publishing, Dark Souls, deadlands, diego pisa artworks, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, fallout: wasteland warfare, Free League Publishing, free rpg day, hasbro, hero forge, itch.io, judge dredd & the worlds of 2000 AD, level up, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, power rangers, rackham vale, realmwarp media, red giant, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Steamforged Games, studio hex, the oracle, the wagadu chronicles, the world anvil publishing, triple ace games, wickerpunk, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #136

January 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week as Wizards of the Coast make an important D&D hire, Green Ronin plot Cthulhu content done right, and one of the most significant savings you’re likely to see on DTRPG goes live.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, avatar legends, bloat games, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, critical role, cubicle 7, dark places & demogorgons, darrington press, flames of freedom, gen con, goblin slayer, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, laidback dungeon master, Legendary Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, Nightfall Games, Outland Entertainment, raging swan press, routinely itemised, star frontiers, star trek adventures, stokerverse, the grinning frog, todd kenreck, wanderhome, william murakami-brundage, wizards of the coast, yen press

Will Kirkby’s Critical Role Wyrmwood Gaming dice trays are a work of colourful wonder

January 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These are dice trays, but you could also mount them on the wall as art.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, dice trays, wyrmwood gaming

Count the F-Bombs: The Legend of Vox Machina trailer goes red band

January 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest trailer for The Legend of Vox Machina is a reminder it may not be a series appropriate for young ears or disapproving grandfathers.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: amazon prime video, animation, Ashley Johnson, critical role, laura bailey, Matthew Mercer, Taliesin Jaffe, the legend of vox machina, trailers

Um, the Critical Role trailer tempts me with heresy

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Am I the only one who might need a period of adjustment?

Filed Under: Comics, TV Tagged With: amazon prime video, Ashley Johnson, critical role, laura bailey, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, the legend of vox machina, trailers, Travis Willingham

Beadle & Grimm’s Critical Role is an even more exquisite Critical Role

December 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beadle & Grimm’s specialises in making RPGs look even better, making them expensive but highly desirable and exquisite collectables.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beadle & grimm's, critical role, darrington press

Critical Role lap desk trends on Hot Topic

December 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This may seem odd, but the Critical Role background’s starry night background felt similar to me.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: critical role, hot topic

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #122

October 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed we headline the sad news that Hasbro boss Brian Goldner has passed away. This week also brings new D&D, a Cowboy Bebop RPG, Hunters: The Reckoning and more from Critical Role.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 0one Games, Achtung! Cthulhu, arc, Cowboy Bebop, critical role, cubicle 7, defenders of the new century, fantasy age, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Green Ronin Publishing, hasbro, heroic maps, Historica Arcanum, iron kingdoms, Mana Project Studio, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Planet X Games, Privateer Press, routinely itemised, severed books, sharang biswas, sigil & shadow, sigil stone publishing, soulbound, star frontiers, star trek adventures, the gaia complex, wizards of the coast

Call of the Netherdeep: D&D’s sly hardcover is a Critical Role campaign

October 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The listing that slyly appeared for an untitled D&D hardcover has been revealed as Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, wizards of the coast

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