RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.
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.
The latest Critical Role book: The World of Critical Role
Publishing giant Penguin Random House has announced they have a Critical Role book coming out later this year. Written by Liz Marsham and the cast of Critical Role, The World of Critical Role is available on pre-order for hardcover, ebook and audiobook. The illustrated guide follows the rise of Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, […]
Matthew Mercer defends Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, and that’s a shame
Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer shares a passionate and empathic post about Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount only an hour after it is announced.
D&D leak: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount cover revealed
The cover illustration to Matthew Mercer’s Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount has been revealed by a Barnes & Noble’s listing ahead of Wizards of the Coast’s official announcement.
D&D leak: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount with Matthew Mercer
Wildemount is a continent on Exandria. That’s the setting of the hugely popular D&D live stream Critical Role.
Patrick Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders hits $500,000
Support charities by bidding on rare geeky goodies such as the D&D Critical Role cards currently on ebay.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #21
Vampires taking over the world, over a million Dollars of dice and Wizards of the Coast charging a pretty penny for an infernal font… all for charity. It’s the RPG weekly news summary.
Amazon picks up Critical Role’s animated ‘Legend of Vox Machina’
Amazon Prime gets the deal as an exclusive, picking up the project after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign.
What is the Matt Mercer effect?
It has become such a commonly used phrase that “Mercer Effect” entered the Urban Dictionary this year.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #2
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