It’s the season of live-action show announcements, and Critical Role’s creepy sister Candela Obscura has just joined the action. Management company Darrington Press revealed that the horror-investigation role-playing game will take to the stage at The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on May 25 with plenty of familiar faces sitting around the table. … Read more
Critical Role’s creepy spin-off Candela Obscura just wrapped up its fourth season. If you’re getting ready to sit down and watch Circle of the Crimson Mirror wrap up this weekend, be prepared to set aside some time: its third and final part clocks in at just under six hours. (Don’t worry, there are no spoilers … Read more
Critical Role's third campaign is remarkable in many ways. By tying together several characters, plot points, and villains from the previous two campaigns, it feels like the end of a powerful (and unexpected) trilogy, with the narrative pressures, possibilities, and constraints that can entail. But by episode 92, which aired April 18, it's clear that … Read more
Critical Role has launched its own membership service that will house all existing programs, and some new ones, under the same umbrella, while offering additional benefits and access to paid subscribers. Travis Willingham, a longtime cast member and CEO of the Dungeon & Dragon live-action series, said Beacon “really allows us the flexibility to create … Read more
In a rather glowing profile published in the Washington Post about Critical Role's growing Dungeons & Dragons gaming empire, a snippet of new information has been released about The Legend of Vox Machina. Fans of the animated series will just have to wait until this fall to see more adventures from Critical Role's first team … Read more
Vecna, the iconic Dungeons & Dragons villain who also appeared in Stranger Things and Critical Role, will be joining Dead by Daylight's killers gallery. Dead by Daylight is a horror-themed multiplayer video game in which players take on the role of either a killer or a survivor. As a killer, players will seek out other … Read more
Although best known within the board game community for creating games such as the Jenga-based role-playing game Star Crossed and For the Queen (the second edition of which was just published by Critical Role studio Darrington Press), Alex Roberts also runs a consulting service. At first, the two career paths may seem very different, but … Read more