When Does Critical Role Get Uploaded to Youtube

American Dungeons & Dragons spider web serial

Disquisitional Role
Genre	Fantasy Actual play
Based on	Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition
Starring	Matthew Mercer Ashley Johnson Travis Willingham Laura Bailey Liam O'Brien Taliesin Jaffe Marisha Ray Orion Acaba Sam Riegel
Theme music composer	Jason C. Miller Colm McGuinness Sean Feica Peter Habib
Opening theme	"Critical Role Theme Song" (C1) "Disquisitional Role Too" (C2, episodes 1–43) "Your Turn to Ringlet" (C2, episodes 44–141) "It's Thursday Night" (C3)
Catastrophe theme	"Twin Elms" (C1) "Welcome to Wildemount" (C2) "Welcome to Marquet" (C3)
Land of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	115 (Campaign ane) 141 (Campaign 2) 19 (Campaign 3) (list of episodes)
Product
Product locations	Los Angeles, California
Running time	Approximately 180–300 minutes per episode[1]
Production companies	Geek & Sundry (2015–2018)[ii] Critical Function Productions (2018–present)[3]
Release
Original network	Twitch YouTube Alpha (2016-19)
Original release	March 12, 2015 (2015-03-12)
Chronology
Related shows	Talks Machina Critical Epitomize Exandria Unlimited The Legend of Vox Machina

Critical Function is an American web series in which a group of professional vox actors play Dungeons & Dragons. The show started streaming partway through the bandage'southward get-go campaign in March 2015. Campaign i ended in Oct 2017 after 115 episodes, and campaign 2 started in January 2018 and ended in June 2021 subsequently 141 episodes. A number of one-shots were aired in the hiatus betwixt the ii campaigns. Later campaign two was completed, the limited series Exandria Unlimited aired from June 2021 to August 2021. The third campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.

The series is broadcast on Thursdays at 19:00 PT on the Critical Role Twitch and YouTube channels, with the video on demand (VOD) becoming available to Twitch subscribers immediately after the broadcast. The VODs are made available for the public on Critical Role'southward website and uploaded to their YouTube channel on the Mon after the live stream. Prior to the COVID-nineteen pandemic, the show had circulate live, but has been pre-recorded since its return for episode 100 of Campaign Two.

The bandage ain the intellectual holding from the show, and the show also lends its name to the studio owned past the cast—Disquisitional Function Productions. The studio has produced Critical Part and Talks Machina since 2018. A number of licensed works based on the bear witness accept been released, such as several comic books and two official campaign setting guides. The Fable of Vox Machina, the animated series based on the start campaign of Critical Role, premiered on Jan 28, 2022.

Background [edit]

Disquisitional Role is a creator-owned streaming testify where the cast play an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with Matthew Mercer serving every bit the bear witness'southward Dungeon Master for the seven other cast members.^[4]

The group'southward first campaign began two years prior to the start of the series as a i-off, simplified Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition game for Liam O'Brien's birthday.^{[five] [6] [7]} The players enjoyed the game so much that they continued to play it while switching to the Pathfinder ruleset.^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} Later Felicia Twenty-four hours heard about the individual abode game from Ashley Johnson, she approached the group about playing it in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry, which hosted the show until Feb 2019.^{[9] [11]} In gild to streamline gameplay for the prove, the game'southward characters were converted from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition earlier the web series began airing on March 12, 2015.^{[12] [13]} In that location were initially eight cast fellow member players; Orion Acaba left the prove afterwards episode 27 of entrada i.^{[14] [xv]} His character, Tiberius, appeared in the kickoff seven problems of the prequel comic serial Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins.^{[16] [17]}

Critical Role company and studio [edit]

The Critical Role company, Critical Office Productions LLC, was incorporated in 2015.^[eighteen] Every bit of 2019^[update], Travis Willingham serves equally main executive officeholder,^[3] Matthew Mercer as main creative officeholder,^[19] Marisha Ray as creative director,^[20] Ed Lopez as chief operating officer,^[19] Rachel Romero as senior vice president of marketing,^[19] and Ben Van Der Fluit as vice president of business organization development.^[19]

In June 2018, Critical Part Productions launched its own Twitch and YouTube channels, with cast member Marisha Ray announced as the creative manager of the franchise.^[21] The company also moved to their ain studio space in 2018 and started putting out new shows on their Twitch and YouTube channels.^{[ii] [22] [21] [23]} The sets for Disquisitional Role and Talks Machina moved from Legendary Digital Network's studios to Disquisitional Role's own studios in July 2018.^[2] In Feb 2019, Critical Office finalized its split from Geek & Sundry and Legendary Digital Networks, with live broadcasts of the visitor's shows and VODs airing exclusively on Critical Role'south channels.^[24] Critical Role also took over product responsibility for Critical Office and Talks Machina later on splitting from Legendary Digital Networks.^{[iv] [25]} Some "legacy episodes" (currently the entirety of Entrada 1, the first xix episodes of Campaign two, equally well as the respective episodes of official give-and-take show Talks Machina) remain bachelor in Geek & Sundry's archives on YouTube and Twitch,^[24] though some older episodes of Critical Role and Talks Machina are being deleted from the Geek and Sundry channels and re-uploaded to the official Disquisitional Role channels since 2019 as part of an ongoing migration of older content to the creator-owned channels.^{[26] : 0:45}

On March 4, 2019, Critical Role launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a 22-minute blitheness called Critical Part: The Legend of Vox Machina Animated Special.^{[27] [28]} The concluding total raised by the Kickstarter when it airtight on Apr 19, 2019, was $11.3M turning the intended animated special into a ten episodes animated serial.^{[29] [xxx]} When the campaign closed, it was one of the near rapidly funded in Kickstarter history, and was the most funded Kickstarter for Tv set and film projects.^{[31] [32]} In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video appear that they had acquired the streaming rights to The Legend of Vocalisation Machina, and had commissioned fourteen boosted episodes (two boosted episodes for season ane and a second flavour of 12 episodes).^[30] The project was originally slated for release in late 2020, however in June 2020, it was announced that the debut would be missed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^{[33] [34] [35]} The Fable of Vocalism Machina premiered on January 28, 2022.^{[36] [37]}

A leak of Twitch data in October 2021 revealed that Disquisitional Role is among the highest earners on Twitch;^{[38] [39]} the company received a total direct payout of $nine,626,712 between September 2019 and September 2021 from Twitch in gross income for subscriptions and advertising revenue.^{[40] [41] [42]} BBC News commented that this list of payments is unlikely to "account for tax paid on income" and that "many, if non all, of these height streamers are effectively large-scale media operations, with their own employees and business organisation expenses - so the numbers exercise not represent 'take-home pay' for those listed".^[38] Concern Insider highlighted that "Critical Role has grown into a total-fledged media company. [...] Its LinkedIn page lists employees in roles including marketing, business organization development, photography, editing, and even ane person responsible for keeping rails of the lore, or details in its fantasy world".^[42]

Format [edit]

Critical Part is a mixture of a weekly show and a modern gaming Twitch stream.^[10] Each episode usually runs for three to v (in some cases half dozen) hours and is streamed live on Critical Function'south Twitch and YouTube channels on almost every Thursday, with possible breaks from the bear witness existence announced at to the lowest degree ane week prior to the broadcast.^{[43] [44]} The VOD is made available for subscribers of Disquisitional Role's Twitch channel immediately after airing and earlier being uploaded to Critical Role'southward YouTube aqueduct the post-obit Monday, where it can be watched for free.^{[45] [42] [24]} Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show had broadcast live, but has been pre-recorded since its return for episode 100 of Campaign Two^[46] and will continue to be pre-recorded for Entrada Three.^{[47] [48]} Starting with the third campaign, the main campaign of Critical Part volition not air new episodes on the last Thursday of every month; instead, other content by the studio volition air in its fourth dimension slot.^{[47] [48] [49]}

Critical Role has played with a live theater audience 9 times.^[50] The 3rd entrada's premiere was simulcast alive in Cinemark Theatres along with the regular Twitch and YouTube livestream.^{[51] [52]} Similarly, the 17th episode of the third entrada was simulcast in Cinemark Theatres, Landmark Theatres, and Cinépolis alongside the regular livestream as part of their 7th ceremony commemoration.^{[53] [54]}

A number of Disquisitional Part's streams accept also served every bit a donation drive to back up nonprofit organizations such as St Jude, 826LA, Extra Life, and Doctors Without Borders.^[55]

Podcasts [edit]

On the 100th episode of Critical Part, the launch of the Critical Part podcast was announced: an audio version of the game sessions.^{[56] [57]} Information technology is available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, and at the Geek & Sundry website.^{[58] [59]} The first entrada's podcast episodes were released in batches of 10–15, between June 8, 2017,^[56] and January 8, 2018.^[60] "Listened to at ane.5X speed, full listening time of the commencement campaign would be reduced to a little over 298 hours – at 2X speed, nether 224 hours".^{[61] : 197} Since the beginning of the 2d campaign, the podcast episodes have been released on the following Th.^[62]

Campaign structure [edit]

The Disquisitional Role storyline occurs in campaigns that consist of a series of story arcs, which are usually played over multiple episodes. Between—or sometimes inside—the major story arcs, the characters residue, resupply, or get on side quests. In addition, every player graphic symbol has a backstory, an unfinished part of their personal history that can exist relevant to the campaign from time to time. Sometimes, major story arcs are intrinsically tied to a grapheme'south backstory. While each campaign centers on a dissimilar party of adventurers, the campaigns are all attack the various continents of Exandria, a world of Mercer'southward cosmos.^[63] In June 2021, the cast of Disquisitional Function finished their second campaign.^[i] Their tertiary campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.^[64]

Campaign 1 [edit]

Entrada one takes identify primarily in Tal'Dorei, a continent of Exandria. It follows the exploits of an adventuring party known as Vox Machina, previously known equally the Super High-Intensity Squad (or Southward.H.I.T.s), a rag-tag group of mercenaries originally formed in the swamp town of Stilben.^[66]

Pre-series history [edit]

The Vox Machina campaign originated as the dwelling house game of the bandage, played from 2012 to 2017. In their adventures prior to the starting time of the series, the group saved the family of Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei III, ruler of Tal'Dorei and its capital city of Emon. In appreciation, Uriel gave the group seats on the city council, and provided them with a residence called Greyskull Keep, which is located merely outside the city.

While the early on adventures were not formally recorded, some shorter recordings have been released past the cast. This includes audio from the commencement session of the campaign, which was released every bit a segment in the third episode of the podcast All Work No Play.^[67] Additionally, O'Brien released a recording of the magic rug being discovered by the party.^[68] Episode 36, titled Winter's Crest in Whitestone, features a summary of the pre-series history,^[69] with artwork created by Wendy Sullivan Greenish and voice-overs provided by the bandage.^[lxx] The comic book, Critical Office: Vox Machina Origins, is an adaptation of the grouping'due south game before the show.^[xvi] The animated series adaptation, The Legend of Vocalisation Machina, also includes a canonic story that takes place inside the pre-stream time frame.^[71]

On-stream campaign [edit]

The show begins in media res with the characters regrouping in the urban center of Emon later approximately six months autonomously and the streamed entrada picks up where the cast'due south original domicile game left off. The first episode of the show aired on March 12, 2015, and the campaign concluded with its final episode on October 12, 2017.^{[12] [72]} Campaign one was broadcast live on the Geek & Sundry Twitch and YouTube channels between March 12, 2015, and October 12, 2017, for a total of 115 episodes and six story arcs.^{[45] [fourteen]} Starting in November 2016, it was as well circulate live on the Alpha streaming service from Legendary Digital Networks. The show on Alpha had a unique overlay that included "real-time graphic symbol sheets, damage and heal animations, and visualizations".^[73]

Postal service-entrada [edit]

In 2019, over a year after the first campaign ended, Disquisitional Role produced three approved 1-shot games that feature Phonation Machina in the time frame later Vecna's banishment. The first one-shot, Vox Machina: The Search for Grog, was played at a live show in Los Angeles on January 19, 2019,^[74] then circulate on Twitch on February 22, 2019, earlier being released via YouTube and Twitch VOD on February 23, 2019.^[75] It explored an event that took place in the concluding episode of campaign one, but was not played out in detail because it would have disrupted the ongoing epilogue. More than Vox Machina 1-shots were unlocked as rewards and stretch goals during the Kickstarter campaign for the Critical Role animated serial. The first of these was Vox Machina: The Search for Bob,^{[76] [77]} a continuation of the events of The Search for Grog. It aired on the Disquisitional Role Twitch channel on June 21, 2019, with the YouTube VOD being made available on June 23, 2019.^[78] Another Kickstarter reward was Phonation Machina's Summertime Reunion at Dalen's Closet, which aired on Twitch on Baronial 29, 2019, with the YouTube VOD becoming available for the public on September 2, 2019. This one-shot takes identify a year after the events of The Search for Grog/Bob, every bit Percy and Vex renew their wedding vows on a beach in Marquet, with all of their friends and family nowadays—as well every bit a few uninvited "guests".^[79]

Critical Role besides played another canonical and Vox Machina-related ane-shot at a live bear witness in 2019: The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade, which was played at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, on November 23, 2019. It stars Sam Riegel as Taryon Darrington, honorary fellow member of Phonation Machina, who leads a group of new characters into their own adventures. The story is gear up roughly a decade after campaign one and a decade before campaign ii. It aired on the Critical Role Twitch channel on November 29, 2019, with the YouTube VOD being made bachelor on December i, 2019.^{[80] [81]}

After the animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina, was picked up past Amazon and "Prime Video ordered an additional 14 episodes, for a total of 24 episodes across two seasons",^[82] Critical Function announced that the blithe show would conform the full Briarwood arc forth with other storylines from campaign 1.^[83]

Campaign ii [edit]

The second campaign began on January eleven, 2018, and follows the adventuring party known as The Mighty Nein. The story is set on the continent of Wildemount, which was briefly visited during the Vocalism Machina entrada. The Mighty Nein campaign is set about xx years after Vox Machina'due south concluding boxing against Vecna and takes place in a fourth dimension where tensions between two of Wildemount'due south mightiest nations are very loftier.^{[84] [85]} A hiatus due to concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic was in effect from March to July 2020, after which the show returned in a non-live format adjusted for social distancing.^{[86] [87] [46]} In May 2021, the cast appear that campaign 2 would cease shortly; withal, "the Mighty Nein's story wasn't finished".^[88] The finale aired on June iii, 2021;^{[89] [90]} information technology was the longest episode at just over seven hours.^[91]

Entrada 3 [edit]

The 3rd campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.^{[64] [92]} The story takes identify after the events of the second entrada and Exandria Unlimited; information technology is attack the continent of Marquet, which was briefly visited during the Vox Machina entrada.^{[93] [51] [47]} Multiple characters in this campaign are returning characters. Dorian, Orym, and Fearne premiered in Exandria Unlimited while Bertrand premiered in the i-shot "Search For Grog".^{[94] [95]}

Limited serial [edit]

Exandria Unlimited [edit]

Exandria Unlimited is an viii-episode limited series which premiered on June 24, 2021. The show is set in the city of Emon on the continent of Tal'Dorei 30 years afterward Campaign 1 and 10 years subsequently Campaign Two.^{[96] [97]} Information technology features Aabria Iyengar (known for other streaming shows such equally Happy Jacks RPG, Dimension 20, and Saving Throw) as the game master^[98] and stars Aimee Carrero, Robbie Daymond, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien, and Matthew Mercer as players.^{[99] [100]}

IGN reported that "Exandria Unlimited will be considered catechism within the wider Critical Role story, and 'volition bear upon future environments and timelines beyond the overall lore of Critical Role.' So as fans expect what may come from Campaign 3 of the core CR cast, Unlimited looks to offering a new vantage point into the world of Exandria".^[101] On the design aspect for a limited series, Iyengar said, "It'south the perfect affair considering it creates this narrative scalpel. It'south a very different type of storytelling in a familiar world".^[97]

One-shots [edit]

Instead of an episode in the main storyline, the series occasionally features a one-shot game—a self-contained story that can be told within the time constraints of i episode (or 3 to iv hours of gameplay). A one-shot could exist described equally the RPG equivalent to a short story. Some of the Disquisitional Role i-shots are canonical parts of the storylines that play out in one of the campaigns, covering events that occur outside the time frame of the respective campaign, just still feature some of the campaign's principal characters. Other one-shots merely have a tangential relationship to the campaigns, every bit they are set in the earth of Exandria, but feature a different bandage of characters, frequently in smaller scale adventures that may or may not exist canon. There are also one-shots that take no connection with the campaigns or the globe of Exandria at all.^{[102] [103] [104] [105]}

Not all Critical Role one-shots use the Dungeons & Dragons game system, every bit some are based on other RPG systems. In many one-shots, other bandage members take over the office of Dungeon Principal or game master (GM) from Mercer.^{[106] [105]} The show aired several one-shots in the hiatus between campaign one and campaign two.^{[106] [107]}

Some of Critical Function'south i shots have been sponsored. One-shot sponsors have included Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, and Chaosium for running ane-shots themed around Middle-world: Shadow of War, Hearthstone, and Phone call of Cthulhu respectively.

Bandage and characters [edit]

The main cast of Critical Office at WonderCon in 2017.

Since October 2015,^[update] Disquisitional Role has consisted of viii main bandage members, all of whom are the original bandage. The show had a cast of 9 for the first 27 episodes.^[108] A number of invitee players have also appeared on the show over the years.^[109]

Primary [edit]

The cast and their characters' names, races, and classes for the three campaigns and the Exandria Unlimited mini-series are listed below. For multiclassed characters, the classes are listed in chronological order.

• Matthew Mercer^[7]
  • Dungeon Primary (Campaigns ane, 2, 3)^[15]
  • Dariax Zaveon (dwarf sorcerer) (Exandria Unlimited)
• Ashley Johnson^[7]
  • Freeway Trickfoot (gnome cleric) (Campaign 1)^[15]
  • Yasha Nydoorin (aasimar barbarian) (Campaign ii)^[15]
  • Fearne Calloway (faun druid) (Exandria Unlimited, Campaign 3)^[95]
• Travis Willingham^[vii]
  • Grog Strongjaw (goliath barbarian / fighter) (Entrada i)^[xv]
  • Sir Bertrand Bong (human fighter) ("The Search for Grog", Entrada iii)^[95]
  • Fjord Stone (half-orc warlock / paladin) (Entrada 2)^[xv]
  • Chetney Pock O'Pea (gnome claret hunter^[a]) (Campaign 3)^{[113] [114]}
• Laura Bailey^[seven]
  • Vex'ahlia "Vex" de Rolo (née Vessar) (half-elf ranger / rogue) (Entrada ane)^[xv]
  • Jester Lavorre (tiefling cleric) (Entrada 2)^[15]
  • Imogen Temult (human being sorcerer) (Entrada 3)^[95]
• Liam O'Brien^[seven]
  • Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar (half-elf rogue / paladin / druid) (Campaign ane)^[xv]
  • Lieve'tel Toluse (elf cleric) ("The Search for Grog")
  • Derrig (half-elf fighter) ("Dalen'southward Closet")
  • Caleb Widogast/Bren Aldric Ermendrud (human sorcerer) (Entrada 2)^[15]
  • Orym of the Air Ashari (halfling fighter) (Exandria Unlimited, Campaign 3)^[95]
• Taliesin Jaffe^[7]
  • Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III (homo gunslinger^[a]) (Campaign 1)^[fifteen]
  • Mollymauk "Molly" Tealeaf/Kingsley Tealeaf (tiefling blood hunter^[a]) (Entrada 2, 1–26 and 140-141)^[15]
  • Caduceus Clay (firbolg cleric) (Campaign 2, 28–on)^[fifteen]
  • Ashton Greymoore (globe genasi barbarian) (Campaign 3)^[95]
• Marisha Ray^[vii]
  • Keyleth of the Air Ashari (half-elf druid) (Campaign 1)^[15]
  • Beauregard "Fellow" Lionett (human monk) (Campaign 2)^[15]
  • Laudna (Hollow One warlock/sorcerer) (Campaign 3)^{[95] [115]}
• Orion Acaba^[108]
  • Tiberius Stormwind (dragonborn sorcerer) (Campaign 1, 1–27)^{[14] [15]}
• Sam Riegel
  • Scanlan Shorthalt (gnome bard) (Entrada i, absent-minded 86–98)^[15]
  • Taryon "Tary" Gary Darrington (human artificer) (Entrada 1, 85–102 and "Dalen's Cupboard")^[15]
  • Nott the Brave/Veth Brenatto (goblin/halfling rogue / magician) (Entrada ii)^[15]
  • Fresh Cutting Grass (automaton cleric) (Campaign 3)^[95]
• Robbie Daymond
  • Dorian Storm (air genasi bard) (Exandria Unlimited, Campaign 3)^[95]
• Aimee Carrero
  • Opal (man warlock) (Exandria Unlimited)
• Aabria Iyengar
  • Dungeon Master (Exandria Unlimited)

Guests [edit]

Guests are an irregular occurrence on Disquisitional Office and, in almost cases, only stay on the show for a one-off appearance or a few consecutive episodes. Simply a few guests (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Will Friedle and Patrick Rothfuss in entrada one, besides equally Khary Payton in campaign two) take appeared in non-consecutive episodes, with their respective characters playing an active role in different parts of the overall storyline. Chris Perkins is the only guest to appear in multiple campaigns. He has a invitee office in both of the first two campaigns, playing a different graphic symbol in each.^[109]

Campaign 1 [edit]

• Felicia Day every bit Lyra (human sorcerer)^[109]
• Mary Elizabeth McGlynn equally Zahra Hydris (tiefling warlock)^[109]
• Wil Wheaton as Thorbir Falbek (dwarf fighter)^[109]
• Volition Friedle as Kashaw Vesh (human cleric)^[109]
• Kit Osculation as Lillith Anioska Daturai (tiefling wizard)^[109]
• Jason C. Miller every bit Garthok (half-orc rogue)^[109]
• Chris Hardwick equally Gern Blanston (dragonborn wizard)^[109]
• Chris Perkins as Shale (goliath fighter)^[109]
• Patrick Rothfuss as Kerrek (human paladin)^[109]
• ND Stevenson as Tova (dwarf/werebear blood hunter)^[109]
• Jon Heder equally Lionel "Chod" Gayheart (one-half-orc bard/barbarian)^[109]
• Darin De Paul equally Ethrid "Sprigg" Brokenbranch (gnome rogue)^[109]
• Joe Manganiello as Arkhan the Cruel (red dragonborn paladin/barbarian)^[109]

Campaign 2 [edit]

• Khary Payton as Shakäste (homo cleric)^[109]
• Mark Hulmes as Calianna (one-half-elf magician, 1/10 blackness dragon)^[109]
• Ashly Burch as Keg (dwarven fighter)^[109]
• Sumalee Montano as Nila (firbolg druid)^[109]
• Chris Perkins as Spurt (kobold inventor)^[109]
• Deborah Ann Woll every bit Twiggy (forest gnome rogue)^[109]
• Mica Burton as Reani (aasimar druid)^[109]

Exandria Unlimited [edit]

• Anjali Bhimani as Fy'ra Rai (fire genasi monk)^{[116] [117]}

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

As of January 2016, each episode of the show has been watched for more than a million minutes on Twitch, totaling over 37 one thousand thousand minutes watched for the whole series.^{[8] [118]} Additionally, the YouTube archived videos have over 115 million views.^[119] By the time the 100th episode was launched, the channel had amassed over 68 million views overall,^[56] reaching over 224 one thousand thousand views as of December 2020.^[119] As of January 2021,^[update] the beginning episode of campaign 1 has been watched 15 meg times on YouTube.^[120] In Oct 2021, Business Insider reported that the official Twitch aqueduct had 828,000 followers and thirteen,530 active subscribers while the official YouTube channel had one.4 million subscribers.^[42] Variety reported "historically, C.R.'s Twitch channel has attracted 60,000-75,000 alive viewers for each episode. Factoring in on-need plays on Twitch and YouTube, the total per-episode audition has ranged from one.2 million to 1.v million, according to Willingham. In the past 12 months, the audience has grown more than 23% on Twitch and almost 50% on YouTube yr over year. That said, Critical Office remains relatively small compared with other popular creators and digital media properties: It has 818,000 followers on Twitch (the platform'due south about popular streamers have 10 meg or more)".^[121]

In a Jan 2016 article, Polygon described Critical Role every bit a "thoroughly modern" bear witness with a business model that is still developing.^[eight]

The show has caught the attention of the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast, who discussed it at length on two occasions on their official D&D podcast, along with bandage members Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey and sometime member Orion Acaba.^{[122] [123]} In an interview with the online gaming magazine Polygon, atomic number 82 D&D designer Mike Mearls commented most the show: "It was really cool, as a guy who works on Dungeons & Dragons, to open up upward my Twitch app on my iPad and see Dungeons & Dragons in the kickoff row."^[124]

Viewer responses to the show have been overwhelmingly positive,^[11] with many fans, nicknamed "Critters",^[125] creating content such as fanart, fan fiction, character-inspired music, and fan-created merchandise for the prove. Fans also ship in many gifts for the cast and crew, resulting in occasional "Critmas" episodes during which the gifts are opened and distributed.^[126]

The cast of Disquisitional Office are agile participants on sci-fi/comics convention circuits, and have appeared for panels and signings at San Diego and New York Comic Cons.^[ix] For the 2015 New York con, "critical rolls" were available from 1 of the food vendors.^[127]

Andy Wilson, for Haemorrhage Cool, highlighted Disquisitional Role as "the best prove [he has] watched all year" in 2020. He wrote, "I've said repeatedly that Disquisitional Part is the hereafter of television, and specifically praising their response to COVID that continued their show in a safe fashion where no one has gotten sick. Let me pause at that place for a moment: no ane has gotten ill. They have been smart and responsible and safe. [...] But fifty-fifty more of import is what they did this twelvemonth. They are, weekly, one of the most-watched streams on Twitch. [...] They gave fans something to await forward to every week– an incredible feat given the endless monotony and despair of socially distant quarantine life."^[128]

Chris King, in his review of Exandria Unlimited for Polygon, commented that "despite Critical Function's commercial success, criticisms of the show have been mounting over the years — showtime, that the bandage wasn't diverse enough and, second, that there was really no easy way in to understanding this globe without starting all the fashion dorsum at the beginning".^[129] Rex felt the show didn't succeed equally an entry for new fans (between the show's hook and the length of each episode), nonetheless, "Exandria Unlimited is notwithstanding a large footstep in the right direction. [...] Some fans of the series have get wedded to the idea that Mercer's manner is the only way to play, merely Iyengar'due south work hither goes a long way toward proving that Critical Function doesn't always need Mercer at the caput of the table to succeed".^[129] King wrote, "Exandria Unlimited has been able to retain what makes Disquisitional Office so beloved by so many fans, while bringing new voices to the table. [...] It's not an adventure for the uninitiated, but instead an interstitial adventure filled with pre-existing lore and in-jokes to former campaigns, and no clear starting bespeak for new fans to connect with. Only information technology's still a lot of fun".^[129]

Accolades [edit]

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2016	Streamy Awards	Gaming	Nominated	[130]
2018	Streamy Awards	Alive Streamer	Nominated	[131]
2019	Webby Awards	Video Series & Channels – Games	Won (Webby Award & People'south Voice)	[19]
2019	Shorty Awards	Games	Won (Finalist & Audience Honor)	[132]
2022	The Streamer Awards	Best Function-Play Streamer	Nominated	[133]

Controversy [edit]

Orion Acaba left Critical Role in 2015.^{[14] [134] [135]} Emily Friedman, in the volume Roleplaying Games in the Digital Historic period: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom (2021), highlighted that "while the public statements by all were civil and warm, fan speculation was so rampant that the Disquisitional Role Reddit page [...] has an entire FAQ section on what can and cannot be discussed in relation to Acaba and his character Tiberius Stormwind [...]. Acaba attempted to run an independent spinoff series focused on the grapheme's home state of Draconia, but the bear witness simply saw a scattering of episodes before information technology ended. Acaba courted fan appeals to bring back his character (and thus himself), none successful. Equally of this writing, nigh all episodes of the spinoff have been purged from YouTube [...]. The evidence's audition base expanded significantly in the months after Acaba'south divergence [...]. As a effect, different viewers take a different experience of 'how long' Tiberius was a part of Critical Part".^{[61] : 195} Shelly Jones, in an essay in the book Scout Usa Roll (2021), besides highlighted the fan response (including the Reddit FAQ) to Acaba'southward deviation and the cast's "external strife associated" with his departure (such as "disgruntled and deleted Tweets" and an "uncomfortable AskMeAnything [AMA] on Reddit").^{[135] : 139} Jones also commented that Critical Role's fandom has learned a "beliefs of erasure in the guise of maintaining a positive attitude" from the bear witness itself. The FAQ of The Legend of Vox Machina Kickstarter states that Tiberius would non appear in the bear witness; Jones wrote, "while in that location are many possible reasons for this exclusion, the consequence is the same: the ultimate baloney of the narrative of Critical Role". Cori McCreery, for WWAC, highlighted Tiberius' get out in the second book of the prequel comic. She wrote, "Part of the beauty of adaptations is that you tin can change things that no longer fit the story yous want to tell. The Disquisitional Role squad had a falling out with the actor who played Tiberius, and the graphic symbol wound upwardly leaving the game pretty early into the stream, and leaving a bit of a puzzler for adaptations like this and the upcoming cartoon. [...] So while I don't know if they're writing the graphic symbol out in the comics before than he left the game, I do know that they do not programme to apply him in the animated series, despite his being nowadays for some of the adventures there. I'd be perfectly fine if this accommodation took a page from the medium it'due south role of and provides everyone with a retcon of the group's past".^[17]

In 2019, a Critical Role 1-shot was sponsored past Wendy's to promote the Banquet of Legends RPG system developed by the company.^{[136] [137]} Still, post-obit a strong negative fan response to the sponsor, the Disquisitional Function team chose to take down the VOD,^{[136] [137] [135]} and appear via Twitter that they had donated their sponsorship profits from the one-shot to the Subcontract Worker Justice organization.^{[138] [137] [135]} In 2021, the book The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities highlighted the Feast of Legends one-shot. Information technology states, "neither the game itself nor quality of the Critical Role performance was really at consequence [...]. Accepting financial back up from Wendy's was read among some fans as a tacit acceptance of political positions held past Wendy's. [...] To bring Disquisitional Role into contact with Wendy's was non just bringing professional voice actors into Freshtovia; a whole assortment of political problems were brought into the mix at the aforementioned time. The Critical Role staff scrubbed nearly all testify of the video from their official feeds and records. The customs was significantly jarred past the mashup, non of D&D and fast food, just escapism and politics".^[137] Jones commented that decision to remove the Feast of Legends episode was "presumably" made past the bear witness's "evolution team for purposes of branding and controlling the criticism circulating about the failed experiment".^{[135] : 149} Jones also highlighted that the fan-created wiki followed the show'due south example and that by scrubbing the episode from their wiki, these fans "are erasing any evidence of negativity in an attempt to protect their fan object".^{[135] : 149}

Licensed works and related products [edit]

Critical Role's commercial success has led to many other related products, including a prequel comic serial,^{[139] [sixteen]} art books,^{[140] [141]} a novel,^{[142] [143]} 2 campaign setting books (Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount),^{[144] [145] [146]} and an upcoming animated series.^{[28] [30]} Hobby and toy stores sell miniatures and other collectibles related to Disquisitional Part.^{[147] [148]}

Clemency involvement [edit]

On Oct sixteen, 2015, the Extra Life fundraiser episode raised over $twenty,000 for the Children'southward Phenomenon Network during the broadcast.^[149] This charity episode included a reappearance of the Critical Rejects, as well equally three members of the Critical Role cast: Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, and Orion Acaba.

During the prove, viewers are invited to donate money to 826LA, which is after provided in a lump sum to the charity.^[150] Donation amounts and messages appear live on the stream, and on earlier episodes, a list of donors was read at the end of each session. During Geek & Sundry's 2015 Extra Life fundraiser, a special interactive episode was broadcast. This episode lone brought in over $20,000 for the Children's Miracle Network, and the event as a whole raised over $76,000. In late November 2015, Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel held a special Doctors Without Borders fundraiser, with nearly half of the $10,000 goal being raised during the iv-hour Critical Role broadcast. In December 2015, the bandage released an article on Geek & Sundry, "Critter'southward Guide to Critmas", in response to the overflowing of gifts they were receiving from fans, asking them to instead donate to a variety of charities, with a unlike cast member sponsoring each clemency.^[151]

In Leap 2018, the show held a charity drive for 826LA which resulted in community members donating over $50,000, with a matching corporeality given by one generous community member. The bulldoze resulted in some prizes being unlocked for the community, such as discount codes for D&D Across and Wyrmwood Gaming, a 2d "Fireside Chat" with Mercer, and a 2nd Honey Heist run past Ray.^[125]

Disquisitional Role Foundation [edit]

Critical Role Productions launched a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Critical Function Foundation, in September 2020 with the mission statement: "To get out the world better than we found it." CBR reported that "Critical Office Foundation volition partner with other organizations in the nonprofit sector that share the same values as Critical Function and its community, in addition to raising emergency relief funds to be put toward immediate humanitarian aid equally needed. Its inaugural partnership will be with Outset Nations Development Establish, which seeks to strengthen Native American economies and communities. CRF aims to raise $50,000 for First Nations, which will fund the Native Youth & Culture Fund for ii initiatives over the course of one yr."^[152]

Come across also [edit]

• HarmonQuest
• The Adventure Zone

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} A homebrew class developed by Mercer.^{[110] [111] [112]}

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Critical Role at Geek & Sundry

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Role

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