Critical Role Critical Role’s 7-hour Campaign Finale

It’s not the last of Critical Role (obviously) but it is the end of their second campaign this Thursday. And it’s 7 hours long!

Critical Role’s highly successful second campaign -- The Mighty Nein -- premiered over three years ago and has built up over 530 hours of adventures, including over 440 villains conquered and over 100 hours of battles (source: CritRoleStats), and this Thursday, June 3, the epic saga of Critical Role’s second campaign is set to embark on its final adventure.

Since the launch of the campaign on January 11, 2018, Critical Role has chronicled the story of Jester Lavorre (Laura Bailey), Yasha Nydoorin (Ashley Johnson), Caleb Widogast (Liam O’Brien), Beauregard "Beau" Lionett (Marisha Ray), Nott the Brave/Veth Brenatto (Sam Riegel), Fjord (Travis Willingham), Mollymauk "Molly" Tealeaf and Caduceus Clay (both played by Taliesin Jaffe) of The Mighty Nein as they explored Wildemount, formed relationships, spat in the face of death and buried allies, realized that not all goblins are as they seem, discovered the power a friendly cupcake (sprinkled with some Dust of Deliciousness) can have in befriending powerful foes, and showcased the resiliency one can have in the face of insurmountable odds time and time again.

Experience the final chapter of The Mighty Nein as Critical Role concludes the legend of this ragtag group of miscreants that millions across the globe have come to know and love. How will their journey end and what’s next from the world of Critical Role? Tune in to find out!

The final episode of Critical Role’s Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein airs this Thursday, June 3 2021 at 7PM PST simultaneously on Twitch (twitch.tv/criticalrole) and YouTube (youtube.com/criticalrole), with the replayable VOD of the show available on Critical Role’s YouTube channel the following Monday.

Critters…. How do you want to do this?

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

You're right. I just checked: If Critical Role was a TV show, it would be on the bubble in terms of getting renewed vs. cancelled. It's just a little less popular than the Bachelorette, which is cheap to produce and will be renewed until the sun swallows the Earth, but only a hair more popular than shows like the McGuyver reboot, which was cancelled.

Still, a bunch of self-described nerds playing D&D being as popular as the Bachelorette is a pretty enormous deal.

Is that just YouTube numbers, just Twitch numbers, or YouTube and Twitch numbers?

 

[Parmandur]

Is that just YouTube numbers, just Twitch numbers, or YouTube and Twitch numbers?

Just YouTube, but those are easier to find.

 

[Mercador]

Enlight me again if you don't mind; I thought there was a DnD official book on the Mercer worldbuilding? Why would he go out of that kind of deal? Could he think that Critical Role might dwarven DnD? I know that the "new crowd" is coming from, in part, from Critical Role, but there was also Penny Arcade before that, not sure that Critical Role is the sole responsible of the DnD renewal. Is it?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is that just YouTube numbers, just Twitch numbers, or YouTube and Twitch numbers?

Good point. Bundling YouTube, Twitch and podcast numbers together, it's definitely much more popular than many weekly TV shows on broadcast television (still the most widely watched television shows in the US).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Enlight me again if you don't mind; I thought there was a DnD official book on the Mercer worldbuilding? Why would he go out of that kind of deal? Could he think that Critical Role might dwarven DnD? I know that the "new crowd" is coming from, in part, from Critical Role, but there was also Penny Arcade before that, not sure that Critical Role is the sole responsible of the DnD renewal. Is it?

There's two Critical Role settings, one for each continent they've had campaigns on. The first was through Green Ronin, and is now out of print. The second is through WotC.

I think, by any metric, Critical Role is vastly more popular than Aquisitions, Inc., in part because it's a weekly show with a schedule that, allowing for global pandemics, runs like clockwork.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

For those curious, Campaign 1 ended on Oct 25, 2017, and Campaign 2 started on January 15, 2018. So almost a 3 month break.

I'd expect a similar break until Campaign 3, to start again sometime this September.

 

[Mercador]

For those curious, Campaign 1 ended on Oct 25, 2017, and Campaign 2 started on January 15, 2018. So almost a 3 month break.

I'd expect a similar break until Campaign 3, to start again sometime this September.

Ok, I'll sign in then, I probably have more interest if I'm in the bandwagon.

 

[Parmandur]

For those curious, Campaign 1 ended on Oct 25, 2017, and Campaign 2 started on January 15, 2018. So almost a 3 month break.

I'd expect a similar break until Campaign 3, to start again sometime this September.

Do recall that break coincided with Matt Mercer & Marisha Ray getting married and going on their honeymoon. Maybe a smaller break than that, but time will tell.

 

[BRayne]

Do recall that break coincided with Matt Mercer & Marisha Ray getting married and going on their honeymoon. Maybe a smaller break than that, but time will tell.

As well as their usual December hiatus

 

[EthanSental]

I thinking more along the lines of…wow, that 3 years went by fast since it seems like only a year ago when I first saw that throw back opening to campaign 2.