Brennan Lee Mulligan to GM Critical Role Campaign 4

Critical Role's fourth campaign will launch on October 2nd, with Brennan Lee Mulligan behind the GM Screen. Critical Role announced that Mulligan, best known as the DM for Dropout's Dimension 20, will be the Game Master for the entirety of Campaign 4. The announcement was made this evening ahead of tonight's live show in Indianapolis, with Mulligan running a campaign in a brand new world assumably created just for the show. Critical Role stated that more cast announcements and other details about the campaign, such as what game system it will use, will be revealed in the coming months.

Mulligan has worked with Critical Role in the past, with both of his Exandria Unlimited miniseries having received high praise from fans. The news is also a major shakeup as this will be the first time that a full-length Critical Role campaign has not featured Matt Mercer or the world of Exandria. Both Mercer and Exandria are "taking a break" according to a press release, although Mercer is working on a second Age of Umbra miniseries that will assumably be released sometime in 2026.

 

[thatOneLinuxDM]

The two remaining live shows for THIS year definitely have been announced as Daggerheart and Exandria (I have a promo email from them about it) but I haven't seen anything about next year's. I think it's a safe bet they will follow suit from this year's though.

Ah okay, so unsubstantiated right now but a high likelihood? I will keep an eye out for an email.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Sure is.

But they're also running a D&D game, in its 23rd episode on their tour of Australia.

Insisting that CR will only be a Daggerheart company ignores that they are running multiple stories at the same time, some with their own games and some with D&D and some with other RPGs entirely.

They're more like Disney than they are the DCEU

Disney doesn't promote products not owned by Disney, I don't believe.

 

[Micah Sweet]

and Candela Obscura?
They still run that. It's still available for purchase. They absolutely compete with themselves.

Does every game company that makes more than one RPG compete with themselves in your view? Free League? Green Ronin? Chaosium?

 

[bedir than]

Disney doesn't promote products not owned by Disney, I don't believe.

They do in fact -- on ESPN they regularly show non-Disney products.

 

[Loki-lie-Smith]

But the real question is, will Robbie be back and become a regular?

 

[Sorinth]

But the real question is, will Robbie be back and become a regular?

I think they had already said he was.

I haven't played Daggerheart myself yet, but my impression is that it handles bigger parties better then 5e does. And with Matt as a player plus Robbie with the whole crew + guest stars that they no doubt want to continue having, that's a pretty unwieldly party size in D&D.

 

[Burnside]

I think they had already said he was.

I haven't played Daggerheart myself yet, but my impression is that it handles bigger parties better then 5e does. And with Matt as a player plus Robbie with the whole crew + guest stars that they no doubt want to continue having, that's a pretty unwieldly party size in D&D.

"Some familiar faces" definitely suggests to me that C4 will NOT have the full crew of original players as regulars, just "some" of them.

 

[Sorinth]

"Some familiar faces" definitely suggests to me that C4 will NOT have the full crew of original players as regulars, just "some" of them.

I figure it's more likely a reference to returning guest appearance but it's all just guesswork right now.

 

[overgeeked]

I figure it's more likely a reference to returning guest appearance but it's all just guesswork right now.

Yeah. We know the names of two of the people at the table. Brennan and Matt. Beyond that, nothing.