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.

 

[Stalker0]

To me its got to be Daggerheart. It just doesn't make sense business wise to do anything else. This way they get some Dimension 20 fans looking at DH as well as they come in for BLM.

 

[DarkCrisis]

The more I think about it, yeah it has to be Daggerheart. You don't start your own product and then showcase
the rivals.

Exandria will always be a D&D setting and may get future products but going forward they want costuemrs to buy their rules and expanded books for those rules

 

[Burnside]

The more I think about it, yeah it has to be Daggerheart. You don't start your own product and then showcase
the rivals.

Exandria will always be a D&D setting and may get future products but going forward they want costuemrs to buy their rules and expanded books for those rules

They're using Exandria for Daggerheart in the upcoming live shows.

If C4 is Daggerheart, why not announce that on Saturday?

 

[bedir than]

“It’s such a great game that you should play it while we keep playing this other game” is an atrocious sales pitch.

They're already competing with several of their own games. They released another new game at GenCon for example.

 

[DarkCrisis]

They're using Exandria for Daggerheart in the upcoming live shows.

If C4 is Daggerheart, why not announce that on Saturday?

They said C4 is a new world., I believe. I'm not saying they are going to straight up stop using Exandria, just it's going to get less face time because it's a D&D setting now.

Their main core show: Critical Role should house their flagship product.

I would think. IDK

 

[Sorinth]

If C4 is Daggerheart, why not announce that on Saturday?

I would imagine they want to announce it closer to the actual start date of C4 so that it's still in the news and being talked about when the game actually starts.

 

[overgeeked]

The more I think about it, yeah it has to be Daggerheart. You don't start your own product and then showcase
the rivals.

Exandria will always be a D&D setting and may get future products but going forward they want costuemrs to buy their rules and expanded books for those rules

The live event where they announced Brennan was immediately prior to a Daggerheart one-shot set in Exandria with their C2 or C3 characters converted to Daggerheart. The transformation cards they just released on the Void cover about half the C3 party. Werewolves, undead, and half-gods.

The live shows they announced for next year are all set in Exandria and use Daggerheart.

I would be shocked if they weren’t working on Exandria related products for Daggerheart.

 

[Burnside]

They said C4 is a new world., I believe. I'm not saying they are going to straight up stop using Exandria, just it's going to get less face time because it's a D&D setting now.

Exandria isn't exclusively a D&D setting, though. Critical Role owns the rights to it.

 

[TiQuinn]

Exandria isn't exclusively a D&D setting, though. Critical Role owns the rights to it.

Yeah, not sure how this all breaks down but Tal'Dorei Reborn was a Darrington Press book, and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount was a WotC book.

 

[Aldarc]

They're already competing with several of their own games. They released another new game at GenCon for example.

Isn't Solar Gardens a board game and not a TTRPG?