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.

 

[DarkCrisis]

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.

Oh okay. I didnt watch any of that.

 

[bedir than]

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

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

 

[Aldarc]

Sure is.

So it's a bit disingenuous to suggest that by releasing this other new game, a board game, at GenCon means that they are somehow competing with themselves.

 

[bedir than]

So it's a bit disingenuous to suggest that by releasing this other new game, a board game, at GenCon means that they are somehow competing with themselves.

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

 

[Burnside]

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.

WotC doesn't own Exandria. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount and Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep are licensed products. WotC also published Rick & Morty and Stranger Things D&D boxed sets; it doesn't own those properties either.

Critical Role can do whatever it wants with Exandria (such as use it in a multi-season cartoon on Amazon Prime that WotC has nothing to do with). WotC can't use Exandria without Critical Role's permission.

 

[thatOneLinuxDM]

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

Was this actually confirmed or is this a guess? I might have to sell my ticket if it was.

Edit: I can't find anything on this claim, if someone could validate, I would appreciate it. I would rather my ticket go to someone who wants to watch Daggerheart.

 

[TiQuinn]

WotC doesn't own Exandria. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount and Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep are licensed products. WotC also published Rick & Morty and Stranger Things D&D boxed sets; it doesn't own those properties either.

Critical Role can do whatever it wants with Exandria (such as use it in a multi-season cartoon on Amazon Prime that WotC has nothing to do with). WotC can't use Exandria without Critical Role's permission.

Yes, just as Critical Role likewise had to remove their references to Vecna, Tharizdun, Beholders, Mind Flayers and the like as they progressed as well. As time has gone on, the links to D&D have grown more and more tenuous.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

We're going to need that "capitalism is the real enemy" campaign frame ASAP, people.

 

[Aldarc]

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

It seems like you are moving the goal posts. At first you said that they released a new game at GenCon that was self-competition. I said it was a board game and not a TTRPG. You then shifted your argument that they were in the middle of a D&D tour. Okay? But you were still being disingenuous about their new game being self-competition with Daggerheart. Now you are shifting the argument to Candela Obscura, claiming that it is competing with themselves. I am beginning to think that you don't necessarily think that you understand what "[competing] with themselves" means if you believe that diversification of product lines constitutes self-competition.

Moreover, I have never argued that Darrington Press will a Daggerheart only company. You must have me confused with someone else.

 

[Burnside]

Was this actually confirmed or is this a guess? I might have to sell my ticket if it was.

Edit: I can't find anything on this claim, if someone could validate, I would appreciate it. I would rather my ticket go to someone who wants to watch Daggerheart.

I haven't seen anything about the system for next year's live shows.

This past weekend's live show used used Daggerheart and was set in Exandria, with the C3 party.

The October 7 live show in New York City features the C2 party; hype copy doesn't specify a game system.

Info on those 2 shows here: Critical Role Live - Fathom Entertainment

If I had to guess, I would say next year's live Echoes of Exandria shows will use Daggerheart. But they definitely have not announced that formally.