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.

 

[bedir than]

IDK, they probably would have said D&D. Why hide it?

because they want most of the attention on their new game

 

[overgeeked]

IDK, they probably would have said D&D. Why hide it?

They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If they announce it's D&D now, interest in Daggerheart drops and all those copies they're desperately printing and shipping out are less likely to sell.

If they announce it's Daggerheart now, they'll be dealing with a storm of internet hate over GenCon weekend.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah. Unfortunately it's not going to be anything else. I'm hoping it'll be Daggerheart, but it'll most likely be D&D 5E.

Brennan runs 5E or, occasionally, very light systems for short mini-campaigns. His presence on this makes me feel like Daggerheart is less likely.

That said, if he does use Daggerheart, that's pretty huge. (And, frankly, I could see them using it with a non-Brennan DM on Dimension 20, maybe even concurrently with this campaign.)

 

[overgeeked]

Brennan runs 5E or, occasionally, very light systems for short mini-campaigns. His presence on this makes me feel like Daggerheart is less likely.

That said, if he does use Daggerheart, that's pretty huge. (And, frankly, I could see them using it with a non-Brennan DM on Dimension 20, maybe even concurrently with this campaign.)

Yeah. That might be the play. Bring in Brennan and have him run Daggerheart. If it doesn't go well they can shrug and go back to Matt running 5E.

Though I'd absolutely love it if Brennan ran something super light. I'd be over the moon, honestly.

 

[overgeeked]

The announcement video is here.



Around the 6:50 mark is a small trailer for C4. No real info, but they do have a habit of putting clues in their trailers. The background is snow-covered mountains and clouds.

 

[TiQuinn]

They’re adding new players, which kind of sounds like they might be splitting the cast up.

 

[Mallus]

Spoiler: the villain is capitalism!

 

[overgeeked]

Spoiler: the villain is capitalism!

That's a good point. Brennan does have a type.

 

[bedir than]

Dropout announced that Brennan is still doing stuff with them too.

 

[Micah Sweet]

IDK, they probably would have said D&D. Why hide it?

Wouldn't they have said Daggerheart by the same token?