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.

 

[nyvinter]

I would assume they already know and are gearing up to start recording. And then when they announce setting and system in September they have some clips of it.

 

[zottel]

Probably having trouble getting the Daggerheart books, those are sold out everywhere!

 

[Seramus]

Both Mercer and Exandria are "taking a break" according to a press release

To clarify from the announcement video since it came out after this thread, Matt Mercer is going to be a PLAYER in Campaign 4.

 

[D&Dgm]

Cool!

He is a horrible GM. He is boring mono toned not creative and gets lost in his own campaigns

 

[Seramus]

He is a horrible GM. He is boring mono toned not creative and gets lost in his own campaigns

Welcome to the forums! We're glad to have you in our community! Unless you posted from the wrong account?

 

[johnnykavanagh]

Seeing Brennan onstage during that announcement with Matt Mercer, Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins, and it's not specifically something to do with D&D, is bizarre. There's obviously plenty of speculation about whether they'll be using Daggerheart or D&D for the campaign, but with Crawford and Perkins up there it really feels like they're bringing Brennan into the Daggerheart fold too, alongside yesterday's announcement about Keith Baker being delivered by Todd Kenreck. Colville's doing Draw Steel, Mearls is with Chaosium... Does D&D have a single big name attached to it anymore? It feels like every "face" of D&D from the past decade has jumped ship. Rough weekend for WotC. If I was them I'd be calling up Dropout and begging them to keep using 5e for Dimension 20.

 

[thatOneLinuxDM]

Hopefully this is confirmation that the next campaign will be D&D! If it is, and Brennan Lee Mulligan is coming over to DM, I'll probably give the podcast another go, at least initially.

 

[Snute]

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.

I wouldn't interpret too much into the snow-covered mountains, I think that part is a clear reference to the Elder Scrolls VI announcement trailer. That trailer didn't show anything about the game and was just a floating VI over some mountains, which has been mocked as a way too premature announcement. It has been 7 years since that announcement without any additional info since. So, yeah, that's along the same lines as the whole pompuous CEO bit and pokes fun at themselves for not showing any real info I think

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I do not super much care which system they use. I would by a small margin prefer D&d, as I don't care for Daggerheart nor I am very familiar with it, but the appeal of the show is not about the system anyway, so it doesn't matter that much.

Not having Mercer to GM is a big change and will have a big impact to the feel of the show. But it is nice that they let him be player for a while.

 

[TiQuinn]

I do not super much care which system they use. I would by a small margin prefer D&d, as I don't care for Daggerheart nor I am very familiar with it, but the appeal of the show is not about the system anyway, so it doesn't matter that much.

Not having Mercer to GM is a big change and will have a big impact to the feel of the show. But it is nice that they let him be player for a while.

I agree…as the show has progressed from season to season, the D&Disms have dropped away, in part because of what I suspect are IP related reasons. The system has increasingly become more transparent. I have a hard time believing that it’s the D&D that people who are hooked on CR are coming to watch.