Hussar
Legend
Is there a particular reason that D&D Beyond couldn't support a Critical Role game? It's not like D&D Beyond is owned by WotC.
Critical Role has a built in audience for play testing as well. Hundreds of thousands of viewers is a vastly larger audience than virtually any RPG has other than maybe D&D. They could go the Paizo route of creating a game, leveraging their viewership into play testing, thus creating their own audience for buying the game, and move on from there.
Whether they will or not is debatable, but, should they choose to do so, they certainly have a HUGE leg up over any other RPG publisher. Heck, a major reason Pathfinder did so well was because Paizo could leverage its Dungeon and Dragon Magazine audience.
Critical Role has a built in audience for play testing as well. Hundreds of thousands of viewers is a vastly larger audience than virtually any RPG has other than maybe D&D. They could go the Paizo route of creating a game, leveraging their viewership into play testing, thus creating their own audience for buying the game, and move on from there.
Whether they will or not is debatable, but, should they choose to do so, they certainly have a HUGE leg up over any other RPG publisher. Heck, a major reason Pathfinder did so well was because Paizo could leverage its Dungeon and Dragon Magazine audience.