Critical Role Critical Role’s 7-hour Campaign Finale

It’s not the last of Critical Role (obviously) but it is the end of their second campaign this Thursday. And it’s 7 hours long!

Critical Role’s highly successful second campaign -- The Mighty Nein -- premiered over three years ago and has built up over 530 hours of adventures, including over 440 villains conquered and over 100 hours of battles (source: CritRoleStats), and this Thursday, June 3, the epic saga of Critical Role’s second campaign is set to embark on its final adventure.

Since the launch of the campaign on January 11, 2018, Critical Role has chronicled the story of Jester Lavorre (Laura Bailey), Yasha Nydoorin (Ashley Johnson), Caleb Widogast (Liam O’Brien), Beauregard "Beau" Lionett (Marisha Ray), Nott the Brave/Veth Brenatto (Sam Riegel), Fjord (Travis Willingham), Mollymauk "Molly" Tealeaf and Caduceus Clay (both played by Taliesin Jaffe) of The Mighty Nein as they explored Wildemount, formed relationships, spat in the face of death and buried allies, realized that not all goblins are as they seem, discovered the power a friendly cupcake (sprinkled with some Dust of Deliciousness) can have in befriending powerful foes, and showcased the resiliency one can have in the face of insurmountable odds time and time again.

Experience the final chapter of The Mighty Nein as Critical Role concludes the legend of this ragtag group of miscreants that millions across the globe have come to know and love. How will their journey end and what’s next from the world of Critical Role? Tune in to find out!

The final episode of Critical Role’s Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein airs this Thursday, June 3 2021 at 7PM PST simultaneously on Twitch (twitch.tv/criticalrole) and YouTube (youtube.com/criticalrole), with the replayable VOD of the show available on Critical Role’s YouTube channel the following Monday.

Critters…. How do you want to do this?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well I've heard of CR, but not that other thing!

Forget you've ever heard of it. You'll be happier in the long run.

 

[Iry]

I see.. I guess I should try it once at least. Critical Role is the main contender I guess ? Not sure I'm enough good in English to get all the jokes but it wouldn't hurt that I tried at least.

I would personally recommend Dimension 20 over Critical Role. Brennan Lee Mulligan is a beast, and his players have good comedic timing. It's definitely a more joking light-hearted game than Critical Role. You can't go wrong with either of them, though.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

People are going to freak out when they announce that the next campaign is going to be using Toon, rather than 5E.

I thought it was gonna be Tunnels & Trolls.

 

[Mercador]

Sorry, I might out of topic a bit but what I miss of my teen years when I was playing DnD2 / Cyberpunk 2020 is the creation of content. I love the creative chaos when you are creating a new adventure. I miss THAT feeling. Not sure that watching other play will help that itch... And I don't have enough energy anymore to take all my books out the bookshelf and starting creating again... Is there a collective universe running around where I could participate ?

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I think you came out guns blazing for no reason, when you're no more informed than the people you disagree with, but decided to open with insulting anyone who might preemptively.

I think you interpolated unintended insult into a pretty mild statement, and decided to be the self-anointed internet manners police, which is a heck of a big task to take on, but okay, more power too you for that. I just think this time ya got the wrong guy copper. I didn't mean to insult nobody, I swears it.

In any case, while you may have hoped to set me on the rhetorical straight and narrow from some perceived path of sophistical sin, rest assured no one is being edified by this interaction so we should probably just drop it. Have a nice day.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would personally recommend Dimension 20 over Critical Role. Brennan Lee Mulligan is a beast, and his players have good comedic timing. It's definitely a more joking light-hearted game than Critical Role. You can't go wrong with either of them, though.

I've been playing since 1979, and Dimension 20 has been mind-expanding in terms of seeing how far you can stretch the game and still have it be recognizably D&D. Even if I never set a game in contemporary Manhattan or fantasy 1950s middle America, I now have the boundaries of what the game can be permanently expanded.

And Mulligan is a fantastic DM and his College Humor players are all hilarious.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I thought it was gonna be Tunnels & Trolls.

T&T or DCC would be amazing games to use for an actual play show, especially ones with comedians/improv folks.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Sorry, I might out of topic a bit but what I miss of my teen years when I was playing DnD2 / Cyberpunk 2020 is the creation of content. I love the creative chaos when you are creating a new adventure. I miss THAT feeling. Not sure that watching other play will help that itch... And I don't have enough energy anymore to take all my books out the bookshelf and starting creating again... Is there a collective universe running around where I could participate ?

RPG.net regularly has threads tagged "CREATIVE" where posters collectively brainstorm settings, one or two of which have gone on to be fan-published, like the City of the Tarrasque, which is a great one to start reading.

There's another one, whose name escapes me, about what a modern day military dungeon crawl setting might look like which is wonderfully creepy.

 

[ClaytonCross]

People are going to freak out when they announce that the next campaign is going to be using Toon, rather than 5E.

Shadowrun 5E?

 

[Mercador]

Shadowrun 5E?

Is this a thing? Did they ditch out their system to go 5E?