Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

Critical Role has released a new trailer for their upcoming fourth campaign. The trailer, embedded below, lays out the overarching premise of the plot, as well as a look at the full 13-player table that will participate in the early parts of the campaign. The trailer not only explains the background of Araman, a world whose people overthrew the gods 70 years ago, but also hints at more recent conflicts.


A description of the show notes that the show opens with the planned execution of a person named Thjazi Fang. His scheduled execution leads to three groups coming together to seek the truth behind his grim fate, spinning off into its own series.

As announced earlier this year, Campaign 4 will feature three groups of players simultaneously exploring the world of Araman in what's described as a West Marches-style campaign. Early episodes will feature all thirteen players, but the show will eventually break the groups out into smaller tables, although there will still be some crossover between the groups.

Critical Role's fourth campaign starts on October 2nd.

 

[overgeeked]

That feels pretty authentically D&D to me. My Shadowdark campaign currently has the off-stage villainous NPC (whom the players suspect is around) hoping to dig up undead war criminals to lead his army of conquest.

That’s great. I am so stealing that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That’s great. I am so stealing that.

I have been teasing that the ancient wizard lords discovered the magic (otherwise unknown in Shadowdark) to raise their generals from the dead, time and again, and that it made them progressively more insane and dangerous each time they were raised again, and that the BBEG is looking for mysterious sites with the help of a kidnapped historian.

I'm waiting for the penny to drop and the players to realize what's in those sealed vaults.