Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players

Critical Role will continue to use Dungeons & Dragons as the play system for its upcoming campaign, with the cast expanding to three distinct tables consisting of a total of 13 players. Today, Critical Role announced new details about its new campaign, which is set to air on October 4th. The new campaign will feature the full founding cast members as players, alongside several new players. In total, the cast includes Laura Bailey, Luis Carazo, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Whitney Moore, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Alexander Ward, and Travis Willingham, with the previously announced Brennan Lee Mulligan serving as GM.

The campaign itself will be run as a "West Marches" style of campaign, with three separate groups of players exploring the world. The groups are divided into gameplay styles, with a combat-focused Soldiers group, a lore/exploration-focused Seekers group, and a intrigue-focused Schemers group. All three groups will explore the world of Araman, created by Mulligan for the campaign.

Perhaps most importantly, Critical Role will not be switching to Daggerheart for the fourth campaign. Instead, they'll be opting for the new 2024 ruleset of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Daggerheart will be represented at Critical Role via the Age of Umbra and "other" Actual Play series, as well as partnerships with other Actual Play troupes.

 

[Bae'zel]

I thought that they were moving away from D&D? Why the change?

...did WotC deliver a dumptruck of money?

 

[Parmandur]

I thought that they were moving away from D&D? Why the change?

...did WotC deliver a dumptruck of money?

They have their own game now, two actually, but they have never given any indication they are moving away from D&D.

 

[mamba]

Perhaps most importantly, Critical Role will not be switching to Daggerheart for the fourth campaign. Instead, they'll be opting for the new 2024 ruleset of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

interesting, I thought they would switch to Daggerheart, both to give it a boost and because they said they created it for their style of play.

 

[wicked cool]

The behind the scenes video was epic.this will help wotc and 2024 sales

 

[Vicar In A Tutu]

Wow, very surprising! I genuinely thought it was a no-brainer to use Daggerheart, their flagship game.

 

[Seramus]

Wow, very surprising! I genuinely thought it was a no-brainer to use Daggerheart, their flagship game.

They said they are doing BOTH for Campaign 4 (not just in reference to their other ongoing projects like Age of Umbra 2). They also said they are going to have a 4 episode overview of the world where we meet all the characters, then split into three different tables: Soldiers, Seekers and Schemers.

One of those tables could be Daggerheart (it would satisfy the odd BOTH statement).

 

[Kite474]

And thats the sound of any hype for Daggerheart utterly plummeting.

Which is a shame I really liked it as a game and CR basically abandoning it sucks. (Yes there are the side campaigns but those are considered second fiddle dont hold nearly as much care).

 

[TigerDude]

I for one wouldn't watch a Daggerheart campaign, so it works for me.

 

[Thourne]

They said they are doing BOTH for Campaign 4 (not just in reference to their other ongoing projects like Age of Umbra 2). They also said they are going to have a 4 episode overview of the world where we meet all the characters, then split into three different tables: Soldiers, Seekers and Schemers.

One of those tables could be Daggerheart (it would satisfy the odd BOTH statement).

Believe you misunderstood their announcement. They will not be doing just D&D but the 4th Campaign will be D&D.

To quote Matt, "Will still be nerdy ass voice actors playing dungeons and dragons."