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.

 

[billd91]

Ha! Nonsense. At no point in history were more people PLAYING Pathfinder than D&D.

It's not like anyone actually claimed that in any significant capacity. What was always in context was that D&D had surpassed 4e sales in speciality game stores based on icv2's surveys - a core marketplace for games and gamer culture, but not the entirety of the marketplace.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's not like anyone actually claimed that in any significant capacity.

D&D YouTube looks around nervously

 

[Afroconan]

Does Glicker lie? What is the theory behind ignoring him?

I don't know if he lies knowingly or not, but he seems to have an axe to grind against WotC and it's always attributing malice or underhandedness to their actions.

First time I heard of him was during the OGL fiasco and he seemed to have first hand information during that time. I think his channel was the first to present the first draft copy of the new OGL.

But when he later came up with a video talking about how the 2024 PHB had only sold 3000 copies on release it quickly made me notice he seems to be playing the YouTube attention game.

On the topic at hand he seems to be calling Critical Role's decision as a "business decision" but wrapping it up in some sort of conspiracy.

 

[CleverNickName]

Ha! Nonsense. At no point in history were more people PLAYING Pathfinder than D&D.

I'm not sure this can even be measured. Folks play different versions of different games for different lengths of time, and some of us play multiple games a month, and belong to multiple gaming groups (or no groups at all), etc. So this is as correct as we all want it to be, I guess.

 

[Reynard]

I don't know if he lies knowingly or not, but he seems to have an axe to grind against WotC and it's always attributing malice or underhandedness to their actions.

First time I heard of him was during the OGL fiasco and he seemed to have first hand information during that time. I think his channel was the first to present the first draft copy of the new OGL.

But when he later came up with a video talking about how the 2024 PHB had only sold 3000 copies on release it quickly made me notice he seems to be playing the YouTube attention game.

On the topic at hand he seems to be calling Critical Role's decision as a "business decision" but wrapping it up in some sort of conspiracy.

Tanks. I don't generally follow D&DTube "news" stuff because it seems like it is all clickbait. I like Ginni and Matt and Pointy Hat. You know, people that talk about playing.

 

[mamba]

Ha! Nonsense. At no point in history were more people PLAYING Pathfinder than D&D.

you have no way of knowing that. Sales figures are hard enough already, to the point where I doubt we can know for sure, but yours is an order of magnitude harder, with no data whatsoever…

 

[Afroconan]

Tanks. I don't generally follow D&DTube "news" stuff because it seems like it is all clickbait. I like Ginni and Matt and Pointy Hat. You know, people that talk about playing.

I like some "pundits" as Mike Shea calls them.

Mike's Lazy DM Talk Show is one, also Shawn Merwin and Teos Abadia's Mastering Dungeons.

Guys can be very critical without falling into clickbait or axe grinding.

 

[Reynard]

you have no way of knowing that. Sales figures are hard enough already, to the point where I doubt we can know for sure, but yours is an order of magnitude harder, with no data whatsoever…

No one, not even WotC, knows how many people are playing D&D.

 

[kermit4karate]

you have no way of knowing that. Sales figures are hard enough already, to the point where I doubt we can know for sure, but yours is an order of magnitude harder, with no data whatsoever…

More than 10 million D&D books in circulation, sold over nearly 50 years, around the planet, and yet some on this thread are positing, or so it seems, that Pathfinder was at some point in history more popular than D&D.

That's the innuendo, right? That Pathfinder was at some point as popular as D&D? If I'm wrong and that wasn't the implication, then I wholeheartedly apologize. If it was the implication, however, I'll call that patently absurd and hilarious.

 

[Reynard]

More than 10 million D&D books in circulation, sold over nearly 50 years, around the planet, and yet some on this thread are positing, or so it seems, that Pathfinder was at some point in history more popular than D&D.

That's the innuendo, right? That Pathfinder was at some point as popular as D&D? If I'm wrong and that wasn't the implication, then I wholeheartedly apologize. If it was the implication, however, I'll call that patently absurd and hilarious.

There is no way to know how many people are engaged in the hobby at any given moment.