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.

 

[Retreater]

Well, I'll still be playing Daggerheart even if they're not.
Very disappointed though. Was kinda hoping for a sea change in the hobby where we could "maybe" start to branch out.

 

[Afroconan]

Darrington Press: Hires Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford to lead Daggerheart.

CR Fans: You have a lack of confidence in Daggerheart!

Chris and Jeremy: sad faces

Darrington Press: Releases 2 playtest packages of new content. Announces new projects, streams and third party content at GenCon.

CR fans: I don't trust you'll support this product!

 

[Afroconan]

it is really hard to stay supportive when the people who get paid for the product aren't even using it.

How? Isn't the game fun? Who said they arent using it? Age of Umbra's still a thing and it will be ongoing.

Why does it matter if they play it or not as long as it gets support and the game is good and fun?

This is the part I really don't get. It gets a bit parasocial, to my eyes. Like I'd stop playing D&D 5e 'cause Mike Mearls doesn't seem to be playing it anymore...

 

[bedir than]

Darrington Press: Hires Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford to lead Daggerheart.

The announcement also says they'll be doing 5e stuff for Campaign 4

Critical Role Reveals Full Cast & Content Details For Campaign Four

Everything changes for Critical Role in Season Four, as we're getting a new Dungeons & Dragons world with an expanded cast

bleedingcool.com

 

[Reynard]

.it is really hard to stay supportive when the people who get paid for the product aren't even using it.

They are. You should rewatch the video.

 

[Afroconan]

The announcement also says they'll be doing 5e stuff for Campaign 4

Critical Role Reveals Full Cast & Content Details For Campaign Four

Everything changes for Critical Role in Season Four, as we're getting a new Dungeons & Dragons world with an expanded cast

bleedingcool.com

Now I'm 100% sure Darrington press will release third party content for 5e

 

[Necropolitan]

It's really unfortunate to hear that Daggerheart is such an awful RPG that even the people who created it won't play it and it's going to be canceled and every copy will be seized by Pinkertons and burned, even the PDFs.

Wait, no that's not what's actually happening and people online are overreacting?

Nevermind then!

 

[Parmandur]

Ummm... did Hasbro deliver a bunch of money?

I thought the whole Daggerheart thing was because Hasbro wouldn't pay them.

If they don't even support their own system, what was the point of it? I mean the campaign was originally in Pathfinder (Percy was a Gunslinger). They dropped that for endorsement money, but that's a bit different than dropping your own product.

WotC didn't give them a dime to switch from Pathfinder.

 

[Parmandur]

Now I'm 100% sure Darrington press will release third party content for 5e

Now, we know that Perkins and Crawford are doing Daggerheart material...but they have a chance to do an "Arcana Unearthed" sort of 5E thing, unleashed from WotC constraints and business needs...

 

[kenmarable]

WotC didn't give them a dime to switch from Pathfinder.

Yep. Watching the earliest episodes, it's pretty clear they weren't bringing in endorsement money! It's definitely come a long way from Matt's hand drawn maps on large sheets of paper with too thin of a sharpie to show up well on an internet stream.

I haven't watch any CR for a couple years or more, but I'm pretty excited about this new campaign! Catering to specific play styles with different tables and exploring an entirely new setting looks pretty cool to me!