Critical Role To Wrap Up Third Campaign, New Exandria Unlimited Miniseries Announced

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Critical Role's third campaign will end next week with an extra-sized final episode. Today, the popular streaming series announced that its third campaign would wrap up on February 6th with an 8.5 hour episode. The series finale is being called the "conclusion to this chapter in Exandrian history, and the dawn of a new age." The third campaign followed a group of adventurers who got wrapped up in a plot to rid the fantasy world of Exandria of its gods via a god-eating entity trapped in one of Exandria's moons. Characters from Critical Role's previous campaigns made significant appearances in the campaign, with the cast playing their old characters for limited periods.

Following the finale, Brennan Lee Mulligan will lead another 4-part Exandria Unlimited episode, titled Exandria Unlimited: Divergence. The series will explore the Divergence, a moment when the gods of Exandria removed themselves from the world after a devastating war between pantheons. The cast will also include Matt Mercer, Liam O'Brien, Jasmine Don, Alex Ward, and Celia Rose Gooding. That series will air for four weeks starting on February 13th at 7 PM on Critical Role's various streaming channels.

No plans were announced for a fourth Critical Role campaign. Campaign 3 ended Critical Role's tradition of weekly live episodes, with the show shifting to pre-recorded episodes that aired three times a month. Speculation has grown that Critical Role's cast (which has remained the same for 10 years) would shift, or that the game would abandon Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition in favor of Daggerheart, a fantasy RPG developed by Critical Role's Darrington Press imprint.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer





Kudos to the Critical Role team for popularizing 5e D&D and maintaining control over their own content. I haven't been watching C3 as much as I had C1 and C2, but their content has consistently been high-quality, including the animated show (with a second one on the way). I have a few Critical Role t-shirts and I consistently get random positive comments from other fans when I wear them out in public. I bet WotC is very, very interested in their plans for Campaign 4.
 

I think the main thing they showed was that playing an RPG could be fun and a good way to spend time with friends. Even if they do go to daggerheart or just continue to do spin-offs of it I'm not convinced it will convince many people to play that game. Frankly though I wouldn't be surprised if they take a break for a while to focus on other things in their lives or even split up into separate groups. I've had groups that lasted a long time but never the shear amount of time that they spend playing.

In any case I haven't gotten around to even think about the third campaign but I wish them luck in whatever they decide to do.
 

I hope they move on from WotC's 5e and explore the wider world of RPGs. Official D&D will get by without their cheerleading, and the CR folks can focus on pushing their own games for those who want them. I really feel after a certain point WotC's official game was holding them back.
 



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