Critical Role

Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors plays Dungeons & Dragons. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 after 115 episodes, and campaign two started in January 2018 and ended in June 2021 after 141 episodes. A number of one-shots were aired in the hiatus between the two campaigns. After campaign two was completed, the spin-off limited series Exandria Unlimited aired from June 2021 to August 2021. The third campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.

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Critical Role
Genre	Fantasy Actual play
Based on	Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition
Starring	Matthew Mercer Ashley Johnson Travis Willingham Laura Bailey Liam O'Brien Taliesin Jaffe Marisha Ray Orion Acaba Sam Riegel
Theme music composer	Jason C. Miller Colm McGuinness Sean Feica Peter Habib
Opening theme	"Critical Role Theme Song" (C1) "Critical Role Too" (C2, episodes 1–43) "Your Turn to Roll" (C2, episodes 44–141) "It's Thursday Night" (C3)
Ending theme	"Twin Elms" (C1) "Welcome to Wildemount" (C2) "Welcome to Marquet" (C3)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	115 (Campaign 1) 141 (Campaign 2) 77 (Campaign 3) (list of episodes)
Production
Production locations	Los Angeles, California
Running time	Approximately 180–300 minutes per episode[1]
Production companies	Geek & Sundry (2015–2018)[2] Critical Role Productions (2018–present)[3]
Original release
Network	Twitch YouTube Alpha (2016–19)
Release	March 12, 2015 (2015-03-12) – present
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The series is broadcast on Thursdays at 19:00 PT on the Critical Role Twitch and YouTube channels, with the video on demand (VOD) becoming available to Twitch subscribers immediately after the broadcast. The VODs are made available for the public on Critical Role's website and uploaded to their YouTube channel on the Monday after the live stream. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show had broadcast live, but has been pre-recorded since its return for episode 100 of Campaign Two.

The cast own the intellectual property from the show, and the show also lends its name to the studio owned by the cast—Critical Role Productions. The studio has produced Critical Role since 2018. A number of licensed works based on the show have been released, such as several comic books and two official campaign setting guides. The Legend of Vox Machina, the animated series based on the first campaign of Critical Role, premiered January 28, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video. Mighty Nein, an upcoming animated series based on the second campaign, was announced in January 2023.