Critical role
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Critical role |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2015 |
| Production company |
Geek & Sundry (2015-2018) Critical Role Productions LLC (2018-present) |
| length | 180 to 360 minutes |
| Episodes | 214 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Fantasy , Dungeons & Dragons |
| Theme music | Critical Role Theme Song ( 1st season ) Critical Role Too ( 2nd season, episodes 1-43 ) Your Turn to Roll ( 2nd season, episodes 44-today ) |
| idea | Matthew Mercer |
| music | Jason C. Miller |
| First broadcast | March 2015 on Twitch |
| occupation | |
Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons . The series firstaired liveon Twitch in March 2015, after the group had already played a large part of the first campaign privately at home.
Campaign 1 (Tales of Vox Machina)
The first campaign ran for 115 episodes and ended in October 2017. Game director was Matthew Mercer and the campaign was titled Tales of Vox Machina . Players were Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O'Brien, Orion Acaba and Laura Bailey. These are all voice actors.
Campaign 2 (The Mighty No)
The second campaign was entitled No The Mighty . It started in January 2018 and has been on pause since March 17, 2020 after 99 episodes due to the COVID-19 pandemic . You play in almost the same line-up as in the first campaign, only Orion Acaba is no longer there.
occupation
| player | character | campaign |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Mercer | Game master | all |
| Ashley Johnson | Pike Trickfoot (Gnome / Cleric) | Campaign 1 |
| Yasha Nydoorin (Assimar / Barbarian) | Campaign 2 | |
| Laura Bailey | Vex'ahlia "Vex" de Rolo (née Vessar) (half-elf / ranger / thief) | Campaign 1 |
| Jester Lavorre (Tiefling / Cleric) | Campaign 2 | |
| Liam O'Brien | Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar (half-elf / thief / paladin / druid) | Campaign 1 |
| Caleb Widogast (human / magician) | Campaign 2 | |
| Marisha Ray | Keyleth of the Air Ashari (Half-Elf / Druid) | Campaign 1 |
| Beauregard "Beau" Lionett (human / monk) | Campaign 2 | |
| Sam Riegel | Scanlan Shorthalt (Gnome / Bard) | Campaign 1 (1–85, 103–) |
| Tarryon Darrington (Human / Artificer) | Campaign 1 (86-102) | |
| Nott the Brave / Veth Brenatto (Goblin / Halfling / Thief) | Campaign 2 | |
| Taliesin Jaffe | Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein By Musel Klossowski de Rolo III. (Human / gunslinger) | Campaign 1 |
| Mollymauk Tealeaf (Tiefling / Bloodhunter) | Campaign 2 (1–26) | |
| Caduceus Clay (Firbolg / Cleric) | Campaign 2 (28-) | |
| Travis Willingham | Grog Strongjaw (Goliath / Barbarian / Fighter) | Campaign 1 |
| Fjord (Halbork / Warlock / Paladin) | Campaign 2 | |
| Orion Acaba | Tiberius Stormwind (Dragon Blood / Wizard) | Campaign 1 (1–27) |
publication
The series is broadcast live on Thursdays at 7 p.m., California time, on its own Twitch channel. Subscribers can access the series immediately afterwards on the Twitch channel, on the following Monday it will be published on YouTube .
Production company
Critical Role is also the name of the own production company run by the actors themselves. The company has been producing the programs Critical Role and Talks Machina since 2018 as well as other smaller programs for its own channels on Twitch and YouTube.
Awards
- 2019: Webby Award in the Video Series & Channels category
- 2019: Shorty Award in the Games category
- 2019: Shorty Award in the Audience Honor category
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rachel Romero: An Important Announcement Regarding Critical Role . Critical role. June 18, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
- ↑ Todd Spangler: Critical Role Team, After Record-Breaking Fan Crowdfunding Response, Vows to Make 'The Best Goddamn Cartoon Anyone Has Ever Seen' . In: Variety , March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ↑ Critical Role winner on the award's official homepage. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ↑ a b Critical Role winner on the official homepage of the award. Retrieved April 6, 2020.