More About Critical Role’s Campaign Four: New Cast Revealed

As we get closer to the fourth campaign for Critical Role — a change that, I remind you, only occurs once every three to four years — the team has revealed a bit more about who’s in it. We still don’t know the official name of the campaign, but they told us last time the story would occur outside of Exandria, and we’ve got a name for that locale: Aramán. What we still don’t have is the name of the posse that will trek its ground.

But it’ll be the largest gang to date with 13 members! That’s way more than Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham can portray…so they’ll be joined by newcomers Luis Carazo, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Whitney Moore, and Alex Ward.

“When creating the worlds that we build and explore in all of our content at Critical Role, we have always held strong to the belief that we should use the system that best supports the story we want to tell,” says Marisha Ray. “We are certainly spoiled for choice when it comes to TTRPG systems that the cast knows and loves, so we are very excited to explore more of both Daggerheart and Dungeons and Dragons in our near (and hopefully distant) future.”

One of the biggest unanswered questions regarding Campaign Four was if it would stick with Dungeons & Dragons rules, or if it would switch to CR’s own competing TTRPG engine, Daggerheart. I don’t know if there’s a GIF of the South Park scene where Towelie goes “I choose….I choose…BOTH!” and if there isn’t, I don’t have the time to make one. But that’s how this essentially turned out. “Campaign 4 will be played using Dungeons & Dragons (2024 rules), as well as some homebrew from Darrington Press’s own Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins,” they say.

Campaign 4 will utilize a West Marches–style structure with rotating tables, and the first four episodes will be the “Overture,” acting as an introduction to the new world and its characters through intersecting scenes. They will split into three groups at the end though — the Soldiers, Schemers, and Seekers – and that change will last for the rest of the campaign, albeit with overarching themes tying things together.

Critical Role’s Campaign 4 will premiere on Beacon.tv, Critical Role’s YouTube and Twitch channels on October 2, with the VOD available for everyone the following Monday. Podcast episodes will be available in two parts: the first one week after the premiere, and the second on the following Tuesday. Beacon members will get a bonus: Critical Role Cooldown for Campaign 4, a post-show series starring the cast.