Critical Role

Long, warm, collaborative storytelling sessions that reward patience with deep characters, improvised jokes, and genuinely moving dramatic payoffs.

Created by

Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray

Genres

Sci-fi & fantasy, Action & adventure, Comedy

Starring

Matthew Mercer, Luis Carazo, Laura Bailey

Tagline

Is it Thursday yet?

Overview

Critical Role is a weekly actual play series that uses tabletop role-playing game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy worlds of Exandria, Aramán, and beyond, with sweeping narratives intricately woven through collaboration between Game Masters and players.

How it feels

Warm, dark, tense and whimsical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Friendship, found family, identity, power

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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