Critical Role

Image: Gizmodo/io9As founding cast members of Critical Role, Matt Mercer and Marisha Ray are some of the most influential Dungeons & Dragons players in the world. Currently they act as the Chief Creative Officer and Creative Director for Critical Role, and have always centered their fans in their creative endeavors. When asked about the movement in the wider D&D fandom to Open D&D (by either removing the Open Gaming License from the auspices of Wizards of the Coast, or irrevocably enshrining the OGL 1.0a),…

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Image: Titmouse Animation/Prime VideoWhen Critical Role’s first season of The Legend of Vox Machina premiered earlier this year, the heroes were going through the growing pains of being a recently formed adventuring party. By the time everything had wrapped up and the group was returning home after killing the Briarwoods, everyone had leveled up and the experience made them become a better team, if not a stronger family. But one successful quest was the first step to their larger story, a story which was put in motion…

Image: Penguin Random HouseThe world of tabletop actual play series Critical Role is forever expanding, from the shows themselves, to comics, animated series, and of course, novels. While our last looks at the world of Critical Role books took us into the past of two of Vox Machina’s heroes, our latest is a look at a villain from the world of the Mighty Nein.io9 has an exclusive look inside Madeleine Roux’s new novel The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien, a new novel out next month that explores the past of one of…

The full Exandria Unlimited: Calamity cast and DM.Photo: Michael SchmidtExandria Unlimited: Calamity is a four-episode miniseries produced by the Critical Role team that explores a time just before an unavoidable apocalypse. io9 spoke to three members of the Calamity cast—Travis Willingham, Aabria Iyengar, and Luis Carazo—about performance, improv, and how playing to an audience impacts the play.Critical Role started in 2015 as a streamed improv storytelling series, using Dungeons & Dragons as a medium for…