Critical Role Campaign 4 Launches Oct 2 With 13 Players and a Fired Pantheon

Hold onto your dice bags, Critters, because Critical Role just dropped the most ambitious D&D campaign announcement that’ll make your head spin faster than a nat 20 on initiative! Campaign 4 is happening October 2nd, and honestly? I’m genuinely concerned for Brennan Lee Mulligan’s sleep schedule at this point.

You thought juggling Dimension 20 was impressive? Well, our beloved chaos goblin of a DM just decided to take on thirteen permanent players for Critical Role’s next campaign. THIRTEEN! That’s not a D&D party—that’s a small army with commitment issues and really good character backstories.

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The original Critical Role crew is back—Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matt Mercer, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham. But wait, there’s more! They’ve added Luis Carazo, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Whitney Moore, and Alexander Ward to the mix.

Now, if you’re sitting there thinking, “That’s way too many players for one table,” congratulations! You understand basic math and have probably played D&D before. Brennan clearly knows this too, which is why he’s going full West Marches style with this campaign.

What the Heck is a West Marches Campaign?

For those who haven’t descended into the beautiful madness of tabletop RPGs quite this deeply yet, a West Marches campaign is basically D&D’s answer to “How do we fit everyone at the table without needing a table the size of Texas?” Players get split into smaller groups that share the same world, and their actions ripple across everyone else’s stories. It’s like having multiple TV shows set in the same universe—except with more dice and significantly less budget for special effects.

Brennan’s dividing our beloved chaos crew into three thematic groups: Soldiers, Seekers, and Schemers. The Soldiers will be doing what they do best—hitting things until they stop moving. The Seekers will uncover all those juicy world secrets that make us lose sleep theorizing about lore. And the Schemers? They’ll be neck-deep in political intrigue that’ll make Game of Thrones look like a casual Tuesday.

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