Shows produced by Critical Role
Legendary Digital Networks is hoping to capitalize on one of its most beloved web series by bringing a new show to Alpha, its subscription video on-demand service. The show in question is called CelebriD&D, and it features a cast of TV, film, and digital media notables who will gather together to play Dungeons & Dragons. The dungeon master for CelebriD&D is Matthew Mercer, who also hosts the popular web series Critical Role on the Legendary-owned Geek & Sundry channel. Mercer serves as the master of ceremonies for a role-playing five-person band that consists of his Critical Role co-stars Marisha Ray and Taliesin Jaffe, Dan Casey and Jessica Chobot of the Legendary-owned Nerdist network, and a guest. In the premiere episode, that guest is actor Joe Manganiello, who has a long history with Dungeons & Dragons. CelebriD&D is a clear attempt to build on the success of Critical Role, which streams each week on Twitch and regularly reaches six-digit view counts 87 episodes into its run. While CelebriD&D may share a parent company and a theme with Critical Role, it more closely resembles another Dungeons & Dragons web series, Dan Harmon’s HarmonQuest. Both of those shows are built for on-demand viewership rather than streaming, and they’re both distributed through SVOD platforms: HarmonQuest through NBCUniversal’s Seeso and CelebriD&D through Legendary’s Alpha, which launched last year.
After years of training with both video and written recaps of Critical Role episodes, Lore Keeper Dani Carr is taking it to the next level, animation style! Introducing Crit Recap Animated — our new show narrated by Dani herself that condenses Campaign 2 story arcs into short 5-10 minute episodes written by the all star team of Dani, Marisha Ray, and Kyle Shire and fantastically animated by Offworld Studios.
Voice actor Matthew Mercer leads a group of fellow voice actors on epic Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. These familiar voices bring the audience into the full experience of D&D, allowing imaginations to soar as the characters embark on adventures. This is Critical Role!
Our new eight episode mini campaign existing within the world of Exandria! We are thrilled to have Game Master Aabria Iyengar guiding players Aimee Carrero, Robbie Daymond, Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, and Liam O'Brien through an adventure beginning in Emon nearly 30 years after the Chroma Conclave attack.
The cast of Critical Role has decided to entertain themselves and their fans by playing a game of Narrative Telephone; just like the childhood's game of Telephone but with a CR twist. Each episode, one cast member records themselves telling a shot story. They will then take that video and send it off to the next person who is only allowed to watch it once. That person must then record themselves recounting the story to the best of their memory. They will then take their version and send it off to the next cast member who will repeat that process and so on and so forth. The final recounting is sure to be quite a cluster
An aftershow for the popular internet series Critical Role, host Brian Wayne Foster takes fan questions and poses them directly to the main cast of Critical Role.
In the not-so-sleepy town of Deadwood, where rumors of supernatural happenings and illegal mining activity have come to a head, five strangers to each other are hired to investigate supernatural rumors by a local community pillar, fight an evil they’ve never encountered — and will fight to save their very souls in the process.