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Welcome to Geek & Sundry’s hub for all things RPG! Each week, our collection of deeply nerdy storytellers take you on epic journeys across the multiverse in our critically acclaimed actual play podcasts that use tabletop role-playing games to tell ever-evolving, improvised stories, including the complete collection of Critical Role’s Campaign 1. Current Season: Ten Candles: Eclipse 40 players, one game master, zero survivors. Welcome to Ten Candles: Eclipse, a captivating series based on a game of tragic horror. Join storyteller Ivan Van Norman and a rotating cast of doomed souls as they rage, rage against the dyling of the light. And then get prepared to meet some of the coolest people from around the gaming world in Quests N’ Answers, our deep dive interview series! Craving even more adventures? Past seasons include: Critical Role Campaign 1 | Vox Machina (C1E1-C115): A band of eight unlikely heroes, find themselves on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces in this epic saga starring Matthew Mercer, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, and Sam Riegel. The show that inspired Prime Video’s The Legend of Vox Machina animated series. Critical Role Campaign 2 | Mighty Nein (C2E1-C2E19): Set 20 years after the events of Campaign One, a group of seven adventurers coalesce on the continent of Wildemount where they discover ancient evils, sinister plots, and far more than they bargained for. Experience the rest of the story on CriticalRole.com. Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode: Three monstrous minions find themselves in charge for once when the evil necromancer they serve mysteriously disappears. Will they remain in the dungeon or venture into the light to tell their own tale? Find out on Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode with gamemaster Amy Vorpahl and cast members Jason Nguyen, Danielle Radford, and Dan Casey. Relics & Rarities: Created by Deborah Ann Woll (Daredevil, True Blood), this bold episodic fantasy story transports you to a world of magic, murder, and monsters. In a story guided by Woll, using Dungeons & Dragons as a core narrative mechanic, a crew of bold players embark on a quest to stop an unholy prophecy from coming to fruition. Special guests include Matthew Lillard, Kevin Smith, Charlie Cox, and more. Plus, we have a plethora of one-shot adventures under our CelebriD&D banner, with guest stars like Vin Diesel, Joe Manganiello, and many more! Video versions and more information available on https://www.geekandsundry.com
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I am not usually a horror person, but I was entranced and enthralled as I listened to these two horrifying episodes as a break from the actual hellscape in which we are currently living. Thank you for the escape and the voice of the DM will live in my dreams.
Critical Role is the live-play DnD show that breathed new life into an entire genre of tabletop gaming. Is it true that early on some of the technical aspects were less than stellar? Yes, but folks here may forget or not know that initially these folks all played on a set for a live Twitch stream back before Twitch streaming was what it has become today. This was a hobby and a side hustle for a group of professional voice actors, but it rapidly became the reason that thousands (millions?) of people who’d never played DnD or any TTRPG were suddenly enthralled with it. Speaking for myself, I’d been a video game RPG fan in my youth (Final Fantasy FTW) but adulthood, marriage, and kids steadily robbed me of all my hobbies. Then I discovered CR on YouTube just before the pandemic. I don’t like to give too much credit to mere mortals, but Vox Machina became a companion to my long, miserable days stuck at a computer “teaching”. When I literally saw not another face all day long, I would see these doofuses and giggle along with their hijinks and thrill to their victories. For those who wonder about why the podcast cuts off suddenly after the start of campaign 2, CR had been distributing through a network named Geek & Sundry, but they started their own Critical Role Podcast Network and that’s where all their stuff has posted since then. In the meantime I believe Geek & Sundry was bought out by Realm, and they seem to be the ones who choose to put ads at the points of greatest tension in the gameplay. I’ve listened to other Realm podcasts and it’s the same way with them, too. But, if that annoys you, that’s the point, because that’s when you’re most likely to be paying attention. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. As for the sometimes repeated audio snippets, that’s a glitch on Realm’s end, which may have come from compressing the files, or their distribution software, or who knows what. I do know that the YouTube videos playback seamlessly, so you can always see them that way. And these ads are certainly less annoying that the constant barrage of Raid Shadow Legends advertising I got in 2019. Sheesh. So, to the ragamuffin band of adventurers that Matt Mercer himself later called “slapdicks”, three cheers and a huzzah!
If you are a fan of D&D, or at least a little bit interested in the game. This is a great podcast to listen to! The comedy is great (Altough, the podcast IS explicit-even though the rating says otherwise) and it has actors you may know from games or movies (Matt Mercer voices Cassidy from Over Watch!), the fights are often fast paced, although the boss fights are usually much longer. The players also play characters that are surprisingly fleshed out (Atleast compared to other podcast I’ve seen), and the roleplaying aspect is amazing-They are voice actors, after all. ALSO, this podcast if from when they were part of Geek and Sundry, but then they went independent. If you want to see the other show, just look up the normal critical roll channel. Happy listening!
Getting into this in 2023. Why did I wait so long to give this a go? It has everything you could ever ask for. Adventure, comedy, action, mystery, emotion. Mercer and cast do an absolutely fantastic job of bringing the characters and world to life.
Only place I can listen to the first 19 episodes of c2 of critical role, ads used to be manageable but are now randomly scattered through the episode and there are way more than there used to be. Usually I wouldn’t complain and just deal with the ads but the random placement interrupted the flow of the episode.
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