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"Is it Thursday Yet?"

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What is Critical Role?

Critical Role is a group of nerdy-ass voice actors who sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons.

Streams every Thursday at 7pm PT and then rebroadcasts the following Friday at 12am and 9am PT on Twitch.

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Current shows

Age of Umbra: Daggerheart 8-part series in the Halcyon Domain where dark winds known as the Umbra assail the landscape.
Critical Role Campaign 3: Main D&D 5e campaign. Recently completed.
Candela Obscura: Horror drama campaign using their own game system, live streamed every last Thursday of each month at 7pm PT
4-Sided Dive: Talkshow with a roundtable discussion of 4 guests, to talk about recent episodes and answer fan questions. Streams every first Tuesday of the month at 7pm PT
Narrative Telephone: The narrator tells a tale and passes it along to a cast member who can listen to it only once before retelling it to another... How weird can things possibly get?
Midst: Sci-fi fantasy radio drama, streams Wednesdays.
Re-Slayer's Take: podcast about a lesser-known band of heroes updates Mondays 5am PST
Tales from the Stinky Dragon New episodes air Wednesdays every two weeks.
Weird Kids podcast with Ashley and Taliesin on their interests and perspectives.

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Programming Schedule: Week of July 7th, 2025 (critrole.com)

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Tales From The Stinky Dragon

Campaign 3: Kanon

A team of trained soldiers is caught in the middle of a war between distant deities and under-dwelling devils. As they turn the tide of this celestial crusade, a voice beckons them from the beyond—destiny or doom?

Episode 21 releases Monday, July 7th on Beacon and the Tales From The Stinky Dragon Patreon at 12am Pacific.
Episode 21 releases Wednesday, July 9th on your favorite podcast streaming platform and the Tales From The Stinky Dragon YouTube at 12am Pacific.

Weird Kids

Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe deep dive into their lives as the Weird Kids! This is a formal invitation to all the misfits, outcasts, and weirdos to take a seat at our table and join these former child actors as they embrace their unique upbringings and celebrate all things weird and wonderful.

Episode 15 releases Tuesday, July 8th at 5am Pacific exclusively on Beacon
Get a sneak peak of Episode 15 on Tuesday, July 8th by checking out @TheWeirdKidsPod YouTube Channel

Critical Role Abridged

All the twists and turns of an episode of Critical Role in half the time! In Critical Role Abridged, the rich tapestry of a Critical Role campaign is lovingly distilled to its most pivotal, hilarious, and poignant moments in about 60-90 minutes per episode.

Campaign 3, Episode 60 releases Tuesday, July 8th at 10am Pacific on YouTube
Campaign 3, Episode 60 Podcast out Tuesday, July 8th on your favorite podcast streaming service at 5am Pacific
Campaign 3, Episode 82 releases Tuesday, July 8th at 10am Pacific on Beacon

Sydney Live Show: Tag Team At The Teeth

The Misty Ascent

Watch our Sydney Live Show as characters from the Mighty Nein & Bells Hell band together for an epic team-up!

In each of our Australian Live Show one-shots, party members from Bells Hells and the Mighty Nein will join forces as they fight a common threat, threaded together by our Game Master, Matthew Mercer, and the cast of Critical Role.

Releases Tuesday July 8th at 12pm Pacific only on Beacon

Cooldown | Tag Team At The Teeth

The Misty Ascent

Get a backstage pass to our Sydney Live Show! You’ll be right there at the ICC Sydney Theatre immediately after their final bows to experience the cast’s post-show reactions.

Releases Tuesday July 8th at 12pm Pacific only on Beacon

UNEND, Season 2

After their voyage of exploration goes awry, the crew of the Ship find themselves adrift in an unfamiliar realm where everything they know is called into question. With their beliefs, their bonds, and their lives at stake, they must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice to find a way home.

Episode 6 releases Wednesday, July 9th on the Midst Podcast YouTube at 10am Pacific and your favorite podcast streaming service at 5am Pacific
Episode 8 releases Wednesday, July 9th on Beacon, Midst.co, and Podcast Subscribers at 5am Pacific

Age of Umbra | Episode 6

Small communities hold fast against the darkness of a dying world in Age of Umbra, a dark, survival fantasy 8-part Daggerheart mini-series with Game Master Matthew Mercer and players Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, and Travis Willingham. Death lurks around every corner, but five characters of the small community of Desperloch must band together to fight for hope for their community, risking it all for those they love.

Airs Thursday, July 10th at 7pm Pacific on Twitch and YouTube
VOD and Podcast out Thursday, July 10th at 7pm Pacific on Beacon
Rebroadcasts Friday, July 11th at 12am Pacific and 9am Pacific on Twitch
VOD out Monday, July 14th at 12pm Pacific on YouTube
Part 1 Podcast out July 17th on your favorite podcast streaming service at 5am Pacific
Part 2 Podcast out July 22nd on your favorite podcast streaming service at 5am Pacific

Cooldown: Age of Umbra | Episode 6

Get a backstage pass to Age of Umbra! You’ll be right there at the table immediately after Matt says “Is it Thursday yet?”, experiencing the cast’s post-show reactions.

Releases Thursday, July 10th at 7pm Pacific only on Beacon

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Campaign 4 when?

And I'm really curious whether they'll go with Daggerheart rather than 5e for campaign 4.

Also, I do hope they fix the Daggerheart license.

[–] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The top 2 questions coming are:

M9 animated series when?
Campaign 4 when?

followed by Travis' Potential Content Pre-Collaboration Probe to Possibly Produce a.k.a.

CR vidya game when?

I was once very secure in my belief that the statements of Liam O'Brien were a matter-of-fact reveal of the system to be used for all four campaigns. One statement in particular to play all four original classes (fighter, magic user, rogue/thief, priest/cleric) and species/races (human, elf, halfling, dwarf) from the old Dungeons and Dragons books. Now the same choices are in Daggerheart, so I'm no longer certain.

[–] thisisdee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Finally caught up with Age of Umbra and I am loving it! Hoping for some more death rolls cos those are intense! Or actual character death would be interesting now that we’re getting close to the end of the run.