16 Facts About Critical Role

In June 2018, Critical Role Productions launched its own Twitch and YouTube channels, with cast member Marisha Ray announced as the creative director of the franchise.

Critical Role took over production responsibility for Critical Role and Talks Machina after splitting from Legendary Digital Networks.

On March 4,2019, Critical Role launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a 22-minute animation called Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina Animated Special.

Leak of Twitch data in October 2021 revealed that Critical Role is among the highest earners on Twitch; the company received a total direct payout of $9,626,712 between September 2019 and September 2021 from Twitch in gross income for subscriptions and ad revenue.

Critical Role is a mixture of a weekly show and a modern gaming Twitch stream.

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Critical Role has played with a live theater audience nine times.

Critical Role storyline occurs in campaigns that consist of a series of story arcs, which are usually played over multiple episodes.

The comic book, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, is an adaptation of the group's game before the show.

In 2019, over a year after the first campaign ended, Critical Role produced three canonical one-shot games that feature Vox Machina in the time frame after Vecna's banishment.

Critical Role played another canonical and Vox Machina-related one-shot at a live show in 2019: The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade, which was played at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, on November 23,2019.

Some Critical Role one-shots are canonical parts of the storylines that play out in one of the campaigns, covering events that occur outside the time frame of the respective campaign, but still feature some of the campaign's main characters.

The Critical Role audience has grown significantly on Twitch and YouTube year over year.

The Critical Role team had a falling out with the actor who played Tiberius, and the character wound up leaving the game pretty early on into the stream, and leaving a bit of a conundrum for adaptations like this and the upcoming cartoon.

In 2019, a Critical Role one-shot was sponsored by Wendy's to promote the Feast of Legends RPG system developed by the company.

However, following a strong negative fan response to the sponsor, the Critical Role team chose to take down the VOD, and announced via Twitter that they had donated their sponsorship profits from the one-shot to the Farm Worker Justice organization.

The Critical Role staff scrubbed nearly all evidence of the video from their official feeds and records.