Global InformationCritical Role campaign two information
| Critical Role campaign two | |
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 Campaign poster art by Matteo Scalera and Moreno Dinisio. | |
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| No. of episodes | 141 |
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| Original release | January 11, 2018 – June 3, 2021 |
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The second campaign of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role premiered on January 11, 2018—four months after the conclusion of the first campaign—and concluded on June 3, 2021.[1][2][3] The series starred Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Sam Riegel, Liam O'Brien, and Laura Bailey as the players with Matthew Mercer as the Dungeon Master.
The campaign is an actual play which follows the Mighty Nein, a party of seven adventurers, in their travels across the continent of Wildemount. It occurs at a time of very high tensions between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty—two of Wildemount's major powers, which are divided by the Ashkeeper Peaks mountain range. Over the course of the campaign, the Mighty Nein work towards rooting out political corruption, especially within the Cerberus Assembly, and establishing peace between the Kryn Dynasty and the Dwendalian Empire after war breaks out. They also thwart apocalyptic threats such as Tharizdûn's attempt to escape his imprisonment and the Somnovem's attempt to return to the Prime Material Plane.
Campaign two aired each Thursday at 7 p.m. PT on Twitch, YouTube, and Alpha. When production switched from Geek & Sundry to Critical Role Productions in February 2019, distribution on Alpha and the other Geek & Sundry channels ended; the campaign then aired on Critical Role Productions' official channels.[4][5][6] It consisted of 141 episodes with a total run time of over 550 hours.[2] The show has returned twice with specials set after the conclusion of the campaign – a two-part special titled The Mighty Nein Reunited in 2022[7] and a live show titled The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice filmed in Wembley Arena in 2023.[8] Critical Role won multiple awards during the campaign, such as the 2019 Webby Winner and People's Voice Winner in the "Video Series & Channels – Games" category from the Webby Awards,[9] and the 2019 Audience Honor in the "Games" category from the Shorty Awards.[10] An upcoming animated television adaptation for Amazon Prime Video, titled Mighty Nein, was announced in January 2023.[11]
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- ^ Critical Role [@CriticalRole] (October 16, 2017). "The end" (Tweet). Retrieved May 14, 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b Hoffer, Christian (June 1, 2021). "Critical Role's Extra-Sized Campaign 2 Finale Airs This Week". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ Sheehan, Gavin (June 2, 2021). "Critical Role Will Complete Campaign Two This Thursday". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
- ^ Hoffer, Christian (January 18, 2020). "How to Watch Critical Role". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Thomas, Jeremy (February 19, 2019). "D&D Streaming Series Critical Role Leaves Geek & Sundry, Moves to Its Own Channel". 411MANIA. Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
- ^ Critical Role [@CriticalRole] (January 21, 2021). "Starting today, Critical Role and Talks Machina will now air on both Twitch AND YouTube! Twitch will still be the BEST place to engage with our community with a moderated live chat and immediate access to VODS for Twitch" (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021 – via Twitter.
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