Critical Role Finally Confirms A Video Game Is On the Way — And It Will Take Place In Exandria

We knew it was connected the mode astatine immoderate point, but present it's confirmed — a video crippled acceptable connected the Dungeons & Dragons amusement Critical Role's Exandria is successful the works.

In concern with L.A. developer AdHoc Studio, the radical — which comprises Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, Travis Willingham, and Taliesin Jaffe — volition enactment with AdHoc connected a fig of projects, including the archetypal ever crippled based connected the D&D group.

While we're inactive immoderate ways retired of getting to play it ourselves — “We’re tossing astir ideas, what are we reasoning astir successful presumption of scope and budget, and immoderate of the things we indispensable have,” Willingham said — Critical Role is besides moving with AdHoc connected a communicative escapade called Dispatch, and that's retired aboriginal this year.

As reported by Variety, Dispatch volition see "future marque improvement inclusive of an animated series, merchandise, and tabletop gaming." It was aft auditioning for Dispatch and being impressed by the crippled that Critical Role CEO and formed member, Willingham, decided to squad up with the workplace for an archetypal crippled acceptable successful Exandria.

Dispatch — described arsenic a "superhero workplace comedy" — is owed for merchandise aboriginal this twelvemonth and besides stars chap Critical Role members Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer, on with Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul and The Last of Us' Jeffrey Wright. JacksepticEye and MoistCr1TiKaL besides lend their voices to the project. In it, you negociate “a dysfunctional squad of misfit heroes and strategize who to nonstop to emergencies astir the city, each portion balancing bureau politics, idiosyncratic relationships, and your ain quest to go a hero.”

“I perfectly flipped out. The animation was truthful amazing. So overmuch truthful it looked similar an animated show," Willingham told Variety.

The radical spoke astir its large plans for the aboriginal earlier this year. There was nary connection connected what the video crippled volition beryllium called oregon however precisely it volition necktie into the Critical Role beingness rather yet, but Willingham said astatine the clip that the squad down it remains “hard astatine work.”

Last month, arsenic they celebrated their 10th anniversary, overmuch of the radical who marque up Critical Role gathered unneurotic for a celebratory sheet astatine IGN Live moderated by Amelia Emberwing, looking backmost astatine the way truthful acold and teasing what the aboriginal volition hold.

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