Critical Role
"Is it Thursday Yet?"
Community to discuss anything Critical Role related.
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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
- Critical Role Campaign 3: Main D&D 5e campaign, streamed every Thursday at 7pm PT, except last Thursday of each month
- 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
- Midst: Sci-fi fantasy radio drama, airs every Wednesday on Midst.co
- 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.
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Links
- Critical Role's official website
- Critical Role on Twitch
- Critical Role on YouTube
- Critical Role Podcast C1E0 - C2E19
- Beacon
Resources
- Interactive Map of Exandria
- Interactive Timeline
- Episode Transcripts
- Encyclopedia Exandria
- Critical Role wiki (fandom)
- Critical Role Stats
- Official Daggerheart Toolset
- The Omen Archive
- Episode Discussion Index
- CR Funny Moments (TVtropes)
- CR ABridged Art Archive
- Other Live Play TTRPGs
- CR Bibliography
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I genuinely think this is the wrong decision (total content removal & inaccessibility). The best compromise would be to follow in the footsteps of WB and Disney, and offer the content is some sort of alternate repository with a disclosure. Something like "BWF is no longer associated with CR due to acts of domestic violence, but we're still offering the content for archival purposes".
No ads, perhaps not even any streaming. Maybe just download links, or official torrents, or something.
Maybe they're trying to cover their bases? I don't know what contracts they had with BWF for appearing on the channel during their whole streaming journey, but I imagine they didn't have ironclad contracts when they were under Geek & Sundry, and only got the particulars down more concretely when they established their own company/channel. Those terms may have also changed once BWF was let go.
From how I understood it, BWF was also trying to blackmail Ashley for money, and the fact that he still appeared on the channel while no longer being paid may have contributed to that sentiment. So by having BWF-centric content wiped out officially, it cripples any murky legalities he can claim.
I'm not sure it makes sense to make a call on whether this is the right/wrong decision when we know next to nothing about the specific reasons leading to the removal.
Could be legal reasons, could be something in BWF's contract, or maybe it's purely for the personal comfort for Ashley (which if so, overrides anything else imo). We do not know.
I'm sad to lose the content too. Especially all the insight from the cast, and the BTS interviews. But I also cannot blame them for removing it, it's totally within their rights to do so.
yogscast is another example. Some creeps in the network got exposed, they put out a public statement but they did not remove any previous content with those people in it.