Brennan Lee Mulligan Will Lead the Fourth ‘Crucial Function’ Marketing campaign

Each new marketing campaign for Critical Role offers a shakeup ultimately, whether or not it’s a brand new location or solid of characters. With the upcoming fourth marketing campaign, the Precise Play sequence sees its largest change but with Brennan Lee Mulligan within the Recreation Grasp’s seat.

Mulligan, who runs video games for his personal Precise Play sequence Dimension 20 over on Dropout and the Critical Role miniseries Calamity, will take helm of a full marketing campaign set to start on October 2. Throughout Crucial Function’s dwell occasion on Saturday, he got here on stage as a part of the announcement. This new marketing campaign might be set outdoors the Exandria setting of the primary three—”Vox Machina,” “Mighty Nein,” and “Bells Hells”—and assist to provide authentic Crucial DM Matthew Mercer a break.

“We’ve been huge followers of Brennan’s for a few years now, and…he felt like the proper storyteller to take our neighborhood someplace totally new,” stated Crucial alum and CEO Travis Willingham. “Crucial Function has all the time been about real connection by storytelling firstly, and as Brennan himself will inform you, he’s nonetheless performed extra TTRPGs away from a digital camera than in entrance of it. His ardour and drive for worldbuilding is infectious, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to set off him as we forge forward.”

For Dimension 20 followers questioning how this modification impacts that present, Mulligan will nonetheless to guide that present. Per Variety, he just lately renewed his contract with the media firm for an additional three years, which features a “new long-term contract for nonstop new seasons of D20,” stated Mulligan on Instagram. At the very least two of these seasons will convey again the Intrepid Heroes who’ve headlined Fantasy Excessive, Unsleeping Metropolis, and the present season Cloudward, Ho!. His separate Precise Play sequence Worlds Past Quantity will even proceed.

“For sure, I’m lastly taking part in virtually as a lot tabletop as I’d prefer to!” he continued. “It’s a present, honor, and privilege to set out on this new epic journey with Crucial Function.”

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