Critical Role Campaign 4 shows performance can trump dice

Critical Role's Campaign 4 has shaken up the show since Brennan Lee Mulligan took over from Matthew Mercer, introducing new homebrew rules, reviving older mechanics, reworking death and adding Critters — and its latest move has been to challenge Dungeons & Dragons' most basic element: rolling dice.

With the Soldiers, Seekers and Schemers tables converged in Dol-Makjar, the 13-player cast faces questions from one another and from the Sundered Houses that dominate Aramán. Wicander Halovar (Sam Riegel) returned to his family seat, the Villa Aurora, and to the Candescent Creed to confront his grandmother, Photarch Yanessa Halovar, who has shown she can be ruthless, including in a plan to remove King Augustus from Timmony.

We won’t spoil the contents of the conversation between Wicander, Tyranny (Whitney Moore), and Photarch Yanessa. What followed on screen left Dungeon Master Mulligan unwilling to reduce the moment to a die roll.

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