The Mighty Nein - S1 Sneak Peek | November 19 on Prime Video and The Legend of Vox Machina - S4 Sneak Peek (in 2026) Renewed for Fifth and Final season

Based on Critical Role's second tabletop campaign that streamed on Twitch and YouTube from 2018-2021, The Mighty Nein follows a group of outcasts and misfits: tiefling Jester Lavorre (Laura Bailey), half-orc warlock Fjord Stone (Travis Willingham), goblin Nott The Brave (Sam Riegel), wizard Caleb (Liam O'Brien), Cobalt Soul monk Beauregard Lionett (Marisha Ray), barbarian/mercenary Yasha Nydoorin (Ashley Johnson), and tiefling bloodhunter Mollymauk Tealeaf (Taliesin Jaffe). Like the members of Vox Machina, they learn to put aside their differences and distrust to come together to save the world when a powerful relic called "The Beacon" becomes a threat, but his group's journey doesn't take place in Tal'Dorei (the setting Vox Machina calls home). Instead, it brings us to a new contingent in the world of Exandria: Wildemount, which includes places like Dwendalian Empire, the Kryn Dynasty, and the Menagerie Coast. The adventures also occur many years after Vox Machina's conquests (though we'd be surprised if we didn't see some fun character crossovers in the future!).

The announcement of the premiere date also came with reveal of star-studded guest stars who will join the series in its inaugural season, including Mark Strong (Nine Perfect Strangers, 1917), Alan Cumming (The Traitors), Tim McGraw (The Blind Side, 1883), Anika Noni Rose (Princess and the Frog), Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian), Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), Rahul Kohli (iZombie), Robbie Daymond (Date Everything!), and Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OCKYZjOcY&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

>>149537889 (OP)
Critical Role's animated fantasy series "The Legend of Vox Machina" has been renewed for a fifth and final season, the group announced at San Diego Comic Con. The upcoming Season 4 will also premiere on Prime Video in 2026. But Dungeons and Dragons fans will have Critical Role's new series, "The Mighty Nein," to hold them over while they wait; it will premiere on Nov. 19.

Season 3 ended with the group defeating the evil dragons of the Chroma Conclave once and for all, then seemingly splitting up and going their own ways. However, the final scene teased the appearance of Critical Role's ultimate undead villain, Vecna. Season 4 "finds our heroes scattered across the globe on separate journeys, but when a cataclysmic threat befalls Exandria — they must reunite to face a foe darker than they could imagine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ES71534GM

Cool!

>>149537889 (OP)
Was Tarian described as dark-skinned in the campaign? I sincerely forget.

>>149537889 (OP)
Sam Riegel about to ruin yet another show with his awful meme characters

>>149537889 (OP)
could be cool

LAURA BAILEY

That's the sexy goblin girl people liked?

>>149537889 (OP)
/tg/ here.

/co/ got lucky that they did the better campaign first, but you can't really appreciate how dogshit the Mighty Nein campaign was without it being incredibly obvious that Marisha Ray is basically abusing her position as the DM's girlfriend and the one who's in charge of all of their paychecks and if they stay hired or not to let her constantly break the rules, try to force herself into every single plotline or major moment, and also basically force another player's character into being the GF of her own while playing "Korra, but even worse somehow."

>>149541342
I haven't watched their campaign. What happens, exactly?

>>149541296
last thread that I saw people were complaining they nerfed her curves.

>>149540436
I watch for she.

>>149541372
We basically managed to feed lolcow mockery generals for years with just from their sessions coming on regularly but, so, there's two major problems.

1. Unlike the prior campaign which started pre-Wotc control and that was still more organic, this one was firmly under WotC control and media attention, and thus more airbrushed and focus tested and catering to the audience WotC wanted.

2. Marisha Ray went from JUST the GM's 9o'clock fuck appointment which credit due Mercer could handle to being that and also basically the boss and payroll manager of everyone at the table while also getting backing from upstairs.

The result is a meandering campaign that never commits to advancing the plot or doing anything other than draincircling about characters personal traumas, especially after fan backlash because one of them, the blatant Tumblrbait fucktard character, actually died where Marisha constantly forces her butch bitch homebrew money into everything. A comparison would be how every plot of Steven Universe HAD to have Steven into it, and this is a well known behavior in TTRPG circles where somebody tries to be present for anything interesting that's happening. It's hard to pick just one because that and her blatantly pretending to forget how the rules work to her advantage, fudging, and bullshitting to avoid consequences were a constant fucking problem.

One VA also wasn't able to make it to sessions regularly due to where she lived, so she abused that to basically hijack her character and make said character into her own's girlfriend/fucktoy which blatantly made said VA uncomfortable but again, at the time Marisha basically owned the asses of everyone at the table.

Other shit happened that more displayed the corpo agenda shit, like Nott getting intentionally uglified when she got turned back into a gnome specifically to spite people who thought she was hot as a goblin, or forcing the "Orc'd" meme onto Jester for similar reasons.

There was a lot of shit.

>>149541372
>>149541583
The party comp is also violently tumblr. Vox Machina is a party people actually interested in the game would actually play that is actually pretty typical of what you'd see from experienced players who are good at thinking out how to make a character work narratively and mechanically as something they're going to play for a long time. Everyone has some hooks, but they carry on personality and there's clear consideration in making sure that they can have dynamics with eachother but can stand on their own, and they fit together mechanically as a solid party comp. There's no freakshit for the sake of freakshit, with even the Dragonborn actually *bowing out* because the character naturally was drifting away from having a reason to stick around, and the class mix covers a wide range of usecases pretty well with a clear, reliable, and classic coverage in their classes.

Mighty Nein though? Everyone is trying to have a big narrative hook and is fucking coated in tumblr, nobody meshes naturally outside of like 2 characters, and their mechanical comp is dogshit. Everyone outside of the homebrews and the one who can't show up regularly is at least a partial caster and usually snowflake freak shit. This is also the campaign responsible for popularizing technicolor goat tieflings as the ONLY tieflings that exist anymore [before we had shit like mutation tables, FFS, and they were more kind of "off" and variably deformed humanoids], and that ruined Firbolgs forever by turning them into tumblerhaired cowpeople, as can be seen in the attached image.

It was a fucking disaster of a campaign. Like I said, we got together on the regular to mock them, we had a bingo card, I'll see if I can find it. It got bingo at least once every other session.

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>>149541731
>cute goblin girl
>but voiced by Sam Reigel
I’m conflicted.

>>149541842
It's not even a Linda Belcher/Buttwitch situation where you can look past the voice, it just sounds like a screeching Sam

>>149541841
> is also violently tumblr.
Guess that explains why they are always the one used for this meme.

Do you really want to associate yourself with the words MIGHT and NEIN in that close of proximity? I mean I don't want to bring up old wounds everyone moved past but I mean still... someone else is thinking it right.

>>149542164
Her eyes are drawn very badly in every frame of the teaser

>>149537889 (OP)
Fuck, I really hoped Nott would be voiced by some girl. What a boner killer.

>>149541841
Interesting, but by the way, I heard that a character dies. Will he die this season or the second?

And I don't remember, but did they announce a movie based on some other campaign?

>>149544349
Molly died pretty early on IIRC which was part of why we got stuck in meandering zero risk hell with an adamant refusal to follow obvious plot hooks for like years, so maybe?

>>149542355
fr tho

>>149541841
> the Dragonborn actually *bowing out* because the character naturally was drifting away from having a reason to stick around
Lmao, these lies

>>149546111
Well there was more to it than that but the point that was made where the character's plotline and personal goal hadn't really advanced at all was also true.

>>149541841
>Mighty Nein though? Everyone is trying to have a big narrative hook
It's like they all saw Percy's cool Briarwood backstory reveal and decided "tragic backstory you brood over" was the key to a successful character.

>>149546178
>there was more to it than that
It more like
>"bowing out"
The player was ousted for cheating (needing other players to keep watch of his rolls constantly to prevent further cheating) and making the rest of the cast uncomfortable to the point where you can see the difference in enjoyment at the sessions from the point he is gone.

>>149546178
He was "That Guy" of the group.

>>149541841
>Everyone is trying to have a big narrative hook
Isn't that a problem a lot of normal dnd groups face?
Like I dont play myself, but a few friends do and whenever they tell me about the games they've had all the players seem to have some wacky ass OCs with tragic/dark backstories and etc.
Its like everyone wants to be the cool unique member of the team, so the whole team ends up a group of weirdos.

>>149546442
Only if your players are amateurs, bad at shit and haven't learned, or retarded.

Ideally after like 2~3 campaigns you've learned to do better. You can still do a big plothook or some angst but there's a difference in handling it so that A. you understand you shouldn't do it as a crutch, and B. that if you do it you should have more to it than that and not constantly shove it into every fucking line of dialogue.

>>149546242
>can slip off handcuffs in a blink
>constantly thinks like steamy romance novels
yeah co will like her