Critical Role has announced plans for its third full-length Dungeons & Dragons campaign, including a start date set for October. The next Critical Role campaign will launch on October 21st on the Critical Role Twitch channel at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. Critical Role confirmed that the core cast of Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey and Liam O’Brien will be returning for the next campaign. Critical Role also announced that the next campaign will be set in the desert continent of Marquet and that it will chronologically be set after the events of Exandria Unlimited and the recently wrapped Campaign 2. During a State of the Role address, Mercer, Willingham, and Ray noted that other content released in the upcoming year would feature other “storytellers” besides Mercer. Episodes will continue to be pre-recorded and the group plans to take one Thursday off a month.