The solid of Critical Role has been linked to Dungeons & Dragons from the very starting of the hit streaming collection. Now, two Dungeons & Dragons veterans are becoming a member of Critical Role’s publishing home, Darrington Press, to work on new recreation ideas and doubtlessly on additions to the corporate’s lately launched Daggerheart recreation.
Darrington Press shared the announcement that Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford–two of the important thing designers behind Dungeons & Dragons fifth Version–have signed on as Artistic Director and Recreation Director, respectively. Perkins was at D&D mum or dad firm Wizards of the Coast for 28 years, whereas Crawford had an 18-year run there.
“Storytelling has all the time been on the coronary heart of all the things I do, and becoming a member of Darrington Press feels a bit like coming dwelling,” stated Perkins in an announcement. “I’ve beloved being part of the prolonged Critical Role household as a daily visitor through the years and I am past excited to assist create new worlds stuffed with journey.”
“I’ve all the time believed that nice video games invite everybody to the desk, and that’s precisely what excites me about becoming a member of Darrington Press,” added Crawford. “This workforce is passionate, wildly inventive, and dedicated to constructing welcoming, linked, wonderful story-driven experiences–I am unable to wait to increase on what Critical Role has already created to develop some actually enjoyable and distinctive video games.”
Critical Role started in 2015 when a gaggle of voice actors started livestreaming their Dungeons & Dragons marketing campaign. The collection proved to be so standard that Critical Role has expanded into its personal standalone media empire, with The Legend of Vox Machina animated collection on Prime Video and a second collection, Mighty Nein, coming sooner or later. Wizards of the Coast has additionally launched official Critical Role/Dungeons & Dragons marketing campaign books. Within the spirit of that collaboration, the official D&D social media accounts congratulated Crawford and Perkins for his or her new jobs.
Now that the kobold is out of the bag… Congratulations to Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins becoming a member of Darrington Press! Their creativity helped form D&D as we all know it immediately and the workforce they nurtured continues to form its future. We stay up for taking part in their subsequent journey.
— Dungeons & Dragons (@dndbeyond.com) June 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Late final 12 months, the Critical Role workforce hinted that it could make a online game sooner or later. Darrington Press was launched in 2020 to increase Critical Role’s attain within the tabletop RPG realm.