When the cast of Critical Role Campaign 4 was first announced, it came with a surprise. There would be 13 player characters. That seemed like way too much for one campaign to hold and still retain sense. But we quickly learned that while Critical Role Campaign 4 would have a baker’s dozen of characters running around, not all would play at the same time. Instead, Critical Role ‘s new Campaign 4 DM, Brennan Lee Mulligan, would run a West Marches style of play. In Mulligan’s words, “The West Marches campaign style is effectively a shared world with more adventurers that are player characters than can fit at the table in one session. And also, on a storytelling level, it really maps the form of fantasy storytelling that people are intimately familiar with and know and love.” Essentia

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