Guest Battle Royale

is the sixty-fourth special episode of Critical Role. It is the final one-shot episode to be unlocked as a backer tier for the Kickstarter campaign for The Legend of Vox Machina animated series. Five characters from Exandria's timeline are forced to fight each other in the deadly alternate reality TV show Garyon Garrington's Plunder Games. The award for the last contestant standing will be one use of the Wish spell. This episode aired on January 27, 2022.

Announcements

 * Player/character introductions.
 * This one-shot is made possible by Kickstarter backers like you. Thank you.
 * The Legend of Vox Machina debuts on Prime Video at midnight January 28, 2022. That's tonight! Check it out.
 * Watch the first three episodes with the cast and some special guests on Twitter Spaces or Twitch. For full info visit https://critrole.com/tag/watch-parties/
 * Past Sam, don't wear the giant purple wig. It doesn't come off.

Break

 * Official trailer for The Legend of Vox Machina, which debuts on 28 January 2022, plus an info-graphic of later release times
 * The Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn came out on 18 January 2022. New art, deeper lore, and overall, more content. Go to the Darrington Press website to learn more.
 * Merch Alert! Vox Machina dice sets, chibi pins, and Funko Pops, plus a McFarlane Toys' 12" Shaun Gilmore figure.
 * Critical Recap every Wednesday on CritRole.com.
 * Submit fan art for possible inclusion in the weekly online gallery at https://www.critrole.com/submit.
 * Sam uses soothing backgrounds, relaxing sounds, and his whisper to describe the benefits of subscribing to Critical Role on Twitch.

Player characters

 * Fy'ra Rai
 * Sprigg
 * Kashaw Vesh
 * Nila
 * Tova

New

 * Garyon Garrington
 * Groty
 * Lestat
 * Smorgasbot
 * Jessie, a small child from the audience

Mentioned

 * Keyleth
 * Lyra
 * Scanlan Shorthalt
 * Spurt
 * Vesh

Trivia

 * The setting is a parody of The Hunger Games. Sam is dressed as Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.