Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein

Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein is the second campaign of Critical Role. It takes place beginning in Sydenstar, 835 P.D., approximately twenty years after the adventures of Vox Machina. The returning cast plays all-new characters and features the continent of Wildemount as its primary setting. In the eighth episode, the adventuring party adopted the name "The Mighty Nein".

The campaign is being adapted into an animated series, Mighty Nein.

Story arc summaries
&rarr; Main article: The Adventures of the Mighty Nein

Session zero
Before the campaign began airing, most of the players participated in an unrecorded session zero with Matt so that they could get a feel for their characters and the setting they would be playing in. In Laura, Travis, and Marisha's session zero, Jester was knocked unconscious in one attack from a giant constrictor snake. Taliesin was the only player to refuse to tell any of the others (besides Ashley) what class he was playing. They rolled for their characters' stats, and Laura and Marisha were happy while Travis, Ashley, and Sam rolled lower numbers and were not.

Streaming
The first part of the second campaign was live streamed on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel and YouTube, on Thursdays at 7pm (Pacific Time). In February 2019, Critical Role parted ways with Geek & Sundry, launched their own Twitch and YouTube channels, and started to self-produce new shows and content under the name Critical Role Productions LLC. Eventually the live broadcasts of Critical Role and VODs aired exclusively on Critical Role's channels. Episodes are archived on the Critical Role website and the Critical Role and Geek & Sundry YouTube channels.

On 17 March 2020, Critical Role announced that it was suspending all live broadcasts of both the D&D stream Critical Role and Talks Machina due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Role returned in a prerecorded format on 2 July 2020 with the broadcast of.

The second campaign started on January 11, 2018 with, and ended three and a half years and 141 episodes later on June 3rd, 2021 with.

Trivia

 * For Campaign 2, ability scores were determined during character creation using the standard method described in the Player's Handbook: roll 4d6 and drop the lowest die. Matthew Mercer implemented a house rule that if sum of all ability scores for a player was less than 70, then that player had the option to reroll all scores. They could rearrange the scores as desired.
 * Laura Bailey's character, Jester, previously appeared in two one-shot adventure. However, this was her first appearance in a Critical Role production.
 * Several characters from The Campaign of Vox Machina have also appeared in Campaign 2, including Captain Adella, Allura Vysoren, Artagan, Kent Plucker, Keyleth, and Lady Kima of Vord. Additionally, the book The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Sir Taryon Darrington has also appeared.
 * This campaign was the first to use an animated opening sequence.