Cast

The cast spans a number of campaigns, one-shots, and miniseries produced by Critical Role Productions. The core cast comprises the eight cast members of the Critical Role campaigns: Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham. They are joined by a variety of guests who appear in Critical Role, the Exandria Unlimited series, one-shots, and other miniseries as players or Game Masters.

As of July 2022, sixty-nine people played in a campaign, one-shot, or miniseries.

Critical Role
Critical Role is a series of sandbox campaigns set in Exandria. Each campaign centers on a party of adventurers played by the main cast players and is led by the Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer. The roster of main cast players has remained largely the same for three campaigns; Campaign 1 had eight main cast players through, and the rest of the campaign as well as Campaign 2 and Campaign 3 had seven players.

Throughout the campaigns, the party is joined by characters played by guest cast members. As of July 2022, there have been twenty-five guest cast members appearing on Critical Role. Of these guest players, only Chris Perkins appeared in more than one campaign.

Cast notes
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in an Exandria Unlimited series.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in a one-shot or other miniseries.

Exandria Unlimited
Exandria Unlimited is a series of short campaigns set in Exandria that are part of the same narrative continuity as Critical Role. As of July 2022, there has been three campaigns (the eponymous Exandria Unlimited or Prime, Kymal, and Calamity) featuring fourteen cast members, two of whom played as Dungeon Master and eight of whom are are not also main cast members of Critical Role. Of these fourteen players, only Aabria Iyengar has appeared in all three, the first two series as Dungeon Master and the third as a player.

Cast notes
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in Critical Role.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in a one-shot or other miniseries.

One-shots and other miniseries
The cast plays in a number of one-shots and miniseries games outside of Critical Role and Exandria Unlimited. These games are set in both Exandria and other settings. As of July 2022, there have been fifty-four cast members who played in a one-shot or miniseries. Of those cast members, forty-five of whom have not been a main cast member of Critical Role and only Mark Hulmes has appeared only as a Game Master.

Game Masters
Each game played has been led by a Game Master or Dungeon Master. As of July 2022, there have been eleven Game Masters who led a one-shot or miniseries, five for a game set in Exandria. Of these eleven Game Masters, three are not also main cast members of Critical Role; of those three, only Brian W. Foster has not played as a guest in a Critical Role campaign. With 21 games, Matthew Mercer has been the Game Master for more one-shots or miniseries titles than any other cast member.

Cast notes
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in Critical Role.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in an Exandria Unlimited series.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears as a player in a one-shot or other miniseries set in Exandria
 * indicates that the cast member also appears as a player in a one-shot or other miniseries not set in Exandria

Players
A number of one-shots have been set in Exandria, and these games vary in their canonicity to the main continuity. As of July 2022, there have been fifty-three players in one-shots set in Exandria, forty-four of whom have not been also main cast members of Critical Role.

Set in Exandria
As of July 2022, there have been thirty players in one-shots or miniseries outside of Exandria Unlimited, twenty-one of whom are not also main cast members of Critical Role. The current seven main cast members of Critical Role have each reprised at least one of their campaign player characters at least once in a one-shot.

Cast notes
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in Critical Role.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in an Exandria Unlimited series.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears as the Game Master of a one-shot or miniseries.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in a one-shot or other miniseries not set in Exandria

Other settings
A significant number of games are not set in Exandria, and many of these games are sponsored and feature settings from video game properties such as DOOM, Diablo, Elder Scrolls and Elden Ring. As of July 2022, there have been thirty-six players in such games, twenty-eight of whom are not main cast members of Critical Role.

Cast notes
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in Critical Role.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in an Exandria Unlimited series.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears as the Game Master of a one-shot or miniseries.
 * indicates that the cast member also appears in a one-shot or other miniseries set in Exandria