Eventually the live broadcasts of Critical Role and VODs aired exclusively on Critical Role's channels. 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. The first campaign and a part of the second campaign were live streamed on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel.
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The series initially aired live on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel and YouTube, and subsequently on the Critical Role Twitch channel, on Thursdays at 7pm (Pacific Time). On Mathe first live episode of Critical Role was aired: " Arrival at Kraghammer" (1x01). When converting their game, Matt had to create a custom fighter's Martial Archetype for Taliesin Jaffe's character, Percy, as the Gunslinger subclass didn't exist in 5th Edition D&D. In preparation for the streamed series, Matt converted the game over from Pathfinder to Dungeons & Dragons, to speed up combat and because D&D has more name recognition. When Matt told the other cast members about her offer, the group's reactions were recorded for posterity. In 2015, they were approached by Felicia Day to stream their campaign live on the Geek & Sundry twitch channel. Marisha Ray and Ashley Johnson joined the game in later sessions. All the players began the campaign with the same characters they had on the stream, with the exception of Taliesin who played a dragonborn paladin for their first session.
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This infrequency was problematic, as many of the players needed to be reminded by Matt of elements of the storyline, how to play, etc. Afterwards, the group met every month to month-and-a-half and played for about eight hours.
The very first session was played by Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Taliesin Jaffe, and Orion Acaba, with Matthew Mercer as the Dungeon Master. The campaign itself started on December 8, 2012. The campaign began as a one-off game organized for Liam's birthday. The original cast of Critical Role had been playing a Pathfinder campaign together for two years before they converted their home game into a livestreamed webseries.