{"id":255196,"date":"2023-10-18T06:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=310784"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:56:28","slug":"critical-role-launches-their-own-role-playing-game-although-they-themselves-continue-playing-dungeons-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/critical-role-launches-their-own-role-playing-game-although-they-themselves-continue-playing-dungeons-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Critical Role&#8217; releases its own role-playing game (although they continue to play &#8216;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&#8217; themselves)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critical Role began streaming their &#8216;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&#8217; sessions in March 2015 with no greater ambition than showing the world how much fun role-playing could be. <strong>Eight years later, they have an empire on their hands, including comics, animated series, books<\/strong>, adaptations within the &#8216;D&amp;D&#8217; universe, voice acting in various series and video games, and now, finally\u2026 their own role-playing game. But of course, there is a problem with &#8216;Candela Obscura.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"D&amp;D Beyond\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/2b438f24-dc12-4868-ac27-7f3adf978370\/2131196228\/d-and-d-beyond-logo.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">D&amp;D Beyond<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/d-and-d-beyond.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/d-and-d-beyond.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s time to bring the heat!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publishing arm of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-creator-of-critical-role-gets-the-dream-of-his-life-in-final-fantasy-vii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Critical Role<\/a>,&#8217; Darrington Press, has announced that on November 14th, the game manual created by the team will be released for $39.99, or $59.99 for the deluxe edition. In the case of <strong>&#8216;Candela Obscura,&#8217; it features a gameplay system with six-sided dice called Illuminated Worlds<\/strong> and is set in a world immersed in an industrial explosion with a Victorian aesthetic. Players take on the roles of members of a secret society investigating strange and magical events happening around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is that they have played &#8216;Candela Obscura&#8217; on their channel themselves\u2026 and the results have been good, yes, but the audience still prefers their classic &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/dungeons-dragons-introduces-its-first-autistic-character-into-the-canon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/a>&#8216; sessions, raising a couple of doubts. First, the need to consider whether they are milking the cow too much with so many derivative products. Second, <strong>if something works, it might be a better idea to pace it<\/strong>\u2026 Although it depends on the results they aim to achieve with &#8216;Candela Obscura.&#8217; If they don&#8217;t intend to create the new standard for role-playing and mystery games, they might not fare badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed-Youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Play: Candela Obscura (Critical Role&#039;s New RPG)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lj3esbC29bE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the most viewed video on the channel is the first episode of campaign 3, with over 10 million views, while <strong>the first episode of &#8216;Candela Obscura&#8217; surpassed one million<\/strong>, and from there, the numbers have declined, especially since Matthew Mercer stopped being the dungeon master. Is there a future for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/final-fantasy-xiv-makes-the-leap-to-analog-format-announcing-its-own-pencil-and-paper-role-playing-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">role-playing<\/a> game created almost from scratch, or do people want to see what they already know they want to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will find out on November 14th: for now, <strong>everything &#8216;Critical Role&#8217; touches turns into gold<\/strong>. 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