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Since October of 2025, Critters across the internet have been dazzled, delighted, and probably just a little bit discombobulated by the pattern-breaking Critical Role Campaign 4. The latest chapter in the world's most popular D&D actual play series is, to put it very mildly - a lot. From an expanded cast to a new 'West Marches' narrative to a whole new magical universe in the form of GM Brennan Lee Mulligan's Aramán, Campaign 4 is the biggest undertaking that Citical Role has accepted yet... and the biggest they've asked of their fans as well.

Where this foray into new liveplay territory becomes a problem is in keeping everything straight. How many episodes of Critical Role Campaign 4 are there, anyway? Who are the new player characters? And what time do new episodes of Campaign 4 come out? If you'll give us a moment, we're here to offer a little bit of help - there are 21 episodes so far; we've listed (and ranked) the new characters elsewhere; and as for when new episodes come out...

Well, that's what this article is here to tell you.

What time do Critical Role episodes release?

First of all, we need to clarify here that when you get your Critical Role fix depends on how  you get your Critical Role fix. For example, if you prefer to watch the VOD version of each Campaign 4 episode or listen to the (members-exclusive) podcast version, then you're going to have to wait longer than if you watch the episodes live. And since we're fairly certain you're here to learn the earliest time you can get to your next adventure in Aramán, you probably fit into the latter category.

In that case, you should know that new episodes of Critical Role Campaign 4 air every Thursday night at 7PM PST, 10PM EST, on Critical Role's YouTube and Twitch channels. So that is:

• April 9: Critical Role campaign 4, episode 22
• April 16: Critical Role campaign 4, episode 23
• April 22: Shirts Off Sam's Back Charity Stream: An All Night Fight Against Cancer
• April 23: Darrington Brigade Returns one-shot

So with that knowledge, it won't take more than a little mental scheduling for us to answer...

When is the next Critical Role Campaign 4 episode?

As of this writing, the next episode in Campaign 4 will be its twenty-second. Yeah, we're already a staggering 21 episodes into the first adventure outside of Exandria for the core Critical Role campaigns, and that next chapter, Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 22, airs Thursday, April 9 at 7PM PST. After that, you can pretty much predict which episode will come when, following this weekly pattern.

Well... you can almost predict which episode will happen when.

Is Critical Role Campaign 4 every week?

Yeah, so here's where things get a little wonky. The way Critical Role used to work (before Campaign 4) was that the squad would take the last Thursday of the month off to either A.) give the cast a break or B.) do some specialty one-shot that may or may not have included the original 8 players. But like so much with Campaign 4, that trend has changed for this new chapter.

As Critical Role themselves posted to their official blog on March 9, episode breaks are going to be wholly unpredictable this campaign. "Instead of a set last-Thursday-of-the-month break," wrote the Rolers, "We’ll be laying down our dice wherever the story finds a natural pause. We’ll also be taking time off around special holidays here in the states!"

In other words; no, Critical Role Campaign 4 will not be every week. But which weeks won't it release a new episode? Well, the team has been good enough to give us advance warning before, but we can't as easily predict a long-term break schedule as we used to be able to.

And speaking of things we can't predict...

How many episodes will Critical Role Campaign 4 be?

Hoo boy - you're going to have to consult much wiser minds than ours to get that answer. In fact, we submit to you that the only way to actually know that for sure is by speaking to a time traveller, one who hails from the far-off future where Critical Role Campaign 4 has already wrapped. If we had to offer our stuck-in-linear-time estimate as to how many episodes the whole campaign will end up being, we'd venture the guess that tere would be >150 episodes, considering the previous three campaigns' episode totals looked like this:

• Critical Role Campaign 1 (The Legend of Vox Machina) - 115 episodes
• Critical Role Campaign 2 (The Mighty Nein) - 141 episodes
• Critical Role Campaign 3 (Belles Helles) - 121 episodes

But even with that approximation, we have to point out the major difference between Critical Role's previous chapters and this current one - namely, that Campaign 4's predecessors all followed one straight-forward narrative with the same eight player characters and episodes that directly followed one another. Campaign 4, however, boasts a whopping 13 player characters, broken into 3 separate mini-tables with storylines that run concurrent to their fellows.

But hey, this uncertainty won't stop us from keeping an eye out for official episode count announcements from the Critical Role team, and as soon as we get a full count confirmed, you'll be the first person we tell. In the meantime, if you do happen to possess the ability to time travel, please give us a ring.

Critical Role Campaign 4 is streaming now on the group's Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch channels. 

With two animated series on Prime Video, Campaign 4 in full swing, and so much more Exandrian lore to come, Critical Role is showing no signs of slowing down. That's why the adventuring party at Popverse are here to bring you everything we can from those nerdy-ass voice actors & Bo., including:

• Critical Role release schedule
• Critical Role's Campaign 4 characters ranked
• How to watch Critical Role in order
• Ways for you to relive the Critical Role panel from ECCC '26
• Taliesin Jaffe on playing Mollymauk Tealeaf for Campaign 2 vs. playing him for Prime Video
• Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (created originally for Vin Diesel)

...and much, much more. Roll initiative, player. Magic awaits.