Critical Role Foundation and Red Nose Day Partnered With Stephen Colbert

The Critical Role Foundation in collaboration with Red Nose Day premiered its second adventure with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, on April 28th on Twitch, with the VOD now available on Critical Role’s YouTube channel.

The campaign sees Critical Role’s Chief Creative Officer and Game Master Matthew Mercer guide fellow Critical Role co-founders Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, and Sam Riegel, all reprising their Mighty Nein characters at level 5 (playing Yasha, Beau, and Nott respectively) alongside Stephen Colbert!

The mini one-shot, sets out to help Colbert “recover his dignity” in this adventure appropriately titled, Dignity: An Adventure with Stephen Colbert.

Since 2019, Critical Role and the Critical Role Foundation have raised approximately $790k for Red Nose Day, a campaign that raises life-changing funds to break the cycle of child poverty and ensure a healthy future for children.  Through their Stephen Colbert campaigns, CRF merch sales, cause marketing around their child and adult facial masks, and their ongoing nonprofit partner split, the CRF is certainly on the way to helping leave the world better than we found it.

The 2022 campaign alone has raised over $115k for non-profit with more donations coming in daily.

Through donation-based votes, fans were able to decide the fate of Stephen Colbert’s adventure, whose character has:

1. A bee (Eric the 2nd, following his father’s footsteps) that travel’s with him
2. Be able to cast Polymorph once during the adventure, regardless of class and level (but it has a small chance of going wrong)
3. Need to recover his dignity that has been taken from him
4. Start his journey with a living weapon that despises violence

This is the second campaign Critical Role and Red Nose Day have worked on with Stephen Colbert.  Their first campaign, 2019’s Choose Stephen Colbert’s Adventure raised over $120k in support of Red Nose Day’s mission to fight and eradicate childhood poverty.

Fans will certainly delight in watching their voted choices come to life on screen while enjoying a good old-fashioned adventure with some of their favorite Mighty Nein characters for a good cause!

For more information on this campaign check out: https://critrole.com/rednoseday

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