The campaign has already raised over $115K for Red Nose Day, with more donations coming in daily
Los Angeles, April 28, 2022 — Today, the Critical Role Foundation, in collaboration with Red Nose Day, is set to premiere their second adventure with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert at 7PM Pacific on Critical Role’s Twitch (twitch.tv/criticalrole) and YouTube (youtube.com/criticalrole) channels, with the VOD available to watch on the Critical Role YouTube channel Friday at 9AM Pacific.
The campaign will see 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 (Yasha, Beau, and Nott) alongside the one and only Stephen Colbert!
Since 2019, Critical Role and Critical Role Foundation have raised approximately $790k for Red Nose Day, a campaign that raises life-changing funds to help end the cycle of child poverty and ensure a healthy future for all children, through their Stephen Colbert campaigns, CRF merch sales, cause marketing around their adult and child facial masks, and their ongoing nonprofit partner split. The 2022 campaign alone has raised over $115K for the 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 will:
Have a bee (Eric the 2nd, following his father’s footsteps) that travels with him
Be able to cast Polymorph ONCE during the adventure, regardless of class and level (but it has a small chance of going wrong)
Need to recover his dignity that has been taken from him
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.
Founded as the official philanthropic arm of Critical Role — a first of its kind media company established by friends with a passion for storytelling — Critical Role Foundation (CRF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that partners with other credible nonprofit organizations whose values align with Critical Role and its community, focusing on their mission to “leave the world better than we found it.” CRF provides grants and works closely with its partners to ensure all donations go towards programs that are changing the world for the better. In addition to running fundraising campaigns, 10% of every dollar raised is allocated into an emergency fund that allows CRF to donate funds in the event of natural disasters and other unforeseen circumstances that require immediate humanitarian assistance, allowing CRF to provide urgent aid quickly and when it’s needed the most. Previous partners include First Nations Development Institute, 826LA, Red Nose Day, OSD, Pablove, OutRight Action International, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation, No Us Without You LA and Shanti Bhavan. For more information and to donate, please visit criticalrolefoundation.org.
