Critical Role’s New RPG ‘A Familiar Problem’ Lets Your Party’s Pets And Animal Companions Adventure
The best part of D&D is having weird animals follow you around. Critical Role’s newly announced A Familiar Problem puts them in the spotlight.
Dungeons & Dragons is a heroic fantasy roleplaying game that exists to give you an excuse to have a cool/cute animal follow you around on your adventures. You might summon one. Get one one as a companion from a class. Maybe even turn into one. there’s something about fantasy fauna that we all enjoy. Critical Role is somewhat infamous for its animal shenanigans. From Sprinkle the Weasel and Trinket in Campaign 1, to Nugget and Professor Thaddeus in Campaign 2, animals get a lot of screen time.
But D&D being what it is, they don’t get to do much.
Until now that is. A new RPG announced from Critical Role’s publishing imprint, Darrington Press, in partnership with Honey Heist’s creator Grant Howitt, will put the spotlight on animal companions in A Familiar Problem. And it’s absolutely free.
A Familiar Problem – Darrington Press’ Newest FREE RPG
It’s basically the game everyone’s dreamed of playing since they first read the story of Sir Bearington. You play as familiars trying to corral their adventurers into doing some good.
In A Familiar Problem you’ll play as a scrappy and stressed out group of familiars trying to get a grip on the chaotic lives your adventuring party subjects, and make a difference any small way you can. To prove you’re up to adventuring, you’ll band together and undertake a daring quest of your own! You can pick up your free copy of A Familiar Problem at friendly local game stores participating in Free RPG Day on June 25th in the US and July 23rd internationally, with a wider digital release set for later this year. Visit freerpgday.com to find a participating store near you.
The game was created specifically for Free RPG day. It’s a one page game from Marisha Ray and Howitt. Ray has a long-standing history with Honey Heist. A game about being a bear and doing crimes.
Critical Role Plays a Familiar Problem
The newest game will no doubt build on that tradition. And you can see it in action for yourselves, coming up:
Marisha Ray will be running this game in an exciting one-shot titled A Familiar Problem: Sprinkle’s Incredible Journey! The familiars in question will include beloved Critical Role favorites. As well as new friends of fur, scales, and a whole lot of chaos. Players in this upcoming one-shot include Critical Role founders Laura Bailey, Matthew Mercer, and Travis Willingham, with Heidi N Closet (Ru Paul’s Drag Race), Isabella Roland (Dimension 20) joining the table.
A Familiar Problem: Sprinkle’s Incredible Journey! will air on Thursday, June 23 at 7PM Pacific on Critical Role’s Twitch (twitch.tv/criticalrole) and YouTube (youtube.com/criticalrole) channels. VOD is available immediately for Twitch channel subscribers and will be available on Critical Role’s YouTube channel on June 25 for Free RPG Day. A Familiar Problem: Sprinkles Incredible Journey! will also be available in a podcast format one week after its initial airing on the Critical Role podcast feed, which is available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
Happy Adventuring!
