Critical Role Releases Full Programming Schedule for the Week of April 6

Campaign Four's rotating West Marches tables, the Soldiers, Seekers, and Schemers, are front and center in Critical Role's programming for the week of April 6, and the single most important detail for fans to clock is the platform split: Beacon subscribers who paid for early access already have the previous episode in hand, while free viewers on YouTube got their copy Monday at noon Pacific, exactly when this week's schedule dropped.

That staggered cadence is the defining rhythm of Critical Role in 2026. The week of March 30 made it concrete: the Campaign Four episode aired live Thursday, April 2 at 7pm Pacific on Twitch, YouTube, and Beacon simultaneously, then the Beacon VOD landed that same night, the Twitch rebroadcast ran Friday morning at 9am Pacific, and the YouTube VOD finally unlocked Monday, April 6 at noon Pacific. Podcast splits follow the same logic, with Part 1 out Thursday, April 9 and Part 2 rolling out Tuesday, April 14. Anyone relying on YouTube alone is perpetually almost two weeks behind on the podcast side.

The Beacon exclusive that matters most for D&D viewers is Critical Cooldown, the post-show companion piece that drops immediately after Brennan Lee Mulligan wraps the session. Where the old Cooldown format followed Matthew Mercer's sign-off, Campaign Four's version keys off Mulligan's "Is it Thursday yet?" call, capturing cast reactions at the table before the adrenaline fades. For DMs specifically, that footage is a masterclass in how to read a room after a session ends: how Mulligan handles player energy, what he flags as surprising versus planned, and how a GM decompresses with thirteen players after a high-stakes scene.

That thirteen-player count is the number worth sharing with anyone who hasn't checked in on Campaign Four yet. Brennan Lee Mulligan is running the world of Aramán under D&D's 2024 rules, with Mercer stepping in as a player for the first time across Critical Role's history. The West Marches format, splitting the cast into the Soldiers, Seekers, and Schemers based on play interests, means no single episode covers the full cast, and watching the schedule week by week tells you which table is active and which story thread is advancing. For any DM managing a large home group or considering a West Marches campaign of their own, those rotations are a live case study in keeping multiple arcs moving without burning out either the GM or the players.

Published every Monday by the Critical Role team, this schedule is the canonical planning document. Times are subject to change, and the team directs fans to social channels for any live updates, but as of April 6 it stands as the authoritative map for the week ahead.