Join Our CRF Campaign to Support Those Impacted by Los Angeles Wildfires

Written by on January 27, 2025

The recent wildfires surrounding Los Angeles have absolutely devastated our local community. People across our city are without homes, without work, and without the things and places that they have held dear and it’s clear that it’s going to take a while to rebuild.

Starting today, January 27th and ending on February 28th, the Critical Role Foundation will allocate and evenly split every single dollar of each donation raised to the following organizations (not including admin fees):

And, that’s not all! To help us raise the most funds possible for this critical (heh) cause, our amazing content team has been working tirelessly to create a special LIVE one-shot to benefit these three amazing organizations. Featuring our beloved Campaign 3 characters, Bells Hells (and GM’ed by Matthew!), we’ll be streaming LIVE live on Thursday, January 30th at 7pm Pacific on Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube with VOD available immediately after. Here’s what our illustrious Game Master, Matthew Mercer, has planned for you:

Two Elemental Royals have made a wager: Are modern mortal “heroes” as resilient and courageous as those of legend? Hearing of the recent, wild exploits of Bells Hells, these two entities pluck the troupe from Exandria and force a series of challenges to test their skills, wit, and ability… all while the Elementals subtly manipulate the odds between Order and Chaos to serve their bet. Weird magics weave throughout the realm, as onlookers from across the realms alter the dangers mid-contest, rending the battlefield or even swapping souls between the players! Can Bells Hells survive this series of clashes, and does either Order or Chaos truly carve the path of a hero?

For our non-canon one-shot, there are two different ways that your donations can shape our game and even more ways that you can help us raise money for an important cause that’s close to home for us.

NOW THROUGH ONE-SHOT START

Milestone donations (which are live RIGHT NOW!) will allow you to vote on the monsters and map hazards that will appear in the game through your donations and, as we hit certain fundraising limits, Matthew will incorporate things like massive Cataclysm Spells and character swaps as they make sense for the storyline and how the action is unfolding. So it’s sort of like Freaky Friday, but on a Thursday. Essentially, we’ll unlock the actions below in-game as our Tiltify tally grows!

$20kWILD MAGIC SURGE: Every player must roll on the Wild Magic table!
$35kMONSTER I: One of the Deadly Monsters is unleashed!
$50kFREAKY THURSDAY: All players swap bodies to the right!
$65k DISPLACEMENT: All players are teleported 50 feet in a random direction!
$80kFREAKY THURSDAY: All players swap bodies to the right!
$100kCATACLYSM: All Hazards cast their Cataclysm Spell against players in range!
$110kMONSTER II: Another of the Deadly Monsters is unleashed!
$125kFREAKY THURSDAY: All players swap bodies to the right!
$140kCATACLYSM: All Hazards cast their Cataclysm Spell against players in range!
$160kFREAKY THURSDAY: All players swap bodies to the right!
$180kAPOCALYPSE: Meteor Swarm is cast on the Battlefield, hitting randomly!

We’ll unlock additional milestones if we inch towards $200,000 raised (what a dream that would be!).

IN REAL-TIME DURING THE LIVESTREAM

Donations made during the one-shot broadcast will either provide boons (Order) or banes (Chaos) to our adventurers. Here’s the list of boons and banes you can expect to donate to see on stream:

CHAOS

$200CURSE: The next player to roll a d20 has stackable disadvantage. (can cancel Fortune)
$500SMITE: Player of Choice takes 4d6 damage.
$1,000WILD MAGIC: A Player of Choice must roll on the Wild Magic table.
$2,000PUNISHMENT: Random Community NPC is briefly summoned to harm.
$3,000POLYMORPH: A Player of Choice gets Polymorphed into a random creature.
$5,000DECK OF CHAOS: A Player of Choice must pull from the Deck of Many Things.

ORDER

$200 FORTUNE: The next player to roll a d20 has stackable advantage. (can cancel Curse)
$500CURE: A Player of Choice regains 4d6 hit points.
$1,000AEGIS: All players gain 15 Temporary Hit Points.
$2,000ASSISTANCE: A Random Community NPC is briefly summoned to help.
$3,000TRANQUILITY: All Players regain 70 Hit Points.
$5,000 LIMITED WISH: A Player of Choice gains a use of the Wish spell, but can only speak 5 words when used.

So, to recap, here’s how you can support our 2025 Wildfire Relief CRF campaign:

  • Make a one-time or set a recurring donation at criticalrolefoundation.org
  • Participate in our donation polls ahead of our livestream on January 30th at critrole.com/CRFLovesLA. Our pre-game polling options will be available until 6pm Pacific (one hour before broadcast) on Thursday, January 30th.
  • Donate in real-time during our Freaky Thursday one-shot on January 30th to help shape the outcome of our live (that’s right, LIVE) charity game benefiting wildfire relief
  • Purchase Critical Role Foundation merch through our online shops
  • Create your own fundraising streams via Tiltify or Streamlabs and select ‘Critical Role Foundation’ as the benefactor
  • Share our campaign with your friends, family, adventuring party, total strangers, whatever! Helping us get the word out is a huge help

When you donate to Critical Role Foundation, in addition to helping us create grants for these three amazing charities, 10% of each donation is stashed into an emergency fund, which allows us to send help quickly in the event of an unforeseen natural emergency. The emergency fund allowed us the ability to send $30,000 to the California Fire Fund shortly after the fires broke out and became a major danger.

As always, thank you so much for your support, patience, and love while we have taken things a little slower than usual over the past few weeks to tend to our friends, family, cast, crew, and local community.

Your support of Critical Role and Critical Role Foundation has truly given us the opportunity to leave this world better than we found it.


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