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The Best Episodes of Critical Role Season 1

Every episode of Critical Role Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Critical Role Season 1!

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Critical Role is a weekly actual play series that uses tabletop role-playing game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy worlds of Exandria, Aramán, and beyond, with sweeping narratives

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Critical Role Season 1 Episode 1 - Arrival at Kraghammer
    8.3/10(136 votes)

    #1 - Arrival at Kraghammer

    S1:E1

    Vox Machina arrives at the cavernous underground city of Kraghammer intent on rescuing a missing halfling paladin. They sample the culture of the city and find themselves coming face-to-face with the horrors coming from beneath the city...

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  2. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 2 - Into the Greyspine Mines
    8.1/10(115 votes)

    #2 - Into the Greyspine Mines

    S1:E2

    Vox Machina makes a deal with Nostoc Greyspine to put an end to the darkness now rising up from the bowels of the earth. The party gears up and makes their way into Kraghammer's mine, beginning a miles-long trek down into the veins of Khaloor.

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  3. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 3 - Strange Bedfellows
    8.3/10(110 votes)

    #3 - Strange Bedfellows

    S1:E3

    After saving Grog, the party comes across a duergar war camp controlled by a mind flayer. After a failed initial attack, Vex'ahlia and Keyleth find a powerful and unlikely ally.

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  4. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 4 - Attack on the Duergar Warcamp
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #4 - Attack on the Duergar Warcamp

    S1:E4

    Vox Machina forms a tentative alliance with an illithid outcast, named Clarota, deep inside the caverns under Kraghammer. The heroes devise a plan and fly themselves down to the center of the enemy's war camp to chance a risky assassination attempt on a creature that could easily break their wills with a glance.

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  5. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 5 - The Trick About Falling
    7.7/10(100 votes)

    #5 - The Trick About Falling

    S1:E5

    Having successfully slain a dangerous illithid and its dwarven general, Vox Machina finds themselves surrounded by a small army of duergar. Barely escaping with their lives, they press forward, quickly realizing their path is growing more dangerous with every step into the darkness.

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  6. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 6 - Breaching the Emberhold
    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #6 - Breaching the Emberhold

    S1:E6

    Vox Machina and Clarota continue to wind their way ever downward, eventually reaching the duergar fortress of Emberhold. With a little dash of gnomic derring-do, the group sneaks in through a secret entrance to begin searching for the captive Lady Kima of Vord.​

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  7. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 7 - The Throne Room
    7.9/10(95 votes)

    #7 - The Throne Room

    S1:E7

    With an uneasy agreement struck between Lady Kima of Vord and Clarota, Vox Machina quietly begins a search of Emberhold. Lady Kima means to strike a blow against their unseen enemy by cutting off the head of K'Varn's military forces, but the ensuing battle may come at a price...

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  8. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 8 - Glass and Bone
    7.7/10(91 votes)

    #8 - Glass and Bone

    S1:E8

    Vox Machina, broken and battered, struggles to survive after a catastrophic battle with the duergar king and queen. Relying on Vex'ahlia's knowledge of the Underdark and her skill at tracking prey, the weary adventurers press on into the depths only to come across a perilous sea of bone and glass...

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  9. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 9 - Yug'Voril Uncovered
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #9 - Yug'Voril Uncovered

    S1:E9

    Vox Machina battles the duergar queen, Ulara, before she can make a thrall of Grog. Keyleth and Lady Kima settle their differences, Vax'ildan encourages the druid that she is not alone, and the party makes their way to the illithid colony of Yug'Voril.

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  10. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 10 - K'Varn Revealed
    7.9/10(87 votes)

    #10 - K'Varn Revealed

    S1:E10

    After encountering a menagerie of trouble, Vox Machina looks into a cavern alcove and discovers the veil between planes that K'Varn stepped through to gain entrance to Yug'Voril. Making their way forward, Keyleth performs a Scrying ritual on the being himself, and discovers his true identity...

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  11. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 11 - The Temple Showdown
    8.1/10(93 votes)

    #11 - The Temple Showdown

    S1:E11

    Vox Machina and their allies commence their assault on K'Varn's temple. Who will survive this grueling battle?​

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  12. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 12 - Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Tips
    7.6/10(74 votes)

    #12 - Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Tips

    S1:E12

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  13. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 13 - Escape from the Underdark
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #13 - Escape from the Underdark

    S1:E13

    With K'Varn killed and the dread god Orcus's machinations put to an end, the party struggles with what to do next. Before a decision can be reached, several illithid glide into the chamber of the elder brain, and victory quickly yields to impending doom as Vox Machina struggles to escape the city alive...

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  14. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 14 - Shopping and Shipping
    7.8/10(87 votes)

    #14 - Shopping and Shipping

    S1:E14

    After allowing themselves a single night's rest back in the city of Emon, the members of Vox Machina set out for their meeting with Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei II and the Tal'Dorei Council. Once the Council learns of the Horn of Orcus, a course of action is eventually decided upon, and the party then heads out into the city to gear up for the mission at hand.

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  15. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 15 - Skyward
    7.8/10(81 votes)

    #15 - Skyward

    S1:E15

    With the arrival of the envoys of Bahamut and the holy container in which to transport the evil Horn of Orcus, Vox Machina prepares to travel to the distant and ancient city of Vasselheim.

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  16. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 16 - Enter Vasselheim
    7.9/10(79 votes)

    #16 - Enter Vasselheim

    S1:E16

    As Vox Machina completes the journey across the Ozmit Sea, Lady Kima of Vord arrives and prepares the group for the culture shock awaiting them in Othanzia's capital city of Vasselheim.

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  17. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 17 - Hubris
    7.8/10(87 votes)

    #17 - Hubris

    S1:E17

    Parting ways with one of their members, Vox Machina is now adrift in a strange and unfamiliar city. After Grog dukes it out in a fighting pit, Vox Machina rushes to help against an attacking beast outside the city, which ends up setting a chain of events in motion.

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  18. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 18 - Trial of the Take (1)
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #18 - Trial of the Take (1)

    S1:E18

    With Vox Machina now split, Scanlan, Percy, Vex'ahlia, and Grog find themselves teaming up with an unlikely duo assigned by Huntmaster Vanessa Cyndrial of the Slayer's Take guild. The task at hand: ridding the wilds around Vasselheim of a troublesome white dragon past the frost-harried north of the Vesper Timberland...

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  19. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 19 - Trial of the Take (2)
    7.9/10(92 votes)

    #19 - Trial of the Take (2)

    S1:E19

    Scanlan, Percy, Vex'ahlia, and Grog continue their quest with Lyra and Zahra to hunt Rimefang, an adult white dragon who was pursued by previous bands of veteran adventurers from the Slayer's Take who never returned! Is this a suicide mission or a true test of will?

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  20. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 20 - Trial of the Take (3)
    7.7/10(81 votes)

    #20 - Trial of the Take (3)

    S1:E20

    Like their companions before them, Keyleth, Vax'ildan, and Tiberius begin their contract for the Slayer's Take along with a driven and mysterious young cleric named Kashaw and a hardened dwarf by the name of Thorbir. The group's mission—to track down and kill an elusive rakshasa that has been preying on wealthy travelers within the city—leads to the Velvet Cabaret, an exotic establishment in the Duskmeadow District...

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  21. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 21 - Trial of the Take (4)
    7.8/10(83 votes)

    #21 - Trial of the Take (4)

    S1:E21

    Keyleth, Vax'ildan, and Tiberius, joined by Kashaw and Thorbir from the Slayer's Take, make their way down into the tunnels beneath the Velvet Cabaret, pursuing their mercurial prey. The path is far from easy, but after surmounting a handful of harrowing obstacles, Thorbir leads the hunting party into the hidden lair of the elusive rakshasa...

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  22. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 22 - Aramente to Pyrah
    7.8/10(78 votes)

    #22 - Aramente to Pyrah

    S1:E22

    With their trials behind them, the members of Vox Machina reunite within the walls of the Slayer's Take. Newly marked and happily reunited, the group decides to set out for Pyrah to find the Fire Ashari, escorting Keyleth on the next leg of her Aramenté.

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  23. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 23 - The Rematch
    8.1/10(82 votes)

    #23 - The Rematch

    S1:E23

    As Vox Machina prepares for the return to Emon, Grog demands a rematch against Kern to regain his honor. After some final errands, the party returns home to Greyskull Keep and a fan outside their home, but there's no time to rest with bad news on the horizon...

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  24. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 24 - The Feast
    7.8/10(86 votes)

    #24 - The Feast

    S1:E24

    With the Briarwoods coming to Emon, Percy reveals the full tale of how they slaughtered his family and seized control of Whitestone. Vox Machina has just one week to prepare for a diplomatic feast between the Tal'Dorei Council and the sinister and mysterious Lord and Lady Briarwood...

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  25. Critical Role Season 1 Episode 25 - Crimson Diplomacy
    7.8/10(85 votes)

    #25 - Crimson Diplomacy

    S1:E25

    Vax'ildan finds himself alone in the clutches of the villainous Briarwoods! While the party rushes in to save him, they are joined by a mysterious tiefling named Lillith Daturai, a powerful wizard on the run from bounty hunters. Can Vox Machina save both Vax and Lillith from their grim fates?

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Arrival at Kraghammer" is the best rated episode of "Critical Role" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 136 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/12/2015. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Into the Greyspine Mines".