Published Mar 27, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Shopping episode? Instant skip Critical Role Campaign 4 found a great solution to D&D's most boring activity Image: Critical Role/Graphic: Polygon Critical Role has always had plenty of range in its episode content. There are hours-long boss fights, exploring wild and treacherous places, they spend way more time than expected reading in libraries, and even that one time in Campaign 3 that the Bells Hells tried to fool an air elemental into thinking they were shooting a porno . But there’s one activity in Dungeons & Dragons that, until Campaign 4, even Critical Role struggled to make fun: shopping. There have been plenty of shopping episodes across multiple campaigns in the show’s history. Episode 14 of Campaign 1, ‘Shopping and Shipping,’ stands out because it is largely taken up by Vox Machina shopping for items to take on their next adventure.…