Critical Role Tal’Dorei Reborn from Critical Role's Darrington Press

Critical Role's publishing arm, Darrington Press, has announced that it is relaunching the Tal'Dorei campaign setting (which was originally published inn 2017 by Green Ronin). The new setting is called Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn and will launch in late 2021/early 2022.

Since we launched Darrington Press, one product has been asked for again and again: the popular and out-of-print Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting.

Today, we are delighted to announce that the sourcebook is coming back, in a shiny new form: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn—lovingly hashtagged #TalDoreiReborn for short. This definitive sourcebook brings the locations, people, creatures, and character options of Critical Role’s Tal’Dorei to your gaming table, complete with 5th edition stats for new magic items, subclasses, and even the members of Vox Machina. Whether you’re a fan of the original sourcebook or are totally new to Tal’Dorei, this book is for you.

The book is double the size of the original, at 280 pages, and advances the setting by two decades.

Inside, you'll find info on each major region of the setting, 9 new subclasses and 5 new backgrounds, new magic items, creatures, and updated stat blocks for the members of Vox Machina.

There will also be a deluxe boxed set from Beadle & Grimm's.

The FAQ indicates that it will not be possible to buy the PDF-only version at launch, but if you buy from the Critical Role shop you get the PDF bundled in (not if you buy it elsewhere though).

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

And unless I am forgetting something, this will be the first non-WotC deluxe release from B&G. That's big news, too.

Maybe this time they'll take out the double-concentration feat. Probably not, but dang, does that one rub me the wrong way.

It means they are ANOTHER super successful third party D&D publisher. Will be as soon as this is available.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Great news for anyone who missed the original printing
Or wants a copy they can use at the game table without worrying about damage (original is $700 on Amazon and $200 on eBay)

Guess this means the revisited campaign setting will be the Forgotten Realms
(I'm picturing a reboot that replaces SCAG)

Hopefully they can include the blood hunter and gunslinger this time

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I mean it’s a 5e book so it’s still gonna be beholden to the SRD unless they somehow acquired some special exemption but that’s extremely unlikely.

Also Exandria always used a modified Dawn War pantheon anyway (Save for Sarenrae) so there’s nothing really to change from what was already there.

I meant more that they don't have to use WotC's official D&D multiverse lore if they don't want to (unless that's included in the SRD for some reason, which I doubt). Mercer and co. don't have to use the Great Wheel for their setting's cosmology and they don't have to say that the Platinum Dragon is the same deity as Paladine from Dragonlance, which is the direction that WotC has been going with their own settings in 5E.

A late Campaign 2 episode also had the party find notes left behind by a planar researcher in the setting that read:

I continue to find an aberration in my data pertaining to Exandria, a cyclical, months-long, slow surge in low-level magical interference that then recedes just as slowly. Something that tangles my readings and upsets my analysis. It is too faint to identify the arcane nature at source, but I worry if this pertains to to the shifting between the veils. It could be something very interesting. Something very frightening. Very wonderful. More tests are required.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

It means they are ANOTHER super successful third party D&D publisher. Will be as soon as this is available.

I look forward to Darington Press being the #2 or #3 RPG in ICv2's charts for Q4 or Q1

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

I mean it’s a 5e book so it’s still gonna be beholden to the SRD unless they somehow acquired some special exemption but that’s extremely unlikely.

Also Exandria always used a modified Dawn War pantheon anyway (Save for Sarenrae) so there’s nothing really to change from what was already there.

I wonder if they'll be able to use the names from Wildemount

 

[Parmandur]

I meant more that they don't have to use WotC's official D&D multiverse lore if they don't want to (unless that's included in the SRD for some reason, which I doubt). Mercer and co. don't have to use the Great Wheel for their setting's cosmology and they don't have to say that the Platinum Dragon is the same deity as Paladine from Dragonlance, which is the direction that WotC has been going with their own settings in 5E.

You assume that Mercer isn't down with that for some reason...?

 

[Hexmage-EN]

You assume that Mercer isn't down with that for some reason...?

He could be, but a late Campaign 2 episode also had the party find notes left behind by a planar researcher in the setting that read:

I continue to find an aberration in my data pertaining to Exandria, a cyclical, months-long, slow surge in low-level magical interference that then recedes just as slowly. Something that tangles my readings and upsets my analysis. It is too faint to identify the arcane nature at source, but I worry if this pertains to to the shifting between the veils. It could be something very interesting. Something very frightening. Very wonderful. More tests are required.

I would assume that having the freedom to do what he wants with the setting without being beholden to WotC is a big reason why this book is being self-published. Mercer will have more freedom to do what he wants with the official version of his Exandria setting than Keith Baker has had with Eberron, where despite being the setting creator his Eberron is not the "official" one.

 

[OakenHart]

Hopefully they can include the blood hunter and gunslinger this time

It's unlikely to happen due to Non-WOTC material published on DMs Guild not being allowed to be printed elsewhere.

 

[CleverNickName]

Oh, my poor aching wallet...

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Oh, my poor aching wallet...

Haha same