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).

 

[Weiley31]

And all the Kickstarters we backed…

I felt this. I have backed a number of 5E kickstarters.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

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

I'm sure Mercer could arrange a special deal or variant license that allows him to reprint without removing the class from the Guild

 

[darjr]

 

[teitan]

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:

In fact they seem to use the 4e cosmology for the Planes!

 

[teitan]

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

Why wouldn’t they?

 

[CleverNickName]

In fact they seem to use the 4e cosmology for the Planes!

I don't really blame them, either. I think the lore of 4th Edition was some of the best ever written. (The rules and system itself weren't really my cup of tea, but the lore? I thought the lore was excellent.)

 

[teitan]

I don't really blame them, either. I think the lore of 4th Edition was some of the best ever written. (The rules and system itself weren't really my cup of tea, but the lore? I thought the lore was excellent.)

I agree. It was more dynamic and interesting. Cohesive. The Wheel is cool but kinda stale. I’m hoping the inevitable Planescape book is more a toolkit like Ravenloft than a codified setting.

 

[BRayne]

Why wouldn’t they?

I assume they mean the names for the gods, that is Pelor, Melora, and Kord instead of Dawnfather, Wildmother, and Stormlord.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Why wouldn’t they?

The names for all the gods are owned by WizCo
Except the one owned by Paizo that was renamed

 

[OakenHart]

It's my understanding that products on the DMsGuild can't be offered elsewhere . . . but that taking elements of those products and updating them in new products isn't a problem.

So, the actual Blood Hunter ebook available on the DMsGuild can't be offered elsewhere. But it should be okay for Mercer to update the blood hunter class and include it in the Tal'Dorei Reborn book. Or at least, I hope that's how it works.

I'm hoping that Darrington Press/Critical Role has a licensing agreement with WotC so they can use non-OGL lore elements in the new book, specifically the names of the gods.

Interesting, I admit I haven't fully read through myself recently so my recollection may be off. Hopefully you are correct, would love to see it in hardback.