Critical Role Tal'Dorei Reborn from Critical Role Is Out!

Darrington Press' reboot of Critical Role's Tal-Dorei D&D setting has been spotted in the wild, and on social media folks who worked on it are showing off pictures of their books.

The book is available from Critical Role's various online stores. The print version comes with a free PDF; however you cannot buy the PDF alone.

(Forgive the huge mess that this post is! That's what Twitter does to articles!)

 

[LordEntrails]

This book advances the timeline to match the Wildemount book that WotC put out, at least a generation after the original campaign book. The original campaign book represented the state of the 1st campaign when it was about 3/4 complete, this moves the clock forwards so that the game events ate baked in and recovered from.

Oh, I like that. Always thought settings should include a timeline. And then a GM can pick and chose when to set their campaign

 

[plisnithus8]

Player options

 

[LordEntrails]

I would just call them a Drelf and a Dworc!

 

[Hexmage-EN]

So, not having either and barely followed CR, why a second (or third?) edition of a campaign setting? What did they get wrong the first time that they had to completely re-do it? What all did they change? (I was considering using the setting for my next campaign, but if it's constantly changing, not interested.)

The first Tal'dorei Campaign Setting is set before the end of Campaign One of Critical Role, at around the year 811. This new book is set twenty-five years later, just after the end of Campaign Two, and both describes changes that have happened to certain locations in the past two decades, adds more detail to them, and includes brand new content.

Some of the most major changes in terms of the setting's lore is that in the 25 years since the first campaign:

• One of the two warring criminal syndicates in the region, the Clasp, has enjoyed a much improved public image due to the organization helping protect the citizens of the captial city during its occupation by the red dragon called the Cinder King. Clasp members now cooperate at times with the ruling council and serve as informants, while their rival the Myriad has become even more brutal and cutthroat in contrast.
• Following the devastation caused throughout the continent by a cabal of dragons called the Chroma Conclave a number of enterprising magic users founded the League of Miracles, selling their services and constructs to accomplish thirty years' worth of rebuilding in three years time. However, even the seized hordes of the slain dragons were not enough to pay off the League of Miracles, and now the republic is in debt to the league, whose true goal is to usurp control of the continent and provides protection to the practiticioners of evil magics as well.
• The city of Whitestone, which featured prominently in Campaign One of Critical Role, has doubled in size and has went from a remote city-state to a major power player in the politics of the republic at large.
• A number of races that were portrayed in unflattering terms in the original book are now welcomed in civilization. The formerly majority orc and goblinoid faction known as the Ravangers now has members of many races, including elves. On the other hand, the majority goblinoid civilization of Tz'Arrm is given more detail than the first book, and it is pretty much a society of traditionally Lawful Evil hobgoblin tyrants.

For those that care, there's also sections on the heroes of Campaign One, Vox Machina, that details what's happened to them in the decades since their adventuring days came to an end.

 

[EthanSental]

I hadn’t planned on buying this, but ended up picking it up today and I’m enjoying reading the pdf so far.

 

[overgeeked]

For those that care, there's also sections on the heroes of Campaign One, Vox Machina, that details what's happened to them in the decades since their adventuring days came to an end.

Who's on the Tal'Dorei Council?

 

[Neko Princex]

Is this available to order on Amazon? I did a search but critically failed.

 

[Samurai]

Is this available to order on Amazon? I did a search but critically failed.

Last I heard, it won't be on Amazon, it's on the Darrington Press website instead. Amazon takes a part of every sale on their site, while Darrington press is owned by Critical Role (so they keep more of the money).

 

[TarionzCousin]

Who's on the Tal'Dorei Council?

By asking, you just killed (insert random council member here).

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Would anyone mind sharing the table of contents?