Critical Role Wildemont <--> Tal'dorei: Relationship?

[Doc_Klueless]

How are the two settings related? Same world; different part? Different world? It's been a while since I listened to CR (picking it back up this week), but I seem to recall Same World; Different Continent because the gods are the same.

 

[Morrus]

Different parts of the same world, which is called Exandria.

From the CR wiki. Tal’Dorei is the continent to the left, while Wildemount is part of the continent on the right.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Oh, ... right. Google is a thing.

Coffee. Must have more coffee.

(Thanks, @Morrus )

 

[Longspeak]

Tal'Dorei was the focus of the Critical Role "season 1." This is your "Vox Machina" stories. The only references to Wildmount I recall were a group from there factored into a key plot point of one story. (I listen to the podcast, haven't finished Season 1 yet, though. ) They DID travel to another continent (a couple of times, IIRC), somewhere north of Taldorei.

Wilemount is the setting for the "season 2," new series, new characters, set I think 20 years after the events of season 1. All I know about this one is that art I googled for use in my own game was apparently based on a couple of characters from that series. One very elegant tiefling and one very angry human?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Has Green Ronin lost rights about Tal'Dorei then?

 

[Morrus]

Has Green Ronin lost rights about Tal'Dorei then?

You know as much as we do. Nobody's saying anything.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

I'd guess that Mercer has retained the rights to both.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Has Green Ronin lost rights about Tal'Dorei then?

They never bought the rights, they just published the book. As is normal in publishing the rights belong to the author (Matt Mercer).

 

[Morrus]

They never bought the rights, they just published the book. As is normal in publishing the rights belong to the author (Matt Mercer).

You can license the rights. And lose them.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You can license the rights. And lose them.

You can. But there is no reason to suppose they did. It's not normal in publishing (J. K. Rowling still owns the rights to Harry Potter). If Green Ronin had gone to the trouble of acquiring the rights, they wouldn't have just done one book, they would have published a whole string of adventures.

At this stage, not even WotC could afford the rights. It wouldn't surprise me if the Critical Role brand isn't worth more than the D&D brand.