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A firbolg druid is attacked by a life-draining wraith that changes her destiny forever. Illustration for Darrington Press's Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.

AD: Hannah Rose, James J Haeck

Character design: Lauren Walsh

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Crit Role Miniature Rollout: C3E12 Make It Fashion

With Andrew Harshman

An archive and analysis of the minis used on CR.

Wowie, that deluxe edish of Tal'dorei Reborn has some fine accessories. Plenty of maps with which to place miniatures upon. However, there are no miniatures to be found this episode, so I’ll be answering some questions instead.

Anonymous submitted: Hi! I have a thing I've always wondered, do you work with minis, or are they just a hobby?

Firstly, thanks for your questions. Appreciate your interest. I am not a member of the miniature manufacturing industry. Minis are a big hobby of mine and this post series is a way for me to exercise my enthusiasm and an enjoyable way to contribute to the CR fandom.

How in the world can you recognize such small pieces that are usually turned away and in shadow? Do you look at it on an 100 inch screen playing the stream at full hd? 

A 100 inch dedicated mini view screen sounds great, I should look into that. Even at full HD, some miniatures are too far away or too obscured to get a proper look at. And in those instances, I have to record them as unknown. Other times, when there’s a clear shot of a model that I do not recognize (or cannot find through research), I take to FB or Reddit to ask for assistance from the community. 

Most of the time, I have a pretty solid sense of which miniatures are which. This is due in large part to the types of miniatures used on Critical Role. The majority of them are prepainted minis from three product lines: the discontinued Hasbro Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Game (DDM), active Wizkids D&D Icons of the Realms, and active Wizkids Pathfinders Battles. 

I have spent years collecting and gaming with these prepaints, so these sculpts are pretty well imbedded in my memory and I recognize most of them at a glance. I do not always recall the miniature’s exactly title. But I recognize the miniature visually and then confirm the name using miniature sites such as MinisGallery.com

That curiosity aside, when do you think they'll tell us who made this campaign minis? 

Any day now. I imagine they have a bunch of glamour shots of the assembled campaign player character minis. I would guess they have been waiting for the introduction of all the PCs before the grand photo and source reveal. That being said, it’s taking a little longer than I expected. So perhaps there are bigger campaign mini related plans in the works? Or they simply don’t realize there’s a fair bit of public interest?

And do you think they will get a custom nightmare king? Sometimes I think the don't have reason to fight him again and other times I think he will be the first arc's boss. 

I think we will definitely see the Nightmare King again and he will definitely get a custom mini. Given his knowledge of Fearne and his involvement in various plots, I think he’s too embedded in the fabric of the campaign to not reappear. The only way I see the Nightmare King not getting a custom miniature, is if the party makes finding him their main priority and they kill him before Matt can commission a mini.

And lastly, would you maybe consider opening the askbox for anonymous questions to make my life easier?

Done and done. Cheers!

See ya next sesh!

#critroleminiaturerollout

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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.

Vastly More Pages and a Changed World

Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn updates, revises, and expands significantly upon the original. It nearly doubles the page count at a whopping 280 pages, adding content across the board. Further, the very state of the world has changed: the setting of Tal’Dorei has been advanced two decades in its future, to the time of the Mighty Nein in the second campaign of Critical Role. See how the adventures of Vox Machina and the conclusion of Campaign 1 have affected the land!

Everything You Need

Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn contains everything needed to unlock the rich campaign setting of Tal’Dorei and make it your own:

A guide to each major region of Tal’Dorei, with story hooks to fuel your campaign

Expanded character options, including 9 subclasses and 5 backgrounds

Magic items such as the Vestiges of Divergence, legendary artifacts that grow in power with their wielders

Dozens of creatures, many featured in the Critical Role campaigns

New lore and updated stat blocks for each member of Vox Machina

An Unbeatable Creative Team

The sourcebook’s lead designers are Critical Role Game Master and Chief Creative Officer Matthew Mercer, Hannah Rose (Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Mythic Odysseys of Theros), and James J. Haeck (Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus). Additional contributions are provided by Critical Role cast members Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham; as well as John Stavropoulos (Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, X-Card, Wizards of the Coast: Game Design Coach) and Aabria Iyengar (Exandria Unlimited, Misfits and Magic, Pirates of Salt Bay).

Release Information

Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn will release in late 2021/early 2022, first at Darrington Press Guild stores and Critical Role shops (US, UK, CA, and AU) and followed two weeks later at other friendly local gaming stores.

Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn will also receive a deluxe treatment from the team at Beadle & Grimm’s, featuring in-world player handouts, battle maps, a GM screen, and much more. Be on the lookout for future details from Beadle & Grimm’s coming soon!

What's new from the original Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting?

This book totals 138 pages above the original Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting, published in 2017 by our friends at Green Ronin. It applies updates and improvements throughout, in addition to advancing the setting two decades into the future, up to the time of Campaign 2 of Critical Role featuring the Mighty Nein.

Existing owners of the book can look forward to all manner of new content in Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn:

Over a hundred new illustrations and maps

Over a dozen new magic items

4 all new subclasses, and a slew of updated subclasses for play in Exandria and beyond

Dozens of new creatures and adversaries, amounting to 18 new stat blocks

All members of Vox Machina (and some companions!) have been given full stat blocks as well, perfect for bringing these adventurers directly into your games

Oodles of updated lore and setting information, including information about who sits on the Tal’Dorei Council and what has happened in the two decades following the end of the Vox Machina campaign

Both the original book and Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn use the 5th edition ruleset, so content across both sourcebooks remain compatible at the same table.

Which formats will the book release in?

On the Critical Role shops, sales of the book come bundled with a free PDF. In brick and mortar stores, sales of the book are print-only. There will be no sales of PDF-only products at launch.

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Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn!

Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn!

#TalDoreiReborn's dream team of lead designers: @matthewmercer, @wildrosemage, & @jamesjhaeck! ✨ANNOUNCING Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn Bring YOUR stories to @CriticalRole’s continent of Tal’Dorei! #TalDoreiReborn details the people, places, creatures, magic, and everything needed to bring this setting to your gaming table! ➡️ READ MORE: They revised and expanded the original out-of-print…

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On the streets of Emon, three adventurers receive a quest from the Lady Kima of Kord. One of the illustrations I made for the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn of Darrington Press, Critical Role's publishing company.

AD: Hannah Rose, James Haeck

Character design: Lauren Walsh

I’m so happy and grateful for the opportunity to depict my version of this iconic place and such an important character as is Lady Kima. I also had the chance to add a lot of details and Easter eggs on this one.

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An elven society has returned to the Material Plane, emerging from the ashes of the Calamity, and they are amazed at the beauty of the renewed land. Illustration for Darrington Press's Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.

AD: Hannah Rose and James Haeck

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