The new Critical Role campaign book is one part D&D setting, two parts history lesson

polygon.com:

Bought to you from the minds behind Critical Role, Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn is a new book by Darrington Press that lets you play your own adventures in the world of the long-running Dungeons & Dragons actual play series. Set 20 years after the events of Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting, originally produced by Green Ronin Publishing in 2017, this new offering poses a question: What battles will the next generation of heroes face?

It answers that question in a beautiful, hardback book filled with gorgeous illustrations of places, people, and points of interest across the fictional continent of Tal’Dorei. Alongside that, the book also comes with a beautiful 18x24 inch foldout map. Drawn by cartographer Andy Law, it stands proudly next to some of the greatest fantasy maps around. Shown on the map are all the key cities, such as Emon, the human centre of Tal’Dorei, and Whitestone, set within the vast mountain ranges to the north-east. As a visual package it just works, and you are completely transported into this world.

Dungeon Masters get a true peek behind the curtain at Matthew Mercer’s creative process descending into the complete history of Tal’Dorei, the original setting for Vox Machina, the first of Critical Role’s three main campaigns. And I do mean complete. The book includes hundreds of years of war, strife, and battles – and that’s only the beginning.

With 150 more pages than the original, Tal’Dorei Reborn allows for much more freedom to explore this world. Despite covering the history of Tal’Dorei, there is so much more depth this time around as you are taken through the wars of yesteryear, as well as the current alliances and evils that have arisen after Vox Machina.

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