While Explorer's Guide to Wildemount made Critical Role's Exandria into a canonical D&D setting (though I guess actually references in Descent into Avernus regarding Arkhan the Cruel actually did it first,) this was actually the second book to bring the setting to the players. Published independently a few years ago, the Tal'dorei Campaign Setting book was a first look at the world, but it eventually went out of print.
Now, however, Critical Role's Darrington Press is releasing an expanded version of the book called Tal'dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.
Tal'dorei, another continent like Wildemount, was the primary setting for the first campaign. The book will weigh in at 280 pages, and the setting's history and lore has been advanced 20 years after the events of the Vox Machina campaign, putting it in line with Explorer's Guide to Wildemount's timeframe, so the effects of the events on the first campaign are part of that history.
The book's features include a guide to the setting with story hooks (much of the same creative team behind the Wildemount book is here, so we can probably expect a couple quest hooks for every little village on the map.)
The book also includes 9 new subclasses, which is crazy. (I think it's likely we'll see the Monk's Way of the Cobalt Soul, which was used by Beau in campaign two - the Cobalt Soul is a global organization, so it would make sense to find it here too.)
There will be magic items like Vestiges of Divergence, as well as many creatures. It will also have new lore and updated stat blocks for the members of Vox Machina (I guess giving us an expanded epilogue for them. I wonder if the stat blocks will literally just show them as 20th level player characters or have simplified stats as most NPCs do.)
Anyway, there's a lot to be excited about with this one.
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