Penguin Random House announced The World of Critical Role, a hardcover book about the popular fantasy roleplaying live-stream Critical Role, for release on September 15.
The World of Critical Role is based on all-new interviews with the cast of Critical Role and features over 100 illustrations by Oliver Berrett. This book gives readers a glimpse at how few friends running an RPG campaign turned into a fantasy RPG livestream. This is a indispensable guide to Critical Role is written by Liz Marsham and the cast, Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, and Liam O'Brien.
It comes as a 288-page hardcover that retails for $35.00.
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, a new roleplaying book for Dungeons & Dragons based on the campaign in the second season of Critical Role, was announced earlier this month (see "Wizards of the Coast Announces 'Critical Role' Setting for 'Dungeons & Dragons'.")

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Posted by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez on January 30, 2020 @ 4:00 pm CT

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