Mercer’s self-professed “weird ideas” serve as a lens through which a number of themes are examined in Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, from people’s willingness to be led towards evil to the inclination of those in authority to ignore it. “Taking all of my weird ideas for my home campaign and tailoring it for a massive audience through the official lens of D&D was absolutely absurd and wonderful,” he says. Even so - and despite the success of Critical Role - Mercer couldn’t believe that Wizards wanted his input. Mercer had already helped to write an unofficial sourcebook based on the setting of Critical Role’s first season, Tal'dorei.
So when they contacted me, it was surreal as you can imagine.” “I would never have dreamed they'd be interested in such a thing. “It was an initiation on Wizards of the Coast's end,” he says. “But Wildemount, I think, has that juicy, political mess that I looooove to explore, so I'd enjoy PLAYING there a liiiiittle more.”ĭespite Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount having Mercer’s creative imprint all over it, the idea of capturing the world of Critical Role’s second season in an official sourcebook didn’t come from the celebrity DM. “I would much prefer to LIVE in Tal'Dorei, which is a more optimistic place as a whole,” he replies. But which has the biggest place in his heart? We asked the dungeon master. Having created two detailed roleplaying settings for Critical Role - the land of Tal’Dorei, explored by Vox Machina party in the show’s first season, and Wildemount, currently being traversed by the Mighty Nein in season two - Matthew Mercer has some very distinct feelings towards each world. As I found during my own time with Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, the amount of material contained in its pages - from weird outposts in the middle of a frozen tundra to obscure gods with strange worshippers - makes the tome more than just a Critical Role encyclopedia for fans it’s a genuinely fascinating setting for Critters and strangers to the show alike to discover.
With Mercer at the helm as lead writer, alongside a wider team of talented writers and artists, the book is an incredibly detailed and impressive piece of Dungeons & Dragons world-building. Released earlier this year, Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount is the first official Dungeons & Dragons 5E sourcebook based on the world of Critical Role. With a comic book spin-off already under its belt, several Critical Role-themed board games on the way and even an animated television show in the works at Amazon, it was inevitable that Critical Role - cited by D&D maker Wizards of the Coast itself as a key element in the tabletop RPG’s fast-growing popularity - would eventually become part of official Dungeons & Dragons canon.
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Beginning as a game of Dungeons & Dragons played off-camera between friends, Critical Role has since exploded into a beloved D&D actual play web series hosted by voice actor and dungeon master Matthew Mercer.
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