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Critical Role and Darrington Press are about to release the tabletop RPG system, Daggerheart. This Ttrpg blends traditional fantasy tabletop roleplaying with fresh, modern mechanics designed to streamline the process and enable greater focus on storytelling aspects. Drawing from the ten-year history of Critical Role, as well as a team of people passionate about TTRPGs, the new system is one that many have been anxiously waiting for. To add to the polish of the product, Daggerheart has been in beta for over a year now, with designers implementing changes based on feedback from the community of playtesters.

ScreenRant was given the chance to reveal a sneak peek inside the upcoming rulebook for Daggerheart, as well as chat a little with Lead Game Designer, Spenser Starke and Co-Designer, Rowan Hall. The game system is one that will blend well for many themed games using the new campaign frames and allows for...

Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke reflect on how they have found the balance between external feedback and staying true to their vision with the open beta testing of Daggerheart. The collaborative approach of Daggerheart's combat mechanics encourages players to be more invested and creative in shaping the story as well as communicative at the table. Campaign frames in Daggerheart allow GMs and players to choose different fantasy sub-genres for a unique and immersive experience.

Critical Role launched its game publishing imprint, Darrington Press, in 2020 and has debuted a number of games under this banner. Candela Obscura and Daggerheart have been highly anticipated by fans as role-playing games, with the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook being released last November, months after the Candela Obscura actual play had first debuted on the Critical Role YouTube and Twitch channels. Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall teamed up to create the horror-inspired world and lore...

Since bursting onto the scene via Twitch in 2015, Critical Role has morphed from a group of friends playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons to a worldwide entertainment sensation. Among the accomplishments the company has created since taking control of its own IP in 2018: a hit animated series on Prime Video, novel and comic tie-ins by way of their own publishing arm Darrington Press, and of course, innovative new games and systems in the tabletop roleplay space. One of those latest offerings is their own brainchild: Candela Obscura. Created by Critical Role’s Taliesin Jaffe and Chris Lockey, with lead designer Spenser Starke (Alice is Missing) and writer Rowan Hall (Willing & Fable), the game was conceived alongside Darrington Press using the company’s new roleplay system Illuminated Worlds. The live play horror drama follows a diverse group of investigators, ranging from professors to criminals to mediums, who ...

Critical Role's full core rulebook for Candela Obscura explores and expands upon the lore, gameplay, and horror of the game featured in their series of the same name. The game is a six-sided dice-based Ttrpg set in The Fairelands, a world ravaged by war and dangerous magick, with players working together as a Candela Obscura Circle of investigators tasked with hunting down and solving terrifying mysteries. Lead game developers Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall discuss the collaborative development process with Critical Role, the importance of including mythology and lore in the game, and the unique mechanics of scars that explore impactful consequences of players' actions.

Critical Role's full core rulebook for Candela Obscura fleshes out the lore, gameplay, and horror of the game featured in their series of the same name. In 2020, they started their own game publishing company, Darrington Press, which has released different competitive and cooperative games.

Candela Obscura: Circle of Tide & Bone, the next chapter in the horror series, features an incredible cast and will premiere on November 30. The trailer for the new chapter hints at the characters' personalities and motivations, including an older member, a character with a dark side, and potential fractures within the group. The Candela Obscura series and game take place in a war-torn land and center around an organization tasked with protecting the Fairelands from magical threats. The new season promises to deliver another thrilling and horror-filled story.

Critical Role has a new trailer for the next chapter of their ongoing anthology horror series, Candela Obscura, debuting at the end of this month. The new chapter will once again feature an incredible cast, including Critical Role's own Liam O'Brien and Sam Riegel, along with Gina Darling, Ashly Burch, and Noshir Dala. Aabria Iyengar will step into the role of Game Master...

Tabletop RPG fans can get their dose of gothic horror next month when Darrington Press releases the Core Rulebook for Candela Obscura on November 14th. Available in both a standard hardcover edition as well as a hardcover limited edition for collectors and fans alike, the RPG has a free quickstart guide for those eager to learn more about the game prior to the Core Rulebook release.

In this investigative horror RPG designed and written by Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall, and featured on Critical Role, you are a member of a secret society, the eponymous Candela Obscura, which confronts occult horrors from beyond, keeping hidden the true nature of magickal incursions besetting our world. You’ll pursue strange occurrences and encounter dangerous magicks, fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. Candela Obscura is the first to use the Illuminated Worlds System, a newly designed system that uses...

Critical Role's Candela Obscura returns with a new team of investigators, facing dangerous magical threats in the war-torn Fairelands. Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Luis Carazo, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zehra Fazal make up The Circle of Needle. Each chapter takes place over three episodes, exploring intense horror themes and consequences in the Illuminated Worlds system.

Critical Role's Candela Obscura returns with a new team of investigators facing dangerous magical threats. Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Luis Carazo, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zehra Fazal make up The Circle of Needle. Spenser Starke, one of the designers of Candela Obscura, makes his Critical Role debut as Game Master, and Taliesin Jaffe returns as the trusted lightkeeper. Candela Obscura is set in The Fairelands, a region filled with dangerous magic and new technology at the turn of the century in the aftermath of a devastating war.

Each chapter takes place over the course of three episodes,...

Candela Obscura Chapter 2 takes place in The Fairelands, a dangerous and technologically advanced region after a devastating war. The season stars a new team of investigators, The Circle of Needle and Thread, led by Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Luis Carazo, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zehra Fazal. The Ttrpg uses Darrington Press' The Illuminated Worlds System and the second episode will premiere on September 28 on Critical Role's Twitch and YouTube.

Critical Role's horror series, Candela Obscura, returns for another grim tale full of scares and tragedy with Chapter 2, which follows The Circle of Needle and Thread, a new team of investigators. Candela Obscura is set in The Fairelands, a region filled with dangerous magic and new technology at the turn of the century in the aftermath of a devastating war. The new season stars Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Luis Carazo, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zehra Fazal, with Spenser Starke, one of the Candela Obscura designers,...

The new Critical Role series Candela Obscura follows a group of investigators called together by the Candela Obscura to investigate strange magical occurrences. Candela Obscura is set in The Fairelands, a region filled with dangerous magic and new technology at the turn of the century in the aftermath of a devastating war. Each episode of Candela Obscura is a new mystery for the investigators to solve.

The first chapter of Candela Obscura, which will take place over the first three episodes, stars Matt Mercer, Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Robbie Daymond, and Anjali Bhimani, with Taliesin Jaffe as the Lightkeeper. The Candela Obscura Ttrpg was created by Jaffe and Chris Lockey. Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall serve as the lead designers and writers. The Candela Obscura Ttrpg uses Darrington Press' The Illuminated Worlds System, which was designed by Stras Acimovic and Layla Adelman. New episodes debut the last Thursday of every month on Twitch and YouTube,...

Candela Obscura, Critical Role's new gothic horror series, follows a group of investigators brought together by the Candela Obscura to solve a magical mystery. Candela Obscura takes place in the turn-of-the-century region of The Faireland in the wake of a devastating war, with horrifying magic and new technology flourishing. Candela Obscura features a new, magic-filled investigation for the circle to solve in each episode.

Candela Obscura's first chapter will be composed of three episodes. The first chapter of Candela Obscura stars Matt Mercer, Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Robbie Daymons, and Anjali Bhimani, with Taliesin Jaffe as the Lightkeeper. Jaffe, along with Chris Lockey, created the Candela Obscura Ttrpg, with Spencer Starke and Rowan Hall serving as lead designers and writers. The Candela Obscura Ttrpg uses the new Darrington Press game system, The Illuminated Worlds System, designed by Stras Acimovic and Layla Adelman. New episodes debut the last Thursday of...

The last few months have been huge for Critical Role. On top of the long-running actual play show (now well into its third campaign) and The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2, which was released on Prime Video earlier this year, Critical Role Productions has been expanding in surprising ways. In March, it announced the acquisition of the immersive drama podcast Midst, going on to release remastered episodes of the series. Now Critical Role is setting off on its latest endeavor outside Exandria: a new horror series titled Candela Obscura that uses the new Illuminated Worlds Ttrpg system, created by Taliesin Jaffe and Chris Lockey, with lead designers and writers Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall.

Set in a new turn-of-the-century-inspired world called The Fairelands, Candela Obscura follows a group of investigators fighting a mysterious force. The show is structured around standalone episodes in which players must solve a mystery. The series...