Editing Critical Role (section)

==The Crunch==
Critical Role began as a [[Pathfinder]] game, and then moved to [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] with some homebrewed mechanics, most notably the existence of a [[Gunslinger]] class. The shift in systems also led to the first campaign starting with a few overpowered items due to overlooked differences in mechanics.

Mercer is familiar with [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], as certain influences from the [[Nentir Vale]] can be seen on Tal'dorei. Most notably, the Tal'dorei pantheon is literally the [[Dawn War]] pantheon with given some new names; the goddess Erathis is copy-pasted from it, even keeping her name. 

In 2017, Mercer officially released a Tal'dorei campaign setting [[splatbook]] for 5th edition. He has also brought up the idea of doing other splatbooks for different parts of Exandria. 2020 saw this become fully official, as ''Explorer's Guide to Wildemount'' was confirmed to be published and released by Wizards in March of that same year. It's a decent splat-book that introduced interesting sub-classes based on the concept of Dunamancy (arcane space-time manipulation). But...