GREEN BAY, WI, November 9, 2023 – Today Demiplane, the digital home for tabletop roleplaying games, announced an exciting partnership with Critical Role’s Darrington Press to create and host the official digital companion for the Illuminated Worlds-powered roleplaying game Candela Obscura, launching alongside the physical release of the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook on November 14. 

As part of the partnership, Demiplane will launch a dedicated section for Candela Obscura on the platform, hosting both the Quickstart Guide and Core Rulebook. The Quickstart Guide material will be freely accessible in the Nexus, allowing players to create select characters and attributes, interactively explore the compendium with tooltips, delve into the game mechanics, and more. The full Candela Obscura experience features interactive character sheets, an intuitive creation process, easily accessible overviews of specialities, characters, creatures, game rules and more - the full gambit of the game system as well as the lore, which will be available to purchase for $29.99 USD on the platform.  

Learn how to play Candela Obscura from game designer Spenser Starke HERE

“Our aim with every new game system added to Demiplane is to ensure it's inviting for both newcomers and seasoned gamers, focusing on the sheer joy of play,” said Demiplane Co-founder Peter Romenesko. “Working alongside the talented team at Darrington Press has been a dream and we've been able to tailor our digital companion to offer smooth entry points like an intuitive step-by-step character creation and a user-friendly game rules compendium. We believe packaging these elements, combined with the Candela Obscura's deep lore, creatures, artifacts, and more in the players' hands allows us to enhance the immersion of the Candela Obscura experience whether it happens online or at the table.”

Within the secret society Candela Obscura, individuals of varied talents work as a team—known as a circle—to investigate strange occurrences and dangerous magick, fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. As the digital companion to the Candela Obscure Core Rulebook, Demiplane’s dedicated Nexus features everything you need to start a thrilling and terrifying game session, including:

• The core rules to play and create your Candela Obscura investigators and their circles
• An overview of the turn of the century-inspired setting of the Fairelands and the city of Newfaire
• A look at what lies beneath Newfaire, the ancient ruins known as Oldfaire
• Pre-made sample sessions for gamemasters to learn from and expand upon into their own playthroughs 
• Immersive, in-world ephemera and notes, illustrations, sketches, research notes, correspondences, advertisements, maps, and more to bring the Fairelands to life
• Digital dice mechanics, and so much more!

Candela Obscura is the latest title to be added to Demiplane’s ever expanding platform, alongside Pathfinder, Avatar Legends, Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game and more. 

For more information and updates, please visit demiplane.com

About Demiplane
‍Demiplane brings fans of roleplaying games together within one exciting platform, providing the most in-depth toolset to build teams and expand the ways in which the game can be played, shared, and explored, delivering an entirely unique gameplay experience that’s engaging on all levels. Launched in 2020 by lifelong friends and die-hard RPG players, Peter Romenesko and Travis Frederick, Demiplane looks to revolutionize how people engage with and enjoy roleplaying games. For more information, please visit www.demiplane.com. 

Product images and additional assets can be found in the Candela Obscura Nexus EPK HERE. 

Media Contact:
Jeremy Bonds
Motiv PR, jbonds@motivpr.com

About Darrington Press 
‍Established by the team behind Critical Role, Darrington Press is a publishing company that provides ways for people worldwide to create shared experiences through storytelling, shaping their own adventures and making invaluable memories along the way. Critical Role began as a group of friends sharing stories around a table, and with their strong passion and experience in tabletop gaming and roleplaying, launching Darrington Press was the natural next step to provide ways for people around the globe to do the same. Darrington Press features games and products created and enjoyed by the team at Critical Role, and looks to solidify a long-lasting positive impact on the gaming community and industry as a whole. For more information on Darrington Press go to www.darringtonpress.com. 

About Critical Role
‍Critical Role is one of the fastest growing independent media companies in the world, starting as a roleplaying game between friends and evolving into a new kind of organization dedicated to storytelling, community and imagination. As Critical Role continues to expand the unique universe it has created, with complex stories set in an ever-evolving world, it also continues to create more ways for fans to experience the brand, including both fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times Best Sellers list, comic books, graphic novels, collectibles, tabletop and roleplaying games, podcasts, live events, and a critically acclaimed animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina, airing exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Additionally, Critical Role has launched two major initiatives: an official 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Critical Role Foundation (CRF), and a tabletop game publishing company, Darrington Press. With an original cast of award-winning veteran voice actors who are also co-founders of the company, including Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien, Critical Role is committed to ensuring anyone can discover its stories, characters and community. For more information on Critical Role go to www.critrole.com.