Marathon, Broadway, and Catacomb: Upcoming D&D Products?

Shroomy · Nov 24, 2017

Parmandur said:
The Shakespeare connection was because Perkins kept mentioning it at Cons and such, so the codename had a Shakespearean loose connection, though it told nothing about the AP itself.

Apologies about that, can't see my PMs on the App, lemme see if I can access those.

SKT is in part inspired by Mike Selinker's "Lear the Giant-King" from Dungeon 78, which is of course based on King Lear.

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Zsig · Nov 24, 2017

Not sure if it was mentioned before (or whether if it is relevant) but as far as I could remember, most miniature sets ties in with some sort of product, be it an adventure/campaign book or otherwise.

The next miniature set has an aquatic theme to it... maybe it is something, who knows?

http://www.minisgallery.com/dnd/dnd12.htm

pukunui · Nov 24, 2017

[MENTION=56809]Zsig[/MENTION]: Looks more like an SKT redux. Kraken, goblin-chucking ogre ... The Mouth of Grolantor is from Volo's, though.

Parmandur · Nov 24, 2017

Yeah, and the minis haven't always had extremely strong product ties per se: lots of Thri-Kreen minis, for instance.

gyor · Nov 24, 2017

They've been doing Planar themed UAs, it's pretty obvious that Marathon is a Planar Themed player/DM accessory.

Parmandur · Nov 24, 2017

gyor said:
They've been doing Planar themed UAs, it's pretty obvious that Marathon is a Planar Themed player/DM accessory.

Probably not Marathon; that one has already been written and sent to the printer, per the Gameholecon panel: they wouldn't be testing that now. My bet is that Catacomb is a Planar accessory, since the timing is similar to the Xanathar's testing (and I don't believe the "Adventure" designation, nor think the codenames mean much at all).

gyor · Nov 25, 2017

Parmandur said:
Probably not Marathon; that one has already been written and sent to the printer, per the Gameholecon panel: they wouldn't be testing that now. My bet is that Catacomb is a Planar accessory, since the timing is similar to the Xanathar's testing (and I don't believe the "Adventure" designation, nor think the codenames mean much at all).

Well one of them is going to be a multiversal setting. I said Planar, but upon thinking about it, multiversal makes more sense given the Elves UA. The Githyanki and Githzerai are linked primarily to Planescape, Fey Eldarin and Shadar Kai are primarily linked to Nentir Vale, they've done UAs in the past for Changelings, Shifters, and Warforge, which is primarily Eberron, Minotuars and Kender which are primarily Dragonlance. And they recently did Gracgulch Elves which are primarily Greyhawk. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Muls, Half Giants, and Thrikreen in the next UA.

I say Primarily in reference because FR has Githzerai, Githyanki, Eldarin, Shadar Kai, Shifters, Changelings (a bit as a template of half doppelgangers before the proper race was created), Minotaurs, Thrikreen, half giants, and even half Dwarves (basically Muls, but with hair). The Gracgultch elves are basically the same as Wild Elves. Warforged haven't appeared in FR, but there are at least half a dozen or more civilizations in FR that could build them. Lantan, Imaskar, Mulhorand, Netheril, a ton of ancient Elven Kingdoms during the Crown Wars, Ancient Jhaamdath, Shou Lung, Zakhara. But many of these races have a Primary setting they are linked to traditionally.

pukunui · Nov 25, 2017

Parmandur said:
Yeah, and the minis haven't always had extremely strong product ties per se: lots of Thri-Kreen minis, for instance.

This wouldn't be the first time that a new set has had models from a previous adventure either. The Rage of Demons set had several elemental myrmidons from Princes of the Apocalypse, for instance.

Parmandur · Nov 25, 2017

gyor said:
Well one of them is going to be a multiversal setting. I said Planar, but upon thinking about it, multiversal makes more sense given the Elves UA. The Githyanki and Githzerai are linked primarily to Planescape, Fey Eldarin and Shadar Kai are primarily linked to Nentir Vale, they've done UAs in the past for Changelings, Shifters, and Warforge, which is primarily Eberron, Minotuars and Kender which are primarily Dragonlance. And they recently did Gracgulch Elves which are primarily Greyhawk. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Muls, Half Giants, and Thrikreen in the next UA.

I say Primarily in reference because FR has Githzerai, Githyanki, Eldarin, Shadar Kai, Shifters, Changelings (a bit as a template of half doppelgangers before the proper race was created), Minotaurs, Thrikreen, half giants, and even half Dwarves (basically Muls, but with hair). The Gracgultch elves are basically the same as Wild Elves. Warforged haven't appeared in FR, but there are at least half a dozen or more civilizations in FR that could build them. Lantan, Imaskar, Mulhorand, Netheril, a ton of ancient Elven Kingdoms during the Crown Wars, Ancient Jhaamdath, Shou Lung, Zakhara. But many of these races have a Primary setting they are linked to traditionally.

They do keep hinting at a multiversal grand unified field theory of D&D, including Planar and alternate Prime material. Given the UA content, I think they're in the home stretch of finalizing their combined metasetting as a product, and I suppose Catacomb is likely to be that product.

vecna00 · Nov 25, 2017

What if we have something that fully delves into the ruins of Netheril?

Or...set duing the height of Netheril?

Catacomb could (probably not) refer to my first thought.

Marathon, Broadway, and Catacomb: Upcoming D&D Products?

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