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

Demetrios1453 said:

One of the artists for ToA and Xanathar's posted on this thread over on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/7q7d80/art_i_did_for_tomb_of_annihilation_and_xanathars/

"I just get codenames, so I dunno! One of them is definitely still Forgotten Realms, though, and the other has a bunch of monsters."

Make of that what you will - the former doesn't tell us anything unexpected, but the latter seems to me to indicate to me either another Volo's-type book, or perhaps a planar book that has a substantial bestiary...

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Henry said:

Speaking for my Moon Druid, if there’s a new monster book I hope it has more beasts, CR 3-6 who AREN’T dinosaurs...

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Parmandur said:

I reckon that means Broadway will be FR, or at least starting FR: Lantan?

And that makes it more likely that Marathon will be a monster book: it would explain why it doesn't seem to have been tested in UA, near as I can tell by dates. Monsters need fine tuning, but not broad strokes trial ballooning (no UA for Volo's material, either).

Still think Catacombs will be some sort of Planar/Multiversal setting explanation.

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GarrettKP said:

This definitely sounds like Marathon will be "[Someones] Guide to the Multiverse" and will be just like Volo's. Chapter 1 will detail all the planes, Chapter 2 will detail Planar PC Races that were testing in the UA (Eladrin, Gith, Elf variants, Tiefling variants), and Chapter 3 will be a Planar bestiary. Calling it all now!

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Parmandur said:

Thing is, those racial variants we're being tested when "Marathon" was nearly finished: I suspect they are for the fall project. But we'll broadly know in two weeks!

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Parmandur said:

Thing is, those racial variants we're being tested when "Marathon" was nearly finished: I suspect they are for the fall project. But we'll broadly know in two weeks!

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GarrettKP said:

This definitely sounds like Marathon will be "[Someones] Guide to the Multiverse" and will be just like Volo's. Chapter 1 will detail all the planes, Chapter 2 will detail Planar PC Races that were testing in the UA (Eladrin, Gith, Elf variants, Tiefling variants), and Chapter 3 will be a Planar bestiary. Calling it all now!

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GarrettKP said:

The last UA that made it into Xanathars was released in June (Revised Class Options). So between June and November, you are looking at 5 months difference. The last Racial UA was November of last year and Marathon comes out in May. That is 7 months difference, so not really that far fetched that they could be included in this book. Book layouts are not finalized until about 2 months in advance from what I understand.

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GarrettKP said:

The last UA that made it into Xanathars was released in June (Revised Class Options). So between June and November, you are looking at 5 months difference. The last Racial UA was November of last year and Marathon comes out in May. That is 7 months difference, so not really that far fetched that they could be included in this book. Book layouts are not finalized until about 2 months in advance from what I understand.

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