D&D 5E Announcement coming February 6th

Kurotowa · Jan 17, 2018

Parmandur said:
Well, he said we would see another playtest iteration of the Artificer this year, and hinted that Keith Baker might do something with WotC: not necessarily connected thoughts.

No, but he did say they were specifically looking to Dark Sun for what direction to take the Mystic class, rather than have it be a stand-alone psionics class. So the idea that a new base class would be directly tied to a setting book is on the table. If you combine that with the fact that the original Artificer class was in the Eberron campaign setting book, then you'll see why I give it good odds the two will be again.

Parmandur · Jan 17, 2018

jgsugden said:
Marathon (May 2018) will be a supplement, Broadway (September 2018) is an adventure path, & Catacomb (November 2018) is an adventure path.

Marathon is likely a bunch of mechanics, some of which have been previewed in UA. I bet it is also where we get EPIC rules that expand upon the DMG rules for adventuring beyond 20th level. I'm betting they'll introduce 'EPIC' class that you can multiclass into once you have 20 levels in a particular class and rules for advancing beyond 20th level.

Broadway seems clearly to be Planescape themed. I imagine that this will be an adventure that takes the PCs from the Forgotten Realms to Sigil, and from there they travel to many planes before facing off with a powerful being - perhaps a Great Old One like Cthulhu or a Devil like Asmodeus. I'm betting this path starts around 6th level and runs to 20th - or beyond if I am right about Marathon.

Catacomb still sounds like Undermountain and Waterdeep to me.

Be careful of assigning the line labels of "adventure" or "supplement" from the book listings: the same site had Out of the Abyss down under "supplement," among other errors on already published books. They aren't likely going to do more than one Adventure, St any rate, but even Marathon could be Adventure material for all we know from that source.

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jgsugden · Jan 17, 2018

Parmandur said:
Be careful of assigning the line labels of "adventure" or "supplement" from the book listings: the same site had Out of the Abyss down under "supplement," among other errors on already published books. They aren't likely going to do more than one Adventure, St any rate, but even Marathon could be Adventure material for all we know from that source.

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Fair enough, but I would not be surprised to see the Planescape module end up being another Tales of the Yawning Portal which ties adventures together more using Sigil.

Lidgar · Jan 17, 2018

OK, I'm on board. Whooot! Whooot! (chuggachuggachoo)

[wildspeculation]

#1. A multiverse/planes book that dabbles in classes, settings, DM/player options, etc.
#2. An adventure focused on fey/feywild. Volo's Guide introduced an awful lot of these.
#3. A TotYP type, or Undermountain or Gates of Firestorm Peak/Lovecraftian-type (I know, 3 in one here).

Although I agree with others that it is more likely to be two supplement-types and 1 adventure book.

[/wildspeculation]

Enevhar Aldarion · Jan 18, 2018

The way WotC has stated they are now doing their major adventure books as part adventure and part crunch/lore could get them labeled as either a supplement or an adventure. But we know the annual September release will be one of these and will be the basis for the next season of AL play. We also know that if the Spring release is an adventure, or compilation, it will not be major enough to get AL adventures based on it, as it has been stated that the ToA season is a year-long season, not ending til the next Fall release comes out. Now, since AL is also very FR-focused, the Spring release could easily be set in one of their other worlds. This would make sense because the traveling between worlds just for some AL adventures would be as annoying as the CoS-themed season where the characters were trapped there til they finished enough of the season to get back to the Realms. And then the late Fall release will be another crunch-heavy book like the previous November releases.

LordEntrails · Jan 18, 2018

jgsugden said:
Marathon (May 2018) will be a supplement, Broadway (September 2018) is an adventure path, & Catacomb (November 2018) is an adventure path.

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Catacomb still sounds like Undermountain and Waterdeep to me.

Or Broadway AND catacomb are Undermountain. That's my bet. Fits with Xanathar's. Fits with the new AL series, Underworld Speculation which is a quick dive into UM.

Parmandur · Jan 18, 2018

Kurotowa said:
No, but he did say they were specifically looking to Dark Sun for what direction to take the Mystic class, rather than have it be a stand-alone psionics class. So the idea that a new base class would be directly tied to a setting book is on the table. If you combine that with the fact that the original Artificer class was in the Eberron campaign setting book, then you'll see why I give it good odds the two will be again.

But they have also said they are not doing "setting books" as such.

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vecna00 · Jan 18, 2018

Parmandur said:
But they have also said they are not doing "setting books" as such.

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But they have no problem putting out books that are like SCAG. I just hope they're meatier...and not written from a character's point of view...

Enevhar Aldarion · Jan 18, 2018

vecna00 said:
But they have no problem putting out books that are like SCAG. I just hope they're meatier...and not written from a character's point of view...

But SCAG was also put together by a third party that WotC oversaw during their transition period as they moved everything back in-house. There was also the "it was never announced, so it was never cancelled" sourcebook that would have accompanied PotA, also worked on by a third party with WotC oversight. Do not expect any more books like those, as they have said future sourcebook/setting-type material would be part of the Fall hardcover adventure release, the same as ToA and SKT, due to that format being more popular than a straight setting sourcebook. Maybe in four or five more years they will compile all of that setting material from those books and package it into a single, large hardcover FR guide.

vecna00 · Jan 18, 2018

Enevhar Aldarion said:
Do not expect any more books like those, as they have said future sourcebook/setting-type material would be part of the Fall hardcover adventure release, the same as ToA and SKT, due to that format being more popular than a straight setting sourcebook.

This sounds off to me, do you happen to remember where this popped up?

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