D&D 5E Announcement coming February 6th

Parmandur said:

Well, based on what they are saying, the idea of a "genre book" seems to be their direction. So instead of a SCAG style approach to Dark Sun, a gritty survival genre book with Dark Sun as the example.

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We'll see how this goes, I hope it'll be awesome!

imdeadagain said:

Over the past few weeks they have covered Sigil and other plane related goodies...

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Where?

Quickleaf said:

Chris Perkins briefly touched on that notion in the Nov. 2017 State of D&D talk... his concern (which seemed to be one based on company data) was that covering lots of things "on the surface" would ultimately be unsatisfying and potentially re-create the TSR problem of too many settings competing with one another. The concept he seemed more gung-ho about was a "one-and-done" campaign setting book for a given setting (or perhaps better described as "genre book" to emphasize accessibility to new players), being the *only* book necessary besides core 3 to run/play that setting.

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Another view on this could be fuel for the Mordenkainen's Guide to the Multiverse speculation. One book, that covers various campaign settings. After that they wouldn't need to do another one and done, because they already did a big one.

Sword of Spirit said:

Where?

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In the Dragon Talk podcast, the "Lore You Should Know" segment has been very Planar.

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vecna00 said:

And the sequel to that is on the Slaad!

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Yeah, it seems that they are really hinting at planar stuff...

And listening to it, they go on in detail about the Modron March, and even say they can visit Faerun. Sounds like they are very much hinting that as a potential future adventure...

Demetrios1453 said:

Yeah, it seems that they are really hinting at planar stuff...

And listening to it, they go on in detail about the Modron March, and even say they can visit Faerun. Sounds like they are very much hinting that as a potential future adventure...

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March of the Modrons seems like a very solid bet for "Broadway:" start out in Lantan, end up traipizing around the cosmos...?

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Parmandur said:

March of the Modrons seems like a very solid bet for "Broadway:" start out in Lantan, end up traipizing around the cosmos...?

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If we were just going by names, I'd say "Marathon" would be the Modron March, but as dice are being released alongside "Broadway", that's a decent guess.

One further thing though that I just though of - the artist on Reddit said that of the two books they knew about, one was full of monsters and the other was based in the Forgotten Realms. Now, I may be parsing things a bit, that seems to indicate that the one full of monsters is not based in the Realms, which leads me to think either: (a) a Volo's type book focusing on creatures of the planes, or (b) a "settings" book, with sections on various settings containing a bestiary of setting-specific creatures. Given that we've had a lot of hints at upcoming planar stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if what we're getting is the former. If so, we'll likely get a book that details the various ecologies of devils, demons, celestials, modrons, and so on, a section for PC rules (planar races, perhaps some planar backgrounds), and finally a bestiary section with various extraplanar monsters which haven't been updated to 5e yet - various remaining demons and devils, hierarch modrons, all the yugoloths that were left out of the MM, demodands/gehreleths, and all the various missing celestials (archons, guardinals, and eladrin), as well as miscellaneous still-un-updated planar creatures (xag-ya and xeg-yi perhaps?). Maybe even a section on the fey as well...

Parmandur said:

In the Dragon Talk podcast, the "Lore You Should Know" segment has been very Planar.

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Do you happen to have a link to where these podcasts are gathered? Same question with regards to the D&D Beyond ones.

It used to be easy to keep up with this stuff, because it was right there on the front page of the D&D articles. Now most of what I run in there is just about someone's livestream, etc. I don't know where to find a list of links to the latest Q&A or designer discussions, which is annoying.

Check their you tube and twitch stream

Alright, so take this however you will, but Keith Baker mentioned on the latest episode of The Download that he has a D&D game that he's working on....and there was stuff that he couldn't talk about yet.

To add fuel to the fire that started in the Eberron Facebook group about this, he teased that he talked about it a lot more in the episodes he just recorded.

The plot thickens!