The Next Dungeons & Dragons Storyline Will Be...

And the new storyline for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition is...


Waterdeep: Dragon Heist! The plot will focus on an urban treasure hunt and a focus on urban and city-based adventures with special rules for running games in that environment. The adventure itself will have variable goals and antagonists similar to the original I6: Ravenloft module, where the DM chooses what "villain" will be the secret villain of the campaign, which will change outcomes of various events. The adventure itself will also have downtime built into the adventure along with the ability to own property in Waterdeep. The adventure for Level 1-5 will be released on September 18, 2018, with an MSRP of $49.95.

A second announcement is anticipated later this weekend, as the product codenamed "Catacombs" has a release date of November 20 and is also a 256-page hardcover book. This would make Waterdeep: Dragon Heist the codename "Broadway" (which also had a custom dice release announced for solicitation last year with the other products, including "Marathon" which turned out to be Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes).


Wizards of the coast made the announcement as part of a weekend-long live streaming event on their Twitch channel, "Stream of Many Eyes". Other products announced during the live stream include updates to the Neverwinter MMO and its Barovia expansion, a new official history artbook about Dungeons & Dragons with images throughout the history of the game, and a new series of boxed sets with props and handouts for published adventures released so far as well as for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.

This article will be updated with more information as the Wizards of the Coast live stream continues.
 

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Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott

hbarsquared

Quantum Chronomancer
*sigh*
This looks amazing. I've been looking forward to something like this for years. Leverage and National Treasure in D&D!

But, once again, WotC dashes my hopes for Eberron. I know I can modify this, probably pretty easily, that's not a problem. But this would have been the perfect adventure for an Eberron setting introduction. If they were to ever officially release Eberron, it would be with exactly this type of adventure.

Now that it's been taking by Forgotten Realms... I see Eberron being even less likely on the horizon. And that makes me sad.
 

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Ashran

Explorer
Am I alone on NOT being awed by the title of the new book... nor the subject mattters... I must not really be the target... but I am not the target for a third book in a row.... I never really liked robbery stories and according to the name at least it's the subjext matter. What I would like is a planar adventure, or another world than fr... and a higher level count (oh I wish for player level 12-20.....).
 

My only complaint so far is the mind flayer picture--and it's not a problem with the picture per se, but the implications.

I know I'm shouting into the wind. I know this ship's done sailed. But I hate mind flayers (or beholders, for that matter) being treated as just funky-looking NPCs. They should be truly alien, incomprehensible. They should not be keeping pets or participating in commerce or... GAH!

(I'm only not complaining about Xanathar because it's already even more too late for beholders than it is for mind flayers. :p )
 





Different strokes and all, but yeah, a bit of a let down for me from speculation about an Undermountain megadungeon or planar adventure path.

Yeah. Giving it some thought, this sounds like something that might appeal to my players. A comic heist might be right up their street, when I would rather be battling across the barren wastes of Arthas or flying my starship into the unknown!

Although the last time they attempted a heist it went appallingly badly...
 



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