D&D 5E Announcement coming February 6th

GarrettKP · Feb 1, 2018

lkj said:
There have been a few hints that Eberron is coming up. But if you made me guess, I'd guess Fall for that or next Spring.

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Next year IMO. They said they may work with Keith Baker this year, which means they would be writing the book for 2019.

lkj · Feb 1, 2018

And just to throw another log on the 'planar' fire, DDB just released an interview about Tiamat with Mike Mearls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-uCQPJmI8&feature=youtu.be

Toward the end he talks for a bit about the mystery of why dragons don't rule the mortal realms. Then says, (paraphrasing) 'it's sort of like the mind flayers. What happened to them? We don't know. Yet.' He goes on to say that we might not like the answers.

Take it for what it's worth. But interesting.

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Parmandur · Feb 1, 2018

GarrettKP said:
I am not saying it would have the impact. I am just saying I don't believe we get a new setting this year unless you count Sigil.

Who knows, but they have hinted heavily at least at Eberron, and insinuated that their full settings plan would be revealed this year. I wouldn't be surprised if the DMs Guild got all of the settings this year.

OB1 · Feb 1, 2018

Parmandur said:
So far, signs are pointing away from Adventure material: but in a day we might have a better idea for sure.

The signs are certainly against an adventure path, but adding a few short adventures to a planar guide would be a great way to let newer players get their feet wet while inspiring new DMs.

Throwing a guide to the planes at millions of first time players without some built in adventures might otherwise be confusing and not very popular.

A set including a fey, elemental, sigil, upper planar and lower planar adventure would help show what it’s all about.

Follow that with more player options in the fall and a full on planar adventure path, and you’ve got a solid intro that could be repeated with expanded campaign settings in 2019.

But I do think you have to go up to the shared planar concept before across to the multiverse contained within.

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MechaPilot · Feb 1, 2018

Sword of Spirit said:
Epic rules would be a horrible fail for 5e. High level parties can already trounce the most epic critters they've created. What are they going to make for threats, overdeities?

"You thought Ao was tough, wait until you meet his boss!"

Epic rules, especially on the DM side, for how to challenge high level parties might not be bad.

Jester David · Feb 1, 2018

lkj said:
And just to throw another log on the 'planar' fire, DDB just released an interview about Tiamat with Mike Mearls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-uCQPJmI8&feature=youtu.be

Toward the end he talks for a bit about the mystery of why dragons don't rule the mortal realms. Then says, (paraphrasing) 'it's sort of like the mind flayers. What happened to them? We don't know. Yet.' He goes on to say that we might not like the answers.

Take it for what it's worth. But interesting.

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I don't know if I’d say Mind Flayers are a planar threat. They're typically more of an Underdark threat.

vecna00 · Feb 2, 2018

Jester David said:
I don't know if I’d say Mind Flayers are a planar threat. They're typically more of an Underdark threat.

They're also all over the place in Spelljammer. In addition, according to Volo's the Nautaloid can plane shift, if I remember correctly.

I'd say they threaten more than just the Underdark

lkj · Feb 2, 2018

Jester David said:
I don't know if I’d say Mind Flayers are a planar threat. They're typically more of an Underdark threat.

That's a fair point. I think I was linking them mentally with the Githyanki and Githzerai, who have received attention lately as well. I tend to think it's likely that the Mind Flayer Story has planar connections.

But, yeah, that's a couple steps of inference past the existing information.

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Jester David · Feb 2, 2018

vecna00 said:
They're also all over the place in Spelljammer. In addition, according to Volo's the Nautaloid can plane shift, if I remember correctly.

I'd say they threaten more than just the Underdark

True. But Spelljammer is a very different animal from the Planes.
There's so many awesome extraplanar monsters, forcing Mind Flayers into such an adventure feels like a waste.

lkj said:
That's a fair point. I think I was linking them mentally with the Githyanki and Githzerai, who have received attention lately as well. I tend to think it's likely that the Mind Flayer Story has planar connections.

But, yeah, that's a couple steps of inference past the existing information.

There's probably a great Gith/ Mind Flayer story planned. Or the potential for one. I don't think the three have ever had a big story focused on their conflict.
But that doesn't feel like “the planar adventure”. That feels like a story set on the Realms with the world under threat from both the Githyanki and the Ilithids.

Jester David · Feb 2, 2018

mankyle said:
Thursday's new podcast speaks about the blood war

https://media.wizards.com/2018/podcasts/dnd/DnDPodcast_02_01_2018.mp3

The keep talking about the planes. I think we can take for granted that Marathon is going to be something "Planes-related"

In the last two month, they've also had podcasts on dragons of the Sword Coast, Vecna, evil trees, holidays, lycanthrope, and the Weave.
They could just be going down a planar rabbit hole based on what Sernett and Perkins find interesting. They do like 40 podcasts; they can't all relate to the three books they do.