Future Books like VGTM and MTOF?

[gyor]

Okay this thread is for speculating about books in this style in the future, what themes will they have and what other stuff will they explore.

I think they will have one on Dragons and one on the Gods/other Cosmic beings and their servants.

The one on Dragons will have a chapter one Chromatic/Metallica/Gem/Lung/Planar Dragons, some variant Dragonborn and other Dragon related races, and a Monster section on versions types of Dragons and Dragon servants, Purple Dragons, Steel Dragons, Fairy Dragons, Song Dragons, Lung Dragons and so on.

The Divine Book will be what we get for a deities book this edition, perhaps with a Chapters devoted to different Pantheons of different settings. The player sections might have some religious races, including variants of Aasimar or new Aasimar subraces, and the monster section will have Celestials and none demon/devil/Yugoloth fiends focused on serving evil Gods, and other divine servants. Maybe a few any deity monsters too.

What do you guys think is my idea likely?

 

[Ketser]

I'm agreeing that we will be getting a "dragon book" sooner or later. But what else, no idea really.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

It seems like every edition gets a dragon book, a demon book, and an undead book, with a devil book also a good bet. It occurs to me a feywild and/or shadowfell book might be a possibility (throw a little love to the 4e guys and open up a big part of the new multiverse to people who missed 4e); there were certainly enough subclasses leading up to XGtE to suggest that these two realms are of interest to the devs. I would love a celestial book, but that is probably deep into the 5e run.

 

[Jester David]

A dragon, undead, and planar book like VGtM are the easy options. So they probably won't do them. So far, they've defied easy expectations in books. I've given up trying to anticipate the forthcoming books...

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

It seems like every edition gets a dragon book, a demon book, and an undead book, with a devil book also a good bet. It occurs to me a feywild and/or shadowfell book might be a possibility (throw a little love to the 4e guys and open up a big part of the new multiverse to people who missed 4e); there were certainly enough subclasses leading up to XGtE to suggest that these two realms are of interest to the devs. I would love a celestial book, but that is probably deep into the 5e run.

Considering what the Mordenkainen book is expected to cover, it may be as close to a demon or devil book as we will see in 5E. It also might be it for celestials, but we will not know til they start revealing more details.

A dragon book and an undead book are possible, but they feel sort of boring to me since they have been done so many times in previous editions. But so far they have been doing more interesting and eclectic themes, so a generic "here are all the monsters of this type" book does not seem likely at all. I also highly doubt we will get equally generic "big book of magic items" that previous editions have gotten, seeing as how magic items do not have the same necessity for survival as the past two editions. I would have said a magic item book that was done like Volo's, where a handful of magic items and artifacts were taken and fleshed out, would have been possible if Paizo had not already done that a few years ago for Pathfinder.

I would love to see a multi-planar book that took 10 or 12 of the most famous magic-based characters from the history of D&D and detailed their histories and included some new magic items and spells that they had created during their careers. It would be a good way to bring in several of the other settings beyond just the Realms. This could also include their arch-enemies, providing high CR enemies for the players.

 

[Hussar]

I wonder if they might combine an "undead" book with an "aberration" book. Deal with cults, weird stuff, and some serious horror elements, rather than just an undead book. Seems to me like there's enough overlap between the two that you could really base an entire "here's how you build a scary D&D campaign" into one meaty tome.

Expand concepts like sanity and horror, maybe even tie in the psionic elements since they seem to be leaning towards tying psionics with the Far Realms. Both undead and aberrations have enough of the "things men know not wot of" to work rather nicely together.

 

[darjr]

Naw, they have been so successful that they can do whatever. And whatever will be different.

 

[NotRussellCrowe]

I wonder if they might combine an "undead" book with an "aberration" book. Deal with cults, weird stuff, and some serious horror elements, rather than just an undead book. Seems to me like there's enough overlap between the two that you could really base an entire "here's how you build a scary D&D campaign" into one meaty tome.

Expand concepts like sanity and horror, maybe even tie in the psionic elements since they seem to be leaning towards tying psionics with the Far Realms. Both undead and aberrations have enough of the "things men know not wot of" to work rather nicely together.

I like this idea. They can bring back Van Richten's Guide books and expand the Ravenloft setting.

You know who would do good for dragons? Uncle Trapspringer!!

 

[gyor]

It seems like every edition gets a dragon book, a demon book, and an undead book, with a devil book also a good bet. It occurs to me a feywild and/or shadowfell book might be a possibility (throw a little love to the 4e guys and open up a big part of the new multiverse to people who missed 4e); there were certainly enough subclasses leading up to XGtE to suggest that these two realms are of interest to the devs. I would love a celestial book, but that is probably deep into the 5e run.

I could see them blending an Undead with a general Shadowfell book.

 

[gyor]

Considering what the Mordenkainen book is expected to cover, it may be as close to a demon or devil book as we will see in 5E. It also might be it for celestials, but we will not know til they start revealing more details.

A dragon book and an undead book are possible, but they feel sort of boring to me since they have been done so many times in previous editions. But so far they have been doing more interesting and eclectic themes, so a generic "here are all the monsters of this type" book does not seem likely at all. I also highly doubt we will get equally generic "big book of magic items" that previous editions have gotten, seeing as how magic items do not have the same necessity for survival as the past two editions. I would have said a magic item book that was done like Volo's, where a handful of magic items and artifacts were taken and fleshed out, would have been possible if Paizo had not already done that a few years ago for Pathfinder.

I would love to see a multi-planar book that took 10 or 12 of the most famous magic-based characters from the history of D&D and detailed their histories and included some new magic items and spells that they had created during their careers. It would be a good way to bring in several of the other settings beyond just the Realms. This could also include their arch-enemies, providing high CR enemies for the players.

I think most Celestials, aside from Celestial Elves maybe, will be in a more religious themed book not MTOFs.