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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Err yeah? The fist setting book - Dragonlance Adventures, was published in 1987, so 3 years later.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unfreezing the Narrative

    The monsters are going to do exactly the same. And they are on home turf.
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    Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

    Green lanterns aren’t Jedi?
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Good thing it’s something they can produce cheaply then. Very few of them, and haven’t been the target audience for WotC for ages. It’s not been reheated in the lifetime of the average player. There are no orcs native to Krynn, and halflings are kender. That doesn’t seem very fiddly to me...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Which weren’t in the original either. All that stuff was added later. Minotaurs don’t even live on the same continent as the War of the Lance, so obviously they aren’t needed. No they weren’t, they were published years later.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    I expect they will be have announced Dark Sun by the time the Dragonlance adventure is published, so no, not a problem. Dark Sun is likely to be big deal, with two books, lots of player options, and lots of fanfare. They will probably announce it at the August shindig for Q2 2027. The...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Exactly as DL1 did back in the 80s and was a huge hit. Dragonlance wasn’t a huge success because of the setting, it was a huge success because of the story. The problem with the most recent Dragonlance adventure was simple - it wasn’t very good (and the spat between Weis and Hickman and WotC...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    With good reason - look at the scepticism. They need to prime the pumps before the official announcement.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Unlike Dark Sun, Dragonlance has no need for any player options apart from kender. And it’s very easy to produce an adventure - since it’s already written. Remember that Christmas bauble - it indicated exactly what it appeared to indicate. It wasn’t random, and it wasn’t a misdirect. Soth? Not...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    My take: it’s highly unlikely to happen at all. But books? Definitely happening. I don’t play it, but it quite often seems to tie into what WotC are doing.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    We know is hasn’t started casting yet. So if it happens at all it’s still a fair few years away, and isn’t something that factors in to WotC’s planning either way. Unlike Idle Champions.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Not all player options are put through UA - backgrounds, species, most feats aren’t. And they don’t really need to do it for subclasses either. But you are right, WotC aim for a balanced range of different products over the year, so having produced two books with a lot of player options they are...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    This is a good example of discarding all logic to make the facts fit what you want to believe. WotC are not going to choose a title that glorifies slavery, not even being ironically postmodern. Season of Horror, Season of magic - dead on the nose, not remotely cryptic, elliptical or misleading...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    DL TV series is still in development hell, however, there are novels this year, this time with the writers and WotC on the same page. And at least one computer game of course.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Dark Sun isn’t about champions and heroes, the whole point is it is not heroic fantasy. Besides that, they are not going to prefigure a big deal announcement with a lame-ass pseudonym when they have already leaked that it’s on its way. They will announce it when they are ready to make a big...
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