Nothing for the RPG, for the second year running. I must admit, I was certain Edge Studios would get an announcement out today after interminable radio silence. To miss one May 4th may be regarded as a misfortune, to miss two looks like carelessness.
Historically – and I'm talking back in the TSR days – putting out too many settings and dividing up their customer base was a bad idea. WOTC is now, wisely, working on the basis that every product it puts out (the DM's Guide excepted) should be something everyone who plays/runs the game will get...
I don't think these new setting publications will be part of WOTC's publication schedule at all. I suspect they'll be third party content. Kobold Press publishing Planescape 5e under license for example.
There remains the other possibility that what they mean by 'new settings stuff' is actually...
Keith Baker converting Eberron to 5e would make sense. I'd prefer Greyhawk but it's too functionally similar to FR.
In other news, earlier this month Kobold Press retweeted an image of Queen Marie of Romania, in which her head is surrounded by a halo of what could be taken to be... blades...
'Just' a limited edition cover for the PHB IMHO.
What I'm really hoping is forthcoming in the July announcement is a series of independently published setting guides for 5e. I'm hoping Keith Baker has indeed quietly been putting together an Eberron 5e book, that Wolfgang Baur has written a...
So... we don't get the awesome black/red official dice they were using? And peeps there were wearing an array of nice shirts which we can't have either. Along with the mugs we can't have. *Facepalm*
So: Tales from the World Serpent Inn.<br><br>25 pages on each of the D&D world settings, bringing folks up to speed on what's happening in these worlds right now. Unique classes or class options for each world, with world-specific spells, magic items, plot hooks etc. And the World Serpent...
Dice and mugs would indeed be awesome. We've seen them around for a while now. It's time we had them. Oh and official D&D black t-shirts with the red dragon ampersand on them would be great too...
Hi. It's definitely worth getting Book 0: Prologue for Shadows of Esteren from drivethru as it gives you loads of introductory info about characters and the game world. And, brilliantly, it's free.
SoE itself is a stunning game with loads going for it. The art direction and writing is top notch...