D&D 5E Announcement coming February 6th

[Parmandur]

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.


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.

(sorry, I keep hitting the "laugh with" button because of my fat thumb). The Mindflayer/Gith conflict was played up in Volo's Guide. If there is a second Volo's style book, with the Gith in it, I would wager we would get more on that line.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

The preview tease that the D&D Twitter suggested might be for the next storyline centered on a holiday ("Deadwinter Night is Coming"), so that all might legitimately be related to forthcoming products.

 

[Jester David]

The preview tease that the D&D Twitter suggested might be for the next storyline centered on a holiday ("Deadwinter Night is Coming"), so that all might legitimately be related to forthcoming products.

Well, even after they announce the next book (storyline or accessory) they still have 4-6 Lore You Should Knows before the book releases and probably quite a few after to sell the contents. And probably a good 10 LYSK after that book and the next.
They can't blow through all their relevant A-content before the book drops.

 

[Parmandur]

Well, even after they announce the next book (storyline or accessory) they still have 4-6 Lore You Should Knows before the book releases and probably quite a few after to sell the contents. And probably a good 10 LYSK after that book and the next.
They can't blow through all their relevant A-content before the book drops.

True; yet, distinct patterns emerge.

 

[Jester David]

True; yet, distinct patterns emerge.

Yes. But humans are biologically trained to spot patterns in chaos.

Could it still be planar? Sure. Or the planes could just be a convenient filler topic of lore. We'll find out in a few days.

 

[GarrettKP]

The preview tease that the D&D Twitter suggested might be for the next storyline centered on a holiday ("Deadwinter Night is Coming"), so that all might legitimately be related to forthcoming products.

That tease has nothing to do with the hardcovers. It was for the Idle Clickers of the Forgotten Realms PC game. They are in the middle of a Deadwinter event.

 

[Parmandur]

That tease has nothing to do with the hardcovers. It was for the Idle Clickers of the Forgotten Realms PC game. They are in the middle of a Deadwinter event.

...which might relate to the next hardcover, for all we know.

 

[GarrettKP]

...which might relate to the next hardcover, for all we know.

I don’t see any way Wizards would let a third party leak their next storyline. The games/books/minis make events to coincide with the hardcover releases, not to spoil them. Just not good business.

 

[Kurotowa]

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.

I've long thought the answer to the dragon question was simple. They're too perfect. A lone dragon is so powerful and self-sufficient that there's never a strong impulse towards subordinating themselves to a greater draconic society. Each can always take their metaphorical ball and go home when they don't get their way, making any attempt to form a species wide organization doomed to failure. In contrast, humanoid races are weak and imperfect so they have to suck it up and put aside their differences to cooperate and build civilizations.

All the dragons could conquer the world, but dragons are so naturally asocial that it's impossible to get all the dragons to cooperate on one task like that. Thus each one individually becomes vulnerable to the cooperative efforts of the mortal races.

 

[vecna00]

I've long thought the answer to the dragon question was simple. They're too perfect. A lone dragon is so powerful and self-sufficient that there's never a strong impulse towards subordinating themselves to a greater draconic society. Each can always take their metaphorical ball and go home when they don't get their way, making any attempt to form a species wide organization doomed to failure. In contrast, humanoid races are weak and imperfect so they have to suck it up and put aside their differences to cooperate and build civilizations.

All the dragons could conquer the world, but dragons are so naturally asocial that it's impossible to get all the dragons to cooperate on one task like that. Thus each one individually becomes vulnerable to the cooperative efforts of the mortal races.

There have been two cases (one WotC, one non-WotC) where the dragons did run things: Council of Wyrms and DragonStar. They may be niche settings, but they show that it's certainly possible.

Granted, one of them was based on Io telling them all to get their crap together, but still possible.