D&D 5E Announcement coming February 6th

Parmandur

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If we were just going by names, I'd say "Marathon" would be the Modron March, but as dice are being released alongside "Broadway", that's a decent guess.

One further thing though that I just though of - the artist on Reddit said that of the two books they knew about, one was full of monsters and the other was based in the Forgotten Realms. Now, I may be parsing things a bit, that seems to indicate that the one full of monsters is not based in the Realms, which leads me to think either: (a) a Volo's type book focusing on creatures of the planes, or (b) a "settings" book, with sections on various settings containing a bestiary of setting-specific creatures. Given that we've had a lot of hints at upcoming planar stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if what we're getting is the former. If so, we'll likely get a book that details the various ecologies of devils, demons, celestials, modrons, and so on, a section for PC rules (planar races, perhaps some planar backgrounds), and finally a bestiary section with various extraplanar monsters which haven't been updated to 5e yet - various remaining demons and devils, hierarch modrons, all the yugoloths that were left out of the MM, demodands/gehreleths, and all the various missing celestials (archons, guardinals, and eladrin), as well as miscellaneous still-un-updated planar creatures (xag-ya and xeg-yi perhaps?). Maybe even a section on the fey as well...
Well, that artists teases we're based solely off of art pieces that were ordered. If one book has Volo's level of monsters, that hard to miss just on the art orders. As to the Realms book, you could tell that from the art orders for Sun Elves, Shield Dwarves, Turami Humans and such for the NPCs.

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Parmandur

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Do you happen to have a link to where these podcasts are gathered? Same question with regards to the D&D Beyond ones.

It used to be easy to keep up with this stuff, because it was right there on the front page of the D&D articles. Now most of what I run in there is just about someone's livestream, etc. I don't know where to find a list of links to the latest Q&A or designer discussions, which is annoying.
The Dragon Talk podcasts are right on the D&D page...?

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Parmandur

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Alright, so take this however you Well, if they do blow oen the multiverse, they might unleash it on the DMs Guild: and if they do, giving Keith Baker early warning might not be a bad idea.will, but Keith Baker mentioned on the latest episode of The Download that he has a D&D game that he's working on....and there was stuff that he couldn't talk about yet.

To add fuel to the fire that started in the Eberron Facebook group about this, he teased that he talked about it a lot more in the episodes he just recorded.

The plot thickens!

Well, if they do blow oen the multiverse, they might unleash it on the DMs Guild: and if they do, giving Keith Baker early warning might not be a bad idea.

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vecna00

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Well, if they do blow oen the multiverse, they might unleash it on the DMs Guild: and if they do, giving Keith Baker early warning might not be a bad idea.

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Especially if they're consulting with him on a release in the first place. Also, that reminds me of something he said on the Manifest Zone podcast regarding warforged. He sounded very confident that more was coming and the original UA was only a first draft. Either he is very familiar with the process, or they had already talked to him about it.
 

Parmandur

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Especially if they're consulting with him on a release in the first place. Also, that reminds me of something he said on the Manifest Zone podcast regarding warforged. He sounded very confident that more was coming and the original UA was only a first draft. Either he is very familiar with the process, or they had already talked to him about it.
If I am not mistaken, Baker is part of the "Friends & Family" group of testers...

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Herosmith14

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One thing going against the MotP idea, though, is the fact that they have said Mystic and Artificer still need fine tuning. Mystic especially. From my understanding the basis of those classes, Psionics and Steam punk tech respectively, seem to be very important to two popular campaign settings, being Dark Sun and Eberron. They also haven't done stuff for the dragon marked stuff, which I believe is Eberron. I would love a multi setting book, and do hope it happens this year, but I don't think that will happen.

There is mounting evidence for a planar book, though. All the mentioned planar chat. Horizon Walker, the Gith UA, etc. This would also be fun. Either way, we might find out Feb 6th


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darjr

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Sorry, posting with a handicap. Back in Sept Chris Perkins said he’d put Easter eggs for the next story season in the waffle crew stream.
 


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