D&D 5E Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

Hasbro has posted a short video which highlights its 2022 portfolio of brands, including toys and games, and in it can be seen images of a D&D Starter Set called Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. The cover feature a blue dragon breathing lightning.

Critical Role's Call of the Netherdeep also appears briefly.

In this press release, Hasbro lists the boxed set with a retail price of $49.99, which seems very high for a starter set.

 

[Zaukrie]

Maybe this one comes with minis and maps? Hence the cost?

 

[sevenbastard]

I'm always down for a new starter set. Hoping this one has fighter, cleric, rouge, wizard, barbarian and goes to level 5.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

It would be nice if a preview of upcoming, just so people can get a feel for the changing winds to come...

yeah but my bet is they don't fully know what changes will stick. Monsters of the Multiverse is not even out as a stand alone yet and I am sure they want to see the reaction.

 

[Smackpixi]

It’s going to be just like the last starter set with pregens, adventure book, basic rules w/o character creation, and dice, in a box. It will retail for $19.99, cover levels 1-5 and it will be about as advisable to fight the young blue dragon in the adventure as it is to fight Venomfang in LMoP. Source: I looked at the picture.

 

[doctorhook]

Folks are talking about inflation, but I’m strongly of the opinion that this is just Hasbro deciding to see how much they can get away with charging. They’ve been doing it in Magic, so why not D&D?

I’m cynical

 

[Parmandur]

It’s going to be just like the last starter set with pregens, adventure book, basic rules w/o character creation, and dice, in a box. It will retail for $19.99, cover levels 1-5 and it will be about as advisable to fight the young blue dragon in the adventure as it is to fight Venomfang in LMoP. Source: I looked at the picture.

Hasbro announced the MRSP is $49.99 in their big press release.

 

[Parmandur]

Character creation reflecting what we will see in 5.5 is what I mean.

I don't really expect it to be that different...but they might test some minor changes here.

 

[Smackpixi]

Hasbro announced the MRSP is $49.99 in their big press release.

It’s a typo. Source: I looked at the picture.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Looks like we're potentially getting a new starter set for this year. Would be crazy if it had some of the new rules for characters or updated elves.

I'll be shocked if it doesn't, frankly. It would actually be kind of weird to do a starter set that's going to be "wrong" in about two years.

So I expect it'll just have the subclasses and races they're fairly confident about how they're going to change. Which isn't to say they won't change more, but probably not drastically.

I mean, we pretty much already know how Elves, for example, will be, given the changes in Multiverse and Tashas together.

2). I don't know if Stormwreck Isle is actually a place on Toril, but I would also assume this is meant to be setting agnostic so that they can start to fulfill their promise of no longer wheeling and dealing in any one particular setting for "core" content.

Quite, I don't think it's an accident that it's an island, which is one of the easies things to slip into any campaign setting.

 

[tetrasodium]

I highly doubt it could be a not in FR thing.... but....
Tempest Isle
Tempest Island is an island in the Lhazaar Principalities.[1] It earns its name from unceasing storms over the central peaks. The island has been associated with aquatic trolls and blue dragon

That does appear to be a blue dragon...
Edit: ECG140/141 has some pretty strong indicators of a connection I think.....