GameHole Con Hints At An "As Yet Unannounced Setting" for D&D This Year

Thomas Valley, GameHoleCon's Adventurer's League coordinator, is currently asking for volunteer DMs for the show in November. As part of the post he refers to "The premiere of an Epic event set in as yet unannounced setting" and "The premiere of adventures set in as yet unannounced setting".

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Ravnica was introduced in 2018, and Eberron support was added to the DM's Guild. Other than that, most of the official D&D stuff has all been set in the Forgotten Realms (Curse of Strahd notwithstanding).

This could be a whole new setting; it might just be a region of the Realms.

In related news, WotC's Nathan Stewart tweeted the word "SPELLJAMMER" a week or so back. He has a history of teasing his Twitter followers with hints about settings which - as yet - haven't come to fruition, so take that with as much or as little salt as you wish!

 

[Laurefindel]

Rene Descartes, not Voltaire.

But Descartes implies Cartesian, like the double alignment axis and the planes on the Great Wheel. So again; Planescape!

 

[Parmandur]

I don't really know anything about DDAL, but a product codename for that presumably isn't a product codename for an actual D&D release?

That Tweet was off-topic, an artists teasing about getting his work in for an upcoming WotC product using the codename. This artist has done that before, IIRC.

 

[Queer Venger]

Mark my words, 5E Spelljammer is going to get folded into Planescape and you'll be Jammin' through the Astral instead of between the Spheres.

Funny, that's exactly the D&D campaign Im running right now; a mix of spelljammer and planescape; except spell jammers travel the inner and outer planes instead of Wildspace.

 

[Invincible Overlord]

Klendathu

We can ill afford another Klendathu...

 

[gyor]

The most possible is Dragonlance because this year is the 35 anniversary.

Other option would be a planar handbook or a Nordom Whistleklik's guide of the planes. There are lots of planetouched races and not only genasi, aasimar or tielfing. Also they could show the almost forgotten para and quasi elemental planes (ice, magma, ooze, ash, mineral, vacuum, salt...) and lots of elementals to be summoned, and the planar dragons from Dragon Magazine. They were really cool, even that with a stupy duck-beak from Elysium, and the ethergaunts (fiend folio), the thoon cult, or the zerns.

Plus there are several celestial races to detail.