Marathon, Broadway, and Catacomb: Upcoming D&D Products?

WotC has been using codenames for its upcoming products for some time, mainly to stop anybody figuring our what's in the pipeline. Those codenames end up as placeholders on bookstores and the like. Eagle-eyed reader Sean spotted some upcoming items on McNally Robinson, a Canadian bookstore's website.

The items spotted were a 192-page hardcover accessory codenamed "Marathon" (May 2018); a 256-page hardcover adventure codenamed "Broadway" (September 2018), and another 256-page hardcover adventure codenamed "Catacomb" (November 2018). There's also a set of "Broadway" dice.

Past codenames have included "Labyrinth", which turned out to be Tomb of Annihilation, and "Dust", "Midway", "Cloak", and "Dagger".

Let the speculation begin!

D&D "Marathon" HC
By Rpg Team Wizards
ISBN: 9780786966240
format: Hardcover
series: D&D Accessory
pages: 192
publisher: Wizards of the Coast
pub. date: 2018-05-29

D&D "Broadway" Dice
By Rpg Team Wizards
ISBN: 9780786966288
format: Game
series: D&D Accessory
pages: n/a
publisher: Wizards of the Coast
pub. date: 2018-09-18

D&D "Broadway" HC
By Rpg Team Wizards
ISBN: 9780786966257
format: Hardcover
series: D&D Adventure
pages: 256
publisher: Wizards of the Coast
pub. date: 2018-09-18

D&D "Catacomb" HC
By Rpg Team Wizards
ISBN: 9780786966264
format: Hardcover
series: D&D Adventure
pages: 256
publisher: Wizards of the Coast
pub. date: 2018-11-20

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[gyor]

I'm surprised that it's a supplement following a supplement instead of an adventure.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm surprised that it's a supplement following a supplement instead of an adventure.

They've made it pretty clear that the norm from now on will be one AP per year, rather than two. So, instead of supplements sandwiched between adventures, looks like we will get adventures sandwiched between supplements.

I reckon it will be very different material from XGtE, my wager is a Volo-esque monster book.

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[vecna00]

They've made it pretty clear that the norm from now on will be one AP per year, rather than two. So, instead of supplements sandwiched between adventures, looks like we will get adventures sandwiched between supplements.

I reckon it will be very different material from XGtE, my wager is a Volo-esque monster book.

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If we're getting two supplements each year, now is the time for campaign setting type material!

Maybe.

 

[Henry]

Speaking for my Moon Druid, if there’s a new monster book I hope it has more beasts, CR 3-6 who AREN’T dinosaurs...

 

[Parmandur]

If we're getting two supplements each year, now is the time for campaign setting type material!

Maybe.

Well, Mearls has been laying hints about how this year's products will fully unleash the multiverse schemata they have been working on. I'll bet dollars to donuts that the November product is "Mordenkainen's Manual of the Planes" or something, detailing the cosmology and the major material prime areas.

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[vecna00]

Well, Mearls has been laying hints about how this year's products will fully unleash the multiverse schemata they have been working on. I'll bet dollars to donuts that the November product is "Mordenkainen's Manual of the Planes" or something, detailing the cosmology and the major material prime areas.

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That's what I'm hoping for, especially sooner rather than later!

 

[Parmandur]

That's what I'm hoping for, especially sooner rather than later!

I think we will see one of these supplements be "Mordenkainen's Something of Something" sooner or later: in the Beyond video about the Gith, Mearls talked about Mordenkainen specifically worrying about the cosmic status quo.

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[Tiles]

Third party settings will explode this year with a wotc supported multi verse . Just a prediction

 

[vecna00]

I think we will see one of these supplements be "Mordenkainen's Something of Something" sooner or later: in the Beyond video about the Gith, Mearls talked about Mordenkainen specifically worrying about the cosmic status quo.

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I agree, with all of the mentions of the D&D Multiverse it's brewing. Only question is: When?

 

[Herosmith14]

I agree, with all of the mentions of the D&D Multiverse it's brewing. Only question is: When?

This year, hopefully. Actually now that I think about it, if Marathon is Mordenkainen's Guide to the Multiverse (everyone likes illiteration), it would make sense that two adventures would be fall release, they could both be set in planes that are set in settings detailed in Marathon.


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