The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation!

Tomb of Annihilation is in the Forgotten Realms set in the Lost Continent of Chult - Away from the Sword Coast (the hosts of the live stream are very interested with undead dinosaurs). Acererak is, as many predicted, the source of this plotline as the Archlich is more or less "eating" resurrection magic from the rest of the Forgotten Realms and causing a zombie apocalypse. Pendleton Ward from Adventure Time is a creative consultant on this adventure.

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More updates will be coming through the Dungeons & Dragons marathon live stream live on Twitch throughout the weekend.

 

[Mirtek]

Sure, but that definition doesn't fit 5e.

It absolutely does. It's simply not what they say that matters, but what they do

The PHB (and other core books) reference multiple worlds.

Which doesn'T change what is actually happening.

Yes, officially the setting is the multiverse. Yes, there have been reference to it everywhere. But that's all there is. WotC has in practice done 87% FR, 13% Ravenloft and that's it. If we're generous we could count the smatterings of mentionings of other settings as another 1%, then we're at 86% FR, 13% RL, 1% others

There is a focus on the Forgotten realms in mega-adventures, organized play, and transmedia, and there is one non-adventure book (SCAG) that is an explicitly Forgotten Realms product. But nothing else (except for the TftYP intro, and maybe the VGtM intro if you want to force it) defaults to the Forgotten Realms.

But there is nothing else. That's his point.

It is factually incorrect to state that the Forgotten Realms is the default setting for 5e D&D.

In practice it is, because almost everything that WotC releases is FR. They say that the mutliverse is the default, but theyre all but exclusively use the FR corner of it.

 

[pogre]

The WOTC/HasBro folks know way more than me about marketing, but it's hard for me to get too fired up for a release we will not see until mid-September.

 

[StarFyre]

That's it ? was hoping for more...

Still upset they never did a Baphomet when they did those demonlords (need to try and sculpt my own now) or the cloud and stone giants with the last adventure plans.

Gale Force 9 will be releasing minis:
* Paladin riding velociraptor
* T-Rex vomiting undead
* Stacking masked goblins

 

[CapnZapp]

If you're interested, Ed Greenwood provided an explanation for Tiamat. Given that WotC hasn't contradicted it (nor they will ever bother to, ofc), it's even official.

No, that's not how "official" works.

 

[Irennan]

No, that's not how "official" works.

Yes, it is when it comes to Ed Greenwood and the Realms. As I explained above, it's a clause to his contract with TSR, which WotC inherited. You may not accept it as lore for your game, like many do even with WotC's material, but it still is canon.

Ed Greenwood made sure that such clause was included, alongside a reversion clause, to be able to keep publishing the Realms in case TSR decided to shelf the IP.

 

[dropbear8mybaby]

Is there any news on what level this will be for?

 

[Edwin Suijkerbuijk]

I'm trying to figure out what the flying creature with the spear is in the picture for the new board game. It looks kind of like an aarakocra but not exactly. Any ideas?

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Aearee

could it be one of these, they did a bit about the creator races on the DnD podcast in the last weeks.

 

[Scott McFarland]

So... we don't get the awesome black/red official dice they were using? And peeps there were wearing an array of nice shirts which we can't have either. Along with the mugs we can't have. *Facepalm*

 

[Kyvin]

I think it's actually going to be a new flavor of Aarakocra. Apparently some live on Chult in the Miscliffs. I hope they are included as a player option, especially since they have never made it into a print source.

I found this preview pic:

 

[dave2008]

No, that's not how "official" works.

I believe when it comes to Ed and the Realms that is exactly how it works. If I remember correctly his contract with WotC says as much. Of course I have never actually seen it, just what people say on this inter-web thing.