D&D 5E What D&D Product Can Be Seen In The Crystals?

WotC has posted an image of a pile of crystals through which distorted glimpses of what looks like a product can be seen. In the comments below, folks have been flipping, enhancing, and generally squinting at the image behind the crystals, and while it's hard to make out, guesses include 'Journey Through the Radiant Ocean' (although I personally think that first letter looks more like an X or K than a J). 'Citadel' is also a popular guess for that last word--'Journey(s) to/from the Radiant Citadel'? Take a look and see what you think (or check the comments for flipped and enhanced versions).

In Spelljammer lore, the phlogiston--the space between the crystal spheres in which the prime material worlds can be found--is also known as the 'Rainbow Ocean'. And crystal seem on-brand for crystals spheres.

Below the text, the image appears to be of some kind of marketplace. Above it, WotC wrote "Through the depths of the Ethereal Plane is a beacon of possibility and adventure... "

There was apparently a press event today, pending some kind of product announcement on Tuesday.

D&D 5E - Announcement Next Week--What Hints For Upcoming D&D Books?

WotC uses Unearthed Arcana to playtest D&D material which often ends up in a later hardcover book. Mages of Strixhaven was in Unearthed Arcana in June 2021, and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was published in December 2021. Draconic Options was in Unearthed Arcana in April 2021, and Fizban's...

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[GarrettKP]

Those two new Settings are for 2023+: this year Winninger has touted two classic Settings and a "cameo" for a third.

It should also be said that production schedules are fluid. Especially in 2022 when distribution could change things. It’s very possible something could get pushed or even cut in the editing room (like cameo appearances).

So yes, we likely get two settings this year, and ya maybe there’s a cameo of a third. But if we don’t get that, we shouldn’t immediately jump at WotC and say they are liars or anything. Sometimes things change, and what may have been true in 2021 could be false by 2022.

Not saying this about anyone in particular, just hoping to remind some people that until a book is in your hands, there’s a chance it could change.

 

[vecna00]

So I was checking the Guide to the Ethereal Plane from Planescape, and I came across an interesting line:

Whether or not the Border [Ethereal] touches areas on the Prime between crystal spheres-sometimes called the phlogiston by well-lanned cutters-remains dark.

That sounds like the Ethereal Plane link to me.

Spelljammer Confirmed.....maybe.

 

[Parmandur]

It should also be said that production schedules are fluid. Especially in 2022 when distribution could change things. It’s very possible something could get pushed or even cut in the editing room (like cameo appearances).

So yes, we likely get two settings this year, and ya maybe there’s a cameo of a third. But if we don’t get that, we shouldn’t immediately jump at WotC and say they are liars or anything. Sometimes things change, and what may have been true in 2021 could be false by 2022.

Not saying this about anyone in particular, just hoping to remind some people that until a book is in your hands, there’s a chance it could change.

Yeah, Winninger specifically said that the new Settings and the 2024 'Revisit" were in flux, but that the Perkins Setting was almost complete at the time of his Tweet, and he felt the second one was pretty far along, which would make sense with their production schedule.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Mulling over it, something like Ghosts of Saltmarsh, with all new Adventures and jsut a little more robust Setting material, would work very well.

Semi-coincidentally, they would both have sections and stats for ships!

 

[Parmandur]

Semi-coincidentally, they would both have sections and stats for ships!

yeah, that's what I'm thinking: and material to help make further Adventures (tables and such).

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Semi-coincidentally, they would both have sections and stats for ships!

And Ghosts of Saltmarsh has a huge section for random encounters and plot hooks for travelling on the ocean or underwater, so a Spelljammer Adventure Anthology book could do something similar with random encounter tables for Wildspace and the Phlogiston at all of the different tiers of play.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

So I was checking the Guide to the Ethereal Plane from Planescape, and I came across an interesting line:



That sounds like the Ethereal Plane link to me.

Spelljammer Confirmed.....maybe.

There is a map that shows this as well. Someone posted in another thread a little bit a go.

 

[vecna00]

There is a map that shows the is as well. Someone posted in another thread a little bit a go.

I was debating posting it, but I haven't seen it in another thread yet.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Look closer, look closer...


....

JAKANDOR CONFIRMED

 

[Demetrios1453]

In fairness, you could say the same for Planescape - do it as an adventure + a manual of the planes.

The Great Modron March would work great for this, especially as it's been referenced so much.