D&D 5E What's coming out for D&D in 2017?


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Just to pause Jester David there to make it clear that here ends actual D&D RPG products. The rest of the list is figs, decks, 3PP products and even unrelated games.
The OP did as about "D&D" not "D&D the TTRPG". What I listed was still D&D.

And minis, spellcards, and the like can impact the tabletop game. You can spend your mad money on them, but there's no risk of rules bloat or power creep from miniatures.

If you need to know when more RPG material is coming out:
Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous is out in May
Kobold Press' Demon Cultes & Secret Societies will be out in June.
Nord Games' Ultimate Bestiary: Revenge of the Horde is expected in May
And sooooo many more.

So what we know is nothing.
It's not nothing. It's three books. It's the exact same amount it was in 2015 and 2016.

They haven't announced anything, but we know it's coming.

It's reasonable to expect further product (as in one this spring and possibly two in the fall) but the difference between 5E's product schedule and the schedules of all editions before it couldn't have been greater.
Very true.
Y'know, unless you consider 1st Edition AD&D an Edition.
1e released the core rules once a year, then spent the rest of the time releasing small 16 and 32-page adventure. A year after the DMG they did a book of deities. Then they (kinda) had a new monster books. Another two years later and they did another monster book. Three years after that - six after the the last core book came out - the first new content for players was released.

The slow release schedule has been their "thing" for years. Since before 5e, when they slowed down 4th Edition's releases to a few key books. The current release schedule is very close to that of 2011 and 2012, when Mearls said they wanted to make each books special.
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
Specific to Labyrinth, Perkins said it would be a wide open sandbox, leading to a huge classic dungeoncrawl experience. Current bets are for Waterdeep/Underdark, or more likely, Chult/Tomb of Horrors.

But they have made it clear that not talking about releases in advance works better for them, so more power to the current strategy.
 


Dragon+ Issue 11 says next issue (February?) will reveal the next D&D product in depth. I guess we'll have an announcement by then.

Probably mid-January is when we will see the first announcements outside of the magazine, since Dragon+ seems to stay a bit behind due to the bi-monthly release schedule.

Also, in the "next issue" blurb, they talk about how many of the articles will be inspirational in nature, including the next adventure.

It say this about the next adventure: "One thing's for certain --- it's sure to be inspirational!"

I cannot think of how that would tie into something with the code name "Labyrinth".
 

Staffan

Legend
I cannot think of how that would tie into something with the code name "Labyrinth".
I wouldn't put too much stock in trying to suss out information about the product from its code name. The code name's function is to give them the ability to talk about it in a more convenient way than "the Spring adventure of 2017". Ideally, it shouldn't have any association with the product's content at all, enabling them to make changes without bothering with the code name.

At least, that's how it works on the Magic side. For example, the current Magic set, Kaladesh, was named "Lock" in development, and the expansion Aether Revolt coming in February was codenamed "Stock". There's nothing particularly "Lock"-y about Kaladesh, it was just chosen so the devs can talk about work happening on the Lock set before they've decided it should be based on the Kaladesh plane.
 

Henry

Autoexreginated
Basically, the only thing you CAN glean from " Labyrinth" is that the Fall 2017 adventure will probably be code-named "Minotaur", or something tied to Labyrinths, same as Lock & Stock, or "Cloak" & "Dagger"
 

Remathilis

Legend
Basically, the only thing you CAN glean from " Labyrinth" is that the Fall 2017 adventure will probably be code-named "Minotaur", or something tied to Labyrinths, same as Lock & Stock, or "Cloak" & "Dagger"
I was hoping for "Dark Crystal" as the second codeword. :)

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