D&D 5E WotC Delays New D&D Book Announcement

This from WotC — “Get the quasits out of our office! Our plan to make a D&D book announcement on Thursday has been changed. Adventurers, mark your calendars for Monday, January 13.”

The book was due to be announced on Thursday 9th January after a mysterious entry appeared on Amazon with a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020. See the original news item here:

D&D 5E - March's D&D Book To Be Announced On January 9th

A mysterious entry has appeared on Amazon! With a product title of "Dungeons & Dragons March Release Book (Title announced January 9th)" and a release date of March 17th, 2020, this $49.95 hardcover release will be revealed in under a week! The description reads "Your first look at the next...

www.enworld.org

They haven't given a reason; back in November WotC delayed the launch of the sapphire D&D anniversary dice at the last minute, too.

D&D General - $300 D&D Dice Delayed

WotC has delayed the sale of the $300 dice. They haven’t said why.

www.enworld.org

 

[Lidgar]

Obviously they read all the speculation on EN World and changed their minds on what they should release.

Forgotten Realms Atlas for the win!

 

[MechaTarrasque]

That means there is still time for Amazon to put up the listing for Monodrone #324156's Guide to the Planes dice set.

 

[gyor]

Argggg, way to drag it out. Annoying, very, very annoying.

 

[cbwjm]

C'mon people. clearly it's delayed due to the quasits causing chaos in their office.

 

[Weiley31]

Sorry guys: I failed my Hype roll check. This is the result.

 

[Parmandur]

Pokemon Direct ia dropping Thursday morning, might be trying to get some social media breathing room

 

[gyor]

Pokemon Direct ia dropping Thursday morning, might be trying to get some social media breathing room

Why?

 

[Morrus]

Pokemon Direct ia dropping Thursday morning, might be trying to get some social media breathing room

I can’t imagine the audiences overlap all that much.

 

[vecna00]

Reading into it, I wonder if something was supposed to be released to coincide with it....like a new UA? Though, I wouldn't be surprised if the announcement was tied to the release of the next Dragon+.

Or, and most likely, the person or persons involved that were supposed to be on the video/stream/podcast are out of the office until then.