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

 

[Nebulous]

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

Forgotten Realms Atlas for the win!

Yay! I knew our plan would work!!!

 

[Charlaquin]

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

In my experience they do very, very much.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes. They have totally separate social media streams for different properties.

Well, sure, their channels are separate, but the target demographics are going to be largely the same.

Possibly coincidentally, the Nintendo announcement of the Pokemon Direct came just this morning, mere hours before WotC decided to delay this book PR roll out.

 

[Dire Bare]

Now that makes sense, a new Dragon+ with a few details.

In the most recent issue (#29, December) of Dragon+, they do mention that in the next issue they will cover Kate Welch's "latest project", which is likely our mystery book. I believe that's been rumored to be an adventure compilation including work from Deborah Ann Woll. I guess we'll have to wait until Monday!

When the January Dragon+ will be released, I don't know (other than likely sometime in January).

 

[Parmandur]

In the most recent issue (#29, December) of Dragon+, they do mention that in the next issue they will cover Kate Welch's "latest project", which is likely our mystery book. I believe that's been rumored to be an adventure compilation including work from Deborah Ann Woll. I guess we'll have to wait until Monday!

When the January Dragon+ will be released, I don't know (other than likely sometime in January).

They tend to be bimonthly, so I would suspect February.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I think having seen the number of 'let's read' Dragonlance threads here and on RPG.net, Margaret is frantically writing the book for release. The originally planned FR Explorer's Handbook will be canned, and the Laeral Silverhand’s Explorer’s Kit will have a sticker hastily slapped on it saying 'was borrowed by a kender'

 

[Mercador]

The delay could be anything, moreover 2 days just before. What Parmandur said make a bit of sense but I feel it's a more trivial reason that we'll never know.

 

[Tiles]

The dice set is NOT linked to a campaign, so the odds of a new Xanathar’s is my guess...

 

[darjr]

Is there a convention that WotC is big at around now?

 

[dave2008]

The dice set is NOT linked to a campaign, so the odds of a new Xanathar’s is my guess...

Why do you say that?