D&D 5E Is the new setting Icewind Dale?

@Birmy pointed out this Reddit comment.

Add that to the image WotC put out with the upcoming announcement.

And they're selling apparel featuring a snowy owlbear.

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[Enevhar Aldarion]

Ugh. Hopefully it's not more Forgetful Reams, the blandest campaign setting yet created.

Still better than most of the other old, tired settings like Greyhawk and Krynn.

 

[Parmandur]

So it was just my imagination that part of Storm King's thunder took place in Icewind Dale?

It's about 4-5 paragraphs, it's an area you can visit, but isn't super detailed. About as much as Waterdeep in Hoard of the Dragon Queen.

The Frost Giant dungeon is near to Icewind Dale, bit the Dale is not detailed beyond what's in SCAG.

 

[darjr]

I love these threads. The speculation sparks my imagination

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

We know from past comments a next book will have a focus on towns, their heraldry and their militia. Many thought of the Dales, but a gazetteer of the Ten-Towns (mostly a reprint ++ of the stuff from LotCS) with a cool campaign based around the idea of raising the Ten Towns against the forces of the Shadow King or some other threats would be cool (with rules for mass combat). Or maybe a compilation of old adventures based in a cold or mountain setting, like Saltmarsh did for coastal adventures.

 

[Mercurius]

They are not teasing Theros, as it has already been announced. Whatever they reveal in early June will be a new product.

Well, this is still taking place well before Theros is in people's hands, and at least Perkins game at the event is going to be set in Theros...so that maaaay be what is meant....

Well, I see three possibilities:

1. Theros - a new setting, just not a new announcement. This is the most logical, considering the live-stream is about a month before release, but a bit deceptive.
2. Magic/other - an actually new setting, and a bit of a surprise considering that the last two products were new settings. Based on my cursory knowledge of Magic, I would guess Innistrad (Perkins comment) or Zendikar (different enough, something new), or possibly Ixalan or Kaladesh (non-Euro), maybe Dominaria (the classic Magic setting, afaiu).
3. Icewind Dale - not a new setting at all. This would be quite a disappointment for both many FR fans--more North--and those hoping for either classic or new settings. As I said, this would be a bit of a PR blunder.

 

[Prakriti]

It's about 4-5 paragraphs, it's an area you can visit, but isn't super detailed. About as much as Waterdeep in Hoard of the Dragon Queen.

Actually, Bryn Shander gets a good 3 or 4 pages devoted to it, complete with a map. It's one of the four towns that the adventure can begin in (or advance to, if you are using the level 1-5 pre-adventure).

 

[Retreater]

Still better than most of the other old, tired settings like Greyhawk and Krynn.

I'll have to disagree respectfully on that point. We've gotten essentially nothing on either setting since the 3.x era. They've been allowed to rest for nearly two decades.

 

[Parmandur]

Well, I see three possibilities:

1. Theros - a new setting, just not a new announcement. This is the most logical, considering the live-stream is about a month before release, but a bit deceptive.
2. Magic/other - an actually new setting, and a bit of a surprise considering that the last two products were new settings. Based on my cursory knowledge of Magic, I would guess Innistrad (Perkins comment) or Zendikar (different enough, something new), or possibly Ixalan or Kaladesh (non-Euro), maybe Dominaria (the classic Magic setting, afaiu).
3. Icewind Dale - not a new setting at all. This would be quite a disappointment for both many FR fans--more North--and those hoping for either classic or new settings. As I said, this would be a bit of a PR blunder.

Well, if they did another Magic setting this year, Zendikar would be it, since the Zendikar card block is coming in Q4. I don't think that's what we'll get, but I wouldn't put it past WotC either, and they are clearly not bound by some abstract idea of balance.

 

[Parmandur]

Actually, Bryn Shander gets a good 3 or 4 pages devoted to it, complete with a map. It's one of the four towns that the adventure can begin in (or advance to, if you are using the level 1-5 pre-adventure).

Oh, durr-hurr, so it is: but still, not exactly a huge deep dive.

 

[Lem23]

And following that logic, neither is Icewind Dale. It's just a small part of one of the most overdone settings in D&D.

I agree.