D&D 5E WotC Shares Theros Table of Contents

WotC has shared the table of contents of Mythic Odysseys of Theros. Well, part of it, at least.

Update -- thanks to "obscureReviewer" on Twitter, here's a fuller image!

 

[jgsugden]

Real D&D would be a nightmare. Do you actually want Balors, Ancient Red Dragons and Illithid running around your neighborhood?

D&D is a role playing game. Characters play a role in a story. As long as you can create a great story in a setting, it is a great setting for D&D. Alas, it seems 'Real D&D' based upon a real world setting would be one of the few settings too sad to be good for D&D.

 

[Demetrios1453]

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Grumpy Gamer: "Forgotten Realms? shakes cane If it's not Mystara, it's a pretender to the throne!"
Even grumpier gamer comes into the room: "Mystara? That whippersnapper of a setting! Greyhawk or go hom -- "
Even grumpier, grumpier gamer comes into the room: "Greyhawk?! My homebrew setting that I ran back in '78 and has been going on for years is the real D&D!"
Gamer holding on to their boxes of Dragonlance and Dark Sun: "Can't we all get along?"

Btw, the DMs Guild has three atlas books for FR, two of them by one of the most talented Guild adepts out there, Rich Lescouflair.

Dungeon Masters Guild - Forgotten Realms -

www.dmsguild.com

The real D&D is the one at your, and everyone else's, table.

I get your frustration but for me, I am more than happy to take a FR break and get material I can use along with the other great Greek themed 5e stuff I have collected. I also think that the current philosophy of adding a little Greek to D&D creates a more pragmatic and usable product that trying to bend D&D to a thing it's not really made to do.

A good FR DM could simply adapt much of the Theros stuff to Chessenta anyway.

 

[Mistwell]

Hopefully they're done with these stupid crossovers and go back to real D&D.

This is also real D&D.

You are not the arbiter of what is real D&D.

Still waiting on a Forgotten Realms Atlas that covers the entire world or an actual D&D campaign book. It's been 6 years and not one book with Psionics in it? My how far WotC has fallen with D&D being all commercialized and reduced to a money-grab shell of its former self.

A FR Atlas would be more of a "money grab" in my view than this, which is something new. But let'd be clear - every single thing you own from TSR or WOTC is commercialized. This is not a shell of a former self, this is the former self. Indeed, WOTC as a team seems to have more autonomy from the top of the company that TSR did.

 

[TwoSix]

They could put out Player's Guide to Pushing Birmy Down a Flight of Stairs and I'd still probably be like, "...Is there an alternate Hydro74 cover?"

"I like how the snapping bones adds some extra crunch to this book!"

 

[Xenonnonex]

I am not steeped in the lore of Magic the Gathering. Does anyone know and wish to share if the pantheon in the book is analogous to the classical Greek pantheon?

Like the Greek pantheon. But different again. Wizard's own take. Which they get to slap trademark on.

 

[Von Ether]

Real D&D would be a nightmare. Do you actually want Balors, Ancient Red Dragons and Illithid running around your neighborhood?

D&D is a role playing game. Characters play a role in a story. As long as you can create a great story in a setting, it is a great setting for D&D. Alas, it seems 'Real D&D' based upon a real world setting would be one of the few settings too sad to be good for D&D.

Urban Arcana? Now that would be a fun thing to bring back.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Even grumpier, grumpier gamer comes into the room: "Greyhawk?! My homebrew setting that I ran back in '78 and has been going on for years is the real D&D!"

You know, this one is Ed Greenwood and his original homebrew Forgotten Realms, which he created in 1975, and it predates almost everything else except probably Blackmoor and Greyhawk. Oh, and I do not think Ed is ever that grumpy.

 

[Undrave]

Man... these books never scratch my itch for player options enough... There's just TWO subclasses and ONE Background? Really? The races are fine at least...

 

[Parmandur]

You know, this one is Ed Greenwood and his original homebrew Forgotten Realms, which he created in 1975, and it predates almost everything else except probably Blackmoor and Greyhawk. Oh, and I do not think Ed is ever that grumpy.

He made the world in the 60's, actually, it predates D&D itself!

 

[Parmandur]

Man... these books never scratch my itch for player options enough... There's just TWO subclasses and ONE Background? Really? The races are fine at least...

They tested a bunch for Theros last year, this is just what passed muster.