D&D 5E The New D&D Book: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything!

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The new D&D book has been revealed, and it is Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, "a magical mixture of rules options for the world's greatest roleplaying game." The 192-page book is due out November 17th, with standard and alternate covers, and contains more subclasses, spells, character options, group patrons, and rules. Oh, and psionics!

Cover art is by Magali Villeneuve

WHAT WONDERFUL WITCHERY IS THIS?

A magical mixture of rules options for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

The wizard Tasha, whose great works include the spell Tasha’s hideous laughter, has gathered bits and bobs of precious lore during her illustrious career as an adventurer. Her enemies wouldn’t want these treasured secrets scattered across the multiverse, so in defiance, she has collected and codified these tidbits for the enrichment of all.

• EXPANDED SUBCLASSES. Try out subclass options for every Dungeons & Dragons class, including the artificer, which appears in the book.
• MORE CHARACTER OPTIONS. Delve into a collection of new class features and new feats, and customize your character’s origin using straightforward rules for modifying a character’s racial traits.
• INTRODUCING GROUP PATRONS. Whether you're part of the same criminal syndicate or working for an ancient dragon, each group patron option comes with its own perks and types of assignments.
• SPELLS, ARTIFACTS & MAGIC TATTOOS. Discover more spells, as well as magic tattoos, artifacts, and other magic items for your campaign.
• EXPANDED RULES OPTIONS. Try out rules for sidekicks, supernatural environments, natural hazards, and parleying with monsters, and gain guidance on running a session zero.
• A PLETHORA OF PUZZLES. Ready to be dropped into any D&D adventure, puzzles of varied difficulty await your adventurers, complete with traps and guidance on using the puzzles in a campaign.

Full of expanded content for players and Dungeon Masters alike, this book is a great addition to the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Baked in you'll find more rule options for all the character classes in the Player's Handbook, including more subclass options. Thrown in for good measure is the artificer class, a master of magical invention. And this witch's brew wouldn't be complete without a dash of added artifacts, spellbook options, spells for both player characters and monsters, magical tattoos, group patrons, and other tasty goodies.

Here's the alternate cover:

UPDATE! An online event called D&D Celebration from September 18th-20th will be hosted by Elle Osili-Wood, which is "an epic live event with panels, gameplay, & previews of the book!" See the video in the Tweet below!

Gather your party and join the adventure at  D&D Celebration 2020, an online gaming event open to fans all over the world!

Celebrate the release of  Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden  with a weekend of Icewind Dale–themed virtual play sessions and help us create the biggest virtual tabletop roleplaying game event ever! Fans will also get the chance to preview some content from  Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the forthcoming book featuring massive rules options, subclasses, and more for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Watch featured play sessions with D&D luminaries and learn something new with a slate of panels led by the D&D design team and community.


UPDATE! Check out the Nerdarchy site for some previews.

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[Oofta]

Its trivial to Google pretty much all of it. Making claims that events that are widely known and widely documented are"speculation and conjecture" makes it clear that you're entrenched in either blindly trusting a marketing department or you have some secondary motivation behind wanting the company's statements to be true.

The fact that you then state "I don't feel I can have a rational conversation with you" bears that out as that's a fairly common response when someone is aware their argument is going to fall apart under even slight debate.

Regardless, much like 4th editions collapse, at some point WOTC will be backed into a corner and have to show the real state of things. and you're going to have to deal with it.

There are many, many things that are "easily googled" that are completely false. What we do know is that by most measures D&D 5E is the best selling version ever published and continues to grow. I find it hard to believe it's all smoke and mirrors.

To put it another way, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You haven't provided any proof so it's hard to accept any of your claims.

 

[ChaosOS]

Not a mod or anything but Rygar has spent the entire thread trying to drag it off topic. I think we'd be better off if we collectively ignored them.

 

[Undrave]

I agree with the worries of the Rune Knight.

Too wildly changed? Stars Druid is one. I want it tweaked obviously, but it was solid. Beast barbarian was amazing, hope that just stays (I think some of the higher level stuff was rough, but it was generally solid)

I don't think I remember the Beast Barbarian...

I liked the Star Druid too, even if I'm not interested in playing druids again for a while, so I hope it doesn't change too much.

 

[Oofta]

Not a mod or anything but Rygar has spent the entire thread trying to drag it off topic. I think we'd be better off if we collectively ignored them.

Like discussing pros and cons of 4E?

But you're right, sometimes ignorance - or at least ignoring - is bliss.

 

[Maxperson]

There are many, many things that are "easily googled" that are completely false. What we do know is that by most measures D&D 5E is the best selling version ever published and continues to grow. I find it hard to believe it's all smoke and mirrors.

Yep. I'm curious if 5e would be the best selling edition ever published if it wasn't for the timing. D&D was getting gradually more acceptance over time and when a few shows picked up D&D as part of it like Stranger Things and Big Bang Theory, the game went main stream. Had 1e gone main stream it's possible that it might have outsold 5e. We don't know. Same with 3e or 2e.

 

[Dausuul]

Not a mod or anything but Rygar has spent the entire thread trying to drag it off topic. I think we'd be better off if we collectively ignored them.

But I had such a witty, sarcastic retort all ready to go...

sigh Yeah, you're probably right.

 

[dave2008]

Its trivial to Google pretty much all of it. Making claims that events that are widely known and widely documented are"speculation and conjecture" makes it clear that you're entrenched in either blindly trusting a marketing department or you have some secondary motivation behind wanting the company's statements to be true.

Most of this is old news which I looked at years ago. I did not come to the same conclusions you did. Again, your language in this post is confirming my initial statement. If you have evidence I am unaware of, please post it. I am a pretty objective guy.

The fact that you then state "I don't feel I can have a rational conversation with you" bears that out as that's a fairly common response when someone is aware their argument is going to fall apart under even slight debate.

You have proven nothing and provided no evidence. My initial statement is still valid, you are only reinforcing it. Saying something is a "common response" is an also an easy-out BTW.

Regardless, much like 4th editions collapse, at some point WOTC will be backed into a corner and have to show the real state of things. and you're going to have to deal with it.

Are you suggesting 5e is on the verge of collapse? Not sure what you are saying. What would I have to deal with?

Personally, my group doesn't need anything else from WotC for 5e. We are perfectly happy with the rules and houserules we have and could continue play it for years (I mean we are still in our first campaign after 6 years, lvl 15 now, so we have a lot of life left). If for some reason all my 5e books and online resources disappeared we would be happy playing 4e or 1e (never played 2e or 3e).

 

[Oofta]

Yep. I'm curious if 5e would be the best selling edition ever published if it wasn't for the timing. D&D was getting gradually more acceptance over time and when a few shows picked up D&D as part of it like Stranger Things and Big Bang Theory, the game went main stream. Had 1e gone main stream it's possible that it might have outsold 5e. We don't know. Same with 3e or 2e.

Hard to say, there are a lot of factors involved. Certainly streaming has encouraged people to play that may not have otherwise. But I also think that in many ways 5E achieves the core goals better than previous editions. Cleaner math than versions before 3, less system mastery than 3.x, more true to a style of play than 4E IMHO. But if the game had been more widely accepted outside of the "geek culture" image in the 80s when there was less competition? Who knows. Or maybe it's more popular because it's interacting with real people in real time as a break from our other sources of entertainment.

Always room for improvement of course in any edition, hopefully this book will bring some improvements.

 

[Marandahir]

Does anyone else think that WotC were learning directly from DM's Guild for this book?

Besides the lineage system and alternate class features (both are relatively popular topics for DMs Guild options), a lot of these subclasses cover archetypes that I've seen in prominent DM's Guild products.

For example, Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else has a "Noble Genie" Warlock Patron, a "Runeguard" Fighter, a "Way of Empathy" Monk, and a sorcerer-type spellcasting Barbarian subclass, among others. The Iron-Man inspired Artificer and the Scribe/Generalist Wizard are extremely common archetypes on the 'Guild too.

 

[Cadence]

Yep. I'm curious if 5e would be the best selling edition ever published if it wasn't for the timing. D&D was getting gradually more acceptance over time and when a few shows picked up D&D as part of it like Stranger Things and Big Bang Theory, the game went main stream. Had 1e gone main stream it's possible that it might have outsold 5e. We don't know. Same with 3e or 2e.

They played D&D in E.T. back in 1982 and it had a cartoon series (my 11yo got it for his birthday, wow, talk about making the exploration part look bad!) starting in 1983. And it was carried i all the book and toy stores in Northern Illinois anyway. Not quite as big as today, but not bad.