D&D 5E New D&D Hardcover To Be Announced On The 23rd (Tomorrow)?

According to this page on Amazon.com, a new Dungeon & Dragons hardcover title for May will be announced tomorrow. Users in the US see the product below (those in the UK are seeing a Wizkids miniatures set instead).

So far signs look like Ravenloft, but we’ll know for sure tomorrow.

[Update -- also mentioned by Todd Kendrick, recently of D&D Beyond].

WotC has posted the below animation, which says “The Mist Beckons”.



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All I wants is monsters.......so whatever it is hopefully 50% monsters. With at least 10 legendary monsters if i am being demanding.

I can re skin them to whatever i want, so I don't care about setting, but give me more monsters please.
I suggest buying the Midgard monster books and the Scarred Lands monster book. So many great monsters.....or, some of the products on DMsGuild or Drivethru.....so many great books/pdfs.
 

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"The Mist Beckons"
SIGH. Through predictable given the recent UA.

Only way I'm getting that is if it's significantly different from previous editions of Ravenloft. Ravenloft is a pretty retrograde setting, with a lot of racist and some sexist tropes going on, as well some other "things that make you go hmmm" (and not in a good "horror" way), plus it's harking back to a kind of that was "for old people" when I was a teenager, and that your average 20-something today, probably has never seen anything of (Hammer horror particularly) and is only familiar with through sort of third-hand sources and recapitulations which also modify stuff (Japan does a lot with Gothic Horror, as has World of Warcraft).

But they could fix all that and update the setting I suppose, give us a more modern take on Ravenloft. Cut some of the less-interesting or effective domains (the quality varies widely), introduce some new domains, maybe shake things up a bit just generally, and that could be done without really damaging the better classic domains I think, because they're relatively discrete entities.

So, Ravenloft campaign setting, or a Van Richten's Guide to <Monster>? Place your bets . . .
Given the recent UA my bet is very much on Ravenloft. Though I do wonder if there's even been enough time to get that UA into a book (maybe there has).

Innistrad doesn't do the Mist thing I think. Though it is weird that it's "The Mist Beckons" rather than "The Mists Beckon", because D&D conventionally uses the plural for the Mists I though.
 



I think the best question now is whether this will be a follow-up to CoS adventure, a different horror themed adventure, or an actual Ravenloft setting guide.
 

SIGH. Through predictable given the recent UA.

Only way I'm getting that is if it's significantly different from previous editions of Ravenloft. Ravenloft is a pretty retrograde setting, with a lot of racist and some sexist tropes going on, as well some other "things that make you go hmmm" (and not in a good "horror" way), plus it's harking back to a kind of that was "for old people" when I was a teenager, and that your average 20-something today, probably has never seen anything of (Hammer horror particularly) and is only familiar with through sort of third-hand sources and recapitulations which also modify stuff (Japan does a lot with Gothic Horror, as has World of Warcraft).

But they could fix all that and update the setting I suppose, give us a more modern take on Ravenloft. Cut some of the less-interesting or effective domains (the quality varies widely), introduce some new domains, maybe shake things up a bit just generally, and that could be done without really damaging the better classic domains I think, because they're relatively discrete entities.


Given the recent UA my bet is very much on Ravenloft. Though I do wonder if there's even been enough time to get that UA into a book (maybe there has).

Innistrad doesn't do the Mist thing I think. Though it is weird that it's "The Mist Beckons" rather than "The Mists Beckon", because D&D conventionally uses the plural for the Mists I though.
I could see getting into it if they went with a more eldritch horror tack.

But the Gothic Lineages doesn't make that seem bloody likely.
 


I think the best question now is whether this will be a follow-up to CoS adventure, a different horror themed adventure, or an actual Ravenloft setting guide.
CoS:R is barely 5 months old. I can't imagine they'd churn out the sequel that quick.

I mean, they will churn it out. They just don't churn that quickly.
 

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