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”.

 

[Remathilis]

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.

CoS is from 2016. Not exactly "quick"

 

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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).

Yes, the book announced tomorrow is definitely going to be Ravenloft-themed (given the "Mist" hint) . . . but it still could be a "Van Richten's" monster book. (The class material from the older UA would then likely go in a later setting book . . .)

 

[embee]

CoS is from 2016. Not exactly "quick"

And Revamped came out in October and is still selling well.

 

[Morrus]

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.

5 years old!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Let the rampant speculation begin!

SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED!

 

[IndigoTraveler]

Innistrad is supposedly coming back as one of the card set blocks this year IIRC. And as much as I wouldn't mind Ravensloft, part of me feels like it's still a bit "too soon" for that again since Revamped was somewhat recent.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It seems strange that they’d be announcing tomorrow. The last book had press releases, a mention on DNDBeyond, and other notices that they were announcing a book, not just a page on Amazon. In other words, there was a lot more fanfare.

Dragontalk for several weeks has been saying there's something big that will be in the next Dragon+ that hasn't been announced yet. No idea why they wouldn't do a more dramatic roll-out, but maybe they've decided those don't meaningfully affect sales.

 

[embee]

5 years old!

My point is that there's still a lot left to milk in the original. I would think that the sequel would only be for when the sales of the original start to flag, which it isn't yet doing. Strahd Colonel's Original Recipe is still #15 and New Strahd is #43.

Seems, believe it or not, a bit soon to try to put out new adventure content. I can see expanding the Ravenloft setting. But a sequel to an adventure that is still going strong and whose 5e version was just re-released seems a bit premature.

 

[tetrasodium]

Fair enough. I've played through Curse of Strahd, but I have never read a Ravenloft book. I assume older editions had setting books? I don't recall one for 3rd or 4e.

Kind of yes. Not like most of the 3.5 & 5e setting books, but there was one or two ravenloft campaign setting books & spinoff splatbooks. It focused largely on things like The Dark Powers(strahd is not one, he is even more a victim of them than the PCs), how verbal curses could manifest, how a lot of spells were changed, how the bond between divine casters & their divine power source was twisted, how that twisting affected divine casters & other things, etc. Plus there was a few pages on ravnloft specific faiths. The various ravenloft adventures themselves slotted within the confines of that minor system refluff.

I've got this one & here is the ToC

Spoiler

but couldn't find it on dmsguild. Pretty sureit had more than one cover & maybe got rewritten with extra stuff.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Innistrad sourcebook? There are two upcoming Innistrad MTG sets.

Madam Eva's Guide to the Realms of Horror. Include Ravenloft, Innistrad and, what the heck, some more info about the Shadowfell. Most Ravenloft/Innistratd content could work for both settings, no?