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”.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

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.

They save their big marketing stuff for only one event, the "Adventure Book Boogaloo" every year.

Dragon Talk also mentioned that a Dragon+ issue is releasing (I assume this week) with more details about future releases... I assume being this book and Candlekeep.

Also, this is pretty obviously Ravenloft. Very likely a monster book or setting, and I'm leaning on the latter as they've said releasing settings is becoming a priority. Unlikely an adventure, as this would likely make 3 (the annual adventure is probably not this) adventure books for 2021.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

"The Phlogiston Beckons."

SPELLJAMMER CONFIRMED!

More Ravenloft would make me happy. The question is, adventure campaign, setting book, or a bit of both?

 

[Weiley31]

Let see: The Gothic Lineages would probably be a shoe-in and then you have some of the UA subclasses, such as the Spirit Bard and the Undead Patron Warlock. Heck if they wanted to go hog in on the "raven" part they could finally have an excuse for bringing in the Raven Queen Patron Warlock after all this time.(one could still dream bout that.)

Regardless, they still have some mechanics crunch they could add in alongside all the Fluff stuff for your Ravenloft setting. Heck they could have a small section on crafting your own "Gothic Horror" campaigns and even have Innistrad listed as a possible example of how you can change it up.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ravenloft and previous editions of D&D have a ton of horror monsters that haven't been officially updated. It wouldn't be hard to make the back half the book be that, put a bit of player-facing stuff in the first third and give a slim gazetteer looking at the current state of Ravenloft and its domains between the two.

While Hammer Horror doesn't mean much to today's audiences, it didn't mean much to me when I was a kid, either. There's no reason to tie it to that era, however; the nice (?) thing about Ravenloft is that new people are being damned all the time and new domains formed. It wouldn't be hard to come up with a half dozen new ones, drop the unsalvageable ones from the past and update the rest.

A Castlevania-flavored domain seems like it'd work great and would be reasonably in touch with today's audiences. Heck, I could see them doing a Five Nights at Freddy's style introductory adventure with murderous statues or something.

 

[TheSword]

"The Phlogiston Beckons."



More Ravenloft would make me happy. The question is, adventure campaign, setting book, or a bit of both?

Campaign book, with dreadlords, more monsters, spells, tales of van Richten, updated vistani, new player races. Possibly an introductory adventure.

 

[Weiley31]

Ravenloft and previous editions of D&D have a ton of horror monsters that haven't been officially updated. It wouldn't be hard to make the back half the book be that, put a bit of player-facing stuff in the first third and give a slim gazetteer looking at the current state of Ravenloft and its domains between the two.

While Hammer Horror doesn't mean much to today's audiences, it didn't mean much to me when I was a kid, either. There's no reason to tie it to that era, however; the nice (?) thing about Ravenloft is that new people are being damned all the time and new domains formed. It wouldn't be hard to come up with a half dozen new ones, drop the unsalvageable ones from the past and update the rest.

A Castlevania-flavored domain seems like it'd work great and would be reasonably in touch with today's audiences. Heck, I could see them doing a Five Nights at Freddy's style introductory adventure with murderous statues or something.

Silent HIll: DND edition sounds great to me.

 

[Weiley31]

Oh yeah: remember they were supposed to be doing two books involving the Vistani? This could also be a way of introducing Vistani, or the so called "second book" they would be in, as a variant human player race or somehow making it a Lineage.

CoS:Revamped was the first.

 

[TwoSix]

A Castlevania-flavored domain seems like it'd work great and would be reasonably in touch with today's audiences. Heck, I could see them doing a Five Nights at Freddy's style introductory adventure with murderous statues or something.

Or judging by what I see kids watch on Youtube these days, it could have lots of clowns.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Something like a Van Ritchen's mist creatures compedium, but in the last books this also add PC races.

Too soon for a player handbook with the new PC races just playtested?

Why in May but not close Halloween? Maybe a second book about gothic horror.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Or judging by what I see kids watch on Youtube these days, it could have lots of clowns.

After the creepy clown hoaxes of a few years ago, my kids still periodically ask me every few months whether they were real. A murderous clown (fey? undead?) monster seems like a great idea for a 5E Ravenloft/horror adventures book.