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”.

 

[Mercador]

A real Forgotten Realms book?

 

[Mercador]

Ok, I just saw the animation, it seems clearly linked to Ravenloft. Does the new "package" of the Curse is released? Maybe it's just that..?

 

[Mind of tempest]

A real Forgotten Realms book?

unlikely as they seem to like putting adventure there not a setting.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

At Blizzcon 2021 they ran a critical role hosted version of Diablo with some kind of variant 5e rules.

I really liked the Diablo stuff released at the end of 2E, even though, from a mechanical standpoint, it was kind of a mess.

A shocking percentage of Blizzard employees play D&D -- seriously, it's probably comparable or higher than the percentage of WotC employees who do -- and I could totally see some of their staffers putting together a Diablo book to coincide with either Diablo Immortal or Diablo IV. They've certainly got enough lore books now to draw from.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Hopefully, if it is a sequel, it's better than House on Gryphon Hill. I mostly consider it Strahd's fever dream.

Yeah I've read most of Gryphon Hill, and it's a mess. It's possibly salvageable, but Strahd should probably be removed from the plot and it just sticks to more of a Jeckel/Hyde theme.

 

[Mercador]

Ok, I looked on my side (canadaland) and it seems to be released the May 18th

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (Dungeons & Dragons): Wizards RPG Team: 9780786967254: Books - Amazon.ca

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (Dungeons & Dragons): Wizards RPG Team: 9780786967254: Books - Amazon.ca

www.amazon.ca

I checked Renaud Bray and Archambault as they leaked something in the past to no avail.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Now of course, we have more modern traditions of witchcraft, which pull away from the folkloric idea of the diabolic servant into a more pagan nature worshipper . . . but that's pretty new stuff.

If by "pretty new stuff" you mean, from the 1940s, sure. And that's wicca - the idea that witches weren't evil diabolic servants goes back even further, y'know, back to when there were actual witches, and people didn't normally view them as "diabolic servants". That's actually kind of a weird historical anomaly, that exists primarily in the 1500s through 1700s, the "diabolic servant" thing, which ties in to problems Christianity was having.

Wicca - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm guessing an undead-themed monster book, with a section on running horror-themed campaigns, and perhaps a chapter giving an overview of the Ravenloft setting. Sort of like a Volo's/Mordenkainen's type monster book with a bit extra.

This is probably a pretty safe bet.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ok, I just saw the animation, it seems clearly linked to Ravenloft. Does the new "package" of the Curse is released? Maybe it's just that..?

That came out in the fall.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The idea that Hammer Horror is unknown to the new generation is also silly to me. Hammer Horror was hugely influential on the horror genre, and continues to be so to this day. Horror fans of all ages know Hammer Horror. Even if they don’t know it directly, they’ve been exposed to plenty of its influence. Non-horror fans don’t know it, but you wouldn’t expect them to, because they aren’t horror fans.

But this is just repeating what I actually said (which was that the distant influence of Hammer lives on via reflections and third-hand sources), apparently in an attempt to "debunk" what I said, which is kind of hysterical.

The idea that most people who run or play or have anything to do with Ravenloft are "horror fans" to the level you're describing is patent nonsense if that's being remotely suggested btw.