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”.

 

[Emirikol Prime]

Super hyped. And you’ll notice I’ll never go into product announcements I don’t really care for and bad mouth them.

 

[JEB]

Honestly, I'm happiest at the prospect of getting a bunch of Ravenloft monsters back for 5E. Go carrionettes!

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Terribly named. In-setting, "Ravenloft" is a castle and nothing else. Unless we're going to see Van Richten giving a guided tour of Strahd's estate.

 

[Zardnaar]

So... Are WotC celebrating the Soviet Army Day?

Nyet pure coincidence.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

While the Kargatane -- both real and fictional -- would probably strongly object, I think it's possible to go at Ravenloft with a machete and cut away a lot of the cruft and reduce a lot of domains to islands that only exist to tell a single adventure and make the core a much more gameable setting.

Well I think you're conflating a few groups of people.

There is the Hickmans, who wrote the original module. Then there is the Kargat, who, in-universe, are Azalin's secret police, but out of universe are the creators of the setting: Think Bruce Nesmith and Andria Hayday. Their membership changed a bit, with William Connors and Steve Miller joining later. It was under these that Domains of Dread was released, which finally actually made most of the realms and dark lords have depth. This work was continued into 3rd edition under the Kargatane, (John W Mangrum, Ryan Naylor, etc), who continued the work and produced the Gazeteers, probably the finest Ravenloft setting products ever produced.

I'd be ecstatic if they were going to springboard off the Gazetteers, but they won't, and I imagine it is going to mostly off the earlier incarnations, before most of the domains actually got to show their full potential.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Terribly named. In-setting, "Ravenloft" is a castle and nothing else. Unless we're going to see Van Richten giving a guided tour of Strahd's estate.

It's the popular name, and and hits the nostalgia buttons better than "Domains of Dread" or something else.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

It's the popular name, and and hits the nostalgia buttons better than "Domains of Dread" or something else.

I guess Matt Mercer's book should've have been "The Explorer's Guide to Critical Role"

 

[Zardnaar]

Honestly, I'm happiest at the prospect of getting a bunch of Ravenloft monsters back for 5E. Go carrionettes!

Meat puppets?

 

[blakesha]

Van Richten's Guide to the Mists

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Van Richten's Guide to the Mists

Believe it or not that already exists. And it wasn't great. (Broke a cardinal rule of the setting)