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”.

 

[embee]

Found on sage advice.edu. authenticity not verified

How to keep flogging CoS without coming out with a sequel.

Todd Howard would be proud.

 

[Remathilis]

How to keep flogging CoS without coming out with a sequel.

Todd Howard would be proud.

This looks more like ESO vs another Skyrim redux.

 

[dave2008]

The players know that they aren't going to be expected to fight a CR 14 enemy when they are level 4, so they never see the vampire as a threat. They have killed enough zombies that they could fight them in their sleep.

Boy, I've neve played with a group that felt they would be saved by the plot. Then again, I don't play with published adventures either.

 

[embee]

This looks more like ESO vs another Skyrim redux.

I play Skyrim on my toaster oven.

 

[Shardstone]

Selling them in multiple books conveniently generates more revenue for WOTC.

Weird stance you're taking. What's your point? That all things are relative? Why purposefully take someone's post out of context to feel smarter?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Okay. I suspect you and your players don’t play in a way that’s conducive to Ravenloft.

My players wouldn’t fireball a group of farmers on a hunch.

I've never known a hunch like that be wrong.

Largely because there is nothing harmless in D&D in general, and Ravenloft in particular.

They just don’t play that way. Therefore that very cynical outcome wouldn’t work. The fear that any group could be bestial murderers wouldn’t cause them to fireball everyone - though it might cause them to suspect everyone. The scene also followed on from a relatively secure scene in the Blue Water inn with Van Richten, which may have contributed to them taking the scene at face value.

If your only fear of Strahd is that he might kill you, then you need to work harder. My female bard player was mainly concerned that she would be dominated and bitten.

Whatever.

The worst that can happen is you roll up a new character.

Zombies are fine. Ravenloft zombies that don’t stop moving even after you’ve chopped them up are a different matter. When the zombie’s arm you just chopped off crawls along the floor and starts inching up the door towards the latch to let the others in then it may be different.

Most zombies do that in my game. Players always burn any bits just to make sure. They have seen Game of Thrones.

 

[Shardstone]

I've never known a hunch like that be wrong.

Largely because there is nothing harmless in D&D in general, and Ravenloft in particular.

Whatever.

The worst that can happen is you roll up a new character.

Most zombies do that in my game. Players always burn any bits just to make sure. They have seen Game of Thrones.

Another weird post. If you're point is that all gamers are different we got that loud and clear. Are you now trying to say that your game method is better or something?

 

[TwoSix]

Another weird post. If you're point is that all gamers are different we got that loud and clear. Are you now trying to say that your game method is better or something?

I believe the implication is that cynical, bordering on comic, opportunism and paranoia is pretty much the default for D&D parties, which makes invoking horror tropes difficult.

For what it's worth, that matches my experience. Obviously not every group is the same, but I've heard plenty of anecdotes of people not being able to pull off horror games for the same reasons.

 

[TheSword]

I've never known a hunch like that be wrong.

So what? If you’re you play a table where burning people before they’re proved guilty is par for the course, then Ravenloft isn’t for you.

I asked my party for two things. Create characters that are capable of being scared and create characters that have a fundamental flaw. I already knew they wouldn’t play murder hobos, I don’t need to ask them for that. If your characters are shoot first Murder Hobos then Ravenloft won’t work for you.

Largely because there is nothing harmless in D&D in general, and Ravenloft in particular.

Well i just said that they had just finished an encounter in a safe place with good people. If you run a place where everyone is an enemy then people might assume that they can kill with impunity. That isn’t Barovia. If your games never include allies or good NPCs then don’t play Ravenloft.

Whatever.


The worst that can happen is you roll up a new character.

Again. That would be a big deal at my table. Players get invested. If you’re not invested then no Ravenloft won’t work for you.

Most zombies do that in my game. Players always burn any bits just to make sure. They have seen Game of Thrones.

They burn them in mid combat? That cool. No problem keeping up with things when the number of enemies increases in numbers.

It sounds like you have it all worked out. Definitely don’t play Ravenloft. It sounds like a terrible idea for you.

 

[Remathilis]

I've never known a hunch like that be wrong.

Largely because there is nothing harmless in D&D in general, and Ravenloft in particular.

Whatever.

The worst that can happen is you roll up a new character.

Most zombies do that in my game. Players always burn any bits just to make sure. They have seen Game of Thrones.

Which is why the Dark Powers start toying with the adventurers; groups they meet ARE friendly farmers and whispers start reaching towns that the PCs are vile murderers and cannot be trusted. The towns close the doors to the PCs and getting food, warm beds and supplies becomes difficult without threat, theft, or violence. Meanwhile, every person they meet has a 50% chance of being an innocent the DP use to toy with the PCs until they have wallowed in innocent blood and become like the monsters they fight or learn to not shoot first and all questions later...

But you do you.