D&D 5E Ray Winninger mentions third project!

WotC's Ray Winninger has confirmed that another D&D release, by James Wyatt, will be released in between Witchlight (September) and Strixhaven (November). Strixhaven was Amanda Hamon's project, while Witchlight is Chris Perkins'. That assumes he's not referring to the Feywild accessory kit in September.

A lot of people are asking Qs about the [D&D] releases for the rest of this year.

Yes, WILD BEYOND THE WITCHLIGHT is the [Chris Perkins] story product I referenced in our dev blog. STRIXHAVEN is [Amanda Hamon's] project. We have not yet announced [James Wyatt's] project, which releases between WITCHLIGHT and STRIXHAVEN.

Why did we announce STRIXHAVEN so early? Pretty simple--there was no way to release the STRIX-related Unearthed Arcana without letting the cat out of the bag.

You'll learn a lot more about all of these products at D&D Live on G4, July 16 and 17. And yes, there is still a little surprise or two ahead.

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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[Mind of tempest]

The problem with Planescape is that it's really two settings:

1. The meta-setting of the Planes, which would be useful to DMs wanting to take their prime campaigns on a ride when they hit the high levels.

2. The city of Sigil, which is a real curious mix of wonder and grubbiness á la Ankh-Morpork.

The Planes are kinda cool, although I'm not a fan of the Great Wheel cosmology (I much prefer the thought that went into the Eberron orrery or the simplicity/flexibility of the World Axis to the box-checking of the Great Wheel). Sigil is awesome and a neat way of anchoring low-level characters in a planar context. But I think Sigil makes the Planes too mundane. When you got spined devils as working stiffs grabbing a pint, they sort of lose the context of being damned souls who crawled their way up out of the mass of lemures to the position they hold now.

sigle could be made more nuts would that help?

 

[darjr]

sigle could be made more nuts would that help?

What?!? I dunno if I could take that!

 

[Jaeger]

WotC FIRED the guy who caused the lawsuit. It’s not WotC that has a problem with Dragonlance.

However until they announce it it’s all speculation.

Why are you so sure?

Yes, Nic Kelman got fired. But he cost WOTC money, and made fans mad. At the same time. So no surprise.

Of course I could be totally wrong, but why I am fairly confident we will see no DL for 5e:

The last time WOTC toyed with bringing the DL setting back, they wanted to do a reboot of the setting for 4e.

They asked Jim Butcher to do a novelization for it, but the ended up bowing out because DL was still seen as Hickman and Weiss's baby, even though WOTC is the IP holder:

Abstruse and Nordling Interview Jim Butcher About SKIN GAME And All Things Geek!

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"Jim Butcher: ... That was actually something that ...Wizards of the Coast had approached me of maybe doing a reboot of DRAGONLANCE.
...
Jim Butcher: Tracy and Margaret are the reason I ended up not doing that. I’d gone to them and said, “I think this is a fantastic idea! I’ve got a lot of a whole bunch of really good ideas of how this would work out.” I’d already started building all these characters and re-read the first book and was trying to figure out how to do that a little bit different. And I said, “Tracy and Margaret are okay with this, right?” And I got all these weasely answers from the far end and I’m like “No, screw you guys. If this is something that’s not kosher with Tracy and Margaret, it’s not going to happen.” And then 4th Edition crashed and they had more problems than that. And they were expecting 4th Edition to go insane and it HAD gone insane already, they just didn’t realize it. ..."

And we haven't heard official hide nor hair from WOTC about D&D + DragonLance since.

It is still worth remembering that Hickman and Weiss were the ones who did all the legwork to get the license from WOTC for their new books. Not the other way around.

I feel that if DL is to come back as a setting for D&D; WOTC wants to do it on their terms, without the specter of Hickman and Weiss fandom hanging over them.

IMHO we will only see anything DL for 5e if the new novels generate crazy sales. That would be a market signal to WOTC that there is real cash on the table for a 5e setting.

Ironically, if the new books totally bomb, that would tell WOTC that if they want to revisit DL as a D&D setting in a few years that they would be free to do so on their terms, with little to no pushback from grognard DL fans...

a mix of it being made standard in 3e and that if they removed it in this climate there would be a riot both from its few fans and the fact they would be literally removing the only non-euro fantasy class twitter would go like a bonfire on it for at least a week.
I just want it to be all it was meant to be and work properly as it does have a nice concept it is just lost under lack of knowledge on proper sources and messed stuff from past eddtions.

While I agree with your assessment. If WOTC thought that they were doing the right thing when it came to Oriental Adventures, then they should have applied the same standard to the Monk.

It sends the wrong message: Ok to take action on an out of print book. But even though it has all the same issues; don't touch the Monk core class lest some grognard light up twitter for a few days.

It is a total double standard. (Can't upset the 5e gravy train $$$...)

But the time for meaningful action is gone and past, so probably not worth harping on.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

WotC FIRED the guy who caused the lawsuit. It’s not WotC that has a problem with Dragonlance.

However until they announce it it’s all speculation.

Why are you so sure?

How do you know it was Nic causing it?

 

[darjr]

How do you know it was Nic causing it?

It was talked about here in the forums. I know I should go dig it up. Apologies though, I probably won’t.

 

[Parmandur]

How do you know it was Nic causing it?

Because the lawsuit detailed the series of hostile meetings where he was the decision maker.

 

[darjr]

And now I fee bad describing what happened as him being fired. I dunno if that's what happened but he isn't with the company anymore.

 

[Parmandur]

And now I fee bad describing what happened as him being fired. I dunno if that's what happened but he isn't with the company anymore.

He was e.vrojked in multiple fairly significant controversies last year: if not fired, he did at least move on under a cloud.

 

[Azzy]

Who is Winninger anyway? And why is he more winning?

 

[Parmandur]

Who is Winninger anyway? And why is he more winning?

Ray Winninger is the head of the D&D Tabletop RPG Studio. He's in charge of the RPG since mid last year.